It’s All About the Delegate Count
Marina Del Ray, CA:
| Upcoming States & RealClearPolitics Averages | |||||||||
| State | Date | Delegates | McCain | Romney | Huckabee | Paul | |||
| California | 02/05 | 173 C | 36.2 | 33.0 | 11.2 | 5.6 | |||
| New York | 02/05 | 101 W C | 54.4 | 23.2 | 7.6 | 4.6 | |||
| Georgia | 02/05 | 72 | 31.0 | 28.8 | 25.0 | 4.3 | |||
| Illinois | 02/05 | 70 | 36.0 | 22.0 | 14.0 | 7.0 | |||
| Missouri | 02/05 | 58 W | 34.5 | 26.5 | 27.8 | 4.0 | |||
| Tennessee | 02/05 | 55 | 29.0 | 23.0 | 25.7 | 6.0 | |||
| Arizona | 02/05 | 53 W C | 41.3 | 25.0 | 8.3 | 4.0 | |||
| New Jersey | 02/05 | 52 W | 50.1 | 27.0 | 7.3 | 4.9 | |||
| Alabama | 02/05 | 48 | 37.3 | 17.5 | 30.8 | 4.5 | |||
| Massachusetts | 02/05 | 43 | 28.7 | 54.0 | 6.0 | 3.3 | |||
| Connecticut | 02/05 | 30 W C | 44.7 | 22.7 | 7.3 | 3.7 | |||
| * Delegates After RNC Penalty W Winner Take All C Closed Primary | |||||||||
Marina Del Ray, CA
Two things matter; whether the 22 states voting tomorrow are “winner take all” AND whether their primary is open or closed.
Ten of the delegate-rich states including New York are “winner take all.” California and New York are two states that hold closed primaries. No independents, only registered Republicans in those closed primaries will be putting their ballots in the box for McCain, Romney or Huckabee. This should benefit Mitt since conservative Republicans view McCain with suspicion.
California with 173 delegates is a proportional state with a closed primary. McCain was leading but Mitt has closed the gap so he added a quick last minute campaign stop there. Even coming in second, he could gain a sizable number of delegates.
New York with it’s 101 delegates is a winner take all and closed primary and McCain is the clear favorite there.
The Bay state with 43 is heavily favored for Mitt even though McCain staked a claim there while watching the Giants best the Patriots last night.
In many southern states Huckabee is competing within the margin of error, including Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri and Alabama. His staying in the race peels votes from Romney and has led to a sharp back and forth between the two with Mitt calling it “vote stealing” and Huckabee accusing Mitt of trying to suppress the vote. Romney seems to be gaining momentum in some of those southern states.
McCain is at a clear advantage in delegate count but Romney numbers have tightened in some of the latest polls following attacks by Romney accusing McCain of not being sufficiently conservative enough.
36 hours until polls close and even then it may be hours later before the final delegate totals are in.
Tags: "winner take all", closed primary, delegates, proportional
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Romney is not a politician so he doesn’t have the slick delivery others do. But to me this is a positive. The politicians have messed things up…including McCain. We need a change and I think Romney’s the one. He can work with world leaders and will impress them instead of yelling at them with four-letter words like McCain.
Romney took no pay from Massachusetts and only $1 from the Olympics. He’s spending his own money on the race. I believe he wants this job not for power or money, but to be of service to our country. I support him.
Congratulations, Maine! Thanks for choosing a man with conservative values for America.
Mitt Romney’s successful business experience, successful Olympic experience, and successful state governing success set him above all other candidates. His vision of using economic strength to combat terrorist and his Apollo plan for energy independence are also set him above all other candidates. He is a real leader who can lead American to build a strong economic and therefore a strong nation! Hope American people will elect Mitt Romney, the only competent candidate, to be our president.
How could any moderates and liberals backs war monger McCain. McCain wants to bomb Iran and stay in Iraq for 100 years and promised for more wars. McCain says he wants interest rates to be ZERO out of complete ignorance for how interest rates affect the economy. I’d like to see him say that to retirees on a fixed income. McCain want 10 million illegal immigrants to stay permanently and legal immigrants who can vote do not support it. How could this country be secure if he is in power??? If McCain is nominee, as a republican I would rather vote Clinton than McCain. As least we know Clinton has some intelligence and lead the booming economic. McCain will lead this country to a total ruin with his lack of intelligence and no executive experience. Mitt Romney is an expert in economics and finance and is the man we need as president.
If anyone can rescue the economy at this point, it would have to be Mitt. The US is $53 trillion in debt, that is $400K per household. The dollar is becoming useless and the Euro is now becoming the credible currency. Along with the national debt, most citizens are also deeply in debt. Tommorow the market is likely going to take a dump. If we don’t have a good economy you can forget foreign policy, fighting wars, or healthcare, funding for top education. The economy needs to be front and center, not religion, steriotypes and other trivial things.
It’s time to remind the public about the Keating 5. Here the banks are falling appart and the economy is going into recession and we want to reward a slime ball like McCain who was wrapped up with Charles Keating, the guy who tanked Lincoln Savings & Loan, driving a previous recession? Go figure. Given what this did to the economy in the early 90’s, McCain should have just taken a baseball bat to the knee caps of the American people. Mitt is too kind to this power hungry geriatric sellout!
John McCain has allowed countless billions of American dollars to be siphoned out of this country into Mexico alongside the countless billions of taxpayer dollars spent on health care, education, welfare, crime and mortgage bailouts for illegal aliens. John McCain, in his support for illegal immigration, has allowed Al Qaeda terrorist to use Mexican drug smuggling tunnels to enter the United States and plot to attack Fort Huachuca in southern Arizona. This litany of positions contrary to conservatism and American interests could go on and on.
McCain can win regardless of who the Dem’s select.
Think McCain-Rice.
Thanks for your support of Ron Paul. My wife said the other day that when she tells some people about our voting for Ron Paul they laugh at her. I said “ good”. Ask them if they like 3 dollar or more a gallon gas prices? Ask them if they like to be involved with wars for the next 100 years that get their children killed for no good reason? Ask them if they like sending all the money they earn for the Months of January through May each year to the central government just to pay for their spending sprees in Washington DC? Ask them if they are satisfied with the way their country has changed in the last fifty years or so? See if they are still laughing?
I find it offensive that people want McCain for President
He is the one that wrote the bill with Ted Kennedy to give amnesty to illegal aliens.
His strong point is that he goes across the isle and makes friends with hardcore democrats that push agendas like Amnesty?
We have the Kennedy’s supporting Obamma and then Arnold comes out and supports McCain because he knows that will take votes away from Romney. BELIEVE IT Arnold wants a Pro Amnesty President… If he didn’t then he would pass a law that cops in LA and SF could at least ask someone if they are Illegal let alone turn them over to ICE.
20 Million Illegal Aliens effect more then just the cops and citizens they kill
they lower wages for everyone that is not an employer that hires them.
If someone 18yo takes a job at Walmart paying $7 hr because he can’t get a $20hr job in construction that an Illegal Alien took for $6.50 hr then that pushes everyones wages down …
That Citizen cant afford to buy a new car.. cant afford a house… cant afford to go out to eat.. cant afford to bring up a family…
60 Million people work in the Retail Industry
If Illegal aliens were not a strong influence on wages
those people could get a decent wage because other people would have jobs in construction and restaurant and hospitality that pay better.
If even half or 25% of the illegal Aliens in our country left because we made it impossible for them to get work the rest of us would feel it in our paychecks.
We wouldn’t be so disposable to our employers and we could ask for reasonable pay for the work we do including free health care if we work 40hrs a week
This is a huge issue that is much deeper then just a few people coming here to pick oranges.
Huckabee, Clinton, Obamma, McCain all are Pro Amnesty and willing to give our tax dollars to illegal aliens in the form of college tuitions and health care.
Vote for an Honest person
Vote for Mit Romney he is the only one that will address this issue
I do not work for Mit Romney or any political group and I have not given him one penny
Romney is leading not only in Massachusettes, but in Colorado, Alaska, Montana, Utah, West Virginia, AND THE TWO NEWEST POLLS IN CALIFORNIA HAVE HIM LEADING THERE AS WELL!!!
THE RALLY TO ROMNEY IS HAPPENING!!!!
ALL THE WAY WITH MITT ROMNEY!!! MITT ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT!!!
UMM MCCAIN CAN FORGET IL. IM NOT SURE WHAT POLL OR SMOKE YOU PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TAKEING…..
Let’s examine some of the top issues among the two leading Republican candidates:
Bush Tax Cuts – McCain voted against them twice on liberal class warfare arguments that they gave too much to the rich. He has since lied that his opposition was tied to spending concerns. McCain can’t be trusted on tax cuts. Romney will never make this same argument.
Decision: Romney
Earmark Reform and Spending: BOTH Romney and McCain support vetoing bills with ear-marks. McCain can point to a few he’s killed, but in 24 years in the Senate he hasn’t done much to improve the overall situation. Romney, on the other hand, has *proven* an ability to balance a budget–including the one with a $3B gap in MA. Romney has already put out his position regarding holding non-defense spending at inflation less 1%. Further, he has astutely pointed out that the bigger problem is not the pork-barrel spending but the mess known as entitlement spending.
Decision: Romney, but McCain does get points for expressing strong opposition to pork-barrel spending
Judges: Despite his recent pledge to appoint Conservative judges, McCain has ridiculed Roberts for “wearing his Conservatism on his sleeve” and continues to love Sandra Day O’Connor. Romney is no fan of O’Connor and has expressed strong support for Alito and Roberts.
Decision: Romney
Trade and the Economy: McCain doesn’t hold a candle to Romney when it comes to understanding economics. He’s even admitted multiple times he doesn’t know much about economics. He’s never managed anything. In stark contrast, Romney has a stellar career of accomplishments.
Decision: Romney
Healthcare: McCain doesn’t hold a candle to Romney when it comes to understanding healthcare. I don’t know that I’ve ever even heard him utter the words. Romney is the only candidate of either party that has actually tackled this problem. Considering the Democrats have made this one of their leading issues, doesn’t it make sense to put up a candidate that can take this issue away. They can speculate all they want. Romney has already done it. Decision:
Romney
National Security: McCain clearly has military experience that Romney does not. He also has more experience with foreign policy. True. Romney, on the other hand, has much better temperament and has shown outstanding decision making ability throughout his career. Further, many have suggested he understands the current struggle against radical jihadists much better than most politicians. It’s no secret the Democrats will try to hang McCain with the war. Their base is extremely opposed and after Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld McCain is the highest profile poster child for the war.
Decision: Split, but leans toward Romney once you take it to the national election.
On six of the top seven issues, Romney is clearly more qualified than McCain and the seventh is even a toss-up.
Mitt Romney – a PROVEN LEADER with the EXPERIENCE to tackle and solve the problems Washington has left undone.
Check out this NEWSWEEK article about McCain: http://www.newsweek.com/id/107581
How can anyone read this article and feel good about John McCain as president? He doesn’t like CRITICISM? What the HECK is he running for president for? There’s probably NO ONE in the world who attracts more criticism than the President of the US.
Do we want a president who’s going to look for revenge against every person, in and outside the US, who offends his “honor”? That’s FRIGHTENING!!
Let me just grab a few quotes from this article and you tell me if this is a man you really want running our country…
“…he can seem prickly, impetuous, vindictive—the sort of military martinet whose finger is supposed to be kept far from the button.”
“There are a number of U.S. senators who can attest to McCain’s repentance with handwritten apologies for his intemperance.”
NOTE: I’m sure a handwritten note of apology after a yelling, profanity-filled rant, to Putin or Almadinejad or al-Maliki will do wonders for US relations.
“As an angry toddler, he would hold his breath until he passed out (his parents’ cure was to drop him fully clothed into a bathtub of icy water).”
NOTE: So, this behavior is ingrained from birth.
“At Annapolis, he was, he writes, “a slob.” He looked for authorities to subvert, settling on a bullying, second-year midshipman he and his friends dubbed “Sh–––y Witty the Middy,” and making life miserable for a by-the-book captain who was supposed to discipline him.”
“…he was at best an average pilot, a daredevil, “kick-the-tires and light-the-fire” type who sacrificed careful preparation for more time at the O Club bar.”
“He writes that he should have jinked to evade the missile, but out of stubbornness, or a mad kind of bravery, he flew straight on and toggled the bomb switch—just as the missile blew off the right wing of his plane.”
NOTE: Think of the power the President holds. Do we want this kind of “stubborness”?
“…a number of senators and former lawmakers are still licking their wounds from run-ins with McCain.”
“”It’s sad, really,” says former senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire. “John McCain can tell a good joke and we can laugh, and I’ve had my share of good times with him.” That is the side of McCain, says Smith, that the press sees. But behind the scenes lurks a less amiable McCain. “You can disagree without being disagreeable,” says Smith. “And I don’t think John is able to do that. If he disagrees with you, he does it in a way that is disagreeable.”"
“The lore of “Senator Hothead,” as McCain has been dubbed over the years, is considerable. McCain is widely reported to have yelled profanities at senators and even shoved one or two (including the late Strom Thurmond, a feisty nonagenarian at the time of the alleged incident). After McCain used an obscenity to describe Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa to his face in 1992, Grassley did not speak to McCain for more than a year.”
“McCain snapped, “This is chickens–––.” Cornyn shot back that McCain shouldn’t come parachuting in off the presidential-campaign trail at the last minute and start making demands. “F––– you,” said McCain, in front of about 30 witnesses.”
“”I was surprised to find so many senators who’d had a personal experience when he’d lost his temper,” says Cochran. ”
“”I certainly know no other president since I’ve been here who’s had a temperament like that. There’s some who were capable of getting angry, of course. Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter both. But this …” His voice trailed away. “You like to think your president would be cool, calm and collected. He’s commander in chief.”"
“”McCain reacts poorly when criticized,” says Norquist. “When the NRA and the right-to-life and right-to-work groups criticized him, he reacted like they were personal attacks, and then he supported some gun-control legislation to get back at the NRA.”"
“McCain wound up in the office of the then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, yelling at the top of his lungs, say a Pentagon official and an adviser to Rumsfeld who declined to be identified”
“McCain may have a bit of a vindictive streak. “John has an enemies list longer than Nixon’s,” says a former Pentagon official who did not want to get on it. “And, unlike Nixon, McCain really does try to get you.”"
“[McCain] snapped, “Don’t try to change my mind,” says a former aide who wished to avoid McCain’s wrath by remaining anonymous.”
“McCain’s leadership skills are called into question by the near meltdown of his campaign. “Nobody knew who the boss was,” says one of McCain’s longtime friends and advisers”
I TELL YOU… THE MAN DESCRIBED IN THIS ARTICLE SCARES ME!
GOVERNOR ROMNEY IS THE true republican conservative. We are voting for Gov. Romney and will continue to support him regardless.
ROMNEY IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE
CHRISTIANS/EVANGELICALS DON’T VOTE FOR ROMNEY
GOD IS GOING TO BE ANGRY !!!!
Please Read;
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=60022
“Mitt Romney pushed through same-sex marriage all by himself, in the absence of any authority or requirement to do so, having a complete misunderstanding of his role as governor and of the significance of the court’s opinion,” said Keyes.
“The court never ordered him to act, nor did he have the right to act, since the legislature never changed the law. Romney claimed he had no other choice, but that’s completely untrue.”
Romney said;
“I promised that if elected, I’d call a truce – a moratorium, if you will…I vowed to veto any legislation that sought to change the existing rules…I fully respect and will fully protect a woman’s right to choose.”
(Taken fromm http://www.perrspectives.com).
Romney is toast after Super Tuesday, order your flowers for the grave now and beat the Rush.
I will note and admitt that at the beginning of this race Huckabee was my guy, however, I have come to realize that as he “comes out a preacher” “he is a true politition with an arrogance of religion on his sleeve”. I resent that. because I don’t believe he is being honest. I don’t think his power-hungry ambitions qualify’s him to be my President.
I could never trust McCain! I have watched his Liberal actions for years under the disguise of calling himself a republican…he is a Liberal democrat in disguise – I think John is a reptile of anger, born out of losing the election to a ‘republican-Bush- last time and his bitterness and arrogant determination to win, shows in his every speech.
On the other hand, I applaud Mitt Romney who has more professionally on his sleeve than Huckabee and McCain have in both their body’s combined. Mitt is not wanting to be president for the money and power…he is so Reagan like in his appeal and desire to make this wonderful country of ours prosper. When Mitt speaks, he gives me the feeling that there is hope for prosperity, without government oppression. He has compassion for the unfortunate in helping them get an education, not just throwing money at the problem. And, at the same time, stablize the economy with job opportunities. I believe him when he says he will keep taxes down. I also believe he will keep this country safe. A conservative at heart – Carol Kukes
GREAT ROMNEY FACTS:
“Romney ran against Senator Edward M. Kennedy in 1994. During a debate, Romney declared: ‘I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a US Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.’ ”
(NOTE: Romney has supported abortion since before the 1972 Roe v. Wade ruling!)
- Boston Globe, 3/2/2006
Romney campaigned for Governor of Massachusetts as a pro-choice candidate, and was endorsed by a pro-abortion political group
In 2002, Romney responded to the National Abortion Rights Action League’s candidate survey: ”I respect and will protect a woman’s right to choose. This choice is a deeply personal one. Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not mine and not the government’s. The truth is, no candidate in the governor’s race in either party would deny women abortion rights.” Notably, Romney refused to answer the candidate questionnaire sent to him by Massachusetts Citizens for Life.
- Boston Globe, 7/3/2005 During the 2002 governor’s race, Romney’s platform stated, “As Governor, Mitt Romney would protect the current pro-choice status quo in Massachusetts. No law would change. The choice to have an abortion is a deeply personal one. Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not the government’s.”
- Romney’s 2002 campaign website
In February 2005, The American Spectator observed of Romney, “He is pro-choice and, aside from the marriage debate, generally in agreement with gay-rights advocates.”
- American Spectator, 2/23/2005
In March, 2005, Boston’s leading homosexual newspaper, Bay Windows, told its readers that Romney’s pro-gay record belies his new-found “conservatism”:
“Governor Romney has been touring the country in the past few weeks, courting anti-gay right-wingers in South Carolina, Missouri, and Utah with speeches designed to show that he is firmly in their camp. Yet a look at Romney’s record shows that his Rick Santorum drag act is a relatively new phenomenon.”
- Bay Windows, 3/3/2005
Romney twice sought and received the endorsement of the homosexual Log Cabin Republican Club
Both times Romney ran for public office – in 1994 running for US Senate against Ted Kennedy and in 2002 running for Governor of Massachusetts – he sought and received the formal endorsement of the Log Cabin Republican (LCR) Club PAC. This is the same group that in 2004 spent $1 million nationally in key swing states on TV ads that attacked President Bush for supporting a federal Marriage Protection Amendment.
In his 1994 US Senate campaign, Romney actually competed with his Republican primary opponent, John Lakian, for the Log Cabin Club’s endorsement! Here’s how Bay Windows described it:
But what struck the gay GOP during that campaign, according to Massachusetts Log Cabin Republicans (LCR), was Romney’s accessibility to and comfort within the local gay community. Romney and his Republican primary opponent, John Lakian, attended an LCR-sponsored candidate’s forum during the campaign, where they both competitively vied for the organization’s endorsement — which Romney eventually won. During the course of his campaign, LCR member and former president Mark Goshko told Bay Windows, Romney held several meetings with group members and at least two LCR members joined his staff. Though gay Republicans were by no means running Romney’s campaign, “it was really a multi-level involvement,” Goshko stated. “Our people were very involved officially and outside of [the campaign].”
- Bay Windows, 3/28/2002
“In seeking the support of the Log Cabin Republican Club, Romney wrote them a letter promising that ‘as we seek to establish full equality for America’s gay and lesbian citizens, I will provide more effective leadership than my opponent.’ ” [His opponent at the time was Sen. Ted Kennedy, perhaps the foremost advocate of homosexual rights in the U.S. Senate.]
- Boston Globe, 10/17/1994
Read Romney’s letter to Log Cabin Club (Adobe Acrobat format)
And in the 2002 gubernatorial race, Romney was again courting the homosexual community:
“It’s 9:15 a.m. and Republican gubernatorial nominee Mitt Romney is in good spirits. He’s just wrapped up a meeting with the Massachusetts Log Cabin Republicans at Mario’s restaurant in Boston, where he won his first endorsement from a gay organization . . . According to Mark Goshko, a former LCR president, the group’s 15-member board of governors, the body that votes to endorse candidates, made the unanimous decision after meeting with the Romney campaign and holding extensive discussions.”
- Bay Windows, 10/24/2002
Romney’s campaign distributed pro-gay rights campaign literature during Boston’s “Gay Pride” events
The annual “Gay Pride” events in Boston, as in other cities across the country, regularly feature obscene and degrading floats, handouts, and activities:
“During his 2002 gubernatorial run his campaign distributed bright pink flyers during Pride that declared ‘Mitt and Kerry [running mate Kerry Healey] wish you a great Pride weekend! All citizens deserve equal rights, regardless of their sexual preference.’ Romney also argued that he would not only support gay friendly policies but would fight on behalf of the gay community to secure benefits such as domestic partner benefits and hospital visitation rights for same-sex couples.”
- Bay Windows 3/3/2005
Romney did not contibute to his own campaign, he loaned his campaign $35 million. He plans to get it all back from the poor saps that actually contributed. Now, that’s a real businessman!
Dole on HC tonight was sad. What another last minute tricky stunt prior to elections next day, albiet not outright lie like FL McCain stunt……………..Its no accident that McCain people got ahold of any released a letter to Rush from Bobby Dole (Dole’s claim not sure how they got it…is lame)…………..I wish Hannity would have questioned Dole a bit more……………….BECAUSE, for true sake of disclosure Bob and Liddy Dole are good friends with the McCains. Also if Bob were up front, his wife Liddy is on McCain’s VP list.
So Bob the unifier-peacemaker……………or Bob I need to get my wife a job.
Mitt/Newt 2008
McCain is liberal who is now playing a conservative. He is deceitful and dangerous!
Carl,
I decided to listen to CNN to see what they were saying about McCain and Romney. I understand that the number of Delegates is what matters. CNN said that McCain had 97 Delegates and Romney has 92. How come Fox News said that McCain has 93 Delegates and Romney only 77.
That is a big difference! How come? I used to listen to Fox News 99% of the time. Guess what, now I am concerned as to whether I am getting information that is correct? I can’t believe that I trusted Fox News so much. I guess that I have been naive. But now I know better! I am going to listen to Rush. Again, if McCain wins, it will be the first time since the 1960’s that I will not vote. There is not much difference between Hillary, the Democrat and John McCain, the Republican who turned Democrat. He was thinking about being the running mate for John Kerry. He votes with Kennedy, Lieberman, etc. I also remember that he was one of the Keating Five. He will stifle free speech with McCain Finegold. He will give illegals amnesty (McCain/Kennedy). He will not vote for the overturn of Roe vs. Wade. He is for embryonic research. Tell me what is conservative about that? I could go on and on, but I’m not. I hope and pray that Our Lord helps us and answers our prayers for someone who will protect our Constitution and our culture. That is not John McCain.
Carol
Carl, one thing that never comes out. I live in South Carolina now, but I lived in Texas for ten years. While there, their were numerous articles in the paper about how disgusted the congress, and the politicians from Texas were disgusted with Ron Paul. He would vote NO against his party, the Democrats, anybody. Sometimes the vote would have only ONE no vote. It would be Paul. He did not care, he just wanted to throw a wrench in to government. I see people putting up his signs, getting on talk shows, from other states who do not know the true character of this man. He would not vote “Yes” to save his own mother from the gas chamber.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jk6IJS3QN34
HAVE YOU ALL SEEN THIS says its from FROM FOX 27 NEWS.. I think colorado
Romney telephone ad made news becouse
Romney is back to dirty tricks again… Link Is above.
I WON’T VOTE ROMNEY FOR DOG CATCHER…
Republican version of “slick willie”
MCCAIN FACTS:
McCain looms as no lover of Christians. Recall his comments about key religious leaders in 2000, calling them “agents of intolerance.” And McCain’s vitriolic vilification of Christians was not limited to a single occurrence, for he later said, “I must not and will not retract anything that I said in that speech at Virginia Beach. It was carefully crafted, it was carefully thought out.” (Hardball, 3/1/00). More recently, however, McCain, positioning himself for 2008, has repackaged himself as pro-Christian, lauding key religious leaders and duping the devout. (Is this not as reptilian as Bill Clinton’s waffling?)
Second, on the issue of gay marriage, in 2005 McCain opposed a federal gay-marriage ban (Los Angeles Times, 1/25/ and 3/8). Now, however, likely realizing that most Americans think otherwise, McCain says he supports a gay-marriage ban (Meet the Press, 4/2/06). Which is it? Given his penchant for progressive politics, we can only assume the former.
Then, regarding abortion, McCain most certainly is pro-choice. In the San Francisco Chronicle (8/20/99) McCain sided with the pro-abortion camp, suggesting that overturning Roe v. Wade would lead to illegal abortions. Realizing, however, that he could not inveigle the GOP nomination with such views, McCain more recently has resold himself as pro-life, even saying he would support the South Dakota ban on abortions. What are Americans to believe? He either is pro-choice or lacks any real conviction on the subject.
Furthermore, regarding campaign-finance reform, the McCain-Feingold Campaign Reform Act is perhaps one of the more left-wing acts of Congress in the past twenty years. As recently exposed by Brian C. Anderson, “The Plot to Shush Rush and O’Reilly” in City Journal, McCain-Feingold (which passed with overwhelming Democrat support) is a convenient contrivance to silence conservatives. As noted by a whole host of commentators (George Will, Jonathan Rauch, and even Justice Clarence Thomas), this act poses blatant restrictions on political speech. It especially affects AM Radio and political internet blogs — the only two spheres of popular media where conservatives can truly compete. Critics remain divided why McCain supported a dictate so damaging to conservatives. Was it perhaps so that he could silence many on the Right whom he laconically loathes?
Last, but not least, McCain’s liberal tendencies show in the immigration debate. McCain has proven to be farther Left on the immigration issue than even many Liberals. At the very basis of most conservative thought is the idea of law and order, which are essential for the continuity of society. Bypassing tradition and sanity, and slapping in the face those who have come here legally, McCain has sought to sweep aside law and order to engage in the unbecoming business of pandering to ethnicities. (Isn’t this the dominion of Democrats?) McCain’s radical views on immigration threaten numerous components of the wellbeing of the United States and, more generally, Western Civilization: national security, standards of living, and cultural homogeneity, to name a few. McCain has courted the cheap-labor lobby for some fast cash for 2008 and now attempts to convert the U.S. into a third-world country.
McCain’s liberal laundry list goes on and on. Senator Lindsey Graham, another liberal in disguise, comments correctly that the present is a defining moment for the Republican Party, although his underlying analysis is wrong. The choice is between a party of McCain’s vision, a party indistinguishable from the Democratic Party, or a party that at least maintains a modicum of conservatism. If McCain loses, hopefully he will depart for the Democratic Party (where he belongs); but if he wins, expect to see a mass exodus of conservative voters from the GOP, probably over to a third party.
ROMNEY FACTS:
“Romney ran against Senator Edward M. Kennedy in 1994. During a debate, Romney declared: ‘I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a US Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.’ ”
(NOTE: Romney has supported abortion since before the 1972 Roe v. Wade ruling!)
- Boston Globe, 3/2/2006
Romney campaigned for Governor of Massachusetts as a pro-choice candidate, and was endorsed by a pro-abortion political group
In 2002, Romney responded to the National Abortion Rights Action League’s candidate survey: ”I respect and will protect a woman’s right to choose. This choice is a deeply personal one. Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not mine and not the government’s. The truth is, no candidate in the governor’s race in either party would deny women abortion rights.” Notably, Romney refused to answer the candidate questionnaire sent to him by Massachusetts Citizens for Life.
- Boston Globe, 7/3/2005 During the 2002 governor’s race, Romney’s platform stated, “As Governor, Mitt Romney would protect the current pro-choice status quo in Massachusetts. No law would change. The choice to have an abortion is a deeply personal one. Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not the government’s.”
- Romney’s 2002 campaign website
In February 2005, The American Spectator observed of Romney, “He is pro-choice and, aside from the marriage debate, generally in agreement with gay-rights advocates.”
- American Spectator, 2/23/2005
In March, 2005, Boston’s leading homosexual newspaper, Bay Windows, told its readers that Romney’s pro-gay record belies his new-found “conservatism”:
“Governor Romney has been touring the country in the past few weeks, courting anti-gay right-wingers in South Carolina, Missouri, and Utah with speeches designed to show that he is firmly in their camp. Yet a look at Romney’s record shows that his Rick Santorum drag act is a relatively new phenomenon.”
- Bay Windows, 3/3/2005
Romney twice sought and received the endorsement of the homosexual Log Cabin Republican Club
Both times Romney ran for public office – in 1994 running for US Senate against Ted Kennedy and in 2002 running for Governor of Massachusetts – he sought and received the formal endorsement of the Log Cabin Republican (LCR) Club PAC. This is the same group that in 2004 spent $1 million nationally in key swing states on TV ads that attacked President Bush for supporting a federal Marriage Protection Amendment.
In his 1994 US Senate campaign, Romney actually competed with his Republican primary opponent, John Lakian, for the Log Cabin Club’s endorsement! Here’s how Bay Windows described it:
But what struck the gay GOP during that campaign, according to Massachusetts Log Cabin Republicans (LCR), was Romney’s accessibility to and comfort within the local gay community. Romney and his Republican primary opponent, John Lakian, attended an LCR-sponsored candidate’s forum during the campaign, where they both competitively vied for the organization’s endorsement — which Romney eventually won. During the course of his campaign, LCR member and former president Mark Goshko told Bay Windows, Romney held several meetings with group members and at least two LCR members joined his staff. Though gay Republicans were by no means running Romney’s campaign, “it was really a multi-level involvement,” Goshko stated. “Our people were very involved officially and outside of [the campaign].”
- Bay Windows, 3/28/2002
“In seeking the support of the Log Cabin Republican Club, Romney wrote them a letter promising that ‘as we seek to establish full equality for America’s gay and lesbian citizens, I will provide more effective leadership than my opponent.’ ” [His opponent at the time was Sen. Ted Kennedy, perhaps the foremost advocate of homosexual rights in the U.S. Senate.]
- Boston Globe, 10/17/1994
Read Romney’s letter to Log Cabin Club (Adobe Acrobat format)
And in the 2002 gubernatorial race, Romney was again courting the homosexual community:
“It’s 9:15 a.m. and Republican gubernatorial nominee Mitt Romney is in good spirits. He’s just wrapped up a meeting with the Massachusetts Log Cabin Republicans at Mario’s restaurant in Boston, where he won his first endorsement from a gay organization . . . According to Mark Goshko, a former LCR president, the group’s 15-member board of governors, the body that votes to endorse candidates, made the unanimous decision after meeting with the Romney campaign and holding extensive discussions.”
- Bay Windows, 10/24/2002
Romney’s campaign distributed pro-gay rights campaign literature during Boston’s “Gay Pride” events
The annual “Gay Pride” events in Boston, as in other cities across the country, regularly feature obscene and degrading floats, handouts, and activities:
“During his 2002 gubernatorial run his campaign distributed bright pink flyers during Pride that declared ‘Mitt and Kerry [running mate Kerry Healey] wish you a great Pride weekend! All citizens deserve equal rights, regardless of their sexual preference.’ Romney also argued that he would not only support gay friendly policies but would fight on behalf of the gay community to secure benefits such as domestic partner benefits and hospital visitation rights for same-sex couples.”
- Bay Windows 3/3/2005
Comment by pop
February 5th, 2008 at 7:15 am
Is it just just me or did the civil war end 150 YEARS ago! Huck IF YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT YOU MUST COMPETE( make you mark) IN STATES THAT ARE NOT EVANGELICAL ALSO!! (cali.. new york, ect.)
(1.)YOU are president of the U.S.A not the southern states(you ( you blew your chances in SC). You have the west, the north, the mid west etc.. Geography. 101 (yes mitt worked huckabee in flordia in a southern state!)
now for the math lesson. 101 (see directions below for application)
(2.) Huck wants to be the nominee right? What is the world is he ONLY attacking Romney. according to. http://www.realclearpolitics.com mCLiar is 18.3 % ahead EVERYONE! He should be challenging the record of mcLiar. A 1st grader can figure this formula out. SIMPLE addition!
SO BOW OUT OR ACUTALLY BECOME A REAL CANIDATE NOT MCLAIPS LAP DOG!
peace out and happy voting.
SOME GREAT ROMNEY FACTS TO CONSIDER WHEN DECIDING WHO TO VOTE FOR:
“Romney ran against Senator Edward M. Kennedy in 1994. During a debate, Romney declared: ‘I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country. I have since the time that my mom took that position when she ran in 1970 as a US Senate candidate. I believe that since Roe v. Wade has been the law for 20 years we should sustain and support it.’ ”
(NOTE: Romney has supported abortion since before the 1972 Roe v. Wade ruling!)
- Boston Globe, 3/2/2006
Romney campaigned for Governor of Massachusetts as a pro-choice candidate, and was endorsed by a pro-abortion political group
In 2002, Romney responded to the National Abortion Rights Action League’s candidate survey: ”I respect and will protect a woman’s right to choose. This choice is a deeply personal one. Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not mine and not the government’s. The truth is, no candidate in the governor’s race in either party would deny women abortion rights.” Notably, Romney refused to answer the candidate questionnaire sent to him by Massachusetts Citizens for Life.
- Boston Globe, 7/3/2005 During the 2002 governor’s race, Romney’s platform stated, “As Governor, Mitt Romney would protect the current pro-choice status quo in Massachusetts. No law would change. The choice to have an abortion is a deeply personal one. Women should be free to choose based on their own beliefs, not the government’s.”
- Romney’s 2002 campaign website
In February 2005, The American Spectator observed of Romney, “He is pro-choice and, aside from the marriage debate, generally in agreement with gay-rights advocates.”
- American Spectator, 2/23/2005
In March, 2005, Boston’s leading homosexual newspaper, Bay Windows, told its readers that Romney’s pro-gay record belies his new-found “conservatism”:
“Governor Romney has been touring the country in the past few weeks, courting anti-gay right-wingers in South Carolina, Missouri, and Utah with speeches designed to show that he is firmly in their camp. Yet a look at Romney’s record shows that his Rick Santorum drag act is a relatively new phenomenon.”
- Bay Windows, 3/3/2005
Romney twice sought and received the endorsement of the homosexual Log Cabin Republican Club
Both times Romney ran for public office – in 1994 running for US Senate against Ted Kennedy and in 2002 running for Governor of Massachusetts – he sought and received the formal endorsement of the Log Cabin Republican (LCR) Club PAC. This is the same group that in 2004 spent $1 million nationally in key swing states on TV ads that attacked President Bush for supporting a federal Marriage Protection Amendment.
In his 1994 US Senate campaign, Romney actually competed with his Republican primary opponent, John Lakian, for the Log Cabin Club’s endorsement! Here’s how Bay Windows described it:
But what struck the gay GOP during that campaign, according to Massachusetts Log Cabin Republicans (LCR), was Romney’s accessibility to and comfort within the local gay community. Romney and his Republican primary opponent, John Lakian, attended an LCR-sponsored candidate’s forum during the campaign, where they both competitively vied for the organization’s endorsement — which Romney eventually won. During the course of his campaign, LCR member and former president Mark Goshko told Bay Windows, Romney held several meetings with group members and at least two LCR members joined his staff. Though gay Republicans were by no means running Romney’s campaign, “it was really a multi-level involvement,” Goshko stated. “Our people were very involved officially and outside of [the campaign].”
- Bay Windows, 3/28/2002
“In seeking the support of the Log Cabin Republican Club, Romney wrote them a letter promising that ‘as we seek to establish full equality for America’s gay and lesbian citizens, I will provide more effective leadership than my opponent.’ ” [His opponent at the time was Sen. Ted Kennedy, perhaps the foremost advocate of homosexual rights in the U.S. Senate.]
- Boston Globe, 10/17/1994
Read Romney’s letter to Log Cabin Club (Adobe Acrobat format)
And in the 2002 gubernatorial race, Romney was again courting the homosexual community:
“It’s 9:15 a.m. and Republican gubernatorial nominee Mitt Romney is in good spirits. He’s just wrapped up a meeting with the Massachusetts Log Cabin Republicans at Mario’s restaurant in Boston, where he won his first endorsement from a gay organization . . . According to Mark Goshko, a former LCR president, the group’s 15-member board of governors, the body that votes to endorse candidates, made the unanimous decision after meeting with the Romney campaign and holding extensive discussions.”
- Bay Windows, 10/24/2002
Romney’s campaign distributed pro-gay rights campaign literature during Boston’s “Gay Pride” events
The annual “Gay Pride” events in Boston, as in other cities across the country, regularly feature obscene and degrading floats, handouts, and activities:
“During his 2002 gubernatorial run his campaign distributed bright pink flyers during Pride that declared ‘Mitt and Kerry [running mate Kerry Healey] wish you a great Pride weekend! All citizens deserve equal rights, regardless of their sexual preference.’ Romney also argued that he would not only support gay friendly policies but would fight on behalf of the gay community to secure benefits such as domestic partner benefits and hospital visitation rights for same-sex couples.”
- Bay Windows 3/3/2005
Just wanted to say that I liked the way Jeremiah Grant defined his views. Also, will read NEWSWEEK’s article because of Keith.
As for me, I started out in the Republican surveys column headed “Anyone but Hillary”, so all the thoughtful comments and information about the candidates are/have been helpful in choosing. Thanks to FOX and all of you.
“Winner Take All” states needs tobe challenged in the Supreme Court. The vast majority of Americans are missing the point if they think we live in a Democracy where the majority rules with out reguard for the minority. Per the Constitution of the United States of America, we live in and have a “Republican Form of Government.” That means that the people in district 23 can not tell the people in district 27 how to vote or who to elect. But, mathematically speaking, in the “Winner Take All” states the 50.1% have the right to tell 49.9% that their vote did not count. We are playing with fire when we stop counting someone’s vote in the total.
It seems like we don’t get much of a choice anymore…
There is potential for serious voter fraud in places like California. In CA. voting polls are not suppose to ask for the voters ID. For example if a caregivers client they are caring for is not going to the polls to vote they can just show up and vote for who they want under the name of the person they are working for. There are many simular situations like this where unregistered or illegals may vote. This is wrong and alarming. As long as the registered voter doesnt show up, anyone can pose as that person with no proof of proper ID. This is potential for one person to vote twice if they are registered also.
Mark
Stop posting your preposterous half truths again and again! You are a jerk! Romney is the man on economic issues. He knows how to create jobs for America, is strong on immigration, defense and family issue.
Look at his family. By their fruits you shall know them. All 5 sons are married. All professionals working hard in difficult careers to build their own futures when dad could hand them everything. The youngest is the only exception and he is in med school.
Ingrid
A vote for RINO (Republican In Name Only) John McCain is a vote for the following:
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: he wrote the bill granting amnesty to illegal immigrants (co-sponsored by Ted Kennedy).
SOCIAL SECURITY: he voted to give your social security money to illegal immigrants.
TAXES: he voted against the Bush tax cuts multiple times (he has since flip-flopped and has campaigned as a lifelong tax-cutter).
RHETORIC: he routinely engages in Democratic class warfare against big companies in America, particularly the “evil” drug companies who research cures to debilitating diseases for a profit.
ECONOMY: as recently as December 2007 he admitted “he does not know the economy very well” and needed to get better at it.
1ST AMENDMENT: he wrote the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that was declared to be an unconstitutional infringement of the 1st Amendment (co-sponsored by ultra-liberal Democrat Russ Feingold).
2ND AMENDMENT: he was called the “worst 2nd amendment candidate” by the president of the NRA.
ENERGY TAX: wrote a bill (co-sponsored by his buddy Lieberman) imposing a massive tax on energy which, according to the Department of Energy, would drastically raise the price of gasoline and put 300,000 Americans out of work.
GLOBAL WARMING: supports radical global warming legislation which involved him voting with every Democrat; think only America is responsible to take action, not other superpowers.
JUDGES: he joined forces with Democrats (Gang of 14) to block the Senate Republican’s attempt to confirm conservative, strict constructionist judges; also said Alito was too conservative for his liking.
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If McCain wins his first directive will probably be to have the new Commander in Chief uniform made. Then he can show off his war medals and act like the inner Joseph Stalin that I hear everytime he opens his mouth.
The next directive will be the Department of Homeland Security is going to pull trucks into every neighborhood and kick in doors to see who is harboring Mexicans……..oh boy that will be fun.
BTW Homeland Security was also the same name that created the SS in Nazi Germany. The actual speech was almost word for word what GW Bush said when he announced it, same speech recycled…….God help us.
Don’t get me wrong it’s not much better on the Socialist front, oops I mean democrat side. If they win won’t be long until we reach in ourt pocket and pull out the Amero that will replace the dollar.
I find it interesting that the only one who gives the people the chance to have the Constitution restored is coming in dead last. Oh well……..we get what we deserve.
“Those that give up their freedoms for the sake of security deserve neither”
LOL WHEN WILL WE STOP GIVING POLLS ANY VALIDITY??
Polls are the attempt of the media to persuede only
I have a great campaign slogan for Huckabee’s campaign. “Dead Campain Walking”. I am glad that the Huckster is willing to sap the finances out of all those willing to suspend reality and vote for him.
When Huck losses, McCain laughs at him for being a loser, and then dumps him on the side of the political road, maybe reality will finally set in. Go Huck!
He seems like a nice guy, would probably make a good brother-in law, but President? That’s a stretch.
http://www.fightagainstmccain.com/