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 for all of his faults, is still a Republican, and alot better then any Democrat.
It is possible that he might very well pick a strong conservative as his VP.
I for one do not want to see the Democrats jumping up and down with glee like they did when they won the last time.
All of this doom and gloom is really quite pathetic!
Excellent -- that's what I've been advocating all along. If people would actually vote for the guy they like best (instead of playing games based on poll-driven Magic-8-ball electability calculations), we could actually figure out what conservatives and republicans are looking for. As it is, the reply is hazy, so we'll have to try again.
As for me, I'm taking the same approach you're taking -- I'm in Pennsylvania, and in March I'm voting Thompson.
Thanks for thinking I have any influence.
I'm not so sure of that.
I was always disturbed by Romney not being a staunch Second Amendment person, although I understood the AWB he signed helped loosen restrictions for gun owners from the law already on the MA books and that the NRA supported the new AWB law there.
He was the first politician who gave the first credible stand against the legalization pathway for illegals, IMO. If we do that, he said, it will just encourage more illegals to come, it will not solve the problem. That was the first time since the liberal judiciary deep sixed our Prop 187 that I have felt a glimmer of hope that maybe we might not have lost already the war of the reconquista.
Huckabee was never for deportation and denying illegals a legalization pathway. His Christianity (like Bush's) prevented him from making the hard choice. And my Christianity would make me feel their pain, but frankly I think if they stayed in their own country's they might change them for the better, and if we don't stop the swamping of our culture before the immigrants are assimilated and understand why it is a great country, then this country and the hope and prosperity it gives to so many will be lost.
I decided Romney had the best chance to stop McCain, and so his recent ProLife stand was better than McCain's wanting to federally fund embryonic cell research.
I thought Romney had the best sense about how to put some more drive in the economy and how to attack the energy crunch which is grinding us to a halt.
I thought Huckabee was pandering and couldn't be trusted in the end. You thought Romney was pandering and couldn't be trusted in the end.
Maybe both of them were pandering.
Maybe both of them were sincere.
We shall have to check back next year and see.
I was just wondering if there is any downside? Do we stand to lose anything if we fight all the way to the Convention?
Settles it. Me and my conservative buddy are skipping this election cycle. Probably go out for a steak lunch and beers and hope Obama wins. McCain is a nightmare.
I will change my registration to Independent as soon as I get back downtown.
Screw the GOP.
Here's my prediction:
After the most devastating loss in history come November 2008, the thoroughly whipped GOP leadership will step down and cede control to the Conservative wing. It will once again be proven that the Republicans NEED the South, the Christians, and the fiscal Conservatives.
It will once again be common knowledge that it never works to throw away the base, and that it is impossible to make up the difference with moderates and independents.
Boogeyman politics will have been proven a farce, and Karl Rove will get a spanking for his "Where else they gonna go?" statement. After all, if the base stays home with Hillary as the opponent, they will stay home for anyone.
The Bakerite mini-RINOs will be tarred, feathered, and run out of the party on a rail, and their big tent" will be burnt to the ground.
The only thing I cannot predict is whether or not the Conservatives will be there to pick up the mess- They may just be too busy forming up the Conservative Party... A happy thought that I do hope will come true.
You really need to up the medication!
Factually incorrect. Tom Tancredo endorsed him. Hunter endorsed Huckabee and Thompson hasn't endorsed anyone. Gullianni backs McCain
Huckabee is much more conservative than McCain. He can beat Hillary, McCain might not be able to.
Our adversaries on the other side are dedicated and have been in this fight with streamlined and tried and true propaganda and brainwashing techniques since the Russian revolution.
We are a bunch of children playing with toys.
They have also effectively aided and abetted the squabbling on the right with internet sabotage techniques funded by large and wealthy foundations that they have infiltrated and taken control of.
The Gates Foundation doesn't just buy computers for poor black kids. And he is alive. The founders of some big foundations would turn in their graves if they knew what their money was being used for.
Then Huckabee is suppose to resign the race? Using your standard Huckabee's campaign is not only dead in the water but the one sinking the fastest.
He won fewer states, has no money, has a pathetically weak political organization and no backing in the Conservative Establishment.
During the term of the next President (who will be against water boarding or listening in on al Qaida phone calls), the Islamic Jihad will hatch a plan to nuke NY and DC and maybe LA.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least if McInsane asked Fred Thompson to be his VP. From the south, conservative, liked by most. But without the religious zealotry of the Huckster. He won’t pick the Huckster, who is merely a useful tool to McInsane. McInsane will probably appoint him to some more minor position, like House Chaplain.
As to Romney, he may as well get out now. Even if he were to win Texas, or some other large state coming up in the primaries, by the time they all got to the Convention, the Huckster would do the same thing that McInsane did with him in W. VA in the caucus, and throw his delegates’ support behind McInsane. So Romney wouldn’t stand a snowball’s chance in h*ll anyhow. Time for him to pull out, and live to fight another day.
I am a Texan, your home page says you aren’t, what do you predict for Texas and the primary election?
And you are 100% sure he doesn't have a 666 mark somewhere on him?
Ya think?
Here's my prediction.
McCain wins the nomination. He needs a southern conservative to shore up the south, someone with strong unquestionable social conservative values to bring the religious right along, someone with exceptional communication skills, that can be humorous, but also vicious when attacking the democrats, someone that he has a genuine regard for. So he asks Huckabee to be the VP candidate.
Huckabee agrees. Having already ascended to the chief executive spot in Arkansas when Tucker resigned, Huckabee has no problem being next in line. Lightning does strike twice and McCain is going to be the oldest nominee ever. Huckabee thinks there is a good chance he coud be sworn in as president before too long. Even if McCain served out his term, Huckabee would still be a relatively young man and have all the recquisite experience to win on his own in the future. That is the way it will all play out. President Huckabee is inevitable.
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