Comments on: McCain-Huckabee: The Ticket From Hell

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:00:09 +0000

This article is the most moronic ignorant piece of writing i’ve seen in a long time.

Even worse than comment #15?

By: matt

matt — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:36:10 +0000

This article is the most moronic ignorant piece of writing i’ve seen in a long time. The title shows this and the rest of the article only strenghthens it’s idiocracy.

By: lou

lou — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:03:46 +0000

admin: Spam removed

By: C Stanley

C Stanley — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:59:38 +0000

wj: I wasn’t writing him off, just questioning why Rick seems to write off McCain’s chances of holding the southern bloc. It still seems to me that the South would be McCain’s to lose, not the other way around.

By: wj

wj — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:47:41 +0000

Christine, before you totally write off Obama in the South, consider this. I came across a regression analysis recently of the Democratic primaries and caucuses so far (unfortunately, I don’t recall quite where). It showed, among other things, that Obama did fairly well among Southern white Democrats — except for Southern Baptists.

Statistics are certainly not a sure-fire guide to the future. But it suggests that some states in the South may not be out of reach after all, assuming that he is the Democrats’ nominee.

By: abrisaham

abrisaham — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:57:23 +0000

What I find amazing is that this election might see Barak Obama take Red States and McCain take blue states.

I had a professor who made a very strong case that both parties are in severe turmoil and not just the GOP. During the next several years as the GOP appears likely to abandon the religious right and turn towards a more moderate, socially conservative outlook. At the same time the Democrats are trying to redefine themselves as the party of fiscal responsibility and family values. The resulting mess will cause many left pacs to take up residence in the GOP and the religious right and some resulting fiscal pacs to take up residence in Donkeyville.

I think we are seeing this happen even today as Obama continues to win Red states while Hillary wins the more traditional blue states.

Running against Barak Obama with John McCain I think its possible that the GOP can win enough Blue states that Hillary would have carried to more then offset the Red states that Obama is most likely going to win.

Therefore the worst thing McCain can do in my opinion is to try and shore up the Conservative base. That base is in disarray and weak. What he needs to focus on is winning the states that Hillary would have won but that Obama most likely could lose. New York, Maine, Rhode Island, Mass. Connecticut.

Can anyone say Rudi Guillani?

By: casualobserver

casualobserver — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:17:40 +0000

Yes, if the socons are upset to the point that they will risk a SCOTUS appointment that will put Roe v. Wade up for retooling, removing creationism from public school testbooks and all the other stuff the KosKids will look to be opportunistic on in a Dem adminstration, then it’s probably time we split from those lacking common sense anyway.

By: C Stanley

C Stanley — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:38:53 +0000

Besides, exit polls showed that McCain was the second choice of a majority of Huckabee supporters, so I see little reason to think that they’d stay home or vote Dem in protest of a McCain ticket that didn’t include Huckabee. I think as long as he doesn’t chose someone who’d anger them (Giuliani, for example) then they’ll still support him over any Democrat.

By: C Stanley

C Stanley — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:37:13 +0000

Rick: what makes you think that Obama would do so well in the south? His extremely liberal stances on issues like abortion and gun control are sure to be deal breakers for virtually every Southern white evangelical, and that’s without even considering the fact that racism will rear it’s ugly head.

By: Rick Moran

Rick Moran — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:32:23 +0000

"The base" of the party is the south. McCain has not won "the base." He couldn’t even win LA which was basically a two man race between he and Huckabee.
And, uh, newsflash: Barack Obama would cut into the GOP dominance in the south by taking several states - which would be curtains for any Republican nominee.