Nah
Posted on 02/06/2008 2:55:51 PM PST by bshomoic
Yes, McCain will be the face of the GOP...for the next 9 months, but no longer after that.
the way I see it the the Big TV Industry would prefer McCain in there v. Obama or Clintoon because it would be way easier to demonize him as a crusty old mean-spirited white man...with Romney this strategy would be impossible. Romney/Huckabee could be a formidable ticket appealing to the ordinary and leaving the Hollywood limo crowd for the “rock star” Hilary...
I C BS here.
We all know McCain cannot win. Those of us who actually care about our political agenda and want it advanced and are not mindless Party Uber Alles types who treat this as if it were a sporting event know it. We do not watch polls to decide who to support the way McCainiac do. Given the Democrats structural advantage in organization, turn out and money who had a better chance of winning?
Whole Country is in a foul mood. They hate the Political class with a passion. Everyone from the President to the least member of Congress has record low sustained political approval numbers.
The GOP, because they hold the WH, is seen as the party in power.
Given the country’s furious Anti DC mood who has a better chance of winning against Clinton Inc?
A tired broke old 25 year member of the DC Establishment who is running on a Leftist agenda with a long politically corrupt history who virtually no one in the Conservative Movement likes or trusts who’s stated political agenda is to be Democrat Lite
or
an articulate successful business man and former Gov with a $250 million war chest who at least is running on a solidly Conservative agenda who can credibly run a Reagan style “we got to go clean up DC” campaign?
9 months ago according to all the National Polls the only person who could beat Clinton Inc was Rudy G. Where is he now?
That is where the GOP and McCain will be in Nov 2008. The GOP will be lucky to win 10 states. We are going to get massacred down ticket also. The Democrats are fired up. They are going to have huge turnout since it will be the 1st chance in 15 years for them to control the whole Govt. They are like we were in 2000. They will be ground glass Democrats.
The Mods-Indys are NOT going to vote for McCain’s style of Democrat lite politics. The are in a foul anti Establishment mood and McCain is as Establishment as they get. A career old WASP politician. The Mods/Indys are going to vote for the the Democrat real deal over the Democrat Lite GOP brand.
The Conservative/Republican will not be energized and so many will not show up, certainly will not volunteer their time and money to campaign. McCain’s GOTV will be a sad joke. After all, what the difference between one tax hiking big Govt authoritarian Liberal or the other to them. Either way Conservatives get nothing
The GOP are going to get a 1980s style butt kicking in Nov. Only this time the Anti Reagan the Democrats will be running is the one winning the landslide.
Hear-hear! And then McCain and his RINO ilk will be purged from the rolls and have to go back to being the Democrats they truly are.
Sooooo.....do you think there’s any chance of a Romney/Huckabee ticket?
That is why I am identified as a conservative only and not a republican anymore ( as of a couple years ago ).
Wrong body part
Prepare to hear this day in and day out, folks.
lazy reporting - it’ll be way easier writing about McCain “dust-ups” than important issues...that way elevating the Democrats as above the fray - this would be far more difficult with a Romney or Huckleberry
Minor point of contention...... I believe the $250 million figure is Romney’s net worth, not his campaign war chest.
The *A$$* of the GOP is more like it!
I hope not.
I’ll vote for him if he’s the nominee, he he should be nothing more to the party than a figurehead, to be opposed when necessary.
Opps, good point. Thanks for the correction
Nah
Won’t be the face of my GOP.....never.....
Conservatives lost the GOP presidential candidate to the GOP liberal wing.
Time to focus more time and energy on the House and Senate.
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