Cutback! Mitt rides the Big Wave . . .
Monday, February 04, 2008
There is a ground swell of support as the big waves start to roll in for Mitt . . .
The Trend is Real: Conservatives Rally
Erick at RedState:
By the way, I’m thinking Romney wins California tomorrow and I suspect he’ll win more states, if not more delegates, than McCain. I don’t think McCain’s team has reacted with serious aggression to the trend of conservatives rallying to Romney.
The trend is real — conservatives are rallying to him.
Open thread here. And Reid Wilson, Politics Nation:
For at least one candidate, though, California will not be the story. John McCain, once an afterthought, then the front-runner, is seeing his poll numbers in the Golden State sink again. After enjoying leads as high as 19 points, just days after his New Hampshire win, and 13 points, in a CNN/Politico/LA Times poll last week, McCain now owns just a 2-point lead in the latest RCP California Average.
The news may be worse than that. A tracking poll for C-SPAN and Reuters, taken by Zogby, shows distinct movement toward McCain’s chief opponent in California, Mitt Romney. After taking the lead yesterday, Romney is now up by eight points.
Wilson says McCain’s team is already downplaying expectations. What are all those reporters going to do out there? How will they report a Romney win? Will they say it was just a fluke?
McCain-Romney tied in Georgia. RCP. Great new Mitt ad up per Hot Air. Hillary=McCain
I just got back from my women’s Republican group, some of whom were Thompson and Giuliani supporters and they are all determined to vote for Mitt tomorrow and stop the MSM railroading us onto the McCain train.
UPDATE: Hugh Hewitt:
California is among the most wired of states, with a Republican base used to communicating around the dominant MSM represented by the Los Angeles Times. The big shift to Romney coincides with Arnold’s and Los Angeles Times’ endorsement of McCain and underscores just how weary the Golden State GOP is of accommodation to political elites. Arnold was elected as an insurgent on a recall but has not governed as an opponent of Sacramento. Republicans genuinely like Arnold just as they genuinely admire McCain’s heroism.
But this election is about much more than affection or admiration for candidates. It is about the ideas behind their desire to lead, and Romney’s ideas are Reagan’s. Romney came to some of those convictions later than long-serving Republicans in the party and beyond, but he’s where they want him to be, and he’s not going to abandon these ideas upon entering office.Thanks to Anne Leary, Backyard Conservative
February 4th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Stephen, how did you get that photograph of me?
February 4th, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Another talk-show host, Michael Savage likes Mitt and predicts a Romney victory
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QjfH5VT_XcI
February 4th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
“How presumptuous and arrogant must a man be to assume that if I did drop out of the race that the people who voted for me would vote for him?…
“Mr. Romney has spent about $100 million to have basically the same number of delegates as I have and I’ve spent about 7 million. You know with the business background he has, you’d think by this point with his Harvard-educated MBA, he’d come to the conclusion that he’s not selling his soap very well if it takes that kind of money to have no more market share than I’ve got for about a fifteenth of the expenditure. So I’ve got a suggestion. Mr. Romney, rather than me drop out, why don’t YOU give it up and go back to Boston!
Mike Huckabee to Mitt Romney:
“I want to make real sure that he understands something. This old Arkansas boy is not for sale. He doesn’t have enough money to buy me. I’m not some troubled company that he can buy, sell off the assets and send us home. There’s a whole lot of people like me in this country who are tired of people waving their checkbooks at us and making us think they own us and they can buy us. Well you can’t buy us. You can’t even rent us. We’re not for sale. We’re going to the polls Tuesday and we’re going to show America this country is about ordinary people who believe in the extraordinary power of the American dream and we’re going to prove it at the ballot box Tuesday.”
I say Amen!
February 4th, 2008 at 11:10 pm
I grow more disgusted with and lose more respect for Mike Huckabee day by day.
February 4th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Well, you know Mike’s motto “There’s a Sucker Born Every Minute.” The joke will be on him when McCain picks someone else as VP should he win the nomination.
February 4th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Ummm…just as many delegates—really? Check again. How many states won for each?
Sorry, the Huckster may be a nice guy–but he appears to be a shill for McCain and practically everyone sees it now.
Tell the Huckster to be careful, he’s brown nosing John ‘tax on gas” McCain to the point where he may end up with anal poisining.
I just hope he takes his populist message back to Arkansas after tomorrow and we don’t hear much from him again—he’s really starting to get annoying!
February 4th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
By the way everybody that’s Vic riding the big one.
February 5th, 2008 at 12:11 am
Larry king and Bill Maher were talking today about Ann coulter. She has really made national news with her statements. I believe McCain has to deal with the issue of dissatisfied conservatives. Will he have to put Romney on the ticket, or will Romney reject the offer?
February 5th, 2008 at 12:31 am
I’m a big time Bible believer and Huckabee is not the man that I would want as my President (or Vice President). He needs to stay in the pulpit. I would have confidence in Mitt Romney to represent me and my country. (and just a side note…I’d be proud to have Ann Romney in the White House as my First Lady.)
February 5th, 2008 at 4:18 am
Stephen: LOL!
Thanks for backing my assertion! Though I surf, I would never have the guts to drop in on that wave! It was a thrill thinking about it though!
February 5th, 2008 at 4:19 am
To your points of the differences between Gov. Romney and Gov. Huckabee, consider this:
Click here:
To Listen Respectfully
February 5th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Matt Prihoda likes to hang out with the enemy as much as McCain likes to with the Democrats. Oh well. If he thinks Huck has a chance, or will get the VP nod, or any of that will matter if McCain leads the ticket, then he has bought into something that money can’t buy. Priceless.