Posted on 01/31/2008 4:02:35 AM PST by suspects
Conservatives, you might as well put down the prayer book and pick up the Pepto-Bismol. The Republican presidential race is over. Done.
Stick a fork in Mitt Romney and his millions. Florida is the new South Carolina, and the same brilliant voters who couldn’t read a butterfly ballot in 2000 have anointed the next Republican nominee.
My fingers sear with pain as I write this, but the nominee presumptive of the Republican Party - less than four years after almost running for vice president as a Democrat - is . . . is . . .
Well, you know who it is.
I need a drink.
Yes, on Tuesday I will trudge to the polls and cast my meaningless vote for any other Republican still on the ballot, up to and including Ron Paul, assuming, that is, that agents of the Council on Foreign Relations don’t flatten my tires.
But it will be an act of futile protest. John McCain, with Mayor Giuliani’s backing (et tu, Rudy?), will run the table from Connecticut to California on Tuesday. Romney will be stuck with the scraps - Utah, Massachusetts, maybe Colorado. But he won’t win enough states to stop the Open Borders Express. And, besides, the media will magnify every McCain victory and minimize any Mitt success.
McCain has always been the favorite Republican of The New York Times [NYT].
It will take a few more weeks for McCain to win the 1,191 delegates needed for the nomination, but he has already won the most important prize in GOP presidential politics: inevitability. Tuesday is a mere formality.
And he never won more than one-third of the Republican vote in any state.
How did a Scoop Jackson Democrat win the GOP nomination?
He didn’t.
Everyone else lost it.
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exactly - right now Huckabee is a beard for McCain. i don’t doubt that a deal has been made. so nice for McCain to continue to have the conservative vote split.
Sad but true, Michael! I’m writing in my vote for Mickey Mouse...!
Intentionally lax voter registration laws and enforcement in a couple or three of the early primary States have allowed Dimocrats and other liberals to place crossover votes for McCain.
I believe crossover voting has been large enough to have made a difference in the outcomes.
Assuming McAmnesty wins, I will not vote for him. Is there any good, conservative 3rd party candidates ? I can’t go libertarian - their view on WOT is skewed. No way to greeno pinko party. Don’t know anything about Constitution Party - although the name sounds good.
Have you thought about how this happened? The majority of onservatives really aren’t conservative. They are the stepchildren of the public education system and popular media. We the Sheeple no longer knows how the system is supposed to work, so they trade freedom for security.
Yes he can if he really shows that he hasn't given up and fights for it to the end.
I would show love to see McCain have this snatched from his grasping hands!
Splitting the conservative vote and turning “the three pillars” against one other was the goal from the beginning. We wasted so much time screaming at each other about “who is the real conservative”... and now, I have to agree with Michael Graham, it’s too late.
It’s going to be over after Tuesday barring something unexpected happening to Mc Cain.
HOGWASH!
then the media decides it’s too late, and voting is meaningless? gee, i hope not.
Don’t get me wrong - please vote if you haven’t already. But there really are only three choices: McCain, Romney or voting “to win by losing” which includes Thompson voters, Paul voters and Huckabee voters. These voters are counting on Hillary.
Romney’s balanced approach last night was less about next Tuesday and more about the following:
1. defending his honor against the ugly and distorted attack regarding Iraq “timetables”
2. demonstrating to conservatives that McCain has no intention of trying to meet conservatives half-way (“choose patriotism over profit”)
3. revealing to the GOP faithful and power brokers from coast to coast that they are on the precipice of disaster by nominating McCain. This Johnny One-Note looked and sounded like a tired Vaudeville act, complemented by narcissism and self-righteous attacks when cornered. We have a loser on our hands, and McCain is compelled to rattle off stale names from the GOP sidelines just to prop up his own deficiencies. McCain will be a disaster in a debate against either Democrat, particularly Obama.
4. Romney is coolly positioning himself for a new run in 2012, b/c he knows that McCain is unelectable.
Final thought: I am reading a biography of Winston Churchill, in which he (Churchill) states unequivocally that the supreme qualification of a leader is temperament, not intellect. McCain did not pass the temperament test last night. He was volatile, defensive, snarky, narcissistic, and worse.
Isn’t it about time THEY have to hold their noses and vote for someone like Mitt? Why is is always we conservatives that have to give in, let the more liberal wing of the party make the sacrifice for once.
I’m pretty sure the party elites are just as sure this time that they don’t have to worry about us, decide for us and then make us the bad guy when we don’t stand up to them. That’s how it’s always gone. We are basically team players and the liberal wing of our party takes advantage of that election after election.
The only thing that’s going to change that will be when we step back away from the process and let ‘em go it on their own. We need to agree that each of us who is making the stand will write-in the same name, Hunter, Thompson, whoever. Then when way more than enough votes to have won it for us, and spared the country another Clinton in the White House, go to this person the elite who have taken us for granted for so long will have no way to deny what happened.
I know how hard this will be, we are faithful voters and in the end it’s just not in our nature to do something that would help our party lose the election. But if we don’t, we’re doomed to these Ground Hog Day election cycles forever.
i will vote here in Cali on Tuesday and for Romney - and very glad i didn’t vote absentee since they found bags of same under freeway underpass a few years back, uncounted of course.
Soccer Mom Voter 2000
Security Mom voter 2002
Nascar Dad voter 2004
P.O.’d about Immigration voter 2006
this election decider
Senile Senior voter 2008
John McCain 95% Republican - 5% of the time!
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