As the Democratic Party Convention begins, there has been a lot of talk of the great division between Obama and Clinton supporters. Republicans are obviously exploiting this as much as they can. However, the Democrats aren't the only party that is divided this convention season. It is common knowledge that John McCain never enjoyed considerable support from Evangelicals and staunch conservatives - the base of the Republican Party. Even though there is plenty of evidence that they have begun to warm to McCain, the base is still not energized by his candidacy. With the Democrats, the base is behind Barack Obama, its just some of the staunch Hilary Clinton supporters who are not warming to him.
My advice to McCain - put Mitt Romney on the ticket, the Conservatives love him and he has an impressive political record. Do not pick Joe Liberman - he's not a Republican, and he was Gore's running mate. The images of Liberman hugging Al Gore at the 2000 convention will make many Republicans shriek in horror at the thought of him being McCain's VP pick. Choosing Liberman will be political suicide, choosing Mitt Romney will help energize the Republican base.
Monday, August 25, 2008
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I beg to differ here.
While I support the Romney choice it is purely for reasons of electoral advantage.
Namely in Colorado,Nevada,New Hampshire and possibly Michigan. It has nothing to do with reaching out to 'conservatives'.
Enthusiastic or not everything I have seen recently indicates that McCain has the FULL support of whatever remains of the Republican base. Especially after Saddleback.
McCain now can just spend time trying to pry Hillary-voters away from the 'One', and convincing the amorphous mass of 'undecideds' that Obama is just too damn 'risky' and frankly 'unqualified' for these difficult times.
Shouldn't be all that hard.
Because he is.
I do think Romney would be a good pick,but I have to wonder how if the Conservatives really love him.
We had Thompson who was a favorite among a vast number of conservative blogs, forums and other sites. Then we had Romney- who was second choice for many of us. After all that we were handed McCain by our party... go figure.
Great blog BTW!
-C
Well I have to admit that I am a litle biased - I wanted Romney to be the nominee, and Guiliani to be the VP. Right now I'm undecided - and I'll be watching the conventions closely, but as a Canadian, there is little I can do...
I'm sure fiscal conservatives love Romney but the problem mcCain had until recently was with religious conservatives who ran as fast as they could from Romney to Huckabee giving McCain the nomination. I'm not saying Romney isn't an Ok pick...but a more fiscal & social conservative like Sarah Palin would not only be a base ace in the whole, it would have the WoW factor. McCain's is great but his campaign needs a little wow.
Just for the record, Mike, I'm one of those liberals and I can't stand Joe Leiberman.
Actually, Romney is another Neocon claiming to be Conservative. The simple truth is that the Neocons have infected the GOP and are duping the GOP base into believing that they're the “real” Conservatives. GENUINE Conservatives like Ron Paul, Chuck Hagel and Pat Buchanan are shoved aside while pink-handed gutless Neocons like Kristoll, Feith, Perle, O’Reilly and Hannity, who never served and don’t know what war is, sit in air-conditioned offices in New York and LA and want the army to do all their fighting for them. It’s disgusting. The only way the GOP will survive is to go back to its roots of non-interventionism, smaller government, and fiscal responsibility. The GOP of today is a disoriented mess because it hasn’t been faithful to its roots.
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