Mitt Romney supports Palin run for president

The State Column ^ | 7 FEB 11 | staff

[exinnj]

“We had to swallow Bush to get Reagan.”????
Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Nixon/Ford, Carter, Reagan.

[PieterCasparzen]

The right-wing core would rather see 4 more years of a Democrat making a mess

Absurdly bad thinking. We would have been better off with McCain than Obama.

I guess my idea of our situation is a lot more grim than yours; this is what many of us are trying to tell other Repubs, that just getting a Repub elected will not work any more, those days are gone.

Yes, McCain would repect the flag and our soldiers, yes, that's true and would make me much happier in that regard. But he would have worked with the Pelosi/Reid Congress and done about 3/4 of the damage that Obama has legislatively. We are far, far beyond that working to keep our Titanic from hitting an iceberg.

The neither-right-nor-left U.S. population is now not seeing any glimmer of hope in terms of security and the economy that McCain would have provided. The only way to see that disinfecting truth was by Obama being elected ( We've been given a great gift, George, a chance to see what the world would be like with a traitor in the WH ). They are seeing more and more pain and they can't help but associate it with the Democrats and Obama. These "middle people" are the whole game in elections, because up until now, hardliners both left and right always voted the party line. "Hope and change" is becoming more and more riduculed, the way communists were in the 1990's.

[PieterCasparzen]

Yep, Congress is the key..

Wow, I read your long post. I think we agree 99.9%...

[1010RD]

Reagan/Bush. Reagan was forced by what today would be called RINOs to accept Bush on his ticket.

That same coalition is needed to defeat Obama in 2012.

During the primaries; fight as hard as we can for winning conservative candidates.

During the general, support the GOP candidate. 75-80% of something is better than nothing.

Imagine a Congress that supports our agenda 80% of the time...that’s as close to heaven as any conservative will get in America.

[mountainbunny]

My prediction is that the GOP ticket in 2012 will be some combination of Romney/Huck or Huck/Romney.

I have a long record of excoriating Mitt Romney. I think he's bad news, and that he's damaging to the cause of conservatism. Huckabee isn't exactly on my hit parade, either.

But realistically speaking, I have the feeling that you are essentially correct. Except that instead of Romney/Huck or Huck/Romney, I see Romney/DeMint or Huckabee/someone else. Either way, though, I agree that it'll be Romney or Huckabee.

Note: I’m not saying this is my preference, only that I think this is what the ticket will be. I'm saying in advance that I will not vote for a Romney or Huckabee ticket. But what I want ≠ what will happen.

[mountainbunny]

Reagan/Bush. Reagan was forced by what today would be called RINOs to accept Bush on his ticket.

The difference between Reagan and Romney (or Huckabee) is that Reagan was conservative. He set the agenda, which was conservative.

That same coalition is needed to defeat Obama in 2012.

If the GOP candidate in the general is Mitt Romney or Huckabee, I will not be voting for either one, and know that many, many conservatives won't, either.

Mitt Romney holds too many of the same positions as Obama. Romney's love for gun control, abortion, and the idea that government can and should solve society's ills come directly to mind. Romney's inability to tell the truth for more than 5 consecutive minutes comes to mind as well.

There is nothing magical about that R next to the candidate's name. It doesn't make them more acceptable when they hold the same positions as the guy with the D next to his. This isn't a football game, where we have favorites based on emotions, geography or tradition. In politics, the candidate needs to do more than just show up in the right uniform. They need to actually play for the team.

[1010RD]

My comparison wasn’t to Romney or Hucakbee and Reagan, but to those two and Bush.

Currently, no candidate exists that is Reaganesque. We’ll simply be choosing the best out of a thin field at present.

If you stay home, along with many conservatives you’ll simply be re-electing Obama. That kind of political immaturity is something he and his controllers are hoping for.

Romney, as you have described him, sounds much like George HW Bush. Savvy compromise is the path to victory. That’s how we got Reagan.

The rest of your comments are ignorance posing as sagacity. You don’t know what you’re talking about and that kind of poor judgment is what keeps us out of power.

[Fledermaus]

I don’t buy it that we’d be better off now with McCain. I can’t see anything different he would have done, including Egypt and the Middle East, than what Obama has.

[1010RD]

You sound like a reasonable person. Check here:

http://www.conservative.org/ratings/ratingsarchive/2009/Senate%20Ratings.htm#AZ

and here:

http://www.conservative.org/ratings/ratingsarchive/2007/2007senate.htm#IL

[1010RD]

mccain took less than 5 weeks to revert from uber Conservative to flaming progressive

Demonstrably false:

John McCain's record

compared to:

Real Flaming Progressives aka Illinois Democrats

There are, I believe, certain 5th columnists working to get conservatives to not vote. Some FReepers are doing this out of alleged "principle". The results are the same - An Obama victory and further erosion of our rights, liberties and country.

Do you really think the military can take another 4 years of Obama & Co. feminizing them to death?

Here's the alleged worst Republicans: The RINO Sisters

[Diogenesis]

If Mitt Romney is on the ticket or ANY of his
pet lying toadies, like Sen Brown,
every single REAL conservative will
WORK AGAINST THE ticket.

[Diogenesis]

In 2008, the McCain/Palin ticket was up ++4 to 10 pts. in some polls, days prior to the election.
So rather than helping the GOP, Romney once again
had his backstabbing TeamROMNEY
attack Gov. Palin to throw Election2008 to the DNC.

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Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

[Diogenesis]

Mitt Romney: "I'm not running as the Republican view or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race.
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)

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"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
--  President Ronald Reagan

[LibLieSlayer]

john mccain is a ****ing liberal lying pos traitor... do not try to convince me otherwise. I KNOW first hand! I heard him during the election... we laughed here on FR... at his new found Conservatism... we laughed when he got tough on illegals... but we also remember when he said that no American would pick lettuce for less than $55.00 an hour... and how these criminal invaders were only doing the jobs that Americans refuse to do... and now he will work with obama for Amnesty and Cap and Tax... for that is exactly what these liberals from both parties want. He is a turncoat bastard.

Palin put herself in a precarious political position when she endorsed the manchurian agent of the left... she did it out of loyalty to him... and he stabs her in the back with a pledge NOT to back her if she decides to run... he has no loyalty except to himself... he turned his back on many brothers in green... not so sure he didn't leave some of our guys behind in that SE Asian sh!thole.

Your republican party machine line will no longer work. America cannot be saved by HALF MEASURES... we need a REAL Conservative President that will make the HARD decisions... not someone that will look for compromise with the left or as Donald Rumsfeld put it... someone that changes his positions to receieve the greatest kudos from the enemedia. Save it FRiend... I will NEVER again vote for a liberal... regardless of the party to which they claim membership in. LLS

[1010RD]

Would you vote for someone to the right of Romney/Huckabee to defeat Obama?

[Diogenesis]

Romney represents Soros AND Obama AND ObamaCARE and
the 911 Victory Mosque.

Any other questions?