Mitt Romney Can Crush McCain

NewsMax ^ | February 6, 2008 | John LeBoutillier

[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.

[Vigilanteman]

One interesting way to count wins is who has won swing states. McCain has generally won states Democrats will always win. Huckabee has generally won states Republicans will win, at least until 20 or 30 million new citizens from Mexico are imposed on us.

So far, the count on swing states is:

Huckabee: Iowa . . . and Arkansas?

McCain: New Hampshire, Florida, Missouri . . . and Arizona?

Romney: Michigan, Nevada, Maine, Minnesota and Colorado.

[rbmillerjr]

“You seriously don’t think this schmuck has a chance in 2012 after spending millions more than his opponents this year and failing to win in weak Presidential field, do you?”

Well, the self-financed part is irrelevant. I guess to Big Govt types that is a bad thing - but success and achievement are good things to most conservatives. As to will he have a chance in 2012...get back to me in 2010. It’s too early to say, but many mocked Reagan afer his initial bid too.

[tabsternager]

Have you heard about the “bed tax” that the Huckster imposed? That’s one of many of his.

As for Huckabee’s record as a social conservative, I think he is generally, but on the other hand, why has he been so supportive of McCain, a social liberal? And where was Huck back in 2005 when Romney was lobbying Congress for a Federal marriage amendment (the amendment McCain opposed)? Answer: nowhere.

Though he now pretends otherwise, the truth is the Huckster’s an open borders, fiscal liberal.

[Congressman Billybob]

Delegates to conventions are reliable, political hacks, for the most part. They are there to do what the candidate who has them pledged, asks them to do. For a preview of how that works, look at McCain's state convention delegates in West Virginia.

McCain was a distant third in that state's convention to choose national convention delegates. Romney had 41% but not obviously the magiuc majority. So, McCain ordered all his delegates to switch to Huckabee, and give the state to Huckabee. Most of them obeyed. McCain had only 11 delegates voting for him on the last round.

That's how that game is played, in conventions. Click below for more.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "Stealing Delegates, Stealing Nominations"

A Freeper in Congress? Now's the time.

[Westbrook]

I watched Romney from right here in New Hampshire. I heard him on the radio. I saw his articles in the papers. I heard his speeches.

But you can’t argue with someone who drank the kool-aid.

Vote for McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, pro-tax, pro-amnesty, backstabbing, never-met-a-conservative-cause-he-didn’t-enjoy-joining-with-Democrats-to-defeat McCain.

Watch the geriatric, meta-stable, foul-mouthed, hot-tempered lunatic McCain go down in flames in November.

Enjoy the fruits of a Hillbama presidency.

[ElkGroveDan]

Yes. I’ve been one on several occasions. You’d be amazed how many people who have been appointed are only there for the big party and could give a damn about the candidate who appointed them. Old time party hacks have lots of allegiances across all kinds of idealogical lines. When an “old friend” calls with a great deal, you take his call and listen. With McCain I am convinced his support is a mile wide and an inch deep even among his own delegates.

[tabsternager]

You can’t be serious. There are several sources, including their own words. Google it.

[PhilDragoo]

McCain admittedly knows nothing about the economy at a time the economy is weakening. McCain will raise taxes and apply multi-trillion-dollar climate fees--McCain knows crashing planes.

McCain will bring in forty million more Mexicans to bankrupt the taxpayers, overload the hospitals, schools and jails--so says Heritage Foundation, a conservative organization, conservative being a word which makes McCain throw up in his mouth a little each time he is forced to utter it.

McCain will constrain intelligence efforts against terrorist attacks, prohibit interrogation, provide reparations for Gitmo detainees, give 'em all ten K as a lovely parting gift when he releases them.

McCain will join with Hillary in the Fairness Doctrine and its application to the internet.

It's not either Hillary or McCain--it's Hillary and McCain are interchangeable.

Obama and Huckabee are accessories before the fact.

Why would we want an experienced executive with a record of success in business as the chief executive of a United States with a stagnating and insecure economy--

Socialism, populism, communism, progressivism--we're the government; we're here to garnish, to take oil company profits, to take things from you on behalf of the common good.

We're not harvesting your organs. Yet.

[Westbrook]

> RINO Romney “REPENTED” ?????
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> Source ?????

Try this.

http://www.mittromney.com/Issues/index

And this.

http://www.mittromney.com/Issues/american-culture

You can listen to his speeches.

http://www.mittromney.com/News/Speeches/index

He wrote this one himself.

http://www.mittromney.com/News/Speeches/Faith_In_America

But if you’re already convinced, nothing I or anybody else is gonna say will change your mind.

I voted for Duncan Hunter.

It was a wasted vote.

His campaign was DOA.

But I wasn’t 100% sure of Mitt’s conservative “epiphany” at the time.

I’ve watched him somewhat closely for years, though, and he has been drifting to the right for a long time, to the great chagrin of the party hacks in Massachusetts.

[Clintonfatigued]

“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.”

One reason that McCain is leading is that conservatives are not rallying around Romney, who in the past has taken positions more liberal than those of McCain.

[Congressman Billybob]

Good point. Good tagline.

The first national convention I attended was at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Goldwater had a 24/7 War Room set up, keeping tabs on all his delegates. If one of them wavered, even in a private conversation in a bar, word would get back.

Then the War Room would send out a support team to get on the wavering delegate and prod him back into line. LOL.

John / Billybob

[Tennessee Nana]

Source ????

[Dog Gone]

Since John LeBoutillier has made a career out being wrong on everything, this is a bad omen.

[Son House]

mcCain has figured out a strategy to get the media on his side

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Yeah, be too old to win against a Democrat in a general election, the media is sure supporting that.

[KansasGirl]

Or it may go to Romney.

[Tennessee Nana]

Speaking of RINO Romney, you said

I’ve watched him somewhat closely for years, though, and he has been drifting to the right for a long time
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Obama “has been drifting to the right for a long time” also...

You want I vote for him ?????

[Grunthor]

How can the Republican Party, with a huge base of conservatives, nominate a candidate who hates them and who they despise?

[lewislynn]

The same nitwit pinheads who won't sleep until everyone becomes a christian.

Won't sleep? Or lay awake at night worrying about it?

A person would have to be a nitwit pinhead to think a President can make that happen or even prevent it from happening...But then some people are just naturally paranoid and insecure with their religion.

[Grunthor]

How can the Republican Party, with a huge base of conservatives, nominate a candidate who hates them and who they despise?

[Son House]

If it’s Obama, he is the next POTUS whoever we put up.

Disagree, Romney can force the Democrat to show how their budget works, and we all know how a Democrat budget works, raise taxes-decrease revenue-slow the economy to a grinding halt.