Posted on 01/29/2012 12:10:34 PM PST by Christie at the beach
Why would the GOP want to self destruct? The party knows most of the base cannot accept Romney due to his liberal stances, Romneycare and people don't trust him fully due to his positions going back and forth on important issues? The anybody but Obama plan will not work. Americans are sick of the same old network. Elites vs. the people. I spoke to hundreds of voters who are not going to back him in the general. Romney should never be on the top tier representing the Republican party. He needs to run against Obama as a democrat. Then we have both Bushes visiting with Obama a few days before the Florida primary. Now, I feel confident to say, they want Obama to win 4 more years. I cannot believe the forces will not unite to stop liberal Romney who is as close to Obama as one could get. Someone needs to audit the Treasury. Do you think Mr. Goldman Sachs will do that? If Rick thinks Mitt is such a bad candidate, why won't he unite forces to stop this being forced on us. We are doomed to fail if we cannot unite behind one person. The liberals seem to win at every turn. Thank you to the people in the media, you will give yourselves 4 more years of Obama. If Newt is forced out, I hope he fights on and fights the establishment. I will be right there. No Romney. No way.
The Democrats and the GOP elites have basically the same agenda - bigger government and cushy jobs and prestige with security. Win a few, lose a few, makes no difference as long as the apple cart isn’t upset.
Follow the money and the answers you seek may be plane as day.
My best guess is that the GOP doesn’t want to win.
They believe that the years 2012 to 2016 may be horrific years and they don’t want to be holding the empty government bag.
This could very well be the first election where the it’s a game of the Democrats and Republicans fighting to avoid getting elected. :)
It’s the SPENDING stupid. Neither party wants to cut their gravy train.
The GOP and the democrat party are the good cop-bad cop of state run collectivism.
They are PETRIFIED of political outsiders like Palin.
When I argued my my cousin who is 20 years my junior, he had this to say about how concerned he is about who gets nominated and who wins and losses: they are all the same guy, so why do you care.
When he told me that, I thought he was crazy. Now I see he is very wise.
No Romney. No way.
Go Newt Go! Rebellion is at hand! 2013 will be a Happy Newt Year for FReepers and for our country when President Gingrich and his Tea Party Patriots eject the current Marxist regime.
Because maybe then, pMSNBC might not hate us any more??? < /sarc??>
The GOP loved the McCain catastrophe so much they want to do it all over again.
The GOP establishment people want to stay in Washington getting rich and they know they can make lots of money in Obama’s second term. They don’t care about the country, they want to be in the wealthy upper class so they want Obama to win second term. If a principled conservative were elected president it would interfere with their crony capitalism insider connections and they would lose their
position in the ruling class.
Agreed. Romney will get clobbered by Obama.
Old guard Republicans are big government crony capitalists. They don’t want to end the gravy train.
Why haven’t McConnell and Boehner challenged Obama more? Crony capitalists.
I think the GOP leaders think they can block any legislative coups Obama has in mind if he's re-elected. What they're overlooking is his plan to govern dictatorially through bureaucratic "czars," liberal judge appointments and executive orders. We desperately need Newt!
Of course Romney will lose to Obama, that is the whole point. You think these GOP elitist jerks voted for McCain in 2008, they probably voted for Obama, nothing would surprise me anymore. GOP Elitists are Democrats just better dressed. What sickens me is that so many Republicans are believing the lies that Romney is a “Moderate” please, what is a moderate..they are liberal. Romney is NOT a liberal, he is a progressive, he stated so himself, yet the Republican party is still voting for him. Not only that but hearing people like Nikki Haley and Pam Bondi going on and on about how Romneycare is SO great, how can they say that, how can they say with a straight face that Romneycare is any different then Obamacare..for God’s sake its the same thing!!!
My thought is that the Republican elite think Romney could win because he will come off as being more palatable for the Independents, that there would be a harsher contrast between Obama and Newt, and the Independents will still be unable to think for themselves given a stark choice and media bias.
After four years of McCain's idiots at the top of party offices across the nation, we've seen TEA party candidates cut off at the knees time and time again. The only way to chop off Romney's lackeys from doing the same thing is for Romney to lose big in the general.
If it's even moderately close, we'll have more ‘big tent’ (AKA BIG GOVERNMENT) liberals pushing us to be even more liberal within the party.
Am I afraid of another four years of Obama? Not anywhere near as much as I'm afraid of eight years of Romney.
The GOP establishment thinks that Romney has natural appeal to the independent voters who decide elections. They mistakenly believe that independent and swing voters are affluent social “moderates” who live in lavish colonial houses in safe, leafy suburbs of major mega-cities and drive Volvos and SUV’s with all the amenities. I think that’s because so many establihsment types have little personal contact with ordinary people. They live inside the beltway most of the time and in vacation homes during their down time. As a result, they socialize with the titans of international finance when they’re not working and it shapes their view of the American electorate. Their view is not an accurate one.
The GOP is now PROUD 'pink mafia' and they could care less if Romney can win, they do NOT want their way of life changed. We the people are trailer park trash to them.
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