Mini-Republican

As you may have recalled (or you could look two posts down) I wrote a post about my predictions for 2008. Back then I said I believed we (Or I, depending on your party affiliation) would lose in 2008. I now think , keyword being “think”, that John McCain just may win the election.

Just a few weeks ago, this Idea was unthinkable, but if Hillary and Obama keep slugging it out, this may become a reality.

After going over my last post, these are the states I changed loyalties too:

Oregon (To the Republicans)

New Mexico (To the Republicans

Oklahoma (To the Republicans)

Louisiana (To the Republicans)

Georgia (To the Republicans)

West Virginia (To the Republicans)

New Hampshire (To the Republicans)

Arkansas (To the Democrats’)

Wyoming (To the Republicans)

Nine states adjusted in total, eight to the Republicans and one to the Democrats. I think Hillary or Obama can appeal to enough voters in Arkansas to get them to vote for the Democrats’, and John McCain is liberal enough to pull independents and some Democrats over. Because of that ability to win swing voters, I switched very narrow states like Oregon. Doing this brought in a very narrow GOP victory of 264 to 261 votes. I put my margin of error in five states, since the delegate count varies by state to state, I can’t say my margin of error in delegates.

Opinions?

The United States has spent more than 45 billion USD rebuilding Iraq from frequent suicide bombings. While Iraqi officials predict a $35 billion dollar revenue last fall, Stuart Bowen (A special inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction) says the number is closer to $60 billion. If the US chose too, it could wipe most or all of its 45 billion dollar debt clean. Fortunately we won’t, but we should make Iraq pay at least 1-5 Billion in reconstruction costs. Yes, yes, I know. "We attacked them, why should THEY pay?"

Because they can. They need more money to be spent on rebuilding and we cannot cough up enough dough, to do that; at least not without going through congress, and that kills the deal. The US already owes over 500,000,000 in debt over the Iraq war, and Iraq is not ready to stand on its own. It's getting better, I have no doubt that progress is being made. They need the US to stay for security reasons, they just cannot protect themselves yet! The US has a huge debt, and when Iraq has a possible $60 billion dollar surplus "...the questions is who should be paying." says General David Walker.

Listen, war is a horrible, horrible, thing. And I know (unlike some of my idiot friends) that the US does not get a huge kick out of the mass killing of people. Sometimes I just get extremely frustrated over the fact we went to war with Iraq, but we have to finish this. And we need all the help we can get, so Iraq, lend us a few billion. Please?

AND JOHN McCAIN WON THE NOMINATION!

No time no see loyal fans!

I’m in the process of creating a NEW mini-republican site, and I may get the domain mini-republican.com! Anyhow, I’ve been doing some research and have come up with my own predictions for the results of the 2008 elections. Let’s see how accurate they will be. Of course we won’t know for another seven months. Try to think of it as a suspenseful movie (A long seven month movie with some sort of climax once every few weeks, how about we wait until the last half hour of it just to see the exiting parts?)

Anyhow, the predictions where made based on the results of the last four elections, this year’s primaries, and recent events. Unfortunately for me and the Republican Party (And to the upmost joy of Democrats) I think that the Democrats will win. The Democrats won 334 Electoral Votes and the Republicans win 205. I uploaded my map, do you think am I accurate?

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I’m not sure who will win the Democrat nominee; I still think Hillary will have a comeback, but Obama has been performing so well. One of the two will face off with John McCain

"Ailing Castro steps down as Cuba’s president”

*Herk-phleg!*

I nearly inhaled my gum.

Castro, the longest living arch enemy of the United States (And longest serving head of government) is going to transfer power to his brother, Raul because of his health. How will the US react? If where president I would start talking, now. Tell Raul we will end the embargo, just be nicer. All we ask is a little less dictating (Okay, so “a little less dictating” is easier said than done), some nicer relations for with the US would be great too. C’mon Cuba, let’s be friends! Alright that may just be a lot of wishful thinking, but still. Everyone likes friends. Many Cubans in Cuba don’t want Castro to go because in their eyes he is a benevolent dictator. Exiles just see a dictator and say “Good riddance!”.

So what is your author’s humble opinion? Castro sure knows how to get the crowd going, and take care of healthcare. But I’m glad he is stepping down, this gives the US a shot at being nice with Cuba.

John McCain has the Republican Nomination in the bag. With 721 delegates out of 1,191 needed he is more than half way there. The runner up Mitt Romney has 278 delegates, so at this point I would say that McCain has it.

Obama vs Hillary? I don't know. Obama has 861, Clinton has 855. Close, but If I had to vote between the two I would vote for Clinton, more of a conservative than Obama. Want to know what states voted who? click --> here <-- for a good link, and --> here <-- for another,

As I was writing this I just found out, Mitt Romney just dropped out of the presidential elections! Guess he could not fare up to John McCain. My lord, now it is pretty much a one man race in the republican party! I wonder why he dropped out? Actually why don’t I just look that up now?

Aha! WIRED said, well actually Mitt said it but I quoted from WIRED:

"If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win. And in this time of war, I simply cannot let my campaign, be a part of aiding a surrender to terror."

Well said Mitt, he was the best looking candidate so too bad for all the dumb female voters. Note to all voters, DO NOT VOTE JUST BECAUSE OF THE HOTNESS FACTOR!

This just reinforces my claim, John McCain has the Nomination in the bag. Even if Mitts voters flock to Huckabee John McCain would have at least 200 more Delegates. You know, this past week has been the greatest week of my life. McCain whalups Super Tuesday, and now he he has a straight shot for the nomination.