I could have not said it better…I have tried to say it different ways but you hit the nail on the head!

Second-place in the Who Killed the NY GOP goes to President George W. Bush. Once he figured he couldn’t get vote one out of any northeastern, he wrote ‘em off. No soup for you, NYS GOP. Rudy Giuliani played a selfish game, too – worried about himself first. Played with the 2000 Senate race, which was a free ride for him, and he could cuffed Hillary badly back then. Possibly beat her. But even if not, would have kept her from soaring so quickly statewide.

The answer is always the same – powerful pols who proclaim, on the way up, their commitment to party principles, but ulitmately never invest dime one in anything but their own careers. Then its see ya later, alligator, when they’re gone – unless they have a kid or spouse who wants to win for something.

Selfishness and dynasticism will be the ruination of America’s political system.

From Redstate website….Again confirming one needs Conservative Creditials to run in a Presidential Primary.
(Which is NOT Rudy….Hear this NY State GOP?)

According to latest SurveyUSA poll which includes Florida’s early voters (estimated at 29% of republican voters), McCain and Romney both received 30% of early vote with Giuliani getting 18% (so much for the myth that Giuliani’s surprise will be based on the lead he established among early voters.)
Among those about to vote, McCain leads with 30, Romney 28, Giuliani 18 …. It appears Romney benefits most from Thompson departure.

One group of Chairs says Rudy is the Guy….Other Chairs go with McCain…Other Chairs with Huckabee….And still others with Romney..(Who by the way is close to pulling this victory off down in Florida from my understanding)..

NY State GOP should have kept everything “Open” for all leaders to discuss, interview each candidate, etc…(Moral purposes & Unity as a Party, oh I forgot there is no Party)

But, no….

A group of so called leaders, comes out for “Rudy for President” like “Tigers at Dinner” in their NY State GOP Press Release…GOP even changing the Primary rules to benefit Rudy of winner take all in delegates.

Just like they tried to shove Liberal Weld & Pirro down the throats of the State County Chairs, they will fail again. As most of the Chairs are Conservative and bank on these issues of importance to maintain their Party grass roots. (Upstate more so)

The NY State GOP will once again, have egg on their face come Wednesday morning. There will be nothing new about these State GOP news stories come Wednesday morning.

Thus, a split was ALREADY in the works in the NY State GOP Party!

Oh by the way – Did I tell you that there is NO Republican Party in NY State. They barley made there rent on State Street last month. The staff is near zero.

Bill Clinton says he gets so nasty toward Obama
only because he is so in love with Hillary.

I guess it depends on what the definition of “love” is.

What was that Billy Paul song? Oh yeah…”Me and
Mrs. Jones.” Not to mention Monica and a string of others.

Being endorsed by the Times will not help McCain
in Republican primaries. It will have the opposite
effect. In a general election, and with Independents,
that situation may change. But McCain’s not there yet.

In 2003, McCain also slipped $14.3 million into a defense appropriations bill to create a buffer zone around Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. As Roll Call reported in 2003, this project violated McCain’s own anti-pork rhetoric:

“The only problem is the project to acquire more land near the base was not requested by President Bush or fully authorized by the Senate Armed Services Committee – two of McCain’s criteria for identifying so-called ‘pork.”

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), a notorious porker, was overjoyed that McCain had joined his side. “One man’s pork is another man’s alternate white meat,� said Stevens. “If he asked for it, we put it in.�

Maisano always has been an independent Republican and votes his conscience, and that is how he survives in a very Democratic district, while the County GOP keeps losing other seats that are much more Republican leaning. Jim is more of a libertarian and is a fiscal conservative. The are only 3 Republicans left on County Legislature which is a crisis for the County GOP (you cannot count Bernice Spreckman who has 2 family members on Andy Spano’s payroll and is completely loyal to Dems).

McCain voted against Bush tax cuts because the budget was not balanced, which is a sound position, and he is a hawk against earmarks. I agree that Romney is also a good candidate, but I believe that McCain will emerge as the GOP candidate for President and will defeat Hillary Clinton in November 2008.

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NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll conducted by the polling organizations of Peter Hart (D) and Bill McInturff®. Jan. 20-22, 2008. Asked of Republicans, and non-Republicans who said they would vote in a Republican presidential primary (from a total sample of 1,008 adults nationwide). MoE ± 5.1.

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John McCain 28
14
16
15
14

Mike Huckabee 20
17
8
4
4

Mitt Romney 17
20
11
10
11

Rudy Giuliani 13
20
33
30
32

Fred Thompson 9
11
15
23
26

Ron Paul 4
4
4
2
2

Other (vol.) 1
1
1
1
n/a

None (vol.) – 1
1
2
2

Unsure 8
9
7
10
6

Duncan Hunter n/a
2
2
1
1

Tom Tancredo n/a
1
2
1
1

Sam Brownback n/a
n/a
n/a
1

Also, Romney won last night’s debate hands-down.
It was his best showing by far.

mitt romney is the only gop candidate who can call himself a fiscal conservative. he has a record of cutting costs, slashing spending, and improving efficiency – in business (real world), at the olympics and in government.

he has the turnaround record that will make this country work again. washington is broken and our country is headed in the wrong direction. if ever we needed a turnaround, that time was now.

you can’t expect change by moving people from one chair in washington to another. we need an outsider with experience and results.

that person is mitt romney and he will the republican party’s nominee and the 44th president of the united states.