Posted on 02/05/2008 8:12:25 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
The prospect of McCain as the Republican nominee highlights a major missed opportunity for conservatives this season, lamented Matalin — who had been supporting Fred Thompson’s ill-fated candidacy.
“You reap what you sow. We like to applaud ourselves as the party of ideas and principle, but we turn out to be the party of performance art. All we did was gripe about Fred’s performance skills as opposed to his principles and policies — and . . . here we are,” Matalin said. “We let the perfect — as defined by performance — be the enemy of the great.” Fred Thompson would have been “a great candidate, a great standard bearer for conservatism, and a great president,” Matalin said, and his candidacy’s failure could mean that “we’re going to have to burn down the village.”
The rejection of Thompson suggests to Matalin that there is a larger problem — that conservatives who once prided themselves on their autonomy and ideological purity might have buckled to outside pressure. “So yeah, not only do we miss Fred, we’re going to pay for letting non-conservatives define and dictate who will be a good candidate,” she said.
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Suck it up, folks, it's gonna be a long 8 years.
Looks that way to me too.
2. If McCain wins the nomination, look at his VP. McCain is so tightly wound he’s gotta blow sometime. I could actually forgive FRED if he ran as McCain’s VP. At least there would be somebody to moderate the nut and also replace him.
So why should we listen to Mrs. Carville?
Fred dropped out before I had a chance to vote for him Califunny doesn’t get to vote till today!
Huckabee is siphoning votes away from Romney and MexCain is getting them.
But Fred is possibly in worse health than McCain. If McCain survived 2 terms, I doubt Fred would be in any shape to run for president again.
Don’t expect to be invited to any more cocktail parties at the Republican country club, Mary.
I am not convinced Republicans didn’t support Fred.
I still believe that open primaries and crossover voters voted against Fred in numbers great enough to deny him our nomination, or at least the early traction to be viable.
I got to vote on Jan 29th and he had already dropped out.
‘..but we turn out to be the party of performance art’
Were in real trouble when McCain is considered a good performer.
Eggxactly, Paleo!
Mrs. Carville’s a RINO. How her “word” has any weight or meaning is beyond me. She’s a lousy talk show host, one of the most boring hosts I’ve ever heard. She ain’t no conservative.
Kind of ironic considering that Fred's other profession is acting.
Each of us needs to start now working on getting closed primaries in our states that currently have open ones. If Independents want a primary, make ‘em have their own. I’ve always considered I’s as wishy-washy and unable to commit anyway.
We need to try to figure out how to keep New Hampshire and Iowa from having such a big impact. I don’t have the answer but we need to figure it out and get rules fixed.
I heard that James Dobson declared that Huckabee supporters would be best served by voting for Romney and that the #1 issue for Republicans in this primary is NOT to have a McCain/Hillary race in the fall because he could not vote for either.
This was comforting to me as it confirmed what I had already decided.
I would rather let Hillary or McCain win on their own without my vote so that I will not be a part of the disaster they bring upon us.
McCain will get his 15 million illegals a Z-visa if he gets elected.
He will shut down ANWR and force us to beg for oil.
He will nominate judges that the Democrats will not want to filibuster and keep Roe v Wade going for another 50 years.
He will allow gay marriage to expand across the country.
McCain hates Christian conservatives and he does not shy away from that fact.
Sometimes, we get too wrapped up in speculating. It’s a long time ‘til the convention, and the election. I’ll be casting my primary vote for Alan Keyes, because of all the candidates, he addresses more of the issues, in the way that I think they ought to be addressed, than anybody else.
Carolyn
Hey, Mary, have another cig and continue being pro-abortion.
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