Posted on 05/23/2006 9:33:12 AM PDT by waterloofan
If the 2008 presidential race were between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican John McCain, the country could be in for another nail-biter. The next presidential election may be more than two years away, but the politicking has already started and many consider Clinton and McCain the front-runners for their respective political parties. In the latest FOX News national registered voter poll, McCain bests Clinton by a slim 4-percentage point margin — 46 percent to 42 percent — in a hypothetical matchup. Given the poll’s 3-point margin of error, that means this race could go either way. The Republican edge widens outside the error margin when the choices are between Clinton (40 percent) and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (49 percent). “ Almost two-thirds (64 percent) of Americans have a favorable opinion of Giuliani and 15 percent unfavorable, giving him a 49-point net positive rating. That puts him ahead of first lady Laura Bush, who has a 40-point positive (64 percent favorable, 24 percent unfavorable); and well ahead of the others, including McCain, who has a 24-point positive rating (49 percent favorable, 25 percent unfavorable); former President Bill Clinton, who has a 23-point positive (58 percent favorable, 35 percent unfavorable); and Hillary Clinton, who has an 8-point positive (50 percent favorable, 42 percent unfavorable).
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Yes.
The leftists in American wouldn't know who to pick and any patriotic American with brains would vote third party in protest.
Of course the press would love another "nail-biter" election.
Personally, I'd prefer a landslide. Has anybody done a poll of Hillary vs. another Ronald Reagan conservative?
Party politics are nothing more than a means to an end. If McCain - or any other Rockefeller Republican - wins the nomination in 2008, we'll have to admit that the Republican Party has officially rejected conservatism and start seriously looking into some other alternatives.
The very concept of such a race is a stomach-churner.
But but...being in support of abortion (Guiliani in NY) can't be that bad can it?
I wouldn't leap on one poll 2.5 years before the election to claim McCain isn't electable, when many more have shown McCain tramples Hillary into the dust. Who knows what went into this poll to bring out this result, but I have learned never to accept polls at face value especially in isolation from other polls. If other polls continue to show the same result for the next 12-18 months then you might have a small point. Even then it's merely that McCain will have a tougher time of it than we first thought. But funny close polls didn't stop us from supporting Bush, Dole, Bush 41, or even as polls showed in 84, Reagan against Mondale. I don't see why that should dissuade anyone who likes McCain to not support him. This is a straw man argument.
But let's face it, once the presidential race is fully underway, McCain will easily seem the most appealing candidate and the most likely to win compared to Hillary regardless of what ONE POLL shows now before campaigning or serious consideration of how one will vote in 08 has even begun.
By the way, you and other conservatives take these cheap shots at McCain's foul temper which I have yet to hear one concrete example of. I wonder if you or any of the other McCain haters or even Hillary who you claim will look so much better compared to McCain could have with the same kind of class and dignity taken the brutal assault he took while speaking at the New School commencement exercise including the commencement speaker Jean Sara Rohe attacking McCain and his pro-liberation of Iraq stances and done so with no show of ill feelings or anger. McCain took it like a man and never once lost his cool nor dignity. I really doubt you and I know I would not have nor many other politicians, including Hillary who you think is so appealing I guess, would have been able to sit there and been so immensely disrespected by a leftist twit without losing our cool. So spare me this ridiculous and contrived angle of attack on McCain and some fictional claim of his lacking the proper temperment.
Giuliani is not a Republican.
Look into my eyes - you are getting sleepy, very sleepy, you will not boost Giuliani the pro-abortion, pro-gay, anti-gun, pro-illegal, anti-other Republican, pro-Clinton Crime bill candidacy for President - ever.
You can now awake and you will forget where you received that information, but act on it.
"The leftists in American wouldn't know who to pick [between McCain and Hillary.]"
Oh, don't worry about that. Of course the press will back McCain to the hilt in the Primaries, but you can bet your ass they'll inform the moonbats - in absolutely no uncertain terms - that McCain has just become the new AntiChrist the day after he wins the Republican nomination.
They've done enought damage? Like put two conservative judges on the Supreme Court?
Clinton vs McCain = Tweedle Dee vs. Tweedle Dum
>...good luck trying to get conservative votes...<
The time has never been riper for a handsome, well spoken conservative third party candidate, IMHO. :o)
disagree....McCain would wipe up the floor with Hillary's bangs. That said, I don't think McCain has a chance at the nomination. ...however, I would vote for just about anybody including Ralph Nader to beat Hillary.
If McCain is the choice I'll vote for Gomer Pyle.
If that's the race I'll be biting my nails for four years.
"..but you can bet your ass they'll inform the moonbats - in absolutely no uncertain terms - that McCain has just become the new AntiChrist the day after he wins the Republican nomination."
You are right.
But it would be poetic justice and ironic retribution against one of the worst Media Whores to darken the Republican Party.
I don't hate McCain for his temper - I hate him for his betrayal of the Constitution and conservative principles with McCain-Feingold, for his undermining the war effort by his pushing "anti-torture" and Geneva Convention rights for contemporary pirates and fanatics plus a host of other things.
A temper is a positive thing. Being a media whore isn't.
On this conservative web site, the best McCain can do is get about 33%.
If he is the nominee, and I'll do all I can to stop his nomination and that of his east coast clone Giuliani, I will vote for a third party candidate and hope he loses.
A country which selects a choice of Hillery Clinton and Johm McCain deserves to be chastened by the rod of God and Hillery is the perfect one to do it.
Maybe after four years of rule by a venial, radical leftist liar, America will be ready to select a real Republican and not a made up media star to run against her - and win.
Why does McCain have Secret Service protection? See article about his latest sortie into NYC:
http://www.observer.com/20060529/20060529_Jason_Horowitz_pageone_newsstory1.asp
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