Karl Rove and his RINO lackeys are clueless. Romney will NOT be the nominee.
I still don’t understand how he thinks he can win.
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Absolute hubris.
I’m not a fan of his, but am happy he is running. We need a vigorous primary to get the best candidate. No McCains or Doles.
“Am I going to have to skip the 2012 election as well?”
Nope...he will NOT be nominated.
The only reason Romney even has a shot at getting the nomination is because the GOP still insists on having its first primaries in blue states that allow for Democrats to choose GOP candidates. Get the first contests out of Iowa and New Hampshire, and close them all to GOP members only and Romney and his ilk will not be as big a threat.
If Romney gets the nomination, my wife and I will vote third party in 2012, even if it means 0bama being re-elected. I refuse to vote for someone who supports in lockstep with every liberal policy position that comes down the pike.
He has the political pedigree, he's had the establishment behind him for years, more money than he needs, and a record of accomplishment in the private sector that puts his all his potential rivals to shame.
And yet, and yet...he faces the real prospect of defeat by this "little lady" from Alaska who has started the race with not one of his many advantages.
If Romney is waiting, he's waiting to see if he can avoid a humiliating defeat. To lose to a veteran establishment Senator like McCain is one thing. To lose to Sarah Palin would be far worse to him.
Mitt’s got nothing else to do.
I think that Obama has made a Romney nomination more likely though. The Dem defectors will be voting in the GOP primaries this time.
credit to andy58-in-nh ....
He’s waiting to find out what his lifelong deeply held convictions will be for this election cycle.
A progressive is a progressive. I’m sure if there is a real Conservative candidate, Mitt can expect funding from the same shadow folks who got McCain back in the race.
Willard: "Do you duty. For me, as I hide, out of sight.
You will embrace these attacks on Gov. Palin and her children.
Join Rove and the others. Put her down.
Just like Election 2008. Just like Election 2010.
Create, then support, the attacks from our northern lands.
Use our bought media, and plants within the Obama and Palin teams.
Promise anything like before. ordering them opposed from our lands in the south.
Whichever way the tide runs, we will rise and only I will be left standing. "
He has the support of the GOP ruling class. The little people who don't support him don't exist in his world.
Maybe the Romneybots will hold their breath until he announces.
He is so YESTERDAY. I wanted him in 2008, considering that the only other choices were McCain and that criminal coddler. But that was 2008. Now, for me at least, it’s DeMint.
The RNC & Rinos are thinking Smurkowski. The people are thinking Palin, DeMint.
You know, early in 2009 when the GOP seemed to be on the run, when they were so demoralized they thought they had no choice but to give O everything he wanted, when I think some of them thought the GOP was over, I said then that just about anyone could be the next president if they would just step up and fight. Whatever their past failures, whatever their past baggage, whatever their past indiscretions, if they would just fight it could be a new day for them.
And who stepped up, but the lady from Alaska. None of the guys I expected to step up, did. She did. They waited until after she landed the first blows and took the first brickbats in return, and only when she made it politically safe to stand up did any of them stand up. And some haven’t stood up yet.
The list of leaders and fighters in this party is very short. She is on that list, and Romney most assuredly is not. He wants to be president? Good. When did he get in Obama’s face? When did he take Obama on mano a mano? I don’t seem to remember it and no one else does either. Romney is one of those Repubs who sees this as a fight against other Repubs to get to the brass ring. Palin and DeMint and a very few others always saw O as the one they had to beat. Which is why one of them will be president, and Romney won’t.
I would cut my legs off first if I had to vote for Romney. I understand his campaign manager is Jane Fonda, but I could be wrong.