Posted on 04/05/2012 12:05:13 PM PDT by Mustang Driver
The press is circulating Republican-insiders stories again, this time saying Mr. Electable is unelectable.
Don’t buy the latest spin from Democrats. Conservatives should stay calm, cool and collected.
Mitt Romney is the most presidential of Republican nominees since 1988. He looks the part, he acts the part and lives the part. He has worked his way up and made it on his own even though his father was a prominent businessman and successful governor. He is the grown-up in the room whose blandness is a strikingly attractive alternative to the All Trauma Obama presidency. Over the years he has taken progressively more responsible positions — from head of the Mormon mission in France to CEO of Bain Capital — that have built his self-confidence and the trust of others. When people talk about the Republican establishment, they are really talking about the successful people who will make up his government. This is about running a government.
President John McCain? Come on. What were we thinking? OK, the bench was thin. President Bush forgot to develop an heir.
Mitt Romney’s blandness is a plus because he exudes grace under pressure. He gets flustered. But he grins and bears it. This will serve him well in a very ugly campaign, perhaps the ugliest since 1800. We know after 4 years of watching President Obama that he is extremely vulnerable under pressure. He cracks. His temper tantrum against the Supreme Court showed how intellectually empty he is. My goodness, it is unprecedented to have justices turn down a law? Talk about acting stupidly. The pressure must be applied carefully and consistently.
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No. I know some people are born into circumstances which making failure merely a passing storm, if not a complete impossibility.
Yes, I did mean the above. What I meant by that is that I don’t think the people anymore will be so cajoled into believing that just becuase a republican’s in office, that they need to be less vigilant of their own liberties. I think when you see 700 legislative seats and ten governorships change hands, that something larger is going on. And I hope that continues, and will do what I can to help it.
Mitt won’t get as many votes as Mc Cain got. obama won’t have to campaign against Romney. The media will do it for him.
The Republican Revolution or Revolution of ‘94 is what the media dubbed Republican Party (GOP) success in the 1994 U.S. midterm elections,[1] which resulted in a net gain of 54 seats in the House of Representatives, and a pickup of eight seats in the Senate. The clear leader of the called revolution was Republican congressman Newt Gingrich, who became Speaker of the House as a result of the victory. The day after the election, Democratic Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama changed parties, becoming a Republican.
The gains in seats in the mid-term election resulted in the Republicans gaining control of both the House and the Senate in January 1995. Republicans had not held the majority in the House for forty years, since the 83rd Congress (elected in 1952).
Large Republican gains were made in state houses as well when the GOP picked up twelve gubernatorial seats and 472 legislative seats. In so doing, it took control of 20 state legislatures from the Democrats. Prior to this, Republicans had not held the majority of governorships since 1972. In addition, this was the first time in 50 years that the GOP controlled a majority of state legislatures.
Discontent against the Democrats was foreshadowed by a string of elections after 1992, including the capture of the mayoralties of New York and Los Angeles by the Republicans in 1993. In that same year, Christine Todd Whitman captured the New Jersey governorship from the Democrats and Bret Schundler became the first Republican mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey that had been held by the Democratic Party since 1917.
Republican George Allen won the Virginia governorship. Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison took a senate seat from the Democrats in Texas. Republicans Frank Lucas and Ron Lewis picked up two congressional seats from Democrats in Oklahoma and Kentucky in May 1994.
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And then we voted for Dubya, Dole and McCain and now Mitt...because conservatives gave in. We are far worse off than we were in 1993. It’s time for conservatives to face reality and never again give in to the RINO’s.
As much as I hate Romney, he does know how to tar-n-feather an opponent without looking bad himself. (Newt, for example)
That’s going to be needed in any candidate going up against the Obamanation.
Bleh.
Now I need to wash my hands, having soiled them by writing my first sentence.
Thanks for telling all of America's Jewry to f@#k off. Heaven forbid that, perhaps, a rare bird known as a conservative Jew might want to run for office someday.
YOU sure as h#!! made it clear that you'd never vote for the filthy little non-Christian.
In other words, he’s the Republican version of Clinton.
IE: he’d do/say whatever the prevailing opinion polls want him to.
I don’t know about Ford.
Or McCain either really, the guy is an a-hole.
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