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.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
i disagree - you shouldn’t stand back from the process but vow to insert yourself more actively into party politics in your locality going forward. this has to happen from the grass roots. no sense committing suicide in the meantime.
why wouldn’t they just burn absentee votes? Or throw them in the trash? But put them under a freeway underpass? It sounds like someone wanted them found. Seems weird.
the post office was at fault - not a political party.
The sad truth is that a McCain vs. Hillary race is just screaming for a third pary candidate, which might just be Ron Paul. This is disturbing to me. Really, what the hell is going on in the great USA?
P.S. I just went to Disney World last week, Ridge, and we went to the new audio-animated Hall of Presidents in the Magic Kingdom. I sat down and saw everyone from George Washington to George W. Bush and it just dawned one me: “Right next to Bush — that could be Hillary or McCain or Obama!”. Needless to say, I was so distraught that I told my husband & son that we should leave and go to the Haunted Mansion instead... at least the characters in the Haunted Mansion are more interesting...
LOL! That pic sums it up well.
This guy thinks McCain is just going to walk away with the nomination then he isn’t doesn’t know a great deal. I wouldn’t be so quick to count Huckabee out either. He will win most of the states that actually will go to Republicans in the general election. I am not sure what part of that the electorate and pundits aren’t understanding.
Apparently I isn’t doesn’t either, heh
It sure wasn't mine.
Shame on all of us for not seeing this coming last summer.
It’s hard to admit that I am, once again, politically irrelevant. I was politically irrelevant in the ‘60s and ‘70s and it was miserable watching the country go down hill like a snow-ball headed for Hell. I thought the Reagan revival would last longer than it did. But it didn’t and I am, once again, politically irrelevant.
There are many southern Democrats who intend to vote Republican this fall and their first choice is McCain. There are many southern Republicans who haven’t been paying attention to government and their first choice is McCain. McCain seems to be the choice of the uninformed and/or unconcerned.
If the loss of conservative voters doesn’t greatly exceed the Democrat voters gained then the Republican Party will still win most of the southern states. I believe that makes my vote irrelevant.
Oh well, the Mayan calendar ends in 4 years so whoever wins will only get one term anyway.
> I just hope Romney will continue to stay in the race after Huck leaves which will leave it a two man race for more conservative states down the road. <
Huck won’t leave the race. Why should he? His purpose now is to draw conservative votes away from Romney, so as to become the GOP’s “kingmaker.”
I could easily change my mind between now and election day, but for now I’ve simply had it. We gave them EVERYTHING they asked for and how did they thank us, by putting us in the shape we find ourselves, facing yet another election where we’re told ‘like it or lump it”. And if you choose lump it then YOU’RE the bad guy.
I might well be fighting a lonely battle but the message they’re going to get from me between now and the convention is bring us a candidate that we can support and still face ourselves in the mirror every morning or count me out.
No anger, no whining, no vitriol. Just a simple stand, I refuse to go along like I have for nearly 40 years thinking this time would be different. McCain will be another Bob Dole and if I go along ‘because the alternative is worse’ then I have no grounds to say over and over “Don’t blame me, I warned you and ignored me.”
Everyone has his or her breaking point. McCain in 2008 will be mine. They still have plenty of time to come up with a nominee that will not turn me off. Let them be the ones who hold out because they can’t bring themselves to vote for a Hunter or a Thompson. They are used to getting their way. This time needs to be different.
These same liberals will then turn in the general election and vote for their Queen hildabeasst to put the liberal socialist back in the White house.
Good game.
This true.
You McCain supporters are giving the guy a green light to create Amnesty with his Democrat friends, raise your taxes (he won't work hard to make them permanent--he says he wants to do that, but he isn't passionate), and DOES ANYONE REMEMBER WHAT McCAIN SAID WHEN "McCAIN-FEINGOLD" PASSED?!?
I REMEMBER!
He said "This is just the first step...." (paraphrase, of course: I was watching him on the Senate floor on CSPAN2)
So get READY to have your First Amendment Rights further eroded by McCain.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
This is true, but the liberal progressive socialist supporting Mchillary, also know that Mchillary voted for the Assault Weapons Ban with his fellow liberal socialist Chucky Schumer. The Second Amendment is going to be further eroded.
I have not slept in 36 hours, just returned to an out post here in AQ Country, I can take a bath with fresh water in my helmet, get maybe 3 hours of sleep, and will be moving into an offensive operation for the final assault on AQ sanctuary. My (twin) Brother was just killed December 16, 2007, and had to deal with his death. I just wanted to thank all those liberal socialist in America that think it is cute to push a liberal agenda in the Conservative party. Be careful what you wish for:
Ron Paul should run as an independent, I would vote for him as an anti Mchillary and HillBilly Presidency!
Where the h are Rommney’s endorsements? The only one I’ve heard is Bay Buchanan. BTW, NY Post just gave Obama the nod. Can not someone big come out for him?
So would I. And Romney’s not a quitter.
Did I mention that Michael Graham was also a shameless self promoter? ;-)
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