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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I’m with beaversmom: what do we do now?
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Yep Huch keep your party buster going so we can not repair and the Stalist get in...
If slightly more Republicans had supported Romney before Florida Primary, he’d be the nominee now. But they didnt. Except that he failed at his quest, its hard to blame him for anything. The deal for McInsane is done.
Politics is what it is. The science of what is possible. Principles are often espoused but seldom honored. The people voted for McInsanity...now you have to decide if you want to split the party or hope he does not allow Hillary Obama to win.
Find me an FR thread about Romney that is not pathetic.
If McCain is so bad and Romney is so good and perfect, then why did Romney just hand all his delegates over to McCain?
“It is NORMAL to endorse the GOP candidate....”
That may be, but it’s not normal for a conservative to vote for a liberal—republican or not.
“Good grief......
This is a pathetic thread”
I thought it was fine until I read your post. If it’s so pathetic, why did you join it? LOL!
“This is really stupid and childish. Romney invested a fortune to win the party’s nomination and he lost. Now he’s doing the only stand-up thing there is to do...he’s endorsing our INEVITABLE candidate.”
So, are you saying that the Fliparoos here who refuse to support McCainiac are “stupid and childish”?
“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.”
As JR says, “It’s NOT his fault. The liberals made him do it. ®”
“Within ten days?”
“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.”
Reagan fought Ford all the way into the convention, and then was still fighting.
This is typical of the Romney nonsense, his fans are comparing him to Reagan when in reality McCain is still being challenged by Huckabee and we are many months before the convention.
The one term governor from Massachusetts had his shot, pumped in 50 million dollars of his own money to give himself a chance and now after being forced to drop out of a three man race he is formally and enthusiastically endorsing John McCain.
Reagan was a leader of a movement that he had been identified with since at least the late 50s, Romney is a politician that adopted a new campaign strategy about 30 months ago.
>The key vote of the convention occurred when Reagan’s managers proposed a rules change that would have required Ford to publicly announce his running mate before the presidential balloting. Reagan’s managers hoped that when Ford announced his choice for vice-president, it would anger one of the two factions of the party and thus help Reagan. The proposed rules change, however, was defeated by a vote of 1180 to 1069, and Ford gained the momentum he needed to win the nomination. The balloting for president was still close, however, as Ford won the nomination with 1187 votes to 1070 votes for Reagan (and one for Elliot L. Richardson of Massachusetts).
Reagan endorsed Ford after his defeat, and gave an eloquent and stirring speech that overshadowed Ford’s own acceptance address. Some delegates later stated that they left the convention wondering if they had voted for the wrong candidate.<
Are you on crack?
So you are openly advocating that a (so-called)"conservative" candidate should espouse conservative principals to get elected, regardless of whether or not he follows them? And we are to be admonished for not voting for him?
If you see that a candidate is a two faced phony, and you don't buy his rhetoric, then you are doing more to uphold and reaffirm conservative principals than by voting for a phony that won't.
Man, more and more Republicans seem to have been sneaking into the democrat Kool-Aide stash.
Well personally I think the title could still be correct...Even though the dates have changed, I think conservatives are still going to stop mcain....
It always amazes me how he took all that torture in Vietnam, yet the democrats can yank him around on a leash...
Wow JimRob, is a fool and a hater? All because he disagrees with you.
How is “class” shown by backing out of the fight, giving your delegates to your opponent so that he can defeat the only other person who could have challenged him, and smarmily sliding away?
Romney’s an upper class Northerner, of course, and since I have read so many comments here about how Huckabee should be out eating squirrel and living in a trailer park, I guess I know what one of Romney’s charms was - he wasn’t a Southerner.
According to JON CHRISTIAN RYTER website, it isn’t possible for US to choose the President. Some of points are valid, and some not.
IF YOU WANT ROMNEY you had better show up at the Convention, otherwise it will be President Obama, and he plans to tiptoe through the tulips with A-jad in Iran...and that is THE END.
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