Rally for Romney is Working!
As always, excellent insights from Hugh Hewitt:
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt  at 10:18
…But once the conservative voice begins speaking as one or nearly one, it is very effective, and that began to emerge on Thursday after the Reagan Library debate.
When Rush declared on Thursday that a “vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain,” the focus became very, very clear for conservative voters –who heard it.Â
That message has been repeated a few times by others from Laura Ingraham to Mark Levin and most of us in between, as well as by folks like Rick Santorum and Denny Hastert. Messages take a while to get delivered, but they eventually get there. McCain is using endorsements from the political elites like Arnold and Rick Perry to blunt the new media, and MSM is pushing back with an “inevitability” narrative that is nonsense even as realistic assessments give McCain a great advantage going forward.Â
But the picture is very clear and voters see it: McCain or Romney. Huck doesn’t have a shot, an thus a vote for him is a vote for McCain.
Romney doesn’t even have to spend much more money to communicate this or the crucial differences between him and McCain on taxes, the First Amendment, judges, climate change, and especially illegal immigration. He now has the new media on board and amplifying his message. If there is movement towards Romney on Tuesday, he has many incentives to stay on through St. Paul, and especially through Ohio and Texas in early March. He gets more earned media every day from here on than any candidate has enjoyed on the GOP side since the campaign began. That’s a huge force multiplier and it is just coming to bear on the race.
…But the reality is that “Rally to Romney” is the dominant story in the conservative new media. The results won’t be clear until Wednesday morning, though polls like this Rasmussen in Missouri and Rasmussen in Tennesssee which show McCain with a narrow and falling lead of only 3 points underscore how volatile the race is. A Romney win in either of these states certainly propels the campaign forward to Texas and Ohio at least. (This Tennessee poll has Romney ahead.) Four days is a very long time in 2008.
A Huckabee voter on Tuesday could have a lot of reasons for sticking with Mike, but one of them cannot be protecting the legacy of Reagan or the platform of the GOP as it has existed since 1980.Â
The choice is very clear, and Republicans have a long weekend to think it over.
February 3rd, 2008 at 4:16 am
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120191142380836927.html
I know alot of people are sticking with McCain because they think he can beat the democrats. Read this article with Obama rise already the “angry left” which has helped the right win election after election and limit any dem gains is starting to get marginalized.
Compared to a friendly intelligent rational Obama, McCain looks like a grouchy old war vet (which he is). Lots of places in government for a patriot with war and committe experience like McCain the white house is a bad fit and America will realize after months of debate with Obama. The war is not popular with Americans as a whole McCain’s gonna be in IRAQ for 50 years will push many away from him.
Where as Mitt’s Win Iraq and move into phase 2 of the war on terror involves politically and militarily strengthening our allies in the middle east. America can get behind that and it probably will have more success against terror then iraq.
February 3rd, 2008 at 6:12 am
Hewitt is the best.
February 3rd, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I have been sending this message to many blogs:
This is not over! As we all know, things happen in California first. Romney now has the momentum and is leading in Cali. This will spread the rest of the country. Super Tuesday will not be the end. Then Romney can take McCain one on one the rest of the way. All true conservatives need to get on the bandwagon for Romney. Come on in Paul supporters, Fred Heads, Huckabee supporters and friends of Rudy. Let’s take back our Republican party by voting for Romney!
I hope that us Romney supporters are not just using our best methods of getting the word out in Romney friendly circles. We need to go where we are not comfortable, to change peoples minds. Go to the Huckabee supporter sites, Paul sites, Thompson sites, Rudy sites and even McCain sites to make our case. Call into a radio talk show or even go door to door. We must not get comfortable. We are going through these hard times so that we are better prepared for the Presidential election in November!