Mitrack ORomney for President? uhhh, no.
Posted on 10/14/2011 6:50:12 AM PDT by raccoonradio
President Mitt Romney?
Is it really possible? Mitt Romney — the guy fellow Republican John Lakian used to call “Mr. Mormon?” Who put Seamus the Irish setter on the top of his car and then drove to Michigan? Who in 2008 said his sons were doing their national service by campaigning for him?
Mitt Romney, who couldn’t put John McCain, Mike Huckabee or Fat Matt Amorello away. Who literally didn’t have the coattails in Massachusetts to get even one state rep elected?
Mitt Romney, who probably wouldn’t have been elected governor if Shannon O’Brien hadn’t decided to show up at a Halloween debate dressed like Elvira Mistress of the Dark and then offered on statewide TV to show off her tattoo to the late Tim Russert?
Mitt Romney, who suddenly began being seen in a barn jacket and a pickup truck after Scott Brown parlayed both into a U.S. Senate seat last year?
Mitt Romney is now ahead of the failed incumbent president in just about every national poll.
They say familiarity breeds contempt. That was certainly true of the last two presidential candidates from Massachusetts — Mike Dukakis and John F. Kerry. And both of those guys came very close to winning the presidency, scary close, if you knew them.
Mitt’s different. The thought of him being president isn’t so much frightening as perplexing — how he remains the GOP front-runner week after week. This is not a natural role for him.
It’s like one of the old Hollywood moguls said when he was told that Ronald Reagan was running for president. “No, no,” said the mogul. “Robert Taylor for president. Ronnie Reagan for best friend.”
Mitt is Miss Congeniality. He’s been running around the country for six years trimming his positions, yet he names his campaign tome, “No Apologies.” He knows how to answer the questions. He says, “I believe the world is getting warmer and I believe humans contribute to that,” but isn’t sure it’s a major problem. His Obamacare is fine, but Barack’s Romneycare is bad. The mainstream media even give Mitt a pass on his religion, like he’s Harry Reid or something.
The other GOP candidates keep hurling themselves at him — Tim Pawlenty, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, now Herman Cain, maybe Newt Gingrich next. They all rise rapidly in the polls, then plunge just as quickly. And Mitt hangs in there, with that big unshakable 25 percent in the GOP polls.
As somebody wrote in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, “He could be president. But in the current Obama morass, so could 100 other people.”
Exactly. That’s why Mitt and his minions would love to have the New Hampshire primary on Dec. 6, before anybody else can catch fire. Mitt has got to be as surprised about this as anybody.
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The money quote: “He could be president. But in the current Obama morass, so could 100 other people.”
And Cuban Leaf makes 101.
And if people think the Obama Morass is bad now, just wait’ll next summer.
As it stands now any Republican, including El senor Raton Miguelito can beat the Marxist in chief. What we want is the best most conservative one available. God Save the Republic!
for those not from Mass.:
>>the guy fellow Republican John Lakian used to call “Mr. Mormon?”
In a Republican primary, Lakian meant to say “I have no problem with Mr. Romney’s religion” but accidentally called
him “Mr. Mormon” instead (i.e., Freudian slip)
Fat Matt Amorello, a former GOP state rep, was put in charge of the Big Dig by Jane Swift, a disastrous Republican governor. All kinds of controversies, including when Milena Delvalle died when a ceiling tile from the new tunnel fell on her car. Amorello called her “Melinda”
by mistake. When last heard from, Amorello had a whale of a DUI situation in Haverhill...
>>That’s why Mitt and his minions would love to have the New Hampshire primary on Dec. 6,
Voting in the snow! In a one horse open sleigh! To the polls we go...
For those in other parts of the country who call him a RINO, realize that in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney is considered a far right Republican Nazi wacko. After Mike Dukakis’ Massachusetts Miracle turned into a Mass. Mirage, he decided to not run for re-election in 1990. He was followed by four
Republicans who weren’t exactly conservative: Bill Weld,
Paul Cellucci, Jane Swift, and Romney. Romney rode in on a white horse to save the day when Swift’s positives were
around 22 per cent.
Mitt’s lt gov Kerry Murphy Healey—who, like Mittens, did not accept a salary, and we did get our money’s worth I guess—failed to defeat Barack’s pal Deval “Together We
Scam” Patrick. Patrick won re-election last year after a straw candidate split the anti-Deval vote. Supposedly he isn’t running again. Can the Republicans win back the
Corner office? (If they do, it would most likely be a RINO;
again, this is Massachusetts, where Ted Kennedy was Senator from the year I was born—1962—until 09 when he died...)
Reflect upon why we conservatives should not elect anyone whom we ‘love, admire, respect or cherish’. Consider George W. Bush; he was a young, optimistic guy with a great wife and sufficient conservative credentials to always ‘do the right thing’.
After he was mangled by the media - chewed up by Congress and spit out by many conservatives during his last few years in office - he left office as a grey-haired shadow of a man.
The answer then is to elect Newt Gingrich. We have hated him as he struggles for redemption. His brain and ability to navigate congress are the qualities we admire.
But because we don’t LOVE Newt - he will never disappoint us and his enemies’ attacks will not drive us crazy;)
I worry that Newt is not electable, even against a very weak incumbent. I know several conservative women who will stay home on election day if he is the Republican nominee.
Ah, yes -- brings to mind the only thing I clearly remember Mitt standing firm on, really digging in his heels and fighting: that he would not have Jim Rappaport as his lt. gov. Now, I know nothing about Rappaport so I have no opinion as to whether he was right or wrong. I just remember it was the only time I saw him hold firm.
Mitrack ORomney for President? uhhh, no.
Slick Willard only wanted flunkies around him. Rappaport wasn’t a flunkie and that’s why he went out of his way to stop him from becoming his running mate. Rappaport also wouldn’t have lost like poor Muffy Healey did against Coupe Deville.
Since the common conception is that anyone can beat Obama, the establishment sees this as their *only* opportunity to get a liberal/establishment republican in.
If any lesser evil were already there, he wouldn’t have a chance in Republican primaries, and would lose the general.
We should be telling them that if anyone can, they should choose the best conservative possible (its our best chance, too), not settle for someone whose only chance is dependent on the negative aspects of the Democratic opponent.
Do they think that The Other Side would not hesitate to switch presidential candidates once we put in such a milquetoast chameleon? Why wouldn’t they seriously consider it as the best opportunity to derail an entire campaign built on attacking The 0ne?
Don’t forget, they did not hold an election at their convention (a portent of things to come?), but circumvented all that messy democracy stuff from the get go. We should not count (massive apparent ego notwithstanding) on any particular Democratic ticket until the fat lady sings at the next one.
A liar in any state is still a liar, I mean flip-flopper.
Mitt is the left’s “secret weapon” and wet dream. He will NEVER win a national election... That’s what makes him so adorable to them... And to the MSM.
1. Romney is Obama dream opponent. Obama would run his entire campaign as the defender of the little guy against Romney the greedy and ruthless Wall Street Banker whose company Bain Capital destroyed many people jobs. Watch the Kennedy ads against Romney from 1994 just to get a taste about this subject. We will see many of those people hurt by Romney’s company in TV ads and interviewed by the media again, and again, again. In an environment when a majority of the voters hates Wall Street and blames them for the many ills that we are facing (it is not fair but it is what it is) it would extremely foolish for the Republican Party to nominate a Wall Street Banker with all the meaning of the word.
2. Obamacare will be totally off the table in 2012 as Obama would be simply tell Romney that he modeled his Obamacare after Romneycare and no amount of spin that Romney does can change this fact.
3. Romney does not energize the Republican base because he is viewed and rightly so by the majority of Republican as very liberal on many issues. In fact I would not be surprised if the Obama campaign would create fake conservative groups to go after Romney liberal record on a host of issues to further demoralize a Republican base that is not excited by Romney to start with.
Newt is looking better to me with each passing day.
As for Elmer Fudd, well, at least he’s truly pro-guns.
Not if I can help it!
Not in this household.
years ago, i was in favor of mitt over mccain. then he showed how vulnerable he was to the nonstop ‘so you’re a mormon’ statements every time he was in front of a camera. the goal, of course, was to get the religious bigots on the right to freak out... and stay home.
it worked.
that is the reality. the far right will stay home if romney is the candidate.
same with cain. the far right will stay home if their guy is a black guy. plain truth.
in the end, no matter which candidate gets the primary nod, neither will pull the far right.
meanwhile, 0bama won’t run again... not without producing his eligibility documents, not the forged ones. therefore, he will be one term.
that leaves only one candidate on the left. hillary
add the standard stuffing of ballot boxes and the voting dead... and it’s game over. hillary wins 2012.
only one player can change this equation...
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