Posted on 10/19/2014 12:40:55 PM PDT by Bettyprob
That would be Mitt Romney, supported for the GOP nomination by 21 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents. Thats double the support of his closest potential rival, but it also leaves 79 percent who prefer one of 13 other possible candidates tested, or none of them.
When Romney is excluded from the race, his supporters scatter, adding no clarity to the GOP free-for-all. In that scenario former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul have 12 or 13 percent support from leaned Republicans who are registered to vote. All others have support in the single digits.
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Of all the RINOs, Mitt is the absolute last guy someone as passionate about the jobs issue as you are should ever consider based solely on his corporate raider history. He has eliminated more jobs than anyone listed and on record with his ‘I like firing people” crap.
Please. Just don’t. Ever.
Of those on the list, Santorum, Cruz, and Jindal are the only ones that I could commit to pulling the lever for right now. I would also vote for Pence and Palin, but they’re not on the list. There are a few (such as Perry and Carson) that I am not ruling out yet. There are some (such as Romney and Christie) that would automatically make me vote third party again.
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Huh?
So you'd vote for a Progressive Liberal, because he could win and had an R next to his name?
The guy should have included his total won-lost record wagering real money as well as adding, "because Romney is so dignified and refuses to lower himself to fighting democrats", just back stabs and undermines conservatives ever chance he gets.
One of the few Americans whose family has never served in our forces. The family motto being, "Run away to Mexico or Kobold, whichever is closest at the moment.
I’m just saying.
Romney strikes me as the one candidate most likely to be enough supported by his own personal funds, that if he decides to support American jobs, he could actually do it.
I don’t however, expect that. I am not currently supporting Romney and do not expect to in the future.
Just saying. If any candidate can be independent on this issue, it is Mitt.
He still has time.
As things stand now, ABSOLUTELY NOT.
Romney, Bush, Huckabee, Paul, Christie... The top five? SERIOUSLY?
Where’s Sarah Palin?
(Facepalm)
No. you don’t seem to understand. He is the polar opposite of everything you’re about.
No you know what? Go for it. Keep the dream alive so that Mitt’s crew sees support for him, keeps floating trial balloons and then torpedos more conservatives in the primaries.
Really. We ran against ObamaCare with the one guy who practically invented it.
Same goes for any Republican.
Fight to bring back US jobs.
Cruz. Anyone.
The Backstabbing carpetbagger, and author of ObamaCARE,
is at the top; and Gov. Palin is .... missing.
Mr. Jealous RomneyCARE.
Well sure! Any POS rino is fine. Just as good as Cruz. as long as one wins, that really all that matters.
Embarrassing.
Yep, it was embarrassing...for you. Your post at #1 left the impression. Would have been a good start to the thread if you had explained.
So ...
The homosexual marxists at ABC are trying to shove R0mney down our throats.
Again.
The answer is “NO!”
I’m not advocating for Rinos, but I am saying Romney’s personal fortune is lightyears ahead of any other candidate’s.
His personal fortune is something like 250 million or so. Way up there.
If Romney decides to be the one to make re-industrializing America a campaign issue, he can do that. He can do that because he has enormous personal funds, with which to campaign and (hopefully) win, with such an aggressive, pro-America agenda.
All I am saying is I do not see ANY. Repeat that ANY. Candidate in either party, saying America needs jobs.
We have 93,000,000 people unemployed in America right now.
For crying out loud.
BRING. JOBS. BACK. HERE.
Don’t wait for the democrats to make this an issue. Eventually they will, and when they do they will OWN the issue of American jobs.
I certainly don’t want to be supporting democrats, and I do not want them to run on such a powerful issue.
As things stand now, we are not supporting American jobs.
We are hiring a bunch of Chinese, working at factories in China, majority owned by Chinese, for a minority interest in the profits.
Both parties are completely sold out at the moment.
Republicans stand up. For America.
Now is the time.
Someone. Anyone. Support American jobs.
The only 2 candidates I’d consider are Cruz and Walker. If repubs are this dumb, we should just drink the kool-aid and head for west africa!
Nor for some here on FR. they will line up behind him again. The past several months have seen thread after thread with his fans laying the groundwork and pushing the ‘no matter what’ meme all over again, condemning any who wouldn’t vote for him last time and trying to convince people that conservatives that won’t vote for liberal Republicans are the source of all America’s woes.
If we had only listened we could have a Republican president granting amnesty after the midterms instead of the Democrat president so I guess there’s that...
No, we don't. Ted Cruz is a leader; the media just won't cover him until they absolutely have to. They want to avoid name recognition for any non-liberal candidates. They do make sure they put the spotlight on him if they can make it appear to be a negative, though. Just do a search on the internet and you'll get a bunch of stories and videos with the title "Ted Cruz booed off stage..."
Don’t forget, Palin opted not to run against Romney last time around.
Next time, maybe she will run.
I myself, think that is more likely, than not.
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
I’m not advocating for Romney.
I think he had his go-around last time.
All I am saying is I believe strongly, the GOP needs to lead America back to productive, greatness.
Our party is not doing that at the moment.
Someone needs to strongly advocate for America’s return to greatness.
I hope the GOP leads the return.
However we are currently completely sold out to China.
The current trends are bleak. Someone needs to be leading America back.
Who will step up to this challenge?
Who?
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