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Palin, Romney Play Chess in Primaries
Newsweek ^
| 6/8/10
| Alan Mascarenhas
Posted on 06/08/2010 1:09:17 PM PDT by pissant
The 2012 presidential election may be 29 months away, but the potential players are stalking each other like chess grandmasters. Tonight's round of gubernatorial and Senate primaries could provide early indicators of who is most shrewdly mobilizing their pieces into position. Three states with big races on Tuesday represent potential game-changers in 2012. Iowa and South Carolina occupy key early positions in the presidential-primary calendar, while California boasts a mother lode of winner-take-all delegates.
For presumed hopefuls like Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, and Mike Huckabee, the calculation is simple. Endorse a statewide candidate who wins (both tonight and in November's general election), and that person could repay the favorand bring along their supporters and donorsor at worst remain neutral in 2012. But backing a loser means having your political savvy and star power called into questionat least for a day.
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To: unseen1
I think Mitt believed his book and the signing tour would ignite his campaign. It didn't. When he came to Birmingham, MI (a Detroit suburb and his boyhood home), he attracted about 400 and got little media attention. In some cities only drew about 100. He couldn't even sell out in Salt Lake City.
Palin opened in Grand Rapids and that set the tone (people camping out overnight, major media coverage, etc.).
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posted on
06/08/2010 2:04:17 PM PDT
by
bwc2221
To: TitansAFC
Mitt Romney is a misogynist who never protected
either Gov Palin or her children from his Team Romney,
and who never allow the Lt. Gov
on the stage with him in Massachusetts and
did not even "endorse" her until she lost the election.
Did Romney remove those who attacked Gov. Palin?
and her children? All FReepers know he did not.
Therefore, history will not be kind. If Romney runs,
the problems (along with gay marriage, the BIG DIG coverup,
and RomneyCARE, etc. etc. etc.) will be linked to the GOP
as the self-serving SOB has wanted all along.
Obama is Pres_ _ent now precisely because of Romney
and his vicious RomneyBOTs which are a fifth column in the GOP.
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posted on
06/08/2010 2:08:20 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
To: TitansAFC
And then Bush, McCain, Dole, etc. get the nod in a landslide anyway. Yep. So blame that on the morons who vote for these retards time and again. Just like Arnold over McClintock, just like Fiorina over DeVore, just like McCain over JD, etc. Maybe one day the party will pull its head out of its rear, ya think?
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posted on
06/08/2010 2:09:42 PM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: bwc2221
Thanks for the update on mitt’s tour. Couldn’t find anything - slick mitt must have paid them to keep quiet.
Sarah’s book tour was wild! Sarah has the voters hearts, no doubt about it.
To: TitansAFC
The Coulter thing I don't understand.
Is Laura I still supporting him? If so that surprises me, she's always been a genuine conservative from what I've heard from her.
Peggy Noonan lost it many years ago, going so far as to support Bambi.
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posted on
06/08/2010 2:23:33 PM PDT
by
Lakeshark
(Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
To: bwc2221
from the NYT booklist Mitt had to buy bulk-orders of his book to get it to number 1 for 2 weeks. When the bulk orders stopped his book quickly went the way of the dodo bird
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posted on
06/08/2010 2:31:05 PM PDT
by
unseen1
To: cvq3842
Yes - when Romney and Huckabee get mentioned especially I get and uneasy feeling that the Republicans could manage to blow it.”
Agreed: as a life long Republican, I will never vote for either of them.
Huckabee is a shyster hustler.
Romnay is a good businessman & belongs at Dept of Commerce, instead.
To: ZULU
Romney seems to follow the path of least resistance = no backbone.
Huckabee, while a nice man, seems to interject religion into everything = keep it to the Constitution
Hunter seems like an ok guy, but can’t gain traction
2012 will be the year of the woman.
I’d like:
Palin/Pres
Herman Cain/VP
Bolton/S.S.
Petraeus/Sec Def [unless Chmn Joint Chief of Staff is an appointed position?]
DeMint/Senate Leader- he’d clean up those crappy Parliamentarians
Paul Ryan/Speaker of the House
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posted on
06/08/2010 3:18:31 PM PDT
by
FreeStateYank
(I want my country and constitution back, now!)
To: Diogenesis
Big Dig was a disaster due to contract specs requiring union workers, much of which was subbed out to folks who didn’t know their head from a hole in the ground- according to personal sources close to the project.
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posted on
06/08/2010 3:20:26 PM PDT
by
FreeStateYank
(I want my country and constitution back, now!)
To: TitansAFC
Women think Mr. Fake Romney is dreamy? If so, my gender needs to wake up.
I don’t trust that slime ball a’tall.
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posted on
06/08/2010 3:22:35 PM PDT
by
FreeStateYank
(I want my country and constitution back, now!)
To: FreeStateYank
I am enamored of Paul Ryan, wouldn’t mind seeing him at the top of the ticket.
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posted on
06/08/2010 3:23:26 PM PDT
by
tioga
(Remember in November.)
To: FreeStateYank
Romney is responsible for the BIG DIG COVERUP
and other coverups, too.
Also, the BIG DIG was a disaster because it
is a tunnel with one wall under water, so it must leak.
Finally, Romney brought Massachusetts to be the 48th lowest state in employment. What a POS Romney was/is.
"(Under the lash of Mitt RomneyCARE) as U.S. real output grew
13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
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posted on
06/08/2010 3:46:20 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(Article IV - Section 4 - The United States shall protect each of them against Invasion)
To: newfreep
At some point, even an idiot savant would get it - supporting 1% Hunter for President is as futile as hoping Chairman MAO-bama improves the economy - aint gonna happen.By this standard, every vote casted in every campaign for a losing candidate was a wasted vote...futile...empty...A team that loses a football game 49-48 loses just like a team losing 55-3...there's no glory in either one.
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