Posted on 02/03/2008 12:02:11 PM PST by freemike
Despite John McCain's building political momentum, Mitt Romney said Saturday he does not expect the Republican presidential nomination to be settled during the coming week and he is planning to continue campaigning beyond Super Tuesday.
The former Massachusetts governor said the number of states up for grabs, his prospects of succeeding in some of the 20-plus GOP contests that day, as well as a growing concern within the Republican Party about conferring the nomination on McCain give him reason to fight on.
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Rasmussen-California has McCain/Romney even at 30 percent each. A week ago, McCain was up 4 points.
Thompson and Hunter have already demonstrated that they couldn't muster enough Republican votes to stay in. It's unlikely that independents and Dems would consider them. Cheney is a polarizing figure and has a bad heart. Gingrich is even more polarizing and has lots of baggage. Racicot doesn't have enough name recognition. There are slim pickings this election cycle.
Both Maine and Massachusetts are in the North East and he has already won Maine and will easily win in MA so there goes your first prediction. Mitt will win 6-7 states tomorrow and stay in the game.
Romney still has an uphill battle but he is not as out of it as the media wants you to believe. I know you are a Romney hater but if you look at it objectively he will surprise many on Tuesday.
You could not be any more wrong.
If Romney does not have enough delegates to seal the nomination, then that means McCain is the guaranteed nominee.
Huckabee will give McCain his delegates in exchange for the VP spot. It’s already a done deal.
There will be no “brokered convention” that results in some dark horse. It’s not going to happen.
Besides, who do you think the RNC is?
They are not conservatives.
They are the GOP establishment that has endorsed McCain.
They are the Mel Martinez and his liberal cohorts.
Romney may not need to win outright on Tue. A good showing by Romney on Tue. might just seal McCain’s Fate financially. Why do you think the MSM is pushing so hard for McCain & giving him all this free press like Time just did? Because McCain can’t afford it himself, he flat out doesn’t have the dough.
This is truly a very fluid situation. I hope conservatives unite on Tue. & put an end to the hypocrite express. We’ll see just how much power the conservative airwaves really have on Tue. for sure!
Go Romney go!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m donating now!!!!!!
No, I’m not saying that the three stooges are strong candidates, either. I’m not sure how you made that inference from what I said.
Don’t get me wrong; I’d like to see any of the people you named rather than the folks that are in there now. But I’m just playing devil’s advocate here. If Hunter and Thompson, for example, couldn’t rise to the top over the three stooges who are “terrible candidates,” instead dropping out fairly early on, then what does that say about their campaigning abilities?
I just don’t see ANY really strong candidates in that list. Unfortunately.
Yep, pretty much what I said...
This is so depressing.
Reasons to vote against McCain:
#1: Amnesty via McLame/Kennedy
#2: Shredding the 1st Amendment via McLame/Feingold
#3: Force feeding business and consumers to buy into the Global Warming Idiocy via McCain/Lieberman
#4: Nominating this RINO for the Presidency will relegate conservatives to the back benches in the body politic!
Pro-life- NO
Pro-gay- YES
Pro-socialist healthcare- YES
Pro-liberal judges- YES
Force Catholic Hospitals to violate faith tenets- YES
The longer Romney fights, the more angry McCain will get, the less likely that people will vote for him, the more votes Romney will get, the more angry McCain will get, etc.
And just from where do you think this REAL conservative will appear? I’m so glad that you’ll be glad that we will be finally left with a candidate on the Republican ticket that is even less conservative than that nasty ol’ un-conservative Romney. Please expand on your comment. Actually, I’ve been wanting to talk to someone with this point of view to explain how its much better to have McCain than Romney.
Let’s make a deal, ok?
If Mitt doesn’t drop out on Wednesday AM as you predict, you take a hike, permanently.
Deal?
And it's seriously doubtful that Romney will win his home state. There's no love lost over there.
Plus Romney has already ceded the Northeastern states to McCain and is concentrating on California and western/Midwestern states.
Wrong. McVain can’t sweep the NE states. He has already lost Maine.
That’s funny. In any event, I’m okay with Romney, as there is no true conservative in the race. I cannot vote for McCain.
Not true. Romney is Pro-Life. He refused to sign pro-abort legislation that came across his desk. He most definately is not pro-gay, I've never heard him endorse any form of socialist universal health care, and I don't know what makes you think he would nominate liberal judges. If anyone would nominate liberal judges it would be McCain. He actually endorsed David Souter, so that should give you some insight as to who he considers to be a conservative judge. You seriously need to reevaluate your powers of reasoning, or come clean and stop posting deceptive information on Romney.
And while we're at it, the truth is, McCain was ready to bail in the last election and run as John Kerry's VP, so who's the turncoat liberal here? That dosen't sound like a conservative Republican to me.
Same here. I’m going for Romney.
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