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GOP kingmaker leans toward Mitt Romney
politico ^ | 5/19/09 | Ken Vogel

Posted on 05/19/2009 4:31:55 PM PDT by pissant

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To: AlaskaErik

The gay groups will be all over him since he is Mormon.


21 posted on 05/19/2009 4:53:15 PM PDT by jerri
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To: pissant

King maker? McCain lost. Yeah, this guy’s an authority to take to the bank. /s


22 posted on 05/19/2009 4:53:27 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism, it's the new black.)
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To: spikeytx86
"If there is one thing I learned from 2008 it's that the candidates everyone aretalking about now will not be the nominee come 2012." LOL! Now that is a brain fart. Should be everyone is...
23 posted on 05/19/2009 4:53:36 PM PDT by spikeytx86 (Pray for Democrats for they have been brainwashed by their fruity little club.)
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To: spikeytx86

The only ones talking about loser Romney are Romney,
his family, his servants, and his minions.

Romney = Poor Loser


24 posted on 05/19/2009 4:56:05 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: pissant

If Romney gets on the ticket, the Republicans are going to lose, because there are going to be signficant numbers of Christians who are not going to vote for a cult-group member.

I think Steele was trying to tell the GOP about that problem... :-)


25 posted on 05/19/2009 4:57:05 PM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: ChrisInAR
"We had one last year, & his name was Ron Paul.

Anyone who gives more than a moment of thought to 9/11 Truthers isn't fit to be manager of the city sewer system, let alone President of the United States.

Ron Paul makes Ross Perot look sane.

26 posted on 05/19/2009 5:00:13 PM PDT by Big_Monkey (Flubama - bringing disease everywhere he goes.)
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To: Diogenesis

You can’t discount the party’s tendency to give the nomination to someone because “it’s their turn”.


27 posted on 05/19/2009 5:00:20 PM PDT by spikeytx86 (Pray for Democrats for they have been brainwashed by their fruity little club.)
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To: pissant

Thank goodness Malek doesn’t have Gov. Palin on the top area of his list.

When you see his background, no wonder he favors the sons of the rich, Mitt and Sandy.

Malek does not come from a political Conservative background.


28 posted on 05/19/2009 5:00:24 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: pissant

GOP Kingmakers can kiss my ass.


29 posted on 05/19/2009 5:00:32 PM PDT by wardaddy (Ole Miss beat Notre Dame back in 1978. ...did that start the decline)
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To: wardaddy

“On August 12, 2003, the SEC filed a civil fraud lawsuit[18] against former Connecticut state Senate Majority Leader William DiBella for participating in a fraudulent scheme to invest $75 million of the state pension funds with Malek’s firm, Thayer Capital Partners.[18] [19] On May 18, 2007, DiBella and North Cove were found liable for aiding and abetting Silvester’s intentional violations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and Thayer was found in negligence of Investment Advisers Act of 1940. Thayer paid a civil penalty of $150,000, and Malek personally paid a fine of $100,000”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Malek#cite_note-sec2-19

http://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2008/lr20498.htm


30 posted on 05/19/2009 5:03:49 PM PDT by campaignPete R-CT
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To: spikeytx86
Romney's turn was 2008.
Romney lost, so he sabotaged Election2008.

The ONLY ONES THAT WANT BACKSTABBER, PROVEN LOSER ROMNEY is the DNC and MSM.

James Carville (DNC): "It's a feel-good story, this Romney thing. Romney is an ascendant guy."

31 posted on 05/19/2009 5:04:28 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: pissant

No thanks. Not buying.


32 posted on 05/19/2009 5:06:18 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: pissant

Malek’s full of himself and has no clue about how pissed-off the base really is. The RINO establishment in DC might love Romney, but no one else does, and his 2012 campaign will get no where, just like in 2008.


33 posted on 05/19/2009 5:06:33 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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“Politico” is also full of liberal hacks.
Their agenda is to bash Gov. Palin by
innuendo.
Only the uneducated by into this.


34 posted on 05/19/2009 5:08:11 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: pissant

BARF I won’t vote for Romney no matter how many support him..!


35 posted on 05/19/2009 5:08:28 PM PDT by JSDude1 (DHS, FBI, FEMA, etc have been bad little boys. They need to be spanked and sent to timeout!)
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To: spikeytx86
He has a lot of advantages and will be a formidable candidate.

Candidates can only be formidable when people actually support and vote for them.

36 posted on 05/19/2009 5:09:24 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: Star Traveler

It’s not the Mormon thing that true Conservative Christians care about (politically speaking), it’s his RINO/Liberal Establishment tendances that DQ thia flip-flopper!


37 posted on 05/19/2009 5:11:09 PM PDT by JSDude1 (DHS, FBI, FEMA, etc have been bad little boys. They need to be spanked and sent to timeout!)
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To: Diogenesis
LOL! I love that cartoon!

Don't misunderstand me. I am not trying to push him as a candidate. Palin or Sanford strike me as our best candidates thus far.

All I am saying is, don't dismiss him. He will be a lot tougher then you think to defeat.

38 posted on 05/19/2009 5:12:10 PM PDT by spikeytx86 (Pray for Democrats for they have been brainwashed by their fruity little club.)
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To: spikeytx86
"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.

2008 was a very strange year. It was the first time in decades that neither a sitting President nor VP was standing for election. Succinctly put, it was a free for all.

2012 should be a more traditional year with respect to an opposition party selecting a candidate to challenge a sitting President. Rarely, in these instances do "dark horses" come from nowhere to gain the party's (in the GOP) nomination. In the last 50 years, we've selected Goldwater, Reagan and Dole to challenge Dem incumbents - all very well known political figures. I'm guessing that 2012 will be the same. Whomever the nominee will be, I'm quite sure that it will be a very well-known and experienced name.

39 posted on 05/19/2009 5:12:56 PM PDT by Big_Monkey (Flubama - bringing disease everywhere he goes.)
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To: Retired Greyhound

We need to catalouge each and every slip up and make sure the country knows about it. We need Palin as our contender and we need to make sure no one in our party steps out of line.

In 2008 we coalesced around McCain because of Palin. All of us rallied and even the average Joe went for her.

We are messing up because we are doing the same thing expecting different results. We need new blood and we need zealots, not jaded cynics.

The Democrats have the advantage of fighting dirty and once they have a specific candidate in mind none of them come out in public and make any disparaging remarks, all of them toe the line. Any disagreements are privately discussed.

The Republican ‘leadership’ needs to step aside if they aren’t going to get it together. If Republicans ran companies like we do the party we would never be successful.


40 posted on 05/19/2009 5:13:09 PM PDT by Niuhuru
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