Tuesday, February 05, 2008
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Romney Pulls an All-Nighter to Pull it Out
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Posted by:
Mary Katharine Ham at
8:23 AM
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Sensing that there was a momentum shift in California yesterday, Romney was on the West Coast last night, holding a rally in Long Beach before taking a red eye back to West Virginia to address the state convention there this morning.
"We said, you know, something's happening out in California; we got to get back to California," he told a crowd of about 1,000 who gathered for an evening rally in a Long Beach airport hangar. Among them were about 25 members of Romney's extended family. When he kicked off his journey in Tennessee on Monday morning, Romney declared, "If I win California, that means you're going to have a conservative in the White House."
California's delegates are awarded proportionally by congressional district, so there's no winner-take-all moment for Mitt in the union's most populous state, but capturing the popular vote there would certainly be a feather in his cap, and reason to continue after Tuesday.
Romney's running attack robocalls in Georgia, aimed at McCain:
“John McCain and Ted Kennedy wrote an amnesty bill. And McCain teamed with another liberal Democrat to write campaign finance reform. “John McCain also joined with Democrats to vote against the Bush tax cuts. And listen to what Bill Clinton says about John McCain: ‘She and John McCain are very close. They always laugh that if they wind up being the nominees of their party, it would be the most civilized election in American history.’ “No wonder former Senate Republican leader Rick Santorum said — quote — John McCain was not only against us, but leading the charge on the other side.”
And, Huckabee:
“Mike Huckabee raised taxes by $500 million and increased the sales tax by 37 percent. Huckabee pushed state-funded scholarships and tuition for illegal immigrants. Mike Huckabee even criticized President Bush’s policies on the war on terror. That’s why conservative leaders [and radio talk show hosts] like Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham are supporting Mitt Romney for president.” This is the heart of the message: “Don’t split the conservative vote. Let’s stop the McCain moderates, and take back our party with a viable conservative candidate for president.”
Those calls, incidentally, are not the weasly robocalls he got called on, which criticized McCain for voting against the prescription drug bill, even though Romney claims he too would have voted against it.
Update: Ouch. Rick Santorum on McCain's various endorsements:
Former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum
criticized "the bigwigs who are lining up like lemmings" behind McCain.
"You have only one choice," Santorum said at the Romney event in
Nashville. "Not Mike Huckabee. Certainly not John McCain. It's Mitt
Romney."
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On Iraq, and more generally on the war on terror, McCain has never wavered in fighting for complete victory. As Bob Dole put it yesterday in a letter to Rush, McCain has put this country's security first "whatever the cost." Indeed, McCain has repeatedly said that he would rather lose this election than lose the war. Apparently for Rush and some other conservative opponents of McCain, it's the other way around. They say a victory by Clinton or Obama will, in the long run, serve the party and the conservative movement. Apparently they'd rather lose the war than see John McCain win this election.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/02/limbaug hs_mccain_derangement_s.asp |
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Lots of people have theories about why John McCain is in very good shape for tomorrow. Some think it’s his personal characteristics. (The Pew poll offers some support for this theory with McCain’s favorable/unfavorable split at 72-18% among Republicans and Romney at 49-30%). Some think McCain has shown himself to be a real conservative. Others think being conservative or super-conservative is not enough to win elections, let alone Republican primaries. Some think the competition was weak. Still others find that Mitt Romney’s position changes (even on items in his own life story)are too much to bear, leaving them with no choice but to “question his sincerity.”
There are many reasons, but I would suggest an overriding one: the surge. Without McCain’s determination on the surge and its resulting success, the race would look quite different. In that effort, McCain did show his personal characteristics (tenacity and bravery, most clearly) and many Republicans, conservatives included, came to see him as a warrior in the toughest policy battle in recent memory. It was the means by which he distinguished himself from his competition and by which he could appeal to skeptics who came to see his past policy heresies in greater perspective. (Or it could just be that the competition was very, very weak.)
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/227 3
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hillary, obama, juan, mikey, all have shown no real concern in their actions against mexico totally flooding USA...dont think it cant happen!
then usa will become like the place they left!
romney is the only logical choice !
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Rush, Sean, Levin, Ingraham, Santorum, Bork, Keene, Weyrich, NR and a host of other influential leaders, including evangelical,
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The NYT, The Los Angeles Times, Arnold, Rudy, Crist, Perry, and a host of other moderate suck-ups in the GOP who care more about power than principle?
Win or lose, I'm proud to stand with the former, who are the ones fighting for the ideals me and my family hold dear.
Go Romney, and come on, California! You can make a difference. We're counting on you. |
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The Stupid Party
The RNC wants an amnesty candidate.
Don't vote for one.
Another amnesty will result in Democrat majorities for decades, or until they are supplanted by the La Raza Party, why doesn't the RNC know that? How stupid do you have to be to import voters for the opposition at the same time you alienate your own voters? Nominating any of the amnesty supporters is a losing proposition, we will not support them. If the GOP intends to surrender our sovereignty and abandon the rule of law, they will find in November 2008, that they still have their big money/cheap labor donors, but they do not have voters. GOP-RIP
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Stop lying about Romney and gun rights. You know it's a lie, but you keep repeating it in an increasinly desperate attempt to prop McCain.
Romney has the enthusiastic endorsement of the NRA VP and future pres., David Keene. That means something Joe, and you know it. It means that Keene believes the 2nd amendment is safest with Romney.
Try another tactic, this one is ridiculous. |
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Check this link out. Its still on Rudy's web site. The title is John McCain votes to raise taxes 50 times!!! Rudy endorsed this guy and left this on his web site. LOL
Hey Richard_223 and Little Joe, you better call the peeps who are paying you over at the McLame campaign and fix that.
HAHA
http://www.joinrudy2008.com/blog/view/808 |
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How much does McCain pay for your posts? |
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I voted for Reagan both times & he was a good president but I understand that he did raise taxes in Calif. & he had a so called amnesty bill. I don't support McCain on that one but I'm still a big supporter of McCain. Bob Dole said McCain had a better conservative record than Jesse Helm. Finally
there is an ad out that shows how liberal Romney was when he ran for governor. Then he was negative about Reagan & no matter who you support, you will never have a candidate who totally agrees with all the conservative points. I'm not a conservative but a mod independent. |
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McCain is a:
-Liar
-Adulterer
-Liberal
-Intemperate
-Running for the wrong Party
-Has the paid blogger Joe
Vote for Mitt Romney, the conservative in this race. |
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Little Joe, Richard_223 and Synthesizer boy are all paid by McShame Inc. |
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I live in a busy part of Maricopa County. As of 7:20am (polls opened at 6am), I was ballot #57. Both Republican and Democrat use same ballot scanner. A co-worker voted in a diff precinct at 6:20am. She was ballot #4. Arizona does have early balloting that can be mailed in and many voters use that option.
Interestingly, this same co-worker mentioned above said she had planned to vote McCain and when she got to the poll, she switched at the last minute to Romney. She had no idea why she switchced other that she "felt" she should change her vote. hmmm. |
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Professor Bainbridge all think Mitt is a liar and less than sincere on his support of 2nd Amendment rights.
Sometimes a candidate gets a little too much grief for misspeaking. The first time Mitt Romney said he was endorsed by the NRA in his gubernatorial run, he was wrong; the NRA rated him a “B,” which is not bad. (His Democratic opponent was an “A,” surprisingly. The NRA did not endorse in that race.) Apparently some NRA folk did some phone-banking for him, and Romney mistook that for an endorsement, and I guess I can see how that mistake could be made. The key is to note that he was told of his mistake back in December.
And then, in an interview a few days ago with Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, Romney claimed to be endorsed by the NRA again.
When it happens multiple times, one begins to wonder if Romney just wants to assert the endorsement and hopes that the person he’s speaking to doesn’t hear the correction.
Glenn comes across to me as a particularly fair-minded interviewer, but after Race42008 demonstrates a couple of different positions in a short span of time — telling Tim Russert he would sign the Assault Weapons Ban, telling Glenn and Helen that he would oppose it — Glenn concludes, “I’m beginning to question his sincerity.”
http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTI1NmU2OGRj ZjFkZjZjYzZkMDgwOWFlOGUwMzNmOWE=
http://www.stephenbainbridge.com/punditry/comments/its_not_ just_the_flip_flopping_its_the_lying/
When Glenn Reyonolds questions Mitt's "sincerity" on gun rights, you know Mitt is in trouble. Jim Geraghty the Indispensable and Professor Bainbridge have the dope on Mitt Romney's recent 2nd Amendment flip flops.
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Yep, that's right - not McCain. David Keene has ensorsed Romney - so much for your agument. |
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I know your earning you money working for McShame, but it's time to relax. Go get a box of bandaids for your finger tips and take your benzodiazapine of choice. |
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The Anchoress defends McCain:
There has been some really shameful demagoguery against McCain from people who ordinarily would show some respect for a man who spent 6 years in a VietCong POW camp, too, which to my way of thinking says many more negative things about the sign-holders and aspersion-casters than it does about McCain.
UPDATE: Here is an except from ... the statement of a fellow POW of McCain’s who does not support him politically:
A friend, whom I know to be reliable, was across the hall and one door down, from McCain’s cell when McCain was first captured. He has told me that he saw Communist officers enter the cell where the wounded John McCain lay, incapacitated. He heard them offer McCain early release and heard John answer that he would go home when we all go home. He heard the voices of the officers rising until they were shouting angrily at McCain and threatening him. This was followed by screams of agony from John McCain, and a stream of obscenities from him. He could not see what they did to him and I never heard from John McCain what it was. This does not sound like a collaborator.
The man has a son in Iraq and one at Annapolis - he is undoubtedly a Patriot. To call him a “Benedict Arnold” as these people do is disgusting and out-of-line. It is, more than anything, what I find disturbing about the excesses of the far-right. - End Update
http://www.stephenbainbridge.com/punditry/comments/judging_ a_man_by_his_enemies/
http://theanchoressonline.com/2008/02/04/convince-me-of-the -merits-of-mitt/
The over the top attacks of McCain are disgraceful. Anyone who does this is no better than those individuals who attack Mitt's faith. I know many of you do not do this (you just support Mitt and is ok to support your candidate), but some of you do cross this line and should be ashamed of yourselves. It needs to stop. |
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Shame on you for badgering us with all of your McShame propaganda. Enough already.
Romney will support 2nd Amendment rights. Rest assure. Will McCain secure our border in Arizona? Didn't think so. |
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Continues to prove the people of PA correct in slapping him on the behind as they showed him the door a couple of years back. Everytime this guy opens his mouth, he embarrasses anyone like me who actually voted for him at one time. He's a jerk, and if he ever wants to be in politics again, he'll have to find a new state--I can promise you that. |
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A McCain nomination touted by the MSM and "independents" will result in many true conservatives either staying home, not supporting the party with funds and time, resulting in a further loss of the GOP "under card" (House and Senate).
What most of the mindless cows in the McCain "herd" fail to realize is that the MSM, as soon as McCain gets the nomination, will turn on him like a pack of wild dogs. Do you REALLY think these MSM columnists will "flock" to McCain in the general election? FAT CHANCE!
I also see many posts about McCain being in the bottom 5% of his class at the Naval Academy. For the record, he was 895th out of 899. To me, that is the bottom ONE PERCENT! He may have learned about "leadership", but he obviously learned NOTHING about party loyalty, economics, or much of anything else.
This is a Romney guy who will never vote for John McCain, as he will govern as badly as either Hillary or Obama, and if the country is going down the tubes, I would rather the DEMS get the blame! |
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It is not honorable to conspire behind closed doors with Ted Kennedy and La Raza against the American people.
It is not honorable to try to rush an amnesty for foreign nationals illegally in our country AND their employers through Congress without committee hearings shortcutting the normal process.
It is not honorable to have contempt for the will of the people. "I'll build the G-D fence if they want it." |
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Do social conservatives not realize that Mitt botched the first test on defense of marriage? Read up on the Goodrich decision in MA and how Mitt took matters into his own hands and single-handedly created gay marriage in MA. The court ordered the state legislature to make changes within 180 days (which in itself is questionable on constitutional grounds of separation of powers). The legislature dropped the ball. So instead of letting the issue die, Mitt signed orders making the form for marriage allow for same sex couples. Mitt did not have to act. The court never ordered Mitt to act. Constitutionally Mitt did not have to do anything at all. But he instead said he felt he had no other choice but to make this state policy. When marriage depended on a conservative to take a stand, Mitt created a fear and an excuse and backed down with no legitimacy to back him. Why did Mitt act this way? Fill in the blank with any other issue he is so-called "backed into a corner" over. Will he show bold leadership? Or will he create some reason to fear another branch and give in on the issues that matter most? Gut check time and Mitt failed his first court test miserably. |
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