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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Well then they will not vote for McCain no matter what if they hate RINOs, so I guess it doesn’t matter who the VP candidate is.
Leni
Watts I could imagine, Williams no. Although how old is Willaims?
I second and third Gov. Palin
Never heard of ‘em. Next.
McCain is the real problem with the Republican ticket. People know he’s been as much a Dem. as a Republican. He cedes some of the strongest issues by being little different from Dems. on immigration and even drilling. All he’s conceded on drilling is offshore IF the states agree. I’m sure his $5,000 credit for electric cars will electrify all those fiscal conservatives, evangelicals, etc.
No one is naming any really exciting VP choices. Palin and Jindal need to do the jobs the were elected for before they jump to a national ticket. Pawlenty is very blah. A few I’ve scarcely hear of. Romney is the cream of the possibilities and would be the best campaigner, in the south and elsewhere.
McCain’s leftist positions will cost the ticket more conservative votes than Romney would. Once evangelicals well learn how radical Obama’s positions on abortion and other issues are, they will be very content to vote for a ticket with a Mormon.
Never has a year provided us more evidence that these months out polls are almost meaningless.
From what McCain said tonight, I am convinced Lindsey Graham is his pick when the final choice is announced.
LOL!!
“Give me John Bolton for VP. He’d crush whomever Obama picks in the debates.”
I’d gladly go along with that, but I doubt the afraid to offend anyone McCain would. Bolton is the sort of real straight talker we need, but the sort that the faux straight talker McCain couldn’t tolerate.
Go do some research. Just because you haven’t heard of Gov. Sanford doesn’t mean the rest of FR hasn’t.
Dang! Morris is REALLY losing it. Connolly’s fabled $10 million dollar delegate was in 1980, NOT 1968. While the guy probably forgot more than I’ll ever know on the topic, he obviously forgot plenty, and worse yet, doesn’t know he forgot it!
Evangelicals may well vote for a McCain/Romney ticket to prevent Obamessiah from rising to the White House, but they will not be 'content' or 'very content' to do so because of the moderate/liberal ticket. But that was a nice try.
I don’t need to do any reserach. If I haven’t heard of em he doesn’t have nature stature that would help elect McCain. So just picking some unheard of conservative is meaningless ELM.
“From what McCain said tonight, I am convinced Lindsey Graham is his pick when the final choice is announced.”
If McCain wants a real suck-up as his VP, then Lindsey’s the man. And I’m not implying any double meaning, just that Lindsey would be in total accord with McCain on everything and totally loyal.
But I can’t imagine how he’d help the ticket, and he might hurt it.
Bolton would be fantastic. Tough. Smart.
But he would not get the crossover votes that Gov.Palin would.
Guess again. This "he's not as bad as the other guy" ain't gonna wash. A lot of Republicans sat out 2006 thanks to that schtick. Once again, they just won't show up to vote this year, either. McCain has to repair the damage with Conservatives, but thumbing them in the eye by foisting one of the worst Governors in the country with a record of Socialism and outright fraud will make it that much easier for us Conservatives to tell Juan he can shove it. Picking someone like Gov. Sanford will prove he's remotely sincere in reaching out to Conservatives.
McCain is not a really secure person so he will need a running mate who is a close friend and associate, like the gang-o-fourteen suck-up, Lindsey Graham. I happened to have voted for Romney in the Tennessee primary because I deemed him less liberal than McCain! I can vote for a McCain/Romney ticket, to get it our of our conservative republican system! The thing in favor of Romney over Graham is the war that will be on the next four years with democraps controlling House and Senate. Graham is a smart but compromising politician, more so than Romney but not much more than.
Graham might actually manage to be an even worse choice than Slick Willard... and that’s really saying something.
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