Posted on 11/07/2008 7:07:43 PM PST by MartinaMisc
He couldn’t beat McCain, but he’d do better than McCain against Obama? I sense a logical inconsistency. /sarc
You liked McCain less than you liked Rooty Tooty Fresh and Frooty? McShame only made my No. 2 for worst candidate. (Hunter, Thompson, Romney, Huck, McPain, Rooty)
Well, he couldn’t get past the fatally flawed McCain, not even with a goodly number of us saying we’d sit home rather than vote for McCain.
If he couldn’t get past McCain, then we obviously never get to find out how he’d do against Obama.
Well, guess what. We’re going to be fighting for the next 4 years with our backs to the wall. By the time the next election rolls around, Romney and a lot of other people will have had the chance to show what they are made of. He’d have been the big defender of free enterprise against Obama? Guess what. He’s going to get his chance to defend it now.
Or not. Maybe he’ll be a uniter like McCain. Maybe he’ll “reach out”. Maybe he’ll look for nuance like half our supposed conservative pundits. He couldn’t close the deal when we looked strong. But we’re down now. Lets see if he still wants to fight or if he wants to posture for the next election.
I think I am the only American that could have beaten Romney. Since we cannot prove either claim, I guess both could be correct. Or not. In short, this is a ridiculous article written by a sore loser.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. I am sick and tired of seeing these articles about Mitt Romney — he would have lost big time because other candidates would never have gotten on board after the way he tried to buy the nomination with his own money and undermined other campaigns.
Same crap we put up with trying to make him VP. If his supporters think this is going to help, they need to think again because the other campaigns are in no mood for Romney, today, tomorrow, next year, or 2012.
Don’t want to see anyone run in 2012 that was part of the primary this time. We need new blood.
I liked a lot of things about Romney, but his Mass. government health care was a step too far.
No Thanks.
Would he have beaten obama? Maybe. Obama is an empty suit with disturbing friends and his "Christian" church is a creepy, racist con. It does appear that this election was won by the one who looked "more presidential".
Romney has enough financial savvy to have worked to create solution involving the suspension of mark-to-market rules and direct liquidity injections into the banks that would have avoided the high price tag of Paulson’s solution.
I think the author makes a very strong case for Romney. I admire John McCain but his debate skills were not an asset in this campaign. It was like water torture watching the debates and seeing Obama leave himself wide-open for a knockout blow only to have McCain throw a weak left jab rather than a hay maker.
In retrospect, I think both Romney or Huckabee could have done better against Obama. His programs are a weak mush concoction that were begging for an evisceration by a skilled interlocutor. Huckabee’s speech as the Republican convention was a sample of this. He demolished Obama’s new age mush with the precision of a surgeon.
I fear that the right’s obsession with finding the next Reagan may have led us to miss out on two pretty good candidates, Romney and Huckabee.
I agree with the post. Romney would have beaten Obama, for two reasons. The economic expertise, and he would have made the case for Republican ideas.
I believe that Romney would have won the primaries if we had a run-off system in the Republican party. If no candidate gets 51% then you run-off until someone does, winner take all in each state.
What I saw in the primaries was that McCain and Guiliani split the liberal Republican vote, and the conservative vote was split at least 4 ways: Romney, Thompson, Huckabee, Hunter. With a run-off system you stop splitting votes. McCain beats Guiliani, and Romney beats the others in more states than Huckabee does. Then Romney beats McCain in the runoff. Romney’s the candidate.
And he would have beaten Obama.
That’s how I see it. Hate me all you want.
This is pure fellation.
We need to stop the Dems from being able to cross over in the primaries.
Exactly.
ABSOLUTELY! What the heck has the GOP been doing all these years.
Also, we MUST allow for PROPORTIONAL DIVISION of electoral votes based on the popular vote. Every state should implement this, especially states like California, where conservatives votes are wasted every Presidential election. If it was the other way around the DemocRATS would have passed an initiative to change it. It’s time the GOP starts fighting the insanity 24/7 and 365 days a year, not just a few months around election time.
Uh, Mitt is a RINO!
The GOP is going to keep loosing if they keep running RINO’s.
Mitt would make a good Dem though.
The MSM pushed McCain down our throats because they knew he was too whimpy to expose Obama.
This election was stolen by a Muslim/Marxist who had the power of millions of dollars worth of illegal campaign funds, the most powerful black radical racists, Muslim terrorists and America haters on the globe behind him.
He won’t bask in the glory of his victory in peace. We intend to go after him:
http://www.freedommarch.org/
Romney is just another silk pony; a richer one, perhaps, but still just another one. Palin speaks to me. Palin speaks for me. Get it. Got it. Good. Palin in 2012. End of the dialogue.
I’m not sure the result would have been different either. But Romney couldn’t rush to Washington and socialize the banking industry as his final legislative act before the election either. This stupidity killed McCain’s campaign.
Also Romney has chrisma, looks and is a polished speaker. Certainly you’ve read accounts where people just wanted a leader who doesn’t torture the English language every time he gives a speech. When I was young, I knew many women who voted on LOOKS alone. Nothing else. Sad really, but at least they were honest in answering my query.
You mean Reagan wanted nationalized health care?
Personally, I always thought Mitt seemed slimy. If I were running a business, I might call him. But for government, the last person I wanted was a slimy, Massachusetts faux-Republican.
How did Romney do, in spite of a few of you Romney haters, in the primary? Seems like a lot of Republicans did like him. With a little less BS, he might have pulled it off. Better than Obama, so I would quit looking so foolish here. And it was OK for y'all to hold your nose and vote McCain. We needed the Party to have some kind of say for the next four years and we got sh@@.
RINO Romney?
Mormon Romney?
No way.
Don’t put me in your Ya’ll. I liked Romney more than McCain. I didn’t even vote for McCain. I’ve trashed him repeatedly. I would be predisposed to like Romney again, but this sort of BS is a sure fire way to turn off a lot of potential supporters. Stop assuming, we both know what that leads to.
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