Florida Mccain Over Romney - Road to the Middle Class

IT SEEMS incredible that the “maverick” Senator John McCain is the Republican frontrunner. How could this moderate senator from Arizona be leading the the fight for the nomination in the conservative Republican Party?

The answer, I think, came in South Carolina when non-activist conservatives seemed to be going for McCain out of buyer’s remorse. Voters were wondering if they were really right to choose George W. Bush back in 2000. The sensible thing to do seemed to be to vote for McCain.

Anyway, write Dick Morris and Eileen McGann, McCain can win and Romney can’t.

McCain has a much better chance of winning the election than does former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R).

And they are probably right. Conservatives may think of President Bush as a not very conservative president, but the American people think of him as conservative, right-wing, and Republican. After all the ups and downs of the past seven years, they think it is time for a change, and they are right.

So it is time to think strategically. If, as seems likely, the Republican candidate loses in November, would it be better to lose with a full-spectrum candidate like Romney or a maverick, media favorite like McCain?

In my view, the voters need a dose of Democrat. Republicans aren’t going to get a chance to do real conservative reform until the current promise of “Change” has passed its sell-by date.

Democrats don’t stand for Change. They stand for more government, more bureaucracy, more subsidies, more waste. In another four years voters will have been robustly reminded of this.

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Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.

Comments:

Posted by: Ed Wallis on 01/31/08 2:06am

"Democrats don't stand for change." SURE THEY DO; STATISM INVADING THE PERSONAL SPHERE MORE+MORE IS A CHANGE. "In another four years voters will have been robustly reminded of this." BUT THEY MAY BE AS UNABLE TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT BY THEN, AS PEOPLE ARE STILL UNABLE TO SUBSTANTIALLY DISMANTLE LBJ's "GREAT SOCIETY." ...not to mention after a Dem selects the next 2-to-4 Supreme Court justices. I find the author makes a fatal flaw in vanity thinking. It's much more than "let the public get mad at THEM for awhile, then they'll come back to us."

Posted by: Jack Coupal on 01/30/08 3:27pm

It seems premature to say that John McCain is the Republican frontrunner. The weird politics of the states holding the earliest caucuses and primaries don't include one Red state. Neither North Carolina nor South Carolina is a Red state.

Posted by: Kenny on 01/30/08 8:30am

You say America needs a dose of Democrat. Maybe. That�s how it worked when the country suffered with Jimmy Carter from 1976-1980. It was so bad we eventually got Ronald Reagan. But this is risky business. It�s akin to being overrun in Nam and calling in artillery fire on your position. It might work, but it might obliterate you. _____ PS: You gotta do something about how your �response block� treats typing into it. It is awful.

Posted by: JaF on 01/30/08 7:59am

You are so right. As a country, we will have to hit rock bottom before we can begin the climb back to "The American Way".

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