Posted on 01/29/2008 6:20:11 PM PST by NormsRevenge
MIAMI - Sen. John McCain won a breakthrough triumph in the Florida Republican primary Tuesday night, edging past former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and seizing precious campaign momentum for next week's string of contests across 21 states.
"It shows one thing: I'm the conservative leader who can unite the party," the Arizona senator said in a brief interview with The Associated Press. "It's a very significant boost, but I think we've got a tough week ahead and a lot of states to come."
The victory was worth 57 national convention delegates for McCain, a winner-take-all's haul and the largest single prize to date in the race.
Rudy Giuliani was in third place, his best showing of the campaign but possibly not good enough to warrant continuing.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee trailed but told supporters he would forge on.
Arent polls still open in the Panhandle?
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Nope, not this go around..
Looks like you will have to hold your nose and vote for him anyhow.
I am surprised people are surprised.
This can be blamed on McCain’s partner in amnesty, Mel Martinez, and a the Governor who ran as a conservative and has governed like a liberal, Charlie Crist, obviously a man after McCain’s own heart.
His position on the war is to give illegal combatants constitutional rights. And, even if it would save Chicago, he will not waterboard a terrorist. Now that is a military leader...?
So the liberals are shoving McCennedy down our throats. Heads (Hitlery) we lose, tails (McCennedy) we lose. At least McCain is not a blood relative of Satan.
“The only way I’ll vote for McCain is if he has one foot in the grave, the other on a banana peel and a solid conservative as VP.”
I’ll think about it in those circumstances, but I’d need to see the x-rays.
McCain is up at the mike..
Republicans can only avoid a repeat of the 1964 or 1996 elections if they come to their senses next Tuesday and get over the fact Romney is a Mormon.
There is no way that McCain will ever beat Hillary.
We can stay home, not vote and Hillary will win.
We can vote for a third party or write in candidate and Hillary will win.
We can hold our noses tightly, vote for John McCain, and Hillary will win.
Please stop referring to MYTH as a Conservative.
It makes you seem foolish.
Excuse me while I barf.
“It shows one thing: I’m the conservative leader who can unite the party,”
Another quote from this McCain today: “I’m the only one who can lead.” Few candidates would ever make such a statement. Most would at least say they were the best one to lead.
McCain is truly at the edge in many psychological aspects of his personality.
Formed an opinion of him twenty years ago and could never vote for him.
I say let the Democrats scare the hell out of the 20 to 30 year olds by showing them what high taxes and Socialism are like. Let our guard down and lets take another 911 hit to wake up Americans to the real threat of Islamic Terrorism. It might be time for shock therapy. We have a lot of young people to young to remember the 1980s when the Democrats were killing us with taxes, big government and a weak military.
We might need to loose a battle in order to win the long term war against Illegals, Socialist and Islamic Jihadist and the MSM.
Go Obama
I think a third party would not be a bad idea. I don’t feel that the “leaders” of either major party have the interests of the American public at heart.
I guess the people that were making all those awful phone calls were doing it for free.
This Forum is in total meltdown. FReepers say they will never vote for McCain or the other three guys whatsoever. So what does that leave them? How are you going to vote or form a Conservative Party when the standard-bearers (Hunter and Thompson) couldn't even win in the Republican Party?
Paul is the logical choice here. He is right on EVERYTHING. Unfortunately, he wants to pullout immediately and doesn't call the jihadists the spade they are. But he'll still be better than Hillary and Obama. C'mon now pissant.
We've been laughing at the Democrat candidates - the Hildabeast and Osama Barak, but look what the GOP is stuck with now. The only hopes were Thompson and Hunter and they bailed out on us. It looks like the fix is in.
He’s looks 20 years younger,, must be the lighting and the spiffy tie.. seems at ease,, for the moment anyway, thanking Crist and Martinez, lehtinen diaz falart, blah blah
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