Shamnesty-supporting Florida gov. endorses…McCain; Will Jeb Bush weigh in?
Florida governor Charlie Crist is endorsing John McCain at this moment. (Update: Allah’s got the vid.)
“I think the world of him…we have to think about when it comes to Tuesday about who you’re going to support…thinking about it a lot…I don’t think anybody could do a better job than the man who stands beside me, John McCain…that’s an endorsement.”
Say hello to another soft-on- illegal immigration Republican joining the bandwagon for the Democrats’ favorite Republican. Crist supported the Teddy Kennedy/McCain/Mel Martinez shamnesty. Crist also supported driver’s licenses for illegal aliens.
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Oh, and say goodbye to Rudy Giuliani’s presidential hopes.
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The Romney-Jeb Bush connection:
…he draws heavily on the political network of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the president’s brother.
His senior policy adviser, Sally Bradshaw, was a chief of staff for Jeb Bush, for example, while his state director, Mandy Fletcher, was Florida political director of President Bush’s 2004 campaign and executive director of a Jeb Bush advocacy group.
More:
Romney national finance co-chairman Mark Guzzetta is a close personal and business associate of Bush, having worked on both of his gubernatorial bids and served as finance co-chairman of Bush’s second campaign.
Bush, who was best man in Guzzetta’s wedding, appointed him to the Florida Transportation Commission in 1999.
Bush’s press secretary, general counsel, statehouse policy director and some of his field staff all also signed up with Romney.
“Gov. Romney was smart, he came in here early on and met with everyone and hired us up,” said Fletcher.
Jeb Bush says he’s neutral.
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Check out the list of Lawyers for Romney, which includes many former Fredheads.
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And if you haven’t seen McCain’s crooked talk about Mitt Romney’s position on Iraq, here it is.
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As much as I hate a gun-grabbing candidate like Giuliani, I would much rather support someone weak on the Second Amendment over someone who is weak on the foundational priniciples of national security. McCain will not receive my vote.
Charlie Crist is no Jeb Bush, that’s for sure.
So, in light of this endorsement, will Jeb come out and endorse Romney?
John McCain is more like the Florida electorate than we like to admit…aged, and liberal. No “hanging chads” this time…hanging chumps would be more like it!
more of the same… GO MITT !!!!!
Unless Jeb endorses Giuliani, I will start sobbing.
I met Crist and liked him, but this hurts.
eric aka the Tygrrrr Express
Now – Rush needs to step up to the plate and make a stand….
On Fox right now Sen. L Graham just said the he was thrilled that Gov. Crist endorsed Sen. McCain. It is very good for our campaign.
Is this just an expression or is he letting something out of the bag.
Do we know if Jeb’s wife came to the U.S. legally?
Doesn’t matter what McCain does or who endorses him. If he is the nominee for the Republican Party many conservatives like myself will NEVER vote for him NO MATTER WHAT!
Very, very mad in Florida. Crist is now another person on my growing list of who I will not vote for in Florida in the future:
1) Mel Martinez
2) Charlie Crist
No doubt the list will grow as more and more show their true colors (the colors of the Mexican flag).
Romney and McCain are in a virtual tie in Florida if you believe the poles. I don’t have to deal with crist but he will be backed up in my hard drive. Here go the MSM with there kisses and hug’s for McCain. My Dad has alway’s said if the crowd is going South head to the North, don’t follow the crowd, they usally have no idea who’s leading them.
Is that an actual quote credited to Graham, et?
Yes, Barry. Heard it as well.
However, I wouldn’t read too much into it. He is part of McCain’s campaign staff. It’s not inappropriate for him to say “our campaign.”
Good grief! When is Graham, Crist and all the other RINOs up for re-election in their areas?
It is disquieting to see all the amnesty supporters jumping on the McCain bandwagon, but not unexpected. If he were to win, they’d be busy at work for a new amnesty bill by 1/21/09.
McCain will not get my vote, period.
God help the GOP if it puts two Senators–any two Senators–on the ticket. That hasn’t worked for either party since…well, Kennedy-Johnson.
I trust ‘em a heck of a lot more than I trust the Russkies.
I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR McCAIN..EVER !
I fully expect the endorsements of Mexico’s Calderon and Venezuela’s Chavez prior to Tuesday’s Florida primary.
I can only hope and pray that the polls are wrong and the real people vote McCain off the peninsula. The old GOP establishment is stinkin’ to high heaven.
Pray, good people. Pray. Then vote to stop the McCain train to amnesty.
We can’t just preach to the choir. Time for an email to encourage Jeb Bush support Mitt:
jeb.bush@myflorida.com
I left the Republican party after 30 years during McCennedy’s shamnesty crap last year.
Some people say they will hold their nose and pull the lever for him if they have to. I will NEVER vote for him. EVER.
I’d rather see the demoncrats screw this country up for the next 8 years than to see a “republican” do it.
Either way it looks like the future of this country is shamnesty followed by 50 million new spanish voters…… I will sell my house and take my wife home to the Philippines where we can speak English all day to the locals.
Reminds me of a Bob Dylan song…
Sometimes I feel so low-down and disgusted
Can’t help but wonder what’s happenin’ to my companions,
Are they lost or are they found, have they counted the cost it’ll take to bring…
down…
All their earthly principles they’re gonna have to abandon?
There’s a slow, slow train comin’ up around the bend.
This just goes to show you that what “We the people” want means nothing to the Washington bone heads. They are smarter than us, and they will tell us what to do and think.
Email sent to Jeb.
Meanwhile, this may have to do:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17187253/
Sorry, Michelle, too hysterical to use link button.
What the h*ll happened to the Republican Party?
And how can we get it back out of the hands of the “machine” pols who will cram open-borders collectivism down our throats just as surely, and with as little regard, as does Soros?
More of McCain’s lying on display -a nd his little SOB henchman Lindsey Graham was slandering Romney on Fox today.
What the hell is wrong with these people liek McCain and Graham and Clinton? They act like we are subjects, not citizens, like we work for them instead of the other way around!
Jeb will never support Myth Romney. Don’t forget the editorial he wrote in the WSJ saying that Hispanics would be natural Republicans.
It was enough for me that the media and the Democrats want McCain.
People need to read between the lines and the lies by McCain supporters. They fear Romney and want the bipartisan king to run. Either way (Hillary/Obama or McCain) they get amnesty.
The only thing people fear about Myth is his Wheel of Positions. You never know where it’ll land.
Methinks Mookie is either a McCain train rider or a traveling Democrat?
Cute statements.
Methinks you’re wrong. Haven’t decided who I’m supporting yet.
If conservatives don’t start mobilizing against John McCain, our party is going to get stuck with an anemic, Teddy Kennedy-pandering nominee.
Michelle, I think it’s time for your endorsement.
Oh really, I guess anyone but Romney, or do you just like to fly in and irritate sometimes? I am not going to play anymore, dear.
Agree, dukebedevilment. Agree.
People who don’t want McCain need to get off the fence and vote for whoever can win in November. It ain’t McCainst.
Having lived in MA my entire life, I can say for absolute certainty that it will be anyone but Romney.
Anybody want to place bets that Mookie is a McCain staffer? It looks like Michelle’s “open borders family” piece struck a nerve in McCain’s Florida HQ.
Oh, I’ll take that bet. How much would you like to wager? I’ll give Michelle all of my personal info. Really, c’mon, let’s wager. Cough it up.
Ignore irritating gnats.
If you don’t like Romney, Mookie, who is better? McCain is a snake in the grass.
This explains a lot.
It wouldn’t hurt, but…
Having lived in Florida most of my adult life I can say without a doubt that if Jeb Bush was a candidate for President of the United States, I would have already donated the maximum allowed and would volunteer to help him. As it stands today, I have not and will not donate a dime or waste a minute of my time on the crowd that’s running now.
I will not vote for McCain no matter what.
If I had to vote today, it would probably be for Rudy. I think he’d be an absolute hawk on national security. For him, it’s personal in a way that it isn’t for the other candidates. Immigration isn’t the most important issue for me because I don’t think any of the candidates have a plan that will work. If I ranked them, immigration is probably third or fourth on my list of what’s important. I realize that puts me in the extreme minority here but I don’t have faith in any of the candidates to find a viable solution so I’m looking at the other things that are important to me and Rudy feels like the closest fit.
Florida is a closed primary, no vote for R unless registered prior as R.
Christ is almost as hated amongst Rs in Florida as McCain. I bet this fries McCain.
So, in light of this endorsement, will Jeb come out and endorse Romney?
Ok, folks. This is not, today, about not voting for McCain in November. I am praying it won’t come to that. Let’s not count our disasters before they are hatched, ok?
Today, tomorrow and the next ten days, are about voting to prevent McCain from having the Republican nomination in the first place. So please vote accordingly (if that is how you feel) in your primary. Don’t stay home in disgust, as that is a McCain vote.
I watched, with great pride and joy, as the NumbersUSA folks defeated Washington DC last fall in their amnesty ploys. If people would unite, and unite friends, it can be done again: the old guard, the establishment in DC–who McCain represents, can be voted away. They will hear your collective voices then–if McCain loses in spite of the Democrats, the mainstream media, and the endorsements from people with monetary incentives like Crist.
Some of you keep saying,what happened to our party? I agree, but keeping McCain at the helm will surely bring the party to implosion. The Republican Party will become the Democrat shadow, a mini-me of bipartisan deals under the table. If you think amnesty, think McCain.
I called and e-mailed the RNC and told them no money for Senators or Congressman that support McCain and Shamesty. They heard us “loud people” during the amnesty debacle and they need to hear again. We can only take so-many slaps to the face.
I’m with you Mookie. It’s between McCain and Rudy for me, but I’m leaning McCain at this point. Immigration is 4th or 5th on my list. At the end of the day corporate America will decide the immigration issue and the politicians who depend on their cash will follow quickly in line (while paying lip service to outrage folks like those on this board).
I don’t have a problem with people who support John McCain.
But I do have a problem with the candidate they support. If immigration is #1274 on “your list,” then what about fiscal conservatism and McCain’s votes in 2001 and 2003 against “tax cuts for the rich”? What about the free speech-stifling effects of McCain-Feingold? What about McCain’s criticism of Guantanamo and his scorn for enhanced interrogation techniques that have yielded terrorism-averting intel? What about his criticism of industry and the evil “drug companies” that have saved millions of lives with their products?
I don’t have a problem with you supporting John McCain, but he’s no conservative and neither are you!
duke, fortunately you don’t get to decide who’s a conservative and who’s not. I’m sure you know that Pres. Reagan presided over a huge increase in the budget and left office with a very, very large deficit in place. He also granted flat out amnesty to over 2 million illegal aliens. Nonetheless, most consider Reagan and Sen. Goldwater to be the fathers of modern conservatism. Adherence to rigid ideology is for guys like you, not folks who actually have to get things done.
BTW, Bush’s current CJCOS, Adm. Mullen, advocates closing Gitmo. Don’t be a demagogue.
Mookie,
I’m with you about preferring Rudy, but the same the practical world view that makes me want to vote for the guy with the best actual proven ability to be prsident, also makes me recognize that a vote for Rudy could translate into a vote for McCain as Romney and McCain are neck and neck. I hate to think of Rudy as a potential vote-splitting Ross Perot, but it’s shaping up that way. It would be painful, having seen Rudy’s executive branch miracles in NYC, but McCain on a national roll is simply too dangerous to gamble on. I’d vote for Mitt and hope that Rudy could collect himself on super Turedsay and beyond. If I were in Florida, the stakes being what they are, I’m pretty sure I’d cast my vote for Mitt. I can half-support him and anything and anyone is better than McCain. He’s the Teddy Kennedy of the Repulican party, and we simply cannot have that as our presidential candidate.
Addendum: Anti-PC alert:
Just what makes a shot-down pilot, not a high-ranking officer, who did nothing pro-active after being captured besides survive the ordeal a “hero” of Presidential preportions? He deserves the usual gratitude for service, but if you ask me he’s damn lucky to still be a Senator considering his voting record.
It’s time for Conservatives to check themselves to see if they have any collective stones and JUST SAY NO TO McCAIN!
I liked and admired Reagan a lot, but I was never a Reagan idolater. I thought of him as similar to Robert E. Lee — a great man who made few mistakes, but when he did they were beauts. In any event, when one considers McCain, even Nixon and/or Ford start to look real good. Heck, I’d settle for Eisenhower. I truly wish I could get excited about Romney, but he strikes me as just weak tea and soft biscuits. A good executive, I’m told, but no leader of principle. If we wins, the Democrats will eat him a alive. Might as well surrender the White House to them and try to recover congress. That way, the coming disaster(s) will fall on them.
Man, what a depressing, dispiriting, frightening year. I joked to my family that at least history will be made in 2008. Either the first president who is a: woman, or black, or Mormon, or crazy old coot.
I guess I am voting for Ron Paul — as a protest.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,123844,00.html
http://www.nclr.org/content/news/detail/2649/
http://www.nclr.org/content/news/detail/2178/
Beenthere
No, Beenthere! A protest vote is a vote for McCain just as a protest vote by Republicans is likely to be a vote for Hillary in the general election (I hope, however, that plenty of liberals cast protest votes).
As a loud Rudy supporter all along I’d vote for Mitt because my man Rudy could be the vote-splitter who puts McCain over the top and on a roll (althugh all McCain enthusiasts are definately encouraged to vote for Rudy).
This is so damn simple. Why are so many people venting about protest votes and anstaining? Or are they all just liberal shills trying to undermine the confidence of conservatives and try to get McCain as the candidate? That seems to be the only explanation.
The Democrats are going to be able to run as the party of secure borders if we allow these clowns to take over the GOP.
There is something to be said for a president who is not burning with a zeal to transform America. I’d be very happy with one who kept his grandioise ideas to himself and just did the job we pay him to do.
I think Romney would fit the bill.
Mark Levin on the Corner National Review has this: Crist’s endorsement was supposed to go to Rudy?
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/01/26/612633.aspx
In spite of the media spinning right now, Crist is not that popular in Florida. I am imagining he is going to be less popular starting tomorrow when Floridians read that he betrayed Rudy for some insurance scheme guarantee.
Thanks, Charlie Crist you chameleon. Typical politics and back room dealings.
We don’t need more of the same with McCain. Please vote to stop him.
http://www.nclr.org/content/viewpoints/detail/37050/
dakine, since you never even pretended to be a conservative, I don’t see why a discussion of conservatism involves you in any way.
The Hill.
Tonight Geraldo excerpted a McCain press conference in which he was asked what he thought about MM’s characterization. I’m not sure if his response was a senile and/or Emily Latilla moment, or if he simply did not remember who Geraldo Rivera was, but he was clearly flustered. Geraldo, of course, was unexplainably flattered.
Its still early everybody so why are we getting the McCain hardsell?
Desperation? Lets wait and see what the other states do.
As far as Reagans one time only time amnasy, he demanded enforcement they said they would, they lied. The budget, Reagan refitted and rebuilt the military into the most formidable force ever seen. He bankrupted the soviets through power. Oh to have Reagans Navy now. We don’t want foreign islamists brought here, they want to close hotel gitmo fine, shoot em on the field or turn em over to their home countries to be tortured err interrogated. When John talked to Ted (john and teds excellent adventure) about becoming a dem you think Ted told him, no, stay where you are?
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/8/30/123006.shtml
Mr_Conservative_Cat @ #58:
I think that the anti-McVain crowd are all indeed going to caucus/primary for Rudy/Mitt/Fred. However, in Nov, presuming that McVain or Huckster is the nominee, we can vote for all the various positions and leave the POTUS entry blank or write one in.
When it’s all said and done, the GOP will understand that clearly there is no mandate for McVain/Huck. And should any of the GOP legislators not get it, their heads will roll at their next election.
And, no, I’m not a liberal shill. I see McVain & Huckster as dirty rotten liberals in GOP clothing.
More “straight talk” from McCain today as he makes a completely unfounded interpretation of his chief rival’s position on Iraq. As someone who watched the debate where Romney made the comments, I’m dumbfounded that a supposedly honest person could interpret what he actually said to be a call for a timetable on withdrawal. I don’t know why I am surprised. Ann Coulter must not be surprised at all. True colors…
With the way the push is on for McCain …I am getting more suspicious about the North American Union and the powers that be controlling the spin on this entire election. The people reject McCain…yet the elites and the players throw him their support…..It is disurbing how quickly they are willing to throw the sovreigntry of this country away. And be sure that is what McCain aims to do. He has no plans to close the border….he will go full steam ahead with his globalization plans……The man is despised by most conservatives yet they want him to the frontrunner…..very scary times coming.
Andy,
Since idealism, if it ever existed, is gone, all votes should be cast as practical. As I said today, if I were in Florida, as a Rudy supporter, I’d vote for Romney, which hurst like hell because it means my guy is out of the race. But reality is reality, Rudy would split the romney vote (I wish he would splitthe mccain vote but that’s not how the demographics look),and mccain would win.
All votes, Andy, need to be cast from that practical perspective, otherwise with the MSM against us, we lose.
All primary votes in florida should go to Romney and all general election votes in november should go to the Republican candidate whoever that may be. Remember, Hillary is campaigning to the right from where she usually is. Even detestible McCain would be a better president. All this stuff about “republicans learning their lesson” is ideaistic BS. They won’t learn anything and caring conservatives will just shoot themselves, and their country, in the foot.
Right now on Geraldo, Jerry Rivers is asking loaded questions designed to split the Republican vote between centerists and hard conservatives. And Julian Epstien, a lib, is saying the Republican candidate democrats most fear is McCain. this is becoming wayyyy too obvious. This is what we’re up against, 24/7 from now until November. Being united and getting out the vote is the only hope. Suck it in soliders. We’re in the south pacific in 1943. Stop thinking asurdly and get out and fight.
Which he did just before Florida but just after the last debate before Florida, when Romney was least equipped to defend himself. McCain really is some kind of nasty scumbag.
Rush can change all this. He needs to come out on Monday and endorse Mitt.
Maisy: “The people reject McCain…yet the elites and the players throw him their support”. You’re so right and it’s terribly troubling.
Remember, you’ll be voting for Rudy “santuary” Giuliani. Rudy took the govt. to court, on behalf of illegal immigrants.
Rudy Giuliani is the guy. I know he had liberal positions in New York, but on taxes and terrorism he is solid.
I pray he wins the nomination at this point, because he simply has a much better chance against Hillary than Romney does.
I like all of them, but Rudy is the best of the bunch. Also, those thinking he is in 3rd place are forgetting about the early voting absentee ballots. He had a bunch of them before his numbers dropped. He can still win.
Respectfully,
eric aka the Tygrrrr Express
Fox News SHOWED HIM SAYING IT.
Is THAT a “QUOTE”???
He’s endorsed his butt buddy a long long time ago – it MAY just mean he is deeply involved – however DRAFT-HORSE FRED is up in it up to his EYEBROWS, so surely he has a stronger call on a cut of the pie than Lindsey.
Crist is a Liberal Republican. He embraces Liberal ideals. Lately, he’s been pushing the Green Agenda. Gag. And now this! Time for 3rd party. The Conservative Party!
Protest vote for Ron Paul???
Oh what a message THAT will send, we can all here it echoing down the county courthouse halls now: “Here’s another vote from an insane Nazi dopehead!”
It THAT your message to the Party Central???
WAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYY too funny!
hehehehehehe
RIGHT ON THE MONEY!
AMEN!!!
The Republicans have abandoned conservative principles because in their narrow “beltway” view, they cannot win elections. Ronald Reagan proved this theory to be false but this batch of Republicans have fallen into the liberal medias trap in believing conservative values are not popular, #1, and they have allowed themselves to lust for the power of the office they seek, not to serve their country, #2. I’m ready for a true conservative party.
I don’t know how to do this link thing, guys, and not having slept this night, ain’t gonna learn now, sorry, maybe later.
Ann Coulter:‘STRAIGHT TALK’ EXPRESS TAKES SCENIC ROUTE TO TRUTH
January 23, 2008
(Maybe that got it)
…McCain started and fanned the vicious anti-Bush myth that, before the 2000 South Carolina primary, the Bush campaign made phone calls to voters calling McCain a “liar, cheat and a fraud” and accusing him of having an illegitimate black child.
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Continued -
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Read the whole thing, it gets even better!
I think it WORKED! LOL!
Maybe I better go to bed on that one! hehehehe
In Real Clear Politics I saw this.
Please read the first comment by “Dan” which sums up McCain’s past in the US Senate in a very concise manner; and why people should vote against him in the primary.
McCain is the poster boy for RINOs (Republicans in Name Only).
I am glad I voted for Mitt Romney in Florida.
We can’t just preach to the choir. Time for an email to encourage Jeb Bush support Mitt:
jeb.bush@myflorida.com
mlnicosia—that email does not work as he is no longer governor.
Jeb Bush knows what he should do, since he was sending staff to support Romney. I just don’t know if he will have the courage to endorse him.
I can only hope Romney will take his gloves off and go after McCain’s tactics today and tomorrow in Florida.
To Ombre Rose:
Oh my. Not much I can say to that, but I do believe an “insane Nazi dopehead” would be better than McCain, or at least not substantially worse. Seriously, if it comes down to McCain as the party’s nominee, things will be way beyond desperate. Now, in the past I’ve struggled to be clear that I think Paul’s foreign policy position are nonsense, and that I would vote for Romney, damn reluctantly, but I would do so. Taking off my armband and slowing down my goose-stepping, what is so irrational about that? As for Paul’s domestic positions, a lot of them make considerable sense and he is literate in economics which is far more than you can say for most of the candidates. That I do think would be a fine message to send to “Party Central.”
In any event, that is my problem. The rest of the fine contributors to MM’s Comments have one of their own: they need to decide in the privacy of your own minds, what are you going to do with McCain as the nominee?
Good luck and God bless.
Lindsay,
Where do Florida Republicans stand on illegal immigration?
Would one ‘well done, well placed’ ad by Romney on McCain’s illegal immigration stance have an impact? I’m not understanding why Romney doesn’t go on the offensive, unless it wouldn’t do any good.
Looking forward to sending a message to the GOP during the “McCain Mutiny” come super Tuesday when a large community of conservatives get to tell the country and MSM what we think of this RINO.
McColon is trying to change the subject from the economy to the war because Romney is kicking his but on the economy so here goes the Double Talk Express once again lying about what Romney say’s or did’nt say. Anything to win McColon you 71 yr old senial ba$t@rd.
Maybe McDonald’s should make a new sandwich in his honor the McColon, made from 100% A$$holes.
Crist was just on FOX talking about McCain being strong on security and the economy. Not a word about Shamnesty which will impact the economy and security. Pathetic.
mn girl, the Republicans I know in Florida are against illegal immigration and don’t like McCain and the RINOs.
I think all the candidates are afraid of the Hispanic lobby, which is sad to say, so no one is pushing the issue in this state. We are foolish to think that the President and Congress control DC, it is the lobbies and special interest groups like La Raza.
Logic tells me that if Romney goes after McCain on the illegal immigration subject then he could alienate some voters who are pro-illegal immigration—but he could gain others, so I would think it might be a plus for him to make this stand known.
I don’t understand the kid gloves with McCain by the other candidates in debates on the illegal immigration issue. Sure, he is a veteran and former POW. I respect that. But his policies in office don’t differ much from John Kerry’s, who the Swift Boaters went after while John McCain defended Kerry.
McCain lost my vote over the amnesty bill,his cozying up to Democrats with liberal ideas and their bipartisan under the table bag of tricks,his disdain for those who disagree with him,and his friendship with the ACLU regarding Guantanamo prisoners.
I think McCain is not only dangerous for the GOP, he is dangerous for this country in all social and domestic policies. I don’t trust him at all.
I am hoping Romney has a secret weapon he is about to unveil tomorrow. Romney is certainly up against a huge barrier when the mainstream media are giving free press to McCain with their blessings.
McCain may say all the right things about the war in Iraq (his only redeeming point, IMHO), but his stance with the ACLU is frightening:
McCain-ACLU — the unprecedented granting of due-process rights to unlawful enemy combatants (terrorists).
McCain has repeatedly called for the immediate closing of Guantanamo Bay and the introduction of al-Qaeda terrorists into our own prisons — despite the legal rights they would immediately gain and the burdens of managing such a dangerous population.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YjUzOGY0ODA1YzBmNjFhOWE5NWU0OTY5NTZiOGNhOGQ
I am not surprised that Crist has backed McCain. I am very disappointed in Crist and never mind about Martinez. Crist has bought into global warming as well. We are in trouble folks, those of us who are true Reagan Republicans. I have no idea who I am going to vote for on Tues in the primary.
The arrogance of these politicians supporting McCain is astounding. The reaction across the country against McCain/Kennedy should have given them an idea of how unpopular it was. I hope they pay a heavy price for being so out of touch with the Party.
Michele Hampton, the polls (if they can be believed) say that the race is between McCain and Romney, both tied at 30% in the most recent Zogby poll. Rudy Giuliani and Huckabee are fading fast.
I was a Fred supporter who switched to Romney two weeks ago, if that is any indication as to how many feel here in my part of Florida (East coast).
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN2428418520080127?sp=true
I encourage you to read statements by Tom Tancreado, Ann Coulter, and Rush Limbaugh regarding Mitt Romney. I also encourage you to read the link from the National Review (above in other comment) and others about their concerns for McCain. McCain has a track record and a big footprint as a Republican in Name Only in the Senate.
You will need to make up your own mind, but please do it without the mainstream media’s constant cheerleading for McCain, and the sentiment of him as a war hero that softens his Congressional records.
McCain’s amnesty guise and his use of people like Juan Hernandez (see Michelle Malkin’s lead story yesterday and today) are enough to scare me. I worry what kind of America my kids will have if McCain and others like him are our leaders.
There is always a reason why the NYT supports a candidate: they will be able to further their own agenda and issues through their candidate’s policies.
I voted for Mitt Romney as I wanted my vote to count against McCain.
Some decent news today Rasmussen poll today shows Romney up 33 to 27 against McCain,Reuters/Zogby poll shows them tied 30 a piece.I hope and pray the folks of Flordia vote for Romney and stop McCain.Both polls note this was before the endorsement of governor Crist.Does this man hold that much sway?I have never voted for anyone based on a endorsement.People should take a few minutes to investigate the positions of the candidates instead of relying on politicians endorsements.
McCain did however manage to change the subject from the economy yesterday though by making a false accusation against Romney about the war in Iraq.
Anybody who believes McCain has changed or evolved his position on immigration is UNINFORMED.All one has to do is look at TEAM MCCAIN to see what you’d get on border security.Meanwhile the MSM including FOX NEWS cheers on McCain!!