Posted on 08/12/2009 8:34:31 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads the Republican presidential field in the home of the nation’s first primary, according to a new poll.
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They are the party, it's the conservatives who are outside, looking in.
More crap about this sellout. The conservatives in this country are hardening, not softening. To think that the ultimate wuss softy Romney would be our candidate is a farce.
Well, the dysfunctional GOP primary process makes Iowa and New Hampshire a must-pass for any viable candidate. Iowa is probably not all that hard for a conservative, but New Hampshire might as well be North Massachusetts. Can Sarah Palin vault that wall?
Ridiculous. Yes, this insane country was willing (God help us) to elect an anti-American mulatto marxist who is destroying freedom and liberty, but they will NEVER allow a Mormon to become President. Besides the fact that he is NOT a Conservative, I wish the best, but he will be demonized by the left and the homos until he is unrecognizable as a human being!
_Romney or __Obama (Second Term)
or take the cyanide pill provided free to you by Obamacare.
Well, I won’t vote for him. He’s just dim-bulb-crat light.
This is one way that the RNC controls the nomination process and overrides the right of the state parties to decide on their preferred candidates.
New Hampshire has become a liberal state, with people flooding in from Taxachusetts. As we saw in the last primaries held there, it allows crossovers (just go in and say you’ve decided to become a “Republican”) and it allows out of state voters to declare that they just became New Hampshire residents for the day. Hillary brought in busloads of voters from Massachusetts, and they were all allowed to vote.
Frontload the primaries with liberal and crossover states, and the party hacks are enabled to eliminate any conservative candidates right at the start, and set the “momentum” going for their chosen RINOs.
Paste this on your monitors: Ignore 2012 polls and horse race stories. The 2008 ones allowed the SRM to give us Juan McCain.
Who votes in these polls...liberals?
In every poll I have seen so far, among registered Republicans everywhere, Mitt Romney is in the lead.
The Mormonosity issue with Mitt is kind of like the Catholicism issue with JFK.
This is stupid. The GOP, if it is ever to make a comeback, needs to quit having flamingly blue states with open contests like Iowa and New Hampshire have first dibs at picking its presidential candidates.
you forgot to add “muslim” to your spot-on posting.
You call RomneyCare "status quo?"
Heck, the McCainiac won last time, why would anyone be surprised to see Romney on top????
In the midst of an out an out revolt against Obamacare, so-called republican’s pick the author of RomneyCare as their candidate?
Not me. And you call all save your “hold your nose” posts. I’ll be voting for who ever the constitution or libertarian party puts up if that’s the choice.
Really, I mean it, go...
Far away....
Further...
Yes, keep going, the ocean isn't that deep......
If Romney can't even win in his back yard (NH) he's toast.
Maybe a westerner.
I can almost understand the people talking about third party presidents in such a scenario. Could Sarah Palin be talked into jumping to the Constitution Party if Mitt looks like he is going to get the nod? Barack is going to be soooooo unpopular by 2012 she might make it.
Please, SEND THE POPULISTS BACK TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WHERE THEY BELONG. We need Reagan and Goldwater, NOT WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYANT or PITCHFORK BEN TILMAN!
No, I do NOT like Mitt Romney, but I don't like being hijacked by "populists" who are nothing but National Socialists who believe in Jesus.
Not too many years ago, New Hampshire was an angry red blotch in a sea of blue. Then Massholes discovered it was a wonderful place to go.
Romney won’t win NH. He’ll read those polls and think he can coast to victory, just like he had a big lead in ‘08. We will trounce him in western New Hampshire.
“Make one selection please for the 2012 General Election...”
Sorry, I’ll stay out if it comes to that. If the climate at that time allows for a sellout phony like Romney to get the nomination, that will mean that the country won’t be committed to the necessary changes in Congress, which means that it won’t matter who gets elected.
Since 2007 Romney has done a good job of hoodwinking some folks into accepting him as a conservative. Nothing could be further from the truth. Romney is closer to Obama's politics than Reagan politics.
Meaghan McCain visited the college campuses in NH to campaign for her daddy. Will she do the same for Romney? Perhaps, she and one of the Romney sons will be a celebrity couple.
The current threat to all of us is the Democratic Party and its allies. I’m not going to attack RINOs while the Democrats are using totalitarian tactics. We have to band together in self-defense.
_None of the above.
_None of the above.
Darned internet hiccups...
No Barf Alert? ;-)
Not any way close.
Catholics were long established and widespread though out the US and had solid, coalition bases in countless cites and states.
Not so Mormons. Small, singular, isolated, culturally out of tune( unless you consider the Osmans ‘hip’). I’d put Mormmons in with Seven Day Adventist, Scientology’s.
I’d say they are nationally behind even a Jewish President possibility.
Further, like it or not, Mormonism was made in America by the overt rejection of then American Protestant and Catholics. It’s kind of hard to square that beginning and want to preside over people your religion rejected. Not to mention in Mitt’s case, not one Romney male ever serving to defend this country, in peace or war, ever.( I don’t think Mitt ‘gets’ that particular lack of family value. Even Gore and Kerry made ticket punching efforts at service. IE, they got it. )
Mitt’s way way done. He’s a charecture. I actually feel sorry for the poor guy. He just doesn’t get it. He reminds me, gut wise, of Dukakis.
“Populism is NOT CONSERVATISM! Populism is merely socialism for the rural proletariat.”
Yes. Bill O’Reilly comes to mind.
Well, I did include a hurl alert. LOL.
I see it now. Could I have senile dementia at age 55? Better call a death consultant, ASAP!
Nah, just ask McCain to share some of whatever he’s taking.
My Senator? The one who said” You have nothing to fear from Obama. He’s a good family man” ?? I’ll take the pill ;-)
I’m not so sanguine about O’Reilly. I think he is more of an independent than a socialist. While I do disagree with O’Reilly from time to time like giving liberals the benefit of the doubt, I do agree with O’Reilly a great part of the time. It’s just I like Hannity and Glenn Beck better.
The “moderates” and RINOs need to know that in 2012 the choice will be a real conservative or 4 more years Obama. They are always concerned about “electability”. We need to make it clear that Romney is utterly unelectable, because the base will stay home or vote 3rd party.
I hope you are right, but the current POTUS is also a leftist and a snake.
Not true. They are must pass only if you are a no name. Iowa in particular is irrelevant or else Bush 41 would have beaten reagan. I think McCain beat bush 43 in NH. And I think Buchanan beat Bush 41 in one of the two in 1992. Also Romney won Iowa last time and was not nominated.
The dysfunction in the conservative part of the republican party is that there are no decent candidates outside of Palin and even she has some questions about her.
I say the system is fine, it is the lack of a decent candidate that you are whining about.
She is not stupid and no she won't.
Waaaah, If I don't get my way I'm going home.
Whaaaaah, my candidate's a loser so I'll make you lose too. Wahhhh
I will never vote for Romney. Not ever. God help us if it’s down to Romney and the Kenyan in 2012.
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