Election predictions

[ratboy88]

Quote from Pekelo:

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8UIQCP83&show_article=1

Romney won Maine's caucus, getting 18 delegates closing up the gap between him and McCain, basicly they are head to head:

McCain: 97
Romney:92
Huckabee: 29

The actual results are telling:

"The former Massachusetts governor had 52 percent of the vote with 68 percent of the towns holding caucuses reporting. John McCain trailed with 21 percent, Ron Paul was third with 19 percent, and Mike Huckabee had 6 percent. "

that was a non binding voter's preference poll. the delegates can choose which candidate they want come may, at the state convention. word on the street has ron paul with the most delegates.

 

[FanOfFridays]

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
He said evangelical supporters of Bush were "intolerant"

In my wildest dreams, AAA, I couldn't see you claiming that they aren't.

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
He said tax cuts were a gift to the rich.

Surely you're not claiming they aren't?

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
He made all kinds of accusations about immigration opponents, even implying they were racists.

Some of them are, although most are probably not, and illegal immigration is a huge problem for the U.S. I notice you didn't use the 'illegal' qualifier...

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:
He bizarrely has led the fight for kid gloves treatment of captured terrorists.

I highly doubt he'd be in favour of kid gloves treatment for proven terrorists. I believe his comments were engendered by the detentions at Guantanamo that turned out to be mistakes, weren't they? No suprise that he would be interested in distinguishing the U.S. from other states in terms of their treatment of POWs, right?

Hate to say it, but a bunch of the points you made are good reasons for those who lean towards the Dems, but who can't see Hillary or Obama in the White House, to vote Republican this time.

 

[hughb]

Quote from AAAintheBeltway:

I haven't seen anyone belittling McCain's Navy career, but just as with another vietnam vet, John Kerry, I don't see it as reason to make him president. He's already parlayed it into 25 years in the Senate, with little to show for it other than a lot of appearances on the sunday morning shows.

I don't think you fully understand the opposition to him among conservatives. It's not that he isn't quite conservative enough. You might make that criticism of Romney or Huckabee, for example. With McCain, it is that he has gone out of his way to sabotage conservative principles. Not only has he sabotaged conservatives, he has demonized them. He said evangelical supporters of Bush were "intolerant" and compared them to Al Sharpton. He said tax cuts were a gift to the rich. He made all kinds of accusations about immigration opponents, even implying they were racists. He bizarrely has led the fight for kid gloves treatment of captured terrorists. He has lied about or obfuscated his past positions, such as on amnesty. He blatantly lied about Romney's position on Iraq. He regards any criticism of his record as a personal attack.

If you believe he will veto a democrat tax increase, I think you're dreaming. He will claim things are even worse than he imagined and that he was elected to work with democrats. He's already on record spewing class warfare nonsense. His understanding of the economy is nonexistent. I could easily see him going along with a cap gains increase and reinstituting the estate tax.

As Ann Coulter put it, at least with Hillary or Obama in the White House, republicans will know who the enemy is. McCain would only confuse matters, and republicans would be under pressure to support his idiotic proposals as matter of party loyalty. I say no thanks.

Confuse matters? what the hell are you talking about? He's not going to confuse anything. He has said flat out he wants to extend the tax cuts. PERIOD. That's all that matters to you and me, two traders.

Illegal immigration means nothing to a trader.

Interrogation techniqes mean nothing to a trader.

The zealousness of a candidate's Christianity means nothing to a trader.

What matter to you and me are taxes - We will get an increase with Hillary, we will get a bigger one with Obama, we won't get one with McCain. (as long as repubs don't lose any more seats in congress).

Get off your conservative high horse! Do you want to pay an additional $10 or $20,000 a year just so you can say you adhere to right wing political ideals! Get real.

Sorry for hijacking your thread again, pekelo, but this issue is becoming important.

My prediction is McCain to win the nomination. I'm not ready to predict who will ultimately win the White House yet.

 

[steve46]

I also think McCain will win the nomination, although I believe that Romney would be a better President.

I hope that Hillary does not get the nomination. I am voting for Obama. Think of what it would be like to wake up and see that face in the White House every day for the next four years. Oh......My......God.....I might have to move to Canada.....

 

[Pekelo]

Quote from hughb:

Sorry for hijacking your thread again, pekelo, but this issue is becoming important.

My prediction is McCain to win the nomination.

At least you did make a bet.