Rasmussen shows McCain/Romney dead heat; Romney leads McCain among conservatives by 16 percent
Fresh national poll numbers from Rasmussen:
In the race for the Republican Presidential Nomination, it’s John McCain at 30%, Mitt Romney at 30%, and Mike Huckabee at 21%. Ron Paul is supported by 5% of Likely Republican Primary Voters…Romney leads by sixteen percentage points among conservatives while McCain has a two-to-one advantage among moderate Primary Voters…
…On the Republican side, Missouri and Tennessee are toss-ups while McCain leads in Alabama. McCain has a solid lead in the winner-take-all state of New Jersey and holds modest leads in California, Connecticut, and Illinois.
The state poll numbers, as Allah notes, look bleak. And it looks like Rasmussen is the anomaly.
Here’s Mitt Romney’s road map for survival:
Operating in survival mode, Mr. Romney’s circle of advisers has come up with a detailed road map to try to salvage his campaign. The plan is complete with a new infusion of cash from Mr. Romney, a long-term strategy intended to turn the campaign into a protracted delegate fight and a reframing of the race as a one-on-one battle for the future of the party that seeks to sound the alarm among conservatives about Mr. McCain.
The advisers have drawn up a list of states, dividing and ranking them into those considered relatively easy and inexpensive targets, along with a broader grouping of more costly battlegrounds where the advisers hope that Mr. Romney can be competitive.
Some states like Arizona and Arkansas, the home states of Mr. McCain and Mike Huckabee, respectively, are largely written off.
The question is whether the planning, along with the campaign’s one trump card, the candidate’s vast wealth, can overcome the growing sense of inevitability that has begun to attach itself to Mr. McCain.
Complicating the outlook, Mr. Romney’s campaign has been racked by infighting over advertising strategy between some senior advisers, including some consultants who joined the campaign after leaving Mr. McCain’s.
Yeah, that’s a problem.
His advisers point to some signs of hope in an election cycle in which conventional wisdom has often been turned upside down. They say they are starting to see a groundswell of opposition to Mr. McCain among conservative leaders, as well as at the grass roots, especially on talk radio.
The day after Mr. Romney’s loss to Mr. McCain in Florida, his aides said, the campaign set a record for one-day online contributions, almost $400,000.
Mr. Romney’s advisers are also convinced that their mantra on the economy and bringing change to Washington and the economy remains compelling.
The campaign’s director of strategy, Alex Gage, sent a memorandum to supporters on Thursday that highlighted exit poll data from the previous nominating contests, saying just a few percentage points of support to Mr. Romney from conservatives would swing the nomination to him.
They’re focusing on California and hoping immigration enforcement supporters will come through:
Rob Stutzman, a senior adviser for the California campaign, said the Republican electorate there was traditionally quite conservative. Mr. Stutzman predicted that Mr. McCain would run into problems because of his moderate stance on illegal immigration.
“The immigration vulnerability is amplified in California for McCain,” he said.
Well, it might help if Romney would start talking about the difference between the company he keeps and the company McCain keeps, wouldn’t it?
Russ Feingold.
Teddy Kennedy.
Lindsay Grahamnesty.
Juan “Mexico First/Free Flow” Hernandez.
Jerry “Spanish first” Perenchio. Geraldo Rivera.
La Raza.
Charles Keating.
John Kerry.
The New York Times.
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I’m begining to think Ann Coulter has something.
After ball as Ron said “I didn’t leave the party, the party left me.”
I would love to see an ad by the Romney campaign showing McCain stating the ‘company I keep’ line with pictures and short quotes from his open border pals.
Since the open borders issue is still a major worry of Republicans and Democrats alike, I think it would be his best bet to start taking back some ground from McCain.
The economy issue is a great one to trumpet too.
He needs to get those commercials out there!
Well, I plan to Vote for Mitt when VA. gets it’s turn, but the deck sure is stacked against him.
McShame has the MSM and the RINO’s on his side. Along with the Open Borders crowd.
The Huckster is staying in just to skim evangelicals votes away from Mitt. I also think that the Huckster was recuited to run just for this purpose, as Rommney was considered a strong candidate from the start.
Seriously, do we use the word moderate correctly anymore? I guess it is all relative. Romney is maybe a moderate, but McCain might as well be on the Democratic ticket as a liberal pandering for a few moderate votes.
Dr. Jack Wheeler has written a very controversial piece about Sen. McCain’s stay in Vietnam (To The Point News – subscription). I have reprinted it at my site. If true and the Clinton’s “leak” it through their friends at the CIA, it could destroy McCain and his bid for the White House. Full article at The Radio Patriot. We’ve contacted Dr. Wheeler to come on my radio program for this Sunday (Feb 3) night.
I really like the ad from Citizens United which starts with a photo of Hillary, and talks about voting against the Bush tax cuts and being considered as a running mate for John Kerry, then ends with the photo of John McCain emerging from behind the one of Hillary… I hope that, too, can help sway voters away from McCain…
If you lay down with dogs, then you are going to get up with flees.
go mitt, i too am in VA and hope we get our chance at derailing mccain.
I like that one too Miss Ladybug. The first time I saw it I thought that it was an Obambi ad until the very end.
Go Romney!
It’s rather pointless to wring our hands about which choice of liberal RINOs is going to cause the 2008 electoral abortion.
McAmnesty v. RomnestyCare.
I don’t want either. They’ll both give us liberalism and get Republicans blamed for the mess.
I would like to point out that all of this bashing of good decent people who are running for President makes me sick of the process. I have had it with the lot of you, not so much with the candidates, all of whom I find to be perfectly qualified to hold the office.
Reaching across the aisle and working with the other side used to be noble. Being able to attract folks of different persuasions used to be noble.
Now, Michelle points out every single person that supports McCain as some sort of blunt object. The whole thing is unnecessary.
All of you hate McCain because he dares to stray from some sort of ideological threshhold and he does what he thinks is right rather than what some ideology tells him to. Worse than that, all of admire Joe Lieberman for the exact same thing. Some of you are equally cynical toward everyone because no one fits some sort of ideological test. Ideology is not now and never has been the most important measure of Presidential success. We have had very successful Presidents of all ideological persuasions.
What you have all done is turned good, honorable men into monsters, and frankly the only ones that are really ugly are the critics that find every single little thing to attack each of them with.
sorry mike i feel you may be going overboard.
i dont hate mccain, i just think he is old and hot headed.
i can accept, respect and appreciate your like of mccain, can you say the same of those that dont?
please dont lump all that are against him in one boat of haters please
It wouldn’t be a problem, Mike, if he didn’t consistantly trumpet his Ideals, and then vote the opposite of what he stated. Don’t tell us you’re a ‘Reagan Republican’ and then vote against the Tax Cuts, don’t tell us your a ‘Social Conservative’ and then push Amnesty and the free speech infringement with your liberal pals.
We don’t dislike him because of his attempt to reach across the isles, it’s because of his lying, party backstabbing, and reaching across the isles for the wrong reasons.
Opposing him is one thing. Not everyone that opposes him hates him, however Michelle has been relentless in her attacks. I don’t think she merely opposes him. She hates him, and certainly if she doesn’t then, she isn’t showing it. I don’t know you, and i don’t know how you feel. If you say you only oppose him and don’t hate him, then I accept that, however you should read some of the comments on here, that isn’t merely opposition but rather hate.
It is the same at most of the conservative blogs, and it isn’t just McCain. It is all the candidates and I am sick of it.
So just because McCain does what he thinks is right, we should support him? I don’t think what McCain has done on many issues is right for our country or the Republican Party. I am not going to be silent when the possible Republican Party nominee for President is a liberal pretending to be a conservative while twisting his past performance into something it isn’t to get elected.
McCain may be a good man. His service to his country is honorable. Neither gives him a pass from scrutiny when he is trying to be the next President. What McCain has said, done in Congress and what he has supported shows him for what he is. I don’t consider that ideology, but a blueprint for the man. Big difference.
This will substantiate the questions I have had about McCain, all along, and then some. DO NOT TRUST McCAIN with our country!!!
I don’t think Michelle hates McCain. She doesn’t believe he’s a good choice for this country, and she says so and why. What’s wrong with that?
Well, thank you for that. Now, go away! I hope you find comfort in your self-righteousness! Good luck, Mike.
The word hate gets thrown around far too easily, IMO. There is nothing wrong with being relentless. Relentless certainly does not equate hate. We’re not talking about someone running for class president here. It an election for our country at a critical time in history. We should all be relentless in looking for the truth and the best person for the job.
McCain has some really serious problems,IMO. His views on immigration is bad for our country. He is liberal on many issues which is counter to what many of us believe. He is a hothead and generally not willing to compromise, resorting to name calling of those who disagree with him. IMO, he would make a bad president.
I, for one, hope Michelle continues to be relentless is showing the truth and getting the facts out to us. We certainly won’t hear about much of what is truly going on from MSM.
No, you don’t have to support him, you just don’t need to assassinate his character. You are all taking glee in assassinating his character here in the bubble of the blogosphere.
You can support whoever you want, however the name calling, condescending language, and most importantly the lunatic predictions that the world will collapse if he is elected are unnecessary, incendiary, and totally despicable.
I don’t care who you support or vote for, but assassinating someone’s character because you don’t support them is totally despicable, and the lot of you have done that nonstop with every candidate for the entirety of the campaign.
#11 – Yes, they are good, decent people. Yes, reaching across the aisle is a good thing. But when one of those good, decent people reaches across the border to allow and encourage the flood of illegal immigrants into the United States, I have a problem with that person. When that good, decent person reaches out and has Jerry Perenchio (who poured millions into a campaign against teaching English to CA school children) as National Finance Co-Chair of his campaign. And, who has Dr. Juan Hernandez (who said ““We must not only have a free flow of goods and services, but also start working for a free flow of people.” and says of the US and Mexico that “it‘s not two countries; it‘s just a region.”), as his Hispanic outreach director, I have a very big problem with that.
Mike, you may be upset with everyone on here for stating their views. But, I’m hoping and praying that enough people will continue to state their views to expose what one of those good and decent people could end up doing to our United States if elected president.
You probably hate me now, but I really don’t care. I’ve traveled this country extensively and love it dearly. I’m not saying that you don’t, but I wish that you would understand the passion behind our urgency to expose Mr. McCain for what he is now. All of the candidates are to be admired for their accomplishments and service, but they all have their faults, too. To me, Mr. McCain scares me a great deal as to how he could impact our great country in a negative way forever.
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Cut out the melodrama. McCain has done more good for this country than the lot of you combined.
Give me a break. Yes, god forbid he has an unpaid advisor on his staff that you don’t like.
Without John McCain Al Qaeda would be dancing in the streets of Baghdad right now as they celebrated the victory over the satan America, but in all your damnation of McCain none of you seem to remember that.
Keep it up, his character hasn’t been assassinated enough.
The worst part is that the lot of you accomplish nothing. Michelle speaks to a bunch of minions. Who exactly are you reaching. The only people that read what you write already agree with what you are saying before you write it.
#22 – You know, a lot of people have done a lot of outstanding things in their past, but does that always qualify them to be president? When someone is running for president of the United States, I pay most attention to where they want to take the country as president, not just what they have done in the past. Mike, if you want to keep your blinders on, go right ahead.
mike v, you look more and more like a whiny a$$ lib…which fits nicely into the McAmnesty camp.
Obviously you have something against MM, your comments towards her are looking awfully close to personal.
Now if all these pro-conservative and anti-McCenndy postings bother you so much don’t waste your time reading them and crawl back under your bridge. I’m confident non of us will miss you.
So, with that toot a loo
Romney is a Massachusetts liberal who changed EVERY social position to appeal to Conservatives, and most of you are buying it. John McCain has proven he is both a strong Conservative and that he has the common sense to know this country operates best when compromises are made with the other party.
To McCain supporters whom it may concern:
One of the things that worries me is that many of McCain’s admirers adopt his, shall we say, rhetorical style. It becomes almost impossible to discuss any aspect of the man’s policies and thoughts without being shoved into the meat grinder of his war experience. The fact is that McCain may be the great war hero he obviously believes himself to be, he may even be greater than that, but he is not a conservative, he is not a republican (which in fairness, G. W. Bush has rendered an almost meaningless term), and he is not a particularly good thinker. If people want to vote for a great and noble Democrat War Hero, do so. I for one will not stand in their way. But please spare us this rubbish about him being a “Reagan Republican” and standing four-square for secure borders and sound jurisprudence. It’s not there, anywhere in his record. What is there is a seething loathing of conservatives, or republicans, of anyone who dares disagree with him on anything.
I have no idea why he is still in the Republican Party. Does anyone? At least Lieberman, whose support for the Iraq war has cost him far more than it has cost McCain, consistently votes with the Democrats on everything else. I actually don’t like Joe L. that much, but he is a gentleman and one can respect him for his choices. Why doesn’t McCain join him as an independent? We know that he has thought about leaving the party many times and come quite close to doing so at least twice. Why should he not be subject to some harsh criticism for that? I simply refuse to bow and scrape before the man.
I am truly sorry, but there simply is no reason for any conservative Republican ever to vote for McCain. If he were to become president, the first thing he would do is get with Ted Kennedy, the unacknowledged Emperor of America, on every piece of domestic legislation and every judicial appointment. And the congressional Republicans would meekly bow and obey. It’s just not a risk worth taking for this country. As a patriot, and not a war hero so spit away, I refuse to go along with that. Any more than I will go along with his and his supporters rage issues. Enough.
Radiopatriot #5: I went to the article and honestly, I am more afraid now than ever.
I’ve never liked McCain, but gave him his due as a hero. However, I have always wondered why the Vietcong would offer to release a “VIP” prisoner rather than keep him for bargaining purposes, or whatever. They were hardly known for their soft spots.
Hey! Mike V,; I’ll say it right out, I hate McCrazys guts, He’s a G^d-damned traitor. Don’t tell me about”war heros” from Viet Nam; we sent all or heros home in caskets, I know I was there, and many were my friends. Just because McCrazy sat on his ass in Hanoi for a few years dosen’t make him a hero,it makes him stupid for getting captured. He’s not fit to salute a real heros casket.
I wish Huckelberry would just get out. He is taking the valuable votes from Romney. Huck doesn’t have a chance! He needs to stop auditioning for McCan’t, because even if it ended up being McCan’t as the nominee, there is NO CHANCE Huck is going to be his running mate. If he is, we’re really, really doomed.
Onto 2012.
#28 wrote:
“Just because McCrazy sat on his ass in Hanoi for a few years dosen’t make him a hero,it makes him stupid for getting captured. He’s not fit to salute a real heros casket.”
This is exactly the sort of idiotic rhetoric that I am so sick of on this site. I cringe now when I visit here and read what MM is writing and what her followers are writing. If she doesn’t comment on this #28′s vitriol then I lose all respect for her as a writer and a blogger.
This is just SICK!! To say that all John McCain was doing in Hanoi was sitting there and that he was stupid for being caught is just sick.
Ahem, he was SHOT DOWN and seriously injured. He was bayonetted and tortured. He and the others were tortured for NOT saying what the enemy wanted them to say.
And what was Mitt Romney doing during Vietnam?? Oh yeah, he was in Paris doing hard missionary work….yeah right.
I am SICK of this character assasination of John McCain. And now you all are sounding like the Daily Kos kooks.
Get a grip on yourselves!!! If you support the troops, then no matter what you must do everything in your power to keep Obama or Hillary from being their Commander-in-Chief because both will surrender and pull our troops out too soon and then both will destroy the military we have now by using them for a social experiment like the Clintons did in the 90′s.
Come on, people, get a grip!!!
Get real, Mike. The people here are passionate about the future of their country – unlike most people who live by the mantra “I’m alright, Jack”. They care. About children. The future. The concepts of right and wrong. They care about preserving what made America great.
Politics is a dirty business. And McCain plays the game accordingly. The people here are just calling him on it, and yes it’s a reflection of his character and his character stinks.
Boo hoo hoo, now go cry me a river.
Here’s a sampling of McCain comments. Are they all hate or actual reasons for not voting for him?
Whose bumper sticker is this: “You can’t do it, my friends”, speaking to American citizens about (primarily) Mexicans.
What a patriotic Republican uniter.
It pains me to see MM and all the other commenters here so sad and disappointed. But really, there is VERY little difference between McCain and Romney. To say one is ‘sooooo much better’ than the other (conservative) is laughable.
You realize you are defending a guy (Romney) who said he did not want an endorsement of a pro-life group during his Governor’s campaign. I can accept the possibility of someone with the position of ‘pro death’ (abortion), but telling conservatives that you don’t want their endorsement is pretty bad.
Also, the company Romney keeps at his house should be checked with the INS for deportation. Did any of the other candidates use companies that used illegal aliens for labor? If McCain had used illegals, would you give him a pass like Romney?
The ironic part about all of this is that the more noise that MM, Rush, Laura, Hannity, et al make against McCain, the more likely Democrats will vote for him in the general election. There are people who decide based on what the right wing attack machines like and don’t like. If MM doesn’t like it, then they must.
So I would probably recommend sticking with facts and leaving out accusations and innuendos. You don’t want to end up looking too bad do you? It’s probably going to be McCain. Even if it is Romney, it would still be a liberal for the R nom for president.
I hate to repeat myself, but more people need to e-mail Chris Wallace before tomorrow morning.
The e-mail for Fox news Sunday is
FNS@foxnews.com
Blind Mule posted a revised version of my original questions and I like it. Here’s his version of the letter with a couple of modifications to the phrasiology to the questions:
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Dear Chris Wallace,
As you know, many conservative Republican’s are dismayed at the thought that as the Reagan conservitive’s of our party, all our hard work has been rewarded by a possible standard-bearer in the form of John McCain.
In order to let the truth be heard, I respectfully insist as a loyal Fox News Channel viewer that you ask Mr. McCain the following questions and hold him to task for not being the straight talker he claim’s to be.
1. How can you claim to have the Straight Talk Express when in Florida and California you misrepresented Mitt Romney statment’s on Iraq withdrawal timetables?
2. You said at the Republican debate on Wednesday ” I’ll rely on people to judge me by the company that I keep.” It has become well-known throughout the country over the last week that among your staff is a man named Juan Hernandez, well-known to Fox News viewers as a man who has called for the dismantling of virtually all US immigration law in an effort to
essentially remove all restrictions to illegal immigration from Mexico. Why would you have a man like that on your staff if you claim to have heard the will of the American people to stop illegal immigration?
3. It’s a matter of record that you were one of two senators who actually voted against the Bush tax cuts, tax cuts widely recognized as saving the US economy the last time a recession was at hand. Why did you do that and given that record, why should the American people trust you to keep taxes low and manage the U.S. economy and are you willing to pledge to the conservative base right here and now that you will under no circumstances raise taxes or sign into law a bill that does?
4. What is your executive experience that qualifies you to be hired for the job of President of the United States? Not senatorial leadership qualifications, but executive leadership qualifications on your resume by which the American people can decide to hire you as President of the United States?
5. Only a few years back as senator you almost changed party affiliations and became a Democrat. Given your personal closeness to extreme left wing Democrat senators like Ted Kennedy, why should Republican voters believe that you wouldn’t follow through and change party affiliation and become a Democrat as President?
Many people are aware of John McCain’s record and this list of question’s. We will be watching closely to see that Fox News Channel continue’s to be fair and balanced by submitting these questions respectfully but forcefully to Senator McCain.
Respectfuly,
#27 On February 2nd, 2008 at 4:09 pm, CC said:
“Radiopatriot #5: I went to the article and honestly, I am more afraid now than ever. ”
I read the article, too.
If, accurate, that’s verrry scary.
I might just have been wrong in my conclusion of several days ago.
Maybe Ann Coulter is correct.
What assurance do we have that John McCain would be any better at protecting our nation, culture and society than would the leftists/socialists?
At least the leftists/socialists might be more succesfully challenged and obstructed, because they are somewhat more honest and forthcoming about where they stand on issues than Mr. McCain appears to be.
A most critical election, indeed, coming up.
Radio, you must e-mail this info to Wallace for tomorrow morning’s interview!
The e-mail for Fox news Sunday is
FNS@foxnews.com
To everyone who took the time to post a comment here worrying about McCain, your time is better spent e-mailing Chris wallace at Fox news .com
The e-mail for Fox news Sunday is
FNS@foxnews.com
If you don’t want to use your regular e-mail, additional ones can be set up at yahoo for free in about 5 minutes. Jusrt go to e-mail and it takes just a couple of minutes.
DO IT! Don’t complain today to the board – complain to Chris Wallace so it can have some impact on the interview tomorrow.
Thanks, Blind Mule, for the slight revision. It’s a definate improvement.
As others have said above, this is all well and good, but for goodness sake, in MN Romney’s running ads against Hillary. Where are the ads showing McCain having one of his many temper tantrums. Show a few criminal aliens that McCain’s bill would have given amnesty (Z Visa’s) to.
Take the gloves off man. (and quickly!)
I’m seeing RED right now over McCain’s vindictive taunting by announcing he’s watching the Super Bowl tomorrow from…….(Romney’s Home Turf) Boston, and then campaigning in MA Monday morning.
Romney Rally tonite in Mpls with the man himself. I’ll be there!
#34 On February 2nd, 2008 at 5:28 pm, Mr_Conservative_Cat said:
“5. Only a few years back as senator you almost changed party affiliations and became a Democrat. Given your personal closeness to extreme left wing Democrat senators like Ted Kennedy, why should Republican voters believe that you wouldn’t follow through and change party affiliation and become a Democrat as President?”
That thought crossed my mind earlier this afetrnoon!
Why should we be reassured that Mr. McCain would not switch parties once elected?
Again, as Ann Coulter suggests, shouldn’t we be suspicious that the MSM and Democrats seem comfortable with Mr. McCain?
His “reaching across the aisle” over the past years sure has looked more like yielding the conservative position(s) across the aisle.
If Romney wants to win, he should gather together a video of McCain in action – all of his “angry” moments. No comments needed.
Thacker you said:
That’s just it, no one even bothered to check Cindy and John McCain’s $3M estate in AZ (featured in Architectural Digest a few years ago) to see if his legal landscaper hired illegals (for humanitarian reasons only I”m sure…..) The media only chase Romney down, McCain gets by scott free.
And McCain the hypocrite makes snarky comments about Romney’s money when he’s been a free loader off his wife’s millions for the last 25 years. Oh yea, and that was only after having an affair with said much younger current wife while still married to the former (older) and injured (from a car accident) ex-wife. You wanna talk Character?!
And what you are not acknowledging from Romney’s time as Governor, McCain is tacking left, while Romney is tacking right. McCain is much more guilty of flip-flopping in the last 3 weeks he’s become the candidate of “say anything, do anything” to win.
If everyone who is taking the time to comment here also e-mailed Wallace at Fox news in advance of tomorrow’s McCain interview, there would be a better chance that Romney would beat McCain on Super Tuesday.
Please send an e-mail now. This might be our last chance.
That is utter nonsense. The surge strategy was developed by the armed forces, not John McCain. In fact, the General of the Army, Erik Shiseki, had submitted a very similar troop plan prior to going to war with Iraq – Donald Rumsfeld ignored it and exited General Shinseki, much to Rumsfeld’s discredit.
John McCain supported the strategy – as did virtually every other Republican Senator. What he did was not unique nor meritorious. It was unusual in that he sided with Republicans rather than Democrats.
People expressing their dislike of McCain is not hatred; and people pointing our his past and noting the outright lies he is peddling now is not character assassination. People are saying things that the MSM will not.
If there is any character assassination going on here, it is you, Mike, by calling people haters and character assassins for saying things that are unpopular in the MSM. I take it you believe it is too much to ask for a candidate running as a Republican to actually espouse Republican values.
If any one is destroying McCain it is McCain himself. A man who commits suicide is in no need of an assassin.
Yea, I judged McCain by the company he keeps too. That’s why I voted for Romney.
I’m with Jim M. What the hell did McCain have to do with Al Qadea getting their arse kicked in Iraq?
McCain’s been consistent with his disdain for conservatives and contempt for anyone that disagrees with him. If he wins, he’ll likely lose against the Dem. candidate. They’ll use his temper against him, play him like Bush-41 (“out-of-touch-old-white-guy syndrome), and enough of the Rep. base will leave to cost the election. Personally, I couldn’t vote for him based on his legislative record, let alone his Juan Hernandez “supports my policies…I don’t support his…” and his liberal company that he keeps.
However, regardless who the Rep. candidate is we’ve done ourselves incredible damage by letting the Dems. and liberal press control the Rep. debates through the questions – many times audaciously insulting and/or irrelevant. There’s been no real debate because the Rep. party couldn’t show enough leadership to control the forums and questions.
Full disclosure: I already voted for Romney (CA – absentee ballot) and will be hitting the phone banks.
Regarding the debate on who’s hired illegal immigrants and who hasn’t: How would any of the candidates know who works for all of their service providers? Isn’t that a key part of the immigration problem? AND how far should everyone – and I mean all of us, not just candidates – check? It seems reasonable to assume that if we hire legitimate businesses, those businesses comply with all hiring laws. If their not, is it our fault for hiring that company?
McCain keeps trying to make it sound as if he was the only one who supported the surge policy. Most Republicans did, but most Democrats did not. The fact that he seems to think he’s alone on the issue shows quite clearly on which side of the fence he seems to be paying attention to, and which side of the fence he seems to relate.
It would surprise me not one bit if, as President, he came on the air announcing, “My friends, I have decided to join the democratic party. As the great Ronald Reagan once said, ‘I have not left the party, the party has left me’.”
Stop him before this nightmare scenario plays out 2 years from now.
Someone said Ann has something, all Ann Coulter has is a million plus dollars based on books with the same theme..Liberals are bad, esp. the Clintons. For her to say she’d vote and campaign for Hillary was the most, and I stress it, the most ridiculous statement I ever heard. Granted, none of us like McCain, have contempt for him, but he is not a socialist as far as I know. He may be plenty of things detestable but not a Hillary socialist.
So for those who would vote for Hillary, following Ann’s lead, write in a candidate, stay home, I think you are all foolish. Hold your nose like McCain’s own mother said and pull the lever if he is the nominee. My dream is that he doesn’t even make it that far, and his smugness gets wipped off his face, but to say Ann has it right is insane. I wish Sean didn’t just sit there smiling at her, does anyone dare call Ann on this? Is she untouchable? My question is, what is her next book, “Hillary isn’t really so bad”? She deserves a book burning as someone suggested.
Just vote Romney, period.
You obviously know nothing of marketing
I send stories and opinion’s to all of my friend’s and ask them to pass them on and all but two (Democrat’s) send them on to those that they know. It’s called word of mouth and is a very powerful marketing tool. I am no minion to anyone I form my own opinion’s and they don’t alway’s agree with everyone on this or any other site I frequent and I for one did not “hate” McCain and still don’t but I do have a great disllike for him especialy after he tried to compare himself to Reagan, I’m sorry if you disagree but Mr. McCain does’nt even hold a short flame to Reagan and never will.
Mr_Conservitive_Cat:
No problem, I’ve alway’s said two head’s are better than one, I incorporated your’s, slp’s and some of my word’s together and that’s how it’s done folk’s together we can achieve a meaningful end.
In defense of Ann Coulter, she is more than likely being sarcastic. She cannot stand the Clintons!!!!!!
Her fan base is huge. She is pointing out that Hillary is better than McCain only to emphasize that the true conservatives should be on their guard and NOT support John.
Hopefully her influence will make people look twice at McCain before pulling the lever.
#50
Correct.
Elect Mitt Romney rally sign on front door: 2 dollars
Oval Mitt ’08 bumper stickers installed: 3 dollars
My zipcode: 14221
My car didn’t get keyed at the mall: priceless.
We’re in it to Mitt it!
I agree, gayle. I think you nailed it.
Coulter is doing what she does so well – being outrageous. She is getting the attention necessary to make people open their eyes to the fact that McCain is dangerous and not supportable. I won’t vote for him, i’ll vote against him in the best way possible.
More like a “reach around” if you ask me.
#34 Mr_Conservative_Cat said:
Yes, Romney called for private timetables and milestones. But before Romney made his comments, McCain had already called for a set of public benchmarks for Iraq:
Is McCain now flipflopping on what he said just a year ago? How can he condemn Romney when it’s very clear from his comments that he intended his benchmarks to be public so “the American people and Congress will know if we’re making progress or not.” It is also very clear he intended to have deadlines (timetables); otherwise, at what point could he say his benchmarks had not been met?
If you are for benchmarks and deadlines, how can you be against milestones and timetables? It’s all a dishonest game of semantics on the part of McCain.
On February 2nd, 2008 at 5:35 pm, Mr_Conservative_Cat said:
I’ve bombarded Fox News for 5 years – to absolutely NO avail.
Not on one single solitary issue.
I won’t waste my time on THEM anymore.
It’s up to the GOP leadership – they know how things are breaking – “deep down inside, I mean” – and you cannot tell me they don’t remember Gerald Ford and Robert Dole.
God Speed the GOP Titanic.
If McShame/ B-HusseinObama/ or CHillary is elected, start learning your new Pledge of Allegiance:
I pledge allegiance
To the flags
Of the diverse states of the Americas
And to the cesspools
For which they stand,
Many migrants,
Bajo Dios,
Indistinguishable,
With gringo dollar$ for all.
PJ, great post! LMAO!
However, what you have stated will more than likely occur.
There will be no more flags, pledges, patriotic songs, military, etc.
We are in the beginning stages of no more USA.
Therefore as a punishment; NO MORE TAXES from me and I hope others will follow.
On Coulter voting for Hillary… Of course she’s anti-Clinton but, realize for a moment that 50% of this country ISN’T anti-Clinton, and they’re buying Hillary’s horsecrap hook, line, and sinker. What Ann suggested is that, if elected, the REPUBLICAN part (not composed of McCain and his liberal-minded compadres) would FIGHT her plans tooth and nail. The “grassroots” conservatives would fight. The “social conservatives” would fight. THAT is what Ann was saying, and you know what, she’s completely right.
We might not get excited about fighting an “Obama” or a “McCain” Presidency, but we’d, sure as the sun rises in the east, sound the wr drums the minute Hillary (and Bill) took office.
Now back to the current discussion… I personally can’t understand WHY anyone would support McCain. Why didn’t he switch parties? Because the voters in AZ would have kicked his butt out of Washington, and he happens to like that cushy job. Would he switch parties as President? Most likely he wouldn’t, but heck, he’s running for Prez now on the most liberal platform this side of Huckabee! He wouldn’t need to switch. Once elected, he can do what he wants for 4 years and there’s little anyone could say or do to stop him.
Romney might have just now found his “conservative roots”, but as an proven, effective business leader, just so long as he continues to listen to what we, the Conservative Masses, have to say, I’ll support him.
I don’t need to bash McCain; I’ve already seen the damage G.W. Bush has done to the GOP cause with his “compassionate conservative” ideas. McCain would only be the same, or even worse since he’s consistently opposed Bush’s better ideas (tax cuts). Of course the MSM loves McCain; he opposes Republican ideas too! Are the citizens of this country really too stupid to see this?
Mmmm, yeah.
Romney is indeed in great peril of going the way of Fred Thompson if her does not get out there over the next twenty-four hours and pound the crap out of McCain and his record for being a Democrat stuffed into a Republican suit. He needs to get out there and challenge McCain about how he wanted to leave the party only two election cycles ago, and how he was seriously considering being John Kerry’s running mate, how McCain had felt “honored” by being considered for that position and such. He needs to plant the seed of doubt as to whether or not this “Maverick” can be trusted not to switch parties after becoming President, thereby abandoning everyone who trusted in him and voted for him all because McCain was making a point or trying to get revenge or whatever his little vengeful mind would be thinking. He needs to remind everyone about how many times in the last 7+ years McCain went behind the President’s and the Republican Leadership’s back to work closed door deals with the Democrats against the better interests of the Party and what the President was attempting to accomplish and only benefitted the opposition.
Most importantly he needs to get out there and dispel this myth of McCain’s making that McCain is already the nominee. There are too many in this country that will buy into it because there are too many people who are lemmings. The MSM know that as well as McCain and thus the reason he has adopted that tactic. The MSM want McCain in there because they know that he doesn’t have a chance to make it on his record, and in one on one debates against the Democrat nominee, he will get his clock cleaned and lose out on the chance to have the Presidency remain in Republican control which cannot be lost during this point and time in American history.
To have Mitt do anything less. will most certainly blow it for him come Tuesday, leaving nothing left of his campaign but a dust covered smoking hulk of what was our last chance of having someone with decent scruples and morals getting the shot at taking on an insane woman or an empty suit.
I certainly understand the issues some folks have with Sen. McCain’s platform. I don’t agree with everything he’s done, either. I, personally, think Romney would do a better job on the economic front. But I like McCain’s foreign policy stand. McCain/Romney? Romney/McCain? Whoever the GOP nominee is in November has to be better for the country than either of the Dem candidates. Remember, the next president could appoint one or two Supreme Court justices, etc. Also, as I’ve mentioned before, the presidency is not the single most important object, here. All of the House and part of the Senate is up for grabs. Don’t get discouraged or, heaven forbid, sit out the election over one candidate. If conservatives don’t care for Sen. McCain, then go ahead and vote for him AND conservative House and Senate candidates. Remember the big picture, here. We’re not just voting for President. We’re voting for a government.