Day: January 9, 2008

CNN’s Bill Schneider:

Roughly half of Republican primary voters had a negative opinion of the Bush administration, and those voters significantly went for Arizona Sen. John McCain by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. Of the GOP voters who said they had a positive opinion of the Bush administration, 37 percent voted for former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

And yet they voted for McCain who has been in a competition with Rudolph Giuliani and Mitt Romney to see who can be the most like George Bush.

But the alarming take-away from this is that the other half of New Hampshire Republicans are so delusional that they still cling to the fantasy that Bush is not the Worst President Ever.

After smiting Rev. Mike Huckabee in the New Hampshire primary yesterday by relegating him to third place behind an Episcopalian-turned-Baptist (John McCain) and a Mormon (Mitt Romney), now the divine inspiration of God, which Huckabee claimed in November was the invisible force behind his rise in the polls, has put him in the lead in Florida:

One possible factor in God’s preference for Huckabee: At least two of his opponents, McCain and Rudolph Giuliani, are admitted adulterers.

A new Datamar poll in Florida finds Mike Huckabee leading the Republican presidential primary race with 24 percent support, followed by Mitt Romney at 20 percent, Sen. John McCain at 18 percent and Rudy Giuliani now back in fourth place at 16 percent.

Two months ago, Giuliani led the GOP race. With little chance of winning the other early states, he has been campaigning nearly non-stop in Florida for several weeks.

One possible factor in God’s preference for Huckabee: At least two of his opponents, McCain and Rudolph Giuliani, are admitted adulterers. Adultery is a sin punishable by eternal death in a pit of fire, according to the Bible. Huckabee and his wife are married by “covenant,” part of which requires Mrs. Huckabee to “submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband.”

In the Datamar poll, Hillary Clinton, whom God anointed in New Hampshire last night, has a 12 percentage point lead over Barack Obama:

The Democratic race is confused since the state was stripped of its delegates to the party convention for moving up the primary date and none of the major candidates is campaigning there. Nonetheless, Sen. Hillary Clinton leads the Democratic race with 40 percent, followed by Sen. Barack Obama at 28 percent and John Edwards at 19 percent.

In South Carolina, where Republicans vote on Jan. 19 (and Dems on Jan. 26), Huckabee has an aggregate 12.6 percentage point lead over McCain, according to Real Clear Politics. The three polls include: Insider Advantage which has Huckabee at 33 percent; McCain at 21 percent; Rasmussen, 28/21; and SurveyUSA, 36/17.

This is not surprising as God’s manifest destiny for South Carolina is a plan called Christian Exodus, which entails millions of Christian fundamentalists moving to the state, overturning its democracy and installing a theocracy and then seceding from the United States (again).