McCAIN WINS SOUTH CAROLINA PRIMARY
The results are in and congratulations from the Palmetto State are in order for Sen. John McCain, who has won the 2008 South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary. As you well know, every Republican who has won this state in the last 30 years has gone on to win the nomination.
- John McCain - 33%
- Mike Huckabee - 30%
- Fred Thompson - 16%
- Mitt Romney - 15%
- Ron Paul - 4%
- Rudy Giuliani- 2%
UPDATE: Here’s a statement from McCain’s SC co-chair, Attorney General Henry McMaster:
“We are thrilled with tonight’s results and grateful that Republicans from the Palmetto State chose John McCain as their candidate for president. We are proud of the campaign we ran in the state and grateful for the dedication and enthusiasm from our staff and hundreds of volunteers.
“South Carolina voters recognized that John McCain is the only candidate with the experience and judgment necessary to lead as commander in chief from day one, and the only Republican who can beat the Democratic nominee in November. I am confident that voters in Florida will make a similar decision to nominate John McCain for president in the weeks ahead.”
Apparently South Carolinians are not as conservative as was thought. I really thought that South Carolina would pull it together for the conservative in the group - Fred Thompson.
Oh well.
Hey look it’s results from another election that happened yesterday in Nevada:
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2nd: Ron Paul
3rd: John McCain
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I just wanted to point that out in case you missed it Adam. In case you missed that John McCain did worse in at least one republican primary this year. Wouldn’t want you to miss a piece of news like that.
Sigh. I suppose I’ll take my small and meaningless consolation. Gives me more time to figure out what to do when the $60 trillion in debt we owe to Saudi Arabia, Japan, China, Social Security, Medicare, and wars comes due.
Bill, congrats to Ron Paul on the “silver” in Nevada. That’s big.
I’m with you on the debt issue, though.
Nevad Silver for Ron Paul? Who cares!
He’s a fringe candidate AT BEST!
If Bill A is serious about that debt, he needs to get behind a viable candidate and not what (using Bill Clinton’s words) IS a Fairy Tale!
Congrats to SC McCainiacs. Beaufort County went 42% for McCain mostly on the strength of retired veterans.
But even though our part in this game is over, the game isn’t.
And a big Congrat to Adam: You have been Malkinzed!
http://michellemalkin.com
Well that would be sure nice if there were good reason enough to believe the empty “spending cuts” rhetoric of the “electable” candidates.
McCain goes on and on and on about earmarks. Two objections from me: All that money is already allocated from the budget; it’s going to get spent to matter what. The only difference is between a congressional bill allocating it or some non-elected buerocrat in a department somewhere. Secondly, earmarks are on the order of millions of dollars. Our debts coming due in the the nearing decades are on the order of *trillions*. Earmark rhetoric is a drop in the bucket and won’t be anywhere near enough to solve any fiscal crisis.
There’s Thompson, who’s plan to fix social security is to index it to inflation. I nearly vomited in rage when I heard him say that in a debate. The problem is NOT HAVING ENOUGH MONEY for social security, and he WANTS TO SPEND MORE! The thing that him, nor none of the other “electable” candidates understand is that these social programs are inheritly flawed. Though the time scale may be short or long, none of these programs are sustainable indefinately. They all will grow in spending faster than the relative income. The end result is either a tax increase or borrowing from another country to cover the difference, and even these are only quick fixes to last a few decades before it has to be repeated again. The summary being: entitlement programs are unsustainable on the long term NEED to be phased out as soon as possible; otherwise the debts and/or taxes will mount until everyone suffers.
Huckabee just plain doesn’t know a “darn” thing about the economy. Hearing him talk about money is like listening to a democrat or socialist or something.
Well I hate to conceed it with all the fake showmanship, but Romney probably does know something about money. He doesn’t have to balls or desire to fix any of the real problems though. He’d probably try to do the privatized social security thing which amounts to nothing more than corporate welfare for some well connected wall street firms. When I want a retirment fund I’d go get it myself! I don’t need the government to help with that! There won’t be anything he can do about medicare though, despite his “extensive” experience with government run health care.
So it seems all the frontrunners are horribly flawed on issues that concern me; hence why I support none of them. Personally, I do wish there were a better candidate than Ron. Maybe If he were 20 years younger today and could think a little faster instead of the rambling answers he has a habit of giving.
Even with those flaws though he’s still the most right out of the lot of them.
The next serious threat to the American way of life isn’t going to be terrorists, it’s going to be the consequence of putting fools and micromanagers in charge of the economy.
Every dollar that we borrow from China, Japan, the EU, and Saudi Arabia brings that day closer.
Every person that retires and starts drawing medicare and social security brings that day closer.
Every dollar that we send to Iraq to be blown up, or to hundreds of foreign military bases just to sit there, brings that day closer.
all Us Presidents have had blue eyes…… there is one blue eyed candidate. She is a woman.
Ahem. Resident fact checker reporting in:
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/is-eye-color-the-key-to-the-white-house/
Fred Thompson has blue eyes.
John Edwards has blue eyes.
“…every president since Richard Nixon has had [blue eyes] in common.”
Actually Lou, Richard Nixon had brown eyes and I’m pretty sure a bunch of other presidents had brown eyes.
http://www.sammler.com/stamps/images/richard-nixon.jpg