Posted on 01/21/2008 5:48:14 AM PST by cotton1706
FLASH: RASMUSSEN Florida poll to be released: Romney 25, McCain 20, Giuliani 19... Developing...
“hand outs” is a misnomer. He did not promise that. He spoke about de-regulation and incentives for research and development. That is not a Carter-Like bailout (1979 Chrysler corp.)
Good one... I like it.
Oooh, that would be a damn good combination!!
Mitt will pick a Southerner, probably a Governor, for VP.
Ah, I see my mistake. I was looking at a story from the 19th that was re-posted. Gotta read past those headlines!
Thank you for pointing out my error.
Romney won’t pick someone like Steele. He obviously needs someone to appeal to rural voters in the South. A running mate who can say, “trust me, Romney really is pro-life.”
I think Romney ought to pick Rick Santorum. I’d love to see the left have conipition fits over him being back in office.
NY is registered Republicans only. NJ allows only independents to join Republicans. The people in the NY GOP are pretty moderate, so the effect is the same as allowing independents to vote in purple states like NH. In both states, the preference is Rudy and then McCain, where McCain moves up to #1 if Rudy drops out.
What galls me is that we allow the Democrats to get away with saying that millions of people in America are without health care. That is BS. Anybody can walk into an Emergency room at any hospital in America and get treatment. THey will never get turned away if they don't have insurance. Instead, the costs are passed on to those of us who do carry insurance.
The Romney bill at least forces these deadbeats to make at least some contribution to the treatment they are receiving. It's not a perfect plan but it's better than letting them get away with paying nothing at all.
Romney made some dumb pandering PC statements while running for US Senate against uber-lib Teddy Kennedy in 1994/1994.
But as Governor of Mass, his record was fairly conservative — both in record and rhetoric.
He got a B+ or A- from the NRA, I believe.
And good marks from ProLife groups, including the National ProLife. For example:
- Governor Romney Vetoed Legislation That Would Have Provided For The “Morning After Pill” Without A Prescription. (Governor Mitt Romney, Op-Ed, “Why I Vetoed The Contraception Bill,” The Boston Globe, 7/26/05)
- Governor Romney Promoted Abstinence Education In The Classroom. (Office Of Governor Mitt Romney, “Romney Announces Award Of Abstinence Education Contract,” Press Release, 4/20/06)
- Governor Romney Vetoed Legislation That Would Have Changed The Longstanding Definition Of The Beginning Of Human Life From Fertilization To Implantation. (Governor Mitt Romney, Letter To The Massachusetts State Senate And House Of Representatives, 5/12/05)
- Governor Romney Supports Parental Notification Laws And Opposed Efforts To Weaken Parental Involvement. (John McElhenny, “O’Brien And Romney Spar In Last Debate Before Election,” The Associated Press, 10/29/02)
- Governor Romney Supports Adult Stem Cell Research But Has Opposed Efforts To Advance Embryo-Destructive Research In Massachusetts. (Theo Emery, “Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney Vetoes Stem Cell Bill,” The Associated Press, 5/27/05)
To balance the ticket along racial lines? So that he can win the black vote? I think it's noble to reach out to blacks and try to help them shake loose the chains the democrats have shackled them with but it's a pipedream to beleive they'll vote republican in this election. I mean, they are so mainstream party-line democrat that they are supporting the wife of a white guy they called black over an actual black man because she's the party insider. JC Watts isnt going the get them to pull the lever for Romney.
Or do you think that it will provide a second choice formoderates who get all shaky that it's somehow racist to not vote for the black man (substitute sexist / woman as necessary)?
No, there are plenty of GOP governor options better than choosing Huck. He will go with a governor, though.
Its Romney’s race to lose.
I was called yesterday by Rasmussen’s group. I wonder if it was for this poll?
Blacks ain’t gonna vote for the GOP anyhow.
He ran a very good campaign in a very Democrat state in a very Democrat year. If Lynn Swann would've ran half as good a campaign here in Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell would be gone.
Michael Steele would be an asset to any ticket. He has balls to go with his conviction.
Correction:
The Florida Panhandle IS a lot like south Georgia and Alabama
Haley Barbour, who was fantastic during Katrina, and can talk up a storm.
If we nominate Romney I will essentially leave the GOP. Big whoop you say? Well, I’m a White male military man who is pro-life and pro-2nd and a gut conservative who hates stinking hippies and has donated money to the GOP every cycle. If the GOP loses people like me you might as well pack it up and go home. We will have become the whigs. The dems will control the government for a quarter century or so until something new emerges.
If our party is so stupid as to nominate Romney we deserve it. We claim to be the party of strong national defense but we will nominate someone with no experience? A single term official who never won and can never win re-election?
We killed Kerry because he flip-flopped but he looked like a steady tank compared to Romney. But now we will buy he is a conservative because he can spend millions to say it’s so??? And in the process we will kick a great American hero and man to the curb? All for what? to guarantee a landslide loss? Because Romney CANNOT win. Can you people not read a poll. If we nominate him I will spend 4 years on this site reminding every anti- Obama/Clinton poster that they voted for it. A vote for Romney is a vote for Dems.
I have no business in a party that rejects an American hero who is for winning the WOT, balancing budgets, protecting life and the second etc etc. Not to reject him for a carbon copy of all the negatives we’ve attacked for years. The GOP will have been proven a party of fools. For nominating someone unelectable and falling for moronic claims of a flip-flopper. Hypocrites for nominating someone with no national security experience who cannot win his home state and never won re-election.
If I wanted to be with fools and hypocrites I would have been a dem all this time. If that’s where this party is going good riddance. Enjoy Clinton the sequel.
McCain’s strongest VP pick would be Tim Pawlenty. I was simply hypothesizing that Huck may broker a deal with McCain to guarantee McCain the nomination.
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