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.
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