McCain more than anyone is the total embodiment of everything that is wrong with the party.

aengus on May 7, 2008 at 7:23 PM

Precisely my thought!

There is no Republican to be there for. Only an open-borders loving, criminal-supporting fraud putting an R after his name.

KSgop on May 7, 2008 at 8:18 PM

A RINO is a RINO no matter who he tries to fool or how he tries to do it!

Personally I’m very tempted to fill out my entire ballot but leave POTUS unvoted. I’ll feel fine about myself no matter who wins. I grant that I’ll not like where the country goes afterwards, but that will be the case, again, no matter who wins!

pundits insist that McCain has to hit a ridiculously high threshold of votes in order to demonstrate that he can unify the party.

That’s just silly. The Dems are the ones to blame here, if they can’t figure out the worse of the 2 evils, and the primaries go on and on, annnnnd they let anyone vote in their lame primaries, well of course Republicans are going to go and try to tweak their noses a bit… after all, we did say. ‘Fuck it, McCain 08′ quite some time ago. (seems like years ago) I’ve got to admit, my husband and I did.

300 million people and we’re stuck with these 3 putzes?!

The majority will be there for the Republican team in November.

Jill1066 on May 7, 2008 at 2:57 PM

There is no Republican to be there for. Only an open-borders loving, criminal-supporting fraud putting an R after his name.

It is NOT anti-McCain, it is DISSATISFACTION with the party in general.

McCain more than anyone is the total embodiment of everything that is wrong with the party.

That’s great for you if you agree with McCain on 75% of the issues. I don’t, and where McCain and I do overlap today, I don’t trust him to follow up tomorrow. It’s not “playing kindergarten” for me to acknowledge that I do not agree with a candidate and then vote for someone I agree with more, even knowing my candidate won’t win. It is a little bit “playing kindergarten” to go spouting off schoolyard insults at people who disagree with you.

I think McCain is going to lose in November. Is it “playing kindergarten” for you to vote for him because you agree with him, even though Obama is obviously the stronger horse in this race? Or are you making a principled choice?

A large number of Republicans who disagree with McCain are still going to vote for him. But I’m not, and if 3% of Republicans vote as I will, McCain could very well lose. The Republicans are vulnerable. The primary results now may not be telling, but, as Zorro points out, the fundraising is. My vote may not count, but my dollar still does.

“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.” Mr. Donald Rumsfeld

It looks like you’re stuck with McCain and moderate conservative republicans. Calling them stupid and even further dividing the country is not coping. Trying to fix conservatism is a moot point if we don’t defeat liberalism.

I do agree that little should be read into Ron Paul’s protest votes, and less still into “anti-McCain” votes in general. That said, I’m surprised the anti-McCain contingent did as well as it did here, given that the only other “Republicans” on the ballot were Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee and … I’m not making this one up … Alan Keyes. No way I’d cast even a protest vote for this nutcases, but I might have if Thompson, Romney or Guiliani had been on the ballot.

“…The troubling figures, however, may be the popular vote totals – individuals who McCain will theoretically have to woo back into his good graces. In North Carolina more than 105,000 Republicans did not vote for McCain. And in Indiana, 85,000 voters – whether they were Republican, Democrat or Independent – cast their ballots for someone other than the Arizona Republican…”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/07/mccains-rough-night-overs_n_100514.html

Pennsylvania, Bush scored an almost identical percentage in 2000 (72.47%) as did McCain in 2008 (73%).

But there was no Operation Chaos in 2000, so you’re really comparing apples to oranges.

I’m very curious to know (but can only speculate) how things would have looked yesterday if all of the “cross-over” Republicans had voted in the Republican primary instead of the Democrat primary.

I asked who the “cross-over” voters would have voted for had they voted in the Republican primary. I only got one response, and they said “Ron Paul”.

Assuming 10% of Hillary’s votes were from Operation Chaos “cross-over” voters, and acknowledging that those were voters who specifically chose to vote for someone other than McCain, then McCain didn’t get 77% of the Republican Primary vote, he got more like 67% of the Republican Primary vote.

When one-third of the Primary voters actively chose not to vote for McCain, I think that is a fairly significant statement.

But if not that useless promise I would certainly have voted for McCain and I will vote for him in November.

This year I did not vote for McCain because I had a friend and neighbor on the Democrat ballot for Commissioner and I promised him I would vote for him. That means I could not vote for any Democrat this year. For all the good it did, he got beat.

Normally I vote pretty much a straight Republican ticket.

I also think a few Republicans showed up to vote for Hillary. I do not know any Republicans around here who are not going to vote for McCain.

This would be right up his alley.

Paul supporters; they won’t want to support him when they find out the Republican convention is the same weekend as the International Star Trek convention

You just made me spit coke all over my keyboard!

To win both the swing voters and conservatives who are expecting another stab in the back between now and Election Day, he’s going to have to provide some positive reasons for backing him, and show that what he says isn’t just bogus campaign talk.

jon1979 on May 7, 2008 at 2:45 PM

Be patient. He’ll get started on that right after he finishes his presentation to La Raza.