Posted on 02/07/2011 9:46:47 AM PST by kbennkc
Mitt won only 11 states in the primary and Huck only 8. I haven’t heard or seen anything that would lead me to believe me that they could take any more states than they did in 2008.
It will be another combination.
palin wins the gop nomination hands down if she runs.
How she does in the general is anyone’s guess.
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Exactly.
No... we will not.
LLS
A slower acting poison gives the chance for a cure. We must control the agenda and to do so we need to restart the small business economy. Once the economy is humming the mushy middle will let us run things our way.
If the choice is between GOP control of the House and Senate with Mitt Romney or the same with Obama, I’ll take the former over the latter any day.
He’s not my first pick or my favorite, but we have to play the game of realpolitick if we want to get our country back. We had to swallow Bush to get Reagan.
A Palin/Romney ticket or vice versa is a real possibility. Mitt’s playing to that.
Defeating Obama and his plans must be priority one. We get that with the House/Senate or the Presidency or both. If we can hold 2/3 we can undo much of the damage done.
Romney or someone like him ameliorates Palin’s weaknesses and vice versa. That’s how politics is played and only winning counts.
You are correct. Most conservatives are savvy thinkers who understand that we must win to govern. Romney’s faults are minuscule compared to Obama’s.
Obama is truly dangerous in a way Clinton and Carter weren’t.
If Palin doesn’t run, her base will be up for grabs. Mitt is courting those votes.
What if Mitt was sucking around to be on Palin’s ticket? More than just liberal heads will be exploding.
“A slower acting poison gives the chance for a cure.”
If we are alert to the fact that it is indeed a poison.
I agree with most of your points in principle, but I think my “compromise” button is broken from overuse in the past 22 years, and I know I am not alone in that. As you point out though, whoever is in the Whitehouse, control of both houses of Congress is vital. Otherwise, we are just looking at degrees of failure.
“Mitt won only 11 states in the primary and Huck only 8. I haven’t heard or seen anything that would lead me to believe me that they could take any more states than they did in 2008.”
I think Romney’s best shot was in ‘08.
He and his track record are better known now, which is a liability.
As I said, I think *most* will. The proof is in the result. I know I will, if the choice is between him and obama.
Yep, Congress is the key and holding it for a couple of decades or more is critical.
I actually think we’re on the right track as a country, we’re just held hostage by special interests including the Government itself.
Imagine that the current House is simply an ice breaker. America’s problems aren’t going to be solved overnight or even in five years or ten. It’s going to take sustained action over time, a long time.
It will take a change in education. That’s coming as minorities are demanding it - vouchers work and they know it.
Media voices on radio and the Internet are critical. FreeRepublic leverages the brains of some tens of thousands of conservative thinkers. We’re smart, savvy and active. That’s how revolutions happen.
In this case we need a revolution of ideas and its coming. I don’t know how old you are, but people considered fringe anyone talking about the Constitutional size of government. Now we discuss it as a matter of course.
We’re winning, let’s not blow it by shooting our own foot off. That’s what the enemy wants. We need victory, not perfect victory, but drop by drop a long march back toward the Promise of America. It won’t happen at once or in a straight line, either, but we are winning.
Look at gun control and abortion and think what’s happened in forty years.
If Palin doesn't run, her base either votes third party or stays home.
LLS
Romney probably wants to ease into running for president via the vice presidential spot.
FR is definitely a conservative group. But not necessarily representative of all “conservatives.” (And not everyone on FR agrees on the point in question.) I could be wrong, time will tell.
I would say your view is very optimistic, but it is attainable. It is also the optimal course to pursue, as it will entail the least damage and the quickest recovery in the long run.
A long shot, but from time to time long shots do hit the mark.
Don't look for any accurate polling from Fox in regards to Sarah Palin
Yes, for Romney, “the more candidates the better.” It worked for McLame and the DNC - pitting all the Republican-Repulicans against one another while the Rino marched away with the primary elections.
I hope, as conservatives, it becomes clear early by polls and performance who is our best shot and that we all come together behind that one and beat the Rinos as we did in the last election. Fat chance, I know.
Mighty generous of him.
He seems to be all over the place, making himself visible these days.
Where has he been for the last two years?
What has he railed against the current administration on?
All I have heard from him in the last month is his strident defense of his record in Massachusetts.
He has no ideas.
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