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McCain beats Romney in Florida GOP race
AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/29/08 | David Espo and Liz Sidoti - ap

Posted on 01/29/2008 6:20:11 PM PST by NormsRevenge

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To: KC_Conspirator
I do not like having to fight my own party by calling into the Capitol phone lines.

Nor do I. But it appears much more of that is in both of our futures.

461 posted on 01/29/2008 9:20:23 PM PST by the808bass
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To: JSteff
Sorry. 97 of 1191 is less than 1% of the delegates. Too soon to throw in the towels.

Your original calculation was closer.

462 posted on 01/29/2008 9:21:46 PM PST by the808bass
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
“That’s the system, and it ain’t all bad (except for the cheating).”

Right. And it is our’s so it is worth fighting to the finish.

This election is about the 4 to 5 supremes who will step down. So this election is about DECADES not 4 or 8 years.

Everyone forgets that.

463 posted on 01/29/2008 9:22:02 PM PST by JSteff
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To: NormsRevenge

Divide and Conquer.

Republicans are being played by the MSM, including Fox News.

Our conservative candidates have been picked off, one by one. Once Fred was out, they knew they had us.

McCain is being portrayed as the only one who can stop Hillary. But, no other candidate divides the Republican Party more than McCain.

Just enough Republican voters have been convinced that McCain is the only electable candidate. The out of touch Republican establishment believes it as well. They think we have to move to the left to win. Too many cocktail parties with the enemy, if you ask me.

Very few Republican voters can really know John McCain’s record and vote for him. He is a figment of the MSM’s imagination. However, if he does win the nomination, the MSM turn on him like a rabid dog.

I heard Mitt Romney’s speech tonight. He is trying to rally the base. I have not been a fan of Romney. If there is to be any hope for sanity in November, conservatives need to rally around Romney.
Fred Thompson, who has had much financial support from me and other conservatives, need to put his mouth where our money is and endorse Romney. In kind, Romney needs to tap him for VP.

We need to call our congresscritters and ask them to support Romney. Most of them have been stabbed in the back by McCain...they need to hear from the people who vote and financially support them. Roy Blunt is getting a call tomorrow; Kit Bond was for Rudy, no he can be for Romney.

John McCain cannot win in November. We are being set up by the Democrats and the Media. We’d better get our act together now.


464 posted on 01/29/2008 9:22:15 PM PST by rightinthemiddle (The Mainstream Media Controls Our Party. Go, RINOS!)
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To: org.whodat

From the Florida Department of State website.

Is Florida a closed primary state?

Yes, Florida is a closed primary state. Only voters who are registered members of the two major political parties (Republicans and Democrats) may vote for their respective party’s candidates in a primary election. However, if all candidates for an office have the same party affiliation and the winner will have no opposition in the general election, all qualified voters, regardless of party affiliation, may vote in the primary election for that office. At general elections, all voters receive the same ballot and may vote for any candidate or question on the ballot. If there are write-in candidates, a space will be left on the ballot where a write-in candidate’s name may be written.


465 posted on 01/29/2008 9:24:26 PM PST by lastchance (Hug your babies.)
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To: devere
I dont know. I really dont know. They read FR. I hope some will be inspired and will step forward. We this this man for our times RIGHT NOW!

For example, the Constitution Party National Nominating Convention is in April as I understand it. Somebody well-known, solid, Conservative nation-level leader without baggage and not a minor party nut case whom nobody knows, should go for it. I would get behind such a movement, in view of having the only choice of Democrat (D) and Democrat (R) in the General Election.

466 posted on 01/29/2008 9:24:26 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Enough has been said already. The 2008 GOP RINO takeover is complete. It is what it is.)
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To: JSteff
97 of 1191 is about 9% but that is not the point of my post. The Guiliani endorsement coupled with spiteful Huck’s refusal to quit the race and the MSM’s conscious effort to derail Romney and anoint a certain loser like McCain (Think Dole) will make ANY win by Romney very, very difficult.

We’ll see how it plays out next Tues but I think it will just confirm what I’ve said here.

467 posted on 01/29/2008 9:25:52 PM PST by TCats
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To: rob777

He only won by 5 percent


468 posted on 01/29/2008 9:30:47 PM PST by straps (Its)
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To: TCats

Huckabee is a problem. He costing Romney votes now. McCain won’t get those votes.

McCain uses the “F” word more than Chef Ramsey.

What a mess. Fred was the only one who could unite the party. But, we had blinders on and listened to the MSM.


469 posted on 01/29/2008 9:31:18 PM PST by rightinthemiddle (The Mainstream Media Controls Our Party. Go, RINOS!)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
I have a plan for her recovery, but it would take a national movement.

We could all just move there and take it over. I'm game. I miss San Diego like crazy anyway.

470 posted on 01/29/2008 9:31:30 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (John McCain: Bush Derangement Syndrome's "Patient Zero")
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To: levotb

And of course the fact McCain flat out lied bout Romney’s Iraq plan..Cant forget that one


471 posted on 01/29/2008 9:46:53 PM PST by skaterboy
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To: NormsRevenge

We’re doomed.


472 posted on 01/29/2008 9:47:17 PM PST by I'm ALL Right! (R.I.P . Conservatism 1790 - 2008)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Somebody well-known, solid, Conservative nation-level leader without baggage and not a minor party nut case whom nobody knows, should go for it. I would get behind such a movement, in view of having the only choice of Democrat (D) and Democrat (R) in the General Election.

I would, too. I can't vote for any of the remaining GOP candidates. So, I will gladly vote third-party if there is an acceptable candidate; I will write in Thompson if there is not.

473 posted on 01/29/2008 9:49:05 PM PST by ellery (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice - B. Goldwater)
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To: NormsRevenge

McPain got extremely dirty in Florida . His name was on the ads. I’m not a big fan of Romney , but McPain flat out ran decietful ads ....McShameful


474 posted on 01/29/2008 9:49:12 PM PST by Neu Pragmatist (McPain = Amnesty . Downticket Republican voting only .)
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To: rightinthemiddle

I totally agree with you,Huckabee is the main one to blame for this huge mess.He was McCains little puppet.


475 posted on 01/29/2008 9:50:32 PM PST by steadyhandsjazz
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To: skaterboy

What irritates me the most is that Romney had to fight McCain all on his own. Guilianni, Huckabee, and even Thompson were all to afraid to attack McCain.This was probably the reason he was able to get to where he is now, by using them.


476 posted on 01/29/2008 9:50:32 PM PST by steadyhandsjazz
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To: TCats
Huckabee’s continued spiteful slog will also take votes away from Romney.

What makes you so sure that Huckabee's supporters belong to Romney? After ST, Huckabee will have more delegates than Romney. The Red State South will not accept the gun grabbing carpetbagger from Gay Marriagchusetts. Not that it matters. I think we are doomed in the general no matter who gets the nomination. If Huckabee accepts the VP for either McCain or Romney, I will offer my apologies for being fooled, right here on FR. 99% of his support is not about him, believe me.

477 posted on 01/29/2008 9:54:47 PM PST by Theophilus (Nothing can make Americans safer than to stop aborting them.)
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To: WOBBLY BOB
Pawleenty as McCain VP... Ok... that would make me vote ---

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For a third party candidate!!

478 posted on 01/29/2008 9:57:04 PM PST by EagleandLiberty (Crist, Martinez and McCain --- all got the same thing in COMMON -- they are RINOs!)
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To: Joya
Floridians, are you insane? Don't Blame me -- I voted FRed Thompson!!
479 posted on 01/29/2008 9:58:28 PM PST by EagleandLiberty (Crist, Martinez and McCain --- all got the same thing in COMMON -- they are RINOs!)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

That would be the plan. Move in. Take over. Kill off the socialist programs. No income tax. No (unnecessary)social welfare. etc. Within twenty years California would be the leading economic power in the world.


480 posted on 01/29/2008 10:01:37 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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