Any Republican candidate for pres. who does not mobilize the conservative base will lose, and right now the conservative base is angry at McCain
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Those are the only two issues that separate McCain from a Democrat. But they are big issues. His stance on the war matters. His pro-life stance probably doesn’t because I doubt he would be willing or able to appoint judges like Bush has.
Rumierules:
“Right now?” Are you implying that the conservative base hasn’t hated Johnny Mac for decades? They, I mean, WE have had every right to hate the bastard. McCain is like a meaner version of Ghouliani. Ghouliani looks tame compared to angry, anti-conservative Johnny Mac.
I agree with other posters on this thread. McCain MUST be brought down in an embarrassing defeat, ideally. By that, I mean losing really big to the younger, more positive, fresher faced Romney. Recent efforts (by Thompson and to some degree Romney) have been to leave McCain alone and bring down Mr. Preacher. It’s worked, but in the process, they forgot about Johnny Mac who is now the apparent MNM “leader”, though not in delegates. Suckabee is fading fast. He just suffered a humiliating defeat by McCain who he was nice to. But both McCain and Suckabee have been depending on the crossover vote from the Dems because essentially, both men—save for abortion—are Democrats. With the closed primaries favoring Romney, I think Suckabee AND Johnny Mac are in trouble...
This is and AMAZING POLL!! I thought there was a Rasmussen poll yesterday that showed Romney in FOURTH PLACE in FL with just 19% of the vote! Maybe Romney’s recent tv appearances and Fred’s poor showing are giving some conservatives to back Romney...This is simply fantastic!!