CIGARETTE GUY APPROVES...
After a good, long drag...oh, yeah...
Posted on 10/26/2011 6:41:00 PM PDT by fightinJAG
Pretending that Romney is the real frontrunner, the pundits and the press contend that the 2012 GOP presidential contest will be a re-run of the GOP 2008 race: the establishmentarian who is next in line will win. This is a prejudice masquerading as an insight.
Yes, that’s been the Republican pattern, arguably, since 1968. And Romney may well win the nomination: he’s got mountains of money from donors, an impressive team in key primary states, a near-flawless performance in debates and an array of White House-quality policy advisers.
Still, Romney seems to hit a ceiling of roughly 25% in nearly every poll of Republican voters. Romney remains the Wall Street favorite—why not, he is one of them?—but he has yet to win the hearts of Main Street.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
yes!
“Forget the eye-rolling. Let’s look at the numbers. Herman Cain is ahead of Romney in virtually all of the polls conducted in the past two weeks. In both Iowa and nation-wide Cain leads Romney by 30% to 22%,according to Public Policy Polling, a respected pollster. Meanwhile the latest NBC-Marist poll puts Cain ahead of Romney in South Carolina by 30%-26%, and shows Cain and Romney neck-and-neck in Florida. Cain leads in Ohio by 15%, and in Hawaii by 12%. Only in New Hampshire does Romney stubbornly hold a solid double-digit lead (15%).”
The eye rollers wil be here in a few.
This is from another post but I thought I would ask.....what will Cain or any other candidate do about this? http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/2011-national-gang-threat-assessment
After a good, long drag...oh, yeah...
Mitt Romney is the TURD in the GOP punchbowl.
when he and his Team are not busy
backstabbing GOP women candidates -— and their children.
I hope they read the article before they commence their eye-rolling.
I am interested in their perspectives on what the author’s actual argument is: that the Tea Party is a new force that is going to upend everything the “professionals” think they know about presidential politics.
Man, was that ever one overhyped drag!
Rove has 54 million that will make sure he doesn’t.
What did I miss?
I loved it, all the right heads popped - lol!
I'm not so sanguine about the Tea Party's influence. People who were identified with them, like Sarah Palin, seem to be sitting this one out. When I see FReepers, who were supposedly Palin conservatives, go to supporting Perry, I feel like maybe some of the conservative resurgence has been illusion. Cain and Bachmann are about as conservative as anyone I have ever witnessed run for president, yet there has not, at least so far, been a real rally in support.
It will be interesting to see it play out, but I do think that things have changed enough so that even with Obama's weakness, if the Republicans run Romney, Obama will have four more years.
Ping!
I’ve sent Cain money, of course I’ll recomend that all Freepers donte to FR 1st.
Bachmann creeps me out. I just can't shake that about her. I look at her and I know she is speaking but all I can think about is the scene in Dr. Strangelove where Slim Pickens jumps on the nuke and rides it down like a bucking bronco. Except instead of Pickens it is Bachmann riding the nuke.
Tokyo put everything he had and revealed his hand in trying to stop the tea party tide in 2008.
He is weaker today than he was then.
And once again as things get rolling next spring we will focus on taking both houses of congress and removing RINOs by whatever means required.
Tokyo Rove is vastly outmatched.
A sound course of conduct for any conservative.
The trouble with Mr. Cain is that everytime I see him, I want to eat a pepperoni pizza with mushrooms.
I could weigh 400 lbs. before his campaign is done.
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