Posted on 01/27/2008 10:43:45 PM PST by gpapa
WASHINGTON -- You would never realize how big the stakes are in Tuesday's winner-take-all Florida Republican primary if you judged only the behavior of the leading presidential candidates these last few days.
Their final pre-primary debate was bland to the point of apathy. Mitt Romney, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee and even iconoclastic Ron Paul were on their best behavior -- as if oblivious to what the 57 delegates available in Florida could mean to anyone who pulls out a plurality victory.
A win could establish either McCain or Romney as the man to beat in the massive round of Feb. 5 primaries. It could launch Giuliani into a late rush for the nomination, wiping out his weak showing in the earlier contests. And an upset by Huckabee would force an upper revision in his prospects, which have been diminished since he surprised the field in Iowa.
But their televised confrontation in Boca Raton on Thursday was haunted by the spirit of the departed Fred Thompson. It was as if the actor and former senator had left a blanket of boredom behind when he exited the race after finishing third behind McCain and Huckabee in South Carolina.
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The entire open-borders crowd is behind McCain.
Sen. Olympia Snowe (Maine)?
OLYMPIA SNOWE?
..........THAT did it......
None of the current Republicans in the hunt for the nomination
come close to exciting the conservative base of the party.
Is this the freaking best we can come up with?
These guys would not even place in a dog show
HUH?
wahtchu talkin ‘boud willis?
MITT’S the man
ANN COULTER AND RUSH AND LAURA ARE ABACKIN HIM....
nobody’s smarter than those 3 rest assured.....
if they back him
can we afford not to?
ANS: LETS ALL GET ABOARD THE MITT STEAMROLLER AND CRUISE ON IN TO THE WHITEHOUSE IN NOV.
AUUU RAH
semper fi
If Mitt secures the nomination I’ll probably reluctantly support him.
If McLAme or Rino Rudy or numb nuts Huckabee gain the nomination, I’ll probably sit it out.
Even Mitt is not a REAL conservative.
But he is by far the best of the lot.
Watching Fred nap {yet again} was entertaining? He slept {figuratively and about virtually} during his committee hearings as chairman. That is when he was actually there. By the second week watch cars rust was more inviting. Fred was a ruse to stop Rudy and lock out Hunter as well. Mr Bush didn’t want no conservatives taking over da Whitehouse and messing up China & Saudi business deals the globalist had made. Rudy was too liberal for Bush if that is possible and Hunter or Paul is far too conservative for N.E. Rockefeller elitist like the Bush political family. Fred running a faux campaign and then dropping out makes certain either Liberal Mitt or Liberal John both globalist and Mexico/China/Saudi government/faux free trade friendly gets the GOP nod.
Sore loser, aren’t ya? Why don’t you hold Hunter responsible for running a very poor campaign? Why don’t you ask him how he expected to win a national campaign when his communications director owned a local string of Mexican restaurants? When his communications director stood there in Dallas and said Hunter couldn’t win?
Why don’t you hold Ron Paul and his years-long record of flaky stances for his pathetic showing? But, no— it’s a lot easier to blame his problems on someone else.
Get real.
Wonder why he really got out.
I didn’t know the Republicans were still running a candidate.
All I saw were the Democrat and the Democrat-Lite debates.
Then vote for Romney.
The RINO choice is yours.
Btw, you lied. The top three names you mentioned, Brownback, Burr and Coburn, all voted against comprehensive immigration reform in June 2007.
I'd call it more like "Dangerous".
Look, you posted a list of names and made a charge that wasn’t true about several of those names. Period!
Doesn’t it bother anyone that the powers that be have thrown all the conservatives out of the race; and New York is actually suing to remove these guys from the ballot?
They are actually denying us the vote; while expecting us to vote for their set up candidates.
I am furious.
The choices are very ugly this time around. The fact we conservatives are left without a candidate to support is very frustrating, but that is politics.
Two names out of 13.
All the rest are pro-amnesty.
Olympia Snow and Susan Collins is on the list.
What more needs to be said?
I can’t believe you can sit here an defend McCain and his Gang of Cohorts.
This is John Kerry’s first choice for VP we’re talking about here.
John Kerry!
Bill Clinton has even said there is little difference between Hillary and John McCain.
Pull your head out of your ass, man!
You can’t mean what you said? “but that is politics”.
You mean, you want the conservative vote just wiped out pretty as you please?
LOL You still haven’t grown up. I’m not defending McCain.
In the first three names you mentioned, you lied about Coburn, Burr and Brownback being pro-amnesty. They did not vote for the June 2007 comprehensive immigration reform package proposed by McCain, Kennedy and backed by Bush 43. The same basic liberal reform bill that Romney backed in 2005.
Bottom line. The four remaining GOP candidates are worthless. They do not represent conservatism and none deserve the nomination. McCain is just as bad as Romney, Huckabee and Giuliani. Not a conservative in the bunch.
Conservatives back Romney over McCain by 15 points.
When Romney talks about conservatives, he says “we”.
When McCain talks about conservatives, he says “they”.
LOL Look at my home page Fredrick was my Pathetic senator like our other pathetic one the party adored Bill Frist. Remember Frist dontcha? The senator who used Hillary Clintons plan and called it Medicare reform? Ron Paul has signs up in Tennessee. Fred did not. Many it seems were suckered into the great RINO trap. A GOP liberal choice only in 2008 so says the POTUS. Fred was a good Republican and played along too LOL. Reality was Fred would have had problems even in Tennessee based on HIS previous record in office. Somebody painted the RINO gray and demanded everyone call him a perfect elephant instead. Fred never was in the race he was a planned distraction and nothing more.
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