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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

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: Arkansas; US: Massachusetts; US: Ohio; US: West Virginia
KEYWORDS: captainmcqueeg; election; electionpresident; elections; elites; gop; huckabee; johnmccain; juanmcaztlan; mccain; mikehuckabee; mittromney; republicans; romney; shamnesty; wv2008
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To: Delphinium

and especially on Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914017/posts
Both Rudy and Romney had to go.


221 posted on 02/06/2008 5:50:05 PM PST by ari-freedom (Support the troops. Support their mission!)
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To: rbmillerjr
I am not saying I like everything about him,(I was for Duncan Hunter) but why don't you compare Romneys record in Mass to his in Arkansas?

I can tell you right now Huckabee was liberal on many issues, but not as liberal as Romney.

I've lived in Arkansas, and I can see why he felt building decent roads, improving schools in the state that had almost the worst rating, etc, was giving hope, while he had to work with a huge percent of democrats.

I disagree with raising taxes for any reason, but I think Huckabee is a more honest, caring liberal.

Atleast his socialism didn't pay to murder babies.

Romney is a much worse lying liberal.
222 posted on 02/06/2008 5:50:17 PM PST by Delphinium
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To: rintense

I pledge to vote against McCain.


223 posted on 02/06/2008 5:55:47 PM PST by kcar
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To: tear gas
get you some government health insurance.

The only "government" health insurance is MediCare or MediCaid, and those are being supported, funded and promoted by every single US Senator and Congressman, including Duncan Hunter.

Romney's health care plan in Massachusetts was all about convincing, and yes coercing, people to get PRIVATE health insurance.

224 posted on 02/06/2008 5:56:52 PM PST by Edit35
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To: Dogbert41
1. My opposition has nothing to do with someone hanging from a cross. Would you still oppose abortion if you weren't a christian? considering your identity is based upon your christianity, I would have to say no.

2. I support the 2nd amendment.

3. I prefer our borders be protected and people who don't belong here, don't get rewarded for their illegal status. Huckleberry doesn't.

225 posted on 02/06/2008 5:57:14 PM PST by britt reed (Once you've swallowed the Great Cosmic Lie, all else are but crumbs. J.A.A.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Republicans...TURN THE TV OFF AND VOTE FOR MITT.

Our party is back in the time machine of 1996 and stuck on stupid with this McCain crap.


226 posted on 02/06/2008 5:57:46 PM PST by My Favorite Headache (Our memories remind us, Maybe road life's not so bad...)
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To: Delphinium

“I can see why he felt building decent roads, improving schools in the state that had almost the worst rating, etc, was giving hope...”

You’re a Big Government evangelical.

“I disagree with raising taxes for any reason”

Yet just above you said you understood. Romney did not increase taxes and balanced the budget to a surplus.

“...but I think Huckabee is a more honest, caring liberal”

I do to. But Romney is a conservative.


227 posted on 02/06/2008 5:59:33 PM PST by rbmillerjr (Big Government Evangelicals.....leading conservatives to Landslide 2012)
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To: Colofornian

Reports are coming is today about thousands of CA registered Republicans being denied ballots because somebody had switched their registrations to Non-Partisan.

How that was done is not yet known, but there are several ways whoever is behind it could have rigged it in McCain’s favor. McCain may not have benefited from Independents and Dems voting for him like they did in other states, but if conservative GOP voters were disenfranchised it amounts to the same benefit to McCain. Some precincts reported 20% of the GOP voters were denied ballots in CA. If true, then we have no idea what the result would have been in an HONEST election. We DO know the polls showed Romney with a significant lead in CA. Were the polls that far off, or did liberals engineer a McCain victory ?


228 posted on 02/06/2008 5:59:45 PM PST by Kellis91789 (Liberals aren't atheists. They simply worship government.)
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To: Kellis91789

Obamas speech the other day...

He said that he had gradually gone from anti-daeth penalty to death for some crimes...

Thats a biggy with conservatives

And he and his wife sound like Bill Cosby, etc when they encourage personal responsibility and working hard for what you get instead of a Govt check


229 posted on 02/06/2008 6:00:23 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Free Republic is something I really enjoy and find informative and engaging.

Therefore it makes it of more significance to put it aside for a few weeks. Accordingly, I am "giving up" FR for the Lent Season. (Not to mention I am also disgusted by the RINO takeover of the GOP back in the States and do not have much more to add to things here for awhile--and need some time to think about things).

Well, see you all some time after March 16th or so. Things should be really interesting by then.

230 posted on 02/06/2008 6:00:23 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Today's weather in Tokyo is spectacular. Cold (contradicts Al Gore) but clear as a bell!)
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To: ari-freedom

You are talking politics with me because McCain has been a terrible Senator, along with most of the Senate for the last 30 years, and I am going to work hard to lower tax rates, not for me, but for the next guy, and Romney’s budget does that.


231 posted on 02/06/2008 6:01:05 PM PST by Son House (The Democrat's High Tax Rates Suppress American Freedom, Opportunity and Jobs..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Um, Romney needs to pull 65% of all remaining delegates left to be awarded. So far, he has pulled about 20%.

Whistle all the dixie you like, it isn't going to change the outcome. Whenever you decide to live in the actual world, I'll be here to talk about it.

232 posted on 02/06/2008 6:02:18 PM PST by JasonC
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Kind of a opus with dignity.


233 posted on 02/06/2008 6:02:26 PM PST by johniegrad
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To: rintense

I’d love that.


234 posted on 02/06/2008 6:03:23 PM PST by Kellis91789 (Liberals aren't atheists. They simply worship government.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
I expect to greet a far calmer, saner, real world American(from)Tokyo in March. Cheers...
235 posted on 02/06/2008 6:03:37 PM PST by JasonC
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To: tear gas
None of them have impressed me when it comes to economic issues.

What would you like to hear a candidate say or promise that would "impress" you on economic issues?

Specifically, I mean.

236 posted on 02/06/2008 6:04:35 PM PST by Edit35
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To: Rock&RollRepublican

Romney’s health care plan in Massachusetts was all about convincing, and yes coercing, people to get PRIVATE health insurance.

And stop depending on tax payers for the S-CHIP.


237 posted on 02/06/2008 6:05:56 PM PST by Son House (The Democrat's High Tax Rates Suppress American Freedom, Opportunity and Jobs..)
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To: Ol' Sparky

“Good grief, the Mitt Wits are DELUSIONAL. Poll after poll after poll shows Huckabee voters would split toward McCain not Romney.”

Do you think evangekical Christians take any stock in what James Dobson has to say?
If so, he said today on Glenn Beck that he is strongly against John McCain.


238 posted on 02/06/2008 6:06:49 PM PST by westmichman ( God said: "They cry 'peace! peace!' but there is no peace. Jeremiah 6:14)
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To: My Favorite Headache

stuck on stupid with this McCain

Point


239 posted on 02/06/2008 6:06:56 PM PST by Son House (The Democrat's High Tax Rates Suppress American Freedom, Opportunity and Jobs..)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Better to go with someone who has some new ideas rather than someone with lots of practice stabbing conservative in the back.


240 posted on 02/06/2008 6:08:11 PM PST by Apple Blossom (...around here, city hall is something of a between meals snack.)
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