Surprise, surprise: /s
“Here’s the situation they find themselves in. Policy is politics, and they have much ground to make up among first- and second-time voters, Hispanics, working-class whites, working-class women. They have to move away from the policy positions they felt they had to take to secure the 2008 nomination and the even more extreme positions they took to win the 2012 nomination,” said John Weaver, a political consultant who worked on Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) 2000 and 2008 presidential campaigns.
“I guess this is what an Etch A Sketch really looks like,” Weaver said, referring to a Romney staffer’s use of the children’s toy as a metaphor for the campaign’s pivot to the general election.
/johnny
In this case its not so much a move to the center as it is a move left. Left is where ORomney’s comfort zone is. Hey, he’s our despot though so that makes it all good.
**** romney!
LLS
Mitt 0bamney was never RIGHT of Center. He can only be moving decidedly to the LEFT.
How can an avowed Socialist (see RomneyCare, the biggest defeat for personal freedom ever) be considered right of center in any fashion?
Only because while he’s a leftist, he’s not quite as far left as 0bambi himself.
So here we are: 0bama the Communist, and Romney the Socialist madly running towards Communism himself.
Congratulations, GOP.
Considering how far left Romney is .... does the title mean that he is moving to right?
/sarc
Asking for Michael Bloomberg’s endorsement is not moving to “the center”, it is catering to the left..
If he were “shifting to the center”, he’d be moving rightward., it’s more accurate to say that he’s moving even more leftward than he was in the primaries.
It doesn’t surprise me that this turd would slide further down into the bowl. I just wish we could flush him and be done with him. He’s going to turn out to be in the poop water with his twin Obama.
God help us we are screwed.
From the left? This would be an improvement.
I'd just like to renew the call to NOT vote for this statist. If he is elected, the media will immediately attach "GOP" to EVERY failure of his or Obama's policies. Every increase in the unemployment number will be tagged "Romney's fault", even on Day 1.
Obama and Romney want to go to the same place. Let it happen on Obama's watch, so we can get the civil war over with and get back to a Constitutional order. Vote 3rd party if your conscience so desires, but don't vote for Romney. He needs to go down in Mondale-style defeat.
Look how well that worked out for us.
Newt just said he will do everything in his power to help elect Romney.
I do not always agree with Newt, but -—
This time NEWT IS RIGHT!
Those who refuse to accept Romney, under any conditions, are only going to guarantee the destruction of our country.
Please get over yourselves.
I am anti-Obama to the core, and that means that I have no choice but to vote for Romney.
Bubububububbubut we have to vote for Romney because not doing so is a vote for Obama!
What the “vote for Romney or else you’re voting for Obama” crowd on here doesn’t to get is just how stupid they really sound.
Let’s see. You’re asking us to vote for one pro-abortion, pro-gay agenda, anti-gun, pro-government run health care, tax raising, pro-amnesty, pro-”progressive” taxation, anti-religious liberty, pro-big government progressive over another pro-abortion, pro-gay agenda, anti-gun, pro-government run health care, tax raising, pro-amnesty, pro-”progressive” taxation, anti-religious liberty, pro-big government progressive? As if it made a bit of difference?
And even the “yeah, well...” arguments don’t wash, because when you get right down to it, we don’t REALLY know that Romney loves America, that he won’t make use of czars and gov’t-expanding executive orders, or that he won’t be just as willing to use the FedGov to creep into every area of our lives as Obama is. We really don’t know these, but given that Romney seems to have the same proclivities in other areas as Obama has, there’s no really good, rational reason to think he won’t act like Obama on these, as well.
Face it, people - there is no really good reason to vote for Romney over Obama. Why not vote for an actual conservative?
In a system with single member districts and first past the pole winner take all voting you end up with exactly TWO PARTIES every single time.
It takes 50%+1 vote to win. A winning coalition that can get that vote will pop into existence within 2 or 3 elections. A competing coalition that seeks to challenge the current winners will also pop up ~ made up of all the folks left out of the winning coalition.
There is no middle made up of people who have no social or political relationships whatsoever who will bother to vote.
We already know Romney is a loser with no backing from the Republican party rank and file; don't tell me he's totally ignorant of electoral theory ~ LBJ used this knowledge to wipe out Goldwater, and Barry is the guy who propounded the thesis first!
Nixon did it to the Democrats twice. As did Ronald Reagan, then Bill Clinton and then George Bush.
If the Romney crowd actually believe that "broad middle" nonsense their boy could go down for the worst loss in American history.
WE ARE SO SCREWED!
“Mitt Romney shifts to the center (The Etch a Sketch gets shaken)”
And the RINO Renaissance speeds toward the left....