I love Derb, now and forever. Here's his comment to conservatives about last night's Florida results:
Oh, stop whining. So what if the likely GOP nominee believes in restraints on free speech, higher taxation, bigger government, open borders, and 100-year U.S. armies of occupation everywhere from Albania to Zimbabwe? Romney believes in those things too — at least, he does when he's in a room full of people that want him to.
Derb's still a Ron Paul man.
It's time for us Huckaboosters to admit that this is not our man's year. I regret that things have turned out this way for him, but he waged a hell of a campaign, and got as far as he did almost wholly on the power of his own ideas and skill at campaigning. It was Huck who first mortally wounded Romney by whipping him thoroughly in Iowa, in a David vs. Goliath victory. Huck won't be the GOP nominee, but I anticipate that he will be a player in Republican and conservative politics, and hope that he spends the next few years playing an active role in rebuilding the conservative movement.
I respect the hell out of John McCain, but I find it difficult to imagine voting for a candidate who believes what he does on immigration, and who is committed to the marrow to the Iraq War. So many conservatives hate McCain. I don't hate McCain, but I don't want to vote for him. I hate to say it, but I'd be more likely to vote for Romney than McCain. I don't think Romney knows what he really believes. I think McCain does. I'm more worried about the latter than the former.
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Clinton v. McCain?. . . McCain
Obama v. McCain?. . . McCain, wavering
Obama v. McCain/Huckabee? . . .Sold.
Romney? Actually felt bad for him watching the concession speech last night.
It's clear there's no perfect candidate. I think what America needs is a socially conservative, anti-NAFTA, anti-preemptive war candidate. That's not happening.
I remember listening to Doris Kearns Goodwin, the presidential historian, when talking about how to choose a president. She said 'You'd do well to study their campaign's organization. The way they handled adversity/dissent on the campaign trail. How they treat their campaign staff, etc. This will tell you much more about what type of president they would be than their rhetoric. Speeches are less likely to tell you much of anything.' I think she was right. This'd be a great topic for Americans to read about before Super Tuesday. I think the analysis would serve people well. If the organization is a reflection of it's leader, What characterizes each candidate's organization?
Let me see. If McCain gets his way, we have lots of little wars (we means we can make money playing the defense group), we get to keep our busboys and lettuce pickers, and the auto workers can collect unemployment.
I'm definitely voting for McCain!
Rod:
Re. your objections to McCain on immigration:
If you don't want boxcars to Mexico, and you don't want the status quo, and you don't want "self-deportation" (the status quo on a mild steroid, which is still, I would remind you, the status quo), and you don't want comprehensive immigration reform a la McCain ...
In the words of Freud, WHAT DO YOU WANT?!
From the article (Rod Dreher)
"I anticipate that he will be a player in Republican and conservative politics, and hope that he spends the next few years playing an active role in rebuilding the conservative movement."
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My response:
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha.....deep breath....hahahahahahahaha....'nother deep breath....hahahahahahahaha....Huckabee...rebuilding the conservative movement...hahahahahahahaha....hahahahahahaha...wiping eyes. Thanks Dreher, you're ridiculous and delusional.
Huckabee is Pat Robertson in a Southern Baptist costume. But even at that, Huckabee's range of intellectual sophistication, understanding of political science, and novice grasp of the actual ideology behind genuine conservatism is so far inadequate that the only playing he will be doing is with with Evangelical poli-christ sycophants. He spent his dollar being vindictive and petty. He has no comprehensive understanding of conservatism and has one thing to offer just as I said, Pat Robersonisms and Falwellian ideology. Next Please!
I think what America needs is a socially conservative, anti-NAFTA, anti-preemptive war candidate. That's not happening.
That would be Ron Paul.
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