There's always hope.
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.
No, McNasty AND Bush AND the Rinocracy—the ones in the smoke-filled office buidlings in D.C. who made the calls to Ahnold and Dole and others. It wasn’t just Psycho McAmnesty working behind the scenes...He didn’t have the time to do it all himself...
Good point. It has a certain irony to it, doesn't it?
A reason the GOP is doing so bad is Bush’s unpopularity. Bush has been a millstone around the GOP label.
This has been weighing on my mind. With the politicians in power, and the prospect of this presidential election, AND the DC case before the supreme court; I can't think of a better time to look into buying an AR15 or similar firearm if you ever thought about getting one....
Will it be the Clintons or Obama? The GOP will face either Isflam or Islam, unless Obama really did commit apostasy (in the view of radical Islamists).
I think McCain will reach out to Conservatives. Pragmatically he needs support as and only one side will give him that so he has no choice. Once in office who wants to be an automatic lame duck? Even McCrazy will want a legacy....they all do (well maybe all but Ford). Look at how much Bill has it on the line for Hill because he knows he doesn’t have a good legacy and wants a second chance.
What a very sad picture :(
I think perhaps the McCain camp has overlooked a couple of minor hurdles. 1. McCain didn’t exactly blow anybody’s doors off tonight with the popular vote. See any states that he walked off with? Didn’t think so. 2. Those cross over independents and dems that had nothing better to do will not be voting for McCain in the general election. 3. There have been some pretty big bridges burnt by McCain..conservative bridges. Now he wants to play nice nice and ask for our votes? Good luck getting them. Like the poster above said..free at last! 4. McCain cannot win against Obama or Hillary..that’s one of the reasons that the dems love him. And with his version of being “loyal” only God knows what this man is capable of. I wonder where his real loyalties lay. They are definitely not with Conservative Republicans.
I am thinking ten thousand marbles, a Deathmobile, and a road trip to the Republican National Convention.
His dad hanging around BJ Clinton didn't help either. Probably gave the whole family a case brain rot or something.
If we look down the road a few years this country will be very different from what our parents knew or even what we know now. There will be millions of former illegals and what used to be the right wing Republican party will have pandered to them by being generous with their fellow citizens tax money. The country will have become socialist and pacifist, a sitting duck for the Islam fanatics, just as England was during the rise of Hitler.
I just can’t imagine this changing without a catastrophic event.
There's always hope.
Right.
So who the heck is voting for this anti-First
Amendment, pro-amnesty for illegal immigrants,
pro-embryonic stem cell research candidate to
give him a victory??
Your daughter is obviously a very intelligent and discerning person.
There is still some hope for Romney but not much. In an earlier post on another thread, I said it was time to retool the Republican Party. But not until we strive for Romney as hard as possible. McCain has to be discredited. Huckabee-lovers have to be shown how innane their candidate is too.
BTTT
Now I get it!
When Reagan was elected in 1980, whites were 80% of the population. Today, it is down to 66% and falling rapidly. In about 20 years, it will be less than fifty. Those that have come in recent years do not have the same longing to be Americans that previous immigrant classes had. A new generation of big government welfare state Americans will see out our nation's declining years.
Ummmm... yeah... right...
Okay, so, let me try to follow this -- IF we let local state party hacks pick our U.S. Senators FOR us (God knows they did such a great job with Lisa Murcowski, John Barrasso, Frank Lautenberg, John Warner, eh?), somehow, in your convoluted thought process, this will lead to us picking better Presidential candidates in the completely unrelated topic of presidential primary races.
I dunno what you've been smoking, but it's definitely not legal.
Or perhaps you're really warped and you'd like to see our President appointed FOR us as well. Can't let the little people have any say in who their candidate is. Miss the good ol' days of Jerry Ford, eh?
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