Uh, Flip and Teddy aren't exactly mortal enemies, either.
Posted on 02/08/2008 4:02:17 AM PST by monkapotamus
On CNN John King showed how even if Romney were to win all the remaining states, he would still lose.
All McCain would have to do to get enough delegates is to win at least 30% of the vote in every state.
Not difficult at all. Romney knew it wasn’t going to happen.
Candidates must have the ability to know when their “handlers” are giving bad advice.
Romney’s farewell speech demonstrates that he was working with canned material, too oft repeated.
Had he written his own speeches and spoken from the heart, he’d still be running!
It depends on whether the remaining states are proportional states or Winner Take All (WTA) states.
My memory says I was read someplace that the bulk of the remaining states are WTA’s. I think the big prizes remaining are Texas, Ohio, Pennsylvania.
No they are not. Most if not all are divided.
According to CNN. :)
That's right. We Christians control the party. You better get used to it.
LOL!
I agree....there's a source you can take to the bank.
I see that you just signed up, good for you. Based on your post I don’t think we’ll be talking much though.
Exactly right, Mitt was dealing with Massachusetts politics.
“Romney . . . could never reconcile his past as a successful Massachusetts politician”
“. . . he was from one place, ideologically, and he acted as if he were from someplace else.”
“When Romney tried to present himself as the most conservative of conservative candidates — remember when he said, playing on Paul Wellstone’s old line, that he represented “the Republican wing of the Republican party”? — a lot of conservatives in Iowa and South Carolina and beyond didn’t quite know what to think. When they saw video of him in the fall of 2002 — not that long ago, during a debate in his run for Massachusetts governor — vowing to “preserve and protect a woman’s right to choose” five times in a relatively brief period of time, they didn’t quite know what to think. When they saw video of him almost indignantly saying that “I wasn’t a Ronald Reagan conservative” and “Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan/Bush; I am not trying to return to Reagan/Bush” — they didn’t quite know what to think. And when they read the letter he wrote saying he would “seek to establish full equality for America’s gay and lesbian citizens” even more than Ted Kennedy, they didn’t quite know what to think.”
“Romney’s run from his past left a lot of voters asking: Who is this guy? He says he believes certain things deeply now, but he believed other things deeply not that long ago. And each time, it seems, his deeply-held beliefs jibed with what was most advantageous politically.”
This really says it all. Romney was defeated by his own words.
Thats a *really* good idea! And the solid red states should be ordered by Electoral votes or just how red they were? I say thresh hold them into 10 groups by the percentage of republican votes so this year would have been:
Utah
Wyoming
Idaho
Nebraska
Oklahoma
North Dakota
Alabama
Kansas
Alaska
Texas
Indiana
South Dakota
Mississippi
Kentucky
Montana
Georgia
South Carolina
Louisiana
Tennessee
North Carolina
West Virginia
Arizona
Arkansas
Virginia
Missouri
Colorado
Florida
Ohio
Nevada
Iowa
New Mexico
Wisconsin
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Minnesota
Oregon
New Jersey
Delaware
Washington
Hawaii
Maine
Illinois
California
Connecticut
Maryland
New York
Rhode Island
Vermont
Massachusetts
I guess you could also tier them in groups then geographically match as much as possible...
e.g.
Instead of:
Utah
Wyoming
Idaho
Nebraska
Oklahoma
North Dakota
Alabama
Kansas
Alaska
Texas
Do this
Alabama
Kansas
Texas
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Alaska
Utah
Wyoming
Idaho
North Dakota
And so on
Christian COnservative dont vote for someone who ran for his last office on:
‘maintain the status quo with abortion’
‘Im not one of those NRA guys’
We dont vote for someone who trashes Regan in hopes he can out liberal Ted Kennedy... The cult of ‘They wont vote for Mitt because he is a Mormon’ completely ignores reality..
So many Republicans were too busy throwing their panties at Willard to recognize he is a liberal liar.
The cult of ‘They wont vote for Mitt because he is a Mormon’ completely ignores reality.
There is no question that Mitt Romney lost votes because he is a Mormon. That is part of reality. He lost votes because of other positions he takes but being a Mormon hurt him in the eyes of many voters.
“They don’t vote for guys who’ve run as liberals their entire political life, and then all of a sudden turn conservative just in time for a campaign in which they needed to be conservative.”
I agree.
Mitt Romney is neither Christian or Conservative and I’m not surprised he couldn’t win the nomination.
people jealous of his money
people jealous of his looks
people jealous of his accompilshments in the busniess world
his being a Mormon - some people think very small and are bigots
people NOT letting go when Hunter pulled out and then when Thompson pulled out and they never gave Mitt a chance when he HAS been moving more and more into being a good conservative. It was easier for too many to just keep playing the Judge and jury that Mitt had been an independent. To them they forget that even on here I have seen a lot of people say they used to be a Democrat, but for Mitt to have been a independent is a sin. sheesh
This is just my take on it. We lost the best of the last three candidates when Mitt stepped down. Very sad indeed.
George Washington never met a payroll.
It wasn’t.
It was installed by a change of definition of words, using the existing law, by a ruling of the Supreme Court.
Notwithstanding some poor arguments otherwise.
He certainly had differing views about individuals that are gay than some conservatives, but never supported gay marriage or civil unions. (he ended up signing off on a marriage amendmend with civil unions, because that’s all he could get out of the pro-gay-marriage legislature — and then that same legislature ended up voting it down by 75%).
Grew up was the wrong word, because as you said he grew up in Michigan.
He lived most of his ADULT life in Mass. That’s what I meant.
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