Which Republican are you hoping for - Romney of McCain?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

Sadly, I've more or less lost hope of Huckabee winning the Republican primary. It seems to be a pretty much foregone conclusion that either Romney or McCain will be the Democrat's opponent this year.

Which of them do you think we have a better change of beating?

Personally, I'm far more scared of McCain than of Romney - I think that there's a chance of beating either of them, but in his case it's less than 50/50 by some way.

Is there anything DU & DUers can do to influence the outcome of the Republican primary?

[NewJeffCT]

1. we can start writing letters to our local papers

and hit McCain on his flip-flopping, his faux moderation, his bad temper, his warmongering "Less jobs, more war" , etc.

the national media has a lovefest with McCain, so we need to start from the ground up - and soon.

[NNN0LHI]

2. Romney's secretive past, money, apparent good health and younger age worry me

McCain not so much.

Don

[Windy]

3. I want it to be Romney. McCain draws a lot of independents.

His war stance will hurt him unless he moderates somewhat in the general, but I still think that he gets the independent vote over Hillary.

Romney will not get that voting block and I think the dems can beat him.


He doesn't come across as genuine either. McCain does.

[bryant69]

4. I don't know - I'm not as worried about McCain

I think there's more then enough baggage there, and his base hates him passionately. Rush Limbaugh's rage at McCain will influence the base. The question is whether or not McCain can bamboozle the center enough to make up for that; our job and our candidate's job is to make suer America knows where McCain stands on the war.

Bryant
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[Zynx]

17. Why conservatives have been duped by Romney is beyond me.

[OHdem10]

5. It does not matter what I want---It is McCain

[Toots]

6. I think McCain carries a lot more baggage.

I think in the mood America is in it really doesn't matter though. Neither will come close IMO unless of course BBV takes effect.

[ordinaryaveragegirl]

7. McCain = baggage, Romney = flip-flopper.

Neither one is a winner in my book. We have a good shot at taking back the WH either way, IMHO.

[JerseygirlCT]

8. McCain would be harder to beat

and if our nominee is Clinton, he's more likely to pull Dems over to his side.

That said, I also think he's the least insane of that sorry crew.

[NNN0LHI]

10. He is actually the most insane and that will be his downfall

The nut still thinks we could have won in Vietnam. After a couple of million dead Vietnamese and over 60,000 dead Americans he thinks we could have won? Think about that for a minute.

Kind of insane isn't it?

Don

[soleft]

9. I heard a woman on the subway yesterday saying she'd vote for McCain

Over Hillary.

I'm rooting for Romney.

[blondeatlast]

11. McCain is sneakier. I've watched him from the beginning of his political career.

He puts on a good front for the MSM but then goes right ahead and does what the conservative powers that be (expecially the neocons) wnat him to.

He's also known to be EXTREMELY hot-tempered. If a RRRepublican HAS to be president, he is literally the one I want the very least.

[TlalocW]

12. Romney

The religious nutjob section of the republican party has been told for years - from their top guys like Falwell, Robertson, etc. down to the lowliest pastor in the smallest church - that Mormonism is a cult, and though they would do a 180 if Romney got the nomination, telling their flock to go and vote for him, that message would still take a while to get through the dispiritedness the flocks would initially feel about not having a candidate to vote for, leading many of them to sit this one out.

Plus, I just don't think he's that smart, and unlike Bush, he doesn't have that good ol' boy personality to fall back on.

TlalocW

[Anarcho-Socialist]

13. Romney slightly

But McCain isn't the unstoppable force that some think he is. He's pro-war at a time when the US public is not, his domestic plans will be torn to threads in comparison to the Democratic candidate because McCain doesn't want to spend any money (that is, after war). When US voters are crying out for relief on healthcare, this is going to be bad news for McCain.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

14. Promising to improve healthcare without spending money will be a vote winner.

A candidate doesn't need to have a plan that will improve healthcare, they just have to claim to do so, and all of them will, I suspect.

The fact that the Republican will claim to be going to do so without actually spending any money on it will be a vote winner, not a vote loser, I fear.

[ThatsMyBarack]

15. I wish that....

...the whole Repuke party would just fall off the planet.

[Zynx]

16. Romney is so much easier to beat. He has taken more positions than the Kama Sutra.

[Initech]

18. Romney = easy democratic victory

No matter who's representing us. Come on, you think the South would vote to have a Mormon president? I doubt it.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

19. A Mormon who opposes abortion and gay rights? Very possibly, I fear.

I think he'd be much less of a threat than McCain, though.