Comments on: Presidential Pool – What now?

By: dad29

dad29 — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:49:24 +0000

HRC will eat McPain for lunch.

By: Jib

Jib — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:29:16 +0000

While I never hopped onto the Thompson campaign the way you did, I do find myself in a similar boat. Romney does appear to be the next best thing. Unfortunately, while I think Romney could possibly eke out a victory over Hillary, I think he’d be little more than John Kerry to Obama’s Bush, to strain an analogy. McCain might indeed be the most ‘electable’ Republican, but if that is the case it may be the death knell for conservatism as we know it.

By: Mike\\\'s America

Mike\\\'s America — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:11:46 +0000

“I rationalized that there would be a bit more conservatism in "compassionate "˜conservatism’"

I think a lot of us were disappointed that the new tone and spirit of compromise in the Bush Administration turned into a one way street to advance many Dem goals, even as Dems failed to compromise on National Security.

And I really did get the impression when talking with Romney that he only told me what he thought I wanted to hear.

But Ann Coulter is most likely right when she says Romney isn’t going to get any more liberal, and is likely to be a heck of a lot more conservative as President than he was a Guv of Massachusetts.

I still think Rudy would be good on fiscal issues and national security thought I disagree with him on Immigration. But I do wonder whether his plan for Florida will work with the tide moving so strong against him.

He just might pull it off and then we are off on another mad dash towards Super Tuesday on Feb. 5th.

Looks like I will be doing more live blogging. I sure hope they can rig an unmoderated version.Over 1,000 messages moderated and displayed!

Thanks for your participation Steve!

On to Florida!

By: Savage

Savage — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:19:23 +0000

Oh… I might add… if we end up with Romney, he will at least be an articulate version of a sellout to our party compared to out current sitting president. He will maintain the tax cuts and apparently continue the notion that we need to take the war to our enemies rather than fight it on our shores. And so far, he has promised to keep his crappy Massachusetts health care reform plan out of national politics – and he damn well better keep that promise if he wins.

But if this process gives us Huckabee or McCain… God help us all. We will be a party with no purpose or distinction whatsoever.

We have three medicore choices and the media is trying to make us choose between even fewer.

By: Savage

Savage — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:12:58 +0000

This really is no way to pick a president. The nation doesn’t really pick them, a few states get blitzed by ads and visits, the media interprets it, pollsters attempt to explain it and in the end, we appear to have some of the least fit elements of the Republican party poised to be our nominee – long before the rest of the nation has ever had a chance to vote.

This is why we had Nixon, Ford, Bush, Dole and Bush.

What a system, what a party, what a price.