I am praying for Romney, Jeb, and Christie to divide the liberal vote so we can finally elect a conservative. It’s the only hope America has left.
Which is exactly why it won’t be allowed to happen. Now, faux conservatives bleeding off votes from real conservatives? That’ll happen!
What is it you’re talking about?
I’m wondering if Romney is really serious about running, or if he’s just there to thwart Jeb? I know that sounds a bit kooky, but when Fred Thompson ran in 2008, there was a lot of talk that he was doing so to peel potential Huckabee supporters off in order to help McCain get the nomination.
Either way, I don’t want Romney as a candidate. I voted for him in 2008, because I knew what another 4 years of Obama was going to bring. But we conservatives have so many good options out there for 2016. We don’t have to settle for Romney, and we shouldn’t settle for Romney.
Howdy Doody’d be OK. Or, micky mouse .
Let’s avoid the Huckaby/Peroit technique.
Which is why it won’t happen.
“This is going to be corporatist on corporatist crime,” said Steve Deace, a respected conservative radio host from Iowa. “And whenever corporatist blood gets spilled, we all win.”
This race will show the relative strength of the conservative vs. moderate wings of the GOP, that’s for sure.
It could work unless the conservatives/Tea Party support half-a-dozen or more conservatives.
Some 20 Republicans have apparently expressed interest in 2016. That field needs to be reduced very fast.
Unfortunately it doesn’t matter if Ted Cruz had the support of 90% of Republicans and Romney or Bush each had 5%. The RNC will fund either Romney or Bush (probably Bush because he’s further to the Left).
The actual level of public support, or what the public wants, is totally irrelevant to the RNC. They play by an internal, private “cash to play” mset of rules that none of us are privy to. We are outsiders, just curious onlookers, to them. All they care about is the status quo cash machine. Us peasants are just footstools to them.
Maybe maybe not....one thing is true: conservatives MUST get behind one candidate early and ride that horse to victory. No more of this mamby pamby stuff waiting to see who might win
Wouldn’t that be kinda like someone arguing with his reflection in the mirror?
Like others have said here I suspect Willard is only running to knock out any conservative from the nomination ????
Exactly what I have been advocating here for well over a year; it is about time they got their vote split so that we can win a general election.
In 2012, the Republican candidate with the most money was Rick Perry. Texas oilmen were standing in line to flood his campaign coffers with contributions.
However, Governor Perry had to drop out of the presidential race early because of a gaffe he made during one of the debates that he could never recover from.
So the lesson is that money is not the be-all and end-all of politics. More important is doing well in debates, being able to inspire people, connecting with the voters.
Unfortunately, during the 2012 Republican primary season, none of the candidates was particularly outstanding during the debates, which left primary voters divided among a number of mediocrities, and Mitt Romney, the most polished and least objectionable, walked away with the nomination.
We don’t know yet if any of the 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls is a charismatic enough debater to dominate the primaries and prevail early, or if we’ll be faced with another long battle of mediocrities.
But we do know that the big-money candidates — Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney — will not be able to buy the nomination any more than Rick Perry was able to do in 2012. So why are we so worried about them?
The debate between Jebediah and Cruz will be like a wrasslin’ match between Barney Fife and Earnest T. Bass.
You know what I’m talking about.
I can’t wait.
Hate to break the news to Romney, but he will get about 55% of the white vote (of those who even turn out), and the Democrat will SWEEP the minority vote and coast to victory, as happened in 2008 and 2012.
Now...if a TEA PARTY person runs (i.e., Ted Cruz), then he gets 65% of the white vote, plus a MUCH HIGHER turnout of whites, plus a decent percentage of Hispanics (they tend to also like white conservatives...maybe not a majority, but close enough to 50% to not be a factor). Given all that, the REPUBLICAN SWEEPS TO VICTORY.
That is the fear of the DEMOCRATS, and the fear of the Republican Establishment - the ONLY THING worse (to them) than a Democrat winning is a Republican winning that doesn’t answer to them.
Shoot, while we’re considering moderates for pres, let’s fill the bus. Add Orrin Hatch and John McCain, too.
Let Cruz be the only one to speak to the conservative base.
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That said, I would not be so sure about this. Romney could use Bush or another candidate as a foil as a mushy moderate and at least try to shape the narrative that *he* is the strongest, more conservative alternative.