Posted on 02/05/2008 9:31:52 PM PST by mngran2
Just reported on tv. Also said Romney to meet at campaign headquarters tomorrow to have "frank discussion" about future of campaign.
McCain really creeps me out. Creep factor and needing a transfusion yesterday is front runner Juan McCain. He’s as big a liar as Bill Clinton but with McCain you can actually tell when he’s lying.
“So why in the world are you blaming Romney’s failures on us???”
PS. Romney won 7 states today so I’d call it partial SUCCESS, not failure.
The real failure is not Romney, he is a successful man who has run a very good campaign which got close to winning, but probably not quite.
I WILL STILL SUPPORT HIM AND VOTE FOR HIM NO MATTER WHAT.
The real failure is with the conservative base, which failed to come to a single unifying candidate to stop McCain.
OUR failure to rally to Romney is OUR LOSS, not his.
Wow, you ARE creepy with that money-hangup.
like I said: It speaks more about you than him.
Keep track of who is supportive and double check they are going to the polls before election by phoning them or revisiting them if their phone number is not on the election rolls.
At least, I hope you in some way try to make a difference.
So, the nxt president will be creepy. Won’t that be swell? A leftist creep for four year while they print the new money and open up all the superhighways for foreign truckers. It’s more than Mexican truckers.
“I agree. I have nothing against Romney. He would probably make a fine president. He certainly has the background that would recommend him to the position. On paper, he looks amazingly good.”
Yes, he would have made the best President of any of the candidates.
“But there is obviously something that people can’t embrace.”
Let no overanalyze this - Romney got MORE VOTES THAN Huckabee, Rudy, Thompson, Hunter... so what’s wrong with Huck and the rest?
” Perhaps it is telling that no other former candidate has endorsed him.”
Not really. I take Judge Robert Bork and GOv Matt Blunt and Senator Jim DeMint endorsement over RINO Rudy any day.
What so bad about being sucessful? Romney has earned his money if you check his background. He did not marry his money like the pig McCain or the gigolo John Kerry. You sound like the ignorant populist Huckabee.
Why should we care if Mr "National Smoking Ban moral obligation to take care of illegal immigrants children, the US should apologize to Pakistan for Bhutto getting killed by a Muslim terrorist " Huckabee gets the nomination or if Mr "Close Gitmo, give legal protection to terrorists, hike the Gas Tax $.50 to pay for more bureaucrats to fight the mythical man made global warming, close buddy of Ted Kennedy" McCain wins?
A Liberal is a Liberal no matter what party label you slap on them.
Thanks for your positive comments. I largely agree with what you said except that in many cases, we have been separated by our ordering of priorities as well as by mistrust of either candidate.
You missed the point of course, without being born into his wealth and church, he appears to be empty.
Do you know that he never even played sports? This empty suit never left the nest of his birth, there are no chapters and adventures in his life, he is as he was born, and now he is sixty, and he will always be in the bubble.
Romney was new to national politics. He had no chits to turn in.
If he does the rounds and raises money for Republican candidates after the 2008 debacle, he can earn those chits.
But as much as I wanted to believe in the man, and as much as I think he actually has come to care about the country at his core, I am not positive about that. So, I don't know.
I would bank more on Romney than on Huckabee, but I wouldn't bet my house on either of them.
It is simple, if we do not fight this to the convention we will certainly lose. If we do fight this to the convention we will probably lose. It is better to probably lose than to certainly lose.
No, you should.
Try actually looking at even a shred of data instead of thinking your emotion based opinions are facts.
The GOP has consistently moved to the Left since 2002. What has happened to their political power in Congress? What has happened to their party member numbers? Donations? Political approval numbers? Dropped like a stone in a bottomless well.
The culmination of this tread will be John McCain's butt kicking landslide lost to the Dems in Nov 2008. You all decided Bush 70% Conservatism wasn't moderate enough so your are running to move the Party 35% more to the Left with McCain.
Go see how well that sells to the American Voters.
Well, briefly, if the current way isn’t working, and there’s nothing to lose, then try something else. But more lengthily:
The establishment GOP is completely out of touch with all of us, which is one reason that they keep pushing candidates and ideas that are anathema to big chunks of the party.
I believe the reason they have lost touch with us is that they have gotten complacent — they push a candidate and expect that we will just go along. They hear us complain, and they say “yeah, yeah, they always complain, but they’ll do what we say in the end.”
A brokered convention is one proof that we are not going to obediently unite behind the candidate that the GOP establishment has chosen for us. There hasn’t been a brokered convention in many decades — if anyone in the GOP is paying attention, they will see it for what it is: a huge flashing red light that we’re not just falling in line anymore.
Sure, short-term they’ll still get their candidate (probably McCain). If that candidate then loses in November, that will be another huge flashing red light. After that, they’ll either re-evaluate what kinds of candidates they’re pushing/grooming/supporting, or they won’t. If they don’t, then my guess is that they’ll continue their slide into irrelevancy as a party for conservatives.
I certainly wouldn’t bet on the GOP seeing the flashing red lights. But as we have nothing to lose, let’s give it a shot and see what happens.
Thats right. The caucuses where whoever pays the most to bus in supporters and offers them free pizza to stand in a corner like trained moron seals wins.
Romney and Rooty were never viable candidates in the Republican party and the Rocky-Fellers better get that through their thick skulls.
“With a what looks like a landslide victory in November for a Clinton/Obama victory, you can stick a fork in the USA.
You can kiss victory in Iraq and Afghanistan goodbye. Al Qaeda will look upon the Democratic landslide as their victory.”
A new POTUS will be tested by Al Qaeda.
We will be mostly done in Iraq by years end and I think some troops will be moved to Afghanistan. What will happen after that I don’t know.
This is all so sad, No Hunter, No Fred and maybe no Romney. Next No America as we know it.
Did you tell that to all the Fredheads and Duncan people? Huckabee is the NY Giants of politics. Given the opportunity he can succeed. He has proved that time and again. His Iowa victory was huge. And he is facing MSM religious bigotry every step of the way. This guy is a remarkable retail politician and if he had had the name recognition of McCain and the money of Romney he would have run away with this nomination by now. I didn't just pick Huckabee out of the blue. Ideologically, I would be a Paul supporter, but since conservatives don't know a conservative when they see one and Paul didn't stand a chance I sought out a guy that had a chance against Clinton. Only Huckabee fit that bill. McCain will be toasted by Clinton. Too old. Too hawkish. Too unstable. Romney is the wrong kind of man for this particular election. Fred was a dud. Duncan who? One issue Tancredo? Huckabee was the whole package. Great speaker, strong social conservative, not too doctrinaire on other issues, willing to play hard ball.....yeah....he is the guy. He could compete with Clinton. So I really didn't eeny meeny miny moe him. There was some logic to my choice.....in fact a lot more logic than most other people apply.
“Watch for Huckabee to continue to roll up victories in Louisiana and Texas”
Texas will never in a million years go to Huck.
Thanks for helping put McInsane in the drivers seat.
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