Posted on 01/29/2008 8:49:52 PM PST by Steve40K
I have been listening to Rush ream McCain a new one day after day and I totally understand all of the points Rush makes. Here is what I don't get, Romney will NEVER win ! The only people that will vote for Romney is us. He will get ZERO independents and ZERO moderate Democrats. The most conservative candidate has worked for the GOP in the past, this isn't the past. This election is freshly post Bush with many PR problems within the party. In the general publics mind, the GOP is about as refreshing as week old road kill. As I see it, the only GOP candidate with half a chance is McCain. Am I suppose to believe Hillary or Obama are better than McCain? I'm afraid that's who we'll get if Mitt is the Nominee
A McCain victory would flood the party with liberals. We would in effect be surrendering the party to liberals.
An analogy is Pearl Harbor. There was a reason God kept those battleships at Pearl Harbor and put the carriers out to sea.
There are very good reasons why McCain MUST lose.
I don’t know, Steve. Depending on how the economy continues, Romney may have a good shot at the Presidency. And I’m sure the MSM will play up McCain’s age - he looks old, and Romney looks more vibrant than any of the other contenders (Republican and dem alike).
Sure it’s shallow, but so is the fact that the MSM is pushing Obama, who “inspires” and reminds them of Kennedy!
Willard would be the worst.
LBJ with an R by his name.
Sorry, but I won't ever vote for Slick Mitt. And I have a feeling many other freepers here won't either.
He's getting the votes of democrats who will never vote for a black or a woman. Those voters make a Romney victory very likely...whether they votre for Romney, vote third party or stay home. Romney will get a strong GOP turnout...McCain will not. Romney is our only viable alternative to a Hillary or Obama presidency.
Romney has my vote. The only people that want Mccain are the MSM. They like to spin the story such that Mccain is the only one that can beat Hillary when in reality, she’ll pund Mccain. He’s not articulate enough on a good day to old his own in a debate with her, and he has many skeletons going back to his Navy days ... not the least of which is the Keating 5 scandal.
Let me put it to you simply, Steve. If we can’t elect a conservative, it really matters very little to most of us who are conservatives whether the person elected has an “R” or a “D” behind his name especially if he/she is the property of Soros et. al. and is going to do the bidding of his Commie puppet masters. Voting for McCain gets you exactly the same agenda as voting for Hillary or Obama, i.e. George Soros’ agenda.
That rat-bass turd McCain-Kennedy WILL NEVER BE POTUS.
Actually, a lot of folks voting for Edwards are liberal “purists” who consider Hillary too DLC, too conservative, and too pro-business, and think that Obama is also very moderate by comparison.
Oh really?
(1/28) If it’s Romney vs Hillary in the general, how do you vote?
Romney
80.0%
Third party
6.6%
Write-in
5.4%
No vote
3.3%
Undecided
2.6%
Hillary
2.0%
What is the point in a republican party if we nominate democrats? Who gets the blame! NO McCain for me period!
That’s nearly 20% that will not. That not bad considering this place is being overrun with RINO’S.
McCain won’t get very many Republicans and fewer Independents than vote for him in the primaries. He will get a few Democrat career military veterans but the great bulk of the Democrats will vote for the Clintons. All of them would vote for Obama but that choice will not be available.
And what is the point of a conservative website if we all get behind Rudy McRomnabee.........
The big difference between a RINO and a Clinton is the mafia factor, the Clintons and their control of the IRS and of the Media through the Fairness Doctrine. Even Huckabee won’t put us through that. A RINO will relegate conservatives and Christians to irrlevance. The Clintons will use the whole power of the government to economically destroy conservative media and organizations and churches and to isolate them with heavy broadcast and internet controls. Consider what can be done with Homeland Security capabiliities once HS is pulled away from external enemies and is refocused on internal enemies-political enemies of the Clintons.
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