What Stephen Green said.
32 years ago, your Democratic brethren took one look at Jimmy Carter — the worst 20th Century President bar Nixon, and the worst ex-President ever — and declared, “That’s our man!”
Three decades later, and along comes Mike Huckabee. Same moral pretentiousness, same gullibility on foreign affairs, only-slightly-less toothy idiot’s grin. Then you so-called Republicans took a look at Carter’s clone and said, “That’s our man, too!”
At least they brought Mitt down to earth a bit and kept Fred in the race but I have to second Stephen here….Huckabee?
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Maybe Fred can hang strong coming out of Iowa, but I’m pulling for a McCain win!
We’ll see!
McCain would be cool, but he’d just lengthen and give more strength to Obama’s CHANGE theme. I like McCain as an American hero, as a military man, as a father of two sons in Iraq, and more, but…we shall see.
How can McCain be cool given his Shamnesty support? He was a bigger threat to this country just half a year ago than the Democrats! Now he is claiming he brought about the surge in Iraq. He is pathetic. I don’t understand why people forget the whole near-amnesty thing that transpired. Is there some sort of “we will only remember things for a couple of weeks” mist in the air???
I don’t understand this seemingly change in direction for McCain. Some of the people that are now talking up Mcshamnisty, were just a little bit ago slamming him. The biggest offender is Michael Medved, who today came out for Mcshamnisty. There is something afoot here that smells really bad to me.
Anybody who mentions McCain in a positive light today is either dishonest, forgetful, a flip-flopper, or has been for the Amnesty from the very beginning. If there are other alternatives, please educate me.
Igor- your right on. My question is why? There is something that just doesn’t smell right. People don’t change their minds about someone they were opposed to this easily. Someone with more knowledge on this subject please speak up.
Ask Wordsmith about Michael Medved, he’s a fan.
McCain made it pretty clear to me, and told me to tell my “blogging friends” which is you guys, that if we disagreed with him on the gang of 14, immigration and “torture” of jihadis (that was the three I mentioned, there are more) that we shouldn’t vote for him.
I appreciated his frankness. He didn’t try and run away from his positions, though he has changed on immigration.
Still, I profoundly disagree with him on those issues and more so cannot consider voting for him in the primary.
I don’t understand this seemingly change in direction for McCain.
I think it’s a change on the part of people who think in strategic terms, in response to Obama’s Iowa victory. If you figure that any Republican has a decent chance to beat Hillary, but that you need the strongest possible candidate in the general if you’re going to beat Obama, then McCain makes some sense. I don’t vote on that basis, but there’s a certain logic to it.
I don’t think you got what you think.
The person that benefitted the most by bringing Romney down was McCain by far.
Romney would have likely trailed Guiliani and Thompson in most states to come. By Romney being knocked down, the number 3 position opens up for McCain to move up.
If either Guiliani or Thompson bow out, it will then become McCain and the remaining of those two. This gives McCain a real chance, perhaps not the better chace, but still a real one of getting the nomination.
If people that attacked Romney liked McCain over Romney, well played. If they didn’t, they were well played.