Posted by
celc2004 on Friday, January 25, 2008 2:18:48 PM
The entire Republican party is split in the decision of who will be the nominee. A lot depends on Super Tuesday, coming up in just over a week. McCain is holding tight with Romney gaining, Huckabee is a long-shot but far from dead, Guiliani is planning his comback starting with Florida and Ron Paul is... well I can't realy figure out what Ron Paul is, except crazy.
According to the
New York Times election guide McCain is still the front-runner in actual pledged delegates, with Romney only behind by 5 delegates.
Giuliani has been working Florida, trying to show he's a Christian, and today he's hanging out in
little-Havana reporting just how he opposed Castro as the mayor of New York.
MIAMI – Courting Cuban-American voters here, Rudolph W. Giuliani
returned to his foreign-policy entanglements as mayor of New York –
which essentially involved his role as official bouncer and street
re-namer.
“When I was mayor of New York I made certain that Fidel Castro was
not invited to the U.N. 50 celebration,’’ he said Friday morning at the
Little Havana Activities and Nutrition Center on 8th Street in Miami’s
Little Havana neighborhood, recalling how he snubbed Mr. Castro at a
series of United Nations celebrations in New York in 1995.
Even my fellow pundits are split throughout the party, as some continue to support Romney and others are sticking behind McCain, saying he is the candidate feared by the Dems.
Four years ago, I was a supporter of McCain, even 8 years ago I had heard of the guy and wanted him to get somewhere. Yet, he's older now, he's lost a little credibility in the middle that would have helped him win the election and he's up against a strong field of opponents.
Whoever takes the Republican nomination will be having a hard time, facing off against (more than likely) either the first woman or first black viable candidate for the Presidency.
There has been talk across the party lines about the deep seeded divisions that are forming in the Dems, while the Republican party has been oddly silent about it all, one wonders if those same types of divisions aren't forming between the religious right and everyone else...