Posted on 02/06/2008 6:37:26 AM PST by Cluster
Romney to Downsize Post-Super Tuesday?
ABC News' Matt Stuart Reports:
Mitt Romney suggested Saturday that he might reduce his staff after Super Tuesday,
saying he has "a much larger staff" than may be required "as you go on to these subsequent primaries." (...)
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/02/romney-to-downs.html
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Huckabee is more conservative than Romney. Romney put in place a $50 co-pay for abortions in his 1.8 billion dollar universal health care program (same basic plan as Hillary’s and now 400 million dollars over estimated costs this year). Kennedy was there at the signing. That’s not conservative. What amazes me is how many desperate conservatives have bought into the idea of Romney as a conservative rather than just face the fact that they don’t have a perfect candidate and have to make a difficult choice — 2 liberal Republicans and 1 conservative who has raised some taxes, and, horrors is a southerner and a former preacher. Romney is just an old school, white-shoe, born into wealth Rockefeller Republican. He is the liberal variant of the Republican species that conservatives have been loosely allied with and as often at war with for 60 years.
Usher in.....President of the United States; Hillary Clinton
There’ve been multiple allegations of collusion between Huckabee and McCain from McCain sharing fundraising contact rolls to the McCain people flipping to Huckabee in West Virginia state primary when Romney had gotten the most votes on the first ballot but fallen short of 50%.
It did go off. It was a flower power bomb and it’s effects are still felt today.
Gee, I wonder how many Republicans consider conservative talk radio the equivalent of the liberal media as you do?
Do you really believe that Rush, Sean, Ann Coulter, Glenn, Levin, Savage, Hewitt and others were all lying about someone they didn't really believe is the most conservative candidate?
In my view, Ron Paul is the most authentic conservative, but even I don't attribute such a ridiculous conspiracy to them for opposing Paul.
FTFY
What has Huck done that is socialist?
Republicans: Meet your 2008 presidential candidate, brought to you by the MSM and Democrat Party.
Thatthe Conservtive Media, They get a pass as long as they agree with The rest of the Conservatives.
No one else gets a pass, in the Media.
Of course I don’t think that “Rush, Sean, Ann Coulter, Glenn, Levin, Savage, Hewitt and others were all lying . . “ and I’m not into conspiracy theories. That’s silly.
I DO think that they killed Romney’s chances for the nomination by sending McCain votes to Huckabee.
That’s just simple analysis.
Give me a break. Utah voters casting votes yesterday came out almost 89 percent for Romney. 89 percent! That's almost 9 out of every 10 GOPers in Utah who voted for somebody only or primarily because of their religion. (Could you imagine the hue & cry from the MSM & pro-Mittiacs if the largest Evangelical populated state voted 89% for an Evangelical candidate? People feel awfully free to attack Evangelical voters, but then they won't apply their own standards to LDS voters!)
I don't like the easy liberal-like tendency to label everybody with a stereotype--throwing out the word "bigot." I think Utah voters have every right to support who they want to support. (I think they have a right to take into consideration the other-worldly commitments of a candidate). BUT, if you're going to be consistent and say that Southern voters are "bigots" because some of them took into consideration the other-dimensionly commitments of a candidate, then I dare you: You apply that charge equally across the board and call Utah voters "bigots." I dare you: Let's hear you say: "I, rman, believe that since Utah voters largely made a pre-judgment--from where we get the word 'prejudice'--based upon a candidate's religion, that they were biased and 'bigoted' in their voting."
I say you & many others are being inconsistent and exhibit double-standards.
He’s not ready to attack McCain, Or join in with the hate talk against McCain. So hes too centrist.
If your not bashing McCain, your a Rino, dont you know.
McCain 2008
Romney keeps the Math in. He could make the others show a budget and how they get there, because they don’t.
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How much more time do any of us have to be an economic slave to the tax code of a Congress that spends beyond their Federal jurisdiction, to keep their demand for tax income they never have to work for as long as uninformed keep voting for them.
Well, since no one has said it on this thread, I will. Huck & McCain traded delegates in West Virginia, and probably elsewhere as well.
Mitt could only ensure a win in states where he got an absolute majority. He could finish ahead of both the others, but still lose after they did their trades.
The MSM won’t report on it, or will downplay it, but I figure they probably did deals in more states than just one.
It’s perfectly legal, but few people anticipated it. And of course it means that the winning candidate loses.
I’m not a Romney fan. Maybe it’s best that we get a REAL loser team, and are forced to work toward 2010 and 2012. I sure as hell am not going vote for McCain under any circumstances, because that would finish off the conservatives for the next ten or twenty years.
The consequences will be dire, but we have NO CHOICE but to finally teach the RNC and the Country Clubbers once and for all that they can’t keep poking sticks in our eyes and expect us to get back on board their train like good little puppies. This has just gone too far.
“Of course this is to give the impression that the Romney tent is folding.”
He is thinking about all those consultant bills running on the clock that he’ll have to pay after a failed campaign. Even so, either he or Huckleberry could become the VP, which would help. I’d prefer the Huckster being from the south,...and all. And he is a funnier guy and plays a mean guitar.
Good post. The 90% Utah vote for Romney shows what the charge of bigotry really comes down to — what the pop psych guys call projection. The irony of the charge is richer since the evanglical vote divided among all three of the candidates, preponderence for Huckabee while the Mormon vote went exclusively, lockstep for the Mormon. The level of the vote is more like the dictatorship elections that they used to have in the Eastern Bloc . . .
I consider Rush, Ann C., etc. “media.” HUGE media. They spent the last few weeks skewering McCain in every way possible.
In your response to the assertion that the liberal media avoids attacking McCain, you equated our conservative talkers power and tactics to the liberal media.
The liberal media lies to their audience and is everywhere you turn. You have to seek out conservative talkers.
So, you extrapolated that there was a backlash to the conservative opposition to McCain.
. . “ and I’m not into conspiracy theories. That’s silly.
I DO think that they killed Romney’s chances for the nomination by sending McCain votes to Huckabee.
Sounds conspiratorial to me.
Any chance that it just might be that there are more than a few Republicans who don't listen to conservative talkers?
Romney’s problems are his own fault. Noone told Romney to flip-flop on so many issues. Noone told Romney to talk the conservative talk with a record of not walking the walk.
Romney is the John Kerry of the Republican party. He was against Reagan before he was for him. He was against pro-life before was for it. He was against 2nd amendment before he was mostly for it.
The saddest thing about Romney is that he is a stark example of how screwed we are as a party. When republicans say Romney is the ‘conservative’ candidate? sigh. that’s like saying Al Franken is the hilarious one in a comedy contest between him, pauly shore and alan greenspan.
I put zero stock in the ‘blame the media’ explanation. if romney can’t handle the media, he has no chance of handling the international geopolitique or the war on terror.
“Media avoids attacking McCain?”
McCain’s attack on Romney over his supposed attack on Dole’s patriotism was heinous. How what Romney said could ever be construed as an attack on Dole’s character or military record is politics at it’s most vindictive and slimiest. McCain is a vile, insercure little man. After his lies about Romney “withdrawl” support, I didn’t think he could sink any lower and the media’s refusal to call it for what it is - is equally reprehensible.
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