Actually, I'm not sure if they are going to pile on Romney or just try to marginalize him.  But make no mistake, the Republican establishment is actively trying to remove Romney from the race. 

I'm glad Thompson didn't participate in the Romney blackballing.  The rest of them can kiss my fanny. 

I've never felt so betrayed in my life. 

(except when I saw the girl I had a crush on in 6th grade kissing the neighbor kid.)

OK it appears by hook and crook the GOP now has McCain as I doubt Romney can rebound and with Huckabee being a prick bleeding off votes........our horse we will have to rides is Amor Loco, Dr. Strangelove, John McCain.

In knowing this, how do Conservatives make certain to force John McCain to pick a Dick Cheney to uphold our policies?

McCain can not swing left as it will infuriate the Conservatives and Christians who already regard him as Teddy Kennedy with only the right testicle.
McCain wants to win this so he will have to shore up the base past his 30% dropping number past Independents.

Fred Thompson I do not believe is a choice as Tennessee was carried by Bush with Gore and there is no sense in putting him on the ticket.
For states, Jeb Bush would bring in Florida and the hispanics with El Busto jr.....but will the Bush factor turn off voters even if Jeb is more Conservative than bro.

Arnold is a no go being a European and I do not see Romney appearing on the ticket as he is still iffy in Massachuesettes and Michigan.......and Conservatives are not exactly sure of him.

No one in the Senate nor House carries Conservative clout and governors could be Tim Pawlenty out of Minnesota, but is Minnesota worth trading for a bigger prize.

The person I would like to see John McCain pick is:

A Conservative

Brilliant

Articulate

Has been vetted

Can divide the liberal vote

The person I ask Newsbusters to consider and start discussing is the person I suggested for Fred Thompson.

That person is Lynn Cheney.

Think of her Conservative credentials and her ability to difuse the Democratic skirt factor in voting. Lynn Cheney can add to a ticket those crazy women who will only vote for a woman plus give the confidence we all have in Dick Cheney for a continuous link to the next presidency.

If McCain is smart, he will pick Lynn Cheney. She is the gorilla with satin gloves on in the room. It will be the first time a woman appears in national politics who is there as a person who can kick everyone she debates butt.
She is the closest thing we have to Maggie Thatcher.

Let the discussion begin beyond debates of the GOP as Fred Thompson wins debates and he does not have people vote for him.

If John McCain in the Rasmussen Poll runs 47% to any democrats 40%........what better situation than to shore up the Conservatives and peal off 10% more in female liberal votes.

That is talking landslide and perhaps the House and Senate will go back to the GOP. Veg Tim Johnson will be running against Gov. Mike Rounds of SD. Rounds will win.......that is one pick up already.

Let think now and plan on winning. Even if we do not like McCain, he is the horse chosen for us.......we have to get the jockey to ride him and find the whip to move him.

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When Jaun McCain thinks he's in the catbird seat he really does show his ass.  

Carbon Credits Smoke'em if you got'em!

I just can not bring myself to vote for Juan McKain. He has shown his true colors too many times for me to believe his schtick that he is a "conservative who can unite" anything. He has shown that he has no use for the United States Constitution via amnesty and campaign finance. Just cant do it! Gosh, I surely do hope that Romney can pull his numbers up. I really do not believe that the Guilliani endorsement does much, as tey are both running on "National Security". Oh well. That's my rant. Back to you, Brit.

McCain drives me nuts with his boasting about his military service.  He was not the commander of the largest squadron in the Navy... he was the commander of the largest attack squadron in the Navy.  Even so, he was in charge of between 300 and 400 people.  Compare that to a captain of an aircraft carrier who's in charge of 5,000+ people, or a Fleet commander who's got 50,000 people under him. 

Speaking of higher command, the truth of McCain's service is that he was denied higher command because he was a screwup.  The "great leader" of the military went from being a squadron commander to being a liason officer at the Senate.  That, for civilians, is not normal and indicative of an officer who's gone as far as he's going to go and who's given some busywork until he can retire.  Commanders who perform well at the unit level go to higher-level admin commands and then to large surface commands or airwing commands and on up the chain... they don't get pidgeonholed with the Senate.  McCain was a failure at the naval academy, he had major disciplinary problems throughout his career, and his status as a former POW was enough to forgive enough of those sins to get command of a squadron, but that was it, and once he realized he would never rise to be a real leader in the Navy, he left and ran for office.

Lastly, squadron commanders are not leaders nor managers... they are administrators.  The sailors in a squadron have no say in what's going on.  They follow orders or they get punished.  There's little leadership involved.  Also, everything the squadron commander does stems from orders he's getting from the real leaders above him/her.  He gets the orders, and gives orders to those under him to make things happen.  Business people are much more effective leaders because their people can always leave if they don't like the boss, so you have to lead and encourage your people as you don't have an option to put people on report if they don't listen to you.

When asked a question he immediately replies with one of his numbered reponses without variation.  No nuance for this straight talker (God I don't want to hear that again) just a preprogrammed canned response.  Its like a religious ritual amen and so mote it be, but no thought.  We are so used to hearing his repetitions that we don't always hear what he is saying, but the bottom line is he was a patriot because he worked not for profit.  Think about it, Juan McCain is BIG government dictatorial commander wannabe, not a leader.  Juan McCain is a hero and a legend in his own mind, just ask him.

I emplore all of you real conservatives who will be participating in the Super Tuesday primary, please vote against McClinton.

He MUST be defeated.

I will be voting for Romney.

None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -J.W. von Goethe

What a mumbling stumbling fool, are you sure he's going to be only 72 yrs. old, he sounds like he's just one rung above Robert Byrd in communication skills.  Also a Johnny one note with his repeating of "time tables" over and over.  I guess the Penn Central RR should quit using "time tables" when they speak about the train schedules or maybe grade school teachers should no longer call multiplication basics "time tables."

For the life of me, I can't understand why so many so-called Republican leaders are throwing their support to this lying little clown.  It seems that nearly all conservative bloggers are totally against this phoney "foot soldier" - does that make us more in tune with the facts, or are we all clueless?  I think not!

McCain needs to go try running his wife's beer business so he can understand how economics works and not just keep using his experiences as a flight wing commander in the Navy to justify his leadership skills.  Anyone who has been in the military knows full well that the commanders are mainly figure heads and that the actual leaders are the mid level officers and most especially the senior NCOs.

McCain's mother had it right, most Republicans will hold their nose while they cast their vote for this jerk (if he gets the nomination) soley to keep Shillery from destroying our country.

Lastly, notice how the MSM continues to try and steer folks to their desire to get McCain the nomination, which they definitely want because he's really a Democrat in disguise.  If you took notice of the unfairness of how the questioning went during the debate, Mitt Romney was asked "first" to give his response to each question 80% of the time.  It's common sense that the number one guy has a disadvantage because his answer has to be immediate without time to think of a good response, whereas everyone after that has time to reflect on their answer and "goes to school" on the first persons statments.  Having said that, McCain still had troubling coming up with cogent answers beside "I was proud to be a Reagan foot soldier," over and over and over..........

I wanted to reach thru the screen and strangle him.