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East Tennessee blogs New Hampshire
Posted By katie allison granju
From the Tennessee blogosphere this morning:
VOLuntarily Conservative (who took time away from his brand new baby to blog!) says:
If - and I said if - Romney wins Michigan by a decent margin with McCain second, South Carolina becomes an elimination match for Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee. Only one of those candidates is walking out of Carolina with their 2008 hopes intact. Pejman over at RedState sees the GOP establishment, which is greatly splintered today, perhaps solidifying behind a candidate before South Carolina instead of letting a McCain-Huckabee match-up materialize.
Ron Paul - upon the “discovery” of his past newsletters - is done. I’m not talking about for the Republican nomination. He never had a chance at that. I’m talking about as a possible third-party candidate. Americans will not come out in numbers to vote for bigotry.
I still worry about Rudy Giuliani. He seems to be the best positioned candidate to me at this point. Of course, he’s not very smart, as he proved Tuesday morning on CNN. There he was, in the face of polling that showed him battling Ron Paul for 4th amongst the also-rans, telling the CNN reporter about how hard he had worked in New Hampshire, how it was a priority state for his campaign, and how much money that his campaign had spent in the Granite State. Nothing like raising expectations in the face of an impending loss.
The moral of all of this is that despite the best efforts of some to use the early nomination process to silence the voice of the grassroots, that has not yet happened. A brokered convention-perhaps the only way to teach the party brass a lesson about scheduling voting too early-may still be a longshot, but is not out of the realm of possibility.
With over a third of ballots presently counted, Fred Thompson is 2nd to last in the NH primary behind Ron Paul.
Now, if you “google Ron Paul” as the spray-painted signs are so fond of saying, you may find this little trove, linking to writings such as this:
On anti-Semitism:
I’ll believe establishment liberals are really committed to free speech when I see Norman Mailer and his cohorts wearing “I am Ernst Zundel” buttons and holding readings of his works.
(Zundel is a well-known Holocaust denier.)
On the growth of militias:
This radical new movement is a magnificent sign of the times, one of many indications that the central state faces massive resistance from average people and is losing its grip on political power … It’s the domination of Washington that is driving the militia and other heroic movements around the country.
On gun rights use:
“If you have to use a gun on a youth, you should leave the scene immediately, disposing of the wiped off gun as soon as possible. Such a gun cannot, of course, be registered to you, but one bought privately (through the classifieds, for example).”
On homosexuality and AIDS:
I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities … AIDS was originally called GRIDS - the Gay Related Immune Deficiency Syndrome. Political pressure forced a name change to try to hid the origin of this plague.
On race relations:
A mob of black demonstrators, led by the “Rev.” Al Sharpton, occupied and closed the Statue of Liberty recently, demanding that New York be renamed Martin Luther King City “to reclaim it for our people.”
Hmmm. I hate to agree with the Rev. Al, but maybe a name change is in order. Welfaria? Zooville? Rapetown? Dirtburg? Lazyopolis?
But Al, the Statue of Liberty? Next time, hold that demonstration at a food stamp bureau or a crack house.
Boy, good luck in the NY primary. Google is forever, “Doctor.”
Yes, please. Google Ron Paul. Google away…
It speaks volumes that the hapless Thompson can’t put up even a one-point victory on this lunatic…
Women did it!!! Fifty-seven percent of New Hampshire voters were women — 47% of women went with Hillary, and 34% for Obama.
“When CNN reported that exit polls showed Clinton leading Obama 47 percent to 34 percent among women, the crowd watching the results at Southern New Hampshire College roared in approval.”
Single women voted for Hillary Clinton by a margin over Obama of 51-32%.
Vote totals: Hillary — 39%; Obama — 36%; Edwards — 17% — 63 percent of precincts reporting.
Hillary’s best line of the night: “I want especially to thank New Hampshire. Over the last week I listened to you and in the process I found my own voice. Together, let’s give America the kind of comeback New Hampshire has just given me.”
Jan 9th, 2008
