Posted on 09/16/2011 9:15:19 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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.....Romney has a well-known history of more liberal positions on health care, climate change, gay rights and abortion. .....
Encouraging Perry’s candidacy is too dangerous a game for Democrats. Since World War II, no president with an approval rating as low as Obama’s (now hovering around 40 percent) has been reelected. And polls showing Perry to be weaker than Romney against Obama should be small comfort. In January 1980, a Harris poll found that President Jimmy Carter was polling four percentage points better against Ronald Reagan than he was against George H.W. Bush. Carter was more than 30 points ahead of both at the time, but, because of the electorate’s sour mood, wound up losing to Reagan by 10.
It’s reasonable to think the same could happen to Obama in the likely event that economic numbers don’t improve much. “What should the White House do now?” Democratic strategist James Carville asked in a CNN.com commentary this week. “One word came to mind: panic.”
So, given these growing fears that Obama may lose in 2012 to any Republican with a pulse, maybe it’s time for Democrats to stop hoping that Perry will be the next Barry Goldwater. There’s admittedly not much they can do to shape the outcome of the presidential primaries, but they might wish to think twice before using their rapid-response teams to help Perry bury Romney.
One party operative close to these decisions told me there have been a “lot of conversations” about the dilemma, with some labor and environmental groups arguing for easing up on the anti-Romney message machine out of a belief that he would be the “lesser of two evils.”
Good thinking. If Obama is doomed, who would Democrats rather have in possession of the nuclear suitcase: the technocratic Romney, or the coyote-shooting Perry?
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This is what they did with McRino. They did it in Florida.
If they’re seriously talking about this as a defensive move, their internal polling must be horrendous.
I think what many libs fear from Perry is the more effective all out attack on liberalism and big government - and Perry does do that more effectively right now than any other candidate and he certainly does it more effectively than Mitt.
IMO that’s what they really fear about Perry - they know this is a battle of ideas above and beyond the Obama election specifically.
Here it starts. Democrats are going to choose our party pick???? Why does the RNC allow open primaries???? This is going to be our undoing.
I just love these articles. Anyone with any brain can see exactly whats going on with these articles the media,and the Dems fear Perry and I love it.
CLICK: Bob Shrum's still battling for Obama's reelection (Bob's in Black)
This is exactly why I wish Zero would be primaried.
Exactly! And they're watching one demographic group after another (that the Left has so carefully "nurtured") falling away from Obama and the Democratic Party.
SocSec is unconstitutional.
You mean Jimmy Carter?
Grab a cup of coffee!
You don’t want to miss this!
That said, one thing that needs to happen is we need to stop the practice of allowing open primaries to whatever degree possible in the states that allow them.
Elections shouldn't be open to being "gamed" by primary trolls.
They fear him, but they are trying to frame the public's vision as if he's just a nuisance to them, easily taken care of... not a "problem for them". Well they can try to marginalize all they want. This nation isn't falling for their PR stunts anymore. The perfect weather systems have finally merged for a perfect storm through Washington D.C.
Democrats are going to have to split the Republican vote to win in 2012. They’ll keep pushing Mitt as a financial conservative and try to woo over the country club Republicans..
I hope your right. I don’t trust anyone involved with this whole process from the Dems to Acorn to Barry’s people to the country club Republicans. I’ll do what I can do to tell people that Perry is one of the few that won’t put up with obama’s shit on the debate stage.
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