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.
“Then we will have to stop him again in 2012. That liberal cancer Romney must be fought to the death !”
Relax...that’s along way away. I’m just looking forward to see McCain get all of Romney’s Delegates and marginalizing HuckaB...lol
McDole loses a general election, I don’t care how much the media or anyone else cares to prop him up. And I will be voting a straight Republican ballot regardless who get the nomination. I’d prefer to vote Romney, as he has the best budgeting plan. Simple math some will never get, blinded by their bias.
[What I am really against is not spending per se but rather more entitlements that hook the middle class on government dependency and future debt.]
And yet, you somehow overlook the fact that McCain and Huckabee’s legalizing 30 million illegals will be a huge expansion of entitlement spending. Amazing.
bump for later read
Its likely a moot point at this point.
Hillary is 60 and she looks like she’s over 60. She dominates the senior vote.
romney sure doesn’t look like he’s 60. Great for him...maybe not so great for getting the senior vote. McCain dominated the senior vote in florida.
Are you always repulsed by decent human beings?
You have to consider the synergy between POTUS and Congress.
Hillary as POTUS = Republicans in Congress prevent universal healthcare and amnesty
McCain as POTUS = Republicans in Congress allow amnesty for the sake of “party unity”
I’d rather fight Hillary than follow McCain off a cliff.
Huckabee HAS NO MONEY, Huckabee can’t even BUY kool-aid.
Nah, she’s just repulsed by Mormons - Huckster the preacher told them to love one another the “christian” way.
not if you completely reform entitlement spending and build a fence.
And you know it will cost a lot of money if we just kicked millions of people out of the country. It may not even be possible to pull off. It may make the war on drugs look easy.
The only positive in this Twilight Zone sideshow of a Presidential primary season.
People need to recognize that we are not electing an elder or a deacon for a church congregation, but a President.
Re your post #24 - You are absolutely correct. The duplicitous will disagree with you in the most offended way.
None of it is positive. It is pathetic.
Are we sure that we will have congress? What is that looking like?
fyi
Mitt Romney wins GOP caucuses in Alaska.
Full story: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8329.html
Huckabee is 52 and looks to be in his late sixties easily.
Sorry to say, Congress is already gone but it will be a bloodbath, not quite a landslide, but that will likely come in 2012.
budgeting plan? you mean Romney’s billions of dollars for corporate welfare and large keynesian stimulus plan that will bust the budget?
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