Thread: If GOP candidates don't stop McCain now, they never will

If the other GOP candidates don't stop McCain now, they never will
By Chuck Todd
Political Director
NBC News
updated 8:53 a.m. ET, Thurs., Jan. 24, 2008


Republican presidential hopeful John McCain bites his tongue as he answers reporters' questions during a campaign stop in Orlando, Florida.

BOCA RATON, Fla. - The ever-shrinking Republican presidential field meets for potentially the last time as a 5-way contest on Thursday night here in Florida.

Broadcast live on MSNBC and streamed on msnbc.com from 9-10:30 p.m. EST, the debate will be moderated by NBC’s Brian Williams. He will be joined by Tim Russert, as well as St. Petersburg Times editor Paul Tash.

It is the only debate before the state’s crucial Jan. 29 primary. And there’s a do-or-die feel to it.

One tries to avoid the prediction game, particularly this campaign season, and yet all signs point to this debate being one of the most contentious of the cycle for the GOP.

Why? If the candidates don't stop McCain now, they never will.

There's still no frontrunner in the GOP contest but there is a candidate in the “momentum slot.â€

We must stop McCain here. What we need from ALIPAC is an action alert for Florida like we had in Iowa before its too late.

As of now , 2 of the most trusted polls are showing

Romney with a 4 and 5 point lead in Florida

Romney better be on his A game tonight , he needs to
let it fly at McCain

Rudi and Huck are not important tonight , especially not Huck

All you will hear from Rudi is "I was mayor of NY"

McCain has to be the target and I'd love to see Romney
not be the nice guy

Romney better be on his A game tonight , he needs to
let it fly at McCain

My biggest fear tonight is that MSNBC will go hard on Romney and soft on their new Pal McCain and pronounce him the strong winner. We shall see how many economy and immigration questions McCain gets.[/quote]

Oh, No: (Romney's) "got many of Jeb Bush's best political aides behind him and he may tacitly have Jeb behind him." If only any of these Republican candidates were more "sorted out" and independent from any connection with OBL interests! Jeb Bush's wife is Mexican, he made some of his own pre-election campaign advertisments in Spanish, and openly addressed his constituents in Spanish while Fla. Governor. Above all, he is a Bush, with that family's intimate ties to Mexico dating from Bush Sr.'s days in the oil business in Texas. We should not forget how much of this all goes back to oil and other scarce natural resources around the world. Despite all of his family's philanthrophy, I think that it is important to remember that the family of David Rockefeller, who is so intimately tied to the United Nations and the "New World Order", originally made their fortune in the oil business (Standard Oil). They may already have us which ever way we vote, although I prefer to think the people of the United States can still prevail.