Super Tuesday: GOP Disaster!

GOPublius.com ^ | February 5, 2008 | gopublius.com

[lonevoice]

Very good analysis that rings true to me

[Theresawithanh]

This is just me doing one of my late night/early morning musings, and thankfully not making it into my own separate vanity (we’ve had enough of those here lately!) but does anyone stop and think that maybe those of us here on FR and on many of the other conservative-leaning sites are not representative of the party, but only represent a small percentage?

We overwhelmingly backed Fred, and when Fred bowed out, most here went to Romney (except me, of course), and it looks like we are looking at McCain next November as the nominee, for whom it appears many here will not vote if he is the nominee.

Just asking.

[MarkL]

I was sorely tempted to vote for Hunter on the MO primary (he was still on the ballot), given the stories about how McCain was going to take MO, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I supported Hunter, but between the 3 people still in the running for the nomination, I had to vote for Romney, hoping that it would help.

It didn't. Rats.

Mark

[Caipirabob]

You'd be looking at the next governor of CA, or "New Aztlan".

[MarkL]

Anyone that thinks John McCain stands a chance this fall is off their rocker.

The day after the republican convention, when McCain is coronated, I'm looking forward to the stories in the drive by media (fed by dem opposition research) about the Keating Five and every other skeleton in McCain's closet.

He seems to think that the media likes him... The only reason that they're willing to use him is that he's their tool against the republicans. I think that he's going to find out (as every other republican favored by the drive by media has learned) that as soon as he's no longer useful to them, they're going to fall upon and devour him...

Mark

[Neville Chamberlain]

Going forward, I could support McCain. He’s a good option for dealing with the GWOT and he’d be a might be budget hawk. There are enough of us Reaganites to keep him in line on some of the social domestic issues even though he might slip a Feingoldesque bill in on us every now and then. But hell, W and H.W. gave us some of that populist sell out crap too. I now worry that we’ll not have Hillary to kick around and beat with an inferior conservative like McCain. I fear much of the “Anybody But Hillbillary” crowd will break for Obama. But he could be an easy target if he hadn’t talked his way to the head of a movement.

Fight Hard. -And Fight Smart. This is going to be a helluva ride.

[packrat35]

I already have. I have always been Republican since I was a child. Tuesday, as I watched the results come in for mccain, I left the party. If this is what we have come to, I am not going to be a part of it.

Actually, I should say-the party left ME!

[Jabba the Nutt]

It was suicide. GOP RINOs, weak and cowardly elected officials, incoherent boobs killed it. They’ll get their pensions, we’ll get the shaft. The last time we had a Bush, we got 8 years of Clinton. This time Bush told us it would be different. We’d have the majority for years. Incompetence, incoherence, weakness, stumbling and bumbling brought the GOP down. But we did get “No Child Left Behind”, we did get Medicar Rx Drugs, we did get “McCain-Feingold”, gee thanks President Bush; doing the job Democrat Presidents refuse to do.

[Sloth]

I keep saying, the national polls show him beating Hilary OR Obama. Why does that make me off my rocker?

Polls don't mean anything this early. Most Americans still couldn't pick McCain out of a line-up if their life depended on it.

[GnL]

Only a major terrorist attack on this country before the election would give McLame a chance in hell of winning.

[Sig Sauer P220]

Republicans are blowing it again, with a Clinton in the race. I’m convinced the Clintons made a pact with the devil, and theres nothing we can do about it.

[Sig Sauer P220]

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.

I don't think there WILL be future generations.

[longtermmemmory]

BIG WINNER YESTERDAY:

DINOSAUR MEDIA- not so dead after all.

There are not enough people on FR.

[longtermmemmory]

The senile seniors voted for:

vietname prisoner guy,
or
Mormon guy,
or
evangelical preacher guy

ZERO depth.

[Hildy]

Check this out! Bonefish Cay

[Hildy]

Then..how do we all reconcile ourselves for voting for Bush?

[TADSLOS]

[rusureitflies?]

Bush; hated by the hateful, too many rotten apples in the barrel when he jumped in...now? well....

[NavyCanDo]

As a Fredhead highly disappointed that McCain (a few months ago a 7% bottom of the list candidate) is going to be the nominee, I have to ask myself what can McCain do to sweeten the deal? What could he do to get the Fredheads and the Romney supporters to get out and vote for him in November? It would have to be a brilliant VP choice, and I mean brilliant.
Who on the ticket would FIRE UP Conservatives? Who on the ticket would generate discussion for weeks?

The answer: A woman, and what a woman. - Alaska Governor Sarah Palin

http://www.gov.state.ak.us/

[mainerforglobalwarming]

How many people call themselves republicans, 33% of the public? McCain’s got 13% right off the top, the liberal, socialist, Bush Republicans that have aided in the desrtuction of this nation. Thank you very much you knuckleheads. Well if the Evangelical vote that Huck is getting stays home with Dobson, he’s still stuck at 13%. And if the Mitt supporters who I believe are like me anti-amensty, pro-tax rate reduction, pro free speech, don’t vote, he’s still at 13%. And he’s not going to draw enough independent voters and disaffected dems to win. So unless McCain takes the knife out of conservatives backs, the gop is finished. Like the Whig party, in the ash heap of history. And shame on all you McCain supporters for your destroying Ronald Reagan’s party.