Posted on 01/30/2008 5:47:25 AM PST by meandog
HARACTER COUNTS; some- times it counts in the count. In Florida, Arizona Sen. John McCain yesterday won the Republican primary, overcoming big disadvantages favoring former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. What disadvantages? Let us, well, count.
Mr. Romney built a huge campaign apparatus in Florida over the last year, while Mr. McCain, since his campaign nearly expired last summer, was able to do very little organizationally in the Sunshine State.
Many Floridians voted early--before Mr. McCain picked up the endorsements of Florida U.S. Sen. Mel Marinez and the state's governor, John Crist (to say nothing of Sly Stallone).
The number of voters self-identifying as conservatives rose from 50 percent four years ago to 60 percent this year, and a solid majority preferred Mr. Romney. Independents--a group that has been kind to Mr. McCain--could not vote in the GOP primary.
Yet Mr. McCain pulled out a victory, in no small part, surely, because he seems simply more genuine than his chief GOP opponent, whose stances on key issues such as abortion and immigration have changed with the office he's pursuing. By contrast, Mr. McCain backed a "surge" in Iraq three years before it was ordered, and later when that position badly hurt him in the polls. His "heterodoxies" (ask any of the talk-radio gasbags) on immigration and the environment, whether one agrees with him or not, show him to be a man, not an ambition-twisted taffy stick.
Mr. McCain, now the bona fide Republican front runner, may have saved the angry right from itself. Among Republicans nationally, Mr. McCain has a 71 percent favorable rating, and Independents like him. He could win--and not just the GOP nomination. Never count character out.
Funny! Good one!
McCain is a liar and a crook. See amnesty and Keating Five.
I'll vote for McCain if he's the nominee, and now that looks quite likely, but I can't imagine his favorable rating is at 71% nationally with Republicans.
The Republicans have a loser.
character?
What clueless idiots voters in FLA must be on that score.
—GLOBALIST THROUGH AND THROUGH
—CORRUPT FAMILY HOGWASH FROM WAY BACK
—MEAN SPIRITED ANGRY VOLATILE HAZARD TO HIMSELF AND OTHERS
—CLOSER TO SHRILLERY’S VALUES THAN ANY CONSERVATIVE’S.
Riiiight, he also ratted to the commies, helped torture fellow POWs in 'Nam, wants to control every aspect of free speech, wants to give the U.S. back to Mexico, personally poisoned Ronald Reagan with Alzheimer tablets, and was the shadowy figure on the grassy knoll at the JFK assassination.
There's a big difference in changing your stance on something and explaining why, as Romney did with abortion, then changing your mind because you think that is what people want to hear, as McCain has done on immigration and tax cuts. Then there's that little thing called lying. Attention Jon McCain, as much as you would like, you cant change a persons quote to suit your needs.
Viagra has a new spokesman at least.
I feel your pain...
Normally the optimist, I can honestly say this morning.
WE ARE DOOMED
He is a Character! He plays “TRAITOR” the best!
He should win an Oscar for his 2007 TRAITOR role!!
Gee. This doesn't sound like an objective reporter.
"It shows one thing: I'm the conservative leader who can unite the party," John McCain after winning the Florida republican primary.
No John it shows how out of touch with reality you are.
Buy ammo now!!!!!
Don’t know anything about those things, but are you denying his involvement in the Keating debacle? Have you drunk so much of his koolaid that you can’t admit he called for amnesty for illegals and now lies about it? You can live in a fantasy world if you want to. I prefer the truth. The truth is McCain was a crook and is still a liar.
In before the barf alert.
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