Eat this Romney.
NO TEA PARTY support.
NO vote from me, ever!
Any win within 5 points either way keeps the battle moving forward. Santorum’s money should start drying up pretty soon regardless of what happens.
An over 5 point win will add some momentum to whoever gets it.
It will take a 10 point win to be fatal to either at this point.
What’s next? Obama is going to criticize Republicans for class warfare rhetoric?
Romney team has a helluva lot of nerve attacking Newt as making the campaign negative. Is there any lie these people won’t tell?
ATTENTION, FLORIDA SUPORTERS OF RICK, FACE UP !! RICK AIN’T GONNA WIN. BRING YOUR VOTES TO NEWT~! MAKE NEWT A FLORIDA WINNER ~! VOTE NEWT
Awwwwww! Poor Mitty!
FL is a winner take all state, so what’s this whining about Romney. One point or 12, you’d still win.
I sure pray you don’t however.
Just a few minutes ago, during his Tampa speech on C SPAN, Newt announced that a new Florida poll was released showing a tie !
35% Newt 35% Romney
Romney’s internal polling must show Newt closing on them hard and fast for them to be dialing down expectations on the day before polls close in Florida.
From an exmo website..
http://exmormon.org/phorum/read.php?2,403801
http://nymag.com/news/frank-rich/mitt-romney-2012-2/
The article starts this way, and it reminds me of so many Mormon men I’ve known:
>I asked a captain of American finance what he had made of Mitt Romney when they were young colleagues at Bain & Company. “Mitt was a nice guy, a smart businessman, and an excellent team player,” he responded without missing a beat. Then came the CEO’s one footnote, delivered with bemusement, not pique: “Still, whenever the rest of us would go out at the end of the day, we’d always find ourselves having the same conversation: None of us had any idea who this guy was.”<
Then there was this nugget, reminding me of my own father:
>...Romney reminded him of the “dad who’s never home.”<
A few other tidbits:
>And yet Romney is in some ways more exotic and more removed from “real America” than Obama ever was, his gleaming white camouflage notwithstanding. Romney is white, all right, but he’s a white shadow.<
>“A wall. A shell. A mask,” they write at the outset, listing the terms used by many who “have known or worked with Romney” and view him as “a man who sometimes seems to be looking not into your eyes but past them.”<
>During his one term as governor of Massachusetts, Romney was inaccessible to legislators, with ropes and elevator settings often restricting access to his suite of offices. He was notorious, one lawmaker explained, for having “no idea what our names were—none.”<
>Mitt’s “main cause appeared to be himself.”<
>But Romney is even less forthcoming about his religion than he is about his tax returns.<
>In the current campaign, Romney makes frequent reference to faith, God, and his fierce loyalty to “the same church.” But whether in debates, or in the acres of official material on his campaign website, or in a flyer pitched at religious voters in South Carolina, he never names what that faith or church is. In Romneyland, Mormonism is the religion that dare not speak its name. Which leaves him unable to talk about the very subject he seems to care about most, a lifelong source of spiritual, familial, and intellectual sustenance. We’re used to politicians who camouflage their real views about issues, or who practice fraud in their backroom financial and political deal-making, but this is something else. Romney’s very public persona feels like a hoax because it has been so elaborately contrived to keep his core identity under wraps.<
>The answers to questions about Romney’s career as a lay church official may tell us more about who he is than his record at Bain, his sparse tenure as governor, or his tax returns.<
>The questions are not theological. Nor are they about polygamy, the scandalous credo that earlier Romneys practiced even after the church banned it in 1890. Rather, the questions are about the Mormon church’s political actions during Mitt Romney’s lifetime—and about what role Romney, as both a leader and major donor, might have played or is still playing in those actions. To ask these questions is not to be a religious bigot but to vet a candidate for the nation’s highest job. Given how often Romney himself cites his faith as a defining force in his life, voters have a right to know what role he played when his faith intersected with the secular lives of his fellow citizens.<
>...we know that Romney’s faith has contributed to his self-segregation from the actual “real streets of America.” His closest circle comes from within his faith, and while there’s nothing wrong with that, the fact remains that today the American Mormon population is still only 1 percent black. (Those recent television promo spots marketing LDS as a fount of diversity are a smoke screen.)<
>When he’s forced to interact with the America beyond his hermetically sealed Mormon orbit, we get instant YouTube classics like his attempt to get down and rap with black voters on Martin Luther King Day four years ago by quoting “Who Let the Dogs Out?”<
In other words, just lie back and enjoy it.
-PJ
We have Flip Romney on the run. Keep pressing the advantage!
Burn the house down.
With Romney, they have gone too far, stopping him is a very important goal for conservatives.
With Romney as head of the party, and fear in the hearts of elected Republicans who saw him and the Rove/Rockefeller machine defeat the insurgency, then we will suffer a massive set back, and will lose almost all of our office holding allies.
As much as they and the media tried to downplay Newt's win in SC, they must still be hearing that little voice saying, "South Carolina picks presidents."
LLS
Yeah right! Almost laughable. They've seen the internals and know ROMNEY is in trouble.
"Romney's message is clearly resonating in Florida, but the race has been very fluid and Gingrich's negativity is bringing the discourse down," said the advisor
A commentator said, “Carter lost the only thing he had going for him....that he was a nice guy”
At best I hope its a Pyrrhic victory in FL.