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Posted on 01/10/2012 3:02:31 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Republicans do not need to nominate a candidate anytime soon. On the contrary, if they want to beat President Obama, they should take their time before settling on a nominee.
In January of 2010, Harry Reid looked like a “dead man walking” politically. Fourteen percent of Nevadans were unemployed, and he was having a hard time getting above 43 percent in most polls. There was only one way he could win: destroy his Republican opponent before he or she ever got out of the blocks.
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Ending the primary season early simply allows Team Obama more time to focus their fire on the GOP nominee. Spending the next five months under a blistering assault from the Obama “Death Star” in Chicago, aided by super PACs and the media, could be a disaster for Republicans.
As for the argument that the GOP nominee will suffer from depleted resources, don’t believe it. In 2010, Angle raised $28 million dollars against Harry Reid in only four months. The Republican nominee for president has never lost because of a lack of money. He will have no trouble raising money against Obama.
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A prolonged primary helped Obama in 2008. It helped Democrats identify tens of thousands of new voters in battleground states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania. And it gave Dems a priceless opportunity to attack the incumbent party while casual voters were paying attention for once.
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At the end of February, the Republican National Committee will have awarded only 174 RNC delegates out of the 1,143 needed to lock up the nomination.
A long primary would allow Republicans to protect their nominee, grow the party, and avoid handing Obama an early target.
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Ann Coulter was saying something similar the other day, during a radio interview (on Hannity, I think).
OTOH, all this takes second place to somehow, someway, destroying the Democratic Alinskyite "personal destruction" machine. Starting with Media drones who are kneejerk liberal Dems or actual "Progressives" (neo-Stalinists).
Thus the media rush to declare this thing “over.” If we’re gonna get someone out of this race, let’s get crazy Uncle Ron out first.
I’ve been pleading on this site for some time for folks to knock off these campaigns to force one or another candidate to drop out so that Romney can have only one competitor aiming fire at him.
I see no sense in that, especially in this election when nobody can sew up the nomination for months.
Coulter wants Romney. Romney's hope is that one clear anti-Romney does not emerge until it's too late.
The Dems also didn't have a nutbar spoiler like Ron Paul in the field as well.
So comparisons to the 2008 Dem primary are of very limited use. Plus, this is from NR, who also wants Romney, so take it with that very large grain of salt as well.
And I've been saying that is exactly what Romney wants - the anti-Romney vote to be divided as long as possible. The fact that Mittbots on NR and Ann Coulter are taking this stance is quite telling. I think you are honest in your intentions, I just ask that you realize what Mitt's goals are and how a divided anti-Romney base helps him.
Especially when Romney has fallen ten points in NH in six days, and is on pace to get under 30% in one of his strongest states. No, I think we are very safe letting this thing ride to FL as it is now.
You need to read this. You’re panicing. Take a deep breath and let the process play out, and in the meantime direct your fire at ROMNEY and PAUL.
Man, this guy is a hard-core Romney pom-pom waver:
http://twitter.com/#!/jmgehrke/statuses/117080104844271618
@jmgehrke
Jordan Gehrke
Romney was great again, Perry struggled, Bachmann was invisible, nothing else mattered as far as trajectory of the race. Mitt’s frontrunner.
Right now we have 5 candidates travelling the state and directing their fire at Romney and he is dropping like a rock. No, this dynamic is working fine for now and through FL. In the meantime, it gives our side a chance to choose between the conservatves and let one rise.
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Florida propelled McCain to the nomination in 2008. I think it needs to drop to a two-man anti-Romney race after SC, with the third-place finisher dropping out.
A prolonged primary helped Obama in 2008. It helped Democrats identify tens of thousands of new voters in battleground states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania.
I respectfully disagree. I want these GOP candidates to be sliced and diced, x-rayed and dissected. I want to see how they handle the pressure, and see whether they come up wanting, or if they have the staying power we need to go up against incumbent Obama.
You are jumping the gun by pushing for an early resolution that will shortchange the process and imperil our opportunity to have the best candidate.
Dennis Miller was saying something kinda similar on his program yesterday. Saying to let this thing play out and it finishes when it finishes and no sense it getting “momentum” too soon. I think I agree. I don’t want this thing settled right now. Too much at stake. I hope Newtie and Santorum hang in there. Huntsman, who cares? Paul, of course, will be in for the long haul. I don’t see Perry going on for too much longer though, but who knows?
I agree with the notion of the candidates getting “sliced and diced” and looked for every possible negative so there are zero surprises from the Democrats. Get all the dirty laundry out now.
And what if Romney and Paul come in first and second, respectively, in SC? That’s very likely.
Did you read that yesterday a combination of OWS loonies and Ron Paul supporters prevented Newt Gingrich from speaking in a city in New Hampshire? Paul and his crazy supporters are very determined to take over the GOP. The man shouldn’t even be running as a Republican, and he is seriously disrupting our nominating process.
That said, I agree that the rush to pick a candidate is not helpful. Aside from giving way too much power to two rural states that are hardly typical of the US population or economy, it simply focuses on personal things (like women voting for Santorum because they’ve met him and think he’s sooooo clean-cut and such a nice boy) and doesn’t give the people time to discuss the ideas and solutions of the candidates, if they even know them.
Since I don't "tweet" or "twitter" I don't follow that. Except for the one time I had to do research and found that something was taken out of context and attributed to an AZ supporter for Rick Perry, in an attempt to say she knew about the Cain problems in advance -- but it wasn't true.
So I will of course, take all this "tweeting my ideas to be relevant" with a grain of salt. Even Erick Erickson at Red State is having a mental breakdown.
Do you have anything more recent than September?
A lot of people have moved around from candidate to candidate here on FR -- for example.
Nothing, not Ann Coulter, not Chris Christie, not Nikki Haley, nothing can help Mitt Romney. He's a loser and he will lose again this time. South Carolina will be where Mitt Romney gets his in the form of a fourth place finish. Never fear. Romney will never be the nominee.
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