Posted on 02/02/2008 2:18:38 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
John McCain has vaulted from long shot to the front-runner to win the Republican nomination for U.S. president. The reason? Voter confidence he can beat the eventual Democratic candidate in November's election, according to interviews with some of his supporters.
-SNIP- "Electability is a very big issue," supporter John Lehman, a former secretary of the Navy, told Reuters last week.
"A huge majority of Republicans want to win, and they would rather have victory than total litmus test purity," he added.
On polling day in Florida, McCain was confident of his ability to win over that support in the months ahead.
"Oh, they'll rally behind me," he said. "Most Republicans respect the process, most Republicans say 'he's the nominee of our party ... I'm going to get behind our candidate to make sure a Democrat doesn't come in.' It's a fairly natural evolution."
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Is this from the “Onion”?
John McCain is less electable, than Bob Dole.
It’s like history, repeating itself.
Groundhog’s Day.
Wait till after he’s nominated and the MSM turn on him. We’ll what happens to his “electability”
“they would rather have victory than total litmus test purity,”
I’m afraid the conservative purity boat sailed a long time ago, it’s everyman for himself now.
MAN THE LIFEBOATS!
If McCain can’t be stopped, we might as well start a Draft Dole movement anyway. If we’re going to pick a loser, let’s pick one with class.
No. Bob Dole did not have the "cross over" support that McCain has. The libs love him. They hated Dole. I believe he is the most electable of the RINOs...by far. But hell, who wants a RINO. We need a brokered convention with a real conservative nominee coming out of it...no McCain, no Romney, no Huckabee. |
However, I don't feel that everyone voting for McCain is just a lemming taking orders from the MSM. Romney hasn't done much to make himself likable. He, too, has a sarcastic edge to his humor that is not particularly attractive. His hair is always perfect and his suits have made him look like an undertaker. He, literally, is not the kind of guy you can go out for a beer with. Forget the average independent...the average Republican would have a hard time befriending him. W. Bush was the rancher-next-door in so many ways. I don't think that Romney ever lived in a subdivision or went to public school. He's a rich kind with all the trimmings and none of the self-sacrifice or failure. And the Mormonism doesn't help. It's really too bad because it feels like he should have contacted Frank Luntz from the beginning and marketed himself to the average voter, not the average CEO.
From the same media that forced Jon Carry on the Dems in ‘04, because they convinced the Primary voters that he “looked presidential”. (For the life of me, I’ll never understand THAT one. He looks like, and IS a horsefaced doofus.)
In the midst of a war, they could not have picked a worse candidate to run. If not for the buoyancy added to him by the press he’d have lost by 20%.
McCain won’t get that post-nomination cover-up and overwhelmingly positive press. He’ll lose by a landslide in the General election. I’ll be amazed if he carries 3 states.
It can't be measured or quantified, so it can be applied to any candidate the media chooses. There is no defense against the charge 'unelectable'.
False. They pretend to love him when doing so harms conservatism. When openly hating McCain harms conservatism then the libs will openly hate McCain.
I have to admit to being on the “electability” bandwagon early on, and considered Giuliani a good candidate because of his appeal to “moderates,” which would keep HRC out of the WH. Now having seen the light, and seen his horribly-run campaign, it’s obvious he was not presidential timber. Giuliani did us a favor by botching it big-time, but now we have McCain. He’s just as UN-electable as Giuliani would have been.
Electability seen as key to McCain's rising support
"Oh, they'll rally behind me," he said. "Most Republicans respect the process, most Republicans say 'he's the nominee of our party ... I'm going to get behind our candidate to make sure a Democrat doesn't come in.' It's a fairly natural evolution.
It is funny that he is unaware that he is in the midst of the biggest crater the Republicans have ever seen. The loss this November will be legendary, and it would do my heart good to see McCain preside over it.
The left is doing what they can to finish Romney off. Once McCain is the nominee they will go after him.
Of course, once McCain gets the nomination locked up, the media will no longer be his friend, and he will be destroyed in no time.
In the end Giuliani will have elected Hillary twice. Some favor.
The libs who love him, only love him compared to other Republicans. When they get to choose between him and Hillary or Obama, they will show their hate.
I see the democrats have picked up the lingo the RINOs have been using for years to beat their conservative bretheren over the head with.
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