Posted on 01/31/2008 10:37:41 AM PST by Delacon
Read minds much, CW? WOW, I can't believe how out of sorts you are just because we don't all fall in lock-step and adore your hero (or employer?) Mitt.
Even if I was to say “Hey, I believe him now” or “He has been ok on a few issues, what the hell” it will not change the biggest factor of all, he won’t win in the General. Florida has proved that.
McCain may lose his mind or maybe just lose period elevating Romney to the nomination, it does not matter. We have expended energy on a man that will cause as much as 8-10% of the voters from at least two parts of the base at home. If you look at the numbers from 2000 and 2004 which will still be about the same for 2008, even losing 2-3% of the base through people not voting will kill us.
Mitt’s issue is not beating Hillary or Obama, but winning what should be “slam dunk” votes from the core of Republican support. In essence Mitt beats himself.
So his Conservatism or lack there of is totally irrelevant now.
I wish it were not so.
“Come on. Real world now. We are talking about those who have a chance at actually getting the nomination. It’s too late to play the single-issue perfection game already.”
Correct, and in that real world NE liberal puke Romney will lose in all the red states!
Huckabilly will likely wind up with more delegates than Mutt next Tues!
““Is everyone here crazy? Can you not see that the next president may appoint 2 Supreme Court justices...this will change the make-up of the Court for years to come.”
Some are so blinded by their hatred of Mormons that they can’t see anything. It’s no accident that many of the people who immediately hopped on this thread to call Romney names are the same people who show up on anti-Mormon threads making vicious comments.
Mark Levin is right.
Romney is a decent man who has lived an exemplary life. He is no sleaze. I didn’t support him at first because of some of his past positions, but I do now. He has come around. Yet, some here persist in trying to demonize him.”
Well said!
Not unless you are calling him a liar. Although I would call him "flexibly opportunistic," I haven't seen indication of that.
Have you seen him say he would build a wall, or otherwise take immediate action to control the border. I haven't. If I had, I guess you could claim I was calling him a liar, but I haven't seen it.
I just don't see him taking definitive action any more than Bush has.
I argue that we're already in trouble if the spokesman for conservative principles is a transparent phony. Our mistrust has more basis in reality and record than Romney's two-year old devotion to conservatism.
Have you looked at Romney’s record on nominees for the MA court?
Mitt’s got my vote here in Manhattan. Will see if I can work my charm Sunday at a Super Bowl bash. ;)
“I would like to see more FReepers stick to their principles, rather than their strategy.”
Are you a mind reader or what? How do you know that people who support Mitt Romney aren’t sticking to their principles? The arrogance of someone like you is tiresome.
no, it is they suffer from one of the deadly sins, ENVY. McCain and Huck are vile, jealous petty men. There are both examples of scum rising to the top. God willing, enough citizens will wake up and vote Mitt over the nutty McCain. I trust Mitt over McCain any day. McCain will NEVER get my vote.
I think FDT looked tired and uninspired. I don’t know if that was a byproduct of jumping in late. To me that didn’t make the difference. It looked like he got lost in the shuffle
Now if Mitt wants him to be his running mate, GREAT!
I think FDT looked tired and uninspired. I don’t know if that was a byproduct of jumping in late. To me that didn’t make the difference. It looked like he got lost in the shuffle
Now if Mitt wants him to be his running mate, GREAT!
I think FDT looked tired and uninspired. I don’t know if that was a byproduct of jumping in late. To me that didn’t make the difference. It looked like he got lost in the shuffle
Now if Mitt wants him to be his running mate, GREAT!
Thanks. COntinuing your thoughts,
And doesn’t it seem pretty silly to vote in a way that puts a democrat in office, and loses us the supreme court for another 30 years, thus 30 more years of killing babies, all because the candidate who can win on our side who will appoint GOOD judges USED to be on the wrong side of the issue?
“But we can’t vote for Romney, he has the blood of 47 million dead babies on his hands”. I don’t buy that argument, but if you do, if you really believe that not acting to stop abortion puts the blood of the innocents on you, how could you possibly vote in a way that is guaranteed to put pro-roe judges on the bench, when Romney has promised to put pro-life judges on the bench, and has the legal team backing him up to PROVE IT.
In order for a person to say they don’t trust Romney, they must also not trust the people Romney has advising him on the courts. And that is one trust-worthy bunch, as a lot of them used to be on Fred Thompson’s team.
They knew that Romney could be trusted on the issue, and that is why they joined him.
I expect the “destroy the country to teach a lesson” crowd will now suggest that all these great people were bought off, because no reputation is too great for these narrow-minded people to trash in defense of their indefensible position.
Does anybody have any thoughts about Romney running as an Independent if McSnake snakes his way into the nomination?
After all, Romney has enough money to hang in there. By August, a lot can happen and he may develop a large following. The only issue is splitting the Republican vote, but it might be an even 3-way race with moderate DemoCraps being drawn away from Hitlery to McCain so HillBillery wouldn’t get a majority.
Thoughts anyone?
I dare say, that if one’s principles were aligned with Myth Romney’s, they wouldn’t find much happiness on Freerepublic.
“Huckabilly will likely wind up with more delegates than Mutt next Tues!”
Wanna make a friendly wager?
That’s pretty bad. I don’t like them, but I won’t be praying with you for them to die. That’s really bad.
I don’t know if they are selfish, cowardly, ‘just happen to be busy’ for 200 years, or anti-military. Certainly patriotic and Noble sacrifice isn’t a family trait.
Sure, I’ll bet ya a Million bucks that its likely, just as I said.
You lose, pay up!
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