Posted on 02/06/2008 7:16:47 AM PST by JohnnyZ
I woke up this morning to a ton of e-mail from aggrieved southerners, almost outnumbering the ton of spam for generic Viagra, which I've forwarded to the RNC. Anyway, southern voters resented my (and John O'Sullivan's) assertion that they hadn't voted for Mitt because he was a Mormon. Au contraire, they said they hadn't voted for Mitt because he's a north-eastern liberal. Whatever. I rather enjoyed this Georgia gal's take:
I was one of your "No Mormon, no way, no how" Southerners until someone at a dinner party asked me if I'd support Orrin Hatch for President. And you know what? I would. It's then I realized I just didn't like Romney because he's about as phony as baloney. And I am unnaturally annoyed at how he receives applause from his audiences: toothless smile, looking left tilting chin up, looking right tilting chin up; back and forth.
Oh and by dinner party I mean oyster roast.
Oh, dear. Mitt is beginning to feel like the conservative media's version of John Kerry, the guy the MSM thought they could drag across the finish line. Except we have a tougher problem, to which Lisa and Stanley referred. The default mode of the culture is liberal; the key levers of society are liberal. Bush-era strategists have largely ignored that reality in favor of get-out-the-vote and other organizational techniques. The defects of that approach seem increasingly apparent.
So, all the name calling and sophmoric "effette" talk ad nausium does not change the fact that a lot of people, including in the south, support Romney and his campaign and are willing to give him the benefit of the doubt on his "changes". It is the Christian thing to do because that is precisely what Christ teaches, regardless of how you feel about the man or his campaign.
Personally he was my 3rd choice, as I have said, and I have reservations and would much preferred to see more time go by proving his "changes", but that luxury was not available. But having said that and looked closely at his record, what he said before, what he says now, and what his campaign is now based upon, and in addition to listening to strong conservative voices who have come out in support of Romney...I decided he was the best left in the pack. Not a desirous situation at all, but one we were left with.
Huckabee did very well last night and is clearly got a message that many agree with. There is a lot I agree with him on in his current campaign...and also things I absolutely do not agree with him on. McCain has even more baggage. I still feel that any of those three...with McCain absolutely on the low end of that scale...would be better than any of the democrats.
Anyhow, for all three campaigns it is now time to move forward and see what the following weeks bring. I believe that by the end of the day on March 4th when Texas and other states vote that it will be decided.
****they said they hadn’t voted for Mitt because he’s a north-eastern liberal. ***
My reason exactly.
However, if it comes down to Hillary or Obama against Romeny, I will hold my nose, and vote for him.
I'm glad you have found your natural home. I can understand not voting for someone but to campaign for Hillary tells me that you are no conservative.
Mike Huckabee made an excellent point about Ann Coulter (who he didn't name but didn't really need to): if she campaigns for Hillary then it all about herself and not the conservative movement.
“Was there anti-Christian bigotry in the Utah primary?”
90% going for Mitt; absolute diss of the Huckster (not that I disagree with that) — what do you think?
Thank you, I wouldn’t really know if it’s always, I do know it’s been that way for at least the last 7 years.
As for Hillary, that woman never misses the opportunity to take a swipe at the republicans, even in her speech last night she was attacking the republicans. She is so divisive, I just can’t see her being good for this country.
The fact that Romney was a liberal for 35+ years and conveniently switched to conservatism right before the election gave anyone with half a brain pause.
Romney is NO more of a conservative than McCain.
He’s a complete, utter, lying fake.
What I was not prepared for was that his own state was not too keen on voting for him. Did you notice that Romney only carried Massachusetts by 10 points? That is very low for the state where he just left the governorship.
For all the talk about the anger against McCain in AZ over immigration(and it's real) he carried the state by 15 points. Hillary and Obama carried their home states by over 20 points.
No, she’s describing on an emotional level, the body language that makes us aware when someone is a fake.
Just as the Carter administration laid the groundwork for the great Reagan years, so the Clinton/Obama abomination will clear the RINOs out of our nation's future.
The South was never going to vote for a liberal Yankee like that
No, you'll just vote for a liberal like Carter.
Democrats rule in ‘08. Conservatives, that remain, loose. And so does the USA. The Libertarian Party, headed by McCain, lives for another day. Socialism/Communism, radical muslims, and their enablers, continue to expand their role.
Move along and enjoy the ride, no matter how much it hurts. And, slowly we turn.
Democrats rule in ‘08. Conservatives, that remain, loose. And so does the USA. The Libertarian Party, headed by McCain, lives for another day. Socialism/Communism, radical muslims, and their enablers, continue to expand their role.
Move along and enjoy the ride, no matter how much it hurts. And, slowly we turn.
“Romney was the Republican John Kerry.
Effete flip-flopping French-speaking Massachusetts liberal, except this time pushed by the conservative media rather than the MSM.
The South was never going to vote for a liberal Yankee like that, and the accusations of anti-Mormon bigotry from the Romney folks make them sound just like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson on race, preaching hate and playing the victim card.”
You said it best.
Abortion, immigration, guns, global warming, taxes, campaign finance, gay rights, stem cell research, foreign policy, Ronald Reagan -- Romney's presidential campaign was a wholesale reinvention of his beliefs.
Mitt is a fraud, and the conservative South called him on it.
-—”I guess anyone with a full set of teeth, nice hair and no plaid shirt comes over as elite in the south. “
Classic humor and a true portrayal of the south! Most Californians view people from the south with disdain because they’re so bigoted about so many things (race, religion, etc.)
“Was there anti-Christian bigotry in the Utah primary?”
90% of the republican voters (Mormons) in Utah supported Flip. Come to your own conclusion.
Can you say, Group Think?
That was a strange article by a southerner if you ask me.
1. Romney was NOT the recipient of a media push for him. Actually, it was quite the opposite, so I don’t know where this writer gets this idea.
2. The odd thing is McCain is a true Flip-Flopper, but the liberal MSM wanted to foist McSnake on the American people, so they pumped him up any chance they could get.
I’m beginning to think Americans are so stupid.
Well, you can look at McCain and say the same thing, now he’s flip flopping on the tax cuts he voted against. NOw he’s all for border security. I think we’ll see more flip flopping from mccain before this is all over. Problem for me is, can we believe McCain, I don’t.
Take away the Bush tax cut and McCain-Feigold references and add socialized health care and you just described Mitt Romney.
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