Posted on 02/27/2012 6:08:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I have a friend/co worker who is a pretty devout Mormon, fairly conservative on the issues and a fanatical Romney supporter, despite acknowledging that Romney hasn’t always been right. He even has a Romney bobblehead doll on his desk in front of him (!) He says he supports Romney because of his business experience and also because he thinks Romney is the one best able to beat Obama, with his Mormon faith being only a small part of it. Our mutual friends know that in reality Romney’s Mormonism is 100% the reason for his support.
I posted this in another poll thread but I think it’s worth repeating...
I’m hoping Sarah Palin will go on Fox News tonight and deliver one of her “if I were a Michigan voter, I’d probably vote for Rick Santorum to keep this process going” endorsements. If she does, I’m convinced that will give Santorum the edge he needs to chalk up Michigan in the win column!
PSYCHO-FREEP wrote:
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Dude, that’s because the choice in 2008 was between Romney, McCain, and Huckabee!
Give your abject hatred for Rick Santorum a rest already!
And the alternatives were...McCain and Huckabee. Granted, better not to have endorsed anyone in that field.
"Santorum Retakes Lead in Michigan (Santorum 37%, Romney 35%)
And then we have the following headline in FR:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2852001/posts
Survey Says: Santorum’s Social Views Killing Him in Michigan
RE: I’m hoping Sarah Palin will go on Fox News tonight and deliver one of her “if I were a Michigan voter, I’d probably vote for Rick Santorum to keep this process going” endorsements. If she does, I’m convinced that will give Santorum the edge he needs to chalk up Michigan in the win column!
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Wouldn’t this get Sarah fired as commentator for FOX NEWS?
This would sound like an endorsement for Rick.
Think it might be more accurate to say his EMPHASIS on social issues is hurting him? That would make more sense. Don't think the views themselves are hurting him. At least not with conservatives.
Why would a supposedly neoconservative magazine say it like that?
I would add the point the mainstream media is the one emphasizing Santorum’s social view to the detriment of his economic and fiscal views, which Santorum has been emphasizing.
Heck, today, Santorum even wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal entitled:
My Economic Freedom Agenda
See here:
The press knew about this well in advance. But when the reporters talk to him, do they focus on this? when they report about him do they focus on this? NOPE.
I guess that’s to say Obama’s campaign organization, the MSM, is angling for Romney because they think they have a better chance of beating Romney I suppose.
SeekAndFind wrote:
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Wouldn’t this get Sarah fired as commentator for FOX NEWS?
This would sound like an endorsement for Rick.
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She’s already done this very thing twice with Newt Gingrich right before the South Carolina and Florida primaries. She very cleverly talks about what she would do as a voter in those states without making an official endorsement.
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I'd like to know iwhat percentage of the GOP vote in Arizona is LDS. I wouldn't be surprised if it approached 20%, in which case you can give Myth about 18% from LDS voters alone (assuming he gets 90% of the LDS vote, which he's been doing). That means if he just gets 30% of the remaining 80% of the electorate, he'll be sitting on about 42% overall....tough to overcome.
Hank
“Why don’t the “Republicans’ in AZ just admit they are Democrats and leave the GOP?”
Because I’m a Republican in AZ, and I’ve voted against John McCain, and will vote for Santorum tomorrow. We’ve had some significant wins here in AZ - Constitutional Carry of guns, and the 1070 Illegal Immigration bill. How is Texas doing on those issues?
But most voters base their vote on name recognition. That is why Congress has approval ratings in the toilet, but incumbents have a 95% reelection rate.
Add in lots of Mormons in AZ, and Santorum’s lack of money, and Mitt’s lead here isn’t surprising.
Not to mention your governor's endorsement.
Somehow, I expected more of Ms. Brewer. She had struck me as somebody with spunk. But, apparently, she's your garden variety political hack.
Gov Brewer believes in leading from the rear. When the anti-illegal immigration bill passed, she debated signing it. Only the realization she would lose the GOP nomination for Gov seems to have swayed her to sign it.
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