Posted on 02/02/2008 2:18:38 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
Exactly. This is looking more and more like 2004 in reverse.
"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
Grumpy old man against the young stud. Yeah that’s the ticket.
Precisely. More and more, that’s what I suspect the matchup is going to be. The MSM will clobber McCain over the head with his age, unfair as that might be. This will then be “the year of the yutes.”
I learned something today. McCain actually voted against the 1986 amnesty bill, despite being a “foot soldier” for Reagan.
McCain electable? hehehehe
Translation: McCain jetesons conservatives “they have nowhere to go. HA HA.”
That is the tragedy here. Hillary and Obama are both exceedingly weak candidates and yet we are on the verge of nominating a broken, empty, nasty shell of a man who will deliberately harm America to exact his vengance on those who throughout his life have failed to worship him.
It's a two 'fer.
They push a candidate that can not win in November and take down the conservative movement at the same time.
Yeah, they know McCain is the anti-conservative and so he’s gotten a free pass on everything in order to run blocker against real conservatives or semi-conservatives. But if he’s the nominee, Hillary or Obama will not be denied and the MSM paparazzi will be after his first wife for good sympathy footage to cut down McCain, I think.
LOL. One million no. 20 to 35 million, come on down...
If only John would have made sure the laws Reagan signed into law had been enforced, we wouldn’t be facing what we are today. Guess his heart wasn’t in it.
Today, two different democrats separately told me that they would vote for McCain, but if any other GOPer won the nomination, they would vote for Hillary or O'Bama.
So, my new hypothesis is that Dems and liberal independents are the extra force behind (ugh) McCain.
Look at it this way, we conservatives routinely complain (with some merit) that our party is being hijacked by the "moderates".
The Dems have a similar problem. Dems, in the traditional sense of the party's dogma, are seeing their party hijacked by radical, America-hating leftists. They see their own party root for American defeat in Iraq, their elected officials railing against the Patriot Act, and etc. In this sense, their party is leaving them.
These folks also worry about the likes of the Huckabees, Buchanans, and Dobsons having too much influence on the GOP, but they do not see McCain as a similar threat.
My point?
Much of McCain's strength comes from Democrats and Independents who are disaffected with the once great Democratic Party, yet see McCain as a pro-American but non-threatening alternative.
This may be a Capt Obvious moment, but I couldn't understand McCain's support numbers until I talked with some Democrats. As for me, I voted for Mitt, but I would vote for (ugh) McCain over Hillary or Obama in a heartbeat.
Right, the past versus the future. Dole versus Clinton II, except that Dole really was a Republican.
In our local liberal rag this morning, there was an election story which featured four pictures at the top. There was Hildy, Obama, McCain and Huckabee. LOL! I did not bother to read the story.
Bill Clinton got 42-43% of the vote in 1992, almost the same percent as Dukakis had gotten in 1988. Cinton needed total MSM support, Bush breaking his tax pledge, Perot and a recession to win. In 1996 even with a good economy, an extremely weak opponent(Dole) and incumbancy Clinton could not get 50% of the vote.
Ah, the old “electability” tonic... Yeah, that worked really well for Bob Dole didn’t it?
I agree.
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