Posted on 08/06/2012 12:10:45 PM PDT by xzins
Just posting doubt. Not necessarily at you.
What’s the deal with Rob Portman? I wouldn’t recognize him if he knocked on my door with a big “Vote for Mitt” button on. Has he EVER been on TV?
I’m thinking, of the “mentioned ones,” only Ryan or Rubio will work to help the base, possibly Jindal...maybe Ayotte, though I don’t know enough. She looked good on TV.
Portman was my congressman in the 2d Ohio, and he’s now my senator. He was a solid conservative vote as a representative with about an 88.5% conservative record. Now as a senator he’s down to about 75% which is still far better than Romney’s conservative credentials.
But that isn’t the issue with Portman.
First, he isn’t dynamic, he isn’t a hatchet man, he brings no constituency, and as Cincy radio announcer said to Frank Luntz and Sean Hannity, he won’t carry Ohio for Romney.
He’s liked, but he’s no hero or anything.
His strength is keeping to the grindstone.
Who would be better? Well, first I’d dump Mitt, but I know that’s a pipedream.
I think there is only one way to get conservative even to give him a 2d look, and that would be to pick someone with the visibility and conservative credentials of a Sarah Palin.
I don’t know who that would be. Sarah, of course, but I’m pretty confident SHE would say no. Ollie North has always been a favorite of mine, and so has Duncan Hunter.
They will NEVER happen.
Reality is that I am a conservative who happens to be registered Republican.
The GOP does not own my vote and I will support conservatives first. When the GOP-e GETS THAT THROUGH THEIR THICK SKULLS, and nominates a conservative, they can have my vote.
Defining moment by Romney
...And the very next-best thing to admitting that his campaign and his Administration are going to be stiff with Loggies and GOProud types and closet cases, and that he will ban theism from the GOP, in favor of that dry, cool, sophisticated, detached view of the world that John Paul II specifically identified as satanic.
We need another F. Clifton White -- he beat these people in 1964. His successor won't make the mistake of having mercy on the RiNO's.
You'd think they'd have learned in 1992, when p.o.'d conservatives voted in droves for Ross Perot, giving Clinton the election.
Did they learn then? Hell no. Who'd they put up next?
Bob Dole.
And they weren't done with that campaign model, not by a long shot.
This will be the second election cycle in a row, when they've offered us Dole clones. No, they absolutely refuse to compromise with us -- unless we win first, like in 1980. Draw the appropriate conclusion.
I got one too,it went in the round file
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