Romney bets he can win Iowa without support from social conservatives

The Hill, Washington, DC ^ | 2011-11-23 | Niall Stanage

[rabscuttle385]

After months of uncertainty, Mitt Romney has decided to roll the dice and go for a win in the Iowa caucus.

But the former governor is betting that he can triumph in the state without any significant support from social conservatives — normally a vital voting bloc — and is making no real effort to win them over.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I don’t see Mitt taking Iowa at this point. He better try to hang in there on NH because I think he can also kiss SC buh bye.

[Joe Boucher]

NO RINO’s.
No Mitt, No Newt, No more go along get along b.s.
Smaller govt backers or go fish.
And as for your little amnesty thing there Newt, F.U.

[jmaroneps37]

I'll take that bet. The Harris Poll say he gets a BIG 12% of self identified conservatives - Cain BTW gets 19%. Cain gets 23% of TEA partiers and Newt and Willard get 14% each.

If Willard can win with those numbers he's a genius.

[Dr. Sivana]

In 1980, the Republican field was chopped up among a lot of different conservatives, including [Ronald] Reagan.

No. I hate when people make such statements thinking that the people who were there don't remember.

Reagan and Rep. Phil Crane were conservatives.

George H.W. Bush, Bob Dole, Howard Baker and John Connolly were moderate &/or "business" conservatives.

John B. Anderson was liberal.

Iowa was less engaged on the social issues in 1980. Bringing up 1980 makes NO sense for Iowa.

[Saundra Duffy]

According to Perry’s pastor the “true Christians” are supposed to vote for Rick Perry. They had their “secret meeting” to figure out how to bring down Romney since Romney is not a Christian according to them and is headed straight to hell along with all the Jews and Catholics. Oh and by the way, all those horrible evil Mormons - The Mormon Tabernacle Choir (that President Reagan called “America’s Choir”) and Glenn Beck and 14 million of those nuts - are members of one huge world-wide CULT hell bent on ruling the world on behalf of none other than satan himself.

Pharisees on Parade. Happy Thanksgiving!