GOP 2012: Who will Romney pick? (So he's already the nominee?!)

The Johannesburg Daily Maverick ^ | January 16, 2012 | J. Brooks Spector

[Diogenesis]

BAIN/FOX Channel's Reigning PIMP:
"What about me?"

Romney/Wallace 2012

[Blacksheep]

Should have proofed it. Tapped out on my pda while stting in a parking lot. Sorry!

[ngat]

Thanks for that info.

I did not know that.

I WAS not aware of that!

[CainConservative]

Willard is not the nominee. But when Newt is, he’ll pick Huck to shore up the women vote. The ladies love some Huck.

Today’s ARG Florida 2012 GOP Primary Poll

Among Men

•Newt Gingrich 34% : )
•Mitt Romney 30%
•Rick Santorum 10%
•Ron Paul 7%
•Rick Perry 0%
•Undecided 10%

Among Women

•Mitt Romney 56%
•Newt Gingrich 14% : |
•Rick Santorum 8%
•Ron Paul 8%
•Rick Perry 6%
•Undecided 6%

[ngat]

Mighty interesting comments there, blacksheep.

[ngat]

Them’s some seriously politically incorrect statistics you posted.

Unfortunately, they are true.

All is lost.

[CainConservative]

TWO northeastern moderate libs on the R ticket makes Obama a VERY happy boy.

[cayuga]

While I believe Romney is a progressive he may be our only choice to stop Obama.

I will never vote for another RINO, and you can't scare me into it.

[chris37]

I was there myself, dfw.

The thought of having to vote for Mitts makes me want to puke.

But then I look in the adorable face of my 6 month old nephew, and I feel guilty man, I feel like I got to do what got to be done.

In the very least, assuming Romney becomes Obama’s opponent and then is elected, we would have a president who is answerable to the voters again in 4 years as opposed to a naked marxist who is contemptuous of the constitution and answerable to no one.

That truly frightens me, and I mean fear.

God help us.

[chris37]

While I do find this funny :D

It is aimed right at me, because I am scared of an Obama second term, I mean really damn scared.

What do I do? I mean very seriously, I want to avoid a second term for our homo muslim, and I’m pretty much willing to do anything to achieve that. I’m stuck :(

[Lou Budvis]

There’s a better chance for Rubio if Romney is NOT elected. Not since FDR/Truman has one party held the WH for more than 12 years. Romney-Rubio winning in ‘12 means no Rubio until ‘20 and then highly unlikely to win a 2nd term.

If we can gut out another term of 0bama, the odds of having a conservative in the WH for 8+ years beginning in ‘16 go up.

[Prokopton]

I hope it's Rubio, because if Romney loses, it will eliminate two people I don't want to be president from future contention.

[Prokopton]

The Tea Party is laying in the weeds and will tie up Romney tight if he is elected

You must be joking. The so-called Tea Party gains of 2010 have done absolutely nothing. Led by Democrat plant Crybaby Boehner, the House, even with the newly elected members, went along completely with Obama's agenda. The real risk is amnesty. Obama could not get it passed, but a Republican president like Romney or Gingrich just might. This would be the end, a permanent progressive majority.

The Tea Party is out of gas and it's rhetoric seems quaint in the face of a Romney or Gingrich candidacy.

Personally, I see little hope that whoever gets elected will fundamentally change anything. Mitt liked Romneycare but doesn't like Obamacare. Newt liked his own individual mandate proposal but doesn't like Obama's individual mandate proposal. Same crap.

Sorry, but the election will be between two political insiders whose primary concern is there own self aggrandizement. The results, like the 2008 election, will be devastating.

[cayuga]

What do I do? I mean very seriously, I want to avoid a second term for our homo muslim, and I’m pretty much willing to do anything to achieve that.

I don’t think it really matters what you do.

With the MSM little more than the propaganda wing of the DNC, an electorate that follows “American Idol” more than national elections, and massive voter fraud in swing states, it’s over.

At best, electing a RINO will only delay the inevitable third American revolution.

[2ndDivisionVet]

More like Hitler and Himmler.

[2ndDivisionVet]

"The ladies love some Huck..."

You made me throw up in my mouth.

[2ndDivisionVet]

He's an American: Brooks Spector’s writing often appears in “The Sunday Independent,” he serves as a commentator on American political issues for a variety of South African radio and TV stations, and he is on the board of directors of Johannesburg’s Market Theatre. His articles have also been included in two books, “New Tools for Reform and Stability” (2004) and “The Yearbook of International Affairs” (2004), both published by SAIIA. He is now completing work on a study of the comparative policy implications of sports, cultural and academic boycotts, and he is a visiting senior lecturer for the International Relations Department of the University of the Witwatersrand, where he is teaching American foreign policy. Spector recently retired from the American Foreign Service after a thirty-one year career that included service in South Africa (1975-6, 1989-92 and 2001-3), Japan, Indonesia and Swaziland. In 1992 he led negotiations for the return of American cultural exchanges and American Fulbright Professors to an emerging new South Africa. As he was about to retire from the U.S. Government, his wife -- a South African -- told him, 'I'm staying here, and so what are your plans?'.... so he stayed, right here in Johannesburg.

[ace2u_in_MD]

Huntsman. That is the reason behind the timing of his withdrawal.

[chris37]

Yeah, I have to agree.

My brother and his wife are casual politicos, even though if you ask them they think they are following things very closely.

I also think a revolution is coming, and I’d like to avoid that, because I believe its going to be hell.

I’m not certain that we have anything other than RINOs at this point.

I’m pretty disillusioned about it all, but then I think I can’t let it demotivate me, can’t let it make me stay home, because that is what Obama is counting on, Hell, it may even be what the GOP is counting on.

One thing I know is he has got to go.

[Osage Orange]

I figger Huntsman is a leading candidate......

I figger there's some big wigs inside LDS, Inc....that want that.

I also think there's plenty that don't......for political reasons. Not that they wouldn't want him VP...but they are thinking politically.

Nothing new.