Super Tuesday
The GOP presidential race should be a heck of a lot clearer tomorrow morning. Super Tuesday has 24 states voting -- including delegate-rich California and New York. Sen. John McCain is the prohibitive favorite, but Gov. Mitt Romney has an outside shot. Gov. Mike Huckabee is nothing more than a stalking horse for McCain.
I've already listed many of the areas where McCain is just plain wrong. That won't convince some people that he's the wrong person for the GOP to nominate. Instead, these people point to Romney's changes on a host of issues from taxes to abortion to gay rights.
I can understand the fears of some that a President Romney may revert to the guy that tried to get to the left of Ted Kennedy on some issues back in the 1994 senate race. However, I think this concern is misplaced -- certainly when we compare that to McCain.
A President Romney we can hold to the promises he's made. If elected, those positions are what got him elected and he'd have to have some sort of political death wish to flip-flop on any serious issues.
That's a guarantee we certainly don't have with McCain. If elected, President McCain will have been elected with a mandate to take all of those positions that I listed earlier -- a global warming cap and trade system, imported drugs from Canada, etc.
Mitt Romney is the only person who can stop John McCain. It should come as little surprise then that the last Republican whose "turn" it was to run should defend him -- unconvincingly.
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I just voted proudly for John McCain, even though he doesn't measure up on "Matt's List". Then again, Ronald Reagan wouldn't have measured up so well either. After all he nominated O'Connor and Kennedy to the SC, bestowed "amnesty" on millions of illegal immigrants, raised taxes, cut and ran from Lebanon, etc. We sure wouldn't want a man like that in the White House, now would we? Or Goldwater either for that matter. He was for abortion rights for goodness sakes. Mitt Romney certainly doesn't measure up to Matt's List.
Why in the world can't we get a real conservative who would grade out at 100% on Matt's List? Maybe we can, but that person would get about 40% support in the general election, that is why. and by the way, that 40% would head lower over the years as the hispanic population grew relative to the rest of the population. Wouldn't that be fun, being the permanent minority party? Maybe not, but we would be pure.
Listen, McCain isn't perfect but America is a center-right country (not a far-right country) and McCain is a center-right politician. He is precisely positioned in tune with the American people, but the Limbaughs and Hannitys are so sheltered intheir echo chamber that they don't see it. And please, let's not kid ourselves that by not nominating Mitt Romney we have lost our chance at having the next Ronald Reagan.
I find this debate rather humorous. The same people (not necessarily including you Matt) complaining that McCain is not conservative enough have been propping up a president that has destroyed the conservative movement. I don't know who I am going to vote for, by Feb 12 I might not have a choice, what I do know is the group running for the Republican nomination are a joke, the fact that any of them has a chance is only a testament to how weak the entire group is.
I cannot believe that the conservative talking heads have rallied around Romney. The guy has changed his positions so much he makes John Kerry look good. I can only imagine how they would be treating him if he had a D in from of his name. Unfortunately this entire primary season has shown that many that claim to be conservatives forgot what that meant a long time ago, I'm afraid most of them spell conservative with a capital R at the front.
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Well, Super Tuesday is over. For all practical purposes, it is a three person race, and McCain is as good as it gets. I'm not a McCain fan, but the past is history. It's McCain vs the inexperienced Democrat. I know who I'm voting for in November, and it's not the guy I voted for last night.
You can have maybe some judges and fiscal sanity, or not. Staying home is a vote for "not." That's it. How bad do you want your losses to be? You're not going to win, but you've got a chance to salvage something.
I've been eligible to vote in 10 presidential elections now, and the only guy I ever voted for who turned out nearly as well as I hoped was Reagan. He wasn't perfect either. I will go to my grave proud that I did not vote for the worst president of my lifetime (Carter.) Then again, I feel competent to run my own life without help from the government.