With gas prices $6 a gallon in some places, and actual unemployment rate of over 11%, if we can’t beat Obama then the Country is totally lost.
In a wos, no.
If you look at a map of Romney’s wins and where his votes are, it looks similar to an Obama win map.
He might be able to squeak by in a primary, but the areas he’s winning today will go to Obama in November.
The answer is most likely not.
Romney is simply not a good campaigner and his game plan appears to follow the Presidential loser strategy of Bob Dole and McCain. Don’t say anything that would be perceived as offending the “precious” independents and try to run from the middle. You know the whole be a “gentleman” and be “honorable” while the media and dems bash you as racist and twist every word you say out of context.
Romney and Newt are both capable of winning. The only real shot we have at losing this thing is Santorum.
No, he can’t.
I pray I live long enough to see the GOP nominate a worthy candidate. No more “my turn”. Our slimey prez will steam roll Rummey and the tea partiers, far right wingers of the party will be blamed, once again.
Romney is another example of the media dictating our candidate as they did in the last presidential election, and we know how well that went.
Nope. That’s why he’ll get the nomination. So he can lose gracefully.
Oh I forgot he won 3 states he has NO Chance of winning in November Maine, Massachusetts, and that conservative stronghold in Vermont.
Don’t know, but he’ll have to do it without my vote. I’m not voting for either of them.
No
Obama's team will beat him like a rented mule, from every side:
RINOmney is the embodiment of the 1% - and amazingly, he doesn't seem to know it.
RINOmney has been responsible for firing people - and in this age of high unemployment, that isn't a good credential.
RINOmney by virtue of RomneyCare gives cover for Obama on one of the biggest issues of our age, Obamacare.
RINOmney makes abortion, gay rights, government mandates, etc. non-issues.
RINOmney can easily be neutralized by the Chicago machine.
... even worse, RINOmney fails to excite the base and alienates a huge portion (+20%)of Christian voters.
Romney IS Obama.
The best answer I come up with is that what could have been a cake walk becomes highly questionable with Romney.
By the way, this is two cycles in a row where Romney, with his built in vast organization, and money, and with his aggressive posturing to people considering entering the races, has managed to keep out strong challengers.
Personally I won’t be voting for Mitt, so that is a sign that he may weaken the party down the line, I will be voting for the rest of the ballot, but not everyone who is repulsed by Romney will go to that trouble, and even fewer will be volunteering and donating, with Romney as the face of the party.
This could be a replay of FDR, where in competition with a flailing, failing, economically disastrous president, the challenger is still too weak to win.
Only if gas prices remain high then he has a chance to defeat Obama, other than that there is no chance...
No. He’s the Rats’ chosen candidate, the rich poster boy for their class warfare campaign. We need a street fighter like Newt but I’m beginning to doubt we’ll get him.
Romney is not the perfect GOP candidate, but getting Obama out of the White House trumps all this time around. And regarding can Romney defeat Obama, I think the wishy-washy Independents (you know, the folks with no core values) satisfied their “I’m not racist” mantra in ‘08. This time they’ll be voting their pocketbook. It’s too late for Obama to turn the economy around so he’s stuck with only two choices: putting lipstick on the economic pig and demonizing the eventual GOP nominee.
If, and this is a BIG if, our nominee can stay focused and on point, not getting sidetracked down one of Obama’s rabbit trails, we’ll be fine. Contrary to popular opinion around here, Romney is shrewd and has his eyes on the prize. Whether he’ll keep his “conservative” pledges he’s now making, that remains to be seen.
No chance at all.
Romney has a shot. One thing he has going for him is that he’s hard to define the way Democrats want to define him. Democrats define all Republicans as stupid or evil. Romney is not stupid and is not prone to sounding ill-informed, so “stupid” isn’t going to work. So the Democrats will go with “evil.” The problem for the Democrats is that a lot of people can come forward and talk about the time Romney helped them. There was that missing girl in New York City and that boat rescue.
Flame me or ban me, but I am supporting Romney. It’s true that he’s got many of the weaknesses one would expect of a politician, such as being a flip-flopper. Still, if we had another 9/11 on Romney’s watch, he seems like a man who would have good instincts about what to do. This is the sense I got from him after hearing him speak on a number of occasions. His executive experience would be useful in a crisis. With no perfect candidate out there, I’ll take the best of who is available.