Posted on 02/02/2008 4:33:02 PM PST by bugseye
Nothing odd about it. Sean likes northeast liberals. First Rooty, now Willard.
You can believe what Romney tells ya. I call him a liar.
Well, he got another primary victory in Maine tonight, but the McCain... and the future Clinton or Obama... media is ignoring it. They don’t want to play fair.
Like my taglines says, Go Nobody!
McCain actually has potential to defeat the RAT candidate. Romney doesn't. His poll numbers are terrible, and his unfavorables keep rising (now up to 47%). Almost half the electorate say they would definitely vote against him.
I am sorry to say, but I think this is a Mormon basher bigot.
I wish Romney could change his birthing to a be an Episcopal, Catholic, Baptist, Presbyterian or some other of the many Christian denominations. Then, a near perfect candidate wouldn't be demonized by fearful people who go to church once or twice a week. This is a sad state of affairs.
Romney doesn't have the negatives. He has cash to overcome the mainstream media - if that is possible by any of our candidates.
I’m not going to claim to be authoritative on all this. I think Hannity came out for Romney. Rush and Coulter have major, major problems with McCain. They are pretty clearly in the Romney camp even if they have not “endorsed.” Santorum has major problems with McCain. Human Events endorsed Thompson with full commitment, then he dropped out. HE bashed McCain in the past, and seems to be bashing him now. National Review came out for Romney. Thomas Sowell has bashed McCain. I don’t see McCain support from the conservatives whose opinion I value. I don’t see any support for Huckabee from these sources. Boortz loves the fair tax, and Huckabee has claimed it, so Boortz probably likes Huckabee, which is strange. Boortz is libertarian and not too keen on religion.
I agree Romney doesn’t have skeletons in his closet, but he has to have negatives for his unfavorables to be so high. How he would get them down, I have no idea. He’s had more than a year to improve his standing with the electorate, but he has only succeeded with some of the GOP base. Among the rest of the electorate, reaction has been very negative.
No Mormon basher and no bigot. Just a smart conservative who has seen his share of cultism in his life. Easy to see, if you just open your eyes and not be so closed minded. Willard is treated with special reverence, idolization by some and devotion by others. Many folks are impressed by rich elitists like Romney. In the end, hopefully he will just fade away, take whats left of his money and head back into obscurity.
And how, exactly, does Nobody really win? Even if a majority of people really did vote for Nobody, then the majority of votes would still go to the person who received the most overall votes. It would get much attention, especially by the “new media”, but a person would still end up winning.
Wrong Jim. Totally wrong. You should really know better
Massachusetts has suffered for nearly 50 years under a growing Democrat monopoly in the Legislature, leading to one of America's most inhospitable business and economic climates. When Mitt Romney was inaugurated governor in 2003, the Massachusetts Legislature was drunk with deficit spending, and awash in regulatory revels, suffocating entrepreneurial energy and reducing incentives for existing companies to stay in the state, never mind relocate here. These same lawmakers routinely ignored the will of the voters on ballot initiatives, including their smack-down of the people's approval of an income tax reduction which the Legislature refused (and still refuses) to implement.
It's no wonder that Mitt Romney inherited a state economy that trailed overall national numbers in manufacturing, output, job growth, and employment. The real wonder is that, as a Republican governor entering this morass of economic opposition and obstructionism he was able to pull the budget into the black and build a big surplus, while forestalling an adversarial Legislature on income and capital gains tax increases.
And it's no wonder that a wiley business thinker could "pull the budget into the black and build a big surplus, while forestalling an adversarial Legislature on income and capital gains tax increases" (fees aren't technically taxes, after all) -- when his tools include a compliant populace willing to go along with things like State Health Care schemes! Yipes. *sheesh*
I swear, the guy's whole MO shows through-and-through that to him, personal responsible rights are clearly secondary in the path of his benevolent business plan to liberal use of government mandate -- to balance budgets, you see, and to stop discrimination, and with the correct management, pull "things" (i.e., the books) into the black. It's business, the government is the employer, and we're the employees. But hey, he's a Republican. So it's okay. *rolls eyes*
Uggggh. I don't want any part in any of it. Romney, McCain, or Huck.
I just read a post on another thread that said, "Reject 'em all." Such is usually responded to by agitated yelps that all I want to do is "teach them a lesson," and how selfish of me! But I'm going to vote for either a write-in or a wacko to do my damndest to keep whoever wins soundly in the plurality. Other than not voting at all, it's the only option I have. "Teaching" has nothing to do with it. Doing what I can to change the course of Republicanism does.
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