Posted on 01/21/2008 5:48:14 AM PST by cotton1706
FLASH: RASMUSSEN Florida poll to be released: Romney 25, McCain 20, Giuliani 19... Developing...
Huckabee is at 13%, and Fred is at 12%.
Actually, JC would give Mitt a lot more credibility with the southern Christian conservative voters. I wasn’t worried about picking up the black vote, which is a near impossibility regardless. JC would have more appeal if he was from a swing state, but I think he would offset much of the negatives of Mitt being a Mormon northeastern GOPer.
Exactly. That’s my point. Rudy has to be #1 or else he’s a goner. And if he’s a goner, McCain steamrolls in a bunch of states, which I specified.
Well....Romny is everywhere in FLorida lately....and he’s mentioned on the news, on the radio news and I see signs everywhere.
Screw that. Go to Ourcampaigns.com and you can see years of my conservatove postings. Look up the same name. You guys are absolutely insane. I’ve lurked on FR for a long time for news stories and only recently started posting because of the elections. I like to talk strategy more than issues and this is an issues/news heavy site.
If you support someone like McCain you’re a fake Republican? Wow, what does that say about the party. A plurality of voters in one of the most conservatove states in the nation including GOP voters. You may get what you wish. A party with a lock on 25% of the vote for Duncan Hunter clones sitting in a useless minority.
As I sstatd earlier: Floridains could not have voted prior to dismal performances by Giuliani, of which there have been many and the list keeps growing.
Close. If you support McQueeg, you're a terminally misguided Republican who doesn't have even a passing familiarity with anything in his record except for the fact that he was a POW.
If you recently register at a conservative website to trash the forum, pimp the most loathsome republican in modern history, threaten to vote for Hillary Clinton and conduct yourself like a frat-boy activist, chances are pretty good you're an operative or a troll. Especially when you're using leftist talking points verbatim.
Mitt is going to win Florida....and then become the Republican candidate for President
Pause. It should give you pause that Daily Kos and other dems are licking their chops and calling on their people to vote Romney. I know the media is biased but I’m not in the tin-foil hat crowd like you over it. They’re not trying to overtly change our vote by creating fake polls etc. If you believe that you’re just as whacky as the Nader crowd on the left and the Paul people.
McCain is the most electable by far. History dictates this. Common political sense, regular common sense. Anecdotally, I talk a lot of politics when I’m in my squadron. The mere mention of Romneys name gets eyes rolling. And these are not liberal people. These are people who overwhelmingly voted for Bush. He’s a fake and everyone knows it.
If we don’t mix it up this year we lose. If we don’t appeal to independents and conservative Dems we lose. If we chose a weasel like Romney over a genuine hero like McCain we deserve to lose. At least I would feel better about it. The party that made such a moronic choice would deserve to be the party that ushers in the era of Socialism Hillary/Obama will bring. If we nominate McCain and lose it would hurt more, at least I can be spared that. Like 1996 it would suck to see the better honorable man lose to a skunk.
Then we all lose!
Yup. Imagine the televised debates this fall, McCain vs Hillary, the rigors of the campaign already brutal for even a 50-year old candidate - let alone a 72-year old man.
Hillary gets McCain to lose his temper. She then turns to the camera, thanks the turkey-neck for his service to the nation, and tells the audience it is time to move forward in America and that she’ll call upon the distinguished Senator for advice and counsel on foreign policy matters.
Election over.
If you look at my statements concerning Hillary or Obama you can clearly tell I’m anything but a liberal. the fact that you’re so whacked out in tin-foil hat land is the reason our party is in so much trouble. I said I would vote for Hillary in the PRIMARY to prevent Hussein there from inviting Ahmadinejad and Chavez into the whitehouse to piss on the presidential seal.
The idea that because I support an American hero who is pro-life, pro-gun, anti-pork/pro-balanced budgets and most importantly pro victory in Iraq, the idea that I have to defend myself against attacks that I’m a liberal for that is absurd! I know where McCain stands and that’s why I support him. Noone knows where Romney stands. I may disagree on immigration with Mccain but he’s come around. And any bill he passes wiill be better than a dem one which is the only alternative. The disease in our party lost us congress so there’s nothing to stop us now.
Romney is a tool. It’s hilarious, fricking hilarious, that by attacking the more pro-gay rights than Kennedy pro-choice because his aunt died in a botched abortion hunter for life never served a day in his life in the military Romney that I’M the liberal.
What Romney promised to Michigan was about 80% Reaganism
and 20% lets do more on govt R&D.
http://www.mittromney.com/News/Press-Releases/DEC_Remarks_1.13.08
“Our strategy – the American strategy – you know well. It is economic freedom combined with personal freedom. That’s our strategy.”
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“And as part of this, we will directly address and rectify the enormous product cost and capital cost disadvantages that currently burden the domestic automakers. From legacy costs, to health care costs, to increased CAFE standard costs, to the cost of embedded taxes, Detroit can only thrive if Washington is an engaged partner, not a disinterested observer. The plan is going to have to include increases in funding for automotive related research as well as new tax benefits including making the Research and Development Tax Credit permanent.
“I am not open to a bail out, but I am open to a work out. Washington should not be a benefactor, but it can and must be a partner.
“But that’s only one step. Washington also has to stop loading Detroit down with unfunded mandates. Of course, we all want fuel mileage to rise, but discontinuous CAFE leaps, uncoordinated with the domestic manufacturers, and absent consideration of competitiveness, kills jobs and imperils the entire industry. Washington dictated CAFE is not the right answer.
“We also have to stop Washington politicians from imposing enormous unilateral energy costs on American manufacturing, including automotive manufacturing. For example, the McCain-Lieberman bill pending in Congress unilaterally imposes new high energy costs on U.S. manufacturers, with no safety valve. The Energy Information Agency estimated that this bill would raise electric rates by as much as 25% and gasoline by as much as 68 cents a gallon. And their estimate of the cost in U.S. jobs - 300,000 jobs. So it’s not just a job killer, it would also make it harder for families to make their ends meet.
“Now of course we have to tackle the threat of climate change. But we don’t call it America warming, we call it global warming. Placing caps and taxes on the U.S. alone just drives manufacturers to China and India, and does little more than make Washington politicians feel welcome at the embassy cocktail parties.
“Next, and you’ve heard this before, there is more healthcare cost in an automobile than steel costs. We got healthcare insurance premiums down in my state and we got everyone on track to be insured. We will work to do the same here and for the rest of the nation.
“And then a final burden, it’s time to fix the tax code. Corporations, like individuals, need lower and simpler taxes. Embedded taxes put our products at a disadvantage in our home market and wherever they compete around the world. When we send for example, a Ford Mustang overseas, it’s not just loaded with accessories. It’s loaded with our excessive healthcare costs, our excessive regulatory burdens, our excessive legal liability burden, and the taxes paid by every single automotive supplier to help put product into that car. You take off those burdens and let’s show them how fast a Mustang will actually go.”
“Romney/Steele”
That would be an interesting ticket.
Romney’s record as Governor is fiscally conservative.
“I believe both NY and NJ are closed primaries. Romney can win in NJ over Giuliani.”
If Romney can do that, he’s got the nomination.
Rudy had set up these as WTA states that would fall into his column, so much for that.
Go Mitt! Romney-Thompson 2008
haha, you call me a frat-boy and you can’t refer to a candidate without using tired, played-out, childish names like “McQueeg.” You pissant, this guy has done more for this country than you could ever dream of. What a country where total losers can tear down a hero who sacrificed so much for his fellow countrymen. It is people like him who have maintained your ability to disrespect him even though you don’t deserve to eat scraps off his table.
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