Posted on 04/15/2010 8:35:19 AM PDT by Publius772000
After his straw poll win at the SRLC, Mitt Romney appears poised to take his shot at buying a much more important vote.
The Boston Herald reported the possible merger in an article titled, "Mitt Romney-Sarah Palin in 2012? You betcha!" According to the story, Republican strategists were "licking their chops" at the prospect of such a telegenic duo running against Barack Obama.
Truly, the ticket would be intriguing to some GOP voters.
“They both have a lot they can offer a campaign,” said Douglas Lorenz, a California-based GOP consultant. “Romney has the experience as a governor and experience as a candidate for president, and when you combine that with Sarah Palin’s ability to get people motivated, that could definitely be a formidable ticket.”
Unfortunately, it is Romney's experience as governor and his experience as a candidate that would make him a poor choice. Romney's signature achievement as governor of Massachusetts was to sign into law a health care reform bill for that state that has since been a complete fiscal disaster. The costs have snowballed, the insurance companies--non-profit insurance companies--have had price controls imposed on them by the state, and care is suffering.
The former governor has tried to justify his support of the plan in much the same way that more moderate Democrats are now justifying their support of Obamacare: something had to be done. And when Obamacare balloons in "unexpected" costs and the government adds and tweaks the plan to point us to a single-payer system, those moderates will undoubtedly use Romney's excuses as well, such as, "The bill I voted for didn't call for all this. It was added on later..."
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Oh, gheez!
Forget it. Even Palin’s presence on the ticket wouldn’t get me to vote for Romney.
I’m not a big Romney fan. But I would rather have voted for him than John McCain.
That being said, I don’t think Sarah Palin wants to end up as number two on another ticket.
And I know that Romney will not take a number two slot at this point.
So, I think the idea of a Romney-Palin or a Palin-Romney ticket is pretty much a pipedream.
I concur. I would stay home.
Destructo Obama is better than stealth liberal Romney.
My sentiment exactly... Palin I could vote for. Palin with Romney? I’ll stay home, thanks.
For Democrats, it sounds pretty good.
I believe this has been addressed by several threads today. First, she said “Sound’s good,” to a PALIN-Romney tickets, second, she hasn’t sommitted to running yet anyway, so it probably doesn’t matter as of now.
I doubt this ticket would make it anywhere, unless the people hated the Democrats (likely) sooo much that they’d vote for anyone (although a dead mayor was just elected, so who knows?).
Romney is not a Commie. And, I don’t see a propensity to hate his country. He would be nowhere near as bad as the current situation. Get real.
Sorry, Sarah. I love you but not Romney. Never. Deal-breaker for me.
Romney wouldn’t take it at this point, but if it came to where he’d lost the nomination but were offered it, I think he’d say ‘Yes’. He’d be the Poppy Bush to Palin’s Reagan, except with the added bonus of being to old to become a 41/John Major successor.
Two 2008 losers will not make a winning ticket in 2012. A liberal flip flopper with no core and a failed governor turned talk show host will not lead conservatives to victory.
He does not love his people or he would have never instituted that health care disaster. He hoped it would make him a saint. He was thinking about himself and not the realities of health care, and so he chose to ruin the health care of his State in order to make himself appear 'saintly'.
Health care is a business. And in order to draw the best of the best, the free marken enterprise system is the ONLY way to keep it afloat and top notch. Healthcare is not welfare.
The press trying to pick the Republican canadate again.
A sure victory for the Kenyan.
See my tagline for some real contenders.
The headline makes it look like Mitt/Sarah but inside the aticle shes asked who would head up the ticket and responds she has not thought that far ahead.
That being said i don’t seee Mitt ever accepting the 2 spot and i don’t think Sarahs supporters want her in any place but the top role.
Sometimes it is better to just shut up.
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All she is saying is that if Republicans keep doing as they are told by the media and vote Romney in polls, Romney is who they will get. The idea is not to alienate anyone else’s supporters at this point as they will be needed later, so hence the friendly attitude.
She knows very well who was dissing her just before the 2008 election and she won’t forget it.
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