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Republican Surge

7.28.08 @ 12:01AM

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MITT STOPS
Re: Philip Klein's McCain Should Say No to Mitt:

Excellent article on the down side of Mitt Romney. I'm a MI Republican and have seen nothing that Romney has done for this state. While he has purchased his power among the Republican Elite, he's done nothing for the citizenry of MI.

By the way, did you see Politico's Video coverage of the Control group watching the Republican Debates in California? They were all CALIFORNIA WOMEN -- and they all thought Huckabee won and said they'd vote for him. Now, that's a candidate that can help McCain! Only one of the control group members was for Huckabee before the debate -- he managed to convert them to his cause -- this man is what McCain needs!

I think Romney has no social conscience -- his flip flop on abortion, his ban of assault rifles, his health care stance, etc, etc, etc -- are all a big turn off. He's the worst of what it is to be a Republican!

But, Mike Huckabee is smart, charismatic, and sincere. I want Mike Huckabee to be McCain's VP! I think Mike could help McCain win the Presidency.
-- Liz Sipfle
Michigan

Well, at least this Romney-hater is not a religious bigot.
-- Doug Gibson
Ogden, Utah

IN CHARACTER
Re: Jennifer Rubin's McCain Power:

Jennifer Rubin, in the latest in a long series of articles in TAS about why independents and conservatives are tepid in support of McCain, misses a point that most commentators overlook. She states, "McCain is unlikely to win over the key swing voters unless he starts talking about bread-and-butter issues." However, it is not McCain's policy positions (though they are bad enough -- global warming, opposition to tax cuts, opposition to drilling in the wasteland known as ANWR, etc.), but his character that galls this conservative. Fine-tuning his domestic issue papers won't raise my enthusiasm level.

Let me state up front that I'm a proud George H. W. Bush supporter. George Bush has been a fine decent president who has always done the right thing. He cut my taxes (Regan never actually did), handled the aftermath of 9/11 exactly right, brought the blessings of liberty to millions in the mid-East, worked to bring comprehensive immigration reform to America, has been the best advocate ever for free enterprise and free trade, has supported AIDS assistance in Africa, reached out to democrats, independents, blacks, and Latinos, and much more. When he needed support from Senator McCain on these efforts, McCain routinely stiffed him and went on TV to bash the President and get his 15 minutes of face time as a "maverick." McCain made this shtick work so well with the main-stream media that he convinced many otherwise reasonably decent conservative republicans to join him in being reflexively anti-Bush at a time the country needed unity. But to McCain, country never came first -- all that mattered was his precious "maverick" image with people who secretly loathed him and viewed him as a useful idiot.

If I manage to pull the lever for McCain in November, it will be only if I'm convinced that the leftist Obama will be a bigger unmitigated disaster than putting another unprincipled president (a la Clinton) in the oval office. I'm not sure I can overcome my disgust with McCain to do so, and I think you'd be surprised just how many conservatives feel the same way.

Cheers,
-- Lt Col (Ret) Doug Brooks

LICHEN DEMOCRATS
Re: Jeffrey Lord's Why Obama Models Dukakis:

Worse than astronomical prices at the gas pump, the dependency on foreign oil, which unfortunately happens to be mostly in the hands of barbarians, has led to the deaths of thousands of Americans. But which is more important to you? Preserving lichen in Alaska or a young mother leaving a farewell to her family on their voicemail before jumping a hundred stories to her death?

Or maybe Liberals are just willing to accept a certain amount of casualties until we all wise up to the wonders of solar or wind or make a wish power.

Really, much of this is about that many of the people behind these efforts believe America should be dependent upon foreigners; that somehow that's justice. And that American companies should not be making bigger profits off of American power. America is somehow inherently guilty; so those deaths are justice. Not their fault, no matter how many new energy sources they prevent.
-- Michael Burke
Bronx, New York

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