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.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
What you listened to was a hatchet job by CNN, posted by a shillbot for Slick Willard. Go do some independent research on Mark Sanford. He’s one of our best and brightest Conservatives out there today.
I hadn’t heard of Green. I don’t like what I’ve just read on wikipedia. Typical rat election thief?
From the 1850s until the 1930s, RI had essentially been a fairly solid GOP state, although the Dems occasionally scored wins (for Governor & Congress). Although MA & RI appear somewhat similar politically today, how they became rodent states were different.
RI was controlled by a few political families (the Chafees were one of them). When 65-year old perennial political has-been liberal Dem Teddy Green was elected Governor in 1932 (thanks to the FDR landslide), he had been stymied by a GOP legislature that stopped his schemes. After he won reelection in 1934 and through to 1936, he essentially launched a coup d’etat and deposed the rightfully elected GOP Senate majority in the legislature by refusing to seat a few duly elected members (the Wikipedia article does mention this) and installing rodents in their places (if a Republican had done that today, he’d have not only been impeached, but probably imprisoned). When he broke the GOP, they never became the established majority party again (with the lone exception of single occasions into the late ‘50s, but would always revert back to the Dems).
Problematic for the GOP was that they were never able to take a good chunk of the urban ethnic/Catholic vote (somewhat similar to MA in that regard, since the GOP was viewed as a “Mayflower” type of party — and the power of the GOP came from the rural areas outside Providence, and Providence had been moving towards the Dems in the two previous decades). They did give it a game try in 1928 when they ran a French Canadian Catholic for the Senate named Felix Hebert (no relation to the longtime Louisiana Democrat Congressman of the same name). Hebert fell in 1934 to the Democrat he toppled in 1928.
The GOP is weak in the state, of course (the legislative numbers have remained steady for years, with the exception of a brief special election in the ‘80s when the GOP scored brief stunning gains due to massive Dem legislative corruption), but not entirely dead. They have managed to elect downballot statewide officeholders, held both House seats in the past 20 years (indeed, from 1989-91, we held 75% of MA’s federal delegation — after Chafee’s defeat in ‘06, that was the first time in 32 years a Republican wouldn’t have a federal member). They have an excellent Governor (whom is a Conservative), Don Carcieri, whom managed to win reelection in the awful year of 2006. The Dems haven’t elected a Governor since ‘92 (indeed, the GOP is on track to having the longest control of the office for the party since 1871-1887).
As for Green, the nearly 70-year old man exited office as Governor in 1937 and began his career in Washington, DC in the Senate — where he served for the next 24 years until 1961. At the time of his retirement, he was the oldest Senator in U.S. history (93). Strom Thurmond broke his record in 1996. Robert Byrd, who turns 91 this year, served with Green in his first two years in the Senate (and Green’s final two — Green was then 50 years older than Byrd).
Someone I know who held their nose and voted for Romney...
But is man enough to admit it...
Is convinced that Obama will win...
uh-huh. yeah, right. Thanks for your input.
Mitt to Ted:
Hey Ted, you can leave them underwater and they would still qualify for this insurance! Ha Ha !!!!
WHY ARE WE LISTENING TO THIS GUY WHO WANTED TO FOIST HUCKSTER ON US?!?!
Mike Huckabee today would be 20 points down and would have dragged the GOP down the drain with him.
Morris’ support for Huck was about stopping Romney. It worked.
Now Morris has the knives out again.
And Rick Perry.
{waving hand} Here!
Gee whiz, I’m all over this thread... from 2 years ago. :-P
LOL - I stumbled onto it and figured, what the hey? It needed a little updating. ;-)
Don’t forget Thune too!
See I mentioned supporting Mark Sanford. What a shame. He let so many people down. :-(
He really did let a lot of us down. But you had no way of knowing back then...he hadn’t “disappeared” to Buenos Aires yet. :)
Present or accounted for. Hooah.
Well, at the time, I kept wondering WHY he wasn’t running, and as it turned out, that was the secret he was sitting on, and had he run, it would’ve come out in short order. Only Democrats can get away with hiding things, as we have seen...
It is kind of surreal reading posts which were written in July 2008, before McCain picked Sarah Palin, before the financial meltdown, when we had a President who loved America and the American people, not just himself and his soulmates...before the barbarian invasion of Chicago thugs.
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