Michigan/Nevada/SC Primaries Running Thread

Yikes! Another loser.

 

It's as if these people want Obama to lose. Yikes.

 

WTF?

 

Clearly, Bat, you're failing to account for Mittmentum.

 

Zeke, although I support Obama, I wouldn't get too much into the "Hillary plays dirty" mode. Obama comes out of Chicago politics, community organizing yet. That ain't nursery school.

 

I'm just floored at how exclusive each party seems to be. Obama's ideas of unity are scoffed at by the Dems. Huckabee isn't enough of a conservative for the GOP.

It's that extremist factionalism version of politics that has helped ruin debate and discourse.

 

The point of the primary process is to choose who is the best candidate among the choices - the time to come together behind a candidate is later. Why are you troubled by that? What has Huckabee or Obama done to earn the default status that everyone should line up behind them?

 

tag on the new thread

 

Fred Thompson repeatedly referred to Huckabee tonight, in the debate and the post mortems, as a Christian candidate. Powerful yet subtle, like a magnum of Thunderbird.

Let's see if it works.

 

Thompson had the line of the debate tonight:

Talking about the Iranian boats buzzing our ships ... "I think one more step and they would have been introduced to those virgins that they're looking forward to seeing."

 

...and then he looked down at his notes, again, and dreamed of bourbon.
Guy, you misapprehend the difference between the discussion zeke and I are having and the phenomenon I pointed out. For me, at least, I wouldn't argue that Obama's not progressive enough for the nomination. (My objections to him are largely tactical and easily overcome). The GOP -- and not necessarily the RNC, but the constituent interest groups like the FRC and the Club For Growth -- are attempting to tell me that neither Huckabee nor McCain meets the definition of a "conservative." If they persist in that, the GOP will become a regionalized, Southern party.

 

Rudy was so dying to get his "The change that the Dems want is change out of your pocket" joke that his writers came up with, that he used the line on an unrelated question and then stepped all over it.