Republicans NOT Worried About ‘08
Written by
JB Williams
©2007 USA
Even though every
national poll shows Hillary Clinton running away with the 2008 Presidential
election, Al Gore is busy racking up award after award, becoming more of an
international icon of the left than ever before, and RNC front-runner Rudy
Giuliani has peaked at only 32 percent support from Republican voters,
Republicans still seem disinterested in the 2008 election.
Is it because they
figure all is already lost, or because they have no fear of losing the White
House in ’08?
Divided they stand?
So far, Republicans
only agree that they dislike all of their choices in ’08. They have not yet
begun to consider what if anything, to do about it.
As of the October 12-14 USA
Today/Gallup poll, Republicans have not yet picked a
candidate to unite behind. It’s early in the primary process and unlike the DNC
race which only has one legitimate candidate, the Republican cup runneth over
with lack-luster candidates. Despite the record number of choices, the field
still appears void of any good choices.
Among Republican
voters, Giuliani is maxed out at 32% - Fred Thompson is running a distant second
at only 18% - McCain is hanging in at 14% and Romney is still stuck at 10%,
right where he’s been for a year and $50 MILLION DOLLARS now. The “unsure”
number is at 9% and Huckabee and Paul are well below that. Brownback, Tancredo
and Hunter poll so low that they are tied only with an un-named “someone else,”
at or below 2%.
I love Fred, but…
Thompson is right on
the issues, but can he sell it? If Fred had Giuliani’s energy, McCain’s
resilience and Romney’s good hair, he’d look like the man who can’t be beat. But
so far, Fred is looking every day his age and if someone doesn’t give him a
Geritol IV drip soon, he could walk
himself out of the race, since he isn’t prone to running anywhere.
I like Rudy, but…
Taking nothing away
from his stellar performance under pressure on 9/11, or the very real fact that
he turned the nation’s toilet, New York
City, into a tolerable town again, he’s still just
another liberal.
Apparently, 32% of
Republicans are willing to support a liberal Republican running against a
socialist Democrat. But apparently, 68% aren’t.
I’m intrigued by Romney, but…
The fact is; he’s
clearly trying desperately to pander to conservatives. That’s because he wasn’t
at all conservative as governor, not so long ago. The fact is, no matter what he
says today, he was pro-government, pro-abortion and pro-gay rights when he ran
Taxachusetts. He’s clearly a bright guy. Why is he doing such a poor job of
explaining his sudden change of heart on two very important conservative issues,
Life and Family Values?
I
respect John McCain’s service, but…
I’ve never liked the
little unreliable nut… McCain is enjoying a momentary surge in the polls
(again), but it’s momentary, as in, until conservative voters remember that he
is friends with Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry, Russ Feingold and many other hardcore
liberals, and has worked with them many time in the past to advance an agenda
wholly at odds with his voters.
The rest aren’t really in the race and never were,
but…
Honestly, until all
these so-called “second or third tier” guys get off the debate stage, we are not
going to get a good look at the real contenders. There just isn’t enough time
for any single candidate to shine. These “no chancers” who think they are
helping their party by sucking up valuable air and limelight, are just fooling
themselves and their supporters.
I’m all for the
democratic process. Anyone should be able to throw their hat in the ring. But
these guys have had their hats in the ring for a year now and have never broken
above 5% within their own party. So they are running where? For
what?
I like Duncan Hunter.
Everybody I talk to likes Duncan Hunter. So why is he still at 1-2% support?
Even nut-job Libertarian Ron Paul has more supporters. At this point, Hunter is
a long-shot for even a VP appointment and the longer he runs without gaining any
ground, the more of a long-shot he’ll become.
Tancredo and Huckabee
are great guys, but they can’t win. They can only take up space.
Ron Paul belongs on a
Libertarian ticket, not the Republican ticket. But because there aren’t enough
libertarians in
America to get a
good game of horse shoes started, we’re stuck with him in the Republican Party?
Ron Paul couldn’t win
anything on the Libertarian ticket either, but at least he wouldn’t be stinking
up the Republican debate stage with all his half-baked notions that the nation
can be defended in 2008 using 1776 rules of engagement.
Hillary is more likely to defeat herself than to win in ’08,
but…
At the moment,
Republicans are making her look like the winner she isn’t. Both Republican
candidates and the Republican voters divided among them, are doing all they can
to give Hillary a leg up in the 2008 race.
You can bet that the
press will do its part to put Bubba back in the oral office. Hollywood and
international socialists who own and operate the major 527 organizations will do
their party.
Republicans
stand in the way of that inevitability, so long as they stand and stand
together. But right now, they seem more interested in squabbling amongst
themselves…
