Posted on 05/03/2012 8:26:32 PM PDT by svxdave
Mitt Romney and the Republican Party’s sizable bloc of evangelical voters are about to engage in a marriage of political convenience.
The presumptive GOP presidential nominee’s march to the nomination proceeded largely without strong backing from the conservative Christian community.
Instead, it helped propel Rick Santorum to victories in 11 states. It’s long regarded Romney as too moderate and too willing to change his views for political expedience. And his Mormon religion is off-putting to many.
But with Romney now the only hope that conservatives have to beat President Barack Obama in November, a partnership has begun to jell.
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None of this matters. Against a good candidate Romney would probably lose by 10-15 points. Being against 0bama, he’ll probably lose by only 5 or so.
Or maybe not. You have to love the prognosticators. They have all but called the election.
I argued with a neighbor tonight about whether the primary was over. I ended it by asking if he had voted in it? (we haven't voted in the primary yet)
The media is brainwashing with a scrub-brush, and the brainless twits are buying it.
/johnny
I tried to tell everybody this was coming once Romney had the nomination sewed up. But did anybody listen?
Barack and Mitt are both special. Barack is black which wouldn’t mean squat except he’s got the hood attitude to match. Mitt is Mormon. Stalemate on the identity issues.
Obama is more and more bent on committing political harakiri every day. At this rate he might as well just hand the keys to the GOP, whether it’s Mitt or by some amazing miracle someone else.
It’s time to start coralling the herd, for sure- but it ain’t over yet... The Constitutional Conservatives, the Christian Right, the Tea Party can yet exert tremendous influence and steer the Rudderless Romney Vessel, or wreck it on a reef somewhere.
A move to the middle by him at this juncture could well prove disastrous.
Time to extract promises at the point of a sabre.
I'm not so sure. Looking at the electoral map, Obo kicks butt. We have a sick country, with a sick leader, and many many sick voters. God protect us.
Mitt is showing about the most righty face he has for eons, one which he calls “severely conservative” but most of us would recognize as “somewhat left of George W. Bush.” Apparently his inner flip flopper knows what positioning is good for him in the campaign.
If Obama really does swallow the cyanide (figurative) too far before November, that could be a temptation to Mitt to move center, as the contrast will mean less.
Who populated the silly map and from what?
Obama needs to be well ahead of the presumptive challenger by this point to have a hope of a squeaker in November if it’s a 2 man race. Few know Mitt yet. Yes, a powerful third party could Perot the applecart back in Obama’s direction.
It’s way too early to “break for the center”- we need several pounds of flesh on the things that count the most.
forget national polls, they are meaningless.
Look at the state polls and you will see how bad a position Romney is in.
Romney doesn’t have a prayer in Virginia or North Carlolina, and even Texas might be in play...
On the up side Romney should win the handfull of Mormon heavy states handily... (not that it will matter)
*sigh*
I can’t believe we ended up with the ONE candidate who couldn’t win Virginia and North Carolina.
But with Romney now the only hope that conservatives have to beat President Barack Obama in November, a partnership has begun to jell.
This is a nonsense article.
Why would a liberal be the conservatives hope for anything???
It may be the Republican Party’s hope but that is different then conservatives in this case.
Oh and Romney has a snowballs chance in Hell of beating Obummer..
How can the national popular vote be seemingly so competitive for Mitt (and at this stage, while people don’t know him all that well) and yet garner Mitt losses in enough states to torpedo him?
To compare apples to apples one would really need the same polling companies that do the national polls to carry out fifty state polls too.
I couldn’t care less about his Mormonism. Mormons are more successful on the whole than just about any other cultural or ethnic group in this country aside from Jews. They walk the walk, talk the talk, and get things done. Good for them.
Now can you hammer through a conservative agenda? And will he fight back against Obama?
In case anyone missed it, our US debt just hit 15.7 trillion dollars. Anytime anyone brings up the Mormon issue, that ought to be the first words out of their mouths.
The Obama deficits can go forward no further if this nation is to survive.
It isn’t a marriage, at least not one I would want to be a part of. Besides, these opinion writers need to get their info straight. Some say Mittens is already heading back to the center. ...Who knew he had left? Now this guy says Mittens is trying to tie the knot with conservatives. It’s a hell of a stretch, even for the plastic spandex man.
You only need polling in the battle ground states.
Virginia
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Florida
These are the only one’s that really matter. And Romney will lose most of them unless we slip into a double dip recession AND he picks someone like Rubio instead of another freaking RINO yankee as a running mate.
The FACT is MILLIONS of people who would of voted Republican in November in battle ground states wont because Romney is a Mormon. THAT’s why you should care.
I live in the heart of the bible belt in the South and I can tell you right now that Romney being a Mormon is going to be the deciding issue in the end.
How do five middling states overwhelm the system the founding fathers set up with an electoral collage, where each state gets a certain piece of the say just by virtue of being a state?
Because most of the other 45 at the moment are pretty set in their partisan voting patterns.
Do you really expect Vermont to go Republican or Mississippi to go Democratic?
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