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.
FOLKS....
It’s a PROPOGANDA WAR, and we lost it long ago.
The media has succsessfully turned the word “Conservative” into hate-word, along with “Christian”.
They have pigeon-holed anyone supporting a “Conservative” agenda as a Bible-thumping hick living in a trailer, driving a pickup with a Confederate flog on it, while looking for blacks to run down on the way to the NASCAR race...
Of ALL of the nominees this year, JUST ONE, Mitt Romney, has/had the ability to delivera message in a way that the MSM could actually filter through to the Sheeple, but own own “Identity Politics” is killing him...
In a large part, WE created this mess....
Hell yea!. . .what else is there! More Dems in power just means a more target rich environment. Dems will fail because they have no truth! TRUTH WILL WIN IN THE END!
“Bluto: LET’S DO IT!”
Do what?
There is still the chance that McCain could slip off his meds and explode in public or that Romney would drop and endorse Huckabee. There are still possibilities.
And that is putting it mildly.
GOP...RIP
Not to mention clean and articulate. :-)
I disagree. And strongly. If the economy continued to falter, Romney would be the one guy who could bring us victory in this race.
With McCain, you have a guy who is admittedly and demostratably clueless on economic issues. You have a guy who would sell our nation down the Rio Grande. You have a guy who relished in stabbing his own in the back.
On some other thread, somebody was saying that McCain was our only chance to get the "youth vote." I was like, "Yeah, nothing gets the young people more excited than some pasty geriatric Senator with no charisma."
Not to worry... I will support McCain. I can’t imagine that I’d ever leave the GOP.
If it’s Blutarski, he probably wants us to bomb Pearl Bailey.
Exactly. Time to focus on a veto-proof congress and/or senate.
There’s no silver lining in any of this. It’s going to be ugly in November for the GOP.
McCain has charisma. I once saw him bite the head off a live bat at a GOP dinner.
AMEN!
Couldn’t agree more, tho it is really hard to see
who the standard bearer will be.
Alan Keyes is the only candidate I see who properly
and eloquently articulates the foundational
basis for our God-given right to life.
He has been frozen out of the media coverage.
Blutarsky’s advice to members of the GOP, is to start drinking heavily.
My 18 year old daughter has no kind words for "McLame." She calls him a "chipmunk faced dinosaur."
LOL!
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