What if Romney Wins the GOP Nomination for President in 2012?

Pajamas Media ^ | May 10,2011 | Myra Adams

[Hojczyk]

A visit to a therapist might be necessary to help conservatives work through their issues with the current frontrunner.

What if Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination for president in 2012?

A vast majority of conservatives become anxiety-ridden at the mere posing of this question, and many go ballistic at the thought of it actually happening.

So a quick visit to a therapist may be helpful.

Imagine yourself lying on a couch in the spring of 2012 with soothing music playing in the background. News breaks that former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has clinched the Republican nomination for president.

Your therapist, knowing that as a true conservative you worked against Romney by supporting (fill in the blank), asks in a soft comforting voice, “How does this news make you feel — angry, betrayed, confused?”

Intrade also pegs Obama’s re-election prospects at 58.6%, but your therapist says she will address those negative feelings in a future session.

This hour she wants you to work through the stress associated with accepting Romney as the GOP nominee.

So in an empathetic tone she asks you to think about the following questions:

Are you going to pick up your signs for Candidate X and go home?

Could you work for and support Romney’s campaign?

Will you vote for Romney in the 2012 election?

What if the polls show that Romney is running neck and neck with Obama?

Do you resent that squishy independent swing vote that is fueling Romney?

Finally, the therapy session is over and you leave her office with a huge headache. You realize you would have real problems supporting Romney as the nominee and even imagining these questions makes you angry.

Can you relate to this scenario?

[jersey117]

Hold my nose and pull the lever. Obama cannot be allowed to remain in office.

Ditto and hope fo the best.

[WillVoteForFood]

Romney may not be the ultimate conservative choice (I have my doubts as to whether any candidate would meet that test), but I do think he would be a vast improvement over the current occupant of the White House and would thus receive my vote.

[golf lover]

Four more years of Barry. Guaranteed!

[ConservativeStatement]

If the sickening thought of Obama’s re-election happens in 2012, I wouldn’t be shocked if Deval Patrick is nominated by the Dems in 2016.

[joe fonebone]

just say no...to romney, mcpain, huckabee, gingrich, or anyone named bush.....why vote for a psuedo-socialist when you can have the real thing??? at least you know what you are getting....

[stickywillie]

would have to vote 3rd party, if a Conservative is on the top of ticket. Romney doesn’t have a snowball’s chance of getting my vote.

[Diogenesis]

I will work against Romney and the GOP in that case.

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Romney for Obama in 2008

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.

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"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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Romney for Obama in 2009

Chihuahua Romney - the Magic RINO:
"I also think it's important for us to nod to our pRes_ _ent when he's right,"
we are pleased with his plans to "finish the job" in Iraq and Afghanistan
I also applaud our pRes_ _ent
for standing up to the evil auto industry. "

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Romney for Obama in 2010

"Go Mitt. Go Mitt. Go Mitt"

"Rove is pushing Romney so aggressively
some folks are beginning to wonder what's going on,"
grumbled one veteran Republican strategist."

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"Rove has made no secret
of his support for Romney as McCain's VP. "

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Romney for Obama in 2011

Chihuahua Romney - the One and the Only "Magic RINO(TM)":

"Obama was born in the United States"

"Obama Doesn’t Need a Birth Certificate"

"The citizenship test has been passed"

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Milt Romney in 2007

Romney - the Magic RINO:
"I'm not running as the Republican view
or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)

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"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn't make any sense at all.""
--  President Ronald Reagan

"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism
or socialism on people has been by way of medicine..."
President Ronald Reagan

Romney-Imposed Gay Marriage (through Threats against Clerks)
And Romney Death Panels and ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE
Imposed by the carpetbagging, backstabbing “Milt” Willard Romney.

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[mulligan]

Then the GOP is doomed, along with America.

[Tennessee Nana]

What if Romney Wins the GOP Nomination for President in 2012?
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What id he doesnt ???

Either way I wont be voting for him...

A vote for Mitty is a vote for Barry

[Howie66]

I don’t see this happening.

[pnh102]

I will not vote for Romney under any circumstances. I'll write in someone else.

He's no different than 0bama when it comes to policy.

[Longbow1969]

There really is no other choice but vote for whoever the eventual Republican nominee is, but we can all work like hell to ensure it isn’t Romney (or Huckabee).

[ConservativeDude]

We’ll continue to swirl down the toilet - just a bit slower than now.”

Hey, I think I read that exact slogan on a mailer I just received from the RNC.

Confess up: you stole that from them, right?

[KeyLargo]

The Wall Street Journal

REVIEW & OUTLOOK
MAY 10, 2011

National Health Preview
RomneyCare’s bad outcomes keep coming.

The ObamaCare preview that Massachusetts has been conducting for the last several years grows more ominous by the month, not that anyone in Washington is paying attention. So let’s check on the Bay State’s latest warning, coming soon to a hospital or medical practice near you.

A new survey released yesterday by the Massachusetts Medical Society reveals that fewer than half of the state’s primary care practices are accepting new patients, down from 70% in 2007, before former Governor Mitt Romney’s health-care plan came online. The average wait time for a routine checkup with an internist is 48 days. It takes 43 days to secure an appointment with a gastroenterologist for chronic heartburn, up from 36 last year, and 41 days to see an OB/GYN, up from 34 last year.........

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703864204576313370527615288.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop#printMode

[little jeremiah]

RINOs like Romney actually want the same things as the Dems but just with a lighter touch.

Puke on Romney, I would never, ever vote for him.

[Logical me]

We still have those that would rather put King Obama in another term than Romney.

[Psalm 144]

I have voted for five Republican POTUS candidates I disliked out the past six election cycles. I will not vote for another. Never. Let the chips fall where they may. I will not vote for Corporatism or Fabian socialism over Bolshevism again. Never. To the flames of hell with both of them.

[Bitsy]

I would vote for anyone who had a breath to defeat the Marxist in our White House. ANYONE!

[Roninf5-1]

What if Romney Wins the GOP Nomination for President in 2012?

It will prove once again that the GOP Insiders can put up whatever vacuous, big government loving, reach across the aisle compromising, Globalist butt kissing phony they want and so-called conservatives will come out in droves to pull the lever for him. The will show themselves to be the masters of the Republicrat/Dumbocan Plantation and so-called conservatives to be their craven house slaves.