McCain Beats Romney, Calls Himself “…the conservative leader who can unite the party…”, and Manages Not To Get Struck By Lightning for his Perfidity
Looks like John McCain has edged out Mitt Romney in the Florida primary. There are likely to be a ton of absentee ballots still outstanding, so do take those results with a grain of salt, but unless they swing largely for Mitt, he’s not going to win.
Interestingly enough, what put McCain over the top are so-called independents. Romney won among Republicans and crushed McCain among conservatives. It makes me wonder how McCain will do in states that do primaries like they should be done, where you can only vote for the candidate in your party.
Several folks are saying that McCain is now the presumptive nominee, considering his strong polling in many of the large Super Tuesday states. I’m not willing to make that call at this point. I still think there is a lot of election to go and Romney has not yet begun to start to pound McCain on his career of crass political opportunism and some of the sleazier attacks he launched at Mitt in Florida. That kind of stuff makes McCain look even worse the longer folks hear it. There’s a lot of election left and it’s not over by any means.
Meanwhile, it looks like Rudy’s pulling the plug. He’ll likely endorse McCain, since they are running on virtually the same platform. McCain’s the establishment candidate, and it’s no shock that the other establishment guys are locking in behind him right now. Rudy’s just the most recent one to do it, so no real shock.
Here’s the most laughable statement of the night from McCain:
It shows one thing. I’m the conservative leader who can unite the party…
Conservative? Yep, and I’m Twiggy.
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Category: The 2008 Horse Race
I'm fascinated by how much Republicans do not like Mccain. I'm a liberal and I don't know that much about him and I don't care to either. But people like Limbaugh, Fox News, and conservative bloggers act like this guy stole their dog, slept with their wife, and shot out their tires.
What did Mccain do? The finance reform bill and immigration? Is that it? Is that the low-level gurgling agony
Well, those are the biggest thing. I wrote a post today that gets into it a bit more, but the bigger theme to McCain is his reflex is to attack conservatives first and hardest.
But McCain/Feingold and McCain/Kennedy are big enough reasons for anyone, conservative or no, to strongly disapprove of McCain's work.
Who are Conservatives kidding?
As soon as the Republican National convention is done nominating McCain for president, 100% of American Conservatives will dutifully fall in line and swear that John McCain is the greatest human being to ever be nominated for president… At least since the last person that the Republican party nominated.
There will not be a single dissention. Not one. Because obedience to The Party is what it means to be Conservative, nothing else, including actual qualification, temperment or ideology, matters even one bit.
Oh how you wish you could replace reality with that of your own choosing. But dude, seriously. You can't be so partisan that everyone changes to fit your view of the world.
Nor do I, an independent, understand the conservative preference for Romney. Just a few months ago he was the moderate-to-liberal governor of a liberal state. Then he did a near 180 degree change in his stances right before he started running for president.
How can you trust somebody like that?
Think it through. On the big issues that matter to conservatives, Romney's far closer to us than McCain. He's also capable of listening to another view and altering his own if he gets better information. He's also not openly hostile to conservatives.
Make sense?
Your post shows how little you know or understand about the race. McCain was not put over the top by independents and Romney did not win among Republicans. It was a closed primary. Only Republicans voted. No independents. Just Republicans and McCain won overwhelmingly. Try to keep up. This stuff was in all the MSM.
Ah yes, the MSM. That fount of all solid information. Apparently you missed the exit polling where 17 percent of the voters identified themselves as independents and three percent as Democrats. There was already at least one report of an "independent" being given a party ballot. I can't say for sure how widespread that was but it does indicate a certain non-closed nature to the primary.
Nevertheless, all that's really required is a jiffy-quick re-registration. That's not entirely a closed system, is it?