The latest poll from Zogby/Reuters shows both John McCain and Mitt Romney in an extremely close race in Florida, each with 30% of the vote - but was taken before yesterday’s big endorsement by Charlie Crist.
How the Crist endorsement will affect McCain’s lead in the state is so far unclear, but lesser endorsements have come from all over Florida in the form of advisors to Crist and former governor Bush, as well as members of the legislature and members of Congress, and even local-level elected officials, such as Clearwater Mayor Frank Hibbard, who endorsed Romney. Incredibly, such seemingly trivial endorsements can make a difference in a race where the difference between victory and defeat may be within several thousand or even hundred votes. As in the 2000 general election, whoever gets Florida’s “winner-take-all” delegates will likely do so by a razor-thin margin.
January 27th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I would think that ALL the top tier folks should apologize, not just McCain & Romney. The war issue IS the economic issue. They can NOT be separated. We need to cut somewhere & empire building is the 1st choice, especially since we are not even going after Osama bin Laden, & he killed 3000 Americans! Ironically, Osama explicitly claims to have bankrupted the old Soviet Union and wants the same for us. He may get his wish if we do not get focused on what’s important in our foreign policy. And cut the unneeded military bases over seas.
With all the problems facing America, it would be really nice if the REST of the mainstream media actually cared about reporting on the positions of EACH Presidential candidate on ALL the issues rather than reporting on the horse race. Unfortunately the MSM thinks that only the polls and the candidate’s “presidential charisma” are important. We will get more in depth reporting on the Super Bowl players than we will on the remaining candidates. Most seem to be talking crazy talk about our military adventures in the Middle East. Also, only Ron Paul seems to understand the connection between Iraq and the problems with the economy, inflation, & out of control deficit spending. Inflation is going to eat us alive, as it has already started to do so. Do you really believe that the REAL inflation rate used for Social Security check increases this month was 2.3%? Please vote Ron Paul & save the country from bankruptcy abroad & at home!
January 27th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
John McCain has stooped lower than I thought was possible. He is desperately trying to divert our attention form the economy becuase he is ignorant as to how it works. He is an unscrupulous Washington insider that has no chance against the Democrats. He is telling an outright lie about Mitt Romney, and he knows it. All of the news sources have the quote from Mitt. He says nothing that would lead any intelligent American to believe that he supported a timetable for withdrawl. We are seeing the real John McCain now. He is angry, mean and unqualified to lead this country. If he wins the nomination and Hillary wins the Democratic nomination, I will not vote at all. If McCain wins the nomination and Obama is the Democratic nominee, I will vote for Obama. He would be better than McCain.
January 27th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
McCain says he wants interest rates to be ZERO out of complete ignorance for how interest rates affect the economy. I’d like to see him say that to retirees on a fixed income.
January 27th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Romney is on the rise, even nationwide. Latest poll shows Romney now tied with McCain nationwide at 27% each.
C’mon Florida, do it right for the rest of us! Show us that you see through McCain’s dirty tricks he claims Bush did to him in 2000, that he (McCain) has been and continues to do against Romney. Elect the one individual with both native and learned ability, and experience and credentials in turning things in the right direction in both the private sector, and in public office.
McCain will indeed be just one of the same old players in a different chair in Washington, if elected. McCain will likely have the same cabinet turmoil and turnover we’ve always seen in McCain campaign staffs.
If you thought Bush was arrogant, until you have bombastic McCain, you haven’t seen anything approaching sheer haughtiness.
Please, folks in Florida, elect the one candidate America desperately needs to turn our government and nation in the right direction. Choose Mitt Romney for president.
January 27th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
McCain is scratching for everything he can get. His jabs at Romney are uncalled for. McCain is a warmonger. The war has affected the economy and the way the world looks at us. There are no easy solutions, but to just say we are going to stay in Iraq forever is crazy. There needs to be a long term plan to stabilize the country and let them run it. Look at england and it’s attempt to colonize the world. They lost face and their strongholds all over, because it isn’t the right thing to do.
McCain has no sense of the economy. This is the #1 issue in Florida. There are people on s.s. and if the economy isn’t fixed how will these people survive?
How are we going to be taken seriously as a nation if we don’t have a strong economy. Right now we are exporting more than ever because goods out of the US are cheap due to a weak dollar. We could become a second tier nation if we don’t re-focus and help the economy.
Why do you think Bush has the stimulus plan to get people money? It is to get the economy rolling. People are worried about it. Everyone should be. McCain can’t fix it he’ll throw more troops into Iraq and say that will help it and talk about cutting the interest rate to zero. Well, that plan has zero thought into it.
He obviously has never taken an econ class. He’s just saying things that resonate with people. If you cut the interest rate to zero it would send the economy into a tailspin. Inflation would be a huge problem. It is a ridiculous idea.
January 27th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Mitt Romney has run the most negative sleazeball campaign I’ve seen in a long time. Now to claim that he’s somehow been above the fray this whole time? Pathetic. He smeared Mike Huckabee in Iowa and John McCain in New Hampshire.
But the voters saw through Romney and hopefully Florida voters will have the sense to see through him again on Tuesday.
Send Mitt back to Mass!
January 27th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
This should clear up McCain’s economic understanding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu-tg1kQ8dk&feature=related
January 27th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
On Oct. 15, 1982, President Ronald Reagan signed into law the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act, otherwise known as “Garn-St Germain,” after the principal Congressional sponsors. As a direct result of this disastrous deregulation legislation, within the span of a decade, a small tightly organized network of financial pirates—many with close ties to the Meyer Lansky National Crime Syndicate—would pull off the biggest heist in American history. By the early 1990s, the U.S. savings and loan industry (S&Ls)—once the backbone of the home mortgage industry and the preferred safe depository of household savings—was wiped out. Many of America’s oldest industrial corporations were looted and left for dead, through hostile takeovers, engineered by junk bond financing. To untangle the S&L carnage, the Federal government created the Reconstruction Trust Corporation (RTC) and eventually shelled out $200-250 billion in taxpayers’ money, to avert an even deeper collapse of the U.S. real estate and banking sectors.
A handful of the crooks—including Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, and Charles Keating—were imprisoned for their roles in the looting scheme. Briefly, a few members of Congress were spotlighted and slapped on the wrists for their own profiteering and coverup efforts. But the full extent of this criminal looting of America was barely known, and today is largely forgotten. The biggest political beneficiary of the public’s amnesia is John McCain. With the exception of Sen. Joseph Lieberman’s (D-Conn.) own ties to hedge fund bandit Michael Steinhardt, no American politician is as beholden to organized crime as the senior Senator from Arizona and would-be 2004 “Bull Moose” spoiler candidate for the Presidency.
January 27th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
>Elect the one individual with both native and learned ability, and experience and credentials in turning things in the right direction in both the private sector, and in public office.
If you are talking about Mitt Romney, then you don’t know what you are talking about. A good direction? I lived under the Mitt Romney regime in Massachusetts. He’s one of the most reviled figures in Massachusetts right now– having the level of support most serial killers have. He colluded with the conservative Democrats in Massachusetts to maintain the bloated salaries and benefits of the public employees unions and police chiefs– while cutting programs to the poor. Barney Frank somewhat famously labelled him as being the most shameless politicians in American history and his choice to replace him as governor lost 2-to-1 against a political neophyte.
Having said all that, he’s a better choice than McCain, whose arrogance and insularity will insure that this country is bogged down in several Middle Eastern countries for the next decade or so.
You Republicans sure do have some crap choices to make in 2008. Kinda like choosing whether to eat shit or your own bugers for dinner. Dine well.
January 27th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
It’s spelled “boogers”.
January 27th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Well, Ronald…
The one thing you can’t deny is Romney’s success in turning around the bankrupt 2002 Olympics. He’s also VERY successful in business, and while you may have lived under his “regime” there are obviously two sides to every story. To get elected as a Republican in a very liberal state has to say something for Romney, and if you are looking to fix the economy, then we best get someone OUTSIDE of the Washington Beltway to do it…otherwise it’s the same old “s***” as you say.
At least if Romney’s the Republican candidate, he will actually DO something to help the country, and as far as choices..you seriously can’t be glad with the choices on the Dem’s side….it’s just more of the same from any of the 3 of them… tax, spend, rely on the gov’t. to fix all your problems, and who knows what kind of fiasco pulling out of Iraq would cause right now, like all of them want to do.
Choices? pffft…
While none of us may like the choices we have for president, we must elect the BEST person we can, even if you are holding your nose and voting…of those choices available, clearly Romney offers the best of any of them…
January 27th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Rod,
Yes, what Romney’s election in Massachusetts says is that he colluded with enough good ol’ boys in that state to get elected and that he had enough of his own money to spend in order to buy the election. Not to go against the narrative of Mitt Romney as being a self-made man, but you do know that his father was governor of Michigan, had contacts within the business wing of the Republican party, and was the definitive example of an establishment politician.
I will say one thing for Mitt’s dad. In contrast to his son, at least George Romney had the temerity to denounce his own party’s involvement in an unconscionable war. I can never imagine someone so far up his own ass as Mitt Romney ever making that kind of statement.
As to the Democrats, you are right. I’m a Kucinich man and I’m not at all excited about the prospect of voting for Clinton or Obama (I’m a little more positive about Edwards). None of them advocate the kinds of sweeping and radical change that I think we need to change this country’s direction. That said, I’d vote for any of them– gladly and with vigor– over any of the Republican choices with the possible exception of Ron Paul. And Paul isn’t going to win.
January 27th, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Stephen,
I looked it up. I googled bugers and that was how they spelled it. I was going to spell it how you spelled it. [OK, I will check] Yep, you are right. My bad. Its important to get these things right– especially in the punchline. I’m a little embarrassed to tell you the truth.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:04 am
Each candidate has strengths and each brings great talents to the table. McCain is a national hero. He is brave and committed to the nation’s security. Romney is a proven guy who can makes things work. He is skilled and articulate. Full of energy and love for his country. Huckabee is a good speaker but his ideas are way out there. I support Romney and believe he is the best chioce to deal with the most pressing issues. All candiates need to be congratulated for putting themselves out. Too bad Romney is Mormon though.
January 28th, 2008 at 1:34 am
The GOP needs to nominate a canidate that can win against democrats. The way to attain the highest odds of getting a republican in the whitehouse is to nominate someone that not only has the conservative base but can also pull a high percentage of the independant vote. Romney may have a pretty face, but he cannot get the fence voters. The best bet against the democrats is Mccain. The base party votes will be there, and he consistantly gets the highest percentage of independant voters.
January 28th, 2008 at 2:25 am
Tim,
My hope is that the American people will pay enough attention to the record of this President, how all the candidates have supported this President all the way through his atrocious war of choice, and the overall bankruptcy of Republican policies that the selection of the Republican nominee won’t matter anyway.