Posted on 01/12/2012 8:29:04 AM PST by Qbert
Really, GOP??? Romney`s the guy, huh?? So much for Reagan`s admonishment about bold colors. Instead, bland pastels and gray... and oh, yeah.. defeat.. are apparently “in.”
You aren’t the only one. I thought I could support whoever the GOP nominee is, but, not sure I will vote if it’s Romney. I don’t like the guy or his policies. I know I’ve been an advocate of not allowing Obama to get re-elected, but, this just makes me sick that this country is so danged stupid after what happened with McCain.
Actually your very wrong about Rush. He beats the sh*t out of Romney everyday. He did say he had a good speech but so what? Thats endorsing him? Like most sane people, Rush sees the writing on the wall. Romney is going to be the nominee unless there is some act of God. All the other candidates have too much baggage, unelectable, and or no organization. I wanted Perry to win, thats not going to happen.
I will easily vote for Romney over Obama. Id rather get 70% of what i want, then none at all. People with this all or nothing mentality will do nothing more then elect a very dangerous socialist to another 4 years.
Gosh, that’s about the finest analysis of this election I’ve read yet. And I agree completely.
Thanks for the support. It bothers me to see a conservative being lead around by the ring in his nose as much as seing a liberal being lead around by the ring in his. There are two parties. The dem sheeple. And the repub sheeple. And the sheeple have two SENIOR leaders. Nancy and Boner.
And the repub JUNIOR leaders are Palin, Cantor, Bachman, Haley, Limbaugh, Hanity, Bolton, Greta ... all in the same GOP that Boner and McConnell are in.
Until the working man on each side of the line wakes up and realizes the man working across from him is not his enemy, our situation will never change. But that class warfare being stirred up by the democrats and IGNORED, therefore promoted by the republicans, keeps the working man fighting agains each other and keeps them re-electing the same old people who are out to feather their own nests at our expense.
It’s time the workers unite......AND GO HOME! Let the dear leaders come to the people and beg them to go back to work so they can collect taxes to pay for their lifestyle. Might just have a little bargaining power.
Rant now over.
I simply do not accept what someone tells me to be fact. The poll I trust will be a poll of a few people in my coffee shop that I can hear answer the question. However, that does not tell me they won’t change their mind. Nor does it tell me their votes will definitely be counted as the voters wanted them counted.
Bottom line....you’re relying on a lot of faith that any of this crap is real and we’re not all being played like a fine violin at a Georgetown dinner party with Nancy and John sitting next to each other sharing a glass of champagne purchased by the taxpayer.
DROPPING LIKE A STONE, AND AS OF YESTERDAY IS ONLY 2% OVER NEWTON LEROY (Insider Advantage 1/11-726 Likely Voters)
FUMR
What happens if I do not meet the mandate?
If you dont have health insurance by Dec. 31, 2007, you will lose your personal income tax exemption for 2007. That exemption gives you a Massachusetts tax savings of approximately $219.
In 2008, the cost of the penalty goes up. The fine will equal half of the cost of the lowest-priced Health Connector-certified plan for each month that you dont have coverage
Waivers will be available for those who cannot afford a plan that meets the rules. Check back for updates.
How is the mandate enforced?
The Massachusetts Department of Revenue will enforce the individual mandate through the tax process
Poll | Date | Sample | Romney | Gingrich | Santorum | Paul | Perry | Huntsman | Spread |
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RCP Average | 1/4 - 1/11 | -- | 29.3 | 20.0 | 19.0 | 11.3 | 5.0 | 3.5 | Romney +9.3 |
Insider Advantage | 1/11 - 1/11 | 726 LV | 23 | 21 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 7 | Romney +2 |
PPP (D) | 1/5 - 1/7 | 1112 LV | 30 | 23 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 4 | Romney +7 |
Rasmussen Reports | 1/5 - 1/5 | 750 LV | 27 | 18 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 2 | Romney +3 |
CNN/Time | 1/4 - 1/5 | 485 LV | 37 | 18 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 1 | Romney +18 |
See All South Carolina Republican Presidential Primary Polling Data
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Poll | Date | Sample | Romney | Gingrich | Santorum | Paul | Perry | Huntsman | Spread |
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RCP Average | 1/4 - 1/11 | -- | 29.3 | 20.0 | 19.0 | 11.3 | 5.0 | 3.5 | Romney +9.3 |
Insider Advantage | 1/11 - 1/11 | 726 LV | 23 | 21 | 14 | 13 | 5 | 7 | Romney +2 |
PPP (D) | 1/5 - 1/7 | 1112 LV | 30 | 23 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 4 | Romney +7 |
Rasmussen Reports | 1/5 - 1/5 | 750 LV | 27 | 18 | 24 | 11 | 5 | 2 | Romney +3 |
CNN/Time | 1/4 - 1/5 | 485 LV | 37 | 18 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 1 | Romney +18 |
Insider Advantage | 12/18 - 12/18 | 736 LV | 19 | 31 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | Gingrich +12 |
Clemson | 12/6 - 12/19 | 600 LV | 21 | 38 | 2 | 10 | 5 | 3 | Gingrich +17 |
NBC News/Marist | 12/4 - 12/6 | 635 LV | 23 | 42 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 3 | Gingrich +19 |
CNN/Time | 11/29 - 12/6 | 510 LV | 20 | 43 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 1 | Gingrich +23 |
Winthrop | 11/27 - 12/4 | LV | 22 | 38 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 1 | Gingrich +16 |
Insider Advantage | 11/28 - 11/28 | 519 LV | 15 | 38 | 2 | 7 | 4 | -- | Gingrich +23 |
The Polling Company (R) | 11/18 - 11/21 | 505 LV | 16 | 31 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 3 | Gingrich +15 |
Insider Advantage | 11/8 - 11/8 | 457 LV | 16 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -- | Gingrich +3 |
Clemson | 10/27 - 11/7 | 600 LV | 22 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 1 | Romney +12 |
Rasmussen Reports | 11/1 - 11/1 | 770 LV | 23 | 15 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 1 | Romney +8 |
CNN/Time | 10/20 - 10/25 | 400 RV | 25 | 8 | 1 | 12 | 11 | 1 | Romney +13 |
Insider Advantage | 10/16 - 10/16 | 476 LV | 16 | 8 | -- | 7 | 12 | 1 | Romney +4 |
NBC News/Marist | 10/11 - 10/13 | 639 LV | 28 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 1 | Romney +18 |
Winthrop | 9/11 - 9/18 | LV | 27 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 31 | 2 | Perry +4 |
PPP (D) | 8/25 - 8/28 | 750 RV | 13 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 36 | 2 | Perry +23 |
Magellan Strategies (R) | 8/22 - 8/23 | 637 LV | 20 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 31 | 2 | Perry +11 |
PPP (D) | 6/2 - 6/5 | 1000 RV | 27 | 12 | -- | 7 | -- | 2 | Romney +15 |
Winthrop | 4/17 - 4/23 | LV | 17 | 8 | 2 | 2 | -- | 0 | Romney +9 |
PPP (D) | 1/28 - 1/30 | 559 RV | 20 | 13 | -- | 7 | -- | -- | Romney +7 |
PPP (D) | 5/22 - 5/23 | 638 LV | 24 | 25 | -- | 7 | -- | -- | Gingrich +1 |
[He did say he had a good speech but so what?]
As an icon of Conservatism, why did Rush have to gush so much about a moderate?
He, of all people, knows Romney carries a ton ammunition for obama to use and yet he is almost manic about Gingrich and Perry out to destroy capitalism.
Neither one is out to do that and he knows it. In the past, he blasted McCain on a daily basis and for good reason...he was a moderate.
Now we have two PROVEN Conservatives running for office and he is screaming that they are going to destroy capitalism.
He has a huge audience and has great influence on how they think but if he doesn’t point out the dangers of selecting a moderate as our nominee he is forcing Conservatives to settle, just like we had to do with McCain.
On one of the news shows last night I saw one poll with Gingrich in 2nd and one poll with Santorum in 2nd in SC.
Well this poll oversampled Black Jewish Lesbians over the weekend so of course this poll is a lie.
Yep...voted by mail last week...
Labels like conservative or liberal don’t tell us much at all but anyone who advocates a return to the real constitution would be scorned at the average Republican gathering, even in supposedly “ultra-conservative” South Carolina.
“.we thought we had one but she slept through it”
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I suspect that at the end Sarah Palin realized what a lot of American conservative men don’t realize and that is that NO woman is going to be president anytime soon. The reason is that women are the majority of voters and women DO NOT want to see a woman in the white house. If women wanted a woman president we would be disgusted now with president Clinton rather than resident Obama. I have been very amused at all the speculation about Hillary replacing Obama and winning the white house. I figure she would have about as much chance in the general election as Joy Behar would have.
Women are the majority of voters, women decide who is president, either by voting or staying home, either way they are the majority and they decide. Women do not support women for president. They support men who look the part (at least to a woman’s eyes) and promise to solve all their problems.
I am well aware of the enormous numbers of people who don’t agree with me. That is what scares the daylights out of me. All those people who don’t agree with me have been steadily wrecking the country for decades. They elected Johnson, Carter, Clinton and Obama. They imagined that Obama and his democrats would fix the problems created by George Bush. That seems rather like expecting a pack of rabid pit bulls to save you from a Chihuahua.
I agree with your post about women voters and think there is substance behind it.
Despite what some on this site think, there is no special conspiracy to elect Mitt Romney. The bottom line is that Mitt is likely the most electable against Obama and most all the reputable polls show that.
Now, one of the reasons he is, goes to women voters. With the disintegration of the family unit, we now have many, many more single parent households run by women than there were 40 years ago.
Many of those women rely on benefits of the ever growing welfare state, or if they don’t, they like the idea of that safety net being there if they need it.
That group is not going to vote for a heavy duty conservative in a general election. They just aren’t.
All the polling shows that GOP candidates are going to win white men overwhelmingly. The election is going to be fought in the middle, and women voters will be a huge part of it.
When we talked about Reagan Democrats back in the 80’s, that basically included a lot of the world war two generation and their spouses. The Reagan democrats are now essentially deceased. And there aren’t many female equivalents to them in the current day.
Freepers can jump up and down about how they want a really super conservative candidate. That person is going to have a hard time winning a general election based on the current makeup of the country. This isn’t 1984 anymore unfortunately. I wish it were.
Yes, that's the key. I wish they'd do it sooner, but FLA is the last chance. And, it has to be the candidates that do it - and support the remaining not-Romney. It's the only way.
RuPaul looks to be the spoiler, but I don't see anything that can be done there - he, and his supporters, could care less.
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