Posted on 02/05/2008 8:50:13 AM PST by TSchmereL
It was all in the rules, as was what happened in WV today. Romney “owned” the party people in the six counties that held beauty contest voting as part of the caucus. Thompson won 5 counties, and Hunter the other. All the delegates from those counties went to Romney.
Answer me this: In your scenarios, why does McCain get the Huckabee vote if Huckabee were to drop out?
Because in exit polling so far, the minimum percent of the Huckabee voters that list McCain as their second choice is 44% - a majority in every case.
Kids like your nephew give me hope (ahem, Rush!) for his generation. As you point out: UPBRINGING IS ALL-IMPORTANT. Thinking critically is a vital skill and I can't agree more strongly with Rush that IGNORANCE is expensive.
Because the majority of the country is not wise to McCain. Because among most of Huckabee's supporters, Romney has been villified. For the ones that have looked, many see Romney as John Kerry... looking at his record vs. his rhetoric does not give many a warm, fuzzy feeling about voting for him.
Thank you for recognizing this important aspect. My father was a combat engineer and squad leader in Patton’s Third Army and was in four major battles in the European Theater. My brother is a combat wounded, decorated Vietnam War vwteran who did two tours of duty in Vietnam and was present during the Tet Offensive. Yet they have never discussed their records or exploits or claimed some status as a war hero. In my neighboorhood, I was surrounded by combat veterans of WWII including my next door neighboor who lost his leg to a German land mine and was handicapped for life as was my uncle, shot in the back by a Nazi sniper in the liberation of Belgium, and another neighbor who suffered at the hands of the Japanese. Were these men heroes? Of course. However, to a man none of them ever called themselves that but rather referred to the buddies they left behind that gave their lives to win that war as the true heroes.
John McCain’s suffering and perseverance cannot and should not be denied and pictures of him in captivity and despair are heartbreaking. Yet his inexplicable support for the left’s opposition to legal, humane, and effective methods of interrogating TERRORISTS for information puts our combat soldiers in lethal warzones against these mass murderers, in grave and unnecessary danger. Furthermore, when McCain compared our current interrogation methods, vastly less severe than those used in WWII and Vietnam as comparable to the reign of torture and horror committed by the Khmer Rogue under Pol Pot, he not only dooms our war effort but gives our enemies a justification for their bloody jihad against us.
Finally, the fact that John McCain cannot and will not secure the borders of this nation but instead lobbies for wide open, vulnerable borders especially during a global war on terrorists shows that McCain, despite his war record, has no idea in hell what he is doing as his bizarre, insane, and suicidal national security policies clearly demonstrate.
We’re not talking about FR or other who follow politics. As much as we like to think the media arm of the Dim party is dying/dead, most people still get their news/opinions from that source, directly or indirectly. They’ve never heard this bad stuff, or it was played off as embittered people/racists/evil people making the claims.
McCain has been shown on TV to be muddled in thinking, smiling and talking as if carrying on a conversation with voices in his head, forgetting things, and being helped off the plane by his wife. How can someone in such sorry state be allowed to run for president? Some have said he is in bad shape with cancer.
Good grief, what a wild time that 18 months must have been! With that kind of injury, I doubt my ice-and-ibuprofen advice will be very useful. But I hope you feel better soon.
And his sister, two years younger, is an equal gem, so you have two youngsters to give you hope!
Unfortunately, I’m too much of an individualist, and I agree with James Madison’s concerns regarding the pernicious influence of parties.
Further, I don’t even believe in government, and least not in its contemporary manifestation. I’m not an anarchist. I would like an organization (call it “government” if you must) to raise armies, engage in foreign relations, coin money, enforce contracts, and ensure public order, and that’s it.
The GOP is part of the corruption endemic in our system, and “becoming involved” is simply making peace with the corruption.
I am much happier working, trading the capital markets, traveling, painting/drawing, supping excellent food and wine, and reading fine books than getting involved with politics.
Thanks, AQ! As with the rebels in that first (1977) "Star Wars" film, I now have a new hope!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.