Posted on 02/01/2008 7:04:55 PM PST by sevenbak
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Obama advisers have said privately for months that McCain would be their preferred opponent among all those who sought the GOP nomination. They said a race between Obama, 46, and McCain, 71, would provide the starkest contrast between old vs. new, the future versus the past. It's an argument that Obama also has been using against Clinton, but his campaign feels it would be even stronger against McCain.
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BTTT
You know that. I know that. But we have some hardheads that just don't get it.
If you had watched the debates, you would realize McCain doesn’t have a very good speech-making capability. Obama would make a mincemeat of him in any debate!
Romney would make more of a challenge due to his slick way of presenting his debate, not that I agree with everything he says, but dammit, we need a Republican in the Presidency, and a Republican Congress in control!
I've been saying this ever since McCain's 'rebound' and the MSM's renewed love fest with him ...but, some of these hardheaded people continue to scream all their prejudices against Romney and seem totally blind to what the MSM is trying to do to us. UGH!
It’s been several years since we’ve had good debates in this country between the liberal and the conservative (not counting the Reagan Library the other night) ;-)
Mitt is the best hope we have against the other side.
Stick a fork in Flipper, he's toast.
It’s been almost one year since I have heard “stick a fork in him, he’s done” here on FR. In fact, I’ve probably seen that phrase close to a hundred times here.
Thanks for showing us your true colors.
Never give up, never surrender!
McCain can certainly out debate Obama. Didn’t you know he was a “Footsoldier” during the Reagan Revolution and that he’s been endorsed by Jack Kemp and Phil Gramm?
The above is true, but another angle just as stark is an Obama-Mitt match-up--in the spotlight of the media glare--would only make Mitt even "younger!" What do I mean? Well, Mitt is 60, but the MSM would constantly hit the rewind button to when he was half that age--30. And what would be so "special" about that?
Think of it: When he was 30, a fully conscientious moral adult, the most important commitment in his life was one where if Obama had been an adult & wanted to come right alongside of him in that commitment, he would have read the sign, "No blacks or Native Americans allowed." (I mean it wasn't even a segregated situation). The MSM & Democrats would have a literal field day with that, trying to tiptoe between not shaming Mitt's commitment but rather trying to shame the GOP as selecting somebody from the corporate countryclub AND "good ole boy" era vs. the ever-so-tolerant Obama & his followers.
Now there's nothing he can do about his past--in this post that's not where I'm going; my going back to 1977 is only mentioned to focus in on 2008. If that match-up were to occur, then in '08 too many '08 issues would get lost as the lens of the MSM & the Dems would keep hitting the rewind button to 1977.
The GOP wants to run an '08 campaign...and just because there may not be any skeletons in Romney's immediate family closet, doesn't mean that the MSM won't expand its zoom upon his wider faith family closet...the dust that was still heavy circa 1977.
LOL. Yeah, I did hear that a few times....
...a few dozen times.
My best hope for this year is that Obama defeats the Evil Empire. It will then still be liberal vs. liberal in the general election but, at least, I won’t have to put up with The Witch and her flying monkeys. If McCain is the nominee, I might even vote Obama out of gratitude.
I’m still hoping Dubya will endorse Hillary. That would pretty much ensure that the second string will be the DNC nominee.
Mitt is the first well spoken conservative to come along in so long, that we need someone like him to give our dwindling party a new voice and bring more people to our side. Reagan did it, and I believe Mitt will do it as well.
I like it!!
BTW, I’ve been thinking, with Fred dropping out, and pretty much out of the picture now, a winning combination that would be absolutely unstoppable would be this ticket:
Romney / Petraeus 2008
That ship sailed from Miami Beach last Tuesday at 7:01 p.m.
What did I miss... The NATO job? I bet he’d come back if offered...
McCain is the Democrats’ “Trojan Horse” in the Republican Party..
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