Posted on 02/03/2008 1:38:27 PM PST by keepitreal
Nonsense. No basis in fact.
McCain had strong support across the board.
Get off of the senile seniors soapbox.
Plenty of them did not vote for him.
I think you will be surprised at how well Ron Paul will do here in Georgia. I see more Paul signs than anybody else. He may tie Hickabee.
That said, I’m talking to people to try and get support for Mitt.
I got one of those the other day. Punched 5, 5 and 6. Other, other and other then found out was a push poll for McLame and L’dMAO.
Excellent news!
Mitt get 2 GA votes from our house.
Arizona has a high LDS (mormon) population.
The sad fact is that there are no true conservatives still in the race (other than the purely symbolic candidacy of Alan Keyes).
“If only 1/4 of all Huckster voters would suddenly come to their senses and realize they are only paving the way for McCain......”
It will happen if you pass this excerpt on as far and wide as you possible can respectfully requesting that they read this excerpt below VERY thoughtfully before they vote:
You Feelin’ Hucky?
BY MARK STEYN
January 7, 2008
URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/69011
“...As for Huckabee, the thinking on the right is that the mainstream media are boosting him up because he’s the Republican who’ll be easiest to beat. It’s undoubtedly true that they see him as the designated pushover, but in that they’re wrong. If Iowa’s choice becomes the nation’s and it’s Huckabee vs Obama this November, I’d bet on Huck. As governor, as preacher and even as discjockey, he’s spent his entire life in professions that depend on connecting with an audience and he’s very good at it. His gag on “The Tonight Show” “People are looking for a presidential candidate who reminds them more of the guy they work with rather than the guy that laid them off” had a kind of brilliance: True, it is, at one level, cornball (imagine John Edwards doing it with all his smarmy sanctimoniousness) but it also devastatingly cuts to the nub of the difference between him and Romney. It’s a disc-jockey line: the morning man on the radio is a guy doing a tricky job he’s a celebrity trying to pass himself off as a regular joe which is pretty much what the presidential candidate has to do, too. Huckabee’s good at that.
I don’t know whether the Jay Leno shtick was written for him by a professional, but, if so, by the time it came out of his mouth it sounded like him. When Huck’s campaign honcho, Ed Rollins, revealed the other day that he wanted to punch Romney in the teeth, Mitt had a good comeback: “I have just one thing to say to Mr. Rollins,” he began. “Please, don’t touch the hair.” Funny line but it sounds like a line, like something written by a professional and then put in his mouth.
This is the Huckabee advantage. On stage, he’s quick-witted and thinks on his feet. He’s not paralyzed by consultants and trimmers and triangulators. Put him in a Presidential debate and he’ll have sharper ripostes and funnier throwaways and more plausible self-deprecating quips than anyone on the other side. He’ll be a great campaigner. The problems begin when he stops campaigning and starts governing.
In The Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan observed of Huck that, “his great power, the thing really pushing his supporters, is that they believe that what ails America and threatens its continued existence is not economic collapse or jihad, it is our culture.”
She’s right. It’s not the economy, stupid. The economy’s fine. It’s gangbusters. Indeed, despite John Edwards’ dinner-theatre Dickens routine about coatless girls shivering through the night because daddy’s been laid off at the mill, the sub-text of both Democrat and Republican messages is essentially that this country is so rich it can afford to be stupid it can afford to pork up the federal budget; it can afford to put middle-class families on government health care; it can afford to surrender its borders.
There is a potentially huge segment of the population that thinks homo economicus is missing the point. They’re tired of the artificial and, indeed, creepily coercive secular multiculti pseudo-religion imposed on American grade schools. I’m sympathetic to this pitch myself. Unlike Miss Noonan, I think it’s actually connected to the jihad, in the sense that radical Islamism is an opportunist enemy which has arisen in the wake of the western world’s one-way multiculturalism. In the long run, the relativist mush peddled in our grade schools is a national security threat. But, even in the short term, it’s a form of child abuse that cuts off America’s next generation from the glories of their inheritance.
Where I part company with Huck’s supporters is in believing he’s any kind of solution. He’s friendlier to the teachers’ unions than any other so-called “cultural conservative” which is why in New Hampshire he’s the first Republican to be endorsed by the NEA. His healthcare pitch is Attack Of The Fifty Foot Nanny, beginning with his nationwide smoking ban. This is, as Jonah Goldberg put it, compassionate conservatism on steroids big paternalistic government that can only enervate even further “our culture.” So Iowa chose to reward, on the Democrat side, a proponent of the conventional secular left, and, on the Republican side, a proponent of a new Christian left. If that’s the choice, this is going to be a long election year. bttt
Romney polling this well in Georgia is even more encouraging in some ways than his emerging lead in California and the big win in Maine over the weekend.
It would mark a sign that Romney is starting to strike a chord with southerners, who are absolutely essential to winning in the general election.
If Romney comes out with an upset there on Super Tuesday, he’ll have crazy momentum for the rest of the race even if McCain comes out with more delegates at that point.
I had begun to despair a bit after Florida, but I’m really starting to feel good again about this race. Go Mitt!
Our primary is on the 12th - a lot can change yet. I will vote for the one most able to beat McCain. At least I won’t have to hold my nose when I cast my ballot.
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