Veterans have Romney's ear

The Citizen of Laconia, NH ^ | May 29, 2007 | Cutter Mitchell

[George W. Bush]

I look forward to seeing FT in a debate...

I think that will tell us a lot. Fred has never run nationally and it's a different ballgame. He may take off big, he may stay flat or even lose ground. Expectations for him with some people are getting impossibly high.

Newt says he's running one week, denying it the next. Given how many times he's said that he won't declare until fall if he does enter, I think he'll wait but not run. Most of Newt's current thing is just being an attention whore to keep the libmedia nibbling and asking him to appear on talking head shows. Because without a possible presidential run, no one wants to talk to Newt at all. And Newt loves attention.

[WFTR]

I think you're right about Newt Gingrich. He'll always have his faithful supporters, but has no chance of building a national movement. He's better off standing on the sideline and saying what he would have done if he'd decided to run.

We'll select most of the delegates by February 5, but I still believe that three viable candidates will emerge from Super Tuesday. One will be very weak, but three should emerge. On February 6, we'll start the process of coming together around someone who can beat Rudy Giuliani. I hope we'll keep things fair and civil so that whoever emerges won't be too damaged to win.

Bill

[George W. Bush]

On February 6, we'll start the process of coming together around someone who can beat Rudy Giuliani. I hope we'll keep things fair and civil so that whoever emerges won't be too damaged to win.

McStain and the leftwing mayor won't go quietly. But I don't think they'll be capable of that much damage. McStain made himself look bad with that crack about Romney getting his shotgun and chasing those Guatamalans off his lawn. I think McStain implodes on his own with his voters going to Thompson and Romney. I think Thompson takes half of Giuliani's voters away the day he announces simply because they've realized that Rudi is just way too liberal for the South and Midwest. And the conservative Catholic bloggers who ran CatholicsAgainstKerry just happen to be ready to launch their anti-Rudi campaign about the time Thompson gets in the race.

We could see the leftwing mayor and McStain down close to single digits by fall, especially in the three early primaries. That's what I'm hoping anyway.