01.29.08

It is exciting enough just to stop Hillary

Posted in Economic at 9:45 pm by admin

On one of his MSNBC shows this evening, infotainer Chris Matthews talked to Pat Buchanan and washingtonpost.com blogger Chris Cillizza about Republican Presidential politics. I suppose its good to hear opinions from outside the party neither Buchanan nor Cillizza is a Republican and it fills time for Matthews.

Matthews thinks Rudy wins the nomination. I dont remember Cillizza expressing a certain opinion beyond Rudy, but Buchanan thought Mitt Romney had a good shot at defeating Giuliani no matter what Romney did. When confronted with the cumbersome fact that Romney is not faring well outside the few primary States where he is buying TV time and on one else has until recently, Buchanan echoed the popular theory that somehow wins in Iowa, New Hampshire, Michigan, South Carolina, etc. will lift Romneys popularity in other States. Its plausible, PJB, but it would be insane to bet the fortune on that one. So many States are moving forward this cycle to increase their clout vis–vis the traditional candidacy-makers. No ones going to follow these States just because Pat Buchanan complains that this is how it has always been done.

Nah, if Romneys going to win this nomination, hell need to win more than a few States early, fingers crossed.

But if he does win this nomination, there is no reason why he could not, with some help, defeat Hillary.

Let’s look at a poll. (Read More….)

AP-IPSOS show the race nationally to be: Giuliani-29%, Thompson-19%, McCain-13%, Romney-12%, Huckabee-10%. But they have some interesting “second-best” numbers:

Giuliani, assailed by some on the right for his moderate stances on abortion, gays and guns, was the second choice of 33 percent of the conservatives who did not make him their top pick. An additional 19 percent took McCain as their backup selection, while Romney got 15 percent, Thompson 14 percent and Huckabee 13 percent.

If everything actually lines up that way, it is great news for Giuliani, for it suggests that though Rudy would not be the first choice of many SoCons, these folks are willing to “stoop” to Rudy if he is indeed the nominee. This takes nothing away from Richard Land’s talk of a third party should Rudy win the Republican nomination. That dynamic could still be at work.

This will be an exciting race, though perhaps not as we know it. We surely can become motivated to stop Hillary,

Originaly from Source

Leave a Comment