Posted on 02/02/2008 2:18:38 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
I hear variations on this all the time. The fact is the Democrats don’t like the Clintons. But they are only saying they like McCain to influence your vote and because the MSM is praising McCain right now. If the MSM start attacking McCain the liberals won’t support him.
Yep. The MSM contrives these polls that show McCain as the only candidate that can win head-to-head vs any ‘Dem’ bulb and naturally the establishment will jump on the bandwagon. They’re in for a surprise though once McCain is actually running against a Hillary.
Does anyone want to vote for this kind of straight talk ?
“Electability” is MSM speak for “willing to go along with elites to bring down America”.
So we beat the liberals by placing our own liberal in the White House? Great strategy.
Wrong. The libs have an electability problem with their own candidates therefore they are supporting McPuttin.
And thank God for that, Romney has something called DIGNITY, a forgotten word in modern America it seems. We have your "Joe Six Pack" type sitting in the Oval Office now and pulling our Party apart with his stupidity, liberalism and enormous ego. Personally, I don't want my President to be found in a dank bar sucking suds and watching "the game". I want him to spend all his energy making the United States a better place and bringing back sanity to our nation.
McCain will be lucky to win his home state.
He won’t win any others.
We must pay attention in November -
The results of this election will be just as lopsided as the 1964 and 1984 elections.
I’ve seen the same thing from Democrats I know. Many of them prefer McCain to either Obama or Clinton.
I am tired of the folks around here saying that McCain will lose because he can’t get the Republican base. That’s ridiculous. Candidates lose because they can’t get the middle. Bill Clinton, one of the best political operators ever, understands this. Looking at prior elections tells us this. Look at all the presidents who won by going to the middle : Truman, Ike, JFK, Johnson, Nixon, George HW Bush, Clinton.
I don’t like McCain - I think he would trounce Obama but could lose to Hillary, who will veer sharply to the center if she wins the primary. She is smarter than McCain, will beat him in the debates, and has a much better political machine.
I prefer Romney, who can also go to the middle but will make Hillary look foolish. If McCain and Hillary win, McCain will initally poll higher but will go into a Guiliani-like “death spiral” by election day.
This what Time had to say a year ago last month (Jan 25, 2007):
“If the election were held now, Rudy Giuliani appears to have the support of the greatest number of respondents of both parties, with 56% indicating they would “definitely” or “probably” support him — followed by Hillary Clinton (51%) John McCain (50%) and Barack Obama (50%).”
Come the day after the election, both he and them will be in for a rude awakening.
No, I won’t rally behind him. I bit on the “Elect Republicans so I can appoint Conservative Judges” line.
2006 was the last time I voted to keep a Democrat from being elected. I voted for Christ over Jim Davis. I voted for Gallagher in the Primary, and Katherine Harris in the General election but the Republican establishment decided that they would rather have Bill Nelson, the Democrat.
The “vote for the Republican to keep Hillary from from being President” has lost its credibility. If they are so scard that she will be President, the Republican Party should have fielded better candidates.
Agree. Nurse Ratched already is in control if we are making our selection to block her highness. The MSM is telling us that McCain is our only hope of defeating Clinton(s). Why are we listening? If we nominate based on principles we own, we can get behind that nominee with the same.
Rudy just quit and look at who are left; seems like the media’s plans are coming along quite nicely.
Clinton, McCain and Obama still dominate the headlines; wait until they pick the final rwo.
We’ll either get a half-black president or a half-president president.
The Republican party has become the Electability party. Are we better off with aRINOld in office? Will we be better off with the same result repeated in the presidency? No to both.
“Dignity”, like “shame”, went the way of “Sunday Best”, “white gloves”, and “tv trays”. If this were 1948, Romney would be doing better. However, he’s a pretty cold fellow, even in person. His fellow candidates don’t like him, mostly because they’re jealous, but they wouldn’t be so jealous if he were more approachable. Being around him really makes you feel quite imperfect and slightly uncomfortable, and that coldness is more apparent in real life than on tv. I’m scared that Romney would make the witch Hillary look “warm and fuzzy” by comparison.
rwo should be two, new mouse pad, r and t too close together, i can’t type...
Huckabee is doing as much damage to Romney as is the MSM is doing good for McCain.
Yeah, it looks as if Huckabee will not have the honor of Rudy, Fred, and Duncan to get out when it’s clear he’s not going to win.
A VOTE FOR HUCKABEE IS A VOTE FOR HUCKABEE!!
Huckabee - reliably pro-life, not recently pro-life.
Huckabee - reliably pro 2nd amendment, not recently 2nd amendment.
He understands that it is for self defense, not just hunting and sports.
He is an ardent, articulate supporter of the Fair Tax, and I believe he really “gets it”. It is the best hope on the horizon for giving power back to the people, and waking people up to the stranglehold the current tax system has on the people and the economy.
If Duncan Hunter believes he can be trusted on border/immigration and WOT issues, I would trust Duncan Hunter’s informed, educated judgment after he spent a year getting to know the candidates, than I would trust the opinion of any of the haters on here.
Don’t let the people who say he can’t be elected give us another self fulfilling prophecy of having to settle for someone we have to HOPE will do what he says. Right now it’s just name recognition, and when most people get to know Mike Huckabee, they like him.
They were both governors, but those people give Romney a pass for not being able to do what he “really” wanted, because he had a Democrat legislature to work with, when Huckabee was able to work successfully with his Democrat legislature.
Every vote for Mike Huckabee on Tuesday will be one more vote to show the establishment and the media that the election can’t be bought and we don’t to settle for their opinion of “that’s the best we can get”.
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