Posted on 03/31/2008 9:57:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Edited on 09/24/2008 11:31:19 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
McCain had some work done before Letterman. His face looked tighter to me. His hair was still a combover but was thicker. Maybe he has a fake combover.
>>Fighting from within gives you zero leverage. Being an indy, they need to try to figure out how to get indys back.<<
I believe in the seemingly contradictory idea of working from within while being independent where it counts. I was at the Republican county convention last weekend, and I’m here to tell you was an extraordinary amount of dissatisfaction with McCain. Our Texas state republican platform calls ending the Trans Texas Corridor (NAU infrastucture) with extreme prejudice.
As I understand it, the only way she will have enough delegates for the nomination is if the Supers hand it to her.
She needs 90% of the black vote to win in the general election.
I don’t think enough blacks will be so inclined to vote for her should she wrest the nomination from Obama. In fact, they will probably be downright mad at her.
In any case, keeping the campaign going until the election is absolutely delicious. They will have to spend their money, and bloody each other up, until that time.
BTW, I don’t know if I will be voting for Hillary. What I do know is that the plan is to vote for the one who is behind in the polls. As it stands now, that would be Hillary, but that could change between now and the primary.
Are you finished with your chores yet?
I hope you didn’t forget the check for the FReepathon. ;o)
OK, so now we have to forget about ever having another real conservative as president?
I can't accept that. I believe it is entirely possible, even likely, that a real conservative can win if he is the right man for the time as Reagan was for his. I realize that RR was elected twice by landslides not necessarily because of his conservatism, but probably as much because of his appealing personality, his enthusiastic and contagious optimism for America's future, and his All-American appeal to millions of patriotic Americans of all political persuasions. But I can't believe that he was a once in a lifetime aberration, there are bound to be conservatives today in the political and/or public realm in some significant capacity who have enough of those same characteristics to inspire a similar kind of response, although perhaps to a somewhat lesser degree, from the majority of today's Americans who are not way out on either end of the spectrum and are dissatisfied with what both parties continue to offer them.
IOW, I suppose what I'm trying to say and using too many words to say is that I believe that a great many, if not most, voters are more attracted or repelled by the personal characteristics and telegenic qualities of a candidate than they are by his or her niche on the political spectrum as long as that niche isn't too awfully far out on either side of center. This time the Democrats seem to have found that candidate in Obama, except for his niche on the far left side of the spectrum that most voters are not fully aware of yet and which if the media can help it they won't be aware of until after he takes office. They also had it in Bill Clinton, JFK, RFK, (if he had lived) and later on possibly evan John Junior,(if he had lived) but it doesn't always have to be the Dems who get lucky.
The GOP leadership needs to be beating the bushes looking for a personally attractive Republican man or woman with leadership experience who projects an upbeat enthusiasm for America's future and is also reasonably conservative. But instead, the clique of wealthy, influential, country club centrist type GOP leaders such as those who make up Christy Todd Whitman's multiple inner circle groups and organizations must spend their time and effort between elections identifying just another blah, unappealing, centrist dullard like Gerald Ford or Bob Dole to promote and support, and apparently the closest they could come to their ideal this time was McCain.
Of course that would be the same McCain who is our presumptive nominee, this current cycle's unappealing, septuagenarian, centrist dullard who has probably stabbed more conservative backs than any other living high level officeholder who has an inappropriate R tacked onto his name.
^ 5!
I've been there, too. ;o)
Howdy!
I don’t have as much time to spend here as I used to (and as I’d like to).
So I do what I can when I can, which isn’t real often. :(
Glad to see you are giving the Li(e)beral Left fits! Keep up the good work on OPERATION CHAOS! (As if the Democraps need help with CHAOS, LOL !!!) :)
Give ‘em HE77 !!!!
Just so. That "something" is something I haven't heard or seen discussed anywhere by GOP muckity mucks or even McCain's former opponents. It's almost as though he was knighted in the back room(s) then suddenly resurrected from the tomb - soon to become the front runner and presumptive nominee. Kindof has a funny smell to it...
Yes, me too. I’ll vote for this guy but I will hafta use
the world’s largest clothespin to hold my nose when
I do I tell ya !!!
I wasn’t a big fan of Dole when he ran in ‘96 but I
voted for him ...
hehe!
no attendance needed here for that kinda class.
i’m NOT happy with McRINO for our guy, though.
i voted for Fred (Thompson) here in Texas. But
he didn’t show in that race i think. :)
absoutely right!
no obama or hilly !
holdin’ mah nose, i will vote for mcRino.
bet i have a hangover the next day, though.
hehe!
you are always so very nice.
thanks! good to see you as always. :)
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Well, it appears that the 'RATS did to the GOP what Rush and OPERATION CHAOS is doing to obama??? I think maybe the media and the 'RATS picked McRINO. I know that I didn't vote for him!
That was my point.
The new Marx brothers, Grouchy, Harpie, and Karl, not a laugh in the bunch.
A third party run can only effect McCain before the election. My point was that that will have no effect on McCain after the election.
The only possible thing that can be accomplished by promoting Barr is electing the Democrat. If that is what you want to do, go ahead. Nothing anybody is going to say is going to stop you.
I just love how people talk in circles just to get 'round to doing what they wanted to do all along. You don't like McCain. I get that. Neither do I. But promoting Bob Barr is just self-defeating nonsense.
Thanks.
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