James Carville (DNC): "It's a feel-good story, this Romney thing. Romney is an ascendant guy."
Posted on 07/25/2009 12:52:30 PM PDT by DB9
See # 13.
Actually, the question is whether to stick with the GOP or, as many are theorizing, strike out with a new Populist Conservative movement, as that’s what many think Palin is up to. . .
Romneycare in MA will sink his candidacy. If Romneycare were just mediocre or “sort of sucky” then he’d have a chance. But it’s such a disaster that the only way Romney could get away with it is if he was a black Marxist with radical associates.
No they won't. Weak candidates make for weak turn out, weak turn out means losses all the way down the ticket.
Apathy is bad but Romney actually repulses a lot of the conservative base and he would do more than only cause weak turn out, he would cause a small degree of actual rebellion and refusal to vote for his ticket.
Romney represents a line in the sand for many conservatives, he is a bridge too far because his prevailing in being awarded the nomination would prove that conservatives have no influence or control over the GOP.
Personally I believe that conservatives are winning this showdown against the Rockefeller/Romney part of the GOP and it's media representatives like Peggy Noonan that have been dragged out into the light this past year.
Sarah Palin threw a brick through the smoky colored dome that covered our little world of ineffectual conservatism and with the light that shined through that opening we could see all of the slimy little creatures that instead of being with us, have been fighting us and holding us back for all these years.
The battle lines are drawn, we know who each other are now.
If, however, they're more concerned with jamming a thumb into the collective eye of the conservative voting base yet again than they are with defeating The One -- and that's the smart way to bet, quite frankly -- then they'll do everything possible to cram yet another dreary, uninspiring "moderate" squish (Romney, Pawlenty, Crist, etc.) down our throats.
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Well I guess that is helpful for them, he is an expert...
LOL...
That is a very well done and effective cartoon.
“99.9% will vote against Obama.
“No they won’t.”
Then they aren’t conservatives.
Romney is a liberal pretending to be a conservative. Obama is a communist pretending to be a liberal.
And lately he has made strong hints that he has flipped on amnesty.
Well said!
You are one of the worst Romneybots, do you think that we don’t remember you?
No one is after Romney in order to promote a particular candidate, that is what the Romneybots do, go after everyone in a scorched earth manner.
Conservatives are merely trying to eliminate one filthy worm that doesn’t belong in presidential politics and we are trying to protect the rest of the GOP field from the amoral monster. If conservatives do not eliminate Romney and his nest of vipers then he will take down the GOP again and he will destroy any conservative that gets in the way of his anti-conservative instincts.
Palin is no Reagan either. The only creditials she was going to have next to her name are now gone.
If your memory and perceptions were a little sharper, you would remember and distinguish between “promoting” and “defending against excessive criticism.”
When I responded to your post I was responding to your claiming that conservatives will simply show up and vote Romney because they have to, that flies in the face of reality and history, you keep pushing this simple minded statement and I don’t buy it because I know it isn’t true, each election’s voter turnout is not just a reflection of the previous one, the candidate matters.
Weak candidates make for weak turn out, weak turn out means losses all the way down the ticket.
Apathy is bad but Romney actually repulses a lot of the conservative base and he would do more than only cause weak turn out, he would cause a small degree of actual rebellion and refusal to vote for his ticket.
Romney represents a line in the sand for many conservatives, he is a bridge too far because his prevailing in being awarded the nomination would prove that conservatives have no influence or control over the GOP.
Personally I believe that conservatives are winning this showdown against the Rockefeller/Romney part of the GOP and it’s media representatives like Peggy Noonan that have been dragged out into the light this past year.
Sarah Palin threw a brick through the smoky colored dome that covered our little world of ineffectual conservatism and with the light that shined through that opening we could see all of the slimy little creatures that instead of being with us, have been fighting us and holding us back for all these years.
The battle lines are drawn, we know who each other are now.
James Carville (DNC): "It's a feel-good story, this Romney thing. Romney is an ascendant guy."
You were always there pushing your man Mitt and you are doing it before our very eyes on this very thread.
Gosh, give us a chance to get our breaths.
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