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Super Tuesday: GOP Disaster!
GOPublius.com ^ | February 5, 2008 | gopublius.com

Posted on 02/05/2008 10:31:17 PM PST by americanophile

Tonight’s Super Tuesday Primary leaves little to be positive about, even for McCain supporters. Tuesday merely proved the degree to which the GOP is fractured, unenthusiastic, and weak.

Romney and Huckabee still have life in them, but McCain was the night’s big winner. November is well off, but at this stage the fall forecast is dim. The Republicans will be entering the race with a 72 year old Senator, despised by large swathes of his own base, sluggishly propelled by a divided and deeply demoralized GOP electorate that is likely to produce an anemic campaign war chest.

By contrast, the Democrats, feverishly enthusiastic and rabid for change, will enter flush with cash, and led by either the Nation’s first woman nominee - backed by her husband’s famously formidable political machine or the Nation’s first black nominee - a hollow but undeniably charismatic candidate.

From here on out, we can likely expect a dramatic shift to the left. Either of these Democratic candidates will significantly raise our taxes, fling open the doors to our borders, enact economically crippling environmental policy, stack the Supreme Court with leftists, attempt to impose socialized medicine, and force a humiliating and ignominious withdrawal from Iraq. In the view of many conservatives, Senator McCain would only be slightly better on many of these issues, save the War.

No matter how you cut the cake, 2008 is shaping up to be a big Democratic year.

Whether anything can be done to mitigate this impending disaster remains to be seen, life has a way of changing the calculus suddenly and unpredictably, but at this stage, prudence demands that we prepare those tax shelters and buy an extra rifle while we still can.

An inglorious day for the GOP; all the signs point to a gathering storm.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; crap; democratcrossover; disaster; gop; howtostealanelection; mccain; mccain2008; rino; supertuesday
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To: americanophile; Pride in the USA; Stillwaters

Very good analysis that rings true to me


141 posted on 02/06/2008 1:13:06 AM PST by lonevoice (It's always "Apologize to a Muslim Hour"...somewhere)
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To: All

This is just me doing one of my late night/early morning musings, and thankfully not making it into my own separate vanity (we’ve had enough of those here lately!) but does anyone stop and think that maybe those of us here on FR and on many of the other conservative-leaning sites are not representative of the party, but only represent a small percentage?

We overwhelmingly backed Fred, and when Fred bowed out, most here went to Romney (except me, of course), and it looks like we are looking at McCain next November as the nominee, for whom it appears many here will not vote if he is the nominee.

Just asking.


142 posted on 02/06/2008 1:15:38 AM PST by Theresawithanh (I voted for FRED.)
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To: americanophile
I was sorely tempted to vote for Hunter on the MO primary (he was still on the ballot), given the stories about how McCain was going to take MO, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I supported Hunter, but between the 3 people still in the running for the nomination, I had to vote for Romney, hoping that it would help.

It didn't. Rats.

Mark

143 posted on 02/06/2008 1:18:40 AM PST by MarkL
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To: Diogenesis

You'd be looking at the next governor of CA, or "New Aztlan".

144 posted on 02/06/2008 1:22:32 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: CSI007
Anyone that thinks John McCain stands a chance this fall is off their rocker.

The day after the republican convention, when McCain is coronated, I'm looking forward to the stories in the drive by media (fed by dem opposition research) about the Keating Five and every other skeleton in McCain's closet.

He seems to think that the media likes him... The only reason that they're willing to use him is that he's their tool against the republicans. I think that he's going to find out (as every other republican favored by the drive by media has learned) that as soon as he's no longer useful to them, they're going to fall upon and devour him...

Mark

145 posted on 02/06/2008 1:23:13 AM PST by MarkL
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To: Theresawithanh

Going forward, I could support McCain. He’s a good option for dealing with the GWOT and he’d be a might be budget hawk. There are enough of us Reaganites to keep him in line on some of the social domestic issues even though he might slip a Feingoldesque bill in on us every now and then. But hell, W and H.W. gave us some of that populist sell out crap too. I now worry that we’ll not have Hillary to kick around and beat with an inferior conservative like McCain. I fear much of the “Anybody But Hillbillary” crowd will break for Obama. But he could be an easy target if he hadn’t talked his way to the head of a movement.

Fight Hard. -And Fight Smart. This is going to be a helluva ride.


146 posted on 02/06/2008 1:25:30 AM PST by Neville Chamberlain
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To: littlehouse36

I already have. I have always been Republican since I was a child. Tuesday, as I watched the results come in for mccain, I left the party. If this is what we have come to, I am not going to be a part of it.

Actually, I should say-the party left ME!


147 posted on 02/06/2008 2:59:50 AM PST by packrat35 (Politicians would be less worthless if they were edible, or usable for packing wheel bearings.)
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To: americanophile

It was suicide. GOP RINOs, weak and cowardly elected officials, incoherent boobs killed it. They’ll get their pensions, we’ll get the shaft. The last time we had a Bush, we got 8 years of Clinton. This time Bush told us it would be different. We’d have the majority for years. Incompetence, incoherence, weakness, stumbling and bumbling brought the GOP down. But we did get “No Child Left Behind”, we did get Medicar Rx Drugs, we did get “McCain-Feingold”, gee thanks President Bush; doing the job Democrat Presidents refuse to do.


148 posted on 02/06/2008 3:19:43 AM PST by Jabba the Nutt (Just laugh at them!)
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To: Marie2
I keep saying, the national polls show him beating Hilary OR Obama. Why does that make me off my rocker?

Polls don't mean anything this early. Most Americans still couldn't pick McCain out of a line-up if their life depended on it.

149 posted on 02/06/2008 3:50:04 AM PST by Sloth (I feel real bad for deaf people, cause they have no way of knowing when microwave popcorn is done.)
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To: americanophile

Only a major terrorist attack on this country before the election would give McLame a chance in hell of winning.


150 posted on 02/06/2008 3:53:00 AM PST by GnL
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To: americanophile

Republicans are blowing it again, with a Clinton in the race. I’m convinced the Clintons made a pact with the devil, and theres nothing we can do about it.


151 posted on 02/06/2008 5:26:59 AM PST by Sig Sauer P220
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To: sourcery
If there is any silver lining, it is that McCain will forever be credited with the destruction of the Republican party, and the final defeat of Consvertism in the United States. He will cherish that dishonor to his dying day, although future generations will curse him for it.

I don't think there WILL be future generations.
152 posted on 02/06/2008 5:28:09 AM PST by Sig Sauer P220
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To: tcrlaf

BIG WINNER YESTERDAY:

DINOSAUR MEDIA- not so dead after all.

There are not enough people on FR.


153 posted on 02/06/2008 5:33:10 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Sloth

The senile seniors voted for:

vietname prisoner guy,
or
Mormon guy,
or
evangelical preacher guy

ZERO depth.


154 posted on 02/06/2008 5:36:28 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: J. Worthington
Check this out! Bonefish Cay
155 posted on 02/06/2008 6:23:54 AM PST by Hildy (You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep cause reality is finally better than your dreams)
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To: Lloyd227

Then..how do we all reconcile ourselves for voting for Bush?


156 posted on 02/06/2008 6:24:46 AM PST by Hildy (You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep cause reality is finally better than your dreams)
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To: Swiss

157 posted on 02/06/2008 6:30:47 AM PST by TADSLOS (Conservatism means never having to say "I voted for John McCain for the sake of the GOP")
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To: americanophile

Bush; hated by the hateful, too many rotten apples in the barrel when he jumped in...now? well....


158 posted on 02/06/2008 6:44:54 AM PST by rusureitflies? (OSAMA BIN LADEN IS DEAD! There, I said it. Prove me wrong.)
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To: americanophile

As a Fredhead highly disappointed that McCain (a few months ago a 7% bottom of the list candidate) is going to be the nominee, I have to ask myself what can McCain do to sweeten the deal? What could he do to get the Fredheads and the Romney supporters to get out and vote for him in November? It would have to be a brilliant VP choice, and I mean brilliant.
Who on the ticket would FIRE UP Conservatives? Who on the ticket would generate discussion for weeks?

The answer: A woman, and what a woman. - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/


159 posted on 02/06/2008 6:50:00 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: americanophile
How many people call themselves republicans, 33% of the public? McCain’s got 13% right off the top, the liberal, socialist, Bush Republicans that have aided in the desrtuction of this nation. Thank you very much you knuckleheads. Well if the Evangelical vote that Huck is getting stays home with Dobson, he’s still stuck at 13%. And if the Mitt supporters who I believe are like me anti-amensty, pro-tax rate reduction, pro free speech, don’t vote, he’s still at 13%. And he’s not going to draw enough independent voters and disaffected dems to win. So unless McCain takes the knife out of conservatives backs, the gop is finished. Like the Whig party, in the ash heap of history. And shame on all you McCain supporters for your destroying Ronald Reagan’s party.
160 posted on 02/06/2008 6:52:03 AM PST by mainerforglobalwarming
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