Posted on 06/25/2011 12:06:55 AM PDT by ak267
1) She theoretically appeals to a bigger slice of the GOP (conservatives) than Romney does (moderates-centrists)
2) Her strength is in the red states while Romney's is in the blue states
3) She is a superstar; he is not
4) She draws bigger crowds than he does on the campaign trail
5) She is a far more eloquent speaker than he is
6) She does retail politicking better than Romney
7) She is younger and has far more energy than 64 year old Romney
8) She apparently is much more Internet and social networking savvy than Mitt is.
9) Palin will not be hesitant to go for Romney's throat. Romney may be too much of a gentleman in public to do so. Palin is a street fighter; Romney is a running back that is afraid of getting hit.
10) Palin's message is one of restoration; Romney's is one of fixing. The former stirs emotions and the latter is founded on logic. And in my experience in sales emotion always defeats logic.
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I can only think of two strategies for her:
1. Say what she believes.
or
2. Let Mitt speak up and say what HE believes.
I don't know where Romney's appeal is. I have said this before but, to repeat myself: Romney was in Denver, Colorado within a day or two of Ron Paul in 2008.
A polite handful came out to see Romney.
Ron Paul filled a ballroom in am icy blizzard to overflowing, and people were willing to stand out in the snow & ice to be near him. I am not a Paulite (Pauly? Paulette?), but mention it for the contrast.
Of late, Colorado has been a purple state. McCain threw Colorado away with both hands in 2008, as did the GOP in 2010. Hard to say what happens next.
100% of LDS will vote for Mitt. That gives him a large advantage in the mountain west states.
He believes what you want him to believe. Unless you'd rather he not. Then he won't. Unless something better comes along. In which case, he'll believe that. Unless you'd prefer that he wear a miniskirt and tap dance, because he's all good with that, too.
Mitt Romney is like a chameleon with fabulous hair.
It’d help if she actually runs first....
Of late, Colorado has been a purple state. McCain threw Colorado away with both hands in 2008, as did the GOP in 2010. Hard to say what happens next.
You’re exactly right. Tancredo shot himself in the foot and Buck should have kicked Hickenlooper’s (sp) butt.
Utah has a primary date of Feb 7th, 2012, which looks to be in violation of the GOP rules. I'm sure it's planned to give Romney or a boost. We'll have to see what happens before now and then, but I do wonder how much momentum it will give him, considering hat fact that he'd win in Utah even if he never showed up once to campaign.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51044.html
According to this (footnote goes to the RNC) Wikipedia article, Nevada is slated for a February caucus. I wouldn't be surprised if (as you said) Romney won Nevada.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)_presidential_primaries,_2012#Primary_and_caucus_dates
I don't expect him to win Colorado if anyone decent is running, though, because as I said up-thread, he didn't impress anyone here in 2008. Romney won here in 2008 because McCain ran a spectacularly lousy campaign and gave the finger to Colorado wherever and whenever he could. Toward the end of the campaign leading up to November, pictures in the media of McCain's campaign headquarters statewide showed that they were closing early, opening late, and half the time the people there didn't know if they were afoot or on horseback. Any warm body could have beaten McCain in 2008 here.
Besides, in the end, what can Romney do to change the outcome? He had 147 delegates (10%), and was blown out of the water by an underfunded, meandering, and late-entering Huckabee with 197 delegates (14%).
In total agreement with most of the points, but I think these two need to be qualified:
5) She is a far more eloquent speaker than he is:
-Depends on how you define eloquent. Palin says what needs to be said and is direct about it, even to the point of being blunt. Romney talks like a politician, but he can be olive-oil smooth at it. Conservatives prefer the former, but we shouldn’t discount the latter’s appeal to some. He’s certainly more gifted at oratory than the last three GOP nominess (Dole, President Bush, and McCain).
9) Palin will not be hesitant to go for Romney’s throat. Romney may be too much of a gentleman in public to do so. Palin is a street fighter; Romney is a running back that is afraid of getting hit.
-True, Romney probably won’t want to get down and dirty himself, but his proxies (which will probably include a lot of the MSM - at least during the GOP primaries) will do the dirty work for him. If Sarah Palin becomes the one candidate between Romney and the nomination, I guarantee the mud will start flying.
just MHO, of course.
I know Democrats here in Colorado who, on average, are more conservative that Republicans in some of the Eastern Democratic strongholds. There is no reason for the Republican Party to be as unsuccessful as they have been.
The GOP has had to work darned hard to screw up as badly as it has here. I wish they’d work half as hard at keeping an eye on potential candidates, and encouraging strong people at the local level.
The party itself needs a good cleaning from the top on down.
Rinos never win.
Ok, that got me laughing out loud.........
When did Palin announce she’s running? Did I miss it?
No, you did not miss it.
She has not announced.
I'm with you, but I'm willing to let Sarah pick her spot for her announcement of whether she will or won't run.
I don’t disagree with anything said here. I think #9 hits it home for me. Mitt calculates, ponders... then acts. There is nothing wrong with that, and in a CEO he probably is very very effective. Sarah needs to be more like that. Maybe she is.
But here is the point. I know there is much venom shown on this forum against Mitt. We need Mitt. Maybe the place for him is a working VP, this country needs some hardboiled systematic leadership in the business sense.
I don’t think Mitt is the President... he is the go to guy..He is the half back....and I think he can take a hit.
The republicans have a fine cross section of doers. I don’t want them to destroy each other. They need to lift each other.
I don’t know if Sarah is going to run. Bringing Perry into the mix pretty much satisfies the conservative thinking. She can’t say that there is NOONE carrying the message.
She might be the bigger star in the background as REagan was with Goldwater.
Perry is a strong seasoned governor of a successful state. Texas is what California was.
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