McCain has three pieces of legislation that mark him forever as unreliable for core conservative principles on the national stage. Romney has been accused by McCain as really being liberal and he is speaking the truth. The only way to prevent that is to have Huckabee maintain his lead over McCain.
If McCain wins this in the end you can count on mass numbers of disinterested conservatives in the coming election. In the end it will only mean a brief but disgusting and disheartening trip to the polls. It will mark the ultimate rise of the Republican party to raise up the number of dedicated Republicans to the core values we say we hold to. The importance of winning the argument based on core values in the end is more important than trying to poll which person might beat the opponent. If anyone knows this better than anyone are Ohio Conservatives who now know that just about any Democrat would have been better for the party than former Gov. Taft. Need I add more?
Rudy Giuliani 1
Mike Huckabee 38
Duncan Hunter 1
John McCain 32
Ron Paul 4
Mitt Romney 59
Fred Thompson 5
Total 140
In the meantime the two libs trying to be conservatives leave little to inspire us.
Tags: Conservative, OhioWith less than 24 hours until primary polls open in Florida, top GOP rivals John McCain and Mitt Romney continued a barrage of attacks on each other, freely using the “L”-word to bash one another.
Romney hammered hard on a climate-change bill that McCain has supported with his friend and colleague, Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman, saying the legislation will result in a tax increase. He also went after McCain for the Arizona senator’s role in campaign finance bill and the failed immigration reform bills.
“If you ask people, ‘Look at the three things Senator McCain has done as a senator,’ if you want that kind of a liberal Democratic course as president, then you can vote for him,” Romney told campaign workers. “But those three pieces of legislation, those aren’t conservative, those aren’t Republican, those are not the kind of leadership that we need as we go forward.”
In response, McCain pointed to flip-flopping and tax-raising on Romney’s behalf, accusing the former Massachusetts governor of “wholesale deception of voters. On every one of the issues he has attacked us on, Mitt Romney was for it before he was against it.”
He added, “The truth is, Mitt Romney was a liberal governor of Massachusetts who raised taxes, imposed with Ted Kennedy a big government mandate health care plan that is now a quarter of a billion dollars in the red, and managed his state’s economy incompetently, leaving Massachusetts with less job growth than 46 other states.”
