RNC Nightmare Scenario?

Except for his brand of Christianity (which may be a real problem for some in the GOP), I have to think the extremely slick and most definitely fake, Mitt Romney, will be who the RNC gets behind.

They don't like Huckleberry because he is perhaps too genuine and honest about many things, including the possibility of raising taxes. And they don't like McCain for the many reasons you point out and then some. And Giuliani's one-trick pony is nearly a dead horse.

 

heh... 'fat-cats'... amazing the denial from a nominal Dem. Have you had your Soros today?

The REAL reason most conservatives {I cant speak for RNC} dont trust McCain is that he doesnt THINK before he acts when dealing with Dems... and the McCain/Feingold act is the Gold Example... directly led to MORE campaign financing problems.


Good try, PCB.. the Huck is 'honest'?!!!!. I have no doubt he's genuine but he ISNT exactly 'honest'.
the Huckster - said it before, I'll say it again.. if I wanted Clintons, I'd vote for Hillary.

 

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I don't buy that for a second. Hard line conservatives don't like McCain because he's too liberal, just like hard line liberals don't like Clinton or Lieberman because they're too conservative.

 

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I only know what I read, both in fact and between the lines. McCain is NOT seen as TOO liberal, based on his position statements.
And BTW... I DONT take blog commenters into account. They're all over the place on him. MOST of THOSE who crticize him have his positions and record all wrong.

I dont care about ANYTHING but his attempts at consensus building, besides the above example the hispanic illegals issue with Ted Kennedy, NO Repub should ever again team up with Teddy on ANY domestic issue... he's a liar and a cheat.
And how can I be AGAINST McCain when he's one of the few Republicans that can actually win... I'm nominally for Fred, but I accept he aint got a chance.
Believe me, if McCain pulls away with the primary voters, the RNC will back him 100%.

 

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This is newsworthy... how, exactly?

 

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Uh... maybe it addresses the OP in the topic? As for financing, there's plenty of ways to do it, Ron Paul showed that.

 

But Don, if that happens where will there be room for the 'change we can believe in'?

And with all the change hoopla, the first candidate to use "winds of change" as their campaign song has my vote.

 

Heh... we're forgetting one of the prime rules of presidential politicking.

Most of that 'change' rhetoric is gonna disappear after the conventions. Then we fall back to the basic lies.. er.. memes.

Remember '06 and the Dem promises to 'root out corruption'.

 

I remember... I think the bitch from hell took speaker of the house sometime around then... I remember hearing something about bringing the troops home, rooting out corruption, and checking power in the executive branch...

Yeah, she did a great job...

 

Huckaby. He might be ok, if he weren't a proponent of the "Fair Tax", which replaces Income Tax with a 30% Sales Tax. For that reason alone, he's the candidate, from either party, I am most against.

Romney. He's got the chops to do the job and would be effective domestically, but his foreign policy would be too much of what we've had the last 8 years. His religion will have some voter impact during the primaries, especially down South, but he's conservative enough that I can't see that segment of the voters "letting" the Dems win states they otherwise wouldn't.

McCain. He knows Washington, but there are some questions.
1) Has he established himself as too much of a maverick for the Republicans in Congress to get behind him?
2) Who does he pick as VP, since his age will be an issue?
3) He is a strong labor union supporter, how will that impact GOP voting?

Clinton. I believe that she would be effective in office, and would make some positive changes in domestic and foreign policy, but I fear her social agenda and her ability to push it through while holding office.

Obama. I don't think he's ready yet, not having had enough experience in government or business to be effective in the job. I don't fear his vision so much as the chaos that would ensue when he naively tried to implement it. He'd could be a solid VP, though.

I'm a registered Democrat, so get to vote in the Maryland Primary, if it still matters by then - I have no idea yet who'd I'd pick between the two.

Come Election time, my only certain vote is against Huckaby; if he's not in the running then I don't know... I may have to pray about it or something.... definitely a "Lesser of Two Weevils" for me as none of the candidates have my "unique" combination of Socially Conservative, Foreign Policy Moderate, and Economic Liberal.