Bash Calls It Done: Mitt Wins Michigan Primary
Last Updated 6:15 PM PST…14% of the vote in:
Romney 37%
McCain 31%
Huckabee 17%
Paul 6%
Thompson 4%
Giuliani 3%
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Thank God Fuckabee is not winning along with McLame.
January 15th, 2008 at 5:39 pmRon Paul got more votes than Thompson?
January 15th, 2008 at 6:37 pmWTF!?!?!?
fuck mitt, what is this shit, a mormon from Michigan that is now governor of Mass, with a bob dobbs shit eat grin…OMG he’s a dabber dan man. Maybe i am missing something please inform me what is the appeal, honestly i really wanna know cause i don’t see it. Frankly i don’t know what to say. McCain is fucked on immigration but strong on the war, Huckbee super conservative to the point that he is kind of creepy, and doesn’t realize that people sell labor which means there should be a sales tax on it and frankly i trust Mitt and Rudy as far as i can throw them. Could someone give me some advice, cause i am just lost. Were all going to hell…
January 15th, 2008 at 7:01 pmMy two cents:
Dittos Dave.
WTF indeed POD1.
Glass half full helgelbot - Mitt is better than the pig in a pantsuit. And I feel confident Mitt can beat her thighness. As far as the Mormon deal, I’m secure in my faith — I won’t be voting for a spiritual guide, I’ll be voting for a President.
I’ve been giving bucks to Thompson’s campaign but it appears the demedia’s tactic of flip-flopping between ignoring Thompson one day and butchering him the next coupled with sticking the too-late tag on Fred is keeping Thompson from picking up any traction with the sheeple. Looks like it’s coming down to Romney, McCain and Huckabee. I’ll vote for any one of the three before I would vote for a dem…although I’d be holding my nose while pulling the lever for two of the three. Sitting at home on election day waiting for another Reagan to come along ain’t an option in Fort Blanx.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:38 pmheg,
I am not the biggest Romney fan, but I am happy about this win for Romney because in my process of elimination, Huckabee is out and McCain is probably out (depends on running mate, but then maybe I think McCain is too stubborn to take advise from anyone else?) . . . Romney seems to have a real keen business mind and his position on illegal immigration is okay (not aggressive enough for me, but better than McCain). I don’t like some of the liberal compromises Romney made in Mass. - I am okay with his change of position on abortion because ashamedly I had the same sort of conversion (I can’t believe I ever thought “choice” was okay - it is embarrassing to admit! - My younger, stupider days).
I don’t know for sure - I like his comments on patriotism and the war. They do sound canned.
I need to hear more.
If he picked Duncan Hunter as his running mate, I would be 100 percent with him.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:41 pm“Romney and his staff were most pleased with exit polls showing his big advantage among Republicans in Michigan, whose votes far outnumbered the independents and Democrats who could participate in either of Michigan’s primaries. Those voters preferred McCain, but Romney argued that it is the GOP that will ultimately decide the party’s nominee.”
Wow, Republican voters actually picking the Republican nominee…WHATTACONCEPT!!
People, trust me, Mitt Romney is a good man and wd be a fine Prez. Same w/Fred.
Rudy I’m just not sure.
McCain has been the MSM’s favorite Repub for 10 years…think about it. He’d be a disaster, a Repub LBJ.
Huckabee is just too glib for me, and his “populism” sounds too much like liberalism.
January 15th, 2008 at 8:08 pmLook as far as Mitt’s mormon thing. The Mormon church has traditinally and vehemetely been independent of politics. Growing up in a mormon family I was always tought that Politics and religion are never to be intertwined. I know for a fact that Mitt would never let his religion dictate his governance. As I know that the Mormon church has never, and will never endorse candidates or positions. People may think it’s crazy but the mormon church really does let people think for themselves on things. It has always tought the word of Jesus Christ and let people apply it to their lives as they deem fit. Mitt would be a decent prez. Don’t know if he’s got my vote yet. I want to see a more aggressive candidate on ridding the world of Jihadi’s and ending illegal immigration. Duncan Hunter would be the best. Too bad nobody hears about him.
January 15th, 2008 at 8:21 pmIf you think Mitt is a good man, you obviously did not live in Massachusetts while he was governor. I could care less that he is a mormon, and just because I live in Massachusetts does not make me a democrat. He was a horrible governor. Nothing important got done while he was here. The last two years of his term were spent out of state, wasting tax payers money, promoting his bid for election which at the time was still two years away. He would only come back to the state if something bad happened and then would try to put himself out there as trying to help…he didn’t.
People may say that Mitt is a good businessman and they would be right when it comes to the businessmen who hope other people do their job. Don’t get me started on his flip-flopping, he’s worse than Kerry when it comes to that. Romney would be a disaster as president.
January 15th, 2008 at 9:32 pmthanks for the responses so far guys. I think i am coming back around to my earlier single most vital issue approach which i had taken from the beginning, which in my mind is the war. I am still for McCain, but i do wonder about his electabilty. Wow its weird how much things have changed since 2000 when McCain was the hope/change candidate.
January 16th, 2008 at 2:51 amGoddamnit Fred Thompson, I donated $25 for this shit? WTF?!?!?!?!?
January 16th, 2008 at 3:49 am“Wow, Republican voters actually picking the Republican nominee…WHATTACONCEPT!!”
There’s a reason for this reporting JewishOdysseus, as much of the nomination race so far has been with mixed primary voters, not purely Republican votes. The media will make much about a Republican candidate’s ability to catch the Independent and Moderate Democrat votes, saying that this shows a general electibility, but it also makes the Republican Nomination about INDEPENDENTS and DEMOCRATS as much, if not more, than about what the Republican Nomination SHOULD be, about REPUBLICANS!
Do we see the Democrats sweating about how many Republicans are voting for them in these primaries? No. So why are Republicans worrying about Democrats in their primaries? They’re not really, that’s the MEDIA and PUNDITS saying that. And Moderates supporting Giuliani in Florida, or tipping McCain in New Hampshire, is a little bit misleading when it comes to these primaries.
January 16th, 2008 at 4:55 amMcCain will close Gitmo on day one…nuff said about that old coot. Huckleberry is a goofball zealot liberal…nuff said about that fatass.
Here is the winning ticket: Romney-Thompson
Unless Newt jumps in (and it is getting late for that), this is the best bet to stop the dims and they MUST be stopped!
January 16th, 2008 at 5:03 am“If you think Mitt is a good man, you obviously did not live in Massachusetts while he was governor.”
Nice jab at Romney, too bad I have Massachusetts friends who absolutely disagree with you! You can’t speak for all of Massachusetts, but again, nice try.
But, for those who like McCain, you obviously don’t keep score on the bullshit he keeps trying to pull. Not only would he close Gitmo, but he already helped smear the entire Military Intelligence community with his whole “torture” campaign, when the real target was a tiny slice of work done by the Intelligence Agencies. Even then, McCain later backs up what the CIA has done with selective and careful use of torture? The damage is done McCain, you’re a day late and a dollar short.
Add to that McCain’s recent disingenuous pandering on Immigration, knowing that he can push whatever he likes once he’s actually in office, and you have a recipe for the same old BS that came before on Immigration “reform”.
Then, take into account McCain’s voting against Bush’s tax plan twice, and then voting to repeal it later, twice. Conservative? NOPE!
And more, what did McCain do to Congress with the “gang of 14″ and judicial confirmations? If you don’t know, again, YOU’RE NOT ACTUALLY WATCHING AND KEEPING SCORE! McCain fans will tell you it was bipartisan, keeping both parties from being able to singularly dominate judicial nominations, but the reality was that the “gang of 14″ just became a lynchpin to a new kind of “filibuster” that led to more stalling. The “gang of 14’s” usefulness to these “bipartisans”, who were taking the deciding factor of the confirmations upon themselves, ended when the Democrats took over the majority control. Now, they don’t need to “filibuster” and the “gang of 14″ is useless, all without making any decent progress on conservative judicial nominations.
Thanks McCain! The “maverick” who never was, and wants to be nominated by the conservative party? No, I don’t think so.
If he happens to get the nomination, I will vote for him, reluctantly, but he had better hope his “conservative” values can keep Obama from trumping his “politics as usual” (although UN-usual) image.
January 16th, 2008 at 5:53 amGreat post, Ren - Here is more on McCain :
Mark Levin article:
Voted against permanently barring gang members and terrorists from the United States. Last year, Mr. McCain voted against an amendment (Senate Amendment 1184) introduced by Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, that would have permanently barred gang members, terrorists, sex offenders, alien absconders, aliens convicted of domestic violence and aliens convicted of at least three DUIs from the United States. The Cornyn Amendment was rejected on a 51-46 vote.
Another article from McCain’s home state:
January 16th, 2008 at 6:10 amCHANDLER, Ariz. — A suspect in the sexual assaults of several young girls in Chandler has been arrested and police said Saturday that DNA positively links the man to the case. Santana Batiz Aceves, 39, was booked into a Maricopa County jail in Phoenix on 25 counts of kidnapping, sexual assault and trespassing in connection with the assaults that began in June 2006, police announced at a news conference. They said the most recent attack linked to the case occurred June 8 on a 14-year-old girl. All of the victims have been girls between the ages of 12 and 15, according to authorities. Chandler Police Chief Sherry Kiyler said Aceves is an illegal immigrant who was deported twice for drug charges in California in 1999 and 2003.
More per Levin: McCain also . . .
Voted in favor of Social Security benefits to illegal aliens who commit identity fraud. In 2006. Mr. McCain joined with Mr. Kennedy in working to defeat an amendment by Sen. John Ensign, Nevada Republican, that would have barred Social Security credits for work being done prior to their receiving amnesty — in other words, while working under a false Social Security number. The Ensign Amendment, (Senate Amendment 3985) was defeated on a 50-49 vote.
January 16th, 2008 at 6:11 amRomney would make a fine President. For the people who felt that Mitt got nothing accomplished, just remember…he was a Republican governor in a the most liberal state in the country, where only 15% of the voters are registered Republicans, and had to work alongside a Democratic state congress that was ticked off at having a Republican since 1992. I think he did a great job considering all that he had against him. He authorized the state police here in MA to round up illegal immigrants. But that policy was later overturned by the new Democratic governor.
January 16th, 2008 at 9:01 am“If you think Mitt is a good man, you obviously did not live in Massachusetts while he was governor. ”
Joe M, I lived in the People’s Republic of Moscowchusetts Mass. for the first 37 years of my life, when I finally gave up on a state whose political culture makes Haiti look healthy.
I’ve watched Mitt closely since 1994, when the Boston Glob and affiliated libs first tried (successfully) to lynch him. He is today their worst nightmare: a victim they tried to destroy, come back to political life, and NOW MORE CONSERVATIVE than he was when they beat him. That shows me has learned precisely the right lessons from the hard time he’s done in that lunatic asylum.
Mitt is NOT a political pro (only involved for the past ~15 years), but he is very smart, tough, and a true patriot running because he loves our country (you think he needs this sh!t?)
ALSO: I FOR ONE WILL NEVER FORGIVE MCCAIN FOR SMEARING THE SWIFTBOAT VETS AS “DISHONEST AND DISHONORABLE”!! REMEMBER THAT ONE? So don’t even try throwing Kerry’s name around here–McCain loves that phony douche!
January 16th, 2008 at 2:26 pmJewishOdysseus: “Mitt is NOT a political pro (only involved for the past ~15 years), but he is very smart, tough, and a true patriot running because he loves our country (you think he needs this sh!t?)”
Hell, I was listening to Dean Barnett on Hugh Hewitt’s program and Barnett mentioned how Mitt Romney really didn’t become a politician until 2002. After losing the one Senate race in ‘94, to Kennedy, he left “running” for politics and went right back to work. So, in reality, Mitt has only been a “politician” for a single term as Governor. As an experienced businessman and a lawyer, who only later became a politician, his understanding of Government is something quite unique.
Barnett also mentioned how McCain stupidly said this weekend that he’s not really as literate on economics as he should be. My GOD, how long do you have to be in politics, and in the Senate, to understand the economy? Of all the things to not be literate on, that’s easily just as important as the GWOT. If you don’t understand the economy, you’re going to fuck it up as President. It’s harder to get than the military and the war, for which there has been a great deal of education for us all, and there are great advisers and Generals for.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:51 pmThanks, Ren, very good points!
Of course, I roughed it, figuring that anyone actually running for Senate in 1994 HAD to be “involved” in politics for at least some period prior to that…as well as in his “non-political” interim from 1994-2002.
But the point stands, that Mitt is NOT a professional pol, and IS a man who has made great success in the real, competitive world of entrepreneurial capitalism. And unlike a certain furrin billionaire who’s tried to buy the Dhim party, he is not a megalomaniac, but an American who loves our country.
January 16th, 2008 at 11:31 pmJewishOdysseus,
In any case, I believe you were essentially right on Romney, he’s not a career politician. Personally, I wish he had not tried to fill the “perceived” gap in the Republican race and altered the appearance of his earlier positions to become THE candidate for true “conservatives”. Had he just softened his stances on several more social liberal positions, and simply stated he would defend several key conservative points, as he did as Governor, he would have avoided a lot of the criticism but still gained the support of guys like us. But, the truth is, Romney knows how to work in the middle, while still defending the best of the conservative values. I think if he gets the nomination, he will be able to speak much more directly to his actual core thoughts and feelings, which will appeal to many moderates.
January 17th, 2008 at 4:11 am