Posted on 10/02/2011 6:14:50 AM PDT by Billlknowles
If you look back through previous elections, you can see the pattern that is emerging now.
Conservatives can’t unite behind a candidate, so their votes are divided to the point where the “moderate” has a plurality and ends up with the nomination.
Any time a strong conservative starts to move up in the polls, partisans of the other conservative candidates will make darn sure that this candidate’s rise won’t last.
I think I could live with either Cain or Newt instead of Mittens! The thought of Mittens being our nominee makes be physically ill!
Yes, because God knows that hiring someone with no experience and no political voting records worked so well last time. Do you really think the rest of the country won't put that together? Sure, he can run Newt as has VP, that will work, oh wait.....Biden.....
I’m sorry that hurt you ego. The fact remains arrogantly assuming you know who will be the GOP nominee based on nothing more their an arrogant self regard for your own opinions is highly childish.
That what the Sept 30, 2007 Fox News poll showed.
That’s because the activists knew and loved Fred Thompson and the rest of the world knew Guiliani (due to 9-11).
Bill said nothing about Perry - but otherwise you got it exactly right - I don't believe any of FOX's polls now.
So long virtual cowboy.
Meaning that you prefer Obama.
Wow.
Not with you on that one. Not even close. If it's between Obama and Romney, I will pop the lever for Romney without ANY hesitation whatsoever.
Gingrich is toxic. Smart, sometimes dead-on, etc. - but toxic for a general election. Anyone who thinks a GOP ticket that includes Gingrich can win is smoking something, or is naive/uninformed re: politics.
I like Herman Cain. However, the most qualified candidate of all of them, warts and all, is Newt Gingrich. He may not be the best candidate, but he is unquestionably the most qualified candidate.
I don’t yet know who I would support in my state’s primary. I do know, though, that I will vote for whomever the Republican nominee against Obama is. My mantra is ABO.
I am at the National Federation of Republican Women convention this week. Cain, Gingrich spoke yesterday - both were amazing. I like thatnticket... A lot.
Go, Cain!
No Romney here, either...I would rely on the house and senate to stop Obama if re-elected, because they are the ones who will also stop Romney if he is elected.
Romney would never get rid of Obamacare...he would probably work with the “good” parts and try to amend the “bad” parts. No thank you.
The Republican leadership gave us one looser, McCain, they will NOT get that chance again with me. If Romney is the nominee, I will write in. I have already told them when they call for money.
Romney is the key to the Dems re-electing Baraq.
He’s the only one whose nomination would produce a Tea Party challenger in most red states.
Leading to a Clintonian plurality win for Obama.
I agree. If the Dems get the GOP to annoint Romney, we can kiss the election goodbye. Many GOPers won't vote or will vote third party.
On the other hand the fabled "independents" will simply go and vote for Obama because there won't be any real choice and they'll just vote for their default option, the Dem.
The press and the Dems are desperate to make Romney the GOP candidate.
That’s true. Perry wouldn’t have been my first choice (I’m not sure who would have been - maybe they don’t exist!) but he’s pretty conservative on the whole and even his immigration position, which seems to have provoked hysteria among a tiny but vocal group here, is good and he has a track record to back it up (unlike the other candidates). He’s not perfect, but he’s sure a lot more conservative than Romney, who is the only one who will benefit by knocking Perry out of the race.
The problem is that a lot of the noisiest “conservatives” are those with the most extreme, isolated positions and are also often obssessed with one issue. They create such a storm of misrepresentation and confusion around any candidate other than their own (who then becomes a saint in their minds) that the average GOPer just throws up his hands and walks away, afraid to support anybody.
And then the establishment moves into the vacuum and puts up some tired old RINO pol who has been hanging around so long that it’s now “his turn” (remember Dole? those were actually the words a GOP head honcho used).
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