Posted on 01/08/2010 12:20:25 PM PST by delacoert
Over past 7 months, Mitt Romney’s favor among Republicans has fallen off a cliff.
Monthly surveys by Public Policy Polling shows that Romney’s level of support has fallen to just 48% among Republican voters from a high of 67% in May of this year.
Romney polled in the 60s on the first three polls but has not reached that threshold since and now for the first time he's below 50% with the party base. I don't have any theories to explain Romney's popularity slide with Republican voters but it certainly bodes ominous for his 2012 nomination prospects if he can't get it turned around.
The same polling shows Mike Huckabee’s support staying above 60%, and Sara Palin’s favorable rating not falling below 69%.
Romneycare.
I was actually supportive of Romney before I was non-supportive of him.
Mitt would make a fine Secretary of Commmerce, ambassador or trade rep. He does understand business, largely (despite the slow-motion disaster that RomneyCare appears to be), at least more so than many.
But his “convenient” political flip-flops, well into his 50s, are disqualifying for the top job.
Real easy......Romneycare, Huckabee.....pardons
Need I say more
Palin 2012
Against liberals...
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Romney is worse. If he's the nominee for pres or VP, I will not vote Republican for president for the first time ever--and I've been voting Republican for president since Reagan.
At least Huckabee is consistently pro-life, and did not enact statewide socialist heath care like Romney did in MA. My biggest problem with Huckabee is all his pardons, but law and order issues are not as big a deal at the federal level as the state level.
I eagerly await Sarah's decision re 2012. If she campaigns effectively for candidates in the mid-terms, she's the odds-on favorite for the nomination. I just watched her O'Reilly interview, and she sounded a lot better than in the '08 campaign--more articulate discussing substantive issues.
Trouble is, I'm not entirely sure she's going to run. As unpopular as zero is now, he might actually be helped by big R gains this year, as Clinton was after 1994. Sarah might decide to kick back, win a Senate seat, and run for pres in 2016.
They’re both bad because they are RINOs, but Pawlenty is a Sally. Bah. If conservatives wanted a candidate with low testosterone, we’d vote Democrat.
Bingo! Especially his so-called "epiphany" that abortion is wrong.
Ah, but Mitt trumpets it proudly ...
Mitt himself has given the plan an A(?!) calling it, his greatest achievement and proudly highlights it in his recently commissioned $30,000 portrait:
The portrait depicts the governor seated at the front edge of his desk wearing his trademark business suit. Beside him is a small framed photo of his wife, Ann, and ... [wait for it] ... a copy of the health care reform law he called his greatest achievement.
But the ultimate disqualification is that he couldn't defeat John McCain in the primaries -- the weakest GOP candidate since Alf Landon.
For that reason alone, everybody who ran for the Republican nomination in 2008 is disqualified from any future attempts.
After all, if you can't beat John McCain, whom can you beat?
Yours is actually a very sound point. Romney is well-spoken and had tons of money. He was well organized. People just weren’t inspired. For good or ill (... and sometimes it’s ill; I wanted Fred! to catch on, and HE didn’t either), “making people like you” is part of this crazy game.
Romney was a PROVEN pi$$-poor Governor.
THe bishop had his chance and this is what was wrought:
Mitt Romney got a "C" rating from CATO.
And that was BEFORE Romney's failure re: Socialized medicine.
"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."
Romney Voted In Mass. Election Using Son's Address
Despite selling his only home in Massachusetts, former Gov. Mitt Romney (R) voted last month in the state's Republican primary to choose a candidate for Sen. Ted Kennedy's seat using his son's address and has already mailed in a ballot for the Jan. 19 special election.
Uh-Oh...bad move.
That's where I was, too. Fred was my guy. When he went down in flames after South Carolina, I went with Romney as the guy most likely to stop McCain.
That he couldn't should tell us a lot about him and his appeal.
Well, Slick Willard just needs to go do s’more bribing and lying and he’ll get them thar numbers right back up again.
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