Unfortunately, the data sort of shows otherwise.
Tennessee 56.85% for McCain
Nevertheless, I could have lived with the votes in the other 48 states not being included.
Posted on 05/07/2009 1:48:35 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Could it be the latest sign that Mitt Romney is preparing to run for president again?
Hotline is reporting that Romney is making moves to establish his legal residency in New Hampshire -- site of the first-in-the-nation primary.
The former Massachusetts governor is selling homes in Belmont, Mass., and in Utah, and plans to spend time at his summer home on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee in the Granite State, notes Hotline, the political blog of the National Journal.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Didn’t he buy a house in CA too, fueling speculation he was going for Governor?
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Yeppers Romney was settled in there...
But who wants to be KingRat went the ship is sinking ???
Analyst: California may need to borrow $20 billion next year
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246406/posts
I don't generalize about Evangelicals. My comments were aimed specifically about a vocal subgroup within that broad group who can be shepherded by a well-spoken religious bigot like Mike Huckabee.
Fred Thompson was a logical alternative to Mitt Romney and had Huckabee not played the religious bigot card in Iowa, Fred's campaign might have had a chance to get off the ground because it would have slowed what turned into a stampede for McCain.
Your chart, by the way, throws Mormons into a rather unnatural grouping, perhaps because their numbers are so small. Juding by the data in Mormon heavy counties in Utah and Idaho, they went for McCain by a bigger margin than "Weekly Attending White Evangelical Protestants". So I don't see them as a group which conservatives should be gleefully kicking to the curb as some on this forum delight to do.
Why doesn’t Mitt just come out of closet and confirm what we all know anyway—he’s SO gay!
Carpetbagger Romney needs a state in the black to wreck because he is a terrible leader (economically speaking).
So with California in the red, the Spoiler-Romney had to move again.
(**) -- Romney was a poor Governor. Romney got a "C" rating from CATO. And that was BEFORE
Romney's Socialized medicine and coverup of the BIGdig kicked in.
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
“I think it’s time to do things differently.”
Ah, a “hope” and “change” person.
So I don’t see them as a group which conservatives should be gleefully kicking to the curb as some on this forum delight to do.
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Thanks for your concern...
But we conservatives dont let the Romney and his MittWitts “kick us to the curb”
Maybe he’ll run, but just maybe he doesn’t want to pay the onerous taxes Deval “Cadillac” Patrick and the state legislature have jacked up...and will likely continue to jack up until the only people remaining in Massghanistan are the welfare recipients.
MittWitts. How clever. Keep alienating those who agree with you on, say, 90% of the issues, including Obama’s march toward a socialist state, and see how that works out for you.
Sounds the same to me, evangelicals, bigots, Huckabee etc. You sound like a bigot to me that has an anger towards Christians.
It is nice that you don’t claim that all Christians and Evangelicals are “religious bigots”.
What you said.
But hey: if you don't like Mitt Romney's views on something, wait a day. I assure you he'll be happy to change his views, if only you'll vote for him.
And you have to admit: Mittens does have awesome hair.
Unfortunately, the data sort of shows otherwise.
Nevertheless, I could have lived with the votes in the other 48 states not being included.
So why not work on getting a candidate who can bridge the gap like Sarah Palin elected rather than refight last year’s civil war?
That would assure that the candidate who had the most positive media expose prior to primary day would win. Thus, John McCain would still have won under your proposed rules if we could turn back the clock, and Mitt Romney would likely win in 2012 if we could jump ahead. McCain wasn't electable, and Romney probably isn't, either. I will tell you right now that no one I know would vote for him, come.
Also, if later in the process the candidate turned out to be a complete moron (take your pick for examples) or some scandal broke (I'm looking at you, John Edwards), we'd be stuck with an unelectable mess, and a long, embarrassing, expensive mess leading to election day failure.
Make them prove their worth over tim,e and the American public can decide if they have what it takes.
Palin is an excellent and strong Evangelical, I hope we can keep Romney from keeping conservatives like her and Bobby Jindal and all the others from becoming our nominee.
We can use your help in keeping that Romney piece of slime from further damaging the conservative movement.
Jim Robinson doesn’t support Romney!
After the Evangelical George W. Bush they ought to tuck their tail between their legs. It's not the Protestant Party it's the Republican Party.
Conservatives are tired of Romney and his trained harpies
throwing elections, backstabbing the GOP and conservatives, and attacking those who expose what Romney has wrought.
If anyone has called Romney and his trained attack-monkeys
a name, they earned it.
New Hampshire is not a “flamingly liberal state”: not even close. Our population and legislature is far more politically diverse than any other state in New England and in spite of the liberals’ efforts we are still among the freest states in the US. Mitt Romney is far more at home here than in Massachusetts, where Republicans are nearly extinct as a political force.
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