Posted on 02/06/2008 3:11:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Despite what the pundits, talking heads, and self-annoited experts say about the Republican race, it is more muddled and more up in the air than at any time since Iowa.
Why?
Because 60 percent of the Republican Party is against John McCain.
And the more a dour Tim Russert or an arrogant Chris Mathews says that, “the Republican race is, for all intents and purposes, over,” or this one, “it is very hard to see how John McCain can be stopped,” the more agitated conservatives get.
That translates to “we lefty pundits who dominate the TV airwaves want McCain so we will just proclaim him the inevitable nominee.”
But conservative GOP voters are rebelling against McCain; yes, he gets moderate Republicans and independents who come into the GOP primaries. But the base — conservatives — are voting against McCain.
So I ask you this question: How can the Republican Party, with a huge base of conservatives, nominate a candidate who hates them and who they despise?
This is the crux of the dilemma that is ripping the GOP apart now. Ann Coulter’s "Hannity & Colmes" diatribe was more than amusing. It raised this question: Who do conservatives hate more, John McCain or Hillary Clinton?
The question, more than any answer, is instructive: The fact that we are even talking about this shows how divided we Republicans are and how unaccepting of John McCain we will be.
We feel like he is being jammed down our throat by the left, and by the same inside-the-beltway GOP establishment that has been, frankly, wrong on just about everything from amnesty to Dubai Ports World.
The two candidates opposing McCain are both having difficulty cobbling together enough support on their own to defeat McCain; they are splitting the conservative vote and enabling a moderate-to-liberal win.
And Huckabee is clearly in the tank for McCain. Yesterday’s rigged convention in West Virginia was designed to deny Mitt Romney a “Romney Wins West Virginia” headline running all day long on cable TV. While within the rules, it was a petty, ugly example of the "real McCain" at work.
As the so-called GOP front-runner he should be above that kind of thing. But it tells us he is still more afraid of Romney than he is of Huckabee. Therefore, conservatives are increasingly going to rally to Romney from here on out.
And what Romney now needs to do is simple: pick an upcoming state — a crucial one — and make it a mano-a-mano race, Romney vs. McCain, and win it!
It is time Romney beats Mccain one-on-one because if he cannot, then McCain will win the nomination by default.
But if Romney draws the line in the sand and beats McCain, then we have a new race on our hands. The conservatives will rally to Romney and McCain could still be stopped.
So, Mitt, get going and fast.
Your task is a difficult one: take on not just McCain but the entire D.C. establishment.
Let it all out . . . get angry; show some passion. Embrace the talk-radio hosts, as they represent the GOP base.
Take on McCain and squash him, and soon, maybe in Ohio.
Make the economy the issue.
Do us all a favor.
Mitt Romney can’t even come in 3rd in most red states. If he was the nominee, he would probably win Utah and Wyoming ... lose the rest of the country (and bring down the GOP with him). The GOP isn’t for habitual flip floppers.
Throw McCain out and replace him with Romney and you still have a MAJOR voting block that will not participate and thus hand the election to the Dems.
Personally this is my take.
McCain vs Hillary: Many Repubs sit out, enough hate her and plug their nose and he also gets many Dems who hate her and McCain wins.
McCain vs Obama: Obama (and Al Qaeda) wins in a landslide and we have elected one of the most liberal, socialistic, infanticide supporting, Muslim appeasing POTUS of all time.
Romney vs Hillary or Obama: Christian right stay home in mass numbers, and unlike McCain he gets no support from Dems and either Hillary or Obama wins.
We revolt, bring back Fred or petition Barbour or someone like that: They do not have enough time to make a name for themselves and get the machine in place and we lose.
The ONLY way I way see the Republicans taking the WH and finishing the WOT is if it is McCain vs. Hillary.
Pretty grim, huh? This year SUCKS!!!!!
The same nitwit pinheads who won't sleep until everyone becomes a christian.
the edict from the RNC bosses has come down.
whoever has the majority will be coronated in the name of unity.
IOW plurality wins.
conservatives go home.
Were you aiming that at me as well? Because I'm on record supporting Romney.
Hmmn, they do seem to be for habitual liberals though.
We have all kinds, pick your religion, if you dare. Why,we even have the non religious. They all think they smell different, but in the end they all stink.
Click below for more information on McCain and Huckabee.
Congressman Billybob
But he won’t. Once he’s running against a Democrat, the press, which supports him against everyone to his right, will savage McCain with Keating Five stories, stories about his temper, and even (hypocritical thought it will be) attacks on him for supporting liberal positions they agree with.
Between that, and enough of the base sitting on their hands, he’ll lose, pretty much without regard to who he picks as his VP.
I’m afraid this is a ‘worse is better’ situation: hope he doesn’t pick a conservative VP (meaning he goes with Huckabee, or if he’s daring Lieberman) and goes down to defeat. Then the disaster of four years of unchecked liberalism will be blamed on the Democrats, and the GOP bigwigs might get the idea that running RINOs is not the way to win elections, and that our primary structure, which favors RINOs, is broken, and fix it.
it sucks but this is what happens when conservatives didn’t rally behind real conservatives like Fred or Hunter.
You have to have a strategy. You can’t just throw stuff around and expect to win
He even lied about his mother's position on abortion to convince pro-choicers that he was on their side.
Romney vetoed in-state tuition and benefits for illegals; Huckster supports them.
Romney raised fees that everyone had to pay more than enough to offset the tax cuts, also creating a tax and spend increase. Romney got a C to Huckabee's D. A close wash.
Romney allowed multiple sanctuary cities to operate in his state with not a single word of opposition. (That is he now says he would act to do something about them, but did nothing about them as governor.)
Let's add one to that. Judges... one of the most important to me. Huckabee has a history of opposing Roe v Wade that stretches back to the pre-Reagan days. His judge selections in AR reflect well upon him. Romney, on the other hand, entered office on a promise to reform judicial appointments, made horrible selections, many times picking the worst of the lot in a group of three instead of sending for a new list or firing the board that served at his pleasure, and then left the process in even worse shape.
All this advice on winning elections from a one term congress critter from New York. Didn’t he get his butt whipped in his reelection bid?
Telling Romney to pick a state and go mano/mano. Isn’t that basically what he did in CA and lost? There’s about 1067 delegates left to be chosen and McCain currently has about 610, Romney 170, Huckabee 148 with 25 split among Paul, Thompson, Hunter, uncomitted...... Now the race is to 1191, so let the games begin.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P08/tally.phtml
why would they attack him on liberal positions? That would just get moderates and independents to vote for him because they see him as “being his own man” like O’reilly. I think that mcCain has figured out a strategy to get the media on his side because you need that in order to win.
Where did the LIEberal Rag USA Today conduct their poll?
In latte shoppes?
NONE of the Huck voters I know would EVER vote for McCain.
That’s a pipe dream. Romney won all seven of his states by double digit percentages yesterday.
Huckabee won three of his five states by less than 4 percentage points...and won WV by 5 percentage points because of shady collusion with McCain.
Huckabee’s support is much more fragile than Romney’s.
You may not agree with their beliefs, and it appears you don’t, BUT that IS the POLITICAL reality.
Romney will not gather up Huckabees votes. Not now and they ceretainly will not be behind him in the general.
The way I see it... McCain is the only guy that can beat Hillary by garnering enough Dems. Not that I like that strategy, but it’s true.)
If it’s Obama, he is the next POTUS whoever we put up.
Did you notice their turnout last night. They are fired up
Crazy, but fired up!
Sounds like Obama's tactics. What makes you believe that MCCain will listen to the very people he has bitterly opposed for 20 years?
Every poll shows Huckabee voters more likely to vote for McCain if Huckabee weren't in the race.
Romney is finished in either a two or three-man race.
Why you can't grasp the fact that a large percentage of conservatives will never, ever for Willard is mind boggling.
MSM discussing the 2008 election: "We have the stupid dhimmis stuck in the losing position
of rooting for someone they don't like or trust to beat someone else they dont't like or trust.
And WE have the stolen FBI files on whoever is left. We win."
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