While votes were still being cast on Super Tuesday, Mark divulged he would not vote for a Republican ticket of McCain/Huckabee.
However, if McCain won the nomination and chose a conservative as his running mate, Mark said he would need to think about it.
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If McLame wins the nomination, then the next president is guaranteed to be liberal. McLame is no conservative and his lying about it doesn’t make it so.
This is a sad time for the republican party and more so for conservatives.
In the immortal words of Melanie Morgan…”Open a vein before a vote for McCain…”
With Huckabee showing a southern showing McCain would likely chose him as a running mate. I would never discount Fred Thompson because he would also capture the South while authenticating McCain. Thompson supported McCain in 2000, is quiet in terms of supporting anyone and never attacked McCain in the debates and, to me that reads he would take the VP. If Thompson was thinking that way so was McCain.
McCain cannot successfully articulate with any Dem candidate. He will crash and burn while the media cuts his throat.
It is amazing to me that we now have three liberals at the top of the tickets running for President and ours is camouflaged as the conservative war hero. When do people voting for a President primarily base their vote on the VP choice? Only when you have a mad, rabid, leftist on the other side and a mad rabid leftist on our side in the top slot. In other words, we are in the eye of the perfect storm.
I would vote for McCain only if Rush Limbaugh was his running mate. I would not do so if ML were his VP because I know that ML could not handle the stress and would likely succumb to a new brand of heart disease that hasn’t yet been diagnosed because he hasn’t acquired it yet.
It is not over. I have often said that pain is the most successful teacher and there will be pain. The object is to prevent the left from locking us out when the GOP finally gets its’ head on straight. This being the vote for open borders, before the general election (media portrayal), it would be far better to have McCain on the outside supporting some variation of amnesty than him on the inside signing the Bill. You can run on that but you can’t run away from it.
I don’t know guys the prospect here is getting more grotesque by the day. Just when I’m thinking that common sense and poetic justice will prevail, we get results like super Tuesday. To the South I say, “What the hey were you thinking??!” Mitt Romney has garnered my total respect from the pounding he is taking from the media, especially from the dumb clucks at FOX News (what’s with that) and he still did very well. The conservatives are speaking loud and clear much to the chagrin of the MSM. I have to say that if it were to be a McCain/Huck ticket, I would wish them well, hold my nose and vote, but channel all my energies and campaign contributions into the local congressional races to get a republican edge in the Congress. That way there’d be enough republicans to keep McCain in check with this lousy policies. Or, God forbid!, in the event that the horrific opposite occurs, we’ve got some leverage to stop them.
I think the concept, cultivated and fertilized by the MSM, that Conservative talk-radio is dead, or that they are more influential, has about as much fact associated with it as the CO2 model for global warming.
Talk radio is massively influential and the McCain surge is not related to any failure of this medium. Most democrats are, obviously, not affected by radio to become pro–republican. Many republicans do not listen or listen erratically, even at a primary election. They don’t need talk radio to vote republican. Given a famous name that is a war hero they are naturally prone to gravitate to that persona; especially with a Hillary/Obama ticket as a backdrop to demark the differences. They will instinctively vote for well-known Republicans, let alone a war hero that was around for twenty-five years and had a strong presence at the last election. McCain’s top qualities are that he is a Republican in party affiliation, that he is awarded hero status and that his name was around for so long he is hard-wired into our brains. This outweighs his voting record with Republicans albeit not for the 20% that listen to talk-radio.
The real influence of talk radio is related to the narrow margins generated by that 20%. If 10-20% of the voters listen, at any one time, think about what they hear and vote on what they then understand, that is often enough to make all the difference. The difference may be only 1 to 5% points in a general election but the small margin bellies the fundamental bottom line; it is often enough to win or lose. It would be 10-20% in the wrong direction without talk radio. In McCain’s case the difference is not enough to offset the other factors so that statistical significance is buried within the McCain numbers for the media to clamor how much more influence they have than this now purported dead medium. I evaluate efficacy based upon numbers all the time and I can tell you that there are so many ways to present statistics, so that you believe or do something you would not do, if the numbers were present differently or you took the time to think. Drug companies don’t often lie but they do say things based upon fancy linguistics that fool people and those people are supposedly intelligent doctors. The media really does lie and that compounds the conclusions. As Mark Twain said: “there are lies, damn lies and statisticsâ€Â.
Romney was not well known and he was shrouded with misconceptions because of a generously populated field of other conservative candidates we listened to and were swayed by. When the light went off it was late in the game. And that is only from our side; this takes time to bleed out into the general population. It hasn’t yet. Giuliani did as much damage, in that sense, as Huckabee is now doing. He was the focus for too long and for what appeared to be all the right reasons. Notice how States try and beat each other to an early primary date so that a very small portion of the tail can wag the whole dog. When that happens inertia builds up. We never allowed Romney to have that opportunity and held him back at the gate while Giuliani was off running. He wasn’t even looked at except by ML who cast a favorable eye in his direction while Thompson remained our great hope. That is why I said not to take your eye off of McCain because he is a ricochet that will come back and hit you if you are looking the other way. If the enthusiasm was with Romney at the start and we debunked McCain simultaneously with a daily tirade (while both their numbers were down) the outcome would surely be different.
Now I can see that the anti-Romney sentiment has turned around and dmacle is a good example. But it is late. I am not without fault because I could have debunked a lot of what was assumed about Giuliani from the start and I was really in the Romney evaluation stage checking on how he governed and legislated. I would have taken a Giuliani candidacy and I had no intention of raining on other people’s parade with an in-depth critique. Unfortunately I have made that mistake before and recognize when other people are making it, so I feel especially guilty for not putting my two cents in even though I am pretty unimportant in the big picture.
If the MSM is going to choose our candidates I suggest that talk radio power brokers have got to make an earlier investment in standing behind a candidate even if it appears unfair to the other candidates. As unfair as this is and as instinctively unnatural, at it appears to people who are natively fair, the stakes are as high as is the outcome of any war and we need to battle accordingly.
Interestingly the McCain camp knows in its’ ‘heart of hearts’ that, to be sure of success, it needs talk radio in a tight election. For as much as they want all of us to kiss-up to McCain they will have to kiss up to talk-radio to get every vote they possibly can. An anti-Clinton sentiment among Democrats is not enough to turn them off to allow a republican challenger to succeed and McCain cannot out-orate Obama. On the other hand lots of conservatives will not vote for McCain even with the blessing of talk radio, let alone without it. I can vouch for that.
Thank God for capitalism and wealth creation. That is exactly how Romney has persisted against a tsunami of MSM criticism. The media has no trouble overlooking John Corzine , Blumberg or George Sorros. Everyone has a right to spend money and so does Romney and if money is all it takes how come he is behind? That is another misconception they would be happy for us to buy into.
I personally believe that Romney has a love for this Country and a desire that is no different than Fred Thompson in that they both feel that our present political course so challenges our liberty, freedom and happiness that he was called to arms to volunteer for the rest of us. That is a noble cause to spend your money on so we can all share and benefit by his massive personal charitable contribution to safeguard the jeopardized liberty we all face. His desire to go to the end will be the reason that he will be the candidate of choice in the next election. He has made a name for himself, has established his credentials and has forewarned foes of his staying power. Next time around we need to do ourselves a favor and get behind him from the very start with our money, our voices and our radio. He is a good and decent man. Remember… the Alamo.
Task, you nailed it on the head. I remember when the Great One even mentioned that we should not compromise principles for electability, yet here we are. Romney was no where near my first choice, but we have been put in the nightmarish position of having to choose the lesser of the 3 evils. Romney at least has the convictions and honesty to declare his previous liberal stances as mistakes. And now he’s running as a true conservative with conservative principles. I believe and trust him. McCain and Huckleberry are proven liars and deny instigating any liberal policies even those which have already been documented. The current Romney-bashers push his flip-flopping, etc. but he’s no liar or dishonest politician like what I’ve seen from the McCain/Huckleberry camp. It’s too bad the media and political hacks are the ones driving us into a corner and possibly picking between a McCain or a Hillary Clinton. Depending on the outcome, we should be ready to cut our losses and at least get more influence in the Congress where we would have some traction to stop the madness.
Dcmale, I agree! To make a mistake is one thing; to defend it is something else. To lie is even worse and that is that is what we now are dealing with… characters so flawed that they lie.
I just don’t see a great ticket unless Thompson is on it he has to many good ideas
Thompson isn’t feasible because he cannot stir the imagination of the UNCONVERTED, despite his good ideas. It is one thing to have the ideas, but communication skills is just as important. Besides, having a ticket comprised of a 72YO, and a 60plus, against more youthful opposition only emphasise the past versus the future. Thompson would have to be paired with a younger Conservative.
Thompson, while he was in, only attracted the converted. Because of his laid back style, he had great difficulty getting the attention of the “swing voters” (those who pay attention to politics once very 4 years). 99.9% of us on this blog thinks he was great. But he needs more than the already converted to pay attention to his “details”. It didn’t happen.
So what is McCain going to do… select Romney and state to the world that he is doing so because he (Romney) has all the qualities that McCain lacks? Then why do we need McCain instead of Romney in the first place? How does he get around that concept?
Really strange that Huckabee was asked to drop out, then Romney, but no one asked McCain. Going on seventy-two why does he now have to do this to us? We almost escaped.