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 Coulters "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. Yesterdays 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.
and especially on Free Republic
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914017/posts
Both Rudy and Romney had to go.
I pledge to vote against McCain.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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 ?
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
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.
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.
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.
Kind of a opus with dignity.
I’d love that.
What would you like to hear a candidate say or promise that would "impress" you on economic issues?
Specifically, I mean.
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.
“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.
stuck on stupid with this McCain
Point
Better to go with someone who has some new ideas rather than someone with lots of practice stabbing conservative in the back.
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