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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 337839" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>I couldn't disagree more with your analysis of the republican primary outcome. The only reason McCain got the nomination was due to a split conservative republican base. Evangelical Christians and Baptists were voting for Mike Huckabee while the rest of the conservative base was voting for Mitt Romney who is a Mormon. This religious divide kept the conservative base from voting in a truly conservative nominee. The dems think they are the only party who has to deal with a hard headed candidate when some republicans were begging Huckabee to drop out and allow Mitt to win the nomination. Had Huckabee not stuck around splitting the vote McCain's campaign would have gone the same way it did in 2000.</p><p></p><p>In fact some people seem to forget that Rush Limbaugh and talk radio was credited with the outrage over the McCain/Kennedy amnesty act. Talk radio got the conservative base so fired up they shut down the phone system at capitol hill. This angered Congress so much that right after the defeat of that bill they instantly began talking of bring back the Fairness Doctrine. This all took place just a few months before the republican primary so saying talk radio has no influence in this country really has no basis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brett636, post: 337839, member: 249"] I couldn't disagree more with your analysis of the republican primary outcome. The only reason McCain got the nomination was due to a split conservative republican base. Evangelical Christians and Baptists were voting for Mike Huckabee while the rest of the conservative base was voting for Mitt Romney who is a Mormon. This religious divide kept the conservative base from voting in a truly conservative nominee. The dems think they are the only party who has to deal with a hard headed candidate when some republicans were begging Huckabee to drop out and allow Mitt to win the nomination. Had Huckabee not stuck around splitting the vote McCain's campaign would have gone the same way it did in 2000. In fact some people seem to forget that Rush Limbaugh and talk radio was credited with the outrage over the McCain/Kennedy amnesty act. Talk radio got the conservative base so fired up they shut down the phone system at capitol hill. This angered Congress so much that right after the defeat of that bill they instantly began talking of bring back the Fairness Doctrine. This all took place just a few months before the republican primary so saying talk radio has no influence in this country really has no basis. [/QUOTE]
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