Posted on 06/12/2011 11:54:05 AM PDT by Nachum
Via the Corner, I can’t shake the strange feeling that (a) we might hear him use this coinage again on the trail a time or two, starting tomorrow night in New Hampshire, and (b) the expected gang-up on Romney at the CNN debate is going to be way fiercer — and more entertaining — than anyone expected.
Just one question: Will it work?
According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Sunday morning, three-quarters of Republicans and GOP leaning independent voters say they want a party nominee who can defeat President Barack Obama in 2012, even if that person doesn’t agree with them on every issue. That’s up seven percentage points from January…
The poll takes a closer look at how Republicans perceive the five best-known candidates or potential candidates for the nomination. Two-thirds say that Romney can beat the president in the general election; a majority also say that about Giuliani, but most Republicans think that Obama would beat Palin, Gingrich or Paul.
Who is qualified to be president? According to the survey, three-quarters say that Giuliani and Romney are qualified; six in 10 say the same about Palin, but she still lags well behind on that score.
Palin’s got the highest favorable rating in the field, and fully eight in 10 Republicans think she agrees with them on the issues that matter most (versus just 64 percent who say the same of Romney).
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
ObamneyCare—isn’t this racist? Obamney sounds like Mammy.
I just can’t warm up to Pawlenty. At least not yet. There is something a little phoney about him. Like that perpetual talk show smile he puts on all the time.
About the same with Ryancare...it sucks as bad as 0’care. Neither party has the guts to actually ‘fix’ the 40+ years of donor palm greasing which is the main cause of driving Medicare bankrupt. That and killing 53 million unborn potential workers paying into the system. Instead they let illegals on Medicare.
Tim Pawlenty has supported some other wrong headed issues, but he has at least admitted his mistakes and moved on. I don’t know the context of the statement in support of individual mandates, but saying that they COULD be is not saying, let’s do it. It’s opening up a discussion.
Anyway, NO ROMNEY, NO WAY.
I thought it was pretty funny.
I just watched the reply of the interview, I thought Pawlenty did well. I like what I’m seeing and hearing from him, serious proposals to deal with the economy, taxes, spending, entitlements, etc. For right now he is my top choice, but I want to hear more from him and several other candidates over the coming months.
I am getting tired of hearing that Mittens in the front-runner and basically the heir apparent and the "next guy in line" with the old Republican guard. This has to stop. We have had slick, soaring rhetoric, phony Roman pillars, and promises of the receding seas. Let's get real and get people back to work, get them contributing to society and their own retirement plans, and paying taxes. I want more common sense, more concrete plans, less "progressive" crap, and less razz-ma-tazz. If Pawlenty is boring or "plain vanilla", I'll take a double-dose. BUT, let's keep looking and evaluating the candidates.
I didn't know that Pawlenty had heaped such praise on Romneycare. Now, in all fairness, I, too once thought the mandate was the solution and I've changed my mind. I was mistaken.
It's an unacceptable government intrusion on individual freedom and the supposed solution to the health insurance problem doesn't outweigh it. Mea culpa.
Any candidate for the Republican nomination who once believed as I did must come forward and admit his mistake -- as I have. Otherwise, no vote.
I agree they need to be tested. I didn’t think that Pawlenty did too well. Either Wallace’s “facts” weren’t correct or Pawlenty needs to rethink some of his ideas. Frankly, I was a bit confused at times.
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