Mitt Romeny speaks to supporters at a GOP picnic 2011 in Cedar Rapids.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry talked with a friend in 1991
while visiting a ranch outside Austin.
Posted on 11/06/2011 3:19:58 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
...Two schools of thought run through Republican circles. One holds that Romney is the logical nominee and will consolidate the party's somewhat grudging support after conservatives stop flirting with longshots such as Bachmann and Cain. Republicans have a history of nominating the runner-up from previous primaries, and Romney fits that bill.
The competing theory holds that Americans are angrier at government and the two parties than political pros realize, and the tea party is just the start of a potent, long-lasting movement. Under this scenario, Romney can never placate conservative voters because of his establishment ties and the more liberal positions he once held on abortion, gay rights and gun control.
If this view is right, the shifting support for Bachmann, Perry and Cain is more than a flirtation, and someone will emerge as the "non-Romney" who wins the nomination.
Veterans of past presidential campaigns tend to doubt this outcome. But even with Obama's economic woes, plenty of Republican insiders worry that Romney's inconsistency on important issues and voters' doubts about his authenticity could let the president slip away.
Romney should have put his GOP rivals "in the rear-view mirror" by now, said Mike McKenna, a Republican lobbyist...
McKenna said pundits don't realize that the tea party movement was as much a rejection of the high-spending, high-deficit practices of President George W. Bush and Republican lawmakers as it was a reaction against Obama's health care plan. With his ties to New England and the party establishment, Romney "looks like the lineal descendant of Bush," McKenna said.
He said he fears that a lot of conservatives will sit out the 2012 election if Romney is the nominee.
Plenty of strategists reject that view. They think conservatives' deep antipathy toward Obama will cause them to overcome their misgivings and fully back Romney....
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“You’re the spam king BobL.”
From Wikipedia:
Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately.
Point to my spam, please. Is it my postings - I think that I’ve done two in the past year. Is it my replies - I think that nearly every one is separately written (a few I copy over between a few articles).
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Rick Perry talked with a friend in 1991
while visiting a ranch outside Austin.
Then I stand corrected BobL — you are the blue ribbon anti-Perry opposition poster. LomanBill would be the Spam King.
“Then I stand corrected BobL — you are the blue ribbon anti-Perry opposition poster. LomanBill would be the Spam King.”
I don’t know LomanBill, but I agree and I’m HONORED as to my status at FR.
“DEEP” WISHFUL THINK ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First sentence of the excerpt and I stopped right there.
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