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Super Tuesday Sucketh Indeed

Published on 06 Feb 2008 in 2008 election, GOP primary, john mccain and political. 0 Comments

Source: Michael Ramirez @ Townhall Funnies

Delegate Count (1191 needed to secure nomination)

John McCain (613)
Mitt Romney (269)
Mike Huckabee (190)
Ron Paul (14)

Ugh.

Source: FOX News

Dee @ Conservatism With Heart is really echoing my own thoughts and feelings today.

Well, once again it was a rough night for Conservatives. I don't have anything cheerful or optimistic to say. I need a day or two to regroup.

Curt @ Flopping Aces makes some very valid points about why we should vote for John McCain in November. And he did it without being insulting by calling anyone deranged for having real objections to McCain's record. Imagine that!

And we all know how much more different McCain would be compared to Hillary/Obama on the war in Iraq. I don’t like McCain, I think he is a very weak Republican and conservative, but with him we have a chance to get a conservative on SCOTUS. Without him we know, with one hundred percentage certainty, that a liberal justice will get on SCOTUS. Think the 70’s were bad with the Supreme Court? Roe v. Wade? Imagine what a liberal majority on that court would do to this country.

I really don't know what I am going to do in November - write in a vote for Fred! (as my heart is wanting to do) or completely swallow every principle and ideal that I have and vote for McCain.

Do I want a President Clinton II? Do I want a President Obama? The answer to both of those questions is a resounding NO!

But John McCain is not known as the Maverick for nothing. And as Bryan @ Hot Air pointed out yesterday (in a post I am far too lazy to search for now) he only reaches across the aisle to Democrats. How do I actually cast a vote FOR someone like that? It pains me to even contemplate such a move. Thankfully I don't have to decide this question today; because in today's world I am 100% against giving my vote to a man that has delighted in spitting on the party in which he only files to run for election but does not uphold many of its values and principles.

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Maine Gets It Right

Published on 03 Feb 2008 in 2008 election, GOP primary, mitt romney and political. 0 Comments

Maine Flag Maine could teach Iowa and Florida a thing or two on getting it right. Mitt Romney handily won the Maine caucuses yesterday.

The former Massachusetts governor had 52 percent of the vote with 68 percent of the towns holding caucuses reporting. John McCain trailed with 21 percent, Ron Paul was third with 19 percent, and Mike Huckabee had 6 percent. Undecided votes accounted for 2 percent.

Maine is quite the state for Independents. It is surprising that Romney thrashed McCain so thoroughly in a state that was tailor made for him. Was McCain's horrendous performance in the debate at the Reagan Library a factor? I guess we will see if this a real trend on Tuesday.

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Wake Me In 2012

Published on 29 Jan 2008 in 2008 election, GOP primary, fred thompson, john mccain, mitt romney and political. 0 Comments

John McCain won the Florida GOP primary.

Damn.

So, what next? Well, barring some monumental shift towards Mitt Romney on Super Tuesday I expect that John McCain will be the GOP nominee for President of the United States. It gives me great pains to even consider that thought, much less come to the conclusion that it is really going to happen. I hope I am wrong. I want to be wrong. But the writing is clearly on the wall. And with the MSM salivating over John McCain and giving him a free pass to write his own script I don't think I am.

I have now made up my mind that I will be casting a write in vote for Fred Dalton Thompson in both the Texas primary and the general election. Texas won't be a swing state. It will support the Republican nominee. So, I have some comfort in knowing that my vote will not allow the Democrats to take control of the White House and abandon Iraq (the one and only issue that could have compelled me to consider voting for McShamnesty).

But I just cannot support John McCain for President of the United States. He is antithetical to nearly everything that I believe in. He does not represent Republican values. And he most certainly does not represent conservative values. His record as a United States Senator has made that abundantly clear.

So, I am voting for Fred!
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Wake me in 2012. I hope I like the choices better in four years.

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Tough Choices And The GOP

Published on 20 Jan 2008 in 2008 election, GOP primary and political. 4 Comments

Rick Moran at Right Wing Nut House has a painfully astute analysis of the state of the Republican race for President of the United States. Barring the ability of Rudy Giuliani to enter this race with a bang in Florida or Mitt Romney being able to establish himself on Super Tuesday (24 states hold primaries on February 5th) then the race appears to be John McCain’s to lose.

Mike Huckabee won’t be a factor. His base of evangelical voters is far too narrow to translate to a big enough win to garner the nomination. If he can’t pick up the win in South Carolina, where evangelicals account for at least half of the electorate, he won’t be able to compete anywhere else. His support among non-evangelical voters is quite weak. In South Carolina he came in dead last among those voters behind McCain, Romney and Thompson.

And that brings us to Fred Dalton Thompson who has been the last, best hope of conservatives. He managed to eke out a third place showing in South Carolina just ahead of Mitt Romney and well behind John McCain and Mike Huckabee. But is it time to face the writing on the wall? I would have him stay in the race through Super Tuesday, but with very little money he would not have the resources to compete against the front runner John McCain or against the deep pockets of Mitt Romney who can personally fund his own campaign. It saddens me to write this, but the time has come for Fred! to withdraw from the race.

So where am I today? Who can I support and adhere to the principles that I have held dear for most of my life? It is a time for tough choices.

Bill Quick at Daily Pundit has voiced a lot of the frustration that I am feeling. And like him, I will not cast a vote for John McCain.

The laundry list of John McCain’s abandonment of Republican values is long - the Gang of 14, lobbying and voting against President Bush’s tax cuts (that he now conveniently supports in time for an election), McCain-Feingold, immigration reform masking an ugly attempt to force amnesty for illegal aliens upon an unwilling America, and his contempt for evangelicals in the 2000 Presidential race are just a few. Those are not Republican values. Those are not the acts of a conservative Republican. John McCain is not a conservative.

I am going to take some time to really ponder if I can vote for Mitt Romney when Texas holds its primary on March 4th. He is the only candidate outside of Fred Thompson that has a chance at winning my vote. I admire and respect Rudy Giuliani for his leadership in the wake of 9/11. But his record has shown me that he is far too liberal for me to support. I believe in the Republican party platform. I support less government, lower taxes, a respect for the unborn, a strong national defense and recognition that the 10th Amendment means something (the founders didn’t put it in the Bill of Rights for nothing).

If I can’t bring myself to vote for Mitt Romney, my last option remains to cast a write in vote for a true conservative as a protest.

Tough Choices.

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Fingers Crossed

Published on 08 Jan 2008 in 2008 election, GOP primary and political. 0 Comments

UPDATE: Everyone is calling it for McCain. I just want to cry.

I hope that illegal immigration ranking so high on the list of issues means that it is a very good night for Mitt Romney.

If McCain loses NH he is more or less done because that is where he put it all on the line. Aside from Mike Huckabee, the (stabs his own party in the back every chance he gets) Maverick is the candidate I don't want anywhere near being able to achieve the GOP nomination. The Gang of 14, 2000 election attacks on evangelical Christians, McCain-Feingold and immigration reform are all reason why I can never vote for this man.

Early exit polls: Top issues

New Hampshire Republican primary voters:

1. The economy
2. The war in Iraq
3. Terrorism
4. Illegal immigration

Source: CNN

Hat Tip: Hot Air

Source: The Corner on National Review Online
Just heard from a McCain guy who sounded oddly downcast. The demand for Democratic ballots in traditionally Republican towns has got to have them wondering whether they've enough independents to win.

If McCain has to win among Republicans, with illegal immigration as a top issue, I am encouraged that this should be his death march. He will never come out on top on that issue with Republicans.

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