Conservative pundit Hugh Hewitt appears to be the first of the talk radio Romney-believers to rally behind John McCain as the likely Republican nominee. Hewitt gives seven reasons why Republicans have to support the Republican nominee, no matter who it is.
Hewitt posted on his Townhall blog today that…
Senator McCain has a clear path to the nomination, Romney a very uphill battle, and Huck is fighting for 2012 at this point and for a win in a major vote outside of the south. Certainly they should all stay in through the primaries ahead because it isn’t over and because our side needs the excitement of a campaign in such key falls states as Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania to keep the MSM from turning 100% of its attention on to growing the Obama phenomenon. They ought to be scheduling three man debates in every state, making their points and taking every opportunity to look ahead to the fall.
At the same time, Romney and Huckabee ought to begin to note Senator McCain’s lead and urge their followers to recognize that if they cannot come back they and their followers will have to come in and join the party’s eventual nominee. Senator McCain would do well to make a similar statement though his lead is significant and his collapse unlikely. Putting Humpty Dumpty together again cannot wait for St. Paul. Each of the three need to strike some common chords again and again, beginning with why the GOP needs to retain the White House, regardless of who its nominee is.
There are seven reasons for anyone to support the eventual nominee no matter who it is: The war and six Supreme Court justices over the age of 68.
Can Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter be far behind?
February 6th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
The answer to your last question is no.
And the obvious marriage of a “libertarian”– aka a person supporting a huge military buildup, more government intrusion into people’s private life, and trillions of dollars spent killing Middle Eastern nationalists– like Hewitt and McCain isn’t far-fetched at all.
All these right-wingers support huge increases in government spending and economic mis-management. If you are indeed sick of the arrogance and incompetence of the Bush regime, why in the world would you vote for more of the same under McCain, Austin?
February 7th, 2008 at 9:12 am
I was soo disappointed to hear Hugh Hewitt bend over today for McAmnesty McNasty. I hate that old, yellow tooth midget. I will vote for Clinton before I vote for the writer of the shamnist bill. McCain.. war hero.. ha!… he got shot down and spent years in prison… he wasn’t even a good pilot!
February 7th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Rob,
McCain was a heal-clicking moron, with a dutiful militarist for a father, who went over to a country that never attacked us, dropped bombs on civilian targets in Vietnam and then got shot down and was treated as any enraged populace would do. Boo-frigging’-hoo for McCain.
I consider it quite likely that if it had not been for anti-war opposition in the United States that it is not inconceivable that McCain simply would have been executed as a war criminal by his Vietnamese captors. They certainly had the grounds to do so.
He is an angry old man who will, if the people are stupid enough to elect him, spend the next four years trying to fend off his Alzheimer’s by looking for defenseless countries to bomb. He is a disgraceful low in the history of the Republican party and will run neck and neck with the current resident in polls ranking the worst of the American presidents