For better accuracy why don’t we just change our party name to the New Republican Moderate/Indepedent “I don’t believe conservative ideas can sell, so I just pick the least stinky moderate I can find…” Party and get it over with.

I on the otherhand, as a female, have less of a limp wrist than most of the conservative males around here (think that’s how we manage to elect the likes of Senator Larry Craig year after year giving the Democrats the ability to claim hyprocrisy in the GOP while they talk away the likes of a Gov. Spitzer) and don’t think that a threat to Sen. McCain is a bad thing. Make him think about where he wants to go, and whether he really wants to be so damn “Maverick”. Read: Damn conservatives I can win with Hawkish Liberals and Independents!

Mitt would be a great VP choice. Conservatives were told by alot of the McCain punditry to grow up, calm down, chill out and get on board. It’ll be interesting if McCain is smart enough to take this advice and grow up, etc and pick Romney as a running mate.

And to address Allahpundit’s question a bit ago that asked what experience does Mitt have to be commander of the army, I think Walid Phares said it best when he endorsed Mitt:

“This is why I have come to the conclusion that Governor Romney has the capacity of managing the counter strategies against the Jihadists, only because he stated to the public that he sees the enemy as to who they are. And if a President can see them, he can defeat them.”

I’ll vote for McCain without Romney on the ticket but I will actively campaign for a McCain/Romney ticket.

Hillary over a McCain/Romney ticket? Where’s the logic in that? Is Romney opening borders, limiting free speech, hitting prostitutes, reaching across aisles, killing babies, or race baiting? You’re letting animosity and prejudice cloud your judgement.

SaintOlaf on March 12, 2008 at 11:18 PM

He didn’t just win in Utah doofus.

Conservative Voice on March 12, 2008 at 11:32 PM

Loaf doesn’t care about the facts. They’re too messy. Take Nevada for instance: factoring out the wacky Mormon vote in NV, Romney still crushed. There are other examples….but facts don’t keep you warm at night….hate and class-envy keep the home fires burning, right Loaf?

Red Pill on March 12, 2008 at 6:33 PM

Good thing McCain is pro-life

He didn’t just win in Utah doofus.

Mitt garnered more mormonChristian votes than Huck, the “Christian Leader”.

Since you were lying about your statistic, I’ll help correct it for you.

aengus on March 12, 2008 at 9:28 PM

Thank you, aengus. I have appreciated the tone of your comments.

SaintOlaf on March 12, 2008 at 10:39 PM

Speak of the…

Nah. Too easy.

funny thing about facts, you assume not one of those 178 million Christians will vote for Mitt, and Mitt garnered more Christian votes than Huck, the “Christian Leader”

I will never vote for Mccain if he selects Romney as his running mate.

In fact I will vote for the Hildebeast just to stop him!

sulla on March 12, 2008 at 9:07 PM

Well I must apologise then. I am sorry, sincerely. I don’t even remember where I read it. I shouldn’t have even mentioned it as its not the first time I’ve gotten burned for standing behind an unsourced idea. I’m interested in learning about anything but if you don’t want to post links to be dissected on the net no problem. One of my sisters owns a copy of the Book of Mormon. I’ll borrow it off her and read it.

Dobson backs McCain,

When exactly did that happen? In 2000 and just recently Dobson said he wouldn’t, couldn’t ever vote for McCain. Rudy got the same treatment too.

I heard about but that I read that Mormons actually believe it in which case it isn’t a bigoted statement but a statement of fact.

aengus on March 12, 2008 at 8:39 PM

aengus, though I am sure you are saying this in good faith, please understand that I find this “statement of fact” deeply offensive. Whether it’s bigoted depends on who says it, and what else they’re saying. I don’t think you’re bigoted. But imagine someone taking a doctrine that you hold near and dear, and boiling it down to a soundbite for the sole purpose of ridiculing you.

To Mormons, that’s one of them.

I try not to go into the nitty gritty of my beliefs here, because the politics is contentious enough, and I suspect most don’t want to read it.

sulla on March 12, 2008 at 8:38 PM

Thank you.

Hmm, you must have missed the Huckabigot’s quotes on the subject – look it up. The most widely noted comment in question relates to his ‘understanding’ that Mormons believe Jesus and Satan are brothers.

I heard about but that I read that Mormons actually believe it in which case it isn’t a bigoted statement but a statement of fact.

(re “a vote for Mormon is a vote for Satan”) I’ve never heard anyone say anything like that.

Bill Keller said it early in the primaries, and it was widely quoted.

Keller is a tiny minority, but there have been some (stOlaf, apocalypse) who have echoed him here.

I think the vast majority of evangelicals either warmed up to Romney the more they got to know him, or they were turned off by things other than his religion (a flip-flopping millionaire Massachusetts city boy isn’t gonna go over big in the rural South).

No, it’s that Mormons are not unacceptable simply because a small number of unhinged whackjobs insist that they are. The more those idiots spew their “a vote for a Mormon is a vote for Satan” shtick

I’ve never heard anyone say anything like that.
aengus on March 12, 2008 at 8:10 PM

Hmm, you must have missed the Huckabigot’s quotes on the subject – look it up. The most widely noted comment in question relates to his ‘understanding’ that Mormons believe Jesus and Satan are brothers. For my part, this Christian will do everything in his power to make sure that the Huckabigot and his like are kept from the levers of power.

This mentality is the reason why Republicans are sliding leftward. Mormons are acceptable because they don’t behead people? I would hope the criteria for VP would be a little more discerning than that.

aengus on March 12, 2008 at 7:36 PM

I would hope the criteria for VP would not have a non-Mormon litmus test. My point was that, although there are some religions that may not work well in our representative republic, Mormonism is not one of them. I do have a religious litmus test, and it requires that the religion of the person running does not want to destroy America or all those who do not believe that one religion.

Romney has been and will continue to be the most “presidential” of the presidential candidates this cycle, and it’s a sad commentary on the electorate that we would toss him out or consider him liberal because of his religion. Meanwhile trying to elect a real liberal, and giving Huck a pass on his liberal positions because he belongs to a mainstream religion.

No, it’s that Mormons are not unacceptable simply because a small number of unhinged whackjobs insist that they are. The more those idiots spew their “a vote for a Mormon is a vote for Satan” shtick

I’ve never heard anyone say anything like that. All we know for certain is that Protestant Evangelicals won’t vote in large numbers for Mitt Romney (or presumably any Mormon). You haven’t established why that is. Or if you have on some previous thread then please link.