Posted on 06/26/2009 9:30:15 PM PDT by thecodont
With South Carolina governor Mark Sanford still wondering how to solve a problem called Maria, and GOP biggies falling by the wayside, a Californian may be poised to now take the reins as the leader of the GOP 2012 possible presidential pack.
Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, now claims the Golden State as his full-time home since he bought a lovely beachfront estate in La Jolla where and wife Ann now reside.
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Sanford's Maria meltdown has meant that the stash of GOP possible presidential hopefuls and leadeers is shrinking fast -- with some GOPers say Romney now looks stronger than ever.
Why?
With his move to California, there's now four states where Romney now has direct connections and a potential base of supporters: count Massachusetts, of course, along with Michigan, where his dad was governor, and Utah, the Mormon stronghold where he managed the winter Olympics.
Romney didn't connect with voters enough to come out ahead in the 2008 race against Arizona Sen. John McCain. But does he now have a chance for another bite at the apple? Some GOPers say he's the go-to guy now: he's been through the process, he has a national organization, the name recognition, all sorts of friends in high places who can make good contacts for him -- and he's a squeaky clean family guy unlikely to have a Sanford-like meltdown. Besides, he's working on a policy book: "a sure sign he's going to run for office,'' says one well-connected GOP insider.
So this gives him a real serious lead over former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee -- now a radio and TV commentator -- Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who still has a strong core of GOP fans.
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LMAO! Way to go.
Whaso funny?
From your keyboard to God's ears! Amen!
How I love Thomas Sowell.
That's sad, because Mitt is economically liberal. In grand platitudinous phraseology he claims otherwise, and others say otherwise, but the proposals Romney offers as solutions to illusionary perceived problems like energy, climate change, business and health care, involve government meddling and regulation; he swears up and down that it's "free market," but that's like Obama swearing up and down that he doesn't want to take over GM. Government meddling and regulation in private enterprise is guaranteed to garner the opposite results of anything near economic conservatism.
Romney is bad news. He is "one of us" to the liberal big government moderate Eastern establishment beltway and Country Club Republicans. He is ONE OF THEM.
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