There’s really no way around it. If you’re a Republican and you aren’t voting for Romney on Tuesday, you’re voting for John McCain. If you’re content with John McCain, then that’s fine. I hope you don’t mind an old curmudgeon who voted against the Bush tax cuts and co-sponsored the amnesty bill last year.
To the Huckabee supporters
You won Iowa. I got it. Congratulations. But what has he done lately? Nothing. He’s behind McCain or Romney in virtually every state but Arkansas. He’s out of money, low on delegates, low on votes, and low on momentum. He’ll be a good vice President, but he should drop out now. Failure to drop out of this race will result in splitting votes with Romney which end up helping McCain. You made a great splash, Governor. But you’re young. You can always go back to Arkansas, run for Senate, clean up your record and come back again. Frankly, I hope you will.
To Ron Paul supporters
It was over before it began. You all had me scared for a while, I’ll admit. But after consistently placing at the bottom in fully contested states, I think it’s time to come up with a plan for next time. Your movement was not completely unwarranted. I can sympathize with many of your concerns. But you of all people hate McCain the most. He’s the one that is bad on taxes. He’s the one that wants the most aggressive foreign policy. So why would you vote for Ron Paul and help McCain when you could stop McCain by voting for Romney?
To those who are undecided
Vote for Romney if you call yourself conservative. He’s the most complete conservative candidate left in the race. Don’t for a candidate that doesn’t care about social issues. Don’t vote for a candidate that can’t win. Vote for Mitt Romney, the closest candidate to Ronald Reagan left in this race.
February 4, 2008 at 5:53 am |
You’re an idiot.
Huckabee supporters’ 2nd choice is NOT Mitt Romney. It’s John McCain. Check the exit polls. If Huckabee drops out, his supporters will run to the McCain side of the room. If anything, Huckabee staying in is keeping Romney viable.
Hell, if it wasn’t for Romney’s own wealth, he’d have been out a month ago. Because what exactly has he won??
Nothing.
The only contested state he pulled a victory, was the state in which he was born. Congrats. Way to go. And what’s his strategy right now? To collect wins in other uncontested states.
Enjoy Utah.
Perhaps if Romney hadn’t been such a pompous, negative-filth-spewing, phony, ass maybe he’d have a case. As it stands though, people are so turned off by his act, they won’t ever consider voting for him now or in the general. In fact, he consistently gets his ass handed to him by Hillary and Obama in match-up polls (by 15 or more points). THAT’S real electability right there.
So if there’s anyone who’s stealing votes from someone else and giving the victory to McCain, it’s Romney. But keep telling yourself otherwise. It’ll make Wednesday feel a little less painful.
February 4, 2008 at 6:23 am |
McCain is an absolute abysmal imbosol!! He’s a RHINO republican and tried to shove amnesty down our throat 2 times with “HIS OWN BILL”. HE IS FOR TAXING USA companies only to solve a so called GLOBAL warming problem. Well what about the rest of the WORLD? You people drink the kol-aid of the press and are completely UNINFORMED.
ROMNEY is this COUNTRYS BEST HOPE.
You want to know something else, STUPIDY BREADS ITSELF. You will believe anything someone tells you if you are uninformed and that is what the liberal media is counting on.
DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK!
John McCain should be renamed as JUAN McCain. Have you noticed who his heading up his HISPANIC outreach group for this race. If not, Google “McCain and Dr. Juan Hernandez.
I WILL NOT, SHALL NOT AND CAN NOT VOTE FOR JUAN McCain, I would rather the Republican Party dissolve, period!
TOP TEN REASONS JOHN MCCAIN IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE:
1. John McCain teamed with Ted Kennedy and attempted to give amnesty to every illegal alien in America, and even wished to grant them access retroactively to Social Security benefits accrued under illegally used numbers while here against the current law.
2. John McCain (along with the regular cohort of lefties) removed your right to speak out against political candidates (including him) through advocacy ads in the 30-60 days before a primary or general election. The infamous McCain-Feingold legislation proves he couldn’t find an originalist judge if the man was sharing a pair of pants with him.
3. John McCain considered leaving the GOP to become an independent caucusing with the Dems, and only balked when Jeffords beat him to it. Daschle and others swear its true.
4. John McCain proved himself to be a populist anti-capitalist when he called the pharmaceutical companies “the enemy” during the most recent South Carolina debate. George Will is even wondering why John is a Republican and hasn’t switched yet.
5. John McCain has swallowed the “Man Made Global Warming” pill whole. He has teamed with Lieberman to offer legislation to create a carbon cap and trade system that the Congressional Budget Office believes will add energy costs to each family of between $560-1800 per year, with the money raked in dispersed out in R&D grants, or government pork barrel goody contracts as I interpret it.
6. John McCain voted against the “Bush” tax cuts more than once, voted for amendments to keep the death tax alive, and along with our faithful Governor Pawlenty calls huge tobacco tax increases “fees”.
7. John McCain believes waterboarding for US Servicemen is normal during training for capture situations, but calls it unconscienable torture when applied to important organizational terrorist figures caught plotting to kill Americans. This American serviceman disagrees.
8. John McCain supported gun control measures with rules that would have effectively shut down gun shows and gun sales between private parties. He teamed with Andrew McKelvey’s Handgun Control spinoff called Americans For Gun Safety. A real champion of the little guy our McCain. Gun Owner’s Of America rating – F
9. John McCain has stated he would vote for the international anti-sovereignty Treaty of The Seas if it was “tweaked” a little. This compact would give an international body the jurisdiction to dictate naval forces movement, oceanic weapons and technology testing, and set and collect fees and divy up rights and royalties to all energy resources found and recovered at sea in current international waters. One country, one vote. How do you think Iran would vote for our rights to traverse the Straits of Hormuz?
10. Midwest Jay really can’t stand the guy, and he reminds me too much of a pissed off Huck-a-jerk without the Chuck Norris sidekick. Leading a fighter squadron gives you leadership experience to lead a fighter squadron of 24 guys. Reagan made war bond films. Who cares. American hero or socialist? Probably both.
February 4, 2008 at 10:58 am |
E Leet,
First of all, your uninformed name-calling inhibits your logic. I’m aware that many Huckabee supporters would defect to McCain (at least in Florida…). But if you look at the issues, Romney lines up better.
To answer your question, what has Romney won? Okay…Wyoming, Michigan, Nevada, and now Maine. So you are completely dead wrong. Romney has won 4 states. Huckabee has won nothing after Iowa. Ron Paul has won nothing period.
I’ll enjoy Utah, along with Colorado and Massachussetts. Georgia and California are looking close right now as well.
Pompous? Subjective assertion not based on fact. Negative-filth spewing? Are you kidding? Romney compliments his opponents and compares records. It’s that evil curmudgeon McCain that acts like a 13 year old in debates. Huckabee isn’t much better. So don’t say that Romney’s the only one putting out negative information on other candidates. It just isn’t true.
Head-to-head polls do NOT matter. Besides, Huckabee’s are equally poor and McCain’s are hit or miss. They’re extremely flippant and can’t be trusted. Your foul language reveals your ignorance. May God have mercy on your soul.
Richard, I completely agree.
February 4, 2008 at 10:28 pm |
Top Three Reasons why Richard undermines his own argument within his first three paragraphs:
1: imbosol
2: kol-aid
Last but not least…
STUPIDY BREADS ITSELF
BuDumBum…Ching!
Are you talking about some sort of shake and bake meal? I’ve never heard of a STUPIDY, nor did I know it tasted good breaded. Furthermore, do you really want to eat something, breaded or not, that breaded itself before cooking? Did it consent to being placed in the oven or did it do that itself to? Sounds like some Dr. Seuss character to me.
It’s fine to have the opinions you have. Unfortunately you play to the stereotype of an uneducated man sitting on the porch of a trailer, unable to articulate why he votes Republican or why it is that he feels the Bush Tax cuts will help his plight. Instead he bellows forth 10 canned reasons that he heard from Ann Coulter on the “Tee-Veee” that morning about why he should vote the way he does.
I don’t really want to debate the points, you are free to have them, but your haste makes some easy to refute.
I would ask why it is that it’s not ok to call the pharmaceutical companies the enemy given the latest study that shows that they spend more on advertising than R&D of new drugs? Do you want the companies telling you what to buy or do you want them using the money they take from you to find new and better cures? A bit of vitriol aimed in their direction might be a good prod to lower prices considering that the USA pays the highest prices for their drugs of anywhere in the world, even with the weakest dollar we’ve had in decades.
Glad to know we hail from the same neck of the woods. It’s interesting that despite our differing views we both seem to view Pawlenty as a stooge. Apparently Pawlenty is, as I suspected, the lowest form of double talking, political scum if he can’t even hold on to the ultraconservative vote. Or maybe he just made you mad because now your “Toe-baackey” is cutting into your food budget (and that money I’m sure you set aside in an HSA, despite you limited income, to pay for throat and lung cancer, so the rest of us don’t have to bail you out when the price of your trailer home doesn’t cover your medical bills and Uncle Sam has to pay for your treatment)
So you wouldn’t mind being waterboarded if you were captured? I’d like to watch you begging for mercy through the wet rag when that happens. It would be the height of ironic hypocrisy as you obviously haven’t read much about how waterboarding works in a third world prison compared to training situations in the US military. Are you trying to say that because we train for waterboarding we should also feel free to do it? So because we train for VX chemical attack we should then be willing to use it as a weapon? If that is your case you scare me and it is obvious that ethics plays no role in your decision making process. How does this reflect on the fact that you are most likely pro-life? Not well, it makes you look, well, scarily hypocritical.
Number ten doesn’t make any sense at all. Can you explain it?
(I don’t mean to imply that you really are an uneducated buffoon living in a trailer. I’m sure you aren’t. I played it up for comedic value and to illustrate the point that your rantings look like, well…crazy rantings. if you can’t at least spell check them you will not win converts with that kind of prose.)
Braden, you are right in your assessment of the voting. From my position I would say that there are a few Republicans actively asking Huckabee to stay in the race to siphon votes.
Huckabee should realize that sticking it out to the convention will increase the animosity between him and the winner. If he wants a VP call he would do better to leave the race before things get ugly and ego’s get invovled (As John Edwards did on the Democratic side). Yet, he is staying in the race for some reason.
I think it must be because he hopes to please McCain by siphoning off Tuesdays votes and thus make his VP candidacy more appealing to the front runner. He’ll drop out on Wednesday or Thursday. That’s my bet.
February 11, 2008 at 10:01 am |
And this is why I’m a McCain hater