Posted on 01/11/2012 7:10:01 AM PST by greyfoxx39
Edited on 01/11/2012 7:15:18 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Perplexing but true: Mitt Romney is on the glide path to the most easily secured nomination a Republican presidential candidate has ever had
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Karl is that you? Just joking...but that is the exactly what Rove and the rest of RINO establishment is counting on.
Not me. I won’t compromise and vote for light socialism under the GOP banner.
It may have been too early for Rand Paul this election cycle but he is the best candidate out there. His quote that won me over is this one.
"The Democrats want to cut nothing and the Republicans want to cut next to nothing. Neither of them understand the extent of the problem."
What bothers me is all the people on FR taking a shot at Ron Paul when he is the only one I have heard call for making significant cuts to the budget. I believe he said $1 trillion the first year.
For me, there is no more important issue than getting the nation's finances in order and cutting $1 trillion is a good start. Going over the top and calling Paul a Kook takes his contribution - budget cutting - of the table entirely.
What should be said of Paul if you don't like him is, "I have some trouble with Paul on some issues but on his call for cutting $1 trillion from the budget in the first year, he is exactly right."
Or are there some of you on here that don't think that kind of budget cut is necessary?
Careful Mary, that's not a very popular view around here.
Ping
In American politics, only the Left mobilizes the mob against its opponents. That’s why history textbooks don’t contain references to marauding bands of Reagan supporters roughing up Mondale backers.
But leftist groups and groups aligned with the Democratic Party have long viewed Republicans as fair game.
The Obama-backed “Occupy” movement has been working nonstop in New Hampshire bullying, intimidating, harassing, and provoking the Republican Party’s presidential candidates. It is the kind of unseemly, Latin American-style political activism that threatens to become a permanent feature of American politics if President Obama wins a second term.
It’s also the classic Saul Alinsky “inside/outside” strategy. Ensconced in the White House Obama appears to remain above the fray while his loyal minions on the outside of officialdom do their best to irritate and embarrass his Republican adversaries.
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/01/11/leftist-mob-mobilizes-against-the-gop/
I’m using the conventional definition.
I agree with you 100%, MM.
I hate Romney and think he's a disaster in the making but that fire comment will only help him if Obama tries to run with it. It was taken out of context and it was about firing a health provider who doesn't deliver as opposed to government run health care. If they try to use it against him he could create an entire series of commercials based on Obama not wanting people to have any choice when it comes to who they can or can't have for a doctor. That said it's the .1% I agree with from Romey and the 99.9% is still way too much for me to ever support him.s a disaster in the making but that fire comment will only help him if Obama tries to run with it. It was taken out of context and it was about firing a health provider who doesn
And the corrupt, decrepit GOP-E is counting on that to maintain the status quo.
But if Santorum is the candidate—or even Gingrich—they won’t have to hold their nose when they vote.
Gingrich is clearly the anti-establishment candidate.
If Santorum does well in SC, he will be met with a new level of attacks from the left.
If Romney wins the general election, Reagan conservatism and the Tea Party movement are forever dead. The Republican Party establishment for the next generation will be able to point to the "victory" of Mitt Romney as evidence that the party nominee must be a moderate and the MSM will happily sing that tune. If you are a true conservative who is tempted to hold your nose and vote for Romney, think about that - you're signing the death warrant for the best political hope this nation has.
Iowa and New Hampshire should be a distant insignificant memories soon.
Evangelical leaders are meeting to push back against Mitt.
Evangelicals planning plot against Romney
"Mitt Romney hasn’t got a prayer.
That is, if the most prominent evangelical leaders in the country — who are holding crisis talks next weekend in Texas over the thinning herd of viable GOP challengers — have anything to say about it.
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Yet with Romney on a fast track — having won the Iowa caucuses and going into New Hampshire with a luxurious 24-point lead and South Carolina with a small lead — the meeting’s only agenda is to anoint an alternative candidate."
God be with them.
Vulture capitalists are always gimlet-eyed.
Very interesting! Thanks. I wish them well.
We should be proud, he follows in the footsteps of eminently beatable candidates such as Dole and McCain. This trend will continue all the time that we allow those Liberal, faux GOP voters in the Northeast to bless our candidates at the beginning of each cycle's campaign.
Which is?
I was considering the candidates who were NOT already in the race in response to Podhoretz' comment "And because every other plausible major candidate refused to run in 2011". Palin was the one who came to my mind.
I would vote for any republican candidate who is running to defeat Obama.
It does not matter that it is taken out of context. People will NOT sit still long enough for you to try to explain it away.
He said the words, they will play the short clip, and people will believe that Romney is a rich guy who likes firing people.
It won't backfire against Obama, it will assure his re-election.
“In the general election I’ll be pointing out that the president took the reins at General Motors and Chrysler – closed factories, closed dealerships laid off thousands and thousands of workers – he did it to try to save the business,” Romney said Wednesday on CBS.
Romney likens work at Bain Capital to Obama’s auto industry bailout
I will not vote for Paul, Romney or Huntsman if any where to win the nomination - Period!!
I will vote all other offices, just not president.
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