One year to go until Election Day, Republican presidential field still deeply unsettled

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

...Two schools of thought run through Republican circles. One holds that Romney is the logical nominee and will consolidate the party's somewhat grudging support after conservatives stop flirting with longshots such as Bachmann and Cain. Republicans have a history of nominating the runner-up from previous primaries, and Romney fits that bill.

The competing theory holds that Americans are angrier at government and the two parties than political pros realize, and the tea party is just the start of a potent, long-lasting movement. Under this scenario, Romney can never placate conservative voters because of his establishment ties and the more liberal positions he once held on abortion, gay rights and gun control.

If this view is right, the shifting support for Bachmann, Perry and Cain is more than a flirtation, and someone will emerge as the "non-Romney" who wins the nomination.

Veterans of past presidential campaigns tend to doubt this outcome. But even with Obama's economic woes, plenty of Republican insiders worry that Romney's inconsistency on important issues and voters' doubts about his authenticity could let the president slip away.

Romney should have put his GOP rivals "in the rear-view mirror" by now, said Mike McKenna, a Republican lobbyist...

McKenna said pundits don't realize that the tea party movement was as much a rejection of the high-spending, high-deficit practices of President George W. Bush and Republican lawmakers as it was a reaction against Obama's health care plan. With his ties to New England and the party establishment, Romney "looks like the lineal descendant of Bush," McKenna said.

He said he fears that a lot of conservatives will sit out the 2012 election if Romney is the nominee.

Plenty of strategists reject that view. They think conservatives' deep antipathy toward Obama will cause them to overcome their misgivings and fully back Romney....

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Two newly published articles on Rick Perry:

When Perry turned Republican, he left some helpful Democrats behind ..."Democrats had ruled the state Agriculture Department for a hundred years. Perry immediately ejected Hightower loyalists and Democratic operatives from the agency. He pledged to cut the department’s staff by 20 percent and scale down the number of regional offices around the state."...

Rick Perry’s long faith journey culminates in presidential run ...."For the Texas-based pastors and activists in attendance, that was hardly news. But to scores of others who were just getting to know Perry, it was reassuring information.

“As governor, people are not asking you, ‘Tell me when you came to the Lord,’” says Shackelford, who has known Perry for more than a decade. “The people you hang out with every day already know.

“But now he’s running for president,” Shackelford says, “and all of a sudden there are these Christian leaders meeting him for the first time, and they want to know: How did you come to know the Lord? What was your journey?” [end]

[LomanBill]

 

" ...we are unveiling its crowning jewel.  I am proud to announce that the state of Texas is investing $20 million from the Texas Enterprise Fund to help Countrywide Financial"

"You can consider the Countrywide expansion to be “Exhibit A” as to why we need to continue to invest state dollars in the Texas Enterprise Fund.

Angelo Mozilo, thank you"

--Governor Ricar(D)o Perry
--Tuesday, December 14, 2004
http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10202/

 

 

[Darkwolf377]

Hilarious headline, like it’s some sign of a problem that there’s no nominee ONE YEAR before the election.

[SMGFan]

Right.
if we the voters in the primaries have not voted yet, why should there be a candidate?
So once Iowa votes everyone should agree on that winner.. or after NH? SC? Nevada?
I know , because Florida is so huge ,and so early , they choose our candidate. The rest of should cancel the primaries.
If we need to wait until NJ or the convention that means BHO wins? NO!

[ronnie raygun]

Oh the inhumanity of it all

[LomanBill]

[A free market government has a vested interest in encouraging local enterprise;

--A.Perrywinkler]

 

swin·dle (swndl)

v. swin·dled, swin·dling, swin·dles

v.tr.

1. To cheat or defraud of money or property.

2. To obtain by fraudulent means: swindled money from the company.

v.intr.

To practice fraud as a means of obtaining money or property.

n.

The act or an instance of swindling.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/swindler

 

 

Mozilo's Countrywide had been the first to embrace the homeownership push back in 1995 and had therefore become

a central player in Clinton's public-private partnership.

 

And since 1998, Countrywide had also become crucial to the fortunes of Fannie Mae, and the personal wealth of Fannie employees who received special mortgage deals from the lender...
--Reckless Endangerrment; pg 182

 

"Angelo Mozilo, thank you"

--Governor Ricar(D)o Perry

--Tuesday, December 14, 2004

http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10202/

 

 

[Venturer]

I could also write a headline for the Democrats.

“Democrats decide to go with a sure loser”

The Democrats have no candidates at all, only a man who holds the record for the worst Presidency this country has ever had.

[novemberslady]

So once Iowa votes everyone should agree on that winner.. or after NH? SC? Nevada? I know , because Florida is so huge ,and so early , they choose our candidate. The rest of should cancel the primaries.

I want one primary day for everyone.

[Jim Noble]

Right. if we the voters in the primaries have not voted yet, why should there be a candidate?

Because if you permit voters into the process before you fix the field with two almost identical candidates, ideas that are not consistent with those of the ruling coalition could come into play, and what then?

Much better to go with Romney and Obama, then it won't matter who wins - the permanent government will be safe.

[Texas Fossil]

The “real battle” is coming. It may not be resolved until the Convention.

Wait, until the RINO’s see the number of “tea party leaning” deligates at the state and national Rep. Convention. Blind Globalist Bastards who pretend to support the US are no better than the Leftist scum who currently control the Presidency and the Senate.

The Traitors in both parties are going to get a swiff kick in the posterior, it is coming.

[BobL]

“One year to go until Election Day, Republican presidential field still deeply unsettled”

Not after last night. We now have two adults and five (or so) children running.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Not after last night. We now have two adults and five (or so) children running.

"FED UP!" -- by Rick Perry [forward by NEWT GINGRICH]

Rick Perry's book "almost came too late"

"I wish this book had never needed to be written.

It almost came too late.

America is recklessly accelerating toward economic disaster. Fed Up! may be the last warning sign to the danger that lies ahead.

Rick Perry, Texas governor for the past decade, is uniquely qualified to offer a firsthand perspective on why the United States—the most successful civilization in human history—is being threatened with economic collapse.

First Principles

Faith, freedom, and free enterprise are the pillars of a strong, safe, prosperous society. Rick knows that when these principles are protected, America succeeds, and when they are undermined, America fails. But the Left has a different belief. The Left believes that most people are not capable of pursuing happiness and that a strong centralized government is best able to provide for them. While claiming compassion for humanity, the Left's policies are destructive to the human beings subject to them—as we have had to learn painfully again and again.

The Left's self-serving solution to every crisis, economic or otherwise, and many of their own doing, is always the same: inflict higher taxes on Americans to create more government programs with more rules and regulations that result in less freedom, less innovation, less safety, and less prosperity.

The problem with the Left’s one solution, as Rick forcefully explains in the pages that follow, is that it doesn't work. It's never worked, and it never will work. The record shows it.

But what the record also shows is that when power and freedom are returned to the people, when people are rewarded for work, and when government holds the line on spending, individuals and opportunity thrive. We have seen that result most spectacularly recently in Texas, and in the mid-1990s with the Contract with America Congress, when I served as Speaker of the House.....

[SueRae]

I think I need to read that book ;-).

And yes, the people are angry at both sides. We can’t accept more business as usual if we are to survive. I think that the candidates are being evaluated and that voters haven’t decided yet (heck they haven’t voted yet) is a very healthy sign.

Any one of our candidates is better than 0bama but we need more than that.

[BobL]

I write a few sentences and you respond with a pasted SPAM.

But that’s fine here, I’m just letting people know your style (for the few that haven’t figured it out).

[LomanBill]

 

>>"FED UP!" -- by Rick Perry

 

Rick Perry, Tea Parrot.

 

Meanwhile - the REAL Ricar(D)o....

 

 

How Rick Perry Became A Millionaire

 

"The Fort Worth Star Telegram reports that Perry's income has soared as he has climbed the political ladder in Austin, thanks largely to a handful of lucrative real estate deals that have made him a millionaire. "

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2773449/posts

 

Mozilo's Countrywide had been the first to embrace the homeownership push back in 1995 and had therefore become

a central player in Clinton's public-private partnership.

And since 1998, Countrywide had also become crucial to the fortunes of Fannie Mae, and the personal wealth of Fannie employees who received special mortgage deals from the lender...
--Reckless Endangerment; pg 182

 

"Angelo Mozilo, thank you"

--Governor Ricar(D)o Perry

--Tuesday, December 14, 2004

http://governor.state.tx.us/news/speech/10202/

 

 

Yeah,  Nothing [Thank] to [you] see [Angelo] there [Mozilo] move along.

 

 

 

 

 

[Cincinatus' Wife]

You’re the spam king BobL.

LOL

[stars & stripes forever]

Romney reminds of Reggie in the Archie comic book series.

[ctdonath2]

Well yeah it’s unsettled, we’ve got a year to go!