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No thank you

How would Romney be any different than McKeating?

The guy that implemented Obamacare in Massachusetts? No thank you!!!

Nancy Reagan said it best: no.

caveat: unless Huck is the only other choice

NO!!!!!Can he hear me yet?

Willard should just join the democrat party as he is already a rat.

Please NO

He’ll never beat Palin for the nomination.

Hell NO!

“Mitt Romney 2012?”

Only if the choice is him or Hussein. In the primaries....GO SARAH GO!

It would be nice if we actually got to pick our nominee this time.

Where is the “Not this Sh*T Again” guy?

NO and no!

LOL

Those "squarely" behind Romney THREW Election 2008.

The McCain/Palin ticket was up ++8 pts. days prior to September 18th, 2008.
So the RomneyTeam attacked Gov. Palin and her children to throw Election2008.

"Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 Early Show appearance."

David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician.
Let me say for the record: If Romney emerges as the Republican nominee, I will support him without qualm."

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
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, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "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."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,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."
These 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.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
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."

Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

"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?"

Regardless of Romney’s considerable talents and qualifications, I think the implosion of the Massachusetts health scheme means he’s dead in the water.

Hell no!!

Just another duplicitous RINO

The 2009 CPAC Straw Poll Results:

20% Mitt Romney
14% Bobby Jindal
13% Ron Paul
13% Sarah Palin
10% Newt Gingrich
7% Mike Huckabee
23% Other/Undecided/ etc.

20% at this stage means nothing. In the other polls cited, HUCKABEE is even with him. Huckabee, who has spent a sliver of the money. In 2008, Romney had more support than he deserved from the likes of Coulter, Hannity (when not liking Rudy's shoes) and Limbaugh.

I see Romney's support as similar to Ron Paul's. His people are his people. He can't really recruit more people too easily, because they don't want to buy what he's selling.
At this point, he might be helpful as Senator from Massachusetts. I would even see him as excellent cabinet material (just keep him away from HHS and AG). But not president. Yeah, I'd vote for him against Obama, but that's about it.

“There are none so blind as those who refuse to see.”

What with open primaries and a GOP leadership that is apparently dominated by “moderates” and career, inside-the-beltway politicians it is probable that someone like Romney will be the nominee. The only way a conservative Republican would win it would be if another “Reagan revolution” took place and at the moment I don’t see that happening for the simple reason that there is no one around taking up that mantle. Maybe Palin can pull it off but right now I doubt it. Who else is there? Fred Thompson? Newt? Or maybe one of the congressional or senate conservatives like Coburn or Pence?

I think that the conservative movement is begging for an effective leader and whoever seizes that mantle will take the GOP nomination. It’s just that so far no one has done so.