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McCain triumphant
McCain rolls
Date published: 1/30/2008
CHARACTER COUNTS; some- times it counts in the count. In Florida, Arizona Sen. John McCain yesterday won the Republican primary, overcoming big disadvantages favoring former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. What disadvantages? Let us, well, count.
Mr. Romney built a huge campaign apparatus in Florida over the last year, while Mr. McCain, since his campaign nearly expired last summer, was able to do very little organizationally in the Sunshine State.
Many Floridians voted early--before Mr. McCain picked up the endorsements of Florida U.S. Sen. Mel Marinez and the state's governor, John Crist (to say nothing of Sly Stallone).
The number of voters self-identifying as conservatives rose from 50 percent four years ago to 60 percent this year, and a solid majority preferred Mr. Romney. Independents--a group that has been kind to Mr. McCain--could not vote in the GOP primary.
Yet Mr. McCain pulled out a victory, in no small part, surely, because he seems simply more genuine than his chief GOP opponent, whose stances on key issues such as abortion and immigration have changed with the office he's pursuing. By contrast, Mr. McCain backed a "surge" in Iraq three years before it was ordered, and later when that position badly hurt him in the polls. His "heterodoxies" (ask any of the talk-radio gasbags) on immigration and the environment, whether one agrees with him or not, show him to be a man, not an ambition-twisted taffy stick.
Mr. McCain, now the bona fide Republican front runner, may have saved the angry right from itself. Among Republicans nationally, Mr. McCain has a 71 percent favorable rating, and Independents like him. He could win--and not just the GOP nomination. Never count character out.
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Date published: 1/30/2008
Most recent reader comments:
LibBuster
(posted by
Bubbadeanie
, Feb. 1, 2008 9:04 am)
Excuse my harshness, I do not mean to be mean. I am just tired of people complaining about this and that and making excuses for a party that is unbearable. Now catch this, I am not a democrat and and definitely not a liberal or conservative. However, I fully know when someone is trying to sell me a white blackbird. The past 8 years has been a total lie and waste. We need new people big time, with across the table ideas on everything. Super Conservatives and super liberals look like ignorant fools.
LibBuster
(posted by
Bubbadeanie
, Feb. 1, 2008 9:01 am)
If you are upset at the immigration situation, you better address it with Ronald Wilson Regan and with President Bush, both big supporters of amnesty bills with Regan being the one who drew the original one up. It is high time for you conservatives to realize that your party is full of crap as a Christmas Turkey and are absolutely doing the opposite of what you preach. Failure after failure, lie after lie. Fiscal Conservatives, PULEEEEZE. Your crew needs to take a time out like misdirected kids do.
Bubbadeanie Pay Attention!
(posted by
LibBuster
, Feb. 1, 2008 5:30 am)
First, I am not a "super conservative." I am hard right on
some issues, such as illegal immigration (which to me is a
matter of national security and sovereignty), and pretty
liberal or moderate on others (environment and gay rights).
If you think it is OK for the Senate, led by John McCain, to
grant amnesty to close to 20 million illegals WITHOUT a
debate on the Senate floor, then you need to retake your
high school civics course. I could vote for the moderate
Giuliani - but McCain is despicable.
Dear Chiswald
(posted by
Bubbadeanie
, Jan. 30, 2008 1:58 pm)
Thanks, but I am as screwed up as a box of fishhooks! LOL. Thank you for the comment.
Bubbadeanie...you seem to have your head screwed on straight!
(posted by
Chiswald
, Jan. 30, 2008 1:12 pm)
I like reading posts from those who have open minds and display the ability to reason.
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