Spectator Sport (Updated) 3
It is rather amusing watching the Republican Party turn upon itself:
>. . . Because McCain has a conservative problem that he’s trying to solve. A huge number of American right-wingers despise him – Ann Coulter even said she’d campaign for Hillary Clinton if McCain wins the Republican nomination – and he’s not quite sure what to do about it. If it was a simple disagreement over issues, McCain might be able to flip-flop his way out of it, and indeed, he’s tried.
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It hasn’t worked. Many conservatives have been willing to excuse Romney’s flip-flops on a whole number of issues, from immigration to abortion to gun control, but not McCain’s. They’d rather throw their lot in with the former one-term governor of the most liberal state in the union than vote for a senator with an 82% lifetime American Conservative Union (ACU) voting record, who rails against pork-barrel spending and voted against the Bush initiative to have Medicare pay for prescription drugs for old folks.
Hope they keep it up.
Addendum, 2/2/2008:
February 3, 2008 at 8:39 pm
“…Ann Coulter even said she’d campaign for Hillary Clinton if McCain wins the Republican nomination…”
Well that does it. McCain has my vote.
February 4, 2008 at 7:33 am
Hey Frank, speaking of parties who turn on themselves, have you noticed the huge racial divide in the Democrat(ic) Party these days? Obama’s doing well in states with plenty of black Dems, but in states where he has to have white Democrats to win, it’s been a lot tougher.
“Independents” like McCain are unreliable. You don’t know what you’re voting for with them. But then you sure don’t know with Romney either. And if Hillary conducts her office like her husband did, the only thing she’ll be reliably liberal on is abortion – everything else will be for sale at the right price. The only person you know won’t contradict what he’s done in the past is Obama, since he hasn’t done anything in his past.
Until NPR mentioned it the other day, I hadn’t even considered that there’s now at least a 50-50 chance that our next president will have grown up here in Illinois. Hillary’s manipulated her image so much I don’t think anyone will remember she’s from here.
February 5, 2008 at 10:32 am
Opie, you probably wouldn’t mind if people forgot she was from there, would you?
I don’t think any racial disparity in support for Obama is a Democratic Party thing. I think it’s an American thing.