Posted by
Sara Shores on Friday, February 08, 2008 9:08:30 PM
A REQUIEM FOR ROMNEY..
ON SUPER TUESDAY, EARLY IN THE DAY, Romney WAS WELL AHEAD IN THE W. Va. first-round CAUCUS VOTE, (tho' not with a majority of votes cast). RULES ARE : ONLY TWO CANDIDATES GO FORWARD..so, McCain and Ron Paul were out .The McCain REPRESENTATIVE STOPPED THE Huckabee and Paul DELEGATES, when all were on their way to lunch. ) When all Delegates met after lunch, the smoke cleared...and Huckabee emerged the winner..and he took all..and this Huckabee win was broadcast loudly and emphatically all over the nation. Yes, it was politics as usual...but the fact that the liberal candidate was able to dictate terms to the detriment of the top-running conservative was alarming. And thus the day went. And thus could go the Convention itself.
Also alarming..Mike Huckabee, while not spending a cent..and having been virtually unheard of a few months ago, suddenly picked up delegates of number of states. Exit polls, though, showed Romney AHEAD ON THE ISSUES THE VOTERS SAY ARE IMPORTANT. ( See the exit poll data in the Wall Street Journal of 2-7-08.). This seemed surprising...and it meant that the total conservative vote split, so the liberal candidate picked up the most delegates . Calif. was a good example: Mccain picked up 146 delegates, but had 42% of the vote..the same margin that gave Bill Clinton the White House in 1992 .(with spoiler Ross Perot doing the donating,then.)... AND .. the smelly underlying code words seem to quietly suggest..THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH MITT ROMNEY'S CONSERVATISM ..AND IT IS ...SHHH..the mormon church..and it is being boycotted by the Christian evangelicals. Political money didn't buy ads..how did the voters even know how to spell H-u-c-k-a-b-e-e.?? Guess we aren't as tolerant of religious beliefs, as we expect even the Iraqis to be. The Democrats can allow their Senate leader, REID,their highest elected office-holder to be a Mormon, but Republicans are not up to it...But don't say it out loud......Shhhh.
The anguish of an honorable man finding himself victimized by religious bigotry and naked political ambition of his fellow Republicans is sad to contemplate.
The silver lining? Is there one? The only way a Romney presidency could have been successful was with the absence of John McCain from politics.. and that wouldn't happen. If Mccain continued in the senate, he would have turned that hatred of the exited Bush, toward a Romney presidency.. prodding it to ruin at every opportunity. Even outside the senate, Mccain would be another Clinton..skewing any president-not-him, at every turn from all over this country and throughout the world.
We saw the Republicans throw a strong conservative, presidential hopeful, George Allen , to the scrap heap because of MACACCA. really!!.Now they throw another strong presidential contender aside, to anoint a potentially loose cannon to the highest calling. Sounds like a programmed failure. See them bask as Democrats encouragie them with approval editorials in the big news sources..as DEMS provide their own richly qualified candidates..a "can't we all get along" man, and a woman who was a president's wife!! What to say!!?? Sara is sad.