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.
I never said there was or was not any difference. I was responding to your post where you said Mclame was an 'open RINO'.
There is no way any rational person can think that just by listening to McLame's own words.
At least not trying to defend that statement. That is a start.
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How can the Republican Party, with a huge base of conservatives, nominate a candidate who hates them and who they despise?
'Fraid Ol' Sparky is correct, MNJohnnie. Pro-Mitt Hugh Hewitt is having a guest on his program who is confirming that there's only 3 winner-take-all states left (Virginia, Vermont & DC)...Not an overwhelming # of delegates in either VT or DC. He said media reports had McCain with almost 700 delegates and Romney only about 280. Huckabee, I think he said, at about 176. He said McCain massacred Romney in California because CA assigns 3 delegates per district + state winner gets 11 xtra (170 total). Romney won only 2 districts in CA--despite their campaign folks thinking they could take up to 2/3rds going in...Right now, apparently 2 other CA districts still too close to call. Still Romney is only going to get 6-12 delegates in CA; McCain will get 158-164.
Romney could only outdelegate McCain in his home MA state by a 22-18 margin. What does that say?
I’m Jewish and also voted for Huckabee for those reasons. The fact that he was a governor for over a decade and has the support of Duncan Hunter were also factors. He’s not too tough and stubborn and at the same time, he doesn’t change his entire set of principles every few years.
Sad to say I think you have the crux of it. Not a ton of voters but enough, enough.
First, you can’t say that I’m “not much of a Southern Baptist” based on a brief post I wrote here.
If we are ever going to reach Mormons for Christ, we need to stop treating them like monsters. They are human beings who have a different theology. They are not our political enemies and they are not bad people.
Even if they were our enemies we would have to love them because that’s what Jesus said to do.
I can’t speak to every single point of Mormon theology, but I am sure they believe there is a judgment they have to face and there is an ultimate morality. Otherwise those who are Mormon would be dissolute drinkers, drug users, live in deplorable housing, etc.
I’m not a Mormon nor do I play one on TV. But all this “Mormons are monsters” stuff I hear from evangelicals is rubbish. If we can’t be friends with them as individuals, how can we ever influence them or persuade them to believe as we do? Would they want to become like we are?
God bless you, I’m sure you mean well. Mormons aren’t our enemies. And horror of horrors, neither are our Catholic friends.
Saundra, care to jump in here?
McCain admittedly knows nothing about the economy
Didn’t McDole say he is reading Greenspan’s book to learn about it? A little late, 8 years after running for President in 2000.
> Obama “has been drifting to the right for a long time” also...
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> You want I vote for him ?????
Never mind.
Enjoy McCain going down in flames next November, or even worse, McCain getting elected and punishing conservatives in the party. But that’s a long, long, LONG shot, and if you’re in tune with what’s going on around you, you know it.
Thanks for the ping . . . it helps a little.
we’re not convinced because we’ve heard his other speeches. He was just as passionate advocating positions that are the complete opposite of what he says he is for today.
McCain quite possibly could have his Dean moment at CPAC. Conservatives there MUST go for his throat, and challenge him on all his lies.
Is that worse than McCain and Huckabee who openly TELL you they’ll legalize those 30 million and cause a defacto automatic expansion of socialist programs ? Talking about “trust”, I don’t trust Huckabee an inch. He is an open-borders, Christians-help-the-downtrodden, corrupt politician that let murderers and rapists go right and left while governor, at a rate 10 times as frequent as neighboring states’ governors did.
We spend almost $400B at Federal and State levels on Foodstamps, Medicaid, Welfare, etc. and our current TOTAL population that falls within those programs definition of “poor” is only 30 million people. Adding 30 million more low-income people to the “legal” population means doubling that to $800B, doesn’t it ? And that doesn’t count adding to the SS/M insolvency mess, since low-wage workers do not contribute anywhere near enough SS/M taxes to pay their own way in those programs.
I sympathize with not wanting Romney. He was my 3rd choice after Hunter and Fred. But his Mormonism and HeathCare and Pro-Choice “problems” from his past are less important to me than the illegal aliens and the economy. I’m hoping he’ll consider De Mint, Thompson, or Hunter as VP.
“RINO ROMNEY
I like Huckabee.”
You like Rino HuckaB
There fixed.
“I didn’t raise taxes, I raised hope”... Big Govt. HuckaB
only ten years older than hillary. America is getting older and there will be many retirees soon. They won’t vote for “whippersnappers” like Obama, Edwards or Romney. Huckabee is right in the middle.
But McCain is a very very experienced Senator and it will be hard to defeat his strategy. This is like taking over Afghanistan from the Taliban after 9/11. Small pieces were placed here and there ... boom boom boom and the whole country is taken over in a month.
[Obama “has been drifting to the right for a long time” also...
You want I vote for him ?????]
Source ?????
36 posted on 02/06/2008 3:33:00 PM PST by MNJohnnie
You'd think the tornadoes in Arkansas last night would have told them something...
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