Posted on 02/05/2008 10:31:17 PM PST by americanophile
Tonight’s Super Tuesday Primary leaves little to be positive about, even for McCain supporters. Tuesday merely proved the degree to which the GOP is fractured, unenthusiastic, and weak.
Romney and Huckabee still have life in them, but McCain was the night’s big winner. November is well off, but at this stage the fall forecast is dim. The Republicans will be entering the race with a 72 year old Senator, despised by large swathes of his own base, sluggishly propelled by a divided and deeply demoralized GOP electorate that is likely to produce an anemic campaign war chest.
By contrast, the Democrats, feverishly enthusiastic and rabid for change, will enter flush with cash, and led by either the Nation’s first woman nominee - backed by her husband’s famously formidable political machine or the Nation’s first black nominee - a hollow but undeniably charismatic candidate.
From here on out, we can likely expect a dramatic shift to the left. Either of these Democratic candidates will significantly raise our taxes, fling open the doors to our borders, enact economically crippling environmental policy, stack the Supreme Court with leftists, attempt to impose socialized medicine, and force a humiliating and ignominious withdrawal from Iraq. In the view of many conservatives, Senator McCain would only be slightly better on many of these issues, save the War.
No matter how you cut the cake, 2008 is shaping up to be a big Democratic year.
Whether anything can be done to mitigate this impending disaster remains to be seen, life has a way of changing the calculus suddenly and unpredictably, but at this stage, prudence demands that we prepare those tax shelters and buy an extra rifle while we still can.
An inglorious day for the GOP; all the signs point to a gathering storm.
There are plenty of candidates running for Congress we can give time and money to.
“. The Republicans will be entering the race with a 72 year old Senator, despised by large swathes of his own base, sluggishly propelled by a divided and deeply demoralized GOP electorate that is likely to produce an anemic campaign war chest.
By contrast, the Democrats, feverishly enthusiastic and rabid for change, will enter flush with cash, and led by either the Nation’s first woman nominee - backed by her husband’s famously formidable political machine or the Nation’s first black nominee - a hollow but undeniably charismatic candidate.”
Truer words have never been spoken.
Don’t forget your English/Spanish dictionary.
Anyone that thinks John McCain stands a chance this fall is off their rocker.
Isn't McLame perfect to be the face of the GOP?
A sickly old man?
If there is any silver lining, it is that McCain will forever be credited with the destruction of the Republican party, and the final defeat of Consvertism in the United States. He will cherish that dishonor to his dying day, although future generations will curse him for it.
You’ll forgive me if I fight on right? LOL
My God, I guess we only feel good about our beliefs if we are winning all the time?
Screw that.
The battle is for LIFE!
Never give up.
Repeal the 17th Amendment. This is not rocket scence.
Let's all chip in and buy an island somewhere...I'm serious.
It makes me long for the days when Bob Dole was the GOP nominee.
“Don’t forget your English/Spanish dictionary.”
Yep, for sure, if it’s McCain, Obama or Hillary.
Write an editor’s letter, and e-mail your friends to do the same, to expose McCain’s liberalism, if your friends live in a state that hasn’t voted yet.
McCain only has about half of the delegates, so there’s time.
I think that honor will go to George W. Bush.
FRee at last, FRee at last, thank God almighty I’m FRee at last.
Eight years of defending Bush, six months of agonizing over conservative credentials, six days of carrying Romney on a chariot....
Now I can know that I tried. I can look my children in the eye, I can talk to my ancestors (yes I do that) and vow to carry on the fight for freedom at the local level.
I am joining my neighborhood’s court-watch, and that is my next step...
romney would have lost the general election with an even greater defeat than what we’ve seen today. Face the facts; he is not electable. Even if mccain does lose the general, it would be less humiliating than the total wipeout we’d get with Romney. We would be able to recover from it after 4 years.
D-Day: War’s over, man. McCain dropped the big one.
Bluto: Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Otter: Germans?
Boon: Forget it, he’s rolling.
Bluto: And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough...
[thinks hard]
Bluto: the tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go!
[runs out, alone; then returns]
Bluto: What the hell happened to the Conservatives I used to know? Where’s the spirit? Where’s the guts, huh? “Ooh, we’re afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble.” Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I’m not gonna take this. McCain, he’s a dead man! Hillary, dead! Obama...
Otter: Dead! Bluto’s right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.
Bluto: We’re just the guys to do it.
D-Day: Let’s do it.
Bluto: LET’S DO IT!
Later today, I expect the market to open -500 on the DJIA, and then REALLY go down.
FOLKS....
It’s a PROPOGANDA WAR, and we lost it long ago.
The media has succsessfully turned the word “Conservative” into hate-word, along with “Christian”.
They have pigeon-holed anyone supporting a “Conservative” agenda as a Bible-thumping hick living in a trailer, driving a pickup with a Confederate flog on it, while looking for blacks to run down on the way to the NASCAR race...
Of ALL of the nominees this year, JUST ONE, Mitt Romney, has/had the ability to delivera message in a way that the MSM could actually filter through to the Sheeple, but own own “Identity Politics” is killing him...
In a large part, WE created this mess....
Hell yea!. . .what else is there! More Dems in power just means a more target rich environment. Dems will fail because they have no truth! TRUTH WILL WIN IN THE END!
“Bluto: LET’S DO IT!”
Do what?
There is still the chance that McCain could slip off his meds and explode in public or that Romney would drop and endorse Huckabee. There are still possibilities.
And that is putting it mildly.
GOP...RIP
Not to mention clean and articulate. :-)
I disagree. And strongly. If the economy continued to falter, Romney would be the one guy who could bring us victory in this race.
With McCain, you have a guy who is admittedly and demostratably clueless on economic issues. You have a guy who would sell our nation down the Rio Grande. You have a guy who relished in stabbing his own in the back.
On some other thread, somebody was saying that McCain was our only chance to get the "youth vote." I was like, "Yeah, nothing gets the young people more excited than some pasty geriatric Senator with no charisma."
Not to worry... I will support McCain. I can’t imagine that I’d ever leave the GOP.
If it’s Blutarski, he probably wants us to bomb Pearl Bailey.
Exactly. Time to focus on a veto-proof congress and/or senate.
There’s no silver lining in any of this. It’s going to be ugly in November for the GOP.
McCain has charisma. I once saw him bite the head off a live bat at a GOP dinner.
AMEN!
Couldn’t agree more, tho it is really hard to see
who the standard bearer will be.
Alan Keyes is the only candidate I see who properly
and eloquently articulates the foundational
basis for our God-given right to life.
He has been frozen out of the media coverage.
Blutarsky’s advice to members of the GOP, is to start drinking heavily.
My 18 year old daughter has no kind words for "McLame." She calls him a "chipmunk faced dinosaur."
LOL!
No, McNasty AND Bush AND the Rinocracy—the ones in the smoke-filled office buidlings in D.C. who made the calls to Ahnold and Dole and others. It wasn’t just Psycho McAmnesty working behind the scenes...He didn’t have the time to do it all himself...
Good point. It has a certain irony to it, doesn't it?
A reason the GOP is doing so bad is Bush’s unpopularity. Bush has been a millstone around the GOP label.
This has been weighing on my mind. With the politicians in power, and the prospect of this presidential election, AND the DC case before the supreme court; I can't think of a better time to look into buying an AR15 or similar firearm if you ever thought about getting one....
Will it be the Clintons or Obama? The GOP will face either Isflam or Islam, unless Obama really did commit apostasy (in the view of radical Islamists).
I think McCain will reach out to Conservatives. Pragmatically he needs support as and only one side will give him that so he has no choice. Once in office who wants to be an automatic lame duck? Even McCrazy will want a legacy....they all do (well maybe all but Ford). Look at how much Bill has it on the line for Hill because he knows he doesn’t have a good legacy and wants a second chance.
What a very sad picture :(
I think perhaps the McCain camp has overlooked a couple of minor hurdles. 1. McCain didn’t exactly blow anybody’s doors off tonight with the popular vote. See any states that he walked off with? Didn’t think so. 2. Those cross over independents and dems that had nothing better to do will not be voting for McCain in the general election. 3. There have been some pretty big bridges burnt by McCain..conservative bridges. Now he wants to play nice nice and ask for our votes? Good luck getting them. Like the poster above said..free at last! 4. McCain cannot win against Obama or Hillary..that’s one of the reasons that the dems love him. And with his version of being “loyal” only God knows what this man is capable of. I wonder where his real loyalties lay. They are definitely not with Conservative Republicans.
I am thinking ten thousand marbles, a Deathmobile, and a road trip to the Republican National Convention.
His dad hanging around BJ Clinton didn't help either. Probably gave the whole family a case brain rot or something.
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