Posted on 07/03/2009 2:50:54 PM PDT by greyfoxx39
Most Republicans have just finished what might be called the spring of their discontent. Not much went right in the first half of the year; not much to cheer about.
But not Mitt Romney. For this unsuccessful 2008 Republican presidential contender, it is hard to imagine how events could be moving more decisively in his favor in 2009. One can almost hear him wondering: Why didn't things break this way last year?
Let us count the ways that the world has conspired to help Mr. Romney. At a time when the Republican Party is straining to find new leaders, other prominent party members who aspire to that role -- Govs. Sarah Palin, Bobby Jindal and Mark Sanford, and Sen. John Ensign -- have stumbled or, in the case of Gov. Sanford, flamed out in spectacular fashion. Mitt Romney now looks by comparison like the serious adult in the room.
Romney Moves Back Into Spotlight 2:23 While other Republicans have withered, Mitt Romney has returned to the spotlight as a leading candidate of the minority party, WSJ's Gerald Seib reports. Beyond that, the national agenda is squarely focused on the economy -- which plays to Mr. Romney's strength as a successful businessman -- rather than on national security, which benefited Sen. John McCain in last year's primaries, or on the social issues where Mr. Romney's tendency to shift about has caused him so much trouble.
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Mr. Romney still has problems, of course, not least the lingering feeling that he has shifted his positions to pander to his party's social conservatives. But all told, most prominent Republicans would happily trade their problems for Mr. Romney's right now.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GET LOST, SLICK WILLARD !
Romeny is toast
I’m going to keep warning about this: ignore the horserace crap from the media. It’s in their interest (and the RATS, gee that’s redundant) to have a perpetual campaign.
This guy got a full airing in 2007 and 2008. No sale then, no sale now, and no sale in 2012. This guy has delusions of grandeur.
Romney emerges as the phony and fraud he’s always been.
Yeah, let’s go with another RINO. The last one worked out so well.
Romney will be crushed by any Dem candidate with a pulse.
Romney should go to work for a good automobile franchise as a sales manager.
Romney is the quintessential weasel. If the Republicans nominate him, then they really are toast.
God I hope you are right. I even heard Coulter talking about Romney today as if she thought he was just grand.
Very disappointing.
PLEASE..please...NO ROMNEY!!
Uh...maybe not. Bambi actually said his hideous health program was based on Romney’s - which has provided no health care and virtually bankrupted the state of Massachusetts.
Romney is a white Mormon Obama. On top of that, he wouldn’t have the influence with the “people of color” so he wouldn’t win anyway, but he’d take the slot away from a real conservative candidate who might actually win.
Romney is a troll.
Oh come on. Romney is another McCain as far as I am concerned. They are trying to force him down our throat.
I won’t support anyone with plastic hair!
One thing about this is Hussan, the worst president in history, has screwed up so bad. That these media people are hoping it will end soon.
I forget, is that socialized medicine or gun banning?
Or civil unions for gays and sodomite indoctrination in schools?
He has so many "strengths" that it is hard to keep them all straight.
(Nah; dislike of socialism, gun control, and a suspicious lack of morality couldn't have anything to do with why conservative Republicans dislike Romney. It must be because he's a Mormon).
“You don't know who you are messing with.”
—Anonymous hacker to S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford and mistress Maria Belen Chapur (source)
At least McCain had the manhood to be a sleazeball right out in the open. Romney is like the Eddie Haskell of politics. He’ll kiss June Cleaver’s butt while his other hand fishes around in her purse.
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