Posted on 09/22/2011 7:08:30 AM PDT by Cardhu
If Romney is the chosen one of the RNC, RINO, country club establishment, ahem, Republicans (?). No thanks. I’ll pass this time. Burn me once shame on you, burn me 3 times shame on me.....:)
Most of the recent residents of NH are from accross the state line in MA so Romney amounts to a favorite son or favorite nephew perhaps
I imagine if the others show up (and then come back), they'll do better.
It is literally possible to shake hands with every NH primary voter, and the one who's shook the most will be the favorite.
Rick Perry could lose NH and still win the presidency! Pres. Bush lost NH to Sen. McCain, but still won, twice, didn’t he? At least I think he lost NH.
Right on! People forget that McCain won New Hampshire in 2000, but Bush won the whole enchilada, becoming Pres. twice!
I am a 6th Generation Utahan and a New Hampshirite and I ain’t voting for either.
Yes, it does. That is partly how McCain won in 08. Huntsman has to be the most boring speaker.
He is a less intelligent, less restrained, less likable, more arrogant version of GWB
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Perfect description.
the Perry cult refuses to see reality.
I agree romney is a RINO, but so is perry, but worse and wo the private sector experience.
LLS
If the elite are so stupid as to actually believe that romney is the guy... they deserve no less than the total destruction of the gop and permanent unemployment in politics. I think that America is justaboutthisclose to shunning all professional lifetime politicians. People cannot be trusted with as much power as these people can wield after years of networking in DC. The SCOTUS will not let us have term limits... so WE THE PEOPLE must take the responsibility for our own choices.
LLS
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Romney win NH. They tend to go for the most liberal in the pack.
I share your distrust of the RNC over all and share your view of the elites - and only hope my friend Mark’s assessment of Preibus is correct. Mark also dislikes creatures of Washington’s establishment.
Way to go! You said it much better than I ever could.....:)
It never had anything to do with having Democrat vews ~ which actually don't exist. The Democrat party is made up of a number of Special Interests and they have "institutional views", and where the interests in the coalition happen to agree those views will be taken to be those of the Democrat party.
On top of that they don’t even have a Republican Primary as Democrats are allowed to cross over and set the screws to Republicans.
“RINO
Republican in name only; typically means a member of the GOP who’s more liberal than a Republican should be”
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=RINO
“In 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt, then-President William Howard Taft, and Senator Robert LaFollette fought for ideological control of the Republican Party and each denounced the other two as “not really Republican”.[citation needed] The phrase Republican in name only emerged as a popular political pejorative in the 1920s, 1950s and 1980s.[1]
The earliest known print appearance of the term RINO was in the Manchester, New Hampshire newspaper then called The Union Leader.[2]
“Bill Clinton would have been proud of what was happening on the third-floor Senate corner at the State House this week.... The Republicans were moving out and the Democrats and “RINOs” (Republicans In Name Only) were moving in.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_In_Name_Only
After about 40 years of doing this the Republicans finally broke the Democrat lock on "the Solid South".
No discussion of RINO means spit unless you know how the Republicans moved the Democrats aside in the states of the former Confederacy.
BTW, Roosevelt and Taft weren't particularly different in terms of modern ideology. Neither was Wilson. These guys were all budding Nazis.
No matter what we do it seems like NH gets criticized. In 2008 we supposedly boosted McCain over Romney, and that was a bad thing. Now, when Romney is supposedly in the lead that's a bad thing.
Who exactly do you want us to elect?
So McCain is more liberal than Romney?
Actually one of the things that NH tests is how well a politician can organize a campaign. Some candidates have little to no presence here, and hence low polling results, as inaccurate as those polls may be. Romney owns a house here, so he's got plenty of ties to the local political establishment.
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