Posted by
Steve on Saturday, February 02, 2008 11:48:30 AM
Last night on the way home, Michael Savage endorsed Mitt Romney for President. As Michael Savage said, Romney is not perfect, but of the ones left standing, he is the best. I went to bed optimistic that Romney will carry the day on Tuesday.
This morning, I read Patrick Ruffini’s post about the Huckabee voters. He basically said that they are going to stick with Huckabee and if they do not vote for Huckabee, they will tend to vote for McCain. That put a damper on my parade.
Then, I read Hugh Hewitt’s post about the momentum in the conservative blogosphere toward Romney. He said that Romney is getting more free press in the conservative blogosphere than he could buy in any ad purchase. I felt good again about Romney’s chances in the Tuesday primaries. Hugh Hewitt again made the point that a vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain. I would also add that a vote for Ron Paul is a vote for McCain. My daughter is going to vote for Ron Paul on Tuesday. It is her first vote ever and she came to the decision to vote for Ron Paul on her own. I do not have the heart to tell her that a vote for Ron Paul is essentially a vote for John McCain.
My feelings about this campaign are two fold. One, I do not like John McCain. I have not liked him for at least 6 years. He has stabbed the voters of Arizona in the heart too many times for me to be happy with him as a candidate. Second, I really want Mitt Romney to win because I believe he would be one of the best Presidents that we have had. At least he has the potential to be one of the very best. John McCain at best would be in the bottom ten. Of course, Clinton or Obama would be in the bottom 5, with Clinton being tied with her husband at number 50 and Obama coming in around number 38-40. I do know that there have not been 50 Presidents. It is just that Bill was so bad, there would have to be at least 50 Presidents before there would be enough to rate him as #50.
I made a second donation to the Romney campaign this week. I do not have a lot of money and giving anything is difficult. We are also building onto our house and that is taking all of our available funds. I just felt that it was so important to the country that Mitt Romney wins the election that I made another contribution.
From this afternoon, until Monday, my house will be consumed with the Super Bowl. We do this every year. Even though there are not any good teams in the Super Bowl this year, we will watch any way. We have watched every Super Bowl since Super Bowl I. Since I have the 65” HD TV, everyone will be at my house for the Super Bowl party. That means getting prepared today for the party. Tomorrow, we will be hosting the party and cleaning up. I will not be able to come up for air and reality until Monday morning.