Posted on 10/20/2011 8:13:30 AM PDT by Lexluthor69
Mitt Romneys polls seem stuck in the low to mid twenty percentile. As the weeks and months have passed Romneys polling numbers seem steady in that range. Theres a reason for that. The conservative voters within the GOP do not support Romney for President of the United States.
That, dear reader, is why Herman Cains numbers have been skyrocketing
There are recent reports stating that Herman Cain is the candidate the Tea Party has thrown its support behind and Cain is the top choice from the GOP field by SOUTHERNERS. As a conservative southern gentleman none of this comes as a surprise.
Look. Sophisticated republican voters already know it would take an act of God for Mr. Cain to receive the anointing the GOP as the Republican nominee to run against Obama. Nevertheless, they have seemingly flocked to Cain, a real conservative, and are looking much more approvingly at Newt Gingrich. (Mrs. Bachmann is finished kaput. She flamed out the moment Rick Perry entered the race.)
There is a very clear message being sent to the GOP hierarchy: We want a CONSERVATIVE candidate not another moderate RINO! All the other candidates are also rans.
Mr. Cain simply does not have the financial means to run a head-to-head campaign against Romney for very long. His star will begin to fade very soon and conservative voters will be told, once again, they must settle for another moderate nominee Romney.
There are two dangers for the GOP in this scenario. One that Romney will win the nomination, and two that conservative voters will stay home on Election Day in November of 2012.
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Very true. But the establishment unified around Romney long ago. Conservatives are split among 4-5 candidates.
If they remain split like that, Romney has his plurality.
That’s the stark truth. Romeney doesn’t need 75 % of Republicans backing him. All he needs is to have at least two “not-Romney” candidates fighting each other. At that point, a bit more than a 1/3 plurality wins. Only if we can get it down to a head-to-head between Romney and one, single, unique, one not-Romney does Romney lose.
You think I’m supporting Romney? I’m pointing out how we are going to end up with him unless we unify around a single not-Romney. As long as we bicker among ourselves, we guarantee the establishment wins.
Get off your high horse for a minute and reflect.
After Obama is shoveled out in 2012, the Stupid Party will be next.
I have no intent on trying to convince them of anything, just get out.
They're gonna get him anyway, though...
“Who cares what voters want? The Beltway Cabal has made Romney their man.”
Well...we will just have to rally behind Cain with some more tea parties won’t we?
I say we all just march on Washington, try to get a million plus and invite only real conservatives like Cain, Gingrich, Palin, Bachman as well as Rush, Levin, Hannity, Quinn and Rose, etc. Let our cries of freedom ring so high and so far that it chokes the whole lot of them in both parties.
“There are two dangers for the GOP in this scenario. One that Romney will win the nomination, and two that conservative voters will stay home on Election Day in November of 2012.”
Wait, what’s the second danger?
The second danger is suppressed turnout: “... that conservative voters will stay home on Election Day in November of 2012.”
Romney’s favorable/unfavorable ratings among GOP primary voters is pretty good. He can win a head-to-head race against any of the others.
So do not expect an easy solution to Mitt.
... that conservative voters will stay home on Election Day in November of 2012.
Brilliant! Have a tantrum if Romney is the nominee. Get obunghole for another 4 years. Have him appoint another supreme court justice, maybe replacing one of the conservatives or Kennedy. The end of the Republic.
We should do what we can to keep Romney from winning the nomination, but, I think it’s down right unpatriotic to stay home if he is. Obunghole must go. That takes priority over my dislike of Romney.
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