Posted on 03/01/2011 8:44:59 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Edited on 03/01/2011 10:15:54 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Could you be more specific? For instance, do you think that she's a quitter? Do you question her conservative credentials? Please elaborate.
I have three college degrees, including a Juris Doctor, and I can assure you that this college educated individual will NEVER vote for Romney.
I note the NR tongue kiss to Milqutoast Mitch Daniels. I’d never vote for that worm either.
Policy, I might concede a little.
Actions, she would rather be in the spot light, and I can’t stand that.
It seems that every other thread on this awesome website has Palin in it.
And don’t tell me she isn’t eating it up.
She would be better served spreading the message than holding office.
Not sure what that means. But let me ask you this. Will you vote for Sarah Palin if she is on the ballot? Or will you just concede the victory to Obama?
It sounds like Ramesh is doing a little too much speculating here, he already determine what will happen and how it dooms everyone in the GOP...... Why can’t we wait until the Primary season starts and see what Sarah has to offer on her own instead of these yahoos saying that she will lose- people will say “well, I don’t you say that about Mitt?”. Well Mitt already ran in 2008, we saw what he offered on his own - inauthentic, fakery and finger in the wind decision choices
IMHO, and, yes, this does smack of religious prejudice, but it is my observation from Bible belt NC, that if Palin won the nomination by a whisker, Romney’s supporters would back her in the general election.
However,
If Romney won the nomination, I sincerely doubt that many of Palin’s (or really Huckabee’s) conservative Christian supporters would back Romney because of his Mormonism. They would simply not vote in the POTUS election but would vote down-ticket.
All it would take would be for a few old and new Southpark episodes (cleaned-up, of course...) to generate Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) in the conservative Christian base and cause them to shy away from supporting Romney with the requisite enthusiasm needed for victory.
My apologies to LDS Freepers, but that is the way I see it here.
BTW, if I had the pleasure of hiring the COO for the USA, I would pick Romney in a heartbeat.
The other races? If it is betwen a Democrator RINO, I wlii leave blank.
The hell I will. If Mittwit wins then it means the GOP left me. I will write in my dog's name.
Have you been hanging out with Charlie Sheen lately?
Why? What's the point? What's on my mind right now is not how to describe my assessment of Sarah Palin. It's set. My interest is the very good question raised by this post: If not Romney or Palin, then who?
Romney’s advantages: money, looks, name recognition.
Romney’s disadvantages: Romneycare, Mormonism, sleaze factor.
I’ll pretty much vote for anyone against Obama, but Romney would be hard to stomach.
I will vote for the other guys dog.
Change doesn’t happen overnight - or perhaps in one election cycle. Are we willing to accept another 4 years of Obama by making the next election a split between Conservatives and “Traditional Republicans” aka RINOs? Or are we willing to roll the dice with a common-sense Tea Party Conservative who may have his or her own imperfections but is cast from a different mold, and who stands for more than a political label?
This debate will go on for the next year, plus. It’s up to us and if we can’t get folks on a conservative forum like FR to coalesce around an approach, isn’t that tantamount to saying the media and ruling class are going to make this decision?
Thank you, no.
Just my ultra-conservative friends.
Let's not even bother with a primary.
Let's let Karl and his buddies decide who we want.
Romney may have the money and the organization, but I don’t know how he can win the Republican Nomination with Romneycare hanging around his neck. It’s like a big anvil and even Obama is complimenting him on it. That’s an endorsement he doesn’t need.
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A talk show host I typically enjoy was trying to cast this today as BO deliberately trying to ruin Romney’s chances, because Romney might be such a powerful candidate. I turned the radio off. Romney rehabilitation and promotion is something I will not voluntarily endure.
I will never understand why some conservatives - usually women - find him “attractive”. He strikes me as a political analogue to Ted Bundy.
Since then I have been paying very close attention to Palin, and I do not like what I see. Her blind following has stars in their eyes and cannot see any further than her Face Book page.
And his "recent troubles" have been overblown by precisely the sort of identity politics that Ponnuru describes in his excellent article.
The so-called "truce" on social issues, for example: if you read Daniels' actual comments, they make a great deal of sense, and are in no way the "surrender" that the yahoos try to make them out to be.
The uproar about "right to work" is a result of an understandable and justifiable tactical move. Daniels never had actual control over the issue to begin with; his decision was whether or not to push the Republican-controlled Indiana House to make it an issue.
All of this noise reflects the decadence of the GOP, and its fundamental lack of seriousness. We all know what the really big issues are -- the ones that threaten us now. We know it. But the party platform is driven by single-issue hysterics who place their own agendas above the good of the country (not just the party).
God save us from our own stupid party....
So what did you do in 2008?
Write your dog’s name? Vote for Obama? Vote for McCain? Sit it out?
It seems to me the same threats were being launched by the Freep concensus in 2007. Then McCain won the nomination and within 2 months, Freep became the McCain cheerleading ground. No doubt you will be voting for Mitt if he wins the nomination, despite what you say now.
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