Posted on 03/13/2012 10:17:32 PM PDT by Steelfish
The situation is a bit different. Ronald Reagan was truly anti establishment . He believed deeply in individualism, and free markets (although he wasn’t always able to affect the change he believed in). Rick is not. He is an establishment nanny stater that believes government should shape markets, and provide incentives to individuals in order to influence behavior. He also believes in “social justice” which is the forcible redistribution of wealth.
But for the situation I pointed out, they are the same.
The differences in the men make the situations different. I would agree the situations have common points of comparison.
I am not talking a month ago (which is a lifetime ago in political campaigns) but now and the recent past. Do you honestly think Romeny is worried about Newt? He hasn’t been concerned about him actually winning since Florida.
I know Romeny bought out Florida with his anti-Newt messages. That was when Newt was an actual threat and me being in Florida, at that time (which wasn’t so long ago, but seems ages ago) I voted for Newt. A lot has changed since then and Newt is not a serious contender now as he is remaining in this thing to play spoiler for Santorum and no other reason. This to me is saying he wants Romeny to win or else he’d do the right thing and bow out semi graciously as he should have bowed out weeks ago giving Santorum a fighting chance of actually going one on one with Romeny and he’d be better off now if say Newt got out of the race 3 weeks ago.
Got me on that one. :)
This makes no sense at all. Romeny IS spending on ads against Santorum. Also why would ROmeny’s team blunder by taking their focus off of him and allowing his to win big on Super Tuesday, and then win Kansas on Saturday and then also picking up a twofer last night with Alabama and Mississippi? The answer is he wouldn’t. Santorum is winning in spite of Romeny’s money and attack ads. Santorum is getting support from conservatives.
“I pray an Angel still rides in this whirlwind.”
Me as well. My gut knows that Rick is the closest thing to what I want my president to represent. He’s a throwback to the age I grew up in. . . the 50’s. And that was a wonderful time to grow up, looking back now. Something about it felt clean and wholesome. Faith was important to most then. Families were too. Good and bad was clear. (And angels weren’t a source of ridicule). His values are my values. I just can’t shake the fear that in the general, he’ll lose. God only knows what another O term will do to our country as we knew it. The problem is that too many eligible voters do not know what this great country was, is, and can be. They have no baseline. Praying as well. . .
That's just baloney....and BTW this thing is going to go to Convention and was marked for that from the get go. And if Santorum wants a one on one with Romney...there's nobody stopping him from requesting that of Romney. Sheesh!
I *despise* MittCare Romney. I won’t vote for the leftist sack of cr@p. PERIOD.
Looking back on my comment, it could have been phrased better. More like “even that worthless sack of cr@p MittCare Romney has a better chance against obastard.” The point being Santorum needs to get out because (1) he can’t beat obastard and (2) all he is doing is taking votes from Newt!
Fine, but I doubt that most Gingrich supporters would embrace Romney.
We probably won't have a 60-vote majority in the Senate, so it will still be a challenge to pass legislation. And, as with Reagan it may take a few years for the effects to heal the damage from the previous administration.
Then, once conservative policies have fixed the economy, what happens next? The economy no longer is the number one thing on voters minds. Didn't matter with Reagan, because his entire positive outlook was one voters loved. But with Santorum's poor communication and defense of social conservatism, independents, who tend to be fiscally conservative, but socially liberal, might well swing back to Democrats.
He's throwing everything but conservative policies to try to affect the numbers, but I agree, even the fraudulent manipulation of economic numbers isn't going to work.
I AM afraid he’ll get us into another war or two (Syria, Iran) to scare people from “changing horses in midstream”
I could only see him doing that at the very last minute, maybe in the last few days before the election, when there's no time left for war effects to influence voting much. Right now, he's TERRIFIED of war with Iran. His voting base that supported him over Hillary is virulently anti-war. And the price of gas would skyrocket rendering him close to unelectable. Currently, he's pressuring Israel not to attack Iran harder than he's pressuring Iran to give up their nuke program.
I AM afraid of massive voter fraud.
I no longer fear that. To me, that's now just a "given" against Democrats (until we pass laws to make it harder). That's why we need elections NOT to be close ones.
I see Santorum as easily led down side paths of religious/social/moral issues, and Mittens...well, he’s just uninspiring and without passion. I envision him as praising BHO personally and being PC to a fault
I definitely share those concerns.
My biggest ray of hope, is that I believe that, at this point, Israel is finally coming to the conclusion that the US, in the hands of Obama, is not a friend. They wanted US support when they go up against Iran, but are probably realizing that going solo might also gain them the additional positive outcome of assisting the removal of Obama from power.
Who's saying they'll EMBRACE him. Embracing and voting are two very different things. Polls are consistently showing that if Gingrich drops out 40 to 50 percent of his supporters would vote for Romney over Santorum as their second choice. I remain undecided, but in either case, when I vote for one of them I won't be embracing them, I'll be holding my nose.
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