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Romney: Let’s face it, Obama’s going to be very tough to beat (Expects Good Obama-conomy soon)
Hot Air ^ | 9-24-10 | Allahpundit

Posted on 09/24/2010 6:33:47 PM PDT by TitansAFC

Via GOP12, I’m surprised that this modest statement of painfully obvious fact is making waves today. Click the image below and skip ahead to 8:00 for the money part, although the whole thing’s worth watching. He starts with a cute bit about phoning the families of National Guardsmen to say hi, proceeds to talk about Campaign ’08, and then after the part about Obama praises Palin for her “energy and spunk and passion.” (“Code words,” says Ben Smith, trying to stir up trouble.) What makes this newsworthy, I guess, is that it’s a rare caution about hubris at a moment when not only has Obama been beaten to a pulp politically but establishment Republicans are themselves on the ropes and being hammered by tea partiers. The key word, though, is “economy.” Like Mitt says, it will come back despite The One’s best efforts to the contrary, and when it does he’s going to get most of the credit. The only hope for the GOP nominee is that Romney is right in thinking that “the American people have established a perspective on the President which is going to be lasting.” Will it last, though? If unemployment starts to dip and Obama inches right to pass some economic legislation with the GOP Congress, he’ll sell himself next time as the centrist pragmatist of David Brooks’s dreams. Which will be Romney’s cue to argue that the GOP needs a nominee who’s equally centrist and can compete for swing voters, thus raising the question: Does a stronger Obama actually improve Mitt’s chances for the nomination by making electability more of an issue for base voters? Hmmmm.


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To: american_ranger
"I will never vote for romney."

If the two main choices are Obama and Romney will you join me in voting for the Green Party candidate?

There is a chance that there will be a sufficient number of liberals upset by Obama that 5% of the vote could go to the Greens. If that happens then all sorts of things kick in, like their candidates being allowed into debates, etc.

Going directly at the Democrats with the Republicans doesn't seem to have worked that well to date. A pincer movement involving a left-flanking Green Party might just do the trick!

41 posted on 09/24/2010 7:02:23 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (These fragments I have shored against my ruins)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The buzz is he is. Axelrod’s leaving is rumored to be to reassume his role as campaign manager for the 2012 reelection bid


42 posted on 09/24/2010 7:02:44 PM PDT by fml
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To: TitansAFC

Romney would have an extremely difficult time beating Obama, tis true.


43 posted on 09/24/2010 7:05:07 PM PDT by Yet_Again
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To: fml
Ain't gonna happen. No need. The Cloward-Piven/Alinski strategy of overwhelming the system is irreversibly underway.

Next stop: Secretary-General of the United Nations and turning the UN into a de facto world government.

44 posted on 09/24/2010 7:07:01 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: onyx

“Susana Martinez of New Mexico”

He endorsed Martinez the day after the Primary.

Does sound like he didn’t even know he (his pac) endorsed Martinez.


45 posted on 09/24/2010 7:07:08 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: who knows what evil?

I will never vote for romney.
Ditto.

Ditto your ditto


46 posted on 09/24/2010 7:08:05 PM PDT by Breto (never accept the premise)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Shudder.

Care to hazzrard a guess who they will put up then? Will they through the election- how can they justify anyone if the sitting pres. walks away?

47 posted on 09/24/2010 7:10:48 PM PDT by fml
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To: fml
It's all about Obama. Everything/everybody else is collateral damage.
48 posted on 09/24/2010 7:12:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let us “deem” ourselves ungovernable, then.

And.....Mitt Romney is a mayonnaise sandwich on white bread;

Obama is the sh*t sandwich we must purge ourselves of.


49 posted on 09/24/2010 7:15:03 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
He's not running for second term.

He can't without addressing the birth certificate issue, and he can't produce an acceptable one.

Dead on the money, my friend. IF Obama even makes it to the end of his one and only term, there's a widespread tacit understanding that the people will NOT be fooled a second time by the fraud.

The country will also be sufficiently revolutionary by that time, that the bc and the eligibility question will be positively radioactive, and on the lips of everyone in the country. The issue can't be silenced, and it cannot be overcome by the MSM.

50 posted on 09/24/2010 7:19:45 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: TitansAFC; onyx

Palin brings “energy and spunk and passion” to “my” party?

Calling a female candidate for president “spunky” is condescending, forgetting to say “our” party in regards to Palin is condescending, he followed that with saying that when McCain was looking at the list for female republicans to make a vice presidential pick, and THAT is condescending.


51 posted on 09/24/2010 7:27:42 PM PDT by ansel12 ([fear of Islam.] Once you are paralyzed by fear of Mohammedanism...you have lost the battle.)
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To: TitansAFC
If the GOP nominates RINO Romney for Pres in 2012, Obama will win, & the GOP will lose its conservative base to a new party, likely the TEA party. Four years later, the GOP will be as marginal as the Libertarians.

Conservatives have caught on to the RINO game. I'm not voting for a RINO that steals our freedoms & wealth just like a Rat. At least Rats stand by their principles, while RINOs have no principles.

Given the choice of Romney or a Rat (Obama), I will vote for neither.

52 posted on 09/24/2010 7:31:52 PM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: TitansAFC

I can’t stand this creep


53 posted on 09/24/2010 7:33:04 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys)
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To: TitansAFC
Romney brought Massachusetts Deval Patrick.
Romney brought Obama in 2008.
Romney is insuring Deval Patrick in 2010 by pushing his RomneyBOT Baker.
Romney will bring Obama in 2012.

"Let's con them all!"

54 posted on 09/24/2010 7:35:23 PM PDT by Diogenesis ('Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.' - Optimus Prime)
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To: TitansAFC

Allahpundit is a cr@pweasel blogger, and Romney is a cr@pweasel politician. In 2012, I hope they’ll be happy together on some uncharted island in the South Pacific.


55 posted on 09/24/2010 7:36:12 PM PDT by Lauren BaRecall (Paladino is a rock star!)
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To: ansel12

You’re right, and the author of the piece revels in it. The author always had it in for Sarah Palin.


56 posted on 09/24/2010 7:41:44 PM PDT by Lauren BaRecall (Paladino is a rock star!)
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To: TitansAFC

Romney praises Obama again
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney praised President Obama
at a GOP fundraising dinner Wednesday ..
"I also think it's important for us to nod to the president when he's right," Romney said....
Romney, who spoke at a dinner for the National Republican Senatorial Committee,
said he's pleased with the president's plans to "finish the job" in Iraq and Afghanistan
-- lines that drew applause from the partisan audience. He also applauded the president
for standing up to the auto industry.
"I hope he continues to be tough ....The former businessman even offered faint praise for
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, saying that after a series of initial missteps,
"I think he's finally getting close to the right answer."



57 posted on 09/24/2010 7:42:48 PM PDT by Diogenesis ('Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.' - Optimus Prime)
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To: TitansAFC

“pretty hard to beat” sounds darned defeatist. How about — “Let’s give the Marxists a run for their money. We can do it.”

sheesh..


58 posted on 09/24/2010 7:47:10 PM PDT by bboop (We don't need no stinkin' VAT)
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To: caww
Anyone in their own right mind knows BO can be beat,

Exactly! And for someone to say he's hard to beat, shows how weak they are.


59 posted on 09/24/2010 7:49:22 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: Breto; who knows what evil?

I will never vote for romney.

Ditto.

Ditto your ditto

Ditto x 4.


60 posted on 09/24/2010 7:50:28 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (3 great American Thomases: Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Thomas Sowell.)
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