Romney couldn't connect with S.C. voters

The State , Charleston, S.C. ^

[WOSG]

False. Untrue. Check the link. He changed or added nothing in Massachusetts which was already a permanent AWB. What you are saying is simply wrong.
It’s ironic that you lie about Mitt Romney’s record then bandy about claims about him being ‘dishonest’...

[Mojave]

Governor Mitt Romney has signed into law a permanent assault weapons ban that he says will make it harder for criminals to get their hands on these guns.

“Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts,” Romney said, at a bill signing ceremony on July 1 with legislators, sportsmen’s groups and gun safety advocates. “These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”

http://www.iberkshires.com/story.php?story_id=14812

Romney’s shills are getting shrill trying to spin this away.

[WOSG]

Florida, as a swing state, may make a better make-or-break state. And it will do so this primary season.

If Romney can win Florida, he can come back and win the nomination. If not, then our nominee is John McCain. (I dont think Rudy has a chance, even if he does win Florida).

Same with Hillary v obama.

[suijuris]

What do people think of a McCain/Huckabee ticket? Is it a winner?

A friggin nut case and a hick snake oil salesman. Yeah, thats a ticket to rally behind. We are sooo screwed!

[dforest]

I have decided to cast my 2008 vote for Romney. Smartest left, and good looking to boot!

[WOSG]

So he signed up a month ago to bash Romney?
hmmm. Obviously motivated to have a say on primary race.
Shill for McCain or a different candidate?
Who are you FOR barryg?

[Mojave]

In 1994, Romney supported the Brady Bill as well as the federal ban on assault weapons. He remarked that, “That’s not going to make me the hero of the NRA.” In 2004, when the federal ban expired, then-Governor Romney enthusiastically signed a permanent ban on assault weapons in Massachusetts.

http://amspec.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=11120

[maui_hawaii]

I believe going forward that there will be more and more ‘swing’ states as a whole.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

But both John McCain and Mike Huckabee are also not really conservative Republicans!

[gitmo]

Of the 13 states I’ve lived in, South Carolina Republicans are the most diligent, critical, discerning and discriminating voters.

[gitmo]

Of course not. John McCain lost IA, Lost MI, lost WY, lost Nevada ... and barely squeaked by in NH and SC and he is still the ‘frontrunner’. Anything for Proamnesty-antiBushtaxcuts-proCO2caps-CFR-RINO John McCain.

I am hearing them refer to Romney as the front runner. He has more delegates in his pocket.

[ari-freedom]

I want someone I can trust and I just don’t trust romney. Rudy is a liberal but at least he doesn’t try to change his convictions just to get the nomination. Romney was just as liberal as rudy except without the record in crime and the economy.

[WOSG]

Repeating a falsehood doesn’t make it true.
Massachusetts AWB was passed in the 1990s and was never set to expire. Romney didn’t pass the AWB.

[gitmo]

“Romney and Rooty are sure losers in the general election. 2nd Amendment voters wont vote for them.”

That leaves McCain and Huckabee.

Isn't McCain also weak on the 2nd Amendment, too? I refer to Jim Rob's post.

[A Strict Constructionist]

“Of the 13 states I’ve lived in, South Carolina Republicans are the most diligent, critical, discerning and discriminating voters.”

Minus a sarcasm tag...how do you explain the results?

[WOSG]

uh huh.

That explains closetted RINO Senator Lindsey Graham, fmr Gov Beasley, this Bauer character who is LT Gov but apparently is a flake (explains the Huck endorsement), .... and voting the RINO mcCain and the non-conservative tax-and-spend populist Huckabee #1 and #2 in the GOP primary.

I am flummoxed.

“Of the 13 states I’ve lived in, South Carolina Republicans are the most diligent, critical, discerning and discriminating voters.”

OTOH, maybe you are just saying it only gets WORSE in other states.

[not2worry]

The South has changed in the last 8 years IMHO.

Many people don’t even consider Florida the South any longer.

Don’t count Romney out in the remaining Southeastern states.

I believe Independents can’t vote in the remaining states and this will show how strong McCain can be in the remaining primaries without Democratic “independents” or true independents.

[eleni121]

I understand that. I was musing about a local election in an economically depressed area in which a businessman running on the GOP line won big time in a Democrap district.

[napscoordinator]

South is overrated. The Republicans better start concentrating on the west or we will never win an election again. Start getting the northeast back again would not be bad either.