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Posted on 10/21/2009 4:33:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Cited on a variety of Internet shops like The AtlanticWire, Newser and Lara Ebke’s Red State Eclectic yesterday was a quote from Matt Lewis, writer, blogger and commentator from Alexandria, Va. He writes in Politics Daily: “If recent elections are any guide, the Republicans' heads will tell them to choose Mitt Romney. Their hearts whisper something else. Is ‘Sarah’ the name of this siren song?”
W. McCahill at Newser says: “No matter what kind of gains Republicans make in the midterm elections next year, it’s going to be tough to unseat President Obama — and that’s why the GOP is going to choose Sarah Palin, its heart’s preferred candidate, over Mitt Romney, its head’s favorite.”
Mike Huckabee, who leads the others in a recent poll by a wide margin, registers in these commentaries as neither head nor heart.
As has been widely reported, Sarah Palin will appear on the “Oprah” show on Nov. 16, a day before the publication of her book, Going Rogue: An American Life. This is significant because Oprah is a threshold. Appearing on her show is a “rite of entry” for anyone and everything opening to the mainstream of American culture. And standing in line at the grocery store yesterday, I couldn’t help but notice that David Letterman, looking plaintive and adrift, had made the tabloids. This, a “rite of exit.” Mainstream is coming out of Palin Denial.
With little other information available, the titles of Romney’s and Palin’s books are telling. Romney’s book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness will be available on March 2, 2010. It is not the best title. There is hubris and a kind of conspicuous arrogance to it, which he asks us to wear with our chests out. Romney’s title suggests a full endorsement of the Bush II paradigm without a moment’s introspection. It looks to the past to continue the past. It would be what he is good at, but I think it is off the mark and most Americans are getting beyond it and ready for a new turning. Going Rogue, however, suggests a new direction, a new adventure, something just ahead there in the great unknown. It is a very good title and speaks in essence to the frontier spirit of those who venture beyond the Hudson River or the Beltway. Rugged individualism; going alone — Emerson and Goldwater — is suggested. It opens to the future. As was said here at the very first, Palin and family suggest a new era ahead; a new century which awakens the free spirit of the American heartland much as Andrew Jackson did in the mid-1800s.
In the most recent Rassmusen poll, when asked whom they would vote for in 2012, 29 percent of Republican voters nationwide say Huckabee, while 24 percent prefer Romney and 18 percent Palin.
The Huckabee figure may be good news for Palin. Who will Huckabee’s 29 percent vote for if Huckabee drops out? Huckabee’s following tends to be culturally conservative and regional. Two things they may not like about Romney: He was governor of Massachusetts and advanced a model of health insurance there similar to Obama’s. And he is a Mormon. Down the road this constituency could head toward Palin.
Romney is a “head” alright....a D-head...screw the rino. He shouldn’t even be mentioned in context of a true conservative like Sarah.
I know of no one who will vote for Romney voluntarily. If we’re forced into it, ala McCain, then I guess we’ll just have to suck it up and vote for him. I would really be holding my nose, those.
You are right on spot, Romney is unelectable to National Office because he is a RINO.
Our gal Sarah will be fine on her own.
Or, maybe accompanied by a dashing hero with a name like Bolton?
make that “though! (gads!)
There’s no way, no way, Mitt can run away or talk his way out of the MA Healthcare bullsh*t.
Above all else, this one issue destroys his chances.
Bye, Mitt.
Liberals are counting their chickens awfully early in the electoral cycle.
Yeah... no thanks, I don’t want Romney as president.
>I know of no one who will vote for Romney voluntarily. If we’re forced into it, ala McCain, then I guess we’ll just have to suck it up and vote for him.
Screw that! If you’re don’t want to vote for him then DON’T! Quit buying into the “eat the steaming pile of puke because it’s better than the tepid pile of defecate” argument.
I like it!!
My head’s not going to tell me Romney.
Of course, I’ve been there already with Romney ‘04. That led to the most opportunistic governorship in America—and a Republican governor proud to have implemented the Democrats’ big-government healthcare plan.
You said...Liberals are counting their chickens awfully early in the electoral cycle.
Unless there is massive and I do mean MASSIVE voter fraud.....obummmer is toast. I dont give a shit if we run Donald duck aginst him.
BO WILL BEAT HIMSELF WITH HIS BANK BUSTING POLICIES.
My head tells me to run like hell from Romney and Huckabee.
Romney = Nope.
My head voice will never whisper Romney’s name as an alternative to Palin. He does have my heart right. I do lean to her and a part of me holds to the desire to see her as our President. As for my practical side I’m not sure where I’ll be yet. Too early. But not for a Liberal like Romney for damn sure.
BTW Glenn Beck has the same religious faith and I would have no problem voting for him if he would calm down a little LOL!
But my choices are DH first then Sarah...
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I strongly feel that the best candidate to take back the Presidency from these socialists has to be someone who has charisma, communication skills, and who is so much in command of the facts that they can instantly refute any and all democrat/liberal talking points. Reagan, for all of the comments that have been made over the years about his lack of intellectual heft, was very smart and could shut down a talking point with one sentence. None of the current crop of Republicans strikes me in this way. Palin has charisma, but she has been soiled by the poor manner in which she was protected and featured during the last presidential campaign. It’s not impossible, but it will be an uphill battle.
I’m not voting for the lesser of two evils ever again.
To Hell with Mitt Romney and the GOP if that’s who they run.
That's what Romney will bring to us. No Thanks!
If, in their infinite stupidity the (R) selects romneycare as their standard bearer, then there is nothing there for me.
I’ll vote my principles, no matter where that leads.
The (R)etards had better realize quick that the slaves are fleeing the plantation.
Dennis Miller had it right when he said Sarah Palin pisses off all the right people. The thought of seeing Bathtub Boy’s show after she becomes president-elect makes me giddy.
That said, I worry about her electoral chances. If you thought the media pulled out every stop to get Obama elected before, just imagine their efforts to sabotage her if she’s at the top of the ticket. There will be too much at risk - Obama must be defeated.
This Republican would like to see someone else. I’d be very interested in hearing what General Petraeus has to offer and what his politics are. He’s a brilliant mind, a true patriot and his military bona fides would make it incredibly difficult for the media pitbulls to assail his character.
“Cultural conservatives/Evangelicals, by and large are not against Romney for his Mormonism, it’s his RINOism.”
Double down on that sentiment.....
I don’t think it is going to be all that tough to oust Obama. Or they wouldn’t be printing these articles this far in advance!
Poor Mitt. He “coudda been somebody.” “He codda been a contender.”
Seems like a decent guy, smart, family man and not a serial divorcee like Newt, McCain, Kerry - but Mitt you are a RINO.
Romney had better press in the 2000 election campaign than any other candidate. And he had most of the “conservative” gurus behind him as well, including Hugh Hewitt and National Review and Ann Coulter. He had high visibility, unlike Fred Thompson and others whom the press tried to conceal. He had leading numbers going into Labor Day.
Yet he simply could not win. Everything was going for him, but he was unable to get over about 20% support.
It will only be worse the next time around. Romneycare will be driving Massachusetts into the ground. And he will be seen as spoiled goods.
It’s the same damned mistake that was made with McCain. Pick a lousy RINO, and give him a special chance because he LOST the last time around.
As for heads and hearts, I think Sarah has more wisdom than Mitt, twenty times over. Mitt’s one claim to fame is saving the Salt Lake City Olympics—by getting a large bailout from the feds. Is that what we really want in the White House?
If you have to say it, it is probably a cover story.
One word: ROMNEYCARE
Ain’t gonna happen, Mitt.
In 2012, 0bama will announce that he wants a second term. His adoring followers will not permit anyone to challenge him. They will then cross over and vote in the Republican primaries. They will not vote for the Republican they fear. They will vote for the Republican they think they can beat, and who will do them the least damage if they can’t beat him.
I question his decency. I couldn’t have come from, and repeated the family ‘oddness’ of not one male, ever, since the Civil War, not putting on a uniform for this great nation and people. I’d of walked my five strapping sons through Arlington National Cemetery one fine afternoon and told them to do the right thing.
Obviously that kind of sentiment is foreign to the Romney family.
So, for that Romney family failure, and others, he’d have my vote only under extreme duress.
I am a hyper-conservative who will support any Republican who gets the nomination. I wonder if a Romney-Palin ticket would fly. Romney would attract the moderates, and Palin would attract the conservative base. If elected, Palin gets exposure and experience and becomes the anointed when Romney departs.
Palin has more, better, and more successful political experience and office than Mitt. Why would she stoop for Mitt? Mitt was the ticket punching, unaccomplished, RomneyCare sellout in a decaying state with a desperate Republican Party that would of rallied around Mussolini. Palin has the record of taking on a entrenched, corrupt Republican apparatus, and winning, where as Mitt couldn’t find any corruption in.....Massachusetts. At all. ( but then he didn’t find any at the Utah Olympics )
Sarah needs to stay clear of getting locked into a Romney partnership. Romney is a go along to get along flip flopper!
I did not know that no one in his family ever served.
I strongly feel that the best candidate to take back the Presidency from these socialists has to be someone who has charisma, communication skills, and who is so much in command of the facts that they can instantly refute any and all democrat/liberal talking points. Reagan, for all of the comments that have been made over the years about his lack of intellectual heft, was very smart and could shut down a talking point with one sentence.
The Republic is in peril, and you quibble about not seeing a Reagan anywhere. I say, wake up and smell the coffee. We got one Ronald Reagan. When comes such another?No senator has ever defeated a sitting president, and only one - Harding - has ever defeated a governor in a run for POTUS. And nobody has ever been elected POTUS without attaining national office within 14 years of winning either a governorship or a senate seat. Real presidential timber comes through a governor's mansion and rises quickly to the top.
So unless there's another shooting star out there in some governor's mansion that I haven't heard of any more than I'd heard of Palin before her nomination for VP, I think it's Palin, Romney, or Huckabee. And of the three, my money is on Palin, hands down. We have to hope that she has developed over the past year of exposure. My confidence says she didn't get her stratospheric approval ratings as governor, nor attract the biggest crowds on the campaign trail last year, without having a lot on the ball.
Filed under *GOP insanity*.
Odd, isn’t it?
Here we had the largest attack on America since before the Revolution, and not one of his sons felt some desire to protect, serve, what ever.
Where did they pick up what ever ‘values’ they have, or don’t as the case may be.
Heck, even Al Gore and Yon Kerry had political sense to get their ticket punched.
I agree. Mitt is DOA.
Sad. I am not sure what is up with that. I hope iut is not a Mormon thing. I doubt it.
In many ways Mitt has lived a very conformist, sheltered life. Very programmed.
For that reason, and others, I don’t feel he makes a good leader. I don’t think he does well were there isn’t a well trod path. He was very poorly equipped to take on the swirling dervish of Massachusetts politics. The mostly high school graduates that populate the legislature and offices, ate him alive, unless he was either doing something they wanted anyways, like RomneyCare, or was making a big stink about something they couldn’t care less about in which case they just let him alone, like watching a dog chase it’s tail.
He left the state party in worse shape then he bought it for.
The man who brought us Mass care and who appears to love big government has no place at the head of anything but the Democrat Party.
He can continue to be a good soldier and raise money for the GOP. Perhaps he could be named ambassador to a country or head of the US Olympic Committee or something like that. That's as far as Mittens goes though.
IMO, no GOP that ran for president in 2008 should ever run again. For example, IMO, Huckster is just as bad, if not worse than Mittens. Out with the old. The GOP should be looking at US Reps, State AG’s, Federal judges, former cabinet members, etc. for candidates for president, VP, etc.
Please, let Romney float away on a raft into the Atlantic Ocean.
It is and a function of his family’s isolation as a member of Mormon royalty. In other words, the family has been too busy with it’s Mormonism. It’s been totally Mormon centric.
Which is fine. I support that. That is what American is all about. Not the state.
But, still. Hitler? The Soviet Union. 9/11. No one, nothing, could move a Romney male to service?
So, what it shows me, and what Mitt suffers from is a cultural isolation from ...Americana. This explains his kind of off key, doesn’t get it( it being America ). Since there is a lacking of what it means to be American, he isn’t steady. He flip flops, but to him I’m sure it’s kind of grasping at events as they float by. We are all in the river, and he’s in a boat. He’s kind of with us, but in a different dimension.
I believe Mitt would make a good technocrat, but not a General. And certainly not in times that are confused, chaos. Palin has a way better record of working outside the box, of not being constrained by worn out myths and hoary institutions. Mitt is very much an institution man.
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