Says South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson:
“I would like to congratulate Governor Mitt Romney and all of our Republican candidates for their hard work in Michigan.
“Now, it’s our time to hold the nation’s first truly make-or-break contest this primary season, and the race is on in South Carolina where our Republican voters pick presidents. Every candidate campaigning to win our First-in-the-South Republican Presidential Primary has reason to be confident. We couldn’t be more excited to have the eyes of the world focused on South Carolina - and to play a uniquely important role in our great country’s political process.”
He’s right that, with the Republican field having no clear frontrunner, all indications are that this state will once again play the role of king-maker.
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Romney won Michigan’s republicans, evangelicals, and won by as many votes as McCain earned in his New Hampshire victory. You can attribute much to the “Favored Son” theory, but Romney hasn’t lived there since 1970, and McCain was there (and winning handily) in 2000. If anything, McCain should have been the favored “adopted son”.
Romney won because he knows how to improve economic conditions–something our nation will be in need of once people wake up to the fact that we are already in a recession–though the numbers won’t show that for a few months.
While Romney may not win in SC, he’s definitely shown he can win the conservative vote and that is something McCain has never been able to do.
Improve economic conditions???
That’s right…because the only way to destroy Bin Laden is to out-invest him…
Or maybe we should have a race…Romney could get the gold!!!
By the way, Ann Romney has a face fit for a burka.
Your analysis is way off. The very fact that the race is a toss up coupled with the shortened time line of the new Super Tuesday right behind us weakens SC’s reputation as “king-maker”. It’s win, place, or show here and move on to FL then Feb 5th.
Of course McCain will not win the conservative vote because he’s not a conservative. That’s why newspapers are falling over themselves to endorse him.
From his free-speech squelching campaign finance “reform” (which reformed what, exactly?), to the Gang of 14 who stopped conservative judges, to opposing the Bush tax-cuts (but wait, he’s the best person for our economy they tell us), to talking up the global-warming hoax and what we need to do to “fix” it (i.e. eliminate jobs), to ravaging business and industry and finally the immigration fiasco (let’s give em all amnesty), McCain has proven beyond all doubt he is NOT conservative.
This state will not prove anything. As Dane said, FL and Super Tuesday will establish the front-runner.
Joe,
Let’s think about this for a second….
Bush has been in office for eight years, and the economy is down. Could the Bush tax cuts have anything to do with that?
And I do believe that the Gang of 14 led to two Supreme Court Justices…if I’m not mistaken.
Florida (AKA New York Lite) will do nothing but give Giuliani a chance to reunite with all those “damn yankees” that voted him in as mayor. And the success of a candidate on Super Tuesday is a direct correlation to their performance in SC.
SC’s approval is absolutely necessary to secure the party’s nomination. Period.
Let’s DO think Marty….
“Bush has been in office for eight years, and the economy is down. Could the Bush tax cuts have anything to do with that?”
No. I don’t. I think this administration’s failure to implement an energy policy indepedent of foreign oil is the most to blame right now for the economy. If you’ll remember, the economy was headed downward (thanks mainly to the dot.com bust under Clinton and 9-11) before the tax cuts were implemented - and they picked things up quite nicely. No thanks to John McCain of course.
From JFK to Reagan to Bush II, cutting taxes have revived flagging economies in the US.
“And I do believe that the Gang of 14 led to two Supreme Court Justices…if I’m not mistaken.”
The Gang of 14 wouldn’t have been needed had Sen. McCain not thrown constitutional order and Senate rules right out of the window and caved….er compromised with Democrats who threatened to illegally fillibuster nominees because they were in the minority at the time. Had he, and others like our esteemed Sen. Graham, stuck to the constitution and invoked the nuclear option, Alito and Roberts and many other conservative judges (who got needlessly thrown overboard) would have been confirmed anyway on an up or down vote. The Gang of 14 was a total, complete, absolute sellout of conservatism. Something McCain is awfully good at.
“SC’s approval is absolutely necessary to secure the party’s nomination. Period.”
We have 24 delegates at stake. Florida, no matter what you may think of it, has 57 and 1,081 will be decided on Super Tuesday. I really doubt our approval will mean much at the end of the day.
But I guess we’ll see.