Posted on 02/17/2012 3:02:34 PM PST by M. Thatcher
A prominent Republican senator just told me that if Romney can’t win in Michigan, the Republican Party needs to go back to the drawing board and convince somebody new to get into the race. “If Romney cannot win Michigan, we need a new candidate,” said the senator, who has not endorsed anyone and requested anonymity. The senator believes Romney will ultimately win in Michigan but says he will publicly call for the party to find a new candidate if he does not. “We’d get killed,” the senator said if Romney manages to win the nomination after he failed to win the state in which he grew up. “He’d be too damaged,” he said. “If he can’t even win in Michigan, where his family is from, where he grew up.” What about Rick Santorum? “He’d lose 35 states,” the senator said, predicting the same fate for Newt Gingrich. It would have to be somebody else, the senator said. Who? “Jeb Bush,” the former Florida governor.
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This anonymous senator (GOP-e) has it all wrong. Newt will be nominated, win the election and with the help of ‘the people’ bring this great nation back to prosperity.
My very first impression, as well.
He should be advised that, were he the candidate, he would lose 50 states. I couldn't even promise him Texas.
I think they say this stuff to scare people into voting for Romney..
If that senator needs that to figure this out, he needs to be primaried.
NEWT NEWT NEWT
I’d really like to find out who this anonymous GOP Senator was because (s)he is a:
Coward - thinks Romney is the only candidate worth nominating, yet hasn’t the stones to publicly state it;
Fascist - wants to replace a DEMOCRATICALLY elected candidate with one of his/her own choosing.
This GOP Senator needs to be outed so they can be primaried the hell out of Washington.
Even if Jeb Bush were okay ideologically (and I don’t know whether or not he is), he’d lose too many swing voters who are simply dead set against any Bush, merits aside.
Some ideas:
DeMint
Perry
Daniels
Jindal
With a top-notch, conservative VP pick like Allen West or Marco Rubio. Maybe even Rand Paul.
JMO, YMMV.
We already have several choices so just keep the other steaming turds in your pocket.
My guess is he’s from Indiana, older than dirt and about to get primaried.
Gingrich or Santorum could make the other his VP candidate and nominate Paul as Secretary of the new cabinet-level Department of Liberty, the sole job of which will be to identify agencies and other cabinet-level departments for pruning or elimination, as well as planning how not to allow the dumping of that many bureaucrats on the public streets with honest people to lead to something really bad.
He is just upset that Santorum might win. A brokered convention would only mean you will get another RINO other than Mitt.
tell that dumbass that if Romney loses, that means another Republican will have WON!
And of all the candidates they come up with they come up with Jeb Bush LOL..stupid stupid RINO lovers
What it tells me is that the GOP sees Romney as their candidate against us.
They’re more worried about beating us than they are about beating Obama.
That’s pretty damn pathetic.
My guess is that McLame is the unnamed senator rino.
That picture reminds me of how much Christie can look like Stuart Pankin, who stole 1980’s “The Hollywood Knights” as Dudley Laywicker.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad Christie, and not Corzine, is governor of NJ. Just, that similarity.
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With no offence to Jeb Bush, he would lose 49 states. If we here don’t want yet another Bush, can anyone imagine he would be more popular out there with independants and non committed votors? The best thing Jeb can do is stay out of the race.
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