Spin, Spin, Spin

Huckabee supporter House Speaker Marco Rubio: "This is a guy who is one-generation removed from dirt floors and outdoor plumbing. . .He's a great communicator but it's also easy to communicate when you speak from the house."

Romney supporter former Lt. Gov. Toni Jennings: "I thought Mitt Romney did especially well. All the momentum is on our side right now because all of the voters are talking about the economy."

McCain supporter Rep. Adam Hasner: "I think they all performed well, but Sen. McCain further demonstrated that he's ready to lead the nation. He certainly proved his credentials on economic policy and shown that he's tested on tax cuts and reducing spending. . .He also tells you not just what you want you want to hear, he tells you what he thinks is right."

Giulinai supporter Attorney General Bill McCollum: "I thought he scored very well, on that last question particularly...if you really think about it the New York Times endorsed John McCain, why did they do that? Why do they not like Rudy? They don't like Rudy because a Reagan conservative who governed New York City."

And Sen. Jeff Atwater who isn't publicly supporting anybody: "Most of all I thought it was a mature, civil dialogue about what's challenging America. It wasn't personal attacks, it wasn't cheap shots it wasn't grandstanding one on top of another. I really thought it was thoughtful mature work. . .and I think people respect that."

Comments

Marco can't deliver squat

Huckabee will be back to dirt floors and outdoor plumbing in five days.

[Jenny Kenyon]

I waited until tonight to make a decision. I have concerns with all the candidates but I will cast my vote for Romney. He seems to have the clearest vision for fixing our economy.

[Jenny Kenyon]

I waited until tonight to make a decision. I have concerns with all the candidates but I will cast my vote for Romney. He seems to have the clearest vision for fixing our economy.

John McCain is NOT as funny as he apparently thinks he is. He should hire Huckabee to help him come up with some better one-liners! Huckabee should ease up on the one-liners. (Although, as much as I dislike the guy, he is a lot more entertaining that Letterman!)

[wiki wiki]

An economy with more taxes:

"Romney supported raising various fees by more than $300 million, including raising fees for driver's licenses, marriage licenses, and gun licenses. Romney increased the state gasoline tax by 2 cents per gallon, generating about $60 million per year in additional tax revenue. Romney also closed tax loopholes that brought in another $181 million from businesses over the next two years."

I don't think anyone really cares how what the numb skulls think. Good lord, they couldn't solve property insurance, property taxes seems to be a failure, and all the do now is either fundraise or go around and threaten folks who contribute to the wrong side.

There needs to be a house cleaning, from the state house (and senate) all the way to Washington.

Jenny, where will Romney procure the funds to continue the war while he reduces taxes and spending? You'll notice no one asked that question. It's one thing to say you'll reduce spending and another to say you'll continue spending 2 billion+ per week in a money pit.

I heard Huckabee say that Clinton was responsible for reducing the size of the military, how dumb do they think we are? I was working on Base Closure Projects during the Reagan and Bush the Elder era. The post Cold War military reduction plan was well underway long before Clinton became Gov. let alone President.

I thought Florida voters were had more sense than to fall for these BS artist, I guess I was just being hopeful.

[LP]

Romney has my vote. He is not an insider. He is that outside the box thinker with the executive government leadership and executive business leadership this country desperately needs. He has the experience of working with both sides of the aisle successfully and this is going to be very important. This is not rocket science here..

[Ted]

I want someone with foreign affairs experience as President.

Since McCain began cheating on his first wife while he was at a party in Hawaii, that's almost a foreign affair.

Unfortunately, I'm not joking.

I’d like to ask Rubio and Jennings what they think about people loosing their homes due to out of control insurance companies and taxing authorities.

That’s an easy call… “The People” lost when they put these lying morons in office.

[ctr]

Spin is part of politics, but last night, McCain further convinced me that come November, he's the one to bring much needed independents to the Republican ticket. Without them, victory is a pipe dream.

CTR, for every "independent" McCain brings out to vote, he alienates two Republicans. He would be a disaster!

Speaking of spin, check out Karen Thurman's recent spin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DUtLy3Pa4o

[I-4 Corridor Conservative]

I was undecided until about six weeks ago. Every candidate has his strengths and weaknesses. But, all things considered, I will be voting for Romney. I'll choose a successful, 'fix-it guy'/CEO with family values, rather than a life-long liberal Washington insider or top cop with questionable professional ties and questionable social values.

All of these Romney supporters need to wake up! The guy WILL SAY ANYTHING! We need someone with convictions. Someone who believes in something. He has flip-flopped on issues like immigration, taxes, abortion rights, gay rights, and gun control. Shameless pandering to the right-wing is what he is doing now. This guy is a wolf in sheeps clothing and cannot be trusted.

I-4 Conservative: Mr. Fix It, Family Values (as you call Romney) is a shameless pandering politician. He makes Bill Clinton look honest.

Futhermore, he raised taxes in Mass., the state lost 200,000 residents when he was governor, and the state's economy grew by the most dismal amount while the rest of the country thrived. As for the Olympics, he turned it around, but given where it was when he took over, it had nowhere to go but up.

Romney is a joke. Any Democrat would beat him because no one wants some used car salesman as president.

The fact that the New York Times endorsed McCain is reason enough for me not to vote for him.

ah, can you hear it? we heard it during the summer - it's the sound of the fading mccain - it's not quite as loud as the fading giuliani or busted huckster, but it's getting louder

anybody who votes for mccain based on perceived electability is a pathetic lemming - that means that you are content to make your decision based on who democrats nominate - so the dems now make the decisions for republican voters? those of you who espouse this view are sick - so you let the other side pick their candidate, and you pick yours because of who they select? sick sick sick, poor pathetic losers. grab some sack and vote for somebody YOU want on the ticket - not somebody who "scares" the clintons

McCain is the only candidate in this race that can defeat either hillary or obama.

McCain is the only candidate in this race that will lose in a landslide to either Hillary of Obama. When given the choice to vote for the Democrat liberal or the Republican liberal, the American people will take the authentic Democrat liberal every time.

[Clyde]

Everybody: Pick your favorite empty suit (or skirt) and vote for it. The one who says, "Hey we're in a hole - maybe we should stop digging"is the one who gets my vote.

McCain is hardly a liberal. Just because you don't drink the kool-aid poured by party "leaders" like GW Bush and Tom Delay, doesn't make you a liberal. America needs more free-thinking patriots like John McCain who have America's interest at heart, not their own personal or special interest.

More on McCain here:
http://www.frontpageflorida.com/Default.aspx?tabid=595

Every major poll shows McCain is the most competitive against HRC or Obama in November. Romney is in last place among all GOP candidates on the sample ballot question.

Apparently General Election voters see Romney for the slickster that he is.

So 10:06 thinks McCain is not a liberal. Call it what you want to call it, but when you oppose tax cuts, support experimenting with embryos, oppose a marriage amendment, oppose free speech, support amnesty, oppose constructionist judges, when you side more often with Ted Kennedy than with Conservatives, you are a liberal!!!

[ctr]

Here we go again...republican talibans willing to let victory go and circling the wagons because they feel "alineated" by McCain. Here, have a kleenex. We ARE the minority party. We have conceded the once-for-sure african american vote, we have just about conceded the hispanic vote, and we are willing to concede the independent vote? Somehow I got the feeling that McCain doesn't give a dang about party talibans and mullahs willing to take us into oblivion.

Anyone endorsed by the New York Times is a liberal. Those idiots probably just sealed the fate of their boy, McCain. Romney and Giuli should get a bounce out of the NYT endorsement.

[David]

I'm voting for Romney. McCain was an absolute embarrassment last night.

[David]

CTR - How did McCain further convince you of anything last night except that he is clueless? Even Ron Paul made him look bad.

Marco wants to take Florida back to pre-Fidel Cuba, dirt floors and no plumbing!

[ctr]

As Reagan said, "a debate does not an election win". Look beyond the ideological forest some of you seem to be lost without a compass. Mitt was clueless with regards to the "catastrophic fund" but boy, he's so slick. The piece of legislation called for a $200B fund. McCain rightly opposed it because the ins. companies get a $200B subsidy without any ins. reform. Tsk, tsk, the talibans are so "alineated" that they can't see beyond the forest...now where's my old brunton compass to go with that box of kleenex?

CTR - So first you said last night convinced you that McCain was the best choice, now you are saying that debates don't matter? You know McCain look bad last night.

CaCain has a conservative voting record, a propensity for telling it to you like it is (not pandering) and is a war hero. That is why, according to the actual statistics, he is the ONLY Republican who can beat either Hillary or Obama. See for yourself:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/national.html

[Stu]

It's fun to see how all the supporters spun outcome of the debate. I think they are did fairly well, except McCain who seemed a bit lost when talking about the economy. He had no clue what the committee was that Ron Paul asked him about.

[ctr]

I guess is very thick in that forest...hmmm... let me throw you a lifeline instead 'cause I fear you may step in quicksand. To select any candidate on the basis of his performance at a single debate is like marrying a woman after the first date. Mitt surely looks like the uptown girl: Prada-wearing, bimmer drivin', chardonnay-drinking, honey it's so-hot-here can you put the A/C at 65? You and I know they're fun only for a while. And they will dump your sorry butt when the rich kid comes callin'. Me? I'd rather take a girl that will follow me to war if necessary...have you found north yet? No? lemme show you how to use a brunton compass, this is magnetic north and this geo north, there you go, the path out of the forest lies just ahead.

CTR - According to your analogy didn't McCain drop his first wife option B for his second wife option A?

CTR, someone "that will follow me to war, if necessary?" Funny that you use that analogy in conjunction with McCain. Everytime the Conservative movement has had real change within it's grasp, John McCain has skipped accross the aisle to help Ted Kennedy slap down Conservative principles.

John McCain is the LAST person that I want behind me in a war or anywhere else! His whole reputation has been built upon stabbing his "friends" in the back and shoving them overboard, then smiling and posing for the adoring media with the bloody knife! He is possibly the most self-centered politician in American History!

[ctr]

Good heavens! the mistake-free, pure-as driven-snow talibans and mullahs have surely circled the wagons! John, let's mount a rescue operation and bring in some african-american, hispanic and independent cavalry too 'cause behind the wagons they met the high maintenance chick and are so infatuated with her that they think they can take on Bill&Hillary! Alone! Quick, call Rambo as well!

[Stu]

Sorry. No independents at the FL election.

McCain: refuse the NY Times endorsement and the endorsment of Mel of else you're going to lose the little conservative base that was planning on voting for you. With friends like the NYT and Mel martinez, who needs enemies?

Easy with the temper there, CTR! Gee, you're starting to sound like McCain, snapping everybody's head off that disagrees with you! Try not to drop any F-bombs on here like McCain did when addressing those of us who opposed his amnesty bill.

CTR, 30 years of consistently doing the bidding of Ted Kennedy is not a "mistake," it's a pattern!

[ctr]

Now that Mel will endorse McCain, what else do the free-of-sin, mistake-free, conservatives want? Oh, pardme my forgetfulness, there's two endorsements missing, lemme see if we can raise Barry Goldwater and Rev. Falwell from the dead...Maybe you have circled the wagons so tight that any possibility of rescue belongs to the afterlife...

CTR - You are a hoot! If you think Mel will help McAmnesty then so be it!

[ctr]

If anybody thinks we are going to deport 15-20 million people, must be a good colombian they've been smoking! No thanks, I don't smoke. Yes, yes, went to UF but fell for Nancy's magic spell: "say no to drugs". I'll stay with my south of the railroad tracks girl! With Rambo watching my back...just in case a "conservative" wants to crack my noggin' with a Bible. As they say in the service: over and out. There's a race to win...

You know, we can't possibly catch every murderer, so let's make murder legal. We can't catch every speeder, so let's do away with speed limits. We can't catch every illegal campaign contribution, so let's do away with campaign finance laws.

To say that "we can't deport 15-20 million people" is the weakest argument I've ever heard! (Incidentally, when McCain was pushing to move law-breakers ahead of legal immigrants, he said there were 11 million of them. Now you say 15-20 million?)

If you want a candidate who will oppose tax cuts, you can go with McCain, Obama or Hillary.

If you want a candidate who will let Ted Kennedy pick the nominees to the judiciary, you can go with McCain, Obama or Hillary.

If you want a candidate who supports amnesty, you can go with McCain, Obama or Hillary.

If you want a candidate who believes we should supress free speech to insulate career politicians from scrutiny in elections, you can go with McCain, Obama or Hillary.

If you want a candidate who opposes a marriage amendment, you can go with McCain, Obama or Clinton.

If you want a candidate who has pushed for expanded experimentation on human embryos, you can go with McCain, Obama or Clinton.

If you want a candidate who will let Al Gore crush our economy with his phony Global Warming lies, you can go with McCain, Obama or Clinton.

I'm a Republican because I'm opposed to all of those things!

[ctr]

Good Bible-raining heavens! I tried to run away but the peanut gallery is incessant in their cacophony! Easy senor taliban, I think I brought back some afghani burkhas in my duffel bag for your women. They at least might want to be rescued from your sinking carrack. Say pardner, while we raise Barry and Jerry from the dead, why don't we wake up Stalin as well so he can round 'em up and ship 'em to a Gulag. Surely he's got the experience. And once these 20M law-breakers are gone, then we will send the best of our republican youth to pick up lettuce, work in construction, and babysit the uptown girl's kids. Oh, I forgot, our youth would rather have french-styled nails at the vietnamese nail shop. OMG, they're illegals too? Quick call Stalin STAT!