And just imagine what it will be 2 years from now.
I still remember him telling Fred Thompson in one of the debates that he likes mandates. I don’t see how the party will have any credibility if it nominates Romney. All the protest and oppsotion to Obamacare will mean nothing. At least someone like Thune, Barbour, Pawlenty, Huckabee, etc... doesn’t have a statist health care law on their record. How do we run against Obama when our guy passed the same thing?
It’d be like the dems nominating a guy who designed the Iraq War.
Aside from the health care issue, Romney DQed himself for me when he said last year that terrorism has nothing to do with Islam and they’re completely separate things. No one who thinks that belongs anywhere near the WH.
It's also why I feel Palin's backing of McCain is a very bad thing--it sends mixed messages. Someone who's strongly identified with the Tea Party movement is backing McCain?
I respect both McCain and Palin, but I don't think Palin "owed" McCain--if anything, he owes her--and her support of him comes across as her being part of the "good ol' boys" network, gender notwithstanding.
Meanwhile, Romney, whose attitudes about terrorism and healthcare are in perfect synch with the guy whose positions have us so outraged, may very well pull a McCain and, with his financial backing and glossy image, draw enough unenrolleds to get the nomination.
Depressing.
Thune isn’t interested in a presidential run. He’s running for re-election in the Senate, and Pawlenty is dopey enough to jump on the Green Economy (Marxism for job equality) bandwagon that turns off so many on the right. Pawlenty is as big a RINO as Romney is. Huck-a-phony is a liability because he raised taxes in Arkansas and pardoned a cop killer several years ago that killed 4 cops a few months ago in Washington state. He hasn’t fully explained himself on that, beyond blaming everyone else for bringing it up.
I know huh.
In the last election we ran a liberal white guy against a very liberal black guy. Of course the black guy wins. Its like an ace up the sleeve, only we seen the ace and never stopped the hand.
If the republicans do not run a conservative then they will certainly be done for.