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Romney: Giving up on McCain or just trying to raise money?
By Jimmy Orr | 10.28.08
Has Mitt Romney given up on the McCain campaign?
A Romney email appealing for funds to back Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell has generated some talk that even high profile supporters like Romney have given up on the campaign.
Warning: Schumer alert
The fundraising missive warns that McConnell’s opponent was “handpicked by [Democratic Senator] Chuck Schumer and will be a reliable vote for the Democrats.”
“And as we face the very real possibility of an Obama presidency, that’s the last thing we need,” writes Romney. “It’s more critical than ever that we have a strong Republican leader to act as a “firewall” against bad legislation, tax increases, and increased spending. And Mitch McConnell has proven he will stand up for us.”
It’s the “very real possibility” language that has people talking.
What’d he mean?
In a blog post called, “Top McCain surrogate Romney: Obama win likely” - the guys at Talking Points Memo read Romney’s email to mean doom was all but certain for McCain.
In another sign that more and more GOPers are presuming an Obama victory, top McCain surrogate Mitt Romney confesses as much in a fundraising email he blasted out on behalf of GOP Senator Mitch McConnell.
They go on to say similar messages are going on all over the country as Republicans have adopted a new strategy:
Each says the other is going to lose on Election Day — and each is citing that to win voter support for themselves.
McCain’s doing it too
But this is similar to what John McCain himself is warning voters of. One party rule. He talked about it yesterday while campaigning in Cleveland.
“This election comes down to how you want your money spent,” McCain told a crowd yesterday. “Do you want to keep it invested in your future or do you want to have it taken by the most liberal person to ever run for the presidency, and Democratic leaders who have running Congress for the past two years, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid?
“My friends, this is a dangerous threesome,” he said.
It’s Halloween
Responding to the charge, Pelosi called McCain’s comment a “scare tactic”.
“He certainly did not object when Republicans were in charge of the White House and the Congress for six of the past eight years,” she stated.
Yeah, but that would be because the Republicans (the party he’s a member of) were in charge. It’s politics.
More, more, more
How’s this all playing out across the country?
Monitor colleague Gail Chaddock wrote about what Republicans are doing to block a filibuster-proof Senate yesterday and colleague Linda Feldmann wrote the historical impact of one party rule today.
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2. Sean A. | 10.28.08
Of course not, nate. He should say grit your teeth for four years and wait till I run and lose in the primaries once again. The republican primary in 2011 is going to be really really ugly.
4. Mark | 10.28.08
I’m excited about an O’bama Presidency! Finally, we in the religious right can finally drive the message home after O’bama appoints pro-gay marriage, pro-abortion Supreme Court Justices. He (along with the Democrats in Congress who happen to have horrible approval ratings) will destroy the economy, lose Iraq and maybe, just maybe start an even more catostrophic war in the Middle East, will be the ticket to have a voter revolt and drive the Dems from Congress. Payback will be sweet after O’bama raises taxes and the economy skunks. (I remember the 70’s and the absolute misery with high interest rates and gas lines).
The religious right will mobilize (along with gun owners) and take back the government. But this time we are going to examine our very souls. Colleges and University’s will be our targets as we finally have an example of how Marxist and Gay Professors have indoctrinated a generation of students to hate the free market, Judeo Christian based society that is (was) the envy of the world.
Yes..go O’bama go! This is the moment, the defining moment we true Americans have been waiting for!
5. Rick Mave | 10.28.08
2012 is Romney’s to lose. After 4 years of Obama, Nancy, and Harry, no degree of countrymile Who Would Jesus Hate? Huckabeean drek or Palin you betcha’s will stop the Republicans from actually nominating an accomplished, intelligent and capable candidate.
6. Joe | 10.28.08
Well, all I can say is the GOP picked the wrong guy, so I saw this coming.
Gov Romney should have been nominated… he’s expert on teh econonomy, could have delivered Michigan, Colorado, Nevada, and others with ease, and everything he’s touched has turned gold.
Instead of being the nominee, he’s helping conservatives across the country as best he can, so I don’t see anything unusual about this. He’s been supporting conservatie candidates for a long time now.
8. Mel M. | 10.29.08
Just like the Civil War era, you ignorant people who spout whis immature propaganda will perish. What is wrong is just plain wrong. The confederate soldiers, and millions of people who backed them, knew they could not win, because they knew in their hearts they were wrong. So many people died for a unjust cause. If McCain wins, we will be in more wars, not if Obama wins. That is fact. Also fact, we will have a better reputation in the world.
Americans just like the union soldiers, and the people who supported them, will be “saving your souls, one bullet at a time”, and you will die for a unjust, immature, and ignorant way of life. So how will “your god like you now”.
Grow up. Politics, and religion are a violent, caustic mix, and always will be.
9. john travis | 10.29.08
Only someone in the tank for Obama would put this spin on the message of don’t let the democrats take over congress.
The republican message is accurate, a more powerfull democrat congress would by even uglier than the one now. we would be tail spin into a protracted recession. There needs to be a balance in congress.
11. Timmy T. | 10.29.08
Hey Hottopics: Barack Hussein Obama, the most unqialified Presidential candidate ever. “‘Nough said!”
12. Greg | 10.30.08
I’m a conservative Mormon, but I’m excited about an Obama presidency for non-sardonic reasons. I think we all can agree that the last eight years have been a disaster, and I’m willing to see something extraordinarily different. If Obama is actually as communist and anti-Christ as you all claim, we can vote for somebody else in four years. Or for a new congress in two.
And maybe the “most liberal candidate ever” is precisely what we need to get our country back on track after George the Lesser.
13. JC in Indiana | 10.30.08
Let me just put all these comments to bed….
John McCain WILL win this election, beyond any doubt, bet on it.
Just like you bleeding liberals were shocked by Gore’s loss and then Kerry’s you put too much faith in your polls…..On November 4th McCain will be President Elect and your jaws will be hanging on the ground AGAIN….
….so we are not concerned about the dummycrates having all branches.
….no other GOP would have been this close to Obama, only McCain had a record to seperate himself from Bush at all.
….Obama’s lack of experience is not going to matter he is out.
….Palin WILL be Vice-President, thank you God.
….bottom line, in our current time (2008) white America does not go into the both and elect a (sudo) African-American. (Just like 93-95% of blacks are voting for Obama.)
….Sudo — not a decendent of African American Slaves and wrongly segregated. 1st generation from a Kenyan father who abadoned him at age 2. Raised by Caucasion Mother and Grandparents in India (Asia) and Hawii, far from the US mainland. Obama has no personal relationship or concept of the history of the typical African-American, other than his skin is the same color….CNN’s show Obama Exposed stated that Obama read 5 books on how to be a black man in America, by famous black leaders before he came to the mainland to attend college.
Enough, just say President John S. McCain…..
14. Greg | 10.30.08
I’m shocked by the number of people who read and comment on this newspaper who cannot spell.
15. Tug | 10.31.08
I’ve come to the conclusion that an Obama win would be the best possible thing that could happen to the Republican party. Maybe (Hopefully?) this defeat will force my fellow conservatives to take a good look at what they’ve become. (As opposed to what they supposedly stand for. Ex. Limited Federal government??)
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1. nate | 10.28.08
What is he supposed to say? Obama’s victory is not a possibility?