Feb 052008
Roy Beck at NumbersUSA is trying to ensure that John “Amnesty” McCain doesn’t win the GOP nomination. He’s not endorsing a particular candidate instead of McCain, he just wants one of the anti-amnesty candidates (Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee) to defeat McCain in each state.
Here’s how Roy Beck suggests you vote (in order to help defeat McCain in your state):
VOTE FOR RON PAUL in ….
- ALASKA: The Wall Street Journal suggests Paul might be poised to win this state.
VOTE FOR MITT ROMNEY in …
- ARIZONA: Deep resentments among Republicans about their long-time home-state Senator McCain has left him with a bit of vulnerability and perhaps the opportunity for a Super Bowl type upset. The latest Rasmussen polls show McCain at 43%, followed by Romney at 34% (and Huckabee at 9% and Paul at 7%). A truly serious get-out-the-vote drive provides the slightest possibility of the embarrassing upset for McCain.
- CALIFORNIA: The latest SurveyUSA shows McCain at 39% and Romney at 36%. But Rasmussen’s poll of the last two days shows Romney ahead with 40% over McCain’s 32% (and 12% for Huckabee and 5% for Paul). A McCain loss in California would give a lot of people hope in the remaining Primary states. Anti-amnesty votes should coalesce around Romney for a big news media victory and lots of delegates.
- COLORADO: Romney should take this from McCain if the anti-amnesty voters stick with him.
- GEORGIA: According to the latest Insider Advantage poll, McCain at 32% is in a dead heat with Romney at 31% (followed by Huckabee at 26% and Paul at 3%). Georgia is one of the three most aggressive states in trying to drive illegal aliens away. Unless some of Huckabee’s and Paul’s supporters switch to Romney, the state may send pro-amnesty McCain delegates to the convention.
- ILLINOIS: The latest SurveyUSA shows McCain at 38% and Romney at 23% (with Huckabee at 25% and Paul at 7%). This is a real long-shot that will require incredible turnout by anti-amnesty voters.
- MASSACHUSETTS: Make sure Romney takes the delegates of his home state.
- MONTANA: The winner takes all 25 delegates.
- NORTH DAKOTA: Romney should be the frontrunner for the anti-amnesty vote here.
- UTAH: Romney appears poised to take all these delegates.
VOTE FOR MIKE HUCKABEE in …
- ALABAMA: Latest SurveyUSA poll shows McCain at 37% and Huckabee at 35% (with Romney at 19% and Paul at 6%). Romney and Paul voters could easily push Huckabee vote total to defeat McCain. Huckabee over the weekend signed the long and detailed immigration pledge of Sen. Sessions, Alabama’s wildly popular champion opponent of illegal immigration. Alabamans despise amnesty. How could this state go for McCain? The only way is for the anti-amnesty vote to be divided.
- ARKANSAS: Huckabee should win in his home state. Make sure McCain doesn’t pull an upset.
- MISSOURI: This is a winner-take-all state. According to the latest SurveyUSA, McCain at 33% will take all of Missouri’s 58 delegates unless anti-amnesty forces coalesce behind one candidate. Although Romney is close at 28% (and Paul at 4%), the best chance for defeating McCain appears to be switching votes to Huckabee who at 31% is virtually tied with McCain.
- OKLAHOMA: Latest SurveyUSA shows McCain at 37% and Huckabee at 32% (with Romney at 23% and Paul at 3%). That is striking distance in a state that is one of the most anti-illegal-immigration in the nation. Why would Oklahomans give their delegates to Amnesty King McCain? Because the anti-amnesty vote is split.
- TENNESSEE: Latest Insider Advantage poll shows McCain with 32% just barely ahead of Huckabee at 30% (with Romney at 22% and Paul at 6%). This is another strongly anti-amnesty state that should easily help Huckabee take these delegates away from McCain.
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Considering how McCain has feasted on the independents in the open primaries I’m shocked that he has any chance at all in the upcoming closed primaries.
Go Romney!
Interesting assessment. I think this is the first time conservatives really get a chance to see their voices heard. Some would say we had a chance in Florida, but independents voted there for McCain in large numbers from what I’ve read. I hope our voices are heard, but if they aren’t….
I really don’t like McCain, so much so I can’t support the Republican party if he gets the nomination. I’ve really thought about this and I can support Hillary on health care and national security, two big issues. There is no diff between her and McCain on illegal immigration which is the other big issue with me.
So, the bottom line is I will vote for Romney next Saturday and if he fails, I will vote for Hillary. Obama can give a good speech, but he has little experience in any area and his record is the most liberal of any senator…doesn’t work for me.
his record is the most liberal of any senator…
These rankings are pretty silly. He has been campaigning this year and has missed less important votes leaving behind only the votes where he has voted with his party. The national Journal’s ranking, for instance, had Obama at #10 the year before.
If you look at the details the more arbitrary it looks:
Back when the US had a conservative party these were the kinds of opinions they held:
Where is Marc to lecture us on the patriotism of the right?
Hee-Hee!
But I thought signing statements were invalid.
/lol
Hey, Preston, that would work for a donk President, too. Just think, with Billary or B-HO, they could order the military to deliver pizzas to every third world country.
Oh, and Go Mike!
From the Jerusalem Post.
We must defeat Islamofascism
Oh My!
Who said such a thing? It was a Presidential candidate, but which one?
/*hint* it ain’t B-HO or McCain
Robbie – will you support President Obama’s god-given power to pour water down terror suspect’s noses and listen in on your international phone calls and e-mails without a warrant?
Henh…if B-HO were to be President, he would just ask himself one simple question.
What would Mohammed do?
I unequivocally support waterboarding terrorists.
I don’t think that the Patriot Act in any way infringes on the rights of lawful US citizens.
Wiretapping calls coming into or going out of the United States to and from known terrorist phone numbers will NEVER infringe on any of my rights.
Nor yours, I assume.
Besides, the water doesn’t go down their nose. It goes over their face with cellophane over their mouth and nose. Absolutely zero chance of drowning, and no permanent harm done.
Hell, not even any temporary harm done. A guy can get up and walk away from a waterboarding moments after it’s done. Not a bruise, not a scratch — nothing more than a bad memory.
“Wiretapping calls coming into or going out of the United States to and from known terrorist phone numbers will NEVER infringe on any of my rights. ”
The real question is: is there any constitutional limit to the power the president posesses? Who needs congress and the courts?
So Pat, did you ask those same questions of the Horny Hick when he was Prez, and will you ask the same question if a donk wins this year?
Of course not, you pretend to be asking a question, but all you are doing is advancing your half-baked LLL talking points.
While I fully understand the angst of Conservatives in their policy opposition to John McCain blunders like Illegal immigration, Conservatives are beginning to amaze me in their inability to see the larger picture.
Many talk radio hosts have battled a McCain nomination. Even Focus On The Family Director Dr. Dobson (who I admire ) has declared his refusal to vote for McCain. This astonishes me because it’s the same as saying “if I don’t get the conservative I want, I’ll let the country go to hell in a hand basket:†This, in my opinion is very naive and unthoughtful – since our children will be growing up in the aftermath of such a decision.
Anti McCain pundits and commentators such as Rush Limbaugh have ventured the idea that perhaps we should sit this election out and let the Dems have a term in office, claiming it might pave the way for a future shot at a candidate he and others will like in four years.
While I understand these expressions of dismay, I think it’s shortsighted. Imagine the damage our country will endure if Democrats control all three branches of government for 4 to 8 years. .
This would give liberals what they will treat as a clear sign from America that is it ready to move sharply to the left. Conservatism will lose most of it’s teeth and the liberal agenda could easily reverse all of the progress we’ve made in the war on terror, Tax reduction, Pro Life, and other extremely important issue.
We can always address the issue of immigration again in 4 years. What we cannot afford to see happen is a liberal agenda that makes illegal immigration the least of our country’s problems. Our country may be so torn up, it won’t have the time to even visit the issue, like we can today.
There is no such thing as a quick recovery from 4 years of liberalism unchecked. We may be facing what will take years and years of damage to undo. What’s more, there’s no guarantee that it WILL be undone. The passage of even one single liberal law is extremely difficult to outlaw – as if Roe V Wade hasn’t taught us this already!
Rush Limbaugh and others may revel in 4 years of liberal destruction as a talk radio host who can use the material, however all it takes is one liberal judge appointed to the Supreme Court to unravel the one ace we’ve achieved in the last 8 years. This doesn’t occur to me as a smart decision for Conservatives to be making..
As Evangelical Conservatives know, Pride commeth before the fall, and I hope they will study that verse before deciding to approach this election with dismay rather than enthusiasm.
Questioning McCain was right and highly useful for a time and a season. But there are greater threats looming on our horizon than John McCain.
It’s time to put our differences aside and get with the business assuring our children, they will not grow up in a socialist, liberally dominated world. This may be our cross roads, and it is certainly no time to be staying home on Election Day.
Danny Vice
The Weekly Vice
http://weeklyvice.blogspot.com
ThaLunatic Daily
http://thalunatic.blogspot.com
RIDE ON THE DOUBLE TALK EXPRESS LEADS TO WAR
John McCain is clearly focused on one thing and one thing only – WAR. He lives for it, he loves it, he’s obsessed by it, it is his entire identity. He is a Post Traumatic Stress hot-headed and unstable lunatic who cares nothing about the will of the American people. He is loyal to his backers and his backers make a killing off of war, war and more war. It just so happens those are all of John McCain’s personal interests as well. He’s no sell out. He is a man of passion. And if elected, he will deliver.
In his own words, “Friends, I want to give you some straight talk. Friends, there are going to be more wars. I’m sorry to tell you, but there are going to be more wars…â€. Wow. Interesting Foriegn Policy approach there, John.
After 2004 it became apparent to me what I had been trying to forget after the 2000 election, that much of America has bad judgment. It would be foolish to under-estimate America’s bad judgment this time around. McCain, like Bush before him, can win. We cannot let that happen.
Unfortunately Hilary Clinton represents the exact same special interests that McCain does. They should run on the same ticket.
There is only one serious contender who is sane and that is Barack Obama. If you measure who the best candidate is by body count, consider that over 1.1 million people have died as the result of the Iraqi invasion. Consider also that Hilary and McCain pushed this forward every step of the way and remember that only Barack had the decency and good common sense to oppose this needless invasion from the very start, even when it was unpopular.
Someone who speaks in straight talk doesn’t have to keep reminding you that it’s straight talk. They just speak the truth. And that is why my vote is enthusiastically for Barack Obama this election season.
- Eric Allen Bell
http://www.WeCanStopMcCain.org