Posted on 01/03/2008 11:39:37 PM PST by Maelstorm
A Hard Loss for Romney By John Ellis
It's one thing to lose as you are. What you lose is an election, but there's always another election and in the case of presidential primary politics, a new electorate that awaits you in the next state. It's another thing to lose as you aren't. Mitt Romney was never the 700 Club right-winger his campaign managers conceived. He was and is a man of business and a very capable one at that.
He's all but doomed now. Senator John McCain will beat him in New Hampshire, probably by a lot, and Romney's media coverage will evaporate and his candidacy will consequently die. On January 9, his managers will walk in and say that the campaign needs $10 million or $15 million to continue and that he, Romney, will have to write the check. Everyone who would contribute has maxed out. Everyone who might won't. Two-time losers don't get new money. It's a basic rule of politics.
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yep,looks like a lamb, speaks like a dragon, and they think we don’t see it
McCain or Huckabee will never see my support at the ballot box
That certainly wouldn’t be news to me, I’d tend to agree. Hopefully that isn’t going to happen.
I’m sure that most Fred supporters are doing as I am, and giving and doing as they can. Fred hasn’t over-spent like most of the other candidates and I’m not going to automatically trust any report that claims “Fred’s broke!”
Steady as she goes...
Unfortunately, we have in the Republican Party those egotistical, narrow minded, PURISTS who want every one to agree with them or have second class membership.
Seconded, thirded and so on! Divided we will fall. I'm not interested in seeing how much damage Obama can do whether intentional or not, so let's get it together people. We are united in our principles: small government, fiscal responsibility, strong borders, lower taxes. These are our strengths.
It should not matter what religion our candidates are, yet here we sit chiding each other on which version of Christianity is right. Listen, I'm a non-denominational Christian, but I attend a Catholic church. It may not be defined as culty, but there are certainly aspects that strike me that way!
Do you ever stop to think how illogical our religion is? A personal Savior, who performed impossible miracles, and rose from the dead? No, we take it all on faith, all of us, regardless of religion, whether it be Catholic, Protestant, Mormon, Jew, or Hindu!
I didn't intend for this post to be so long, but the crux is: we have to stick together here, or we lose a more ground to Socialism and Nanny-statism. None of us want that.
Weigh in.
Broke or not, every dollar means 3 mailers or one more yard sign. Every bit helps, no matter how much money he has. Same with volunteers.
MSM: fred who?
“He needs to attack Huckabee’s Baptist credentials because that is where he is getting his core support. He is not getting it because of his policy ideas.”
That isn’t entirely true. Here in GA, Huckabee’s vocal support for REAL tax reform (in the form of the FairTax) has really helped him make inroads against his primary competitors, who pretty much favor tweaking the current system. I don’t know how much of a factor that was in Iowa, but it has definitely very significant in Georgia.
Please don’t attack the religion of Huckabee supporters. It is their political judgment that is pathetic, not their being evangelicals.
Mitt should of just called Perot and asked him how buying the ticket works out.
Do you think there is any hope that Fred can win SC after Mitt loses New Hampshire or are we going to be stuck with Huckster and McCain?
Having seen him in operation here in MA, I have to agree with your characterization of Mitt.
We need a Comander in Chief and Mitt doesn’t qualify.
I picked Mitt and Obama to win their parties' respective nominations because they're both very telegenic. I'm pleasantly surprised that I was wrong, at least about Republican voters.
It looks like it's down to Huckabee and McCain. Not a fabulous choice. Still, I'm glad that Republicans have chose a "values" candidate as the front-runner. Too bad he's a big spender. But I prefer a big-spending pro-lifer to a pro-abortion economic conservative.
Life comes first.
Warmed over Jimmy Carter incompetence
and
a lisping effete NYC liberal mayor
have been offered by the MSM as the two annointed front runners by the MSM.
NOBODY else has been dubbed a front runner.
His campaign imploded once people found out that he was pro-homosexuality and pro-abortion. I was afraid that that wouldn't happen. Looks like the Rockefeller wing of the party is finally pushing up daisies.
That sounds about right.
Fact: Willard outspent Huck 20:1.
Fun fact: Willard actually spent eleventy jillion dollars.
I wish his appeal was limited to these folks, but it's not. Obama is no Howard Dean. He's every soccer mom's dream. He's so nice!
Be afraid of Obama. Be very afraid.
Yeah, how off-putting it was to see "a country sleaze" beat "a city sleaze . . . with Jack Lord hair."
I always find this kind of Protestant critique of Mormonism to be highly ironic. I don't equate Protestantism with Mormonism. But this line of attack is like the pot calling the kettle black.
"to be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant"
--Cardinal John Henry Newman (convert to Catholicism)
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