Did you intentionally lie like that? Or are you simply unable to access current polling data?
He wasn't lying. You need to check Real CLEAT Politics. Santorum still has the most popular footwear.
Posted on 03/30/2012 6:09:03 AM PDT by Josh Painter
I refuse to identify myself as a Republican. I think I am an independent as I have nothing but disgust for the way the ‘establishment’ has chosen our losers over the years.
But my only goal for this election is to defeat Obama....this we must do even if the GOP gives us Howdy Doody.
But $4-5/gallon gas, 8%+ unemployment (perhaps really more than 10%), trillion plus deficits, overly aggressive regulation, and overplaying the race card may seal Obama's fate even if Romney is less than stellar. Unlike Dole and McCain, or for that matter, Kerry and Dukakis, he does not have a day job to fall back on. Romney seems far more goal driven than any of the past losers, and has very strong financial backing. Independents and upper middle income whites are slipping away from Obama, as are non-black youth and Hispanics. The relative strength of Paul's campaign this year (usually 3rd or 4th, but roughly doubling his popular vote from 2008 levels) is evidence of Generation Y and younger Generation X voters' disenchantment with the President. Obama's support of Trayvon Martin vs. the part-Hispanic, and Latin American appearing, George Zimmerman, will not play well with that voter bloc. It may be as big a strategic mistake as was the 2000 deporation of Elian Gonzales,
The key for Romney is to nominate a strong and articulate movement conservative (and young, no Dick Cheney or Joe Biden) for the VP slot, keep Ron Paul and his crowd from actively supporting the Libertarians, and play hardball in states like NC, FL, OH, MO, and PA, to lessen the impact of Democrat ballot box dirty tricks.
If it were up to me I would have 10 primary dates set in stone with 5 geographically diverse states voting in each on a rotating system. I would also require that delegate allocation rules be firmly in place 6 months before the primary elections so we don’t have after the vote rule changes like Michigan.
Nobody is excited about Romney. Even Romney knows this. His support comes almost entirely from people who believe that if nothing else, he stands the best chance of defeating Obama.
Like I’m going to vote for Ubama?
Bumping your excellent post, Wallace.
Just wait till he shakes off his “far right” views after winning the nomination.
You all seem so very proud of yourselves to be contributing to a second Obama term. I hope you are just as proud come January 20, 2013.
Thank you for posting this. I have never read so much hate written for a republican candidate as that written about Romney. I voted for Ron Paul, here in Louisiana. I knew he would not win, but I did not want to vote for Santorum. Newt had no chance here either. He even got booed visiting Tulane, his old Alma Mater. In the coming election I will vote for the Republican nominee, if it is Romney, he will get my vote. I believe that Andrew Britbart had it right at CPAC, when he said the same thing. Anybody but Obama. Romney has one thing that Obama does not have...Romney has a heart. Yes, I have done my own research on Romney, since we are not getting anything good about Roomney here.
Thank you for posting this. I have never read so much hate written for a republican candidate as that written about Romney. I voted for Ron Paul, here in Louisiana. I knew he would not win, but I did not want to vote for Santorum. Newt had no chance here either. He even got booed visiting Tulane, his old Alma Mater. In the coming election I will vote for the Republican nominee, if it is Romney, he will get my vote. I believe that Andrew Britbart had it right at CPAC, when he said the same thing. Anybody but Obama. Romney has one thing that Obama does not have...Romney has a heart. Yes, I have done my own research on Romney, since we are not getting anything good about Roomney here.
Thank you for posting this. I have never read so much hate written for a republican candidate as that written about Romney. I voted for Ron Paul, here in Louisiana. I knew he would not win, but I did not want to vote for Santorum. Newt had no chance here either. He even got booed visiting Tulane, his old Alma Mater. In the coming election I will vote for the Republican nominee, if it is Romney, he will get my vote. I believe that Andrew Britbart had it right at CPAC, when he said the same thing. Anybody but Obama. Romney has one thing that Obama does not have...Romney has a heart. Yes, I have done my own research on Romney, since we are not getting anything good about Roomney here.
I apologize for the tree posts, I hit it twice because the message would not transmit. Sorry
1) Romney makes gaffes "y'all, grits, etc".
2) Romney not so popular
3) Romney flip-flops
Then because of these he maintains he will lose to Obama. Wait...Obama never gaffes, is popular and never flip-flops?
What a ridiculous column. I don't like Romney, but this writing is trash.
I am not as upset with Romney’s flip flops as I am with the issues that Romney refuses to flip on, namely Romneycare.
The only significant difference between Romneycare and Obamacare is the state mandate vs the federal mandate, yet Romney has refused to admit that any type of socialized medicine would be a disaster for the country.
The federal mandate is unconstitutional, but it isn’t the only problem that conservatives have with government run health care.
Romney is doing so well he lost 8 Republican states to Santorum. Romney has only won 7 or 8 democrat leaning states that will go for Obama. And he won 4 purple states. He has only 2 republican states. Romney is doing “well” because rino cronies live in liberal states in both parties. Those are not the conservative tea party base. The good-guys are far out numbered in those states.
And medichlorians..
Wonder if it’s possible to put together a list of publically known delegates we can contact to tell them ABR before ABO.
Not entirely true. He's got the Mormons and the Peggy Noonan/Dana PeRINO-ish RINOs. Although we're never quite sure if the latter will end up voting for Obama.
Romney is way more of an overachiever than Dole or McCain were. He is not going through the motions.
Neither was Bill Clinton. But most of us were hoping for a better choice than Barack Obama and Bill Clinton this election.
What's better, a newly rebranded liberal-led Republican party with a mandate and a majority in Congress who will do whatever their leader Mitt wants? Or an unpopular left-wing President who will be gridlocked by a Republican Congress from doing anything? Not to mention, the opposing party usually wins seats 2 years after a President is elected, which means Mitt might have a Democrat Congress to play footsie with in 2014. And he certainly loved rubber-stamping everything the Dems wanted in Taxachusetts.
Did you intentionally lie like that? Or are you simply unable to access current polling data?
He wasn't lying. You need to check Real CLEAT Politics. Santorum still has the most popular footwear.
Stop making sense! You'll give the Romneybots a headache!
Romney isn’t supposed to win the presidency, he’s only supposed to win the Republican nomination. The liberals get to decide the nominees for both parties. The Republican nomination process needs to be scrapped. The Democrats have figured out how to game it. All this baloney about which state has the first primary is baloney. Hold them all the same day. The Democrats are way more serious about politics than the Republicans. They are more serious because they are in politics to loot the public treasury.
And Romney will undoubtedly carry California and New York. This is why we get moderates. We let blue states pick our nominees. Perhaps the Republican party could address this by giving added weight to delegates from those states that went Republican in the previous election? If not, we will forever be doomed to candidates palatable to California and New York voters, while continuing to lose those states in the general election.
Yes. See my post above this one.
Yes, you will be blamed by the Party pukes and the liberals of the party. Remember, loyalty is a one way street with this bunch. You and other conservatives will be excoriated, preached at, talked down to even more, yet you will not be asked to leave the party because they can’t win without you.
Them losing the election without your support because they pushed through a liberal as the nominee will not even register as a brain fart in their closed minds.
Tree posts for tree-fiddy.
Iowa and New Hampshire seem to eternally set our nomination process up as a contest between a Christian right favorite and a RINO golden boy, with the crony capitalist Wall Street donors breaking the tie for whichever candidate is most likely to promise them a steady flow of tax breaks and bailout cash. Common sense conservatism doesn't stand a chance.
It was a typo, you jackass, and I corrected it below. So stuff it.
Go look at Real CLEAR Politics and you will see that what I said was true.
You really didn’t think Newt would poll well, did you? LOLOL
Romney would win easy unless the far right joins team Obama. There is much to debate about Romney but much more so regarding Obama and his stewardship of the SS USA. If some how the we on the right side of the spectrum (no matter how close to the center right or far right) allow Obama another term in which I must live another 4 precious years of my life I will join the ranks of those whom leave the party for a (I) or (L) next to my name. I know there is a purest swagger here at FR and I carry that same swagger in my life but I also live in a realistic world where our representatives will have too lead us ALL. And fact is we are ALL not the same in this country across that entire spectrum. If we hold Congress, gain the Senate and have even a moderate at the helm we ALL win.....
Except white voters are a lower percentage than they were in Nixon's time, right? Maybe this could make the Hispanics more skeptical of Obama though if the media stops calling Zimmerman "white." Problem is these issues are forgotten so fast and unlike the contraception deal, the Republicans can't exactly bring up Zimmerman in a campaign ad.
If Obama puts the entire Strategic Petroleum Reserve on the open market in October, does he have to count that as an in-kind campaign contribution from the U.S. Treasury?
Except it's NOT true! I don't know if you're clicking on some alternate universe internet but the real clear politics I visited just a minute ago currently has Obama beating Romney by an average of 5 points and Obama beating Santorum by an average of 8.1 points.
But, that's what happens in our 1.5 party system.
And that's what we've come to expect from a party that is far more interested in the other party's opinion and good will than that of their own base.
More and more, it looks like the Tea party infusion isn't going to ease the GOPe's death grip on the ailing party.
If that's how it goes, it will take a third party to give us an actual two party system once again.
Bottom line? I can't/won't vote for mitt romney.
I've used up whatever it was that let me vote that way after voting for Bush, Dole, Bush, Bush and, *shudder* John McCain. It's all gone.
I don't think the GOPe wants to win this one anyway. They see the progressive/obama made disaster that's coming and they want all the pain, misery and blame to fall on obama, Reid, Pelousy and the rest of the demonrats.
Then, assuming their is a country that survives the second term of obama, the republican calvary rides in to save us.
Which is fundamentally irrational, is it not? If they're not excited about Romney and no one they know is excited about Romney, who do they think is going to be excited about him in November? Their mythical, stereotypical, fantasy image of what an "independent" voter is? Since when did the average voter become an expert at reading the minds in the future of people they've never met?
Tragic, even dangerous, that we’re coming down to that. The anti-Romney crowd, stuck with him as the best viable choice, is relegated to either voting “ABO” or failing to act against the greater evil.
Voting the lesser of two evils sucks because you still get evil. Accelerating toward economic ruin is a bad time for a “go along to get along”, “don’t disrupt things too much” candidate, preferable only because the alternative is keeping the maniac who is accelerating toward the cliff with an evil laugh (knowing he has the only parachute).
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yup
I didn’t say they were polling ahead of Obama. I said that that was the order they were in up against Obama this morning. That may have changed. I was looking at the March 29th polls.
And really, I think any of them could beat Obama in a fair race. Obama stinks, and the crap he has been pulling this week is not a plus for Obama.
From the article:
“While it will be a bitter pill to swallow, those on the Right would be wise to realize two things. The “Anyone But Obama” approach is a losing strategy, since negative premises always produce inferior candidates.”
Romney is about as “inferior” as we can find. I won’t vote for him. Not now, not in November, not EVER!
it’s the guy’s name. hence the column name. chris freind
Yes. I agree. The Republican party is letting the most liberal states like New Hampshire pick our candidates.
I encourage all to write to their congressman, state and national GOP chairs and tell them that you will not vote for Mitt Romney under any circumstances. . . .
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I will vote for any Republican against ANY Democrat, Period.
I’m surely not sure Romney can beat Obama. I’m not sure that anybody could bead Obama but, I really don’t think Newt Gingrich could beat Obama. I once thought Santorum could but he has now exposed himself as a foot eater.
There is little hope that there will be a Republican President, but, hope or not I will vote for any Republican over Any Democrat.
I won’t encourage the GOP to screw conservatives again.
Chris Freind
Freindly is a takeoff on his name.
The proper word is “advice.”
OK, Romney is not a Marxist. But he's far too much of a statist to be counted a true free enterprise person. His only quibble is about whether the feds, the state, or cities and towns should rule. Even in his much-touted Olympics (still don't know what that was all about) and Bain experience, not to mention his experience as MA governor, he's a huge fan of gov't bailout, gov't subsidies, gov't in general, especially where it can be lobbied to further his own interests (as in the "carried interest" that let's him pay the 15% capital gains rate on income that isn't).
Of course you will.
There seem to be a lot of people on this site who are perfectly content with letting the Republican elites force another liberal down our throats since he's not Baraq.
Not by name, anyway.
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