[Cicero]

Does anyone know where all the McCain voters are coming from? I have no idea. It almost feels like a set up. How does a candidate win when he is so widely disliked by so many?

As somebody pointed out in an article posted here recently, part of the problem is that the RNC has sat by and allowed a bad situation to develop. Namely, all of the early primaries are in liberal states, and many of them are open. So Democrats can cross over, and the conservative candidates have a momentum disadvantage.

Crist's endorsement of McCain in Florida may have been the killer. Florida has some conservatives, but it's not really a conservative state. And there was a time when New Hampshire was a conservative state, but that is long gone.

Also, I think the party pros and the media wanted either Giuliani or McCain to beat out the others. So when Giuliani tanked, they switched their support to McCain.

[ElPatriota]

...As somebody pointed out in an article posted here recently, part of the problem is that the RNC has sat by and allowed a bad situation to develop. Namely, all of the early primaries are in liberal states, and many of them are open. So Democrats can cross over, and the conservative candidates have a momentum disadvantage...

Agree, but the question is WHY does the RNC do this?... Why don't they change it?... It almost seems as IF the entire primary system IS DESIGNED to allow "independents" (such as the one the PIC :) to water down the conservatives choice. It almost seems like a CONSPIRACY against Conservatives and especially Social-Conservatives... But again WHY?... to keep them in 'their place?'

I've been saying for a long time that the 'game of politics' had changed, that because of the Internet and groups such as FR, people could talk and exchange thoughts and thus could not be easily fooled as in the past. The changes ARE obvious as see them all around, but the important part comes now, just with what MACACA is just trying to do, as with his at the APAC (whatever) two days ago, CAN HE?... CAN HE STILL PULL THE WOOL OVER OUR EYES and 'make' us vote for him???

I surely hope not... Because if both groups of Conservatives (social and the others :) help elect this weasel that would just prove that we are nothing but a bunch of spineless, convicion-less, idiots. That would prove that it wasn't lack of communication - as I thought - what made the same groups vote for the party's nominee, regardless what piece of sh*** was put in front of them (i.e. Bob Dole and his log cabin Republican friends a while back... even then I already knew the party was going the wrong way.. :)

Do you get my point?... Are we then just plain and simply idiots?... And as such, WHY would the RNC or anyone for that matter takes us seriously?

"I am an independent :"