Posted on 05/23/2011 9:02:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
Not necessarily. If you can give the creased pants Republican crowd a candidate who also appeals to disaffected liberals, they’ll peel away Dem voters from Obama and do a reverse of Perot. Kind of like what happened in Florida 2010.
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OK, I'll bite...prove it.
Yeah, sure, he dressed it up in Republican buzz words and called for tax cuts, but it's all the same crap. Zero called for tax cuts too and was about as sincere as Romney.
And by the way, anyone who thinks for a second that the man who inflicted Romneycare on MA is a free market capitalist, is either hopelessly ignorant or a complete blithering idiot.
That leaves Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney. Lame, I know. But Pawlenty’s lamer.
Pawlenty isn't perfect, but he's won twice, is pro-life, pro-gun, and is more consistent than Mitt.
We know Romney’s downfalls. He’s Ward Cleaver. Too clean. He’s “inauthentic,” an “establishment” politician. That’s unpopular these days.
I don't think Romney's all that clean myself. Anyone who straps his dog to a roof of a car isn't a stand up guy. Inauthentic folks I don't trust. I can't count on Mitt.
He’s well known. He’s electable. He polls well against Obama.
How is he "electable?" Says who? He couldn't beat MCCAIN. He probably couldn't beat Huckabee one on one. With Daniels out, Romney’s the frontrunner.
We haven't even gotten to the Ames straw poll yet.
Romney ought to go big on domestic issues, as well. Unemployment and taxes are a problem. But entitlement insolvency is the heart of the matter. Fiscal issues are a worry. But monetary issues are paramount. Will someone other than Ron Paul ever speak about monetary policy? The opening for Romney is there to seize.
And Romney's got one big problem. His fiscal policy was bad as governor. Money talks. BS walks.
On health care and other issues, he must prove to conservatives that they will be able to hold a President Romney’s feet to the fire. Romney must clarify and champion his newfound federalism. He must promise to repeal ObamaCare. Period. He must seek to win over some of the libertarian-wing of the Republican Party with a sincere defense of states’ rights. That means getting with the times and not being an obstinate idiot about the drug war. That means respecting the Tenth Amendment.
This is wishful thinking. Why would Romney be anything but what he was in the 08 campaign or governor. He spent the whole time saying "I'm conservative too" and used gay marriage of all things as his issue. He then reiterated his gun grabbing ways. Drug war? Forget it.
If it's Pawlenty v Romney v the current field, Pawlenty over Romney easily.
That's about my attitude. Right now I'm at pro-life, pro-gun, somewhat maybe reasonable on fiscal (really hurting there), not Romney, and who can win.
Unless someone like a Pence changes his mind, I think Pawlenty may be the best we got.
I'll give you the other side of that argument. Here in Michigan, the people elected a Republican house, senate, and supposedly governor. Rick Snyder was viewed as a RINO who won because conservatives split their vote four-five ways.
Snyder, with a super majority, RAISES OUR TAXES and is running this state into the ground the same way his predecessor, Jenny Granholm did. If Granholm proposed this tax increase, it would be died quickly, but because Snyder is in charge, the sheeple follow him due to an R.
If I got a choice between big government Romney and big Government Obama, what the hell difference does it make? Both harm the country. One also destroys my party. It took us a lot of luck to recover from Bush's spending.
No Romney. Period. I don't need "President Snyder."
Or a guy who has a guy cut from the same cloth and same circle of friends as my RINO governor. Rick Snyder sucks. He's Granholm II with an "R" next to his name, and even donated to Dingleberry.
I am not in any way endorsing romney as a preferred candidate but in no way is he worse or as bad for America than four more years of obama. I feel the same about Bachmann, Palin, Newt, Guiliani, Cain et alia. I don’t think any of them is qualified.
Yes. So be it.
Then join the Obama team. That will help defeat Romney.
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