Mainstream GOP gets credit for McCain surge

East Valley Tribune ^ | February 6, 2008 | Paul Giblin

[calcowgirl]

"post-partisanship era"

"the GOP is a centrist party"

Oh, Joy.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Time for a Federalist party, it seems.

[chaos_5]

The ultraconservative radio talk show hosts, bloggers and newspaper columnists simply didn't resonate with the party's majority members

What a load of BS, the majority of conservatives voted for the fiscal conservative (Romney) or the social conservative (Huckabee). McCain got about 1/3 of the "moderate" GOP and a whole lot of crossover independents and Democrats.

[SatinDoll]

As I recall, McCain was winning without the Conservative Base, which split between Romney and Huckabee. He will never win in November without that essential Republican group.

[raygun]

WTF is “main-stream” GOP?

[gpapa]

The GOP, a party of RINOs. Who’d a thought.

[sageb1]

It is interesting that McCain won Super Tuesday with 66% of Republicans voting for someone else.

[LloydofDSS]

If McCane is so “centrist” why is he making all these claims about being a hard right conservative. Why is he chasing the conservative vote? Why isn’t he appealing to all the “moderates” with his moderate accomplishments? I think he simply has fooled all the “lightweight” republicans who just aren’t paying attention, but they vote anyway.

[calcowgirl]

McCain’s big “surge” and whopping win in California was based on only 18% of registered Republican voters,
or 6% of total registered voters in the state.

Somehow I don’t think his “mainstream” “post-partisanship” will have a whole lot of staying power.

[calcowgirl]

It is interesting that McCain won Super Tuesday with 66% of Republicans voting for someone else.

82% of registered Republicans in California did NOT vote for him.

The guy sure can motivate the base (to reject him!).

[chaos_5]

Somehow I don’t think his “mainstream” “post-partisanship” will have a whole lot of staying power.

I disagree, it will because the MSM will keep telling us this over and over again.

[Rome2000]

I pay a lot of attention and found him to be the most conservative out of the 3 guys running.

Human Events mag had Romney #8 on their "TOP 10 RINOS" list just 2 years ago and yet we have all of these super smart people running around calling him a "conservative" all of a sudden because he has good hair and $400 neck ties.

Huckabee is more conservative than MYTH but McCain would be a better POTUS, he has an ACU rating of 83%.

Has he made mistakes and written some bad legislation and made some bad votes, certainly.

Either vote for him or not, there are plenty of Democrats that will be voting for him over the 2 Marxists anyway.

[Rome2000]

That is post of the year material right there.

[NurdlyPeon]

the soccer moms and NASCAR dads who never attend precinct meetings, but showed up on election day. Whether those high-profile opinion givers like it or not, McCain is their man.

In other words, the people who don't pay any attention to politics. The people who just let the MSM feed them sound bytes and don't do any research.

[chaos_5]

WTF is “main-stream” GOP?

That would be all the liberal/moderate/independent/democrats that vote for McInsane

[raygun]

Really.

[sageb1]

Exactly...and then there were the Republicans who were suddenly informed they were non-partisan who couldn’t vote at all in a heavily pro-Romney region. What was up with that?

[sageb1]

Go to bed.