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...you're our only hope. :-)

"This is a change election and yet the G.O.P. wants to remain the same."

Except that the two candidates who are getting the closest to the nomination (McCain and Huckabee) are heretics from the one true faith, so to speak.

If there is anyone in this race who is running as a standard-issue Republican, its Mitt Romney. Consider...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/opinion/01brooks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

"The most impressive thing about Mitt Romney is his clarity of mind. When he set out to pursue his party’s nomination, he studied the contours of the Republican coalition and molded himself to its forms.

Earnestly and methodically, he has appealed to each of the major constituency groups. For national security conservatives, he vowed to double the size of the prison at Guantánamo Bay. For social conservatives, he embraced a culture war against the faithless. For immigration skeptics, he swung so far right he earned the endorsement of Tom Tancredo."

Hardly the candidate you want in a 'change' election.

There's hardly a coherent sentence here. Put them together and it appears to be you're just throwing stuff at the wall to see what will stick.

What we need in a leader is to tell us not what we want to hear, but what we need to hear.

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Whoever wins the nomination will raise plenty of cash for the general.

If we are certain to lose, though, I guess I'd rather waste Mitt's money than a lot of donors'. But I don't believe we are certain to lose.

"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill

They can't change, so they are about to nominate a 72 year old Washington Insider.

This is Bob Dole redux.

Ron Paul or Bloomberg will surely run as 3rd party candidates.

McCain can't raise money.

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the Presidency of the United States is for sale to the person with the most money? I personally would beg to differ with you....If that were the case Hillary will win the Presidency.

I find your argument to be biased and blatantly false.

Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion

McCain doesn't have an economic bone in his body.

It's the economy stupid and the G.O.P. doesn't get it.

This is Bob Dole all over again.

McCain won NH and he's trying to get a loan using his private donor list as collateral. This is a disaster.

raised 661K in the last 48 hours a large chunk after the debate last night...again it is about the true conservative....not the rich man with his own bank account...and Romney is not that conservative...he will not be buying this Presidency....if he wants it he must earn it.

reedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion

Money is not the only thing a candidate needs (Ron Paul has a load of it tucked in his tinfoil hat) but you can't win without some of it. McCain/Feingold is one of the main reasons that Republicans are having problems. Just one of the reasons many Republicans LOATHE McCain.

The nominee won't raise money if they agree with Hillary or Obama and most issues anyway. Taxes and immigration are the few winning issues Republicans can win with and McCain and Huckabee throw them away. Hillary today responded to an illegal immigrant in Nevada with "No woman is illegal". McCain and Huckabee can't argue with her when they've have said the same thing over and over again.

Why is it that every negative statement about Romney and is rooted in a liberal source. The same place McCain gets his endorsements.

As far as Romney morphing himself into an ideal Republican, that is somewhat true. In the 80's Mitt was an independent, then in the 90's he became a moderate Republican and since then his slow change has continued. He has been on the path to conservatism for 2 decades and that bugs the libs to no end.

Forgive me if I don't get the quote quite right...

If you are 20 and you are not a liberal, you have no heart.
If you are 60 and not a conservative, you have no brain.

Admit it ... you're a Huckabee supporter, aren't you?