GOP kingmaker leans toward Mitt Romney

politico ^ | 5/19/09 | Ken Vogel

[pissant]

The kingmakers are solely responsible for Rudy McRomney last time.

[rabscuttle385]

Malek praised Sanford’s initial stand against accepting federal stimulus funds and asserted he “could be a challenger to Mitt or on the ticket if he decides to go that way.”

Sanford must challenge and defeat Romney.

[pointsal]

Another looney trip down the rat hole.... Mitt will never cut the mustard! Face it.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

IOW Mr. Malek thinks voters are stupid.

[Tarpon]

And all this time, I didn’t know we had a king maker. Silly me.

You can build clown cars, but can you actually get people to work a job and buy a clown car. Nope.

Sort of similar with votes.

[AlaskaErik]

Great. Let’s just lose again. Romney is a polarizing gun hating RINO. We need to find a viable conservative who respects the entire Constitution.

[Jeff Chandler]

Oy vey!

[Nonstatist]

Only Sanford seems half way decent there

[LibFreeOrDie]

He ranks Pataki before Palin?!?!?!

Sure, another "big tent" lecture...

[muawiyah]

http://watchdog.net/empl/thayer%20capital%20partners shows that the PAC at Thayer raised money for an all-star caste of RINOs and Obama!

Mr. Thayer has got to show more control over his associates than that!!!

He should restrict himself to Massachusetts.

[ChrisInAR]

Great. Let’s just lose again. Romney is a polarizing gun hating RINO. We need to find a viable conservative who respects the entire Constitution.

We had one last year, & his name was Ron Paul.

[CitizenUSA]

Never again will I vote for RINOs like McCain or Romney. McCain was my last “lesser of two evils” vote.

Oh, Romney would resist the Democrats. They’d propose $10 trillion in new expenditures, and he’d fight them tooth and nail to get them down to $9.5 trillion. Or they’d demand 45 MPG gas standards on new cars, and Romney wouldn’t settle for anything more than 43 MPG. Folks, we don’t need that kind of leadership!

Now I know we might well go down to defeat with a conservative candidate, but how will we ever know if we don’t run one? And, the Republican Party will never stop nominating moderates if we keep voting for them anyway.

If we’re going to destroy this country with socialism, I’d rather get on with it than push it another 20 years down the road for my children.

[cripplecreek]

Wouldn’t it be less embarrassing if he just burned his money?

[Retired Greyhound]

Seriously, the only candidate that I believe has the balls to stand up to this Congress is Sarah Palin.

Whether she can get elected in this sissy country is another story.

[timydnuc]

Everybody on the left is advising us. To hell with the advice. We haven't really seen the next leader of the Republican party yet. There are those that are emerging, i.e. Mark Sanford of South Carolina, but we'll decide that. Sarah Palin is rocking the left, and standing firm against the attack. We have choices and WE are the ones to make them.

In the mean time we must work hard to take back one house of Congress. If we don't we are a socialist country and your freedom is gone.

[GenXFreedomFighter]

No more candidates from the kingmakers’ political machines, please! Give us a real choice.

[GOPsterinMA]

I could this being true under these conditions:

1. Barry is such a failure that almost anyone (including an intra-party challenger) could beat him.

2. The Republican field consists of only McCain (running again), Crist, Lindsay Graham and Huckabee.

Then yes, Mitt could win. I don't foresee either 1 or 2 happening though, which is a good thing.

[spikeytx86]

I don't think you have to be a “king maker” to see that Romney is the historical favorite. He came in second (disregarding Huckabee who is only second because he refused to get out of the race when it was really over), he has a well established network, he has the establishment for the most part on his side, he has good name recognition, and he can self finance.

He has a lot of advantages and will be a formidable candidate. So yeah of course he is seen as the favorite. Of course so was Giuliani.

If there is one thing I learned from 2008 it's that the candidates everyone are talking about now will not be the nominee come 2012.

[Diogenesis]

"We are for Romney. He gave us the rights to health care and marriage."

[MortMan]

If the republicans believe this is in their best interest, I will not stand in their way.

Nor will I support them, including with my vote.

To hell with all of them.

If the party is this stupid, they deserve their monumental crap sandwich.