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Mitt Romney Can Crush McCain
NewsMax ^ | February 6, 2008 | John LeBoutillier

Posted on 02/06/2008 3:11:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
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.

181 posted on 02/06/2008 4:57:38 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: Ol' Sparky

“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.


182 posted on 02/06/2008 4:59:07 PM PST by rbmillerjr (Big Government Evangelicals.....leading conservatives to Landslide 2012)
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To: Ingtar

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.


183 posted on 02/06/2008 4:59:46 PM PST by tabsternager
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To: ElkGroveDan
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.

184 posted on 02/06/2008 5:02:25 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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To: Ol' Sparky

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.


185 posted on 02/06/2008 5:02:26 PM PST by Westbrook
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To: Congressman Billybob
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.
186 posted on 02/06/2008 5:05:31 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired of all the politics in politics.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

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


187 posted on 02/06/2008 5:07:24 PM PST by tabsternager
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To: Congressman Billybob; 2ndDivisionVet; MNJohnnie; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; MeekOneGOP; ...

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.

188 posted on 02/06/2008 5:12:36 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Tennessee Nana

> RINO Romney “REPENTED” ?????
>
> 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.


189 posted on 02/06/2008 5:13:03 PM PST by Westbrook
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To: EternalVigilance; fieldmarshaldj; Kuksool; ExTexasRedhead

“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.


190 posted on 02/06/2008 5:13:09 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
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To: ElkGroveDan
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

191 posted on 02/06/2008 5:13:40 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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To: tabsternager

Source ????


192 posted on 02/06/2008 5:14:34 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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


193 posted on 02/06/2008 5:15:17 PM PST by Dog Gone
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To: ari-freedom; The_Reader_David

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.


194 posted on 02/06/2008 5:16:32 PM PST by Son House (The Democrat's High Tax Rates Suppress American Freedom, Opportunity and Jobs..)
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To: DannyTN

Or it may go to Romney.


195 posted on 02/06/2008 5:17:02 PM PST by KansasGirl
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To: Westbrook

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
____________________________________________

Obama “has been drifting to the right for a long time” also...

You want I vote for him ?????


196 posted on 02/06/2008 5:17:12 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: tear gas

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


197 posted on 02/06/2008 5:18:17 PM PST by Grunthor (Nominate Juan? Get ready for Dem rule. No matter what.)
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To: britt reed
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.

198 posted on 02/06/2008 5:18:28 PM PST by lewislynn (What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movemractent have in common? Disinformation)
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To: donna

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


199 posted on 02/06/2008 5:19:29 PM PST by Grunthor (Nominate Juan? Get ready for Dem rule. No matter what.)
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To: Anti-Hillary

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.


200 posted on 02/06/2008 5:20:46 PM PST by Son House (The Democrat's High Tax Rates Suppress American Freedom, Opportunity and Jobs..)
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