Posted on 01/04/2012 12:09:20 AM PST by Slings and Arrows
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney beat former Sen. Rick Santorum by a margin of just 8 votes in the Iowa GOP caucuses, the chairman of the Iowa Republican Party announced early Wednesday.
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“Well that is fine. I would be happy to have a boring boy scout after the crazy President we have had. I guess you are another Romney fan. Yuk, but I guess that is your right to be.”
Oh, come on. I’ve posted about 8,293 times of FR exactly how I feel. I don’t like Romney. Never have. I don’t trust him and I don’t know what he really believes or what he’d really do as President because he opens his mouth and a bunch of words come out... and that’s it.
But that doesn’t mean I have to like Santorum, either (and I don’t). In addition to being terminally bland (and I believe part of being a leader IS having charisma!), he doesn’t strike me as a particularly nice guy. Would I prefer him to Obama? You bet. Do I like him as a candidate? No.
ALL of our candidates are, to me, unacceptable.
Our current President isn't able to speak for three minutes to a classroom full of fifth graders without a teleprompter.
Rick Santorum surprised the pundits and he got his support because he rolled up his sleaves and worked hard and reached the people. And the people in Iowa honored and respected that, in addition of course to seeing his strong conservative positions.
And all of America saw it on display.
I hope he surges elsewhere and has the organization and the money to go on from here and continue. I will donate to him in order to help.
He gave a great speech at the end and I believe he will continue to garner support. Bachman should throw in behind him...Perry may have an outside chance starting in South Carolina, but at this point it would be great to see him throw in behind Rick Santorum as well.
If that happened, then by the time we reach South Carolina it will be a race between Gingrich (who is sounding more angy and vengeful...which will also serve to help Santorum as he goes into pure attack mode and Rick continues to reach the people)...anyhow you will end up with Rick and Gingrich really battling it out in South Carolina and Romney third there.
Then comes Florida and that will be the real test and bellweather in my opinion.
I did not like at all when Santorum threw in behind Spectre and threw Toomey under the bus. That still really bothers me at a deep level...but outside of that and some of his votes for earmakrs, Santorum has been solid in most other areas conservatively and will get the Tea Party backing.
We shall see.
I know this, any of them (outside of Paul's foreign policy) would be orders of magnitude better than Obama, the avowed marxist who is openly destroying the free market and the pillars of the Republic as we watch. We literally, IMHO, cannot afford and perhaps not survive as a constitutional republic based on fundamental moral values with another four years of his damage.
I think you got confused with the point I was making. Pick any name, put a D or an R after that name and you have some flavor of socialist.
I would not put my money or effort behind any candidate that that our lords and masters will select and ordain as the faces for us to “choose” from in November. Those faces are simpy fronts for the two wings of a political stage play that is bought and paid for just like the groceries in your cupboard. Everybody in this election is owned by somebody that is too busy running things to be bothered with the circus show that plays out for our amusement and abusement in DC.
Take a closer read at my tagline.
If I knew you supported Romney, I would not have posted to you. Of course I know you are not a Romney fan. The race is not over, but I have to admit it is getting exciting. Anything can happen and will. You might get a more exciting candidate yet. I personally think Santorum is a great guy. Sure he probably can get “nasty” but all of us do from time to time. Bottom line, it ain’t over yet.
And the Santorum campaign gets a huge boost under the sheets for money, venues and endorsements that will hold their fire for a while.
REALITY: 7 Romney, 7 Santorum, 7 Paul--so it's a tie...nothing changed in the delegate race, except Perry and Bachman voters are going to recede and vote for who next? Romney? Not likely.
PR VALUE: Read the headlines this morning: "Romney narrowly beats Santorum" "Romney edges past Santorum"
People (outside of FR) who pay little attention hear "That goodhair rich dude just barely beat who? Who is this Santorum guy?"
Will Santorum be able to build on it while Mittens is going all out but just barely treading water?
Meanwhile the caterwauling on FR is hilariously sad! My guy lost by a couple votes! Corrupt! Cheats! Well then how the hell did Paul get that many votes? Sometimes a cucumber is just a cucumber folks. If even Huntsman was out, Santorum "wins". What's the diff?
Romney cannot win with only 25% of the vote, and 25% is all he will ever get. I would think that you would be happy that an actual conservative did as well as Santorum did, but for some reason you sound disappointed.
This is so idiotic. Mittens is certainly a lefty, east-coast blue-blood, but he's not a gaddam Marxist Islamist America Hater.
Slithering creeps who actually RUN the government like Napolitano, Holder, Sebelius, etc will be GONE no matter who wins on the GOP side.
That is 80% of the problem with Marxists running the bureaucracies. THAT is where executive power is.
Go ahead and stay home and let those bastards run the country in the ground so you can teach the GOP a lesson. You won't be allowed to revel in your smarmy "I told you so stories" in the "Obama II mandate" political correctness re-education camps.
the way the not-romney candidates keep taking turns spiking up and getting brought down smacks of manipulation of public opinion by the media and romney team. the idea is that all will have had their moment and fallen, and romney gets the nomination, and the gop stays home in 2012 out of disgust.
I assume the idea is to have the runner-up be a nobody, rather than someone like gingrich. heck, santorum is virtually unknown nationally. how can this guy pull 25% or whatever in iowa?
Just nine votes away from conservatism.
Newt complains about the negative ads, but is too full of himself to realize that the charges are true. And now revenge is number one on his agenda. But Newt's self-destruction will be a good thing, because it will mean that a conservative wins the nomination instead.
True, and I don't see the incentive, either. Romney was ahead in Clinton Cty. all evening, and that is likely where he made up the difference; meager, yes, but a win is a win. That said, the delegates ARE what matters, and Santorum had a remarkable showing.
At least I got a laugh out of the Soledad O'Brien and Romney interview on CNN this morning. She, who suffers a perseveration disorder called "stuck on Hispanic", and looks like she's hoarding nuts for the winter, could barely contain herself over Romney's alleged lack of support for Dream Act.
There are millions of people all across this country who have registered and voted GOP their whole lives and think of themselves as conservatives, but who wouldn't last three days on FR without riding the lightning.
These are the Romney supporters. They like a candidate who is "conservative" in personality and image, not necessarily so much in ideology.
They are not that way because of secret mind control waves from Karl Rove. They are that way because it's what they really believe.
Those of you who think that Freepers or the Tea Party are the overwhelming majority of GOP voters and so should have an easy win in any primary contest need to wake up and smell the damn coffee. It ain't so. Not yet anyway, and maybe not for years.
As I have said again and again, it's easy to zot moderates and RINO's from FR. It is impossible to zot them from the GOP voting rolls. Only persuasion will work.
Looks like Mittens can rig up some dirty tricks.
Got that right. It's as pathetic as the DUmmies whining about Ohio in 2004. Some of the people on this thread are really losing their grip on reality.
That's exactly why they want him. Our nation is circling the drain and the GOP is more concerned over whose turn it is to run for President.
Bush V. Gore? FL?
Romney could win every primary and every caucus. He will not ever get a vote from me.
Unknown? The knock on him has been whether he can get the votes, not his experience or conservativism. He knocked it out of the park in Iowa.
He just got way more ‘known’ and is the frontrunner right now.
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