December 27 2011: 7 Reasons Why Mitt Romney’s Electability Is A Myth

RightWingNews.com ^ | 27 Dec 2011 | John Hawkins

[colorado tanker]

Unless something really strange happens between now and the convention, it will be Romney. Deal with it.

I agree with what Rush said the other day. I have a feeling people are so fed up with this regime they'll even vote for the Mittster.

[radioone]

Mitt may not be my favorite, but with Obama we could get "Supreme Court Justice Eric Holder", or any other member of the "Crucify" crowd.

[rdcbn]

Romney is the Republican nominee - like it or not either Romney or Obama is going to be the next President of the United States.

There is the famous quote from a NYC Manhattenite who professed shock at Richard Nixon's victory in 1968. “I don't know a single person” who voted for him,” she said.

Conservatives may be making the same mistake with Romney.

Beating Obama is going to be a very hard thing to do we are going to need to either get as many ex Obama voters on board to vote against the guy they voted for in 2008, or keep them at home to not vote by not motivating or scaring them to vote for Obama again, if we want to beat Obama in 2012.

Conservatives may not think that Romney can be elected, but that is a mistake. Romney may just peel off enough Independents and the 21st Century version of “The Reagan Democrats” on top of the traditional Republican constituencies to beat Obama.

These independent and crossover Democrats would have a much harder voting for Gingrich or Santorum than they would for Romney. Gingrich and Santorum also piss off a lot of swing voters, which may be enough to motivate them to come out and vote for Obama a second time instead of just staying home and not voting.

Beating Obama is the most important political task in the last century because if he is elected for a second term he will be able to complete his agenda and forever change the US government in a profoundly negative fashion.

Any conservative who does not get behind Romney is going to regret their decision because the changes Obama will make in his second term will be irreversible.

Romney is going to win by building a broad based coalition of voters who are fed up with Obama and the direction he is taking the country.

Conservatives who refuse to join the Romney coalition and especially those who choose to make Romney an unnecessary enemy will rightly have no voice in a Romney Administration if Romney is elected.

Perhaps it is time for Conservatives close ranks to step up to the plate and work hard to get Romney elected to make sure they have a seat at the table in any Romney Administration. Otherwise Conservative may find themselves marginalized if Romney wins.

FWIW, Romney may have filp -flopped on many issues over the years, BUT- he has a good track record of following through on what policies he has promised voters he would follow if he were elected once he was elected.

I don't care what he said to get elected in Massachusetts, I am more interested in what he is saying to get elected for President. Aside from his inexplicable support of Global Warming, he seems to be heading in the right direction, he just needs Conservative pressure to help keep pushing him in the right direction, especially on Judges.

Just a thought

[SoConPubbie]

Unless something really strange happens between now and the convention, it will be Romney. Deal with it.

Sorry, but that lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal Mitt Romney is your boy, not mine.

And you will have to deal with his eventual landslide loss to Obama.

I'll be voting for Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party.

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton

[SoConPubbie]

Unless something really strange happens between now and the convention, it will be Romney. Deal with it.

Sorry, but that lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal Mitt Romney is your boy, not mine.

And you will have to deal with his eventual landslide loss to Obama.

I'll be voting for Virgil Goode of the Constitution Party.

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton

[Proud2BeRight]

What???????

[SoConPubbie]

FWIW, Romney may have filp -flopped on many issues over the years, BUT- he has a good track record of following through on what policies he has promised voters he would follow if he were elected once he was elected.

That's just it, those policies he has followed through on, were left-wing, Progressive Liberal policies.

[chris37]

K.

[SoConPubbie]

I don't care what he said to get elected in Massachusetts, I am more interested in what he is saying to get elected for President. Aside from his inexplicable support of Global Warming, he seems to be heading in the right direction, he just needs Conservative pressure to help keep pushing him in the right direction, especially on Judges.

I'm not concerned with what he is promising or saying, I'm concerned with his record, and the fact that he is consistently and constantly lying.

CPAC - 2012 Romney lies:

1. "I have always been Pro-Life"
2. "I was a severely conservative governor of MA"

I refuse to live in a fantasy land where my POTUS vote and support is concerned and hope that somehow, though there is no historical evidence to support it, that Romney will somehow change his spots and start nominating conservative jurists.

His record is the exact opposite:

Out of 36 nominations, 27 were far left-wing, Progressive Liberal Democrats.

Legal analysts say candidate Romney is different from Gov. Romney.

Liberty Counsel Action Vice President Matt Barber said Romney’s appointments were constitutional “living document” poster children.

“Many of Romney’s appointments were not only liberal, not only Democrats, but were radical counter-constitutionalists. How on earth can we expect that, as president, he would be any different?” Barber asked rhetorically.

“Actions speak louder than words, and Mitt Romney’s actions as governor scream from the rooftops that he cannot be trusted with this most important of presidential responsibilities.”

Barber cites two specific examples of Romney’s radical appointments.

“As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney not only failed in this regard, he appointed a number of very liberal, if not radical, ‘living, breathing’-minded judges to the bench,” Barber said.

“Two that come to mind were extreme homosexualists Marianne C. Hinkle and Stephen Abany,” he said. “They both had a long history of pro-gay activism, yet Romney didn’t hesitate to put them on the bench.”

“These are people who outrageously believe the postmodern notion that newfangled ‘gay rights’ trump our constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment rights,” he said.

Baldwin agreed, citing Romney’s statements about the two requirements he actually used when selecting judges.

“Romney did focus on two criteria: their legal experience and whether they would be tough on crime. In other words, the nominee could be a gay activist or a pro-big government, pro-quota, pro-gun control Democrat Party hack who detests every judicial principle treasured by our founding fathers,” Baldwin said. “But if he happens to be tough on crime and have prosecutorial experience, he gets past the Romney filter. Many of Romney’s nominees fit that description.”

Baldwin added that Romney did have some ideological criteria for many of his nominees:

“It was criteria commonly used by the left. For starters, his nominees were mostly pro-abortion. Indeed, while campaigning for governor in 2002, Romney told the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) that his judicial nominees would more likely protect abortion rights than would those of a Democrat Governor, according to notes from a person attending this meeting.”

Another Romney criteria, Baldwin explained, was “diversity.”

“The other criteria consistently emphasized by Gov. Romney in deciding judicial selections was ‘diversity.’ This is the silly notion that judgeships should reflect the population in terms of race and gender and even sexual orientation, regardless of a person’s judicial philosophy,” he said. “Clearly, the use of diversity quotas demonstrates Romney’s lack of a coherent conservative worldview.”

[colorado tanker]

I have never supported Romney. So, who's the liar now?

But between Obama and Romney, I have to take Romney. The country can't take four more years of this.

A vote for Virgil Goode is a vote for Obama.

[SoConPubbie]

I have never supported Romney. So, who's the liar now?

A vote for Virgil Goode is a vote for Obama.

You just lied twice.

You are promoting Romney on a website devoted to conservative ideals and conservative candidates; Romney has no conservative ideals and he is not a conservative candidate.

Romney is your boy. You own him and his record.

A vote for Virgil Goode is a vote for Virgil Goode, not Obama.

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton

[tatown]

Obama is going to get steamrolled in November and you apparently are one of the few that hasn’t figured it out yet. Romney is irrelevant as this entire election will be a referendum on Obama’s record. Nothing more, nothing less. For the first time in his life, the Kenyan has a record.

[Gertie]

That is not the answer, that is how Ross Perot shafted G.H.W.Bush out of a 2nd term and got Clinton elected. A stay at home or a vote for other than the Republican nominee is a vote for O’Bummer, no if ands or buts, swallow your ego, vote to beat O”Bummer.

[Gertie]

That is not the answer, that is how Ross Perot shafted G.H.W.Bush out of a 2nd term and got Clinton elected. A stay at home or a vote for other than the Republican nominee is a vote for O’Bummer, no if ands or buts, swallow your ego, vote to beat O”Bummer.

[colorado tanker]

[Biggirl]

Tomorrow’s OWS’s protests could very well be the gift that gets Romney in by default.

[rdcbn]

Romney was a Republican elected in the People's Republic of Massachusetts, the single most corrupt and insanely liberal state in the Nation. He was also the most conservative and competent Governor the state has had in my life time.

As Governor of Mass, Romney pushed conservatism about as far as possible as any Governor of that radically liberal and massively corrupt state could accomplish.That' may not be saying much in absolute terms, but for practical purposes it's a huge win for Romney. It's amazing he was even able to get elected in the first place.

Massachusetts elected Deval Patrick as Governor to replace Romney and Patrick has screwed up the state worse than previous Democrat Governors, all of whom are a hard act to follow when it comes to corruption and incompetence.

Obama is 10 times worse than Deval Patrick at his worst. Obama is seriously trying to institute what passes for as close to dictatorship as is possible in the United States.

The threat of giving Obama a second term to consolidate his push to undermine American democracy and impose a Marxist based form of government pales before anything Romney would even dream of at his worst.

And that's a fact

[rdcbn]

I agree with most of the points you wish to make about Romney, but the fact is he IS the nominee.

Conservatives now need to become a great enough force for Romney's election that he will have to promise to govern as conservatively as possible, to renounce the Global Warming Cap and Trade scam, to support pro life policiesand Judges, and to promise to appoint Judges who will follow the Constitution to get their votes and win the election.

That is kind of how the American political system works. What kind of influence will Conservatives have in a Romney Administration if they proclaim him their sworn enemy.

[LibFreeUSA]

Why are we still shooting on this side of the fence? We’ve had over a full year of internal war for someone to step up to lead the charge to topple Obama. Now that this phase is over, why are we still trying to weaken our side.

And let me say to all those who are whining about Romney being the only one left standing. It was due to the two remaining ‘conservatives’ who could not get together and support one or the other to stop Romney because their egos were more important, so they decided they had to run their campaigns into the ground and let Romney walk in.