Posted on 11/21/2011 3:03:39 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
That 25% represents the “moderate” wing of the Republican party. Not just the “county club” elites, but a fair percentage of main street Republicans, who want lower taxes, strong nationl defense, and are scared by the left-sing crazies in the Democrat party, but also don’t want someone they view as a “right-wing extremist”. People around here would call them RINOs. I call them Rotary Club Republicans.
[start rallying around Romney as the only Republican who has a shot at beating Obama]
Yep, Saundra the Mormon uber alles approach. I will never rally around Mitt, I will actively oppose him even if he is elected.
But the GOP establishment expects we'll get hungry enough to choke it down.
That’s true, but it’s odd that other Republicans haven’t called him on this technique (being the “invisible candidate”), except of course that GOP Central has made up its mind that he’s their boy.
The others are just entertainment.
Sadly, outside of GOP Central, we seem to have offered mostly candidates who really are just entertainment, since people seem to be looking for cute personalities who say the right buzz words rather than somebody with ideas, knowledge and a track record that we can evaluate. I don’t care if candidates can burst into tears while discussing themselves (Bill Clinton was pretty good with the tear machine, too), but unfortunately it seems that the rest of the voters find that just too charming for words and somehow consider it proof that the weeper would make a good president.
This could be the year that the republicans scramble to scrap the GOP nomination process for something different. (After the fact, unfortunately)..
If you believe in polls, Ron Paul could easily win Iowa, Romney wins New Hampshire, and there goes any shot for Perry, Cain, or Gingrich. Yes it is early, but Paul's numbers are moving up and up. What the hell is wrong with us?
The race is now between the two most logical candidates for the Republican nomination—Gingrich and Romney. Gingrich is the experienced politician with vision and street smarts to take Obama down. Romney is a smart guy, a good manager, and he has the money to take on Obama. The others just don’t count. Cain, Bachmann, Perry, Santorum—they’re all done. They should drop out so that Republicans can focus on the two finalists. We need a clear winner soon so we are united going into next summer. Obama has to be defeated. One of these two guys can do it. Neither of them is perfect but they’re far better than the incompetent fraud who’s now occupying the White House.
Romney has avoided many of the debates??? What planet have you been living on?? He’s been in all of them and he’s kept his cool and his focus in every one. I’m no fan of Romney, but let’s stick to the facts here. As far as the most recent thing in Iowa? That tearjerk soap opera with everyone blubbering and feeling sorry for themselves? He was smart to pass it up. Isn’t it bad enough that Boehner is always weeping? Do we have to have the future president crying buckets, too? They ought to be crying about the condition of the country. Disgusting!
Romney has avoided some of the multi-candidate events and manages to stay out of the public eye most of the time. He keeps his cool at the “debates” because he gets softball questions, more time than the other candidates so he can blather in generalities at great length (and this was actually proved by an independent analysis of the time each candidate was given over the course of the debates), and makes no gaffes because he says absolutely nothing of substance.
I agree about these stupid publicity events the candidates are fond of doing, however; Bill Clinton could turn on the tear machine with the best of them, but that didn’t make him a moral person. Proclaiming that Herman Cain burst into tears and therefore he’s qualified to be president is ridiculous.
But letting Romney cruise by, unconfronted by anyone and playing on what is definitely not a level playing field (it’s all slanted to his advantage), sure doesn’t give any indication of his qualifications, either. He actually does have a track record, and it’s a bad one, but nobody in the press or anywhere else confronts him on it.
The “inside Paul” talk is that this is his LAST shot. He’s 75. All the Paul guys that have supported him are spreading out across the country (especially colleges) canvassing, hitting up straw polls, working the internet, handing out flyers. He’s getting lots of cash as well.
This is their last hurrah. Paul may actually win Iowa by a couple of points. If so, all bets are off.
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