Posted on 02/08/2008 4:02:17 AM PST by monkapotamus
If we survived Clinton with a ‘Rat majority in both houses in 1992 we’ll survive the worst of what may come.
When Thompson delayed his entry and stumbled out of the blocks the handwriting was written on the wall. Thompson squandered a golden opportunity to unite the conservative vote. Look at the polls right at the time he entered the race and shortly thereafter. His first impression on the national scene was a disaster.
FYI: My first choice was Hunter and then Thompson.
Yep...and that is exactly what the MSM and dims were hoping for.
Possibly, but not for sure. Remember, it took only two years of Clinton to spawn the Republican Revolution of 1994. The Revolution resulted in welfare reform and a balanced budget.
During Clinton's time in office, he was definitely the more successful on a public political basis, but the Republicans were more effective in producing meaningful change.
This is why I cannot vote for McCain. He would continue the Republican downward spiral. If you are going to bounce back, you need to hit bottom first.
NAILED IT!!!
Mike Huckabee described Romney succinctly: He looks like the guy that just laid you off, that blank, smiling, *sorry* guy who is already thinking of his three martini lunch as he shakes your hand and gives you ten minutes to clean out your desk.
Actually a pretty good analysis. I think Romney figured that out toward the end, but too late to turn the corner.
Or, you could realise that he stayed in the state he grew up in, because they needed a good conservative governor a lot more than Utah, who was going to get one in any case.
Massachussets was a challenge, and people like Romney are drawn to challenges. Utah would have been a cakewalk.
Utah also probably would have made Romney our nominee this year.
A guy with his eye on the Presidency would trivially know that to be the case, and yet Romney chose the harder path.
Romney was never for gay marriage. Even in 1994 he told the LCR that he would not support gay marriage or gay civil unions.
Then why was signed into law while he was gov?
Romney is from MICHIGAN.
Massachussets was a challenge, and people like Romney are drawn to challenges.
You got that right! Even in a liberal state like Massachusetts it was a challenge to outdo Kennedy and the other 'Rats by implementing $50 abortions AND homosexual marriage.
A guy with his eye on the Presidency would trivially know that to be the case, and yet Romney chose the harder path.
Nope, he went where they would embrace his liberalism.
Romney wouldn’t have won in Utah.
His liberal past would have haunted him there. They wouldn’t have bought his conversion any more than we do now.
In fact he considered doing just that but saw the writing on the wall.
Christian Conservatives do vote for Conservatives — even if they are Mormon.
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.
Lots of Christian conservatives have admired the stands of MORMON Orrin Hatch in the Senate, and I’m one of them. (He’s been off track a few times, too, but even that hasn’t derailed him.)
On the other hand, I have no regard for MORMON Harry Reid of Nevada, a true-blue liberal.
Good point. A liberal can never win in a conservative state.
The only guy who was addressing the issues of SS and Medicare was Fred.
Romney had no plan out there that did anything.
Carolyn
LMAO!
As governor Romney proposed a compromise on civil unions.
He of course withdrew it rather quickly.
There are nearly 1400 delegates left to be selected.
Romney had about 250. He only needed 950 or so of that 1400. It wasn’t really over in terms of math....unless it was over because McCain had that much support.
If McCain didn’t have the support, then Romney should not have gotten out.
He ordered county clerks to issue gay marriage licenses, yet the legislature had never made such a law.
He did what the court had ordered the legislature to fix. The legislature refused.
So Romney stepped in and saved the day for gay marriage!
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