How did this happen?
I have not heard one person say they would vote for McPain.
I don’t know anyone that likes him or believes him. Just wait til the dems pulls out all the dirt. McPain will not come out looking good.
I am 72, lived through lots of elections, voted in everyone from age 21. This is the first time I am totally disappointed. And what a choice for First Lady. The dems will have the best time ever pulling her down.
“...How did this happen?
I have not heard one person say they would vote for McPain.
I don’t know anyone that likes him or believes him...”
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McCain spent the last 10 years running for president. He “won” in a balkanized field in which sets of candidates either canceled one another out or operated as stalking horses for him. There’s a lesson here:
Conservatives need to identify a 2012 candidate NOW and even write in for him in November as many of us wrote in for Reagan in 1976. The candidate needs to be for-real, not a flirt like Thompson, someone who will get running and keep running. I like Romney and Santorum. Romney has the edge now because he has four million supporters in the bank, a nice starting place.
FReepers needs to be a place where this issue of picking a candidate for 2012 NOW is addressed. If the candidate isn’t already running for 2012 by convention time this year, he won’t win.
Maybe a committee of longer-term FReepers (than me) could put together an area of this website where the specific matter of who to back for 2012 is discussed and even decided. Politics is ground game and we need to knuckle down on this. The option is to just keep losing.