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.
Really? Seems to me like he’d want a conservative on the ticket.
Whats pretty ominous is that SHRILLARY! got about 750,000 votes down here today.
I hear you. I just cannot gamble the safety, or perhaps the lives, of my children, who have no voice in this election, so I can teach people the lessons of a presidency 28 years ago. Each of the two front runners in the GOP has baggage that has me already holding my nose.
This election for this conservative is not about voting for the best republican to be president. Instead, it is going to be about preventing any socialist appeaser from being responsible for the safety of this country.
Tell you what when Rush actually says something that helps republican conservatives win get back to me. Until then he is just a politically, irrelevant entertainer.
If anything, this election proves that the presidency cannot be bought.
this just shows why there should be 5 questions asked on the issues before they are allowed to vote because it seems so many people are voting for things they know nothing about.
Guarantee if you asked the poeple who voted for Mc Cain do you want illegals here, do you want taxes to go up they will say no yet they voted for this man because the meida put him in a good light and cheerleaded for him
‘Repeat after me.. Keating 5... Keating 5..Keating 5
Because that is all we are going to hear for the next 10 months.’
Well, if there is anything to this, the NY Times will probably sit on it until McCain wins the nomination, then we’ll hear all about it soon afterwards:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1207/7499.html
It’s a very sad day for the GOP. Maybe we need Hillary to screw things up so that a real conservative has a chance to emerge. That’s why I’m not voting for McCain—I’ll vote for Obama first.
“will assure you will not get anyone from our party in the White House.”
If as it seems John McCain is the leader of “our party”, then it’s no longer my party this year.
I will show up at the polls next Tuesday and vote for Mitt Romney, but I have little hope any longer that it will stop John McCain. I’ll be delightfully astounded to be proven wrong.
You may give up on the party but please don’t give up on individual candidates. There are still many good Republican candidates. Please consider financially helping good conservative Republican candidates. The worst thing we can do is to just walk away.
Remember Valley Forge, what if they just walked away?
Now I hear that Guiliani will endorse McCain. These nut-cases have seized the party and were enabled by W IMO.
Please excuse me while I go barf!
Grow up and walk your self down. mccain has 97 of 1191 delegates. Less than 10%. This may just be the thing that brings out the real conservatives to be sure he does not get the nomination.
Like a car sliding towards something.. if the driver concentrates on what he does not want to hit he most likely will.
If the driver instead concentrates and steers towards another direction he most likely will go there. If you concentrate on what you don’t want, you assure you will get it.
Get out and work in another direction, or donate to someone else, but DO NOT concentrate on what you don’t want.
Move in a different direction.
Absolutely agree although I doubt we can find 41 true Conservative people to fill up the necessary seats. This is a disaster and, frankly, I blame it all on W.
When you’re right, you’re right.
Yep. McCain KNOWS he'll never get the GOP nomination if only Republicans are voting.
Hey, it’s Florida. What does one expect.
Somehow, I think some of McCain’s his big-money fair weather friends came back to him after he won New Hampshire.
My husband just texted me (we’re new to texting) from the bar he is at (attends weekly with his sports friends). He said Guiliani is going to endorse McCain and I texted back, duh, I knew that 2 hours ago from the site I’m on.
This town used to be extremely conservative, republican but now it’s been infiltrated by the Camden dem machine and our new mayor and town council are proof, but we get lots of info from the bar.
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