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Romney: A Mistake for McCain
Real Clear Politics ^ | 07/23/3008 | Dick Morris

Posted on 07/23/2008 5:33:00 PM PDT by JRochelle

You've probably heard the story about the tycoon who wanted to bring out a new kind of dog food.

He spent lavishly. He hired the best marketing person, the top PR firm, the best ad agency, the No. 1 packaging expert, the most powerful distributor -- but the sales were flat after six months.

He summoned his consultants to a meeting and asked why the food wasn't selling. "The dogs won't eat it," was the answer that came back.

And so it is with Mitt Romney. Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries, the dogs won't eat it. He lost Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida and California. The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states; and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals couldn't spare the cash to advertise. Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.

And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries. Using his gigantic money advantage to dominate television, he seized early leads in virtually all of the primary states, only to lose them later on. And, when they started slipping away, he resorted to unfair, distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008rncconvention; 2008veep; dickmorris; election08; gopprimary; mccain; mccainlist; mccaintruthfile; rino; romney; toesucker
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Once again Dick shows us his lack of common sense. He is half right that Romney would be a mistake.

Powell, Rice, Lieberman and Huckabee are also unacceptable.

1 posted on 07/23/2008 5:33:00 PM PDT by JRochelle
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To: JRochelle

Forget the Morman and the Arkansasn


2 posted on 07/23/2008 5:33:52 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: JRochelle
B*I*N*G*O!!
3 posted on 07/23/2008 5:34:43 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("Preach the Gospel always, and when necessary use words". ~ St. Francis of Assisi)
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To: JRochelle

Then who?


4 posted on 07/23/2008 5:35:15 PM PDT by Nachum (Obama: creepy you can count on)
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To: JRochelle

Add Crist, Ridge, and Lindsey Graham to the list.


5 posted on 07/23/2008 5:35:21 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: All

Calling all Romney bashers...


6 posted on 07/23/2008 5:35:42 PM PDT by Scarchin (Romney for VEEP)
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To: JRochelle

McCain is a mistake all by himself.


7 posted on 07/23/2008 5:36:46 PM PDT by bmwcyle (If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America.)
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To: JRochelle

Morris is so full of it...remember who he worked for.


8 posted on 07/23/2008 5:37:30 PM PDT by arbee4bush (Our Airman Daughter KB4W--Hero, Patriot and the Love of her mom & dads life! RIP Tony Snow)
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To: JRochelle
When Bill O. said—up next Dick Morris will weigh in with his VP picks for McCain, I switched over to a Lifetime flick. I just couldn't go through hearing about Leiberman, Powell and Rice.
9 posted on 07/23/2008 5:37:39 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: JRochelle

McCain: A Mistake for the Republican Party.


10 posted on 07/23/2008 5:37:53 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Are there any men left in Washington? Or, are there only cowards? Ahmad Shah Massoud)
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To: Clintonfatigued; Tennessee Nana; Diogenesis; Rome2000; Reagan Man

Dick Morris gets it right for a change about Slick Willard, but gets it wrong for the other RINO (or rodent) choices for VP.


11 posted on 07/23/2008 5:38:42 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Vigilanteman

who pray tell oh genius do you suggest


12 posted on 07/23/2008 5:38:48 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: Nachum

John Kasik

John Thune

Rob Portman

Eric Cantor

Mike Pence

Chris Cox

Haley Barbour

Carly Fiorina (a maybe)


13 posted on 07/23/2008 5:40:03 PM PDT by JRochelle (Barak in Berlin "Ich bein ein beginner.")
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To: Nachum

Mike Pence, James Inhofe.


14 posted on 07/23/2008 5:40:37 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Boycott Washington D.C. until they allow gun ownership)
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To: JRochelle

What about Duncan Hunter?


15 posted on 07/23/2008 5:41:51 PM PDT by Cuchulain ("...never treat with the enemy; never surrender to his mercy, but fight to the finish.")
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To: JRochelle

Dick Morris has officially lost his mind. Badness of his advice can only mean one thing: He is for Obama.

Condi = Bush = 80% disapproval rating

Powel = Will Endorse Obama anytime now

Leiberman = Unless McCain wants to win the Presidency of some BINGO club, putting equally dull and old looking dude on the ticket wouldn’t make much sense.

Romney can raise upto 50 million dollars. He can’t out-raise Obama, but he doesn’t have to. Hillary couldn’t either, but she almost managed to pull it off. Obama can’t buy his way to WH. All McCain has to do in terms of money is remain within striking distance and he is doing a reasonable job of that.

Michigan is only polling couple of points higher for Obama and there are 3 and half months to go.

Romney can tip the scale in McCain’s favor.

Remember Obama went into Texas couple of points ahead....

Romney has some pull in Nevada and Colorado. He can bring those to the McCain’s column as well.

More importantly he looks like he is alive.

McCain needs to give Huck or some OTHER Southerner a prominent role in the campaign to HOLD Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia.

If not McCain then I-Carly!

Yeah she is filthy rich, so is Romney.

However, she is a hot Woof, and Hildabeast lovers may just not be able to resist her.


16 posted on 07/23/2008 5:43:33 PM PDT by The_Republican (Conservatives are in trouble because they hate Scarlett Johanson.)
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To: JRochelle

the blonde who worked for Nixon and Colmes’ sister in law said tonight if mccain didn’t pick Mitt she was gonna run in the streets in sixth avenue,

Mitt is her “sexy pic”...lolol and I AGREE!

I guess Dick agrees with you.


17 posted on 07/23/2008 5:44:32 PM PDT by libbylu
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To: JRochelle

Every single one of those names are boring. I do not see McCain having success with his own base if he does not choose a candidate that can draw votes from the middle.


18 posted on 07/23/2008 5:44:35 PM PDT by Nachum (Obama: creepy you can count on)
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To: Cuchulain

Sure.

Duncan Hunter

Jeff Sessions

Tom Coburn

Pawlenty? He just doesn’t do it for me. He seems squishy and a mini rino.


19 posted on 07/23/2008 5:45:13 PM PDT by JRochelle (Barak in Berlin "Ich bein ein beginner.")
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To: The_Republican
McCain needs to give Huck or some OTHER Southerner a prominent role in the campaign to HOLD Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia.

It would take a lot more than that in the South with Romney on the ticket.

20 posted on 07/23/2008 5:45:39 PM PDT by Ingtar (Haley Barbour 2012, Because he has experience in Disaster Recovery. - ejonesie22)
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