This would make an appreciably better "fit" for him, don't you think...? ;)
Posted on 03/06/2008 9:56:03 PM PST by kingattax
Evangelicals sent a strong message in Tuesday's Republican primaries in Texas and Ohio by voting overwhelmingly for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, while almost every other Republican demographic group chose Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz), exit polls show.
This was despite the fact McCain had already been dubbed the "presumptive nominee" of the Republican Party by the national media and political pundits. As predicted, Huckabee was soundly defeated in all four of Tuesday's primaries and caucuses and subsequently withdrew from the race.
Some analysts say that if McCain expects to capture evangelical vote in November, he must tailor his approach toward conservatives.
Exit polls provided by MSNBC reveal that the most devout Christians voted for Huckabee in large numbers. In Texas, for example, 60 percent of Christians who attend church more than once a week voted for Huckabee, while only 33 percent voted for McCain. In Ohio, 54 percent of church-goers voted for Huckabee compared with 45 percent who voted for McCain.
"McCain can get that vote in November but he is going to have to work for it," Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council told Cybercast News Service." It would be a mistake to assume the conservative vote is just going to gravitate to the Republican nominee."
Perkins of the Family Research Council told Cybercast New Service that McCain must be more proactive in reaching out to conservatives if he expects evangelicals to come out to vote for him in November. "He already has the voting record to back up his claim to be a conservative," Perkins said, "But he has never led on evangelical issues. He is going to have to lead if he wants to get the socially conservative vote."
Perkins said McCain must convince conservatives that their issues are important to him and that he will advance them as president. "Really, it just depends on him, whether he moves towards them and communicate to conservatives that he really cares about them," said Perkins.
Keith Appel, senior vice president of Creative Response Concepts Public Relations, told Cybercast News Service that the exit poll results should tell McCain he must "actively pursue social conservatives. I have a feeling in the coming months he is going to make a substantial outreach to all types of conservatives, and if he does actively run on a commitment to conservative principles, I think he will find enthusiast evangelical support," Appel said.
Scott Skeeter, the director of survey research at the Pew Research Center, told Cybercast News Service that evangelicals will prefer McCain to the Democratic candidate. "It does not appear that McCain is unacceptable to conservative voters. When you offer him to evangelicals against the Democrats, they don't have trouble voting for him rather than Obama," said Keeter. "The real question is, how much enthusiasm is there for John McCain? He needs to stress the things that connect him to that constituency"
The MSNBC exit poll also substantiated the link between evangelical, churchgoing Christians and people who consider themselves to be "very conservative." People who considered themselves to be "very conservative" were the only other group, aside from evangelicals, who voted for Huckabee in significant numbers in Tuesday's contests.
In Texas, 50 percent Republican voters chose the former Baptist minister compared with 38 who voted for McCain; in Ohio, 51 percent of Republicans chose Huckabee compared with 41 percent who voted for McCain.
Plainly: because conservatives in both the House and the Senate will be several thousand times more likely to oppose attempts to pass any such legislation if attempted by Obama -- provided, mind, that he even attempted to do so; he'll have more than enough of a never-ebding nightmare on his hands, thankfully, simply attempting to keep all his idiotic, plainly impossible campaign promises, re: "universal health care," much less attempting to juggle any additional alligators on top of that -- than they would if ramrodded by their own party's Commander-In-Chief. That much isn't even rationally debatable, obviously; Congressional hacks of both parties routinely kowtow to whatever major legislative initiatives are given them to enact for the first six months or so -- sometimes even a full year -- provided said marching orders come from one of their own fellow "R"s (or "D"s).
McCain would be guaranteed his wretched, murderous amnesty. That makes him the most dangerous candidate, by far.
Bush wanted that same immigration bill and it was opposed. Nobody wants it. It won’t happen under the democrats either.
If Obama wins, he’ll probably get democrat control of both houses as well. But he doesn’t have to lift a finger to ruin the country. The mere fact of his election will embolden all the terrorists, Iran, North Korea, Putin and Chavez.
If hillary gets the nomination then I could possibly hear your point. She after all, voted for the war resolution and supported Desert Fox. The big concern with Hillary is that she’d be pro-war...against Americans.
Watch for this same headline Wednesday, November 5, 2008 after McCain loses the election.
Bush is a vastly weakened President, in the final stages of the "lame duck" period of his office (i.e., the last two years of same). Not even remotely comparable to a fanatically devoted Juan McCain during the first six-months-to-a-year of his own first term, as already conclusively demonstrated above.
If Obama wins, he’ll probably get democrat control of both houses as well. But he doesn’t have to lift a finger to ruin the country. The mere fact of his election will embolden all the terrorists, Iran, North Korea, Putin and Chavez.
If Juan McCain wins, the Aztlan movement -- with whose leaders, both Juan and many of his closest campaign advisers are treasonously locked arm-in-arm -- will be even more emboldened; with more immediate effect, and infinitely more long-lived (hell, irreversible) damage to this country, as a result. No dice.
It is a bitter, bitter pill to swallow, but I am convinced that America will have to take another blow before she will wake up and gird her loins properly.”
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Sadly,....true.
It doesn’t make a difference. Americans may go for universal health care and all kinds of other socialist programs as long as someone else is paying for it. They won’t go for something that helps illegals because there’s nothing to gain from it.
If they vote, he will likely get a LOT of them. Do you reckon they would more likely vote for an Obama that says his pro abortion stance, to include sucking the brains out during partial birth murders, doesn't make him less of a Christian is going to draw evangelical votes? How about Hitlery? How many evangelicals will vote for her?
If they vote, McCain should do just fine; his problem will be if they succumb to apathy and stay home which screws us all.
Not a chance anyone actually familiar with world history can rationally take, ultimately.
There are no "do-overs" possible, once (if) Juan McCain manages to forcibly cram another 40 or 50 million illegals down our collective throat, while (simultaneously) absolutely ensuring that those terrorists you're otherwise concerned with have a permanently wiiiiiiiiide-open doorway through which to casually stroll at the (no longer existent) "border" between the U.S. and Mexico. That catastrophic level of damage -- once wrought -- can't ever be ameliorated; it will be as profoundly devastating to our very continued existence as a free nation, and as permanent, as a nighttime visit from the fourth horseman of the Apocalypse.
Place as much faith in Juan's (ostensible) sanity and good intentions as best pleases you've, as already stated. I can't, and won't.
What’s going on? Does the GOP know something? It’s like a hot potato and they are proving every day that they don’t want the next four years.
you’re taking a bigger chance with Obama or Hillary
Unless you have this special 3rd party candidate in mind that will really surprise everyone and take over the white house.
Do these poor misguided folks think that Obama or the beast will care a wit about them....poor fools
As already stated, prior and repeatedly: not on this issue, no. And the very real, wholly nightmarish probability of a "mandate"-wielding Juan McCain promptly utilizing every last iota of his brand new Presidential powers to transform the United States, once and for all, into nothing more than a slightly tonier bedroom community for the rest of his beloved Vicente Fox's Mexico is -- ultimately; inarguably -- THE most immediate threat to this nation and her people, both immediately and long-term.
No argument(s) not recognizing this naked reality, in toto, have Chance One of persuading me towards any other position, quite frankly; nor, for that matter, a great many other thoughtful and principled conservatives, who've afforded the matter similarly serious consideration. "Those who fail to learn from the lessons of history," as the old saying goes, "are doomed to repeat it"; and we know both our American and world history too well, plainly and simply, to be buffaloed into meekly accepting said maxim's second portent as either desirable OR inevitable.
Again, and finally: It Is What Is Is.
Now that there is downright funny. What really bothers you is that we are all awake and not giving up the fight by settling with the handlers.
But...it will be okay, the new GOP coalition of moderates, democrats, and Hispanics will render us irrelevant, or so I have been told by our recently departed from FR friend has claimed.
No need to push or prod, McCain will win without any of us surrendering our principles. See? All is well, and your bowels don't even have to get in an uproar.;)
No need to push or prod, McCain will win without any of us surrendering our principles. See? All is well, and your bowels don't even have to get in an uproar.;)
See #112. Great minds think alike, it seems. ;)
Shrill, aren't they? Going by their tone, some of them would gladly waterboard dissenters like me, even if they do back a guy who doesn't think it is okay to waterboard the people confronting our military. They aren't falling too far from the tree by insulting people and then demanding their support.
My only kid is on his third deployment to the ME since he finished AIT in '02, and there is no way in Hell that I'm going to be unfaithful to him. He at takes his oath to the Constitution seriously (which John McCain obviously does not), and I will do what I can for him. That support does not necessarily include backing John McCain in any way, shape or form.
And on another subject near and dear to the McCainiacs, if a son's (or father's) military service somehow reflects on a person's ability to be POTUS, then FR likely has a thousand people as - or more - qualified than John McCain... and some of them probably also actually think the Constitution means what it says.
Mr. niteowl77
It seems they have taken on a bad habit. I mentioned to someone yesterday that the McCain shills would be spending their time and efforts better, by going door to door and offering two free dinners at Crab Shack, if you vote for McCain.
Considering the quality of the voters anymore, some would be content with that.
LOL
This would make an appreciably better "fit" for him, don't you think...? ;)
ROTFLMAO! McChuckee Cheeses!
McCAIN 2008
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