Mitt Romney Campaigns in Colorado & Nevada; Clinches GOP Nomination

C-Span ^ | May 28th 2012

[rogue yam]

How was Santorum ‘deeply flawed’?

Two Santorum flaws that immediately come to mind:

1) Pro-"manufacturing" industrial policy. One either understand and trusts the free market to allocate resources or else one does not. Santorum does not.

2) Sloppy and undisciplined messaging. Santorum was quick to say things like "UC campuses don't teach American history." or "Calls for increased college enrollment are elitist,", etc. There was some truth behind both of these lines but he let himself be mischaracterized and put on the defensive by going off half-cocked.

[CatDancer]

For me it’s been 48 years. Goldwater, Reagan, Palin: the three I wanted among my votes. At least I (and the country) got one of them.

[JCBreckenridge]

He said that himself. How is quoting Perry ‘mean’. Maybe being prolife isn’t important to you, in which case, you should be thrilled with Romney.

[JCBreckenridge]

If there’s truth to it, then why are you criticizing him for addressing conservative issues that no one else would address. I teach history and I was thrilled to hear him calling out U of C for their terrible history courses.

I don’t see opposition to free trade as ‘deeply flawed’. I agree with you that it is a flaw, but I don’t think it’s significant enough compared to Romney’s and Gingrich’s flaws.

[samtheman]

We have Romney because of all the maligning of good conservatives by other so-called conservatives. We have Romney because of people like you.

Perry is a good conservative. You are exactly the kind of person I was talking about.

Again, thank you for making my case for me.

[CatDancer]

And part of the blame goes to Sarah Palin, in my opinion. There is no doubt about that. Unfortunately too many conservatives mistook hero (heroine) worship for a viable strategy to victory. I think she understood that she could not win the general - even if she had gotten the nomination - but I cannot understand why she squandered the opportunity to boost any of the "not Romney's"

I have to agree, much as I love her. As soon as she announced she wouldn't run, she should have endorsed Newt and started campaigning and appearing with him. I preferred Perry myself, but think Newt was the better pick. She couldn't drag McCain across the finish line in 08, because McCain had no intention of crossing it. But she could have dragged Newt - easily, I think. Oh well, just another opinion.

[JCBreckenridge]

How is reporting Perry’s convictions wrt abortion ‘maligning’? Had he been as prolife as Santorum, he’d be the nominee today.

[JCBreckenridge]

Looks like Perry will beat Newt in Texas - not to shabby.

[samtheman]

You missed the point of my argument. But it’s not important. It’s all water under the bridge anyway.

Perry didn’t lose on the pro-life issue (Perry is clearly pro-life and has been endorsed by many pro-life groups) but because he appeared to be unelectable during the debates. I’m partial to the argument that he should have waited until he recovered completely from his back surgery before he took to the stage, but I don’t know if that would have helped and now will never know.

But that’s not my point anyway. I’m not going to repeat the point I was trying to make (which is lost on you and is probably irrelevant now anyway). Enough is enough. I stated it a couple of times already and now I’m moving on.

I definitely don’t want to refight the nomination wars.

[JCBreckenridge]

“(Perry is clearly pro-life and has been endorsed by many pro-life groups)”

Then why did he say that he supported abortion in the case of rape and incest. I know many prolifers here in Texas, they went from being absolutely thrilled with Perry to feeling betrayed.