A first(?) thread on 2008: McCain,Giuliani & the Republicans

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http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0208/CPAC_to_all_CPACers_Dont_boo_McCain.html

ps... I am a big fan of Juan McCain.

Hes a good businessman, blatham. Its time to cut his losses.

It was mostly his own money, cyclops, so he is simply cutting his losses, which is a sign of good business sense.

okie wrote:

Hes a good businessman, blatham. Its time to cut his losses.

okie wrote:

It was mostly his own money, cyclops, so he is simply cutting his losses, which is a sign of good business sense.

Ah, Romney's business acumen. How did that work out for him?

[size=14][b][url=http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/02/06/romneys_expenses_per_delegate.html]Romney's Expenses Per Delegate Top $1M[/url][/b][/size] Republican campaign operatives call it the Gramm-o-meter, the money a candidate spends per delegate won, in honor of Phil Gramm, the former Texas senator who spent $25 million and won just 10 delegates, or $2.5 million per, in 1996. By Republican strategist Alex Vogel's calculation, Mitt Romney is giving Gramm a run for his money. The former Massachusetts governor has spent $1.16 million per delegate, a rate that would cost him $1.33 billion to win the nomination. By contrast, Mike Huckabee's campaign has been the height of efficiency. Delegates haven't yet been officially apportioned, but roughly speaking, each $1 million spent by Huckabee has won him 20 delegates.

Then again, I guess you could argue that at least he did better than Rudy Giuliani. He spent $50 million to win just one delegate. Meaning he would have had to spend around $60 billion to get the 1,191 delegates needed to win the nomination.

The Republican Party - the party of smart, level-headed business sense

Bedtime for johnboy at 10:30 pm ET in the U.S. Um, dude, what time is it in Budapest.

I had a tough time understanding Romney's public statement for suspending his campaign. Something about being in this war-time period with terrorists at our door, it is his patriotic duty to withdraw so that the party could unite. I exaggerate a bit, but did anyone catch that?

Huckabee to Get Evangelical Leader's Nod

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 7, 2008
Filed at 11:00 p.m. ET

James Dobson, one of the nation's most prominent evangelical Christian leaders, is about to endorse former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, The Associated Press has learned.

Dobson, founder of Colorado Springs, Colo.-based Focus on the Family, talked to the GOP presidential hopeful Thursday and later was to release a statement explaining his choice, said Gary Schneeberger, a spokesman for Dobson.

Huckabee is of no further benefit to McCain at this point and it is to McCain's benefit to take him out quickly now in order to conserve energy and fund for the general campaign.

Such is politics in America.

The Apostate Sheriff
...Who in the end prepared the ground for the McCain ascendancy? Not Feingold. Not Kennedy. Not even Giuliani. It was George W. Bush. Bush begat McCain.

Bush remains popular in his party. Even conservatives are inclined to forgive him his various heresies because they are trumped by his singular achievement: He's kept us safe. He's the original apostate sheriff.

There is a strutting self-righteousness about McCain that goes hand-in-hand with a nitroglycerin temper. He flatters himself that his colleagues in the Senate dislike him because he stands up for principle, while they sell their souls for pork. Not exactly. He is disliked because on many, many occasions he has been disrespectful, belligerent, and vulgar to those who differ with him.

Bradley Smith, former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission and the leading legal scholar on campaign-finance issues, experienced the McCain treatment firsthand. Because Smith opposed limits on political speech, he was denounced as "corrupt" by the senator (as was Commissioner Ellen Weintraub). Smith, who lives modestly, jokes that his wife has complained about the absence of jewels and furs. Though he served on the commission for five years and made several attempts to meet with McCain to discuss the issues, Smith was rebuffed.

The two did accidentally meet outside a hearing room in 2004 when they were both scheduled to testify before the Senate rules committee. At first, McCain grasped Smith's outstretched hand (Smith was in a wheelchair recovering from surgery), but when he recognized his campaign finance opponent he snatched his hand back, snarling "I'm not going to shake your hand. You're a bully. You have no regard for the Constitution. You're corrupt."

Smith, a soft-spoken scholar, ardent patriot, and lifelong conservative Republican, cannot pull the lever for McCain. He is far from alone, and that is the Republican Party's heartbreak in 2008.

It's just a matter of how much a risk you want to take. Romney came pretty close

Nothing would unite the democrats more in this country than Mike Huckabee on a presidential ticket. There is no single more damaging individual in this country than Huckabee.

Foxfyre wrote:

Huckabee is of no further benefit to McCain at this point and it is to McCain's benefit to take him out quickly now in order to conserve energy and fund for the general campaign.

Such is politics in America.

Interesting statement. One could replace the word "McCain" with almost anything, including "the country" and it would still be true.

maporsche wrote:

Nothing would unite the democrats more in this country than Mike Huckabee on a presidential ticket. There is no single more damaging individual in this country than Huckabee.

Not even Dobson?

maporsche wrote:

Nothing would unite the democrats more in this country than Mike Huckabee on a presidential ticket. There is no single more damaging individual in this country than Huckabee.

Not even Dobson?