Posted on 02/14/2008 1:52:06 PM PST by Jim Robinson
(CNN) — Mitt Romney predicted Sunday his party's conservative base will rally behind him on Super Tuesday in order to prevent John McCain from winning the Republican nomination.
"What I have to do is continue to see what's been happening the last few days, specifically that is conservatives across the country are saying, 'whoa, we have to get behind Mitt Romney,'" he said on CNN's Late Edition.
"You've got people like Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham and the list goes on and on and on — Hugh Hewitt, Lars Larson — conservative voices, both from radio and from publications, are saying, 'you know what, we've got to get behind Mitt Romney,'" he continued. "We really can't afford John McCain as the nominee of our party."
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Exactly right. I somehow feel that we were attacked by either the Hitlery or Obama camp right here on FR. RAT pack!
..his CPAC speech was just a mirage—but most of us knew that...
“Flip / Flop / what’s next Mitt?”
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He’ll probably continue to follow Ronald Reagan’s ‘76 playbook....you know, continually attack your opponent as a liberal, then do the honorable thing and endorse him for the good of the party, and then eventually become President...somethin’ like that.
Nonsense. It is not "Utopian" to desire a candidate who adheres to party principles. These mooks are not even close.
Hey, newbie.
What’s with posting the old news article? :p
The standards are really falling around this place....
LOL
A package arrived for me yesterday. I went to town on FRed stuff. A lot of it is on sale. Got me a FRedhead hat and mug and a “Don’t blame me. I voted for Fred!” bumper sticker.
My husband is laughing at me. I don’t understand it. :p
"I'm against John McCain." (I run attack ads against him). [Wait a few weeks] "I endorse John McCain."
(The only wind that should have that much pull is "the Wind" being a nickname for the Holy Spirit in the Bible)
“It is NORMAL to endorse the GOP candidate....”
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Thanks JaneNC for adding some sanity to this thread.
It would seem that is what the McCain cool-aide drinker are saying. Guess they'll lay off of talking bad about Mormons for now.
(Oh, I'm sure this endorsement was the "patriotic" thing to do in a "time of war." So, since he had already fallen on his sword, I guess he thought he better ensure it was driven all the way through to aid the "blood atonement" process)
Under the definitions used here, Ronald Reagan was an untrustworthy flipper.
After all, he signed an abortion rights statute in California, then raised taxes.
Within ten days?
The problem is that McCain is not yet “the GOP candidate.” I realize that he probably will be. If people had held out and resisted more, there might have been some possibility of somebody better- but be that as it may, he’s still NOT the GOP candidate, officially.
Romney, of course, is endorsing MCCain to help him become that candidate, and because he clearly hates Huckabee. Maybe Romney’s jealous because he himself didn’t have the guts or the support to stay in.
No, but within ten days he went from battling Gerald Ford to endorsing him. It's called falling in line for the good of the party.
Anyhow, I was surprised to hear that he has endorsed McCain. All that brokered Convention stuff was dancing in my head until then.
I don’t know what we are all supposed to do now, but I do know that I ain’t ever voting for McCain.
And I guess Fred is a flipper too....
Did Fred also say "We really can't afford John McCain as the nominee of our party"? If not, then the situations are not analogous.
It is NORMAL to endorse the GOP candidate....
Of course it is. That's not the point here.
The point is that ol' Flip says things he doesn't mean to get elected.
If he really felt that the GOP "can't afford John McCain as the nominee", then he'd be pushing for a brokered convention, or backing Huckabee, or refusing to endorse anybody.
But by throwing his delegates to McCain just ten days after denouncing him, he's showing that he didn't believe his earlier words. They were just empty campaign rhetoric.
Flip will say anything he thinks you want to hear. He did it in his Senate run, he did it when he ran for Governor, and he did it while running for President.
Give him time Jim, he'll change his mind! (Whistles while checking watch)
same thoughts here mom, 10 days old?
With the same over-the-top "we can't afford him" rhetoric Romney used?
It's called falling in line for the good of the party.
No, it's called saying things you don't believe because you think it's what the voters want to hear.
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