Who Can Beat McCain?
With Obama talking increasingly about John McCain on the stump — saying he’s the best candidate to beat the man who looks to be the most likely GOP nominee — Hillary’s camp is pushing back with an argument that she makes the strongest general election candidate against McCain.
In a memo to reporters, chief strategist Mark Penn writes “Sen. Obama has been telling voters that he is the one to beat Sen. McCain because he gave a speech against the war in 2002 and because he is currently attracting independent voters. But those arguments don’t hold up to current polling, to history or to what is likely to happen in a general election.”
Part of the argument: Obama does well with Independents, but that advantage would be negated against McCain — who is himself supremely popular with that voting bloc.
Read the full memo after the jump
To: Interested Parties
From: Mark Penn, Chief Strategist
Date: Saturday, February 2, 2008
Re: Hillary is the Democrat to Beat McCain
If John McCain becomes the Republican nominee, Hillary is the Democrat who can beat him — because she has the strength and experience a president needs to get America on the right course and to defend it against future threats. She is the hands-on leader that America needs as we slip into a worsening economic crisis. Her ability to be both a strong commander-in-chief and steward of the economy are what make her the favorite against Sen. McCain.
Sen. Obama has been telling voters that he is the one to beat Sen. McCain because he gave a speech against the war in 2002 and because he is currently attracting independent voters. But those arguments don’t hold up to current polling, to history or to what is likely to happen in a general election.
First, there is no support to Sen. Obama’s assertion that his 2002 speech makes him a stronger choice in a general election. Recent history shows that voters look to who they believe can end a war and protect us against future wars. No one believes that if Hillary had been president she would have started the war. In fact, Hillary is backed by prominent anti-war leaders because they believe she is uniquely able to end the war responsibly.
Based on recent polls, there is nothing to support Sen. Obama’s arguments about his prospective performance against Sen. McCain – both Sen. Obama and Hillary start off within the margin of error against Sen. McCain. Yesterday’s Fox poll showed both ahead of Sen. McCain by 1 point. And Hillary’s negatives are fully factored in, whereas the same cannot be said of Sen. Obama because he is – by his own admission - not as well known.
Sen. Obama’s support among independents comes from Democratic-leaning independents, voters who are likely to back the eventual Democratic nominee. He has no overall advantage in the polls against Sen. McCain. But such voters have very little information about Sen. Obama. And once the Republican machine begins to methodically attack him, he will lose independent support.
So in a head to head against Sen. McCain, Sen. Obama has no advantage with swing voters. The 2004 election was determined by two key groups – women concerned about security and Latinos – and against Sen. McCain those groups could again prove decisive. President Bush won 40 percent of the Latino vote in 2004 and Sen. McCain, unlike other Republicans, has been supportive of immigration reform. These are two groups that enthusiastically support Hillary.
As voters look to the future, they will be looking at who can put the country on the right path and who can defend it against future threats. While Hillary is seen as strong on defense and has served on the Armed Services Committee, Sen. Obama has no record on these national security issues that would again be front and center.
So if Sen. McCain is the nominee, Hillary is the one well-positioned to beat him. Already well vetted, she is ready to stand up to Sen. McCain on national security and put together a winning coalition of voters that will take back the White House.
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She actually makes a great point, but should have gone further.
Obama’s support right now comes from three main groups — anti-Hillary Democrats, blacks, and the youth. He does not have Independents, as that group is split between the two.
Looking at that demographic group, Obama has many minorities. First is blacks — who statistically are around 12% of our country. Latinos, however, account for almost 15% more of our country — that vote backs Clinton more than Obama.
The second demographic is the VERY UNRELIABLE youth vote. You cannot count on this vote. That leaves anti-Hillary voters. No statistics exist on this.
Obama really does have a shaky support in this race. Clinton’s support seems much more broad, carrying every demographic well except for blacks.
With that said, I dislike this crap of “I can win more than him against this person”. No one knows that. Stop using this crap as basis for your election. Talk about the issues. Clinton can, and has done that. I don’t think think that Obama can survive as well on the issues. Maybe that is why almost all of these claims usually come from Obama’s campaign.
News on the street is McCain has cancer. He has threatened law suits against anyone who leaks the information. Is this true?
Let us look at McCain’s conservative credentials:
-IMMIGRATION: he wrote the bill granting amnesty to illegal immigrants (co-sponsored by Ted Kennedy)
-SOCIAL SECURITY: he voted to give your social security money to illegal immigrants
-TAXES: he voted against the Bush tax cuts multiple times (he has since flip-flopped and has campaigned as a lifelong tax-cutter)
-RHETORIC: he routinely engages in Democratic class warfare against big companies in America, particularly the “evil” drug companies who research cures to debilitating diseases for a profit
-ECONOMY: as recently as December 2007 he admitted “he does not know the economy very well” and needed to get better at it
-1ST AMENDMENT: he wrote the McCain-Feingold campaign finance bill that was declared to be an unconstitutional infringement of the 1st Amendment (co-sponsored by ultra-liberal Democrat Russ Feingold)
-2ND AMENDMENT: he was called the “worst 2nd amendment candidate” by the president of the NRA
-ENERGY TAX: wrote a bill (co-sponsored by his buddy Lieberman) imposing a massive tax on energy which, according to the Department of Energy, would drastically raise the price of gasoline and put 300,000 Americans out of work
-GLOBAL WARMING: supports radical global warming legislation which involved him voting with every Democrat; think only America is responsible to take action, not other superpowers
-JUDGES: he joined forces with Democrats (Gang of 14) to block the Senate Republican’s attempt to confirm conservative, strict constructionist judges; also said Alito was too conservative for his liking
-WAR ON TERROR: fought with Hillary Clinton to demand that terrorists be given a full American trial
-GAY MARRIAGE: he joined liberals to fight against a federal marriage amendment supporting the institution of traditional marriage
-CHRISTIANS: campaigning in 2000, he famously described Christian leaders as “agents of intolerance”
-PRO-LIFE: he filed an amicus brief against pro-life advocates in Wisconsin
-BI-PARTISANSHIP: he met with leading Democrats in 2004 to discuss the possibility of being John Kerry’s Vice-President; publicly considered leaving the Republican Party in 2001 after he lost the primary
-PROFESSIONAL ETHICS: ringleader of the infamous Keating 5 ethical scandal which cost US tax payers $160 billion (Google it)
-PERSONAL ETHICS: McCain cheated on his first wife after she had a severe accident that left her partially disabled. He then divorced her and married his multi-millionaire mistress, whose daddy bought McCain a spot in the Congress
ROMNEY SUPPORTERS (please read)!!!!!!!!
We need to start exposing McCain’s 2 big personal scandals to tip the scales to Mitt. This guy will say and do anything to sabotage Romney and it’s about time he give him a bit of his own medicine.
We need to expose:
1) McCain cheating on his disabled wife with a mistress half his age, McCain divorcing his disabled wife then marrying his millionaire mistress, and then having her rich daddy buy his seat in Congress.
2) Keating 5 ethics scandal and how McCain was the only member of the rebuked 5 not to resign his seat in Congress.
Mitt has had too much class to bring this up, but we must! The American people, who know nothing about these scandals, are evidently under the delusion that McCain is a straight-talker and man of honor. We must spend today spreading the TRUTH of why he is not.
What if Romney becomes the nominee? Which Democrat has more executive experience than he does? This is the highest executive office in the land we are voting for, not American Idol. fyi These people in the press are pretty sorry, aren’t they?
Is the news on the street about McCain having cancer the same tactic used when there was push-polling about him fathering a black baby(now that wouldn’t have been directed at the racists in our great patriotic country,,would it?). It is no secret that the ultra conservatives are not happy with McCain’s lead in the polls. What is sickening is the lengths they will take to knock this military veteran down to get him out, like they did to another honorable vet, former Sentator Max Cleland. His loss of limbs while serving our country wasn’t enough to stop push-pollers from getting rid of this democrat.
If any group has a corner on doing anything to get rid of a candidate or office holder, it is the conservatives.
Women are just that stupid to buy into the Obama vision. They dont even see they are passing up one of if not the only opportunities of their lifetime to have a woman for president.
I thought women would be smarter than that - they are falling for the handsome orator - thats why their wages are lower than mens, they get less respect in business etc.
This is the time for women to stand up and be counted.
He is getting the black vote - blacks are not stupid
Why are women not that smart?
I hope they vote for Hillary and prove me wrong.
When Obama says that the war was a mistake and is not at all the
Noble cause that Mc Cain pretends that it is, he will be credible.
Hillary cannot say that because she enabled the war by voting for it.
When Hillary talks about her 35 years of experience, McCain will tell about how he spent those years.
When Hillary says that she will be more capable than McCain of being Commander-in-chief on
day one , she will be laughted at.
Overseas Obama will have more credibilty than Hillary because foreigners shared Obama’s point of view from the start.
If Obama had been commander-in-chief he would have made the right decision as opposed to Hillary and McCain.
70% of Americans oppose the Iraq war. As a stauch supporter of that war, it is far and away McCains Achilles Heel.
Putting Hillary up against McCain would be rolling the dice.
Lee, some women aren’t stupid enough to vote on gender and they know that the only reason Hillary is in the postion she is, is because she had her husband’s coat tails to ride in on. She has zero executive experience and she’s never led anyone. We are not voting for Queen for a Day, we are voting for the highest executive office in the land, if not the world, and both Dems running, as well as Huckabee, Ron Paul and McCain, are way behind that curve. Why don’t you try using your head for a change and consider the consequences of your actions?
GO ROMNEY!!
McCain only led people when they all had to say “Yes sir,” or else they faced disciplinary action. That’s how he treats the America people, no matter how dishonest, dumb or boorish he behaves, and we are supposed to kiss his behind from here to eternity because he was a POW. If you want a POW, try getting one who was at the top of his class, not the bottom. Thank you.
conservative writes…
News on the street is McCain has cancer. He has threatened law suits against anyone who leaks the information. Is this true?<<<
LMAO. Anyone that can go through chemo and be as active as he has been recently is certainly worthy of my vote. I have a string feeling this one can be traced right back to Romney in a move of desperation.
Dan writes…
Let us look at McCain’s conservative credentials:…..<<<
Dan you have been posting the same thing for days. Think you can come up with something new?
McCain is 71 years old, he is retirement age, he does not act anything like he did 8 years ago when he ran, stop trying to pretend otherwise. It is obvious he does not have all his apples in a row.
He also whined and cried when people ran a dirty campaign against him and he has hired those same people for this dirty campaign against Romney. Don’t give me that. His supporters talk to the American people like we are dopes. That just proves they are and being in the military does not give you a free pass to behave as dishonestly as you want.
Romney is leading in the Maine caucus with 59% of the vote, so far, and Ron Paul is beating McCain. Huckabee is tied with undecided at *less than 2%* and Fox is ignoring that on tv, because they are running Huckabee campaign spots about how popular he is, over and over and over again. He has a lot of support among White Supremacists in the south, but they are leaving that little tidbit out, too. FYI
The press likes to pretend if candidates don’t show up in a state, because they have no support, those caucuses are meaningless. The press is meaningless.
The early results for Super Tuesday:
McCain - Slight lead losing ground
Huckabee - Close second Full Steam Ahead!
Romney - Humiliating loss Drops out
Paul - Stays in with no votes
Go Huckabee!
Huckabee called Thompson a “spoiler” in SC, but Thompson supporters are piling in behind Romney, not him. Today, Maine is giving Romney over 50% of the vote and Huckabee 2%, and he’s calling Romney the spoiler. Huckabee only has some of the evangelical vote and hardly any support outside that small group.
They are both attacking Romney, because he was a hardworking businessman, but McCain’s money came from committing adultery and marrying an heiress, who has her father’s money. Good one.
And Huckabee just said on Fox he supports McCain over Romney, because McCain is more consistent. Consistently liberal and consistently dishonest. This Huckster has a few screws loose and if he can’t get someone like McCain to give him an appt, he has no job. That’s why he’s staying in, even though he can’t win. Get it?
Fast Forward January 21, 2009
Ron Paul: Still running for primary - No votes
John McCain: Just fades away
Mitt Romney: Moves to Mexico, marries 2nd wife
Mike Huckabee: Spotted carrying his suit cases into White House
Is NO ONE concerned about this????
McCAIN’s RECORD OF FLIP-FLOPPING:
(I had to stop researching examples because it got too long!)
The fact is that no presidential candidate in either party has flip-flopped as egregiously as McCain on such a wide range of issues. Here’s just a small sample of Sen. Straight Talk’s recent series of remarkable conversions to politically convenient stances:
— IMMIGRATION AMNESTY —
TIM RUSSERT SAID: This is what John McCain said to the Tucson Citizen, home state paper, back in 2003. “I think we can set up a program where amnesty is extended to a certain number of people who are eligible. And at the same time make sure that we have some control over people who come in and out of” the “country. Amnesty has to be an important part because there are people who have lived in this country for 20, 30 or 40 years, who have raised children here,” paid “taxes here and are not citizens. That has to be a component of it.”
* When he got to Congress, McCain was a rather conventional conservative Republican. After his role in the Keating Five scandal, McCain took on a reform-minded persona. By 1999, he was a self-described “maverick” and moderate, who would move the GOP to the center. By 2004, McCain was back to being a conservative again. By 2007, he had positioned himself as an establishment Republican, and when that didn’t work out, McCain decided he’d become some kind of hybrid of the various McCains of the recent past.
* He said this week that he’d vote against his own immigration plan.
— LAW OF THE SEA —
* McCain used to champion the Law of the Sea convention, even volunteering to testify on the treaty’s behalf before a Senate committee. Now, if the treaty comes to the Senate floor, he’s vowed to vote against it.
— DREAM ACT —
* McCain was a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, which would grant legal status to illegal immigrants’ kids who graduate from high school. In 2007, to make the far-right base happy, he voted against the bill he had taken the lead on.
— ELECTION REFORM —
* In 2006, McCain sponsored legislation to require grassroots lobbying coalitions to reveal their financial donors. In 2007, after receiving “feedback” on the proposal, McCain told far-right activist groups that he now opposes the measure he’d backed.
* McCain used to support major campaign-finance reform measures that bore his name. In June 2007, McCain announced his opposition to a major McCain-Feingold provision.
NOTE:
These aren’t just random bills that McCain voted on — these (The previous 4, listed) are bills that he personally championed — recently. And now, after McCain sponsored the bills, he’s not even willing to vote for them anymore.
———-
— ABORTION —
* On abortion rights, McCain has done a 180-degree turn, from favoring only the most minor restrictions and opposing the overturning of Roe v. Wade, to supporting an almost total ban, while advocating that the Supreme Court reverse Roe immediately.
McCain in 1999 said that, “even in the long term,” he would not support the repeal of Roe v. Wade because “thousands of young American women would be performing illegal and dangerous operations.” But last November he said that he now favored repeal because “I don’t believe the Supreme Court should be legislating in the way that they did on Roe v. Wade.”
— GAY MARRIAGE —
* Sen. John McCain said Thursday that he supports an initiative that would change Arizona’s Constitution to ban gay marriages and deny government benefits to unmarried couples.
BUT, In 2004, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said he opposed a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage: Sen. John McCain of Arizona broke forcefully with President Bush and the Senate GOP leadership Tuesday evening over the issue of same-sex marriage, taking to the Senate floor to call a constitutional amendment that would effectively ban the practice unnecessary — and un-Republican. “The constitutional amendment we’re debating today strikes me as antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans,” McCain said.
BUT, ABC reported that McCain confided to Jerry Falwell that he WOULD support such an amendment:
McCain “reconfirmed” to Falwell that he would support a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman if a federal court were to strike down state constitutional bans on gay marriage.
It prompted the DNC’s Karen Finney to say, “Here he goes again, more double talk and pandering to the right wing from John McCain. It looks like there are real questions about where he truly stands on this issue, in fact, it’s getting hard to tell where he truly stands on a number of critical issues.”
— ECONOMY AND TAXES —
* McCain has transformed himself from a deficit hawk who mocked supply-side economics, into someone who sounds like he’s drunk deeply from the wackiest vats of supply-side Kool-Aid, to the point where he now claims raising taxes decreases revenues (a claim so wildly in conflict with the facts - for example federal tax revenues almost doubled in real terms after the Clinton tax increases - that it’s either a shameless lie or a product of astounding ignorance).
— ETHANOL —
* In regard to ethanol subsidies, McCain has gone from treating them as the worst sort of pork, to becoming a strong supporter of a program despised by economists, but beloved of Iowa farmers and the good people at Archer Daniels Midland.
— RELIGIOUS RIGHT —
* Six years ago McCain sternly condemned Jerry Falwell as “an agent of intolerance.” Eighteen months ago he gave the commencement address at Falwell’s university, while openly embracing one of the most noxious figures of the religious right.
— TAX CUTS —
* McCain in 2000 assailed Bush’s proposed tax cuts as a sop to the rich, and a year later, with Bush in office, he voted against those cuts, declaring that “the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle-class Americans.”
NOTE: His explaination AT THE TIME sounded very much like a democrat, (I opposed it because it benefits the rich instead of the middle class).
— DIRTY MONEY —
* McCain in 2000 was incensed when a pair of Texas businessmen, Sam and Charley Wyly, bankrolled some Bush-friendly TV ads that distorted McCain’s record. McCain declared at the time that their “dirty money” did not belong in national politics. But in 2006, McCain decided that their dirty money belonged in his campaign; he took $20,000 and allowed them to chair a McCain fund-raiser. (McCain later had to give back the money, because, it turns out, his new friends are reportedly under federal investigation.)
— CREATIONISM —
* McCain in 2006 suggested that creationism was not a fit topic for the schoolroom: “I respect those who think the world was created in seven days. Should it be taught as a science class? Probably not.” But he suggested the opposite in 2005 (”all points of view should be presented”), and next Friday he is scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a confab sponsored by the Discovery Institute, a prominent creationism advocacy group.
How DARE McCain claim Romney is a flip flopper?
Romney changed official posistions on only ONE issue: Abortion. Check is record.
Ron Paul is beating McCain and Huckabee in Maine, as the votes are being counted. He has also raised a lot more money.
Hillary is “the” Democrat who “will” beat McCain, for many reasons. Formost is that Americans, want to look forward, not back. The Iraq war must end and our troops must come home safely “now”, not 10-25-50-100 years from now.As McCain has suggested, we would go “broke”, with such huge debt. But even more important than this is the state of our present “economy”,which is a “mess”. Hillary has so much more experience than either McCain or Obama, it’s not even close.
McCain sword rattling will only insight world counties, not draw them to us peacefully.
What do Mitt and McCain have in common? They will say anything to win the election. Vote for a true republican, vote for Huckabee and let’s move forward. I Like Mike ‘08
I’m sorry if I sound angry, but between the way the press has been pushing McCain (this article is a perfect example) and the lies about Romney from other campaigns, it is just very upsetting to see. McCain has so much baggage they aren’t even mentioning and same with Huckabee. Romney is an honest and decent man and this is why more qualified people from the private sector don’t run. He could have nailed McCain & Huckabee so bad and he didn’t. McCain was counting on Romney to be classier than he is and so is Huckabee. The difference.
Just wait for the involitary draft to start up under McCain, would seem needed under his plans.
Hillary should distroy McCain in a National vote, on issues alone. By the time the national election roles around both Obama and Edwards and libral votes will be thrown to Hillary Clinton instead of McCain. Then we can all get to work cleaning this Bush mess up properly.
Just sad reality.
Romney changed his mind on abortion, gay marriage, and many other things to run for president. Doesn’t that make you a little suspect on his intentions. He was gov of Mass for one term, the most liberal state and now he is running as a republican? How about this, Romney and McCain are RINO’s. Go Mike
I always enjoy reading Obama’s shrills when they post. It’s like they have a direct line to the future that no other human being has. They know absolutely everything that will happen.
To Lee: Just because Hillary is a woman is no reason to vote for her. I am a 58 year old woman and I vote for someone, not because they are the same gender as me but for someone whom I truly believe can bring this country back again and be looked upon by the rest of the world as positive and not negative.
If Hillary stands up for woman so much, why didn’t she stand up for all the women her husband as sexually abused all his life, since his College days. Many many women have been sexually abused by him and whenever they tried to speak out they were threatened. Hillary truned a blind eye to all of this because of her own agenda for power.
This is not the woman I want for President.
I like the idea of an Obama/Sebelius ticket. Now there is a smart classy woman.
Hillary needs to go back to the gutters with her husband
If McCain wins and beats Hillary, does it matter, and vice versa? Either way, we’re still stuck with a dimocrap in office!
Huck will definitely win the southern baptist, hellfire and brimstone folks, but he has no chance running against McCain or the Dimocraps. Romney’s our only hope.
Fox news Poll has Mccaine 48 and Romney 20, Rassmussen has McCaine 30 and Romney 30. Somebody is way off. Way out of margin of error. If this fox poll turns out to be bogus and with just a few days out of super tuesday. Lets put it this way… It woun’t be Fox’s finest hour. Anyone else a little curios about this?
Vote for Romney
Romney lost Iowa after spending millions. Romney lost New Hampshire after spending millions. Romney lost SC after spending millions. Romney lost Florida after spending millions. What does that tell you? He is good at losing and spending millions while doing it. I am sure he can spend your money just as well as he spent not only his, but the $730 million of Massachusetts taxpayers money.
Romney won Wyoming which no other candidate campaigned for, none. Romney won Nevada which only Ron Paul contested. Romney won Michigan which is where he was born and his father was a 3 term Governor. Of course he should of won those.
Huckabee is statistically TIED with Romney nationally according to the RCP average. If you look at polls for Super Tuesday, Huckabee is ahead of Romney in more of them than he is behind. So exactly who is splitting the vote here?
You want to know what Romney stands for? The video below is of a news broadcast talking about Romney’s new tactic to win the White House. Is this who you want as your President?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk6IJS3QN34
To hear what Michael Reagan (Ronald Reagan’s son) has to say about McCain go to:
http://www.reagan.com/column.cfm?id=52
Either Obama or Hillary can easily beat McCain because many True Republicans won’t even vote for him. Of course, McCain is NOT a true Republican, so how can Republicans choose him as their leader????
Mike Huckabee is as sleazy a politician as they come. He can’t hide behind his religious facade.
I will never vote for a crook. Judicial Watch lays out his atrocities as Governor in Arkansas, naming him #6 on the list of Ten Most Corrupt Politicians in 2007.
As a Southern Baptist Christian, I am embarrassed at how Huckabee is conducting himself. McCain is just as liberal as Obama and Clinton, yet Huckabee only talks bad about Romney and refuses to talk about McCain’s horrific Senate record? There has to be some motive for personal gain. There is no other reason for Huckabee to act this way because all true conservatives know how liberal McCain is.
Look at McCain’s record: McCain-Feingold, a direct attack on our first amendment rights. The Keating Five scandal involving four Democrats and one Republican - McCain. Also, McCain was only 1 of 2 Republicans to vote against Bush’s tax cuts. At the time, he said he opposed them because they favored the rich. Now he says he opposed them because they didn’t cut spending. McCain lead the “Gang of 14″ in 2005. The Amnesty Bill in which McCain tried to secretly push through in 2007 until word leaked out and the American people flooded Washington with so many calls that it practically shut down the switchboard! Rumor had it that McCain might be a running mate for John Kerry in 2004. When McCain was asked about it, he said he would consider it. There have been many reports about McCain’s short temper, cursing during meetings using the *F* word when people didn’t agree with him.
So, this is why I am so disappointed in Huckabee.
Mitt is tied with McCain in the Rassmussen National poll released today.Huckabee is way behind. Mitt has just blown away McCaine again, this time in Maine with over 50 percent. McCain got 20. Huckabee comes in 4th behind Ron Paul with less than 15 percent if i remember right. Somethings up here!! National media are sitting on this info, including Fox news. Get the news out people. i think if we dont get it out its, going to be buried. Go Mitt
Romney can beat Mexccain anytime, especially a one on one match. But the bully Mexccain, and his circle of friends decided to all ganging up on him, using the gangster style. Wow, what a war hero Mexccain is. Way to go Mexccain, cheating all the way to the whitehouse.
Romney for President.
“If you’re a conservative, there really is only one place to go right now. I would even argue further than that. If you are a Republican in the broadest sense, there is only one place to go right now, and that’s Mitt Romney.
– Senator Rick Santorum
Here’s what the CEO of one of the businesses Romney helped said about Romney’s LEADERSHIP:
Boston, MA – Today, Staples Founder Thomas Stemberg released the following statement regarding Governor Romney’s record of growing businesses and creating jobs:
“At this critical time for our economy, the United States needs a leader in Washington who actually has a record in the private sector of creating jobs. That leader is Mitt Romney. He knows what it takes to create jobs because he has done it time and time again. As a businessman, Governor Romney took a chance and invested in the first Staples store. Today, tens of thousands of Staples employees across this country have jobs because of that decision. That’s a clear record of action that Mitt Romney repeated time after time. Washington needs leaders who can do more than just talk about creating jobs.”
*emphasis added
Romney - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43TVmSoaQ7c
On Super Tuesday let conservative voices be heard on the ballots not on polls or media. Vote For Mitt Romney!!! McCain’s liberal views are not whats Republican partys all about. We conservative will be heard on the ballots
The idea that the 2004 election was decided by latinos is a myth put out by Dick Morris, who believes the GOP must become as leftwing on immigration as the Democrats to survive the mass immigration-fueled demographic shifts taking place. Bush won in 2004 because his share of the white vote went up to 58% from 54% in 2000. This netted Bush many more votes than his comparable gain among Hispanics.
I will give Aaron Bruns credit for putting Bush’s share of the Hispanic vote in 2004 at 40% instead of the incorrect, but still often-quoted 44%.
TO NETTE:
This is why Mitt Romney is our only hope on Tuesday. Huckabe wasn’t even on the radar screen until the liberal media elevated him through his religion well knowing that IA was Evangelical “heavy”. A the same time it trashed Romney and made sure to mention that he was a Mormon. THAT is how Huckabee got ANYWHERE in this race.
Then the media did the same thing with McCain, who was broke, firing his staff, and near the bottom in the polls. Knowing that Huckabee had no chance in NH, they puffed up McCain the same way. ALL of this has been orchestrated by the LIBERAL media because they’re scared to death of Mitt Romney knowing that he is by far the strongest GOP candidate.
Now they’ve successfully fragmented the Republican vote and pumped their favorite (and our enemy) RINO McCain. It’s a win win for the Socialist/Communists who are in the process of hijacking the Republican Party AND the country.
There is still time to give Romney enough of a push to keep the race competitive after Tuesday. The power of the internet is incredible so use it!
Email ANY and EVERYONE you know who will be voting on Tuesday and let them know just how disasterous it would be to vote for McCain. Educate them as to why and turn them on to Mitt Romney. I’ve met him on several occasions and was at the MA Rep. convention when we nominated him for Governor there.
Put some links in your emails to this GREAT ad from Citizen’s United: http://media.citizensunited.org/Surprisingly.htm. It kills McCain and ties him with Hillary.
Tell them to get on the Romney bandwagon and help the guy out at: http://www.mittromney.com.
Besides emails, you can make phone calls AND write/submit letters to editors online and at major metropolitan newspapers http://www.newslink.org/news.html around the country.
The fact of the matter is all candidates, be it republican or democrat, are nothing more than politicians. They say, vote, and even do whatever they feel will bring them a majority of votes and each and everyone of them flip flop on multiple issues. What’s worse is they all promise change and we the American people buy into it knowing full well there is no one individual that can ever bring about change in Washington.
As a staunch conservative and for the record a Huckabee supporter, my only hope is that the republicans can somehow take back the house or senate so all three houses aren’t under democratic control. I say that because I don’t see any of the republican candidates being able to defeat either Hillary or Obama. Mainly because the young and independent voters will in large part vote democratic and for no other reason then they think change means taking a republican out of the White House and replacing him with a democratic.
Mind you, this “Change” won’t really change anything because despite the rhetoric the war on terrorism will continue, our troops in both Iraq and Afganistan will stay until those governments are stable, and the economy will continue to ebb and flow as it always has. The only real difference between the two parties comes down to taxes and with the democrats in office we will again face more money coming out of our pockets and into various programs that benefit the few who really need help and the multitude who take advantage of handouts.
I know they say only the rich will be taxed, but someone please tell me how Hillary or Obama plan on paying for their proposed 750 billion dollar a year programs. You can’t raise that much on the rich alone and I heard someone estimate that allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire would only raise about 150 billion, so get ready everyone. That’s 600 billion a year coming from somewhere and the only recourse will be to raise taxes across the board.
So for the republicans on here, I’d ask you to really think about the other races, both for Congress and the Senate. We really can’t afford to lose all three!!
Quite honestly, if people looked at McCain’s record, and they looked at who he has in his own campaign right now (I.E. Juan Gonzales).
McCain couldn’t beat anybody.
But since that’s not the case, and people obviously do not care and treat like election as they do American Idol….
I think Romney has a shot at beating McCain.
I think Hillary will destroy him.
I think Obama would flatten him
Just my two cents… but what do I know? I certainly don’t know Rudy Giuliani… if I knew he would go and back McCain I would have never gave his campaign money, wore his t-shirts, put a sitcker on my car, and I certainly would have voted for Mitt Romney instead of Rudy here in Florida.
I guess ya just never know.
Jason Bradley
ExcellenceInAmerica.com
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As a lifelong Republican I did something unimaginable – My husband say’s I will go to HELL for it!
As a loyal Republican I voted for George Bush – One of my biggest mistakes!
As a Arizona resident I would love to vote for John McCain but because of his stance on Bush’s war of revenge I just can’t.
So that leaves me – The scandal ridden Clintons or Sen. Barack Obama.
No question !
I support Barack Obama and at 60 I recently donated for the first time to a Democratic candidate for any office.
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I had the opportunity to meet John McCain at his Republican Rally in Atlanta last night.
I am inspired and optimistic that our country would be UNITED under his leadership. Divided we fail.
He is determined to cut spending and lower taxes. He is determined to protect our country and interests. He is determined to bring our troops home in honor. He is determined to find Bin Laden. He is determined to protect our children from atrocity. He is determined to close our borders. He is determined to work with Congress to get things done. He is determined to provide better care for our soldiers returning from war. He is determined to arrange for our military and military families to be able to CHOOSE their physicians rather than to travel hours away to a military base for treatment.
He has the COURAGE, WISDOM and LIFE EXPERIENCE to lead and make wise decisions.
He offers a RATIONAL and REALISTIC approach to the problems our country faces ahead.
He would be OUR President of the UNITED STATES.
Someone who will make us proud. And someone who will make us even more PROUD TO AMERICANS.
Please vote McCain.
John McCain vs. John McCain:
1) THE REAL MCCAIN (Video: 3 short clips combined, totaling 5 minutes) http://www.therealmccain.com/
2) McCain was in serious talks — for two months — with Democrats about abandoning the GOP in 2001.
Where are his loyalties?
Democrats say McCain nearly abandoned GOP, By Bob Cusack, 03/28/07 THE HILL
http://www.thehill.com/leading-the-news/democrats-say-mccain-nearly-abandoned-gop-2007-03-28.html
McCain thinks that it will be just fine to stay in the Iraq fiasco for the next one hundred years. I think that he left some of his marbles at the Hanoi Hilton.
The Iraq war, whether it was an honest mistake by Bush/Cheney or a deliberate deception to carry out the PNAC/Neoconservative agenda has been a disaster for an unbelieveable number of reasons.
Anyone who tries to rationalize the Iraq war is trying to put lipstick on a pig.
Thanks for your support of Ron Paul. My wife said the other day that when she tells some people about our voting for Ron Paul they laugh at her. I said “ good”. Ask them if they like 3 dollar or more a gallon gas prices? Ask them if they like to be involved with wars for the next 100 years that get their children killed for no good reason? Ask them if they like sending all the money they earn for the Months of January through May each year to the central government just to pay for their spending sprees in Washington DC? Ask them if they are satisfied with the way their country has changed in the last fifty years or so? See if they are still laughing?
Yes, please, all republicans please vote for Romney. That will ensure a landslide victory for Obama or Clinton. We really do not need another white, republican, male leading this country. Enough is enough.