Posted on 10/12/2011 4:26:14 PM PDT by delacoert
If you Google “Romney inevitable” you get 1,980,000 results. The Romney campaign is hoping that the more his inevitability is discussed, the truer it will become. There is something to that. Political players want to be on the winning team. Donors don’t want to waste their money.
It’s heady stuff, I imagine, for the Romney team to read pieces like this by Jonathan Martin: “Hours after Chris Christie signaled he believes Mitt Romney is the Republican party’s inevitable nominee, Romney and the rest of the GOP field went about proving him right. Romney again outclassed the opposition in Tuesday’s Bloomberg/Washington Post debate. Again, none of the other GOP contenders laid a glove on him.”
But the notion that any candidate’s win is “inevitable” months before votes are cast is silly. Romney is without a doubt the front-runner with considerable momentum and weak opposition. But lots can happen, and there are dangers from attaining not only front-runner but media-denominated “inevitable” status.
First and foremost, the expectation is growing that he will or should win Iowa. Sure, he’s not spent much time there, but what if he loses to a revived Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)? That would sap some momentum and wipe out the inevitability chatter quickly.
Second, Romney can overplay the establishment consensus angle. Does getting the backing of former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert really make sense? (His defenders will argue that sometimes smaller fish induce bigger catches.) He should stop before he gets to former Florida governor Charlie Crist and Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.), both of whom are reviled by conservatives.
Third, he could take a beating in South Carolina, as John McCain did in 2000, and head downward after that. It’s easier to lose when you aren’t expected to win; it’s another thing to get beaten in
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“Well Phil it’s just one of those things I say when speaking out both sides of the ol flapper. Means as much to me as the word Lie”. “Just a word”.
“A better question would be what do you think I should say and I’ll say exactly that to suit todays audience”
Sincerely,
“Say Anything Romney”.
I fear you're right. Why else is the MSM picking him as our nominee. Right out of the gate Zer0's campaign will let it be known that they had Mitten's advisers up to the White Hut to plan how MA RommneyCare could be implemented on a Federal level.
If Mittens is the nominee, Game Over!
If he gets the nomination, we lose. It's that simple. I'm just raising the alarm while the threat exists. Once he's gone, I'll move on to other things.
Dumb article. I googled “inevitable” and my own, not very common last name and got almost 3 million hits
Why would any patriot believe a thing from the Marxist slime at the WP?
That fat-azz whore Jennifer can kiss my USMC grits.
We can only HOPE that happens.......
Against Harold Dean, Dennis Kucinich, Al Sharpton, and Carol Moseley Braun, Kerry may have been the most electable. Talking a lot about Kerry's "electability" made him "nominateable" even though it turned out to be an illusion.
There's a lot of stuff still online from 2004, about Kerry's "electability" or "unelectability." I don't know what to make of it all or how it relates to Romney, but it's all sort of eerily frozen in time, like a prehistoric insect preserved in amber.
We can hope and pray. I have been.
Really and Santorum was touting what tax plan exactly?
You realize that Santorum has no executive experience what so ever. He has virtually no national name recognition. He is really in this to win a cabinet seat as he brings nothing to the table as far as winning votes in a swing state so he has no shot at a VP spot.
Or did you forget he was beaten as the incumbent Senator in Pennsylvania
Why would you vote for Romney?
I’m for Cain
The only “inevitable” thing about Romney is that is was “inevitable” he would be promoted this way as things shook out after a few debates and a few polls were taken for the MSM and Team Obama to get their bearings on the relative strengths of the GOP candidates. Everyone knows that at this stage, both elected Dems and disillusioned voters are bailing on Obama for a host of reasons: implicit in Chris Christie’s endorsement is his own experience so far in New Jersey: he’s been able to get things going in this blue state like no one else has-—he seems to think Romney would be amenable to those kinds of changes nationwide as the President. I’m not sure about that at all.
If people are assuming that all those now bailing on Obama are going to get onboard with Romney, and that THOSE PEOPLE are going to constitute a needed voting bloc for a Romney win, those same people could get back onboard with Obama as Romney reaches out for them. It seems as though Romney and this new philosophy of winning only moves leftward: never expect former Obama-ites to move rightward. Romney is all about meeting in the middle, and that’s only because he and his team believe that’s the way HE can win. It may be true for him, but it’s not true for all candidates still presenting themselves.
I never thought I’d say this, but after hearing snippets from the most recent debate, Gingrich is saying forceful things in a tone I’d never heard from him before , and “I like it”.
Romney , on the other hand, is still only projecting the kind of “just come to me” overconfidence that we’ve been hearing from Obama for the last 2 1/2 years. Cain may rise in the polls, but the Tea Party needs a real candidate to get behind, and Cain is on the way to being subjected to a piecemeal death-by-a-thousand-cuts by the MSM that will , I think, inevitably do him in.
When Jesus speaks from the mount of olives will th MOREMANS administer the LAW from missouri?
MIT ROMNEY said yes that so...
And you say brother?
Newt is the only one in these debates calling out people and issues. It’s almost like he’s fresh air.
Hard to believe he has said that until recently, he didn’t know about Agenda 21.
Even so, he did a very good thing by helping to expose Cain's idiotic, toxic, fatally flawed plan which will be the death of his candidacy.
Won’t be in Independence. LOL
I am with you on Hermans sales tax but Cain has hit a sweet spot with the 999 thing. A pity the others don’t recognize that there is a large constituency in favor of a simple and efficient tax law that will raise the 18% of GDP in federal tax revenues concurrent with legislation that limits spending to 17.5% of GDP. Then we can all just learn to get along as a fellow once said.
Are Mittens moles are running the RNC ???
The debate last night was a farce and a Romney pr event.
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