Posted on 01/22/2008 11:17:25 AM PST by tpanther
Carl Cameron says it'll become offical sometime later this week.
Oh well, we're doomed. Let's hope it'll be minimal damage until 2012.
“Considering how fractured the GOP is becoming Hunter may still be in the race if there is a brokered convention.”
You think Hunter 1191 delegates to the convention can be persuaded to vote for Duncan Hunter?
He didn’t get half that number of votes from the whole of Iowa....
Hopefully we won't have too many people throwing out the baby with the bathwater and going third party or staying out. I don't want a repeat of 2006!
Damn!!
“It may not be over for him if there is a brokered convention.”
It is effectively a 2-man race - Romney v McCain - and 90% of the delegates are yet to be picked. Very slim chance to no chance that anyone else, eg Rudy or Huck, can break out now. Slim chance of a brokered convention.
I’m sensing that McCain is the unifying force we’ve been searching for!
Romney won't do it, because he's a cutthroat slimeball with an insatiable appetite for power.
Typical caricature of a politician.
Romney was on Glenn Beck this AM and said VERY nice things about Fred and his supporters and said w/out equivocation that he did not want Fred out of the race (this was before Fred dropped out).
You need to examine the voting break downs better. Evangelicals did not overwhelmingly go for Huck, neither ini Iowa or SC. The MSM says that to only push the Christian bashing they know will happen if Huck gets the nod.
I am so rooting for Hillary to win the nomination for the donks. That's the only way our side is going to "get out the vote".
The facts are that many people hung their own expectations on Fred. There were people here who so wanted another RR, another conservative ideologue to carry their banner that went looking for a candidate any candidate who could fit the bill. When no one showed up they molded Fred into that candidate. I believe he was much more conservative in the minds of his supporter than he was in his own mind. If you look at his senatorial votes they were not that conservative. He was conservative on some and moderate to liberal on many others. His immigration votes are particularly enlightening. They are all over the board. His defense of Trial lawyers, his vote for the Daschle GW bill and his involvement in the campaign finance reform fiasco (McCain-Feingold-Thompson)should be more than enough to make someone questions his conservative bona fides.
I think Fred played a good no nonsense conservative on TV and in the movies, and does great as a conservative spokesman in ABC commentaries, but the votes never matched the image. As for those who were impressed by the fact he openly said he didn’t care whether he was president or not(his first campaign interview on Fox), why would you want to choose someone who doesn’t care that much about the job your hiring for? I think the lack of fire during the campaign showed how little he wanted the job. I think he will be a much happier man looking after his mother, and spending quality time with his family. Hopefully he will resume his commentaries on ABC and become a spokesman for conservative ideals something he is much more qualified for.
Not where YOU can see. Sounds like wishful thinking to me.
Huckabee isn’t going to be pulling out after Florida..
He’s focusing on several Super Tuesday states...Thompson’s withdrawal today from the race only benefits him in Florida..as he is now the ONLY Southern candidate running down there now..
Floridians arent’ going to trust Manufactured Mitt..and Giuliani’s been roundly critized by Charlie Crist....
This race is far from over in Florida...
“Romney is OK, and may just make a good conservative President.”
Based on what evidence?
Seriously. I want to believe you.
If that’s the case, then it would be in Romney’s best interest to have a press release praising Thompson.
Wouldn’t call McCain a “traitor”.
Wouldn’t vote for him either.
(Nor would I vote for GW Bush after his participation in the illegal immigration cabal last summer.)
I am so rooting for Hillary to win the nomination for the donks. That’s the only way our side is going to “get out the vote”.
I hope you are right but we have a lot of cry babies who seem to not care about our country!!!
Been away.............we’re screwed!!!
“I will be registering as an independent on February the 6th.”
Oh yeah, that’ll really show them. Those bad voting Pubs who didn’t support Fred. You’ll really make a difference as an Independent. You’ll have to find a new website to hang out at. Well, as an Independent, you can vote for Bloomberg if he runs. Wah, I’m going to pick up all my marbles and go home. Whine.
I don’t know what Jim thinks, but the obvious thing to do is to support Romney now.
Most RINOs share the conservative fiscal views, and are more libertarian when it comes to social issues.
And almost all of us RINOs despise the government paying for just about any social program.
Not all that bad.
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