No wait, there is. McCain is worse than John Kerry.

See the website "Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain" – and see what they have to say about his turning information over to the communists that got pilots killed.

He is no hero in my book – a hero like that deserves prison time- not the presidency.

It's funny how the left-wing media paints the major contenders into a corner. They say that Romney is the one for the financial conservatives. Huckabee for the social conservatives. And McCain and Rudy fighting it out for the national defense conservatives. Like we're sheep or something. Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

Mitt seems to be the best to rally all three elements of the so-called "Reagan Coalition." Call it what you want, but WE'RE going to come together next November despite the efforts by the media to show dissension in our ranks, even if it means supporting McCain or Rudy. Simply put, Hillary and Co. is not an option.

Go Mitt!

Romney will win Florida- watch for it- and he will be the nominee.

1. Mitt might not have been in Washington for years like McLame, Clinton, and Obama... actually Obama has been in Washington for less than four years... so don't flip-flop (like your preferred candidate) and make the argument that Obama has insufficient experience.

2. Mitt is playing an ultra-conservative. As Governor of Mass, he had a socially moderate (centrist), fiscally conservative (right-center) record. Some would say that he was socially liberal (or at least left-center), and fiscally moderate.

3. Mitt flip-flopped on this too. Rudy really called Mitt on it when he pointed out how Romney hired illegals. Only three or four GOP contenders had a hard stance on illegal immigration. Two of them are out. That one of them (Tancredo) endorsed Mitt should be taken as nothing more than Machiavellian oportunism or Rovian manipulation. Ron Paul has the strongest stance on this issue, followed by Thompson.

4. Mitt did little to lower taxes in MA. Mitt is a neocon like almost all the other candidates and would do nothing to lower spending (having to fund the American Empire and subsidize the military-industrial complex), and while Obama or a Democrat would not cut taxes or the budget, at least they would change spending priorities, providing more money for AMERICANS. Which is worse domestic welfare socialism (left-wing Keynesianism), or foreign welfare socialism (nation building) and corporatism (right-wing Keynesianism). Both parties are for a mixed market and big spending. The key difference is higher taxes (Democrats) or higher deficit (new GOP). It is clear that the liberal Democrats are the lesser of two evils. They might not be very prudent, but at least their hearts are in the right place. Neocons don't have hearts. If you want a REAL fiscal conservative, one who would cut taxes AND spending, who would decrease the budget, allow the deficit to be paid off, abolish the federal income tax, and end the American Empire, then you only have one option: RON PAUL, the only alternative to left-liberal Democrats and neoconservative Republicans.

5. What do you mean by conservative and liberal judges? Sounds like another meaningless dichotomy. More divisive labels! I have no problem with someone like Ruth Bader Ginsberg, even though she is probably too "liberal" for you. Personally my recent favorite SC justice is Sandra Day O'Connor. Too bad she retired. She was fairly moderate. How about more moderate judges? You guys can keep Sam Alito, but I am glad William Renquist left! Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia need to leave as soon as possible. We do not need any more reactionary far-right nuts on the Supreme Court! But Mitt says he will appoint conservative, not liberal judges. So he says today...

6. Mitt promised Michigan jobs. How is a fiscal conservative supposed to make good on the promise? McCain is a big government corporatist hack, but at least he did not promise that the federal government would provide more jobs.

7. This statement is just idiotic: "Mitt will fight to protect this country and build a strong military; Obama, Clinton and John McLaim stood by when al-Qaeda attacked our interests in the 1990 and the 1980s." First of all, Mitt dodged service in Vietnam to convert French Catholics to Mormonism. Talk about someone who would fight to protect this country and build a strong military! Second of all, how could you really blame Obama, Clinton, or McLaim when Obama wasn't even in the federal government at the time, or when Ronald Reagan oversaw the CIA basically aid Al Quaeda against them godless Soviet pinko commies in Afghanistan and Governor Bush spent his entire first year in the Oval Office on vacation?

8. Mitt is the right change for America? If this is not Orwellian doublespeak, I don't know what is. Mitt = More of the Same!

Look, I am republican because I don't like big government. I believe in accountability. I grew up seeing Welfare trap you into poverty. I also saw many people either make the same in a job or less. I knew I would right away that was never going to be as an adult.

People complain about Health care and about people that don't have it. Health care is hurting the middle income families the most. When we lived in Ohio (area we lived in was largely populated with people without insurance), I found out that we pay slightly more out of pocket than people WITHOUT insurance. It would have better if we didn't have insurance at ALL.

I am really considered about the economy and the housing market. We move a lot for jobs and will have to sell our house this year.

Sure, do I think McCain will play nice with democrats BUT this is not what it is about. Its about both parties working out issues in congress that represent both sides, Republicans and Democrats.

I don't want McCain because I want my issues represented. It is not a compromise on both sides if you have McCain pushing for issues that not even in his party.

The polls don't mean squat. Just look at the polls for Nevada? They got the winner right but had McCain trailing pretty close to Romney.

I have checked everybody on the issues.... sorry I like Romney best. I guess we will have to see what happens in Florida.

Romney 08'

Do a little research before you shoot your mouths off. Irrespective of who you vote for, make it a well considered and factual vote. And if you're a fascist, recognize that you are and don't hide behind the "true conservative" label. Fascists are people too! lol

I am a Republican and will NEVER VOTE for McCain – he has a full wagon of baggage that Republicans are concerned about (his opposition to marriage amendement, Gange of 14, McCain-Feingold campaign reform bill, McCain-Kennedy amnesty immigration bill, and his opposition to Bush tax cuts).

I do admire him for his service to our country – he is a true hero, but this doesn't mean he is that true leader America needs at the time of economic instability.

Keep in mind McCain appeals mostly to independents, which means that his win in general is very questionable since independents will more than likely vote for a democrat in general.

Romney 08! Romney all the way!

Now that the news is out that Rudy is low on money, Mitt is the only candidate that can go the distance and win in November. If the people of Florida do not wake up and give Mitt a win that would make the dems and the media very happy indeed. A vote for McCain or the Huckster is a vote for the Democrats and economic & international failure.

Rasmussen's poll just released will not be in the news today!
Romney – 25
McCain – 20
Rudy – 19

People who support John Edwards are mostly conservative-thinking democrats and independents.

With the possibility shrinking that Edwards will be at the top of the Democratic ticket in favor of the more liberal factions overwhelmingly supporting Obama and Clinton–this will leave a lot of people who really don't have a candidate to support who will be looking for the next best option.

Bingo...John McCain. Honest, reliable, center-focused with conservative values that consistently pulls in conservative Democrats and millions of Independents–let's not forget what happend to Kerry in 2004. Those very Democrats and Independents voted for Bush rather than have a "Kerry" as President.

McCain–will emerge as the only alternative to Obama and Hillary for thousands of John Edwards supporters.

He says he is willing for the US to stay in Iraq for 100 years. He irresponsibly said "Bomb bomb bomb Iran," so I suppose his election to the Presidency will bring on the draft. Unless, of course, he intends to use the exhausted, overburdened troops that have already done their duty, and then some.

He wants amnesty for illegal immigrants. Too bad he doesn't want amnesty for the 2 million American citizens in prison, many of whom are in there for nonviolent "crimes." But I guess, in his mind, sneaking into the country without a security or medical check automatically means you're a better person than a citizen smoking the wrong weed. So much for the war on terrorism.

He is said to be a man of integrity, although he tossed aside his long-suffering first wife for a trophy bride, and although he was a member of the Keating Five.

There are too many "althoughs and unlesses." I won't be voting for him.

Mitt has not been in Washington for years like John McLaim, Clinton and Obama.

Mitt has held executive positions as a Govenor and in private business, Obama, Clinton and John McLaim have only worked in Washington they do not have a clue about private business or the American economy.

Mitt is a conservative that’s why the media hates him; John McLaim is a liberal just look who he associates with Kennedy, Feingold, the gang of 14, ect. and that’s why the media loves John McLaim.

Mitt is against amnesty for illegal aliens; Obama, Clinton and John McLaim are for amnesty for illegal aliens.

Mitt is for tax cuts, Obama, Clinton and John McLaim are against tax cuts and want to raise our taxes.

Mitt is for conservative judges, Obama, Clinton and John McLaim are for liberal judges.

Mitt wants to free Americans and American business from the federal government Obama, Clinton and John McLaim want big government and are responsible for big government we have.

Mitt will fight to protect this country and build a strong military; Obama, Clinton and John McLaim stood by when al-Qaeda attacked our interests in the 1990 and the 1980s.

Mitt Romney is the right change for America

Vote for Mitt!!!

Check the polls. He is the only one who beats his Democratic opposition.

I agree with your opinions and admire your honesty. I am a liberal but you and I could work together. Of course, you (and probably I too) would be declared a traitor.

The damage done to your party and the country as a whole will take a long time to fix. No other way around it - it is going to take COMPROMISE, RESPECT, and TRUST to get it fixed. I'm game if you are. Let's roll up our sleeves and get to work.

And to those who naively believe that compromise is a recent evil creation - get real. Compromise is a natural and healthy result of the checks and balances built into our system. It's been practiced beneficially since at least Ben Franklin's day. It is meant to keep any one party from becoming too powerful and...oh, I dunno...invading the wrong country, threatening a "nuclear option" to change Congressional rules, spending money like a drunk coed....

The GOP just lost the whole Congress. You really think they have a shot at the White House? You really want the Dems coming at you with the tactics and anger you've been dishing out for more than a decade? I thought not. I don't want that either.

Turn off your hate radio, GOP, and join ym763 and me as we sort this thing out.

Why not Huckabee? Why not not be the party of Lincoln? We just might find our soul.

McCain also seems sincere to me, not simply saying things to get votes. The only other candidate who has this trait (and more so) is Ron Paul who is (unfortunately) a long shot. I predict a McCain/Huckabee ticket that will probably do well in the general election.

Random note: I like McCain's corporate-style logo.

MITT ROMNEY 2008!!!

I am a Republican, and I hope the GOP is smart enough to nominate McCain. He's really the only chance we have to keep our party in the White House. Huckabee and Romney would get obliterated by either Obama or Clinton!

Conservatives haven't voted for McAmnesty in a single state yet.

This garbage that McAmnesty is the only won who can win in Nov is utter rubbish. He can't excite, much less unify and rally, his own party. They don't trust him…and for good reason. On too many occasions McAmnesty has snubbed his nose at Republican values and Republicans themselves. Why? Because he doesn't truly believe in Republican values. He likes being the "maverick". No thanks. I'd like somebody I can count on.

That Senator McCain thinks that his country is a higher priority than the Republican Party is not a negative but a positive. He is first an American and second a Republican, which is why he will win the Primary and the National election, because most Americans are not driven by ideology. Now think about it… do you want someone who places America first in his priorities or someone who places his/her political party or political agenda ahead of his/her country. I will pick someone who has consistently shown that he places his country ahead of any agenda, including himself, be it as a POW (Senator McCain could have left), as a senator (some of his positions don't thrill the establishment) or his popularity (he will not win the Ms Congeniality award in DC). Other candidates just tell us what they think we want to hear and switch their position accordingly because it is best for them, not because it is best for the US

I may not agree with McCain in all his choices, but I do know that all his choices will be based (and have been based) on what he believes to be best for the US and not for himself. Our first decision on choice for President must be for someone who places the US ahead of any other agenda (including his/hers), and Senator McCain has shown and proven he does that over any other candidate.

How in the hell is that "weak republican support"?

CNN should be ashamed of this article.

What does all this say about McCain's character? These blurbs are from goggling his wives…. Carol, Cindy… wow…

According to the newspaper, McCain returned to Jacksonville in 1973 after more than five years as a prisoner of war to find that his wife was a different person. Carol McCain, once a model, had been badly injured in a car wreck in 1969. The article recounts that her injuries "left her 4 inches shorter and on crutches, and she gained a good deal of weight."
By 1979, McCain was concerned that his Naval career was not advancing and pondering his future. He met Cindy Hensley, an attractive 25-year-old woman from a wealthy Arizona family. McCain courted her and married her in May 1980 — a month after getting a divorce.
Carol McCain waited for the return of her husband from his Vietnamese captivity for five and a half long years; as McCain idolator David Grann put it in the New Republic, she was "a kind of modern-day Penelope to McCain's Odysseus." She carried her burden with nobility, and resolve, staying faithful to the man she refused to believe she had lost – even in the face of her own tragedy. It was Christmas Eve, 1969, while driving along a snowbound street, that she went crashing into a telephone pole: the impact hurled her through the windshield. She lost her left leg, ruptured her spleen, and went through a long series of agonizingly painful operations. Before the accident, she had been a statuesque beauty who worked as a model; she came out of it with four inches subtracted from her height, broken in body – but not in spirit. Her love for her war hero husband forbade her from letting him know anything of her condition: he knew nothing of the accident, and she refused to write him about it since it would only make his burden heavier.

From Justin's website;
THE RETURN OF THE INGRATE
Any man would be lucky to have such a fierce, unbending love: she stuck by him, agitating for his release, and living for the day of his return. Her devotion was repaid with rejection. He learned of her accident on the plane home, and wasted no time in getting rid of her. He was soon back to his old tricks of playing the field – "just as he had at the Naval Academy," says Grann – and soon sought a divorce. He openly acknowledges that his behavior was solely responsible for the break-up of his marriage, and seems to glory in the macho role while simultaneously professing at least some sense of remorse: "I think she has reason to be bitter," McCain told one interviewer.

I think this is going to be a problem again for Him, plus the Keating Five.
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Giuliani has good company here, folks. Womanizing Adulterers who left their wives for younger women. In McCain's case, at least she was pretty.
Romney, Huckabee, or Ron Paul for President, please.

Illegal Aliens do the jobs Americans won't do. McCain had the nerve to challenge the American people that he would pay $50 an hour to anyone who would come to his ranch and work the fields the way the Illegal Aliens do.

Remember the phrase "JOBS AMERICANS WON'T DO?"

HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT ILLEGALS BUT HE STILL WANTS TO DO IT. IF HE IS ELECTED, HE WILL WORK WITH KENNEDY AND THE REST OF THE CROWD TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. REMEMBER LINDSEY GRAHAM ALSO SUPPORTED THE AMNESTY BILL, FOLKS.

I THOUGHT MITT ROMNEY WAS GOING TO DO IT BUT HE IS NOT TAKING THE FIGHT TO McCAIN. AND FRED THOMPSON IS ONLY INTERESTED IN THUMPING HUCKABEE BECAUSE McCAIN IS HIS FRIEND.

Who cares if the media is not giving him the credit he deserves. It is going to back fire! It creates sympathy for the underdog. It shows discrepancy between what is real and what the media is reporting and we fight even harder for that person.

The business savvy and educated individuals in the GOP know Romney is the real deal. Right will prevail. CNN and FOX will be exposed for their bias.

McCain supporters are stuck in a lost decade (90's). He is not the front runner, nor has he been since this race started. It's called "propaganda" and it's hurting his chances, not helping.

Hickabee has actually created more problems for the evangelicals. We all now know who are enemies are. We all know their bias and bigotry towards almost any walk of life still exists. We don't tolerate "intolerance" anymore.

Judging by the politicians who Republicans tend to support, I think this is his best option to gain their support.

Independences and democrats want McCain in the White House so why run under the Republican party? It is obvious. Look how many newspapers are endorsing McCain. I GOOGLED ROMNEY'S WIN AND GOT A PICTURE OF MCCAIN. There was no article for Romney, no picture. The article link was for McCain.... so who looks like the BIGGER WINNER... MCCAIN. FORGET IF YOU LIKE ROMNEY OR MCCAIN, THERE IS A BIG PUSH TOWARDS MCCAIN IN THE NEWS. That kind of stuff will have influence in polls but I am not so sure it will carrying into voting.

I looked up Romney because it was a huge win. I know there are a lot of Mormons in Nevada but according to the polls, he still would have won without them.

With most newspapers ready to praise McCain at every opportunity... of course MCCAIN would look like a winner. There has been a lot more people taking interest than before. A lot more people will be at the polls this coming election, a lot more than 2004.

It has been wide-open from the beginning. It is still very in the game to say that we any front runner. This is not one perfect candidate in this race... each one has their faults but McCain still doesn't come close to my top two.

I would like to see more fair and balanced coverage from at least one news channel.

The corp tax rates should be lowered but that won't solve problems on the bottom end if there is a continued trade deficit and American jobs are continued to be off shored. If anything, this common Republican practice has resulted in the current problems faced in our economy. A few get the gold, and everyone else gets the shaft. 2/3's of the US economy is the American consumer, and we are about tapped out.

Business deregulation is a strong talking point with some of the Republican candidates. Smaller government is the cry...............the only cry I heard was ENRON, Dialpha, Wall Street scandals, and the current mortgage meltdown. Who will be watching the hen house?