TONIGHT: FLORIDA GOP PRIMARY
Here we go folks….. feel free to comment as results come in.
As FOX News’ Special Report comes on the air, the exit poll trends are suggesting a very close race…. with McCain leading in some issue groups/demographics & Romney leading in others. Most important, Romney appears to have won over conservative Republicans by 47%, according to FOX News exit poll data.
It is probably do or die for Rudy tonight…. and so far it looks grim.
In any case, I think this is going to be a nail-biter tonight between Romney and McCain.
-Bruce (GayPatriot…. actually IN Florida with a horrible sinus infection)
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Rudy is a good man. But as Fred 08 proved you gotta compete. I want to derail the McCain train as soon as possible. Fla could do it. Who would have imagined the Repubs would be all wrapped up long and I mean long before the Democrats. You got to love how Obama and Hillary are splitting apart all the old line, leftists in their party.
My anti McCain reasons….
1. Amnesty for illegals
2. McCain Feingold anti free speach legislation
3.He was against W’s tax cuts for tax payers
4. He comtemplated being Kerry’s VP
5. McCain was ripping the Sec Def in the middle of a war
6. Organized the gang of 14 which prevented the nuclear option. So Republicans couldn’t abide by the Constitutional 51 votes for approval for judges.
7. He was Chris Matthews favorite guest for years during W’s first term. Almost becoming co host. Because he took smug digs at Republicans.
How’s that working out for you Sen McCain?
8. He is the MSM favorite Republican. Why is that?
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 29, 2008 @ 6:38 pm - January 29, 2008
I voted.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — January 29, 2008 @ 7:24 pm - January 29, 2008
BTW, I’d be curious to know how many liberal snow birds voted here.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — January 29, 2008 @ 7:25 pm - January 29, 2008
Rooting for Rudy – will settle for Romney.
Comment by Robert — January 29, 2008 @ 7:27 pm - January 29, 2008
In the absense of a Fred Thompson write in victory, I will hope for a Romney win.
Comment by wyocwby — January 29, 2008 @ 7:42 pm - January 29, 2008
I heard a commentator describe why the other Republican candidates give Mitt Romney the cold shoulder. They let it be known that none of them really like Mitt. The reasons not necessarily in order:
1. He’s rich and hasn’t had to fight and battle for a career or a living.
2. He’s young and good looking.
3. He was Governor of Mass and still runs for the Republican nomination.
4. He is still married to his first wife.
5. His children all support him for President
6. He has great hair and lots of it…which may be the biggest reason for the deep dislike amongst this group!
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 29, 2008 @ 8:14 pm - January 29, 2008
Since Hillary is still the favorite in the Democratic Party, unless that script gets torn up between now and next Tuesday, I’m ready to project:
John Sidney McCain III, 44th President of the United States.
So, liberals and conservatives alike, we all get to be disappointed. Perhaps that’s how McCain will unite the country. LOL
Comment by Chase — January 29, 2008 @ 8:28 pm - January 29, 2008
#5
Yeah Thompson was still on the ballot. I thought for a moment about shading in the circle next to his name.
#7
Since Hillary is still the favorite in the Democratic Party,
Why not? She’s shown what racist bigots liberals can be. It’s refreshing to see liberals actually being who they are instead of pretending to be what they aren’t.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — January 29, 2008 @ 8:40 pm - January 29, 2008
#7 Chase, if you are right and McCain is our next President, I was thinking that Adm James Stockton might be his most appropriate VP. But I remember he passed away recently at the age of 82.
Just heard Hillary screech that she “won” the faux Democrat primary in Fla. Is she left with claiming victory in fake voting? In places where Obama isn’t allowed to campaign.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 29, 2008 @ 9:05 pm - January 29, 2008
Bob Dole was just declared the victor in FLA. Anyone remember the margin of the last Bob Dole/Clinton contest in ’96?
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 29, 2008 @ 9:44 pm - January 29, 2008
What’s this that Rudy’s going to endorse McCain tomorrow?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — January 29, 2008 @ 10:20 pm - January 29, 2008
Sucks huh.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 29, 2008 @ 10:25 pm - January 29, 2008
McCain?
Thankfully, I just had a case of vodka and a case of gin delivered: It’s going to be a long 7 days until super Tuesday…
Comment by Vera Charles — January 29, 2008 @ 10:25 pm - January 29, 2008
Drudge is reporting McCain’s win was due to the elderly and moderates. Joy.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 29, 2008 @ 10:46 pm - January 29, 2008
There’s a sort of macabre humor to that, lol.
Big difference. This time the Clinton’s will have to run a one on one race, something they’ve never done nationally. Bloomberg won’t get in if it’s McCain and Clinton, because his candidacy would need two polarizing figures for him to have a chance to stake claim to the middle ground. A Bloomberg candidacy was only likely if it were Clinton v. Romney or Huckabee.
I think Clinton’s chances of beating McCain are no better than 1 in 4. What state would Hillary carry that Kerry didn’t? Certainly not Iowa, they’ve never elected a woman to anything, one of the only states (along with Mississippi) to have never elected a woman as Governor, Senator or Congressman. She won’t win in Florida. She might win Arkansas, but I put that at no better than 50/50. Missouri maybe? Ohio? New Mexico? Clinton simply doesn’t put many states in play.
Comment by Chase — January 29, 2008 @ 10:51 pm - January 29, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2004
I think Hillary could win CO, OH, WI, WV, VA, NM. All because “very” conservative Republicans like me aren’t likely to race in huge numbers to vote for Mr McCain. If Vilsak is her VP, IA does go to the Dems. If she picks Richardson, they are guaranteed NM. So I’m not betting the ranch on a McCain November win. Who do you see McCain picking as his VP that would actually help? Leibermann has declined. Maybe Kerry or Edwards would like the job. McCains closest allies in the Senate besides the Democrats are Snow of Maine (RINO), Collins of Maine (RINO), Graham of SC (GOMER). Such exciting choices for “conservative”.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 29, 2008 @ 11:07 pm - January 29, 2008
Something tells me Hillary Clinton is going to be the next President of the United States. (I just can’t see Obama nor McCain beating her.) And that Republicans will triumph in the end, but only because the country was put through another 4-8 years of Clintonesque horror. The lying… the corruption… the fascist economic policies… the neglect of national security… and more.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — January 29, 2008 @ 11:17 pm - January 29, 2008
Condeleeza Rice or Kay Bailey Hutchinson.
I think Hillary will have negotiations with Obama as VP, but that they’ll ultimately fall apart. He’ll let her go down in flames in November all by herself. Then in late 2009, he’ll annouce his intention to seek the Governorship of Illinois, win it and then seek the presidency again in 2012 as the proverbial favorite for the Democratic nomination.
Comment by Chase — January 29, 2008 @ 11:28 pm - January 29, 2008
And we end up with a very liberal supreme court – again. It’s not definite yet that McCain is the candidate, but if he is, I hope the conservatives remember there is more at stake then just 4 years in the White House.
Comment by Leah — January 29, 2008 @ 11:32 pm - January 29, 2008
Silver lining: Surely the Huckster is finished by now?
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — January 29, 2008 @ 11:38 pm - January 29, 2008
For all the importance heaped on the Supreme Court, by both sides, the court has shown a distinct unwillingness to take on divisive issues in recent years. Yes, there have been some instances, but more often than not, if they take a controversial case, they issue a narrow constitutional ruling.
However, the 2nd Amendment case this year challenging the District’s handgun ban is probably the most important case to come before the court in the last 50 years. So, quite a big caveat to the assertion i just made, lol.
Comment by Chase — January 29, 2008 @ 11:42 pm - January 29, 2008
Unless McCain picks him as his running mate. (Please God, no)
Comment by Chase — January 29, 2008 @ 11:45 pm - January 29, 2008
What is it with all this McCain animus?
Comment by PSUdain — January 30, 2008 @ 12:40 am - January 30, 2008
PSUdain asks “What is with all this McCain animus?” Some conservatives have been duped by the liberal media into thinking that McCain is a moderate.
Comment by Bla — January 30, 2008 @ 12:52 am - January 30, 2008
Rudy for VP
It helps with the age factor.
Rudy is ready to rock in any crisis.
He may not deliver a state but he picks up the turnout.
He knows how to debate and speak on TV.
Talk radio finds him acceptable, he does not turn off gays, black, women or hispanic voters.
Comment by Geena the transgirl — January 30, 2008 @ 1:35 am - January 30, 2008
#23
I refer you to comment #1.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — January 30, 2008 @ 3:52 am - January 30, 2008
Not to mention that the liberal media loves him. Therefore we should be concerned.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — January 30, 2008 @ 3:53 am - January 30, 2008
I would actively work against anyone who put C. Rice on their ticket.
Besides, she expressed many times she has no interest in holding office in 2008-2012.
Comment by Vince P — January 30, 2008 @ 2:05 pm - January 30, 2008
And I don’t believe McCain would appoint a Roberts or Scalia if he gets openings for the Supremes. He’d likely caucus with the Dems and pick a Ginsburg or Kennedy type. Horrors.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — January 30, 2008 @ 7:10 pm - January 30, 2008
Sorry to burst your anti-McCain bubble Gene, but if it weren’t for McCain’s Gang of 14, Roberts and Alito would not be on the bench. He tricked Democrats into voting for conservative justices. If that’s what he calls “working in a bipartisan manner,” then I have no problems with bipartisanship.
Comment by Bla — January 31, 2008 @ 12:10 am - January 31, 2008