Comments on: Giuliani Leads Among White Evangelicals? http://donklephant.com/2007/02/27/giuliani-leads-among-white-evangelicals/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:59:03 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jim Corbett http://donklephant.com/2007/02/27/giuliani-leads-among-white-evangelicals/comment-page-1/#comment-247441 Jim Corbett Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:38:56 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/02/27/giuliani-leads-among-white-evangelicals/#comment-247441 Actually, white evangelicasls and common sense conservatives are excited about Sam Brownback. Just ask them. Brownback is on the rise. Actually, white evangelicasls and common sense conservatives are excited about Sam Brownback. Just ask them. Brownback is on the rise.

]]> By: Marc Cooper » Blog Archive » McCain Limps In http://donklephant.com/2007/02/27/giuliani-leads-among-white-evangelicals/comment-page-1/#comment-247415 Marc Cooper » Blog Archive » McCain Limps In Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:06:56 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/02/27/giuliani-leads-among-white-evangelicals/#comment-247415 [...] McCain Limps In OK, so John McCain has made it official, using the David Letterman show to announce his formal run for the presidency. Cute. McCain is clearly trying to recapture some of that free-wheelin', I'm-a-fun-guy sort of aura that used to surround him before he became the grim grump of the lastyear or so. His announcement comes at an odd time, just as the latest Gallup Poll shows him slipping dangerously behind Rudy Giuliani (21% to 44% among Republicans). Looks like McCain has a long, hard slog  in front of him -- straight uphill. No question that he's played his hand very poorly. After alienating the Republican Right on a series of issues --from the war to immigration-- his pro-Bush pivot, his pandering to the Fallwellites, his declaration against Roe V. Wade have come to naught. Giuliani has defied the conventional wisdom and in spite of his pro-gay, pro-choice, anti-gun positions, he is actually leading McCain among White Evangelicals. No head scratching necessary. Some Republicans have a long memory and they were not and are not about to forgive McCain his public transgressions against the party line. And Rudy, even though a social moderate, has never once broken the so-called 11th commandment by publicly criticizing another Republican. So the tin-hatters and the bible-thumpers are lining up with Rudy under the banners of loyalty and "electability," much the same way liberal Democrats did with Kerry in 2004. With Rudy surging early, the only hope McCain has is to establish himself even farther to the right and covertly (or overtly) encourage so-called independent expenditure campaigns to Swift-boat Rudy as some sort of unreliable liberal. While the only available strategy, it's also one fraught with peril. It's a great way to permanently estrange the centrists, independents and moderate Republicans that were once McCain's strongest and most enthusiastic base. And the more vile the GOP primaries are, the more intense the attacks are on Giuliani's social positions, the more likely it is that centrist voters will be pushed toward the Democrats in the general election. McCain's greatest appeal, five years ago when he was much more appealing, wasn't so much that he was a maverick or a moderate, but that he came off as being unusually frank and straightforward as pols go. He has recklessly squandered that capital by his sudden embrace of Bush and Bushismo, for which he's now paying a rising price. [...] [...] McCain Limps In OK, so John McCain has made it official, using the David Letterman show to announce his formal run for the presidency. Cute. McCain is clearly trying to recapture some of that free-wheelin’, I’m-a-fun-guy sort of aura that used to surround him before he became the grim grump of the lastyear or so. His announcement comes at an odd time, just as the latest Gallup Poll shows him slipping dangerously behind Rudy Giuliani (21% to 44% among Republicans). Looks like McCain has a long, hard slog  in front of him — straight uphill. No question that he’s played his hand very poorly. After alienating the Republican Right on a series of issues –from the war to immigration– his pro-Bush pivot, his pandering to the Fallwellites, his declaration against Roe V. Wade have come to naught. Giuliani has defied the conventional wisdom and in spite of his pro-gay, pro-choice, anti-gun positions, he is actually leading McCain among White Evangelicals. No head scratching necessary. Some Republicans have a long memory and they were not and are not about to forgive McCain his public transgressions against the party line. And Rudy, even though a social moderate, has never once broken the so-called 11th commandment by publicly criticizing another Republican. So the tin-hatters and the bible-thumpers are lining up with Rudy under the banners of loyalty and “electability,” much the same way liberal Democrats did with Kerry in 2004. With Rudy surging early, the only hope McCain has is to establish himself even farther to the right and covertly (or overtly) encourage so-called independent expenditure campaigns to Swift-boat Rudy as some sort of unreliable liberal. While the only available strategy, it’s also one fraught with peril. It’s a great way to permanently estrange the centrists, independents and moderate Republicans that were once McCain’s strongest and most enthusiastic base. And the more vile the GOP primaries are, the more intense the attacks are on Giuliani’s social positions, the more likely it is that centrist voters will be pushed toward the Democrats in the general election. McCain’s greatest appeal, five years ago when he was much more appealing, wasn’t so much that he was a maverick or a moderate, but that he came off as being unusually frank and straightforward as pols go. He has recklessly squandered that capital by his sudden embrace of Bush and Bushismo, for which he’s now paying a rising price. [...]

]]> By: John Free http://donklephant.com/2007/02/27/giuliani-leads-among-white-evangelicals/comment-page-1/#comment-247201 John Free Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:50:20 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/02/27/giuliani-leads-among-white-evangelicals/#comment-247201 I'm a white Evngelical and this is hogwash... White Evangelicals are pumped up about Duncan Hunter...Hello??? I’m a white Evngelical and this is hogwash…

White Evangelicals are pumped up about Duncan Hunter…Hello???

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