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A 40-state sweep for Mitt Romney harkens only to Reagan’s victories in 1980 and 1984, but it will do.

I base my prediction on several factors:

1. Mitt Romney did well in all the Republican primaries in blue states. This shows he has organized Republicans in those states, even though they are small in number. Judging by my experience in West Virginia, they tend to be just as conservative as the Republicans elsewhere — it is tougher to be a minority than a majority — but they are pragmatic.

2. Mitt Romney should put New England in play. Boston dominates that section of the country and the people in that area know him. He’s the Mormon Kennedy to them. He does not smoke or drink. Ah, there’s a religion that the Kennedy clan should consider.

3. Barack Obama is running scared. 4 years ago, he was a blank slate. Today his blackboard is filled with a lot of action and little results. The $787 billion stimulus did nothing. The $700 billion TARP went into bankers pockets. The GM bailout affected only 1 in 5 Americans who actually buy a GM or Chrysler. The Arab Spring backfired. He gave up on Iraq and we are being tossed out of Afghanistan.

4. Obamacare. Never has a presidential domestic policy been so despised. The Vietnam War was more popular in 1968 — and LBJ decided against another term.

What a joke of an article.

Point by Point:

1. These blue states he talks about, went for Obama big time against John McCain, and while Obama has been miserable from a Republican perspective and an absolute piece of crap from a conservative perspective, his behavior only strengthens his appeal to his core constituencies in these "Blue" States. Romney, because he looks so much like Obama with respect to their actual records, doesn't stand a chance in these "Blue" States. It is actually the reverse of what the GOP-E toady is stating. This is so bad it would seem that Karl Rove wrote this piece of make-believe.
2. ditto for #2.
3. This will help Romney somewhat, but Romney's own record of supporting TARP and the bailouts and his agressive use of fees/taxes to try and balance the MA budget as Governor coupled with his RomneyCare will be used by Obama and the Media to completely neutralize this advantage.
4. This one is just plain laughable. RomneyCare, which Romney refuses to state the obvious about, that it was Socialized Medicine at it's worse and a glaring mistake, will be hung around Mitt Romney's neck like an anchor.

I hope the original intent of the OP was not to drum up support for Romney with this drivel as it's does nothing to support the contention that Romney can even squeak out a win, much less a landslide like this head-in-the-sand author of the article wants to believe.

This is so bad it would seem that Karl Rove wrote this piece of make-believe.

I agree with you, it's a joke. And Rove probably did have something to do with it -- then threw it on this guy's desk while he was out to lunch, and ran out of the building.

I think not even the RiNO's believe this pap. I think what is in play here, is to see whether a constant stream of Romney articles can fetch the conservatives when the RiNO's whistle, and engage them in the Yacht Club's behalf behind their mega luser candidate.

This is more about trying to housebreak conservatives than anything else. The election may be a 40-state sweep, but it'll be for the Democrats -- Slick '96 all over again, and for the same reason.

<OT> Remember, speaking of Slick's re-up campaign in 1996, that the Yacht Club was quietly grooming Dubya in the background. Bob Dole actually winning would have been .... inconvenient.

Something like that may be happening here -- I would suspect that they are trying above all else to make sure the conservatives can't spoil a planned Jeb Bush launch for 2016 (by which time the depression will probably have played out so they can take the credit), if that is what they are doing.

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