Lets not forget what the ole philosoher Yogi Berra says..."Its not over til its over".

I think I hear the Fat Lady warming up the mic for Mittens. It'll be awesome if McCain beats him in Massachusetts!

I hope he was kidding. Because God forbid he wins the presidency I am leaving the country. He would be worse than bush!

Checkout McCain's bio on Wikipedia and compare it to Mitt Romney's. Romney has DEFINATELY led the more conservative and moral life. WE NEED ROMNEY! You MUST listen to Ann Coulter's interview if you are a republican. McCain is not a conservative.

If McCain manages to win the Presidency, God forbid, he will be the LAST President this Country will ever see. If he wins the Republican nomination, I'm voting for the other side, and I won't even blink an eye! This guy is DANGEROUS and he will take down this Country once and for all.

McCain is a liar...what else is there to say? He has lied on National Tv and print media...and been targeted about it! he is arrogant and thinks we owe him!
We do not owe a liar anything! Friends from around the globe have thought this is funny...a LIARfor a president? In the USA??? The international community does not trust America, now McCain is running to run our country, a liar...and he will be voted in?
No he won't ! The RNC had better wake up! There i no respect for McCain and the conservatives and people who care about shutting our borders, decreasing governmaent waste, decreasing taxes, will not vote for McCain. If we have to we would rather vote for a democrat, than vote for McCain!

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Posted by: Joan | February 2, 2008 8:41 PM

Joan, I hate to tell you this, but Ann Coulter wouldn't know a conservative if one came up and bit her on the backside.

In her interview, she actually said that McCain would be bad for America because he opposes torture!!??!! Since when is America in favor of torture? Are conservatives slipping on their allegiance to the rule of law too? Torture is illegal under military regulations, U.S. statutory law, as well as the Geneva Conventions and the International Compact on Torture. Of course McCain is against torture. Everyone ought to be.

Don't forget that Ann Coulter also spent the last seven years defending George W. Bush, claiming he was a good conservative. I guess that means that spending us into oblivion - as opposed to fiscal responsibility - is supposed to be conservative. I guess it's also means that growing the government at a vertical trajectory – as opposed to small government and federalism – is supposed to be conservative. And tell me, please tell me, where does it say in conservative and/or Republican literature that civil rights and fundamental liberty interests aren’t conservative concerns. I haven’t found that part yet. All the same, George W. Bush doesn’t believe in liberty either. So, I’ll tell you what, if George W. Bush bit Ann Coulter on the backside (and its gonna take a lotta liquor to get that image out of my mind), she still wouldn’t have been bitten by a conservative or able to recognize one for that act. I am amazed that you would trust her word on anything.

As far as McCain is concerned, he has two major gaffes that take a lot of explaining. The first is his support of the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. It is the only law to come down the pike in many a year that explicitly censors political speech because of its content. (And President Bush signed it.) That is a flagrant affront to the right to free speech under the First Amendment. McCain’s goal I understand; his means, however, are inexplicable. The second gaffe, of course, was his support for the immigration reform bill that would, essentially have granted amnesty to between 12 and 20 million illegal aliens. (President Bush wanted that one too.) To his credit, McCain has backed away from that stance, now claiming that he would seek to protect the border first and then work out a guest worker program to accommodate the economy. I am not sure, however, that he wouldn’t favor something else equally nutty.

On the other hand, Mitt Romney has bigger faults. For instance, his stances against abortion and in favor of gun-ownership rights are both recently acquired. So much so, that one has to believe they were adopted purely out of political expediency. He also caved into the Massachusetts legislature and authorized a mandatory health insurance law. [I have nothing against State aided health coverage; but the “personal mandate” part is heinous.] With regard to the latter, he has exhibited duplicity by criticizing Hillary Clinton for proposing the exact same system at the federal level. In general, Mitt Romney’s experience as Governor of Massachusetts didn’t teach him that there is a difference between bowing down and bending over. You gotta know that distinction if you want to be a leader.

MIke Huckabee: nice guy, a lot of fun-not the sharpest pencil in the drawer. Some of his answers on foreign policy and the economy are scary. He could propel us into a depression. Is that the legacy you want to leave your children and grandchildren? (Romney was valedictorian, and has a joint MBA/JD from Harvard. He launched Staples and Dominos. He eats economics for breakfast).
McCain: thank-you for your service in the war, and we have compassion for your horrendous experiences in it. But the Presidency? This would be another very scary choice because:
1. McCain has a violent temper. He has screamed the “F” word frequently at his fellow congressmen. By his own admission, he loses it…a lot. Some feel that there is residual psychological damage from his years spent as a POW. One congressman put it this way “You don’t want that guy anywhere near a trigger” (that includes nuclear triggers of the Presidential kind)
2. McCain admits he know almost nothing about the economy. With our country teetering, we need a savvy, sharp, economocally brilliant President. Asia is at the door. A depression is not out of the question. We don’t have time to mess around with bigotry. We need someone who can turn this economy around-fast.
3. McCain and Hilary are very good friends. They went to Estonia together as Senators and held a drinking contest. This level of maturity is reserved for the immature, not people who want to run the (currently) most powerful country on the earth.
We no longer have time for high school popularity contests. We desperately need a real leader with serious intelligence.
We have friends who know the Romney family well. They really are wholesome. They will not bring scandal to the White House. They will keep it “white”. Mitt is not in this for the fame or power. He didn’t take a salary in Masachusetts, he won’t as President. He simply wants to help, and he knows how.
The smartest thing we could do for our posterity is to vote for Mitt and encourage others to do the same.

John W. are you serious? McCain has you fooled. You can't see the forest for the trees. It's popular to think McCain is the right man for conservatives. That is exactly why he will get the nomination. This is same reason there is NO unity in the country today. No one can think for themselves and then when the end up somewhere they didn't want to go they wonder how they got there. Romney is HANDS down a President. McCain is nothing more than welcome to same old and worse. McCain will win and you will be complaining about him like all the rest of blind that follow the blind. WAKE UP AMERICA! Hell is around the corner because we can't use our brains.

Sorry Mr. Best,

You’ve confused me for someone else. I do not support McCain. But I don't support “Willard” Romney either. My response to Joan was largely prompted by her reliance on Ann Coulter as a source of insight – and not because she favored any particular candidate.

And, insofar as independent thinking goes, I do think for myself. You urge me to vote for Romney, yet you offer no logical reason why I should do so – and certainly nothing to address my serious reservations about his character and bona fides as a conservative. You tell me Romney is a president “hands down” but you don’t give your reasoning for this assertion either. In other words, you have treated me like I can’t think for myself or don’t deserve to be treated like someone who can. Were it otherwise, you would have offered reasons instead of rhetoric.

I find your tone and approach offensive. Thank you, but I’ll keep my own counsel.

Who cares!!!

Romney is receiving more name recognition. That is McCain's best attribute. Romney won in Maine this weekend with over 50% of the vote. McCain was in the low twenties, then Paul, and Huckabee scored in the single digits coming in last place. Huckabee supporters and Paul supporters should start rallying around Romney. He is the only candidate to save the economy and the republican party. He is the most qualified and has great values and an amazing family.

Mitt? Many Republicans in Massachusetts remember Mitt as a fraud. He promised to use his business experience and contacts to bring new jobs to Massachusetts. He was to travel out of state to bring new investment to our state. He surely spent the time out of state and raised a lot of dough for his Presidential campaign. He actually was a poor administrator often leaving state agencies squabbling among themselves. He was a asleep at the switch or had not fully developed his anti-abortion views when he permitted a state agency to issue tax-exempt bonds to pay for a Planned Parenthood clinic.

Watching from the UK I can't believe you guys take Romney seriously - since when did membership of a weird religious cult make someone qualified to be President?

McCain? - a hothead with his finger of the nuclear button - not a good idea!

The MSM and the Democrats WANT John McCain as the Republican nominee. When the general election comes around and John McCain is the nominee they will dig up every dirty about him and he has plenty of skeletons in his closet. He will be easy for them to beat. As far as I know Romney is pretty clean.

If McCain is The Straight Talk Express---Why did he refer to Romney as "MY FRIEND" at least 3 times in the debates???. Seems pretty slimy to me and if that is not speaking out of the corners of the mouth, then I don't know what is. Huckabee and McCain are in an obvious conspiracy to hold Romeny back. If he were a non-Mormon he would be leading the pack. Thank goodness for Obama that he is only black and not a black Mormon.

Dear Kevin,
"weird religous cult": that's KKK type bashing and is not acceptable. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are among the most kind, G-rated followers of Christ on the earth. That's why they're called "saints"-they try to live saintly lives!
Check out "Mormon.org" and get accurate facts from the actual source.
You couldn't invent a more moral human (albeit, imperfect) for president than Mitt Romney.

Paul, it's true that "It's not over until it's over." But it's also true that "When it's over, it's over." In 24 hours, this race will be over.

GO McCAIN!!! ALL THE WAY IN 2008!!!