Don't they usually have at least two semi-viable candidates duking it out until the primary? Or does everyone else give up once there's a clear frontrunner?
He is smarmy to me... like Bush. I think I made up that word. To me it means, like, people who think they are better than you and have that "look" all the time like.... heh... I know better than you. You are so beneath me... that type. Blech.
If this means we end up with a McCain/Huckabee ticket, I am going to be really goddamned furious if the Democrats can't pull this out.
Also, not like I didn't already think that Romney is an asshole, but the implication that the country automatically "surrenders to terrorists" if the Democrats win is so unbelievably offensive I don't even know what to say.
I agree with the "best hope" part, in the sense that I believe either Clinton or Obama would have stomped him in the fall. But having him as a nominee still would have scared me silly. (And yeah, I know Huckabee is much worse, really. But I just have this reflexive "ugh" reaction to Romney.)
Seconding both parts of what he said. (Look, folks, I am agreeing completely with Robert!)
Although it was already damned unlikely, I was hoping Romney would stay in until the convention, since there was still a slim chance he could triumph in a brokered nomination (since McCain has so many enemies within the Republican factions). I would have loved to have seen Romney as the Republican nominee simply because I believe the Democrats could beat him. I'm not at all sure they can beat McCain.
(Huckabee, of course, is the real danger, but Huckabee has shown exactly where his base is and it's not enough to elect him, and furthermore, he's running out of money.)
I suspect we are looking at a McCain presidency, which is not the worst possible outcome, to my mind, but is far from the best one either.
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Date: 2008-02-07 05:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-07 05:57 pm (UTC)Wonder if Huckabee will still keep going, now.
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Date: 2008-02-07 06:31 pm (UTC)Also, not like I didn't already think that Romney is an asshole, but the implication that the country automatically "surrenders to terrorists" if the Democrats win is so unbelievably offensive I don't even know what to say.
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Date: 2008-02-07 07:18 pm (UTC)He is majorly creepy, but Huckabee while a nicer, more sincere person, is even more frightening when you listen to what he believes in.
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Date: 2008-02-07 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-07 07:42 pm (UTC)Although it was already damned unlikely, I was hoping Romney would stay in until the convention, since there was still a slim chance he could triumph in a brokered nomination (since McCain has so many enemies within the Republican factions). I would have loved to have seen Romney as the Republican nominee simply because I believe the Democrats could beat him. I'm not at all sure they can beat McCain.
(Huckabee, of course, is the real danger, but Huckabee has shown exactly where his base is and it's not enough to elect him, and furthermore, he's running out of money.)
I suspect we are looking at a McCain presidency, which is not the worst possible outcome, to my mind, but is far from the best one either.
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Date: 2008-02-07 08:13 pm (UTC)Then you must desperately need therapy. ;-)
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