Posted on 02/05/2008 8:02:37 PM PST by 11th_VA
"A vote for Keyes is a vote for Kucinich."
A vote for Obama is a vote for Osama.
They all made the rounds of the same talk shows. Romney, however, pays his own way; "whence ever may this boy be", he did earn his way to spend it as he wishes. He has taken care of family, business, state, and now country in the order that it should be.
Huckster and McFraud
There is no strategy, but the practiced art of deception, intentional lies, willful misfeasance and future degeneration of the great ideals so envisioned by our Founders on how they wanted this country to be.
There is no true party as we would so identify in a platform of chosen ideals, which McCain and Huck have clearly stated while mimicking Obama, it is about one people
Mrs. Clinton, January 31, 2008 ( on Romney having run a successful profit making business and revived a failing Olympics), Hillary scoffed that the government: "(It)is not out to make a profit, it is out to help the American People". Meanwhile she complains we are in debt, and why are we always in debt? as we are helping those that cannot or choose not to help themselves. So her view of social security and other government acts of legal grand larceny in robbing you from your income is not meant for you to make a profit, but to help others remain in the chain of "stupid" is as "stupid" will continue to do.
Unfortunately, we have the "same stupids" as candidates from which to choose. Or you can choose a Moses to lead you into the new PromiseLand where Hollywood says it has waited for so long for you to see the light.
Now, let's all sing: "Yes We Can"
lol..sorry!
If it had been a two-man race, he would have lost West Virginia, because McCain gave him the votes he needed there.
But he did at least win his home state by 62%, while McCain appears to have gotten less than 50% of his home state.
If Huckabee really wanted the nomination, instead of kissing up to McCain, he should have made nice with Romney, because he would need Romney to drop out and give him support.
As it is, ROmney has done better in southern states than Huckabee does in states that aren’t southern.
Romney will finish tonight with more delegates tonight, and more states won, AND most likely with more total votes than Huckabee.
So in what way was Romney in 3rd?
I don't believe I am mistaken at all. Republicans scatter, throw fits, and stomp out going 3rd party when they don't agree 100% (or close to) with their candidate. We do this because the issues matter to them that deeply.
Democrats vote are not as issue driven. They like cliches and symbolism. They will vote Democrat no matter what. They lead my the media and party.
Republicans fall for the 3rd party mistake. We will divide up, Democrats wont. A Republican or a Democrat will be in the White House next year, not a 3rd party.
Huckabee isn’t pulling down any battleground states either. That’s the problem. If Huckasbee had won a few more southern states he might actually have a chance. But he couldn’t win Missouri, which was a winner-take-all.
What is clear is that, not knowing which candidate would get the 2nd-place votes of each candidate, you can’t tell WHO was who’se nemesis. I think you’d find that a lot of Romney voters would switch to McCain, because they are more serious voters who are looking for a man who can step into the presidency.
But I could be wrong. For every crappy thing McCain has done, Huckabee has been worse. So who knows where those delegates go.
WHen Huckabee abandoned Florida, he gave up his chance at being President. Now he’s just going through the motions.
That is true, and if he had done it more graciously he’d probably wouldn’t have quite so many people opposed to him.
His tactics and pronouncements have been otrocious. When you are a baptist minister and can’t get James Dobson to endorse you when the alternative is a Mormon, you know you’ve done something really wrong.
Huck is only still in the race because he wants to be McCain’s bottom.
He has no chance to win the nomination.
Fred would run as a third party before he accepted an offer to be McCain’s VP.
Huckabee would be McCain’s VP unless Joe Liberman accepted. However, Huckabee’s more likely with Joe taking a cabinet position.
I meant the key battleground states tonight -- California, Missouri and Georgia.
Romney had a chance in all three states. He was destroyed in California by double digits and finished third in the other two states.
He is absolutely finished.
CharlesWayneCT said
“If it had been a two-man race, he would have lost West Virginia, because McCain gave him the votes he needed there.
But he did at least win his home state by 62%, while McCain appears to have gotten less than 50% of his home state.
If Huckabee really wanted the nomination, instead of kissing up to McCain, he should have made nice with Romney, because he would need Romney to drop out and give him support.
As it is, ROmney has done better in southern states than Huckabee does in states that aren’t southern.”
I say:
Huckabee won his home state by a (pardon my southern term) WHOPPING margin, while Romney barely won his home state by a 10 point margin.
Maybe some people just didn’t drink the koolaid, huh?
Who cares who wins New York, or Illinois, or the North Eastern liberal states that are DEEP BLUE, and going to vote democrap in the fall for sure anyway (barring some huge unforseen event).
A republican president needs the south to win, and people in the southern states aren’t drinking the koolaid that Rush and Sean are trying to serve, trying to pretend Romney’s a great conservative when he has been supporting abortion, supporting taxpayers funding it, campaigning on it while he’s in a blue state, then tries to to tell us he’s just started thinking about it, and changed his mind now, but his kids are great, and his hair is great, so we should vote for him.
I hope that Mitt’s conversionS are real, and if he’s the nominee, I’d take a chance on him instead of the Dems, but some of us are realistic enough to be a LITTLE skeptical that after years of supporting abortion, taxpayer funded abortion, the Brady Bill and other gun control, homosexual issues, gay judges, that he’s all of sudden conservative on ALL those issues.
Huckabee - reliably pro-life, not recently pro-life.
Huckabee - reliably pro 2nd amendment, not recently 2nd amendment.
He understands that it is for self defense, not just hunting and sports.
Every vote for Mike Huckabee from now on will be one more vote to show the establishment and the media that the election can’t be bought and we don’t have to settle for their opinion of “that’s the best we can get”.
I love Rush and Sean, but they don’t get to decide who I vote for.
If it had been a 2 - man race (McCain and Huckabee), if Rush and Sean had supported the real conservative instead of the ‘conservative of convenience’ Huckabee would have WON Missouri’s 58 winner take all delegates.
McCain won over Huckabee by 1% because some people either believed Romney’s new position “I’m conservative pro-life and support gun rights”, or knew his conversions were all recent, but didn’t think Huckabee could win, because that’s what ‘the media’ kept telling them.
So my question is, when are Rush and Sean going to say, “Oh, we’re sorry folks for telling you that Romney’s a conservative, and Huckabee couldn’t win - sorry if we cost Huckabee that one percent in Missouri and gave those 58 winner take all delegates to McCain. Sorry about that, sorry it’s our fault that McCain’s going to be the nominee.”
Think they’ll take responsibility and apologize?
I’m not holding my breath.
HUCKABEE / HUNTER ‘08
Your problem with me isn’t what Huckabee is or isn’t, it’s that he has shown even less capability of getting nominated than my candidate.
Even where Romney stopped campaigning against Huckabee, he couldn’t beat McCain. He couldn’t beat McCain in South Carolina, he abandoned Florida, he lost in Missouri.
If Huckabee had enough support to raise real money, and had been able to compete after Iowa, maybe he could be the frontrunner.
But he isn’t, he’s an also-ran who only can only win a small number of states and sometimes only because McCain lets him.
That is not a critique of your candidate on the issues, just an expression of the reality as reflected in the actual vote totals.
If the conservatives had jumped behind Huckabee after the VV summit, maybe he would have over time coalesced into the conservative choice. Probably not, because too many conservatives had grave doubts about him, not just on whether he was now speaking truthfully, but more importantly about his ability to handle the job of President.
That made no sense at all, who's unhinged?, who's high maintenance? and who's a new conservative? Who's all talk and has nothing to show for it?
McCain, Huckabee, Paul, Romney? or all of the before mentioned?
You did grasp what I said, correct? and the laugh at oneself at the end? or was it above your capacity to understand the turn of a phrase?
Try this one:
In the film: “Start the Revolution Without Me,” Wilder plays a fancy French nobleman who in one scene offers a "tasty reward" to the falcon perched on his wrist; when his wife suddenly says to him, the falcon is dead! Under the calm of insanity, Wilder said to her, “Repeat that?
Huck could show that he is the prettiest to be courted at the ball, and become the subject of fancy by the two leading men in contention.
This could be a quick page turner, or people will just get bored with the race, put this book down, tune out and just show up out of "duty and freedom" via voting booth come election day...just reading the last few pages to see how the story turns out.
Question: Will the stock market react? or is it already factored in.
I don’t think Romney and McCain like each other much either, but McCain is much more of a statesman and could probably say and do the right things to build a working relationship with Romney - IF he wanted to. I doubt he would want (or need) to reach out to Romney and I can’t say if Romney would be interested. If the three of them get to the convention with a split vote and no clear winner we would likely see some interesting deals made.
Hucksterbee’s divisive anti-Mormon bigotry is very bad for the party.
If the final ticket was McCain/Romney (which is pretty unlikely) I could hold my nose and vote for McCain.
I knew way before that I was going to have do some nose holding on election day. Oh well.
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