Posted on 07/23/2008 5:33:00 PM PDT by JRochelle
You've probably heard the story about the tycoon who wanted to bring out a new kind of dog food.
He spent lavishly. He hired the best marketing person, the top PR firm, the best ad agency, the No. 1 packaging expert, the most powerful distributor -- but the sales were flat after six months.
He summoned his consultants to a meeting and asked why the food wasn't selling. "The dogs won't eat it," was the answer that came back.
And so it is with Mitt Romney. Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries, the dogs won't eat it. He lost Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Florida and California. The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states; and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals couldn't spare the cash to advertise. Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries. Using his gigantic money advantage to dominate television, he seized early leads in virtually all of the primary states, only to lose them later on. And, when they started slipping away, he resorted to unfair, distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges.
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Thanks. Never seen the guy before and that was not exactly a stunning performance. Surely we have some other serious VP candidates out there.
Slick Willard lusts after the Presidency like Bubba lusts after chubby interns. You’ve been corrected, Mr. Paid Agent of the Slick Willard campaign.
I mean Sanford might have a future with the GOP.
But right now he’s not ready for Prime Time.
We need someone with a base in place.
I knew you wouldn’t answer the question!
I’ll ask again. If he “lusts” after the Presidency then why did he suspend his campaign?
He could have kept going. He has much more money than Huckabee.
Slick Willard’s base of kooks, nuts, sycophants, metrosexuals, moon people and slanderers ? Say hello to President Obama !
If Morris says something’s going to happen.. you can always expect the opposite.
He’s notorious for making wrong decisions!
He hasn’t suspended his campaign or you and your cohorts wouldn’t be spamming this board propagandizing for his candidacy.
Urban myth.
Dickie usually is wrong.
Like a broken clock, he ain’t wrong here (at least the headline, not his suggestion for other loser RINOs to be VP).
We’re encouraging McCain to pick him for VP.
I wish he hadn’t suspended his campaign but that’s the way things go.
He set aside his personal ambition for the good of the country.
You would be wise to do the same.
NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!
If McCain is serious about winning, he needs to pick a conservative. Moderates and liberals as listed above, need not apply.
I read an article that was sufficient enough.
He didn’t all out endorse him.. but he alluded to it.
Morris must think Romney is too Conservative.
Any day now Powell will endorse Obama anyways
I stand corrected, there are non-mormon Mitt supporters who will make such evangelical-hating comments. I stand corrected.
Put down the crackpipe, Connie. He can’t buy himself the Presidency, so he buys the Vice-Presidency and waits for McCain to die, getting the Presidency.
This couldn’t be a juicier opportunity for Slick Willard to weasel his way to the White House so he can do to the country what he did to Massachusetts, the state GOP and the Maucks. Kill it.
Oh, I agree. Besides, Powell might endorse Obama.
“It would take a lot more than that in the South with Romney on the ticket.”
I don’t think Southern prejudice against a yankee Mormon would be greater than that against an uppety churchless black guy.
I’m also a Southern Baptist who supports Mitt
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