Posted on 02/02/2008 6:00:40 PM PST by Maelstorm
Romney 52%
McCain 21%
Paul 19%
Huckabee 6%
Undecided 2%
Not nearly what the MSM expected or is willing to even talk about apparently...but perhaps, a foretatse of things to come in many other places on Tuesday.
In Maine, tonight, Romney is beating McCain by over 30 points.
Uh oh, now you’ll be branded a Mormon hater and a bigot ... if the Mittiacs stay on form. The talking points may have changed in the past two days, who can say? Not supposed to be allowed to look at his liberal history, that’s why the big dust up over Mormonism don’tchaknow.
So does the McCain camp pay on commission?
per posting?
double time for Saturday nights?
Remind me again who the staunch conservative Republican Senators from Maine are ...
I’m doing a survey. Are you a negabot or a slandermonger?
Snowe job and tom Collins. Unwavering Conservatives, all.
Now, that's funny!
True enough. There used to be folks who at least pretended to know what a conservative was here.
Bwaahahaha, gosh that hurts! So that bastion of conservatism has endorsed Romney. Well, that about does it.
This race is everything I despise about those 21 line slot machines. You pick a couple good lines, then pull the handle, and more likely than not, one of the lines you didn’t select will turn up the winner, even if the line is one of those backwards zigzaggy ones.
This is one of those few years I’d rather select none of the above; too late for my primary, sent in the absentee ballot already, but there’s not a one left whom I’d feel comfortable supporting.
Maine is a freaking non binding straw poll!
Ron Paul: "Pull my finger".
Romney was my distant 3rd choice...I wish I did not have to make a choice for him, but he is my choice over McCain or Huckabee so I am hoping this is a trend. As far as congressional endorsements, Romney actually has more than Mccain. And they include some very staunch conservative.
While you’re purusing youtube you might enjoy this little ditty: Vietnam Veterans Against MacCain
I predict it will be a big hit oh, lets say, around October 28ish.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vFM1xqqTX_g
Which GOP presidential hopeful do you want to see win the most delegates on Super Tuesday?
| Mitt Romney | 70.3% |
| Mike Huckabee | 13.0% |
| Ron Paul | 11.2% |
| John McCain | 5.5% |
I'm sorry...you were saying?
Spit beer all over my keyboard from that. But it was worth it. LOL.
McCain’s bffs Snowe and Collins.
They are voted in by the full Maine electorate.
Mitt got the Republican vote today.
But the republicans there are voting...and the results are pretty overwhelming anyway you look at it.
Jeff, just between you and me (and about twenty thousand lurkers at FR right now), if Mitt is the nominee against anything from the DNC, he will not only get my vote in November, I will be doing my darndest to pursuade Americans that he is better than a democrat in the WHite House at this dangerous time in our nation’s history. Now back to our thread working hard to achieve a brokered convention ...
Translation: RINOs love the Mitt.
You can just feel the excitement in the air over this big win.
No...translation is that the republicans in Maine are voting for Mitt. I will not be so presumptuous to call them all RINOs, are even a majority of them by any stretch. Like us, they are viewing a reduced field where there are no strong conservatives and having to make a choice on what’s left over.
For some strange reason, your post just flashed a weird image in my minds eye: there is this commercial where a guy has six or seven little versions of himself running around, and in my minds eye, when your post popped up I had this image of a dozen or more little rinos with Snowe and Collins faces running around at Mitt’s feet as he strolls along carrying a fly swatter and pooper scooper. Must be somehting in this tea I’m drinking???
I give more credit to those people there than you do apparently. I know some strong conservatives in Maine...and they are not the type of people to be bought off or to suffer fools. They are making the best choice they can (like you and me) based on a reduced field of candidates with no strong conservatives remaiining.
It seems that they've largely abandoned talking points in favor of simple cheerleading.
The relief should be palpable ... makes the Dusty Springfield music I’m listening to absolutely euphoric.
RINOs at least have some respect in my book. They call themselves republicans but make it clear they are liberals.
Romney on the other hand calls himself a conservative (when he speaks to conservatives) when he is really a liberal on almost every issue.
Hint: McCain is ahead by about 20% nationally and will still have more delegates even after Romney "winning" a percentage of one of the most liberal states in the US.
maybe learned from hillary in florida?
They both endorsed McCain.
Not even that. Non-binding vote.
I promise to not mention ‘that religion’ even one more time on this thread. Hope that makes your evening pleasant.
He didn’t buy them off with cash for votes. He had his ground game locate supporters in the state, they ask some friends to go along, a bus goes and picks them all up and hauls them to the caucus site.
They stand in the corner and cheer for awhile and when its over they go eat pizza etc.
Its a show of hands meaningless straw poll. Whoever spends the money for the ground game wins and his supporters get some free pizza.
Look...I started out this thing not supporting him at all, and hoping I would not be faced with such a choice. Hunter was my first choice and then Thompson. They are both gone and I am looking (like most others on these boards and in the GOP across the country) at a 3rd choice...some are looking at a 4th choice.
I have been on these boards for over ten years and despite some differences with people over the years have found FR to be among the most informed of voters and a strong cross section of the GOP, particular on conservative principles.
People here and people across the country are having to make the same choices we are. I know there will be quite a bit of divergence at this point with 3rd and 4th choices. I have picked Romney despite my misgivings simply because I he has said he has changed and is espousing a fairly conservative package now. I view his package and his accomplishements as more compelling than either McCain or Huckabee so I have broken his way. Others are breaking different and that is their right.
I am simply saying that tonight in Maine...and apparently here on FR in the latest FR poll...republican voters are breaking for Romney. I agree with them...but only because I view Romney as 1st...the best chance to stop McCain whom I believe would be even worse...and 2nd, that he would be a strong candidate who could win against either Hillary or Obama, both of which would even be worse than McCain.
That is all.
That could be.
No, someone is making a video trying to mislead voters into thinking Romney supports gay marriage, when he does not and never has.
how can mccain be worse than romney? I don’t see all the excitement about a one term governor of massachusetts and his record there. What was he known for? Commonwealth Care and the Big Dig. I didn’t want to see that. Anything else?
Yes, he copied the talking points. but that’s it? That’s what people want for president and lead our country in a time of war?
he does support gays in the boy scouts and military though
I'm almost speechless.
Rudman voted to confirm anti-Roe v. Wade Justice Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, but later wrote in his 1996 memoirs, "If my vote had been the deciding one, I would have voted against Thomas, no matter what the consequences."McCain a advisor and confidant Warren Rudman.
In a February 15 debate in South Carolina, Bush confronted McCain regarding Rudman, noting that Rudman had described the Christian Coalition as "bigots." Bush asked McCain, "I know you don't believe that, do you?" But McCain refused the invitation to repudiate Rudman's words, responding instead, "George, he's entitled to his opinion on that issue."
Moderator Larry King also invited McCain to "disclaim what Rudman said," but McCain did not respond.
Subsequently, Rudman told Manchester Union-Leader reporter John DiStaso that "he most certainly did call the Christian Coalition bigots," and "he included leaders of other conservative groups in the description, to boot." (Union-Leader, Sept. 17)
There's more especially John's answer to a question in that SC debate with Bush. Asked what he would tell his daughter if she became pregant out of wedlock McCain responded that that would be her choice. Which is the classic pro choice position. The pro life position would be to urge her to carry the baby to term.
mccain voted to appoint Bork. Yes, mccain goes way back and I do remember. He has a strong pro-life record and has never done anything to promote abortion, unlike Romney.
Huckabee, McCain, Ron Paul, Hunter and Thompson all have their differences but they are all pro-life and they stand on principle and conviction, not opportunism, with regard to the rights of the unborn.
But I’ll vote for Huckabee because abortion rates actually went down in his state during his term as governor.
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