Posted on 08/04/2012 11:56:32 PM PDT by Innovative
Liberals don't want to jinx it. It terrifies the right. And the press would prefer a nail-biter. But the fact is that finding Romney's path to victory is getting harder every day.
There's a secret lurking behind everything you're reading about the upcoming election, a secret that all political insiders know—or should—but few are talking about, most likely because it takes the drama out of the whole business. The secret is the electoral college, and the fact is that the more you look at it, the more you come to conclude that Mitt Romney has to draw an inside straight like you've never ever seen in a movie to win this thing. This is especially true now that it seems as if Pennsylvania isn't really up for grabs. Romney's paths to 270 are few.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
I actually think Romney could be worse, for e reasons DoughtyOne enumerated in post 143.
You, of course, are thinking that there will be another election in 2016. If obama gets re-elected, I look for him to sign an executive order making himself dictator for life.
No more free elections for us! When, will some of you wise up and realize that, even though Romney isn’t what or who we wanted, he is the only chance we have to hold off the total tyranny for this country.
I’d love to have a Conservative candidate, but, they were picked off one by one during the primaries. We’re stuck with who we have.
Some will sit home in November,and whine about not having a conservative to vote for, and will come back on here griping and complaining that zero won again.
I don’t understand why some can’t see that they are helping obama’s re-election campaign. There may or may NOT be a 2016 election if zero wins again. He’d be perfectly happy being ruler over us for life.
D-One would rather step on a marked landmine than risk a papercut.
This whole “maybe we get a real conservative in 4 more years” crap burns me every 4 years. D-One and dinodino take an all-or-nothing approach to a fluid human-devised system. That, in my mind is pure foolishness.
And functionally, these two and the anti-Romney crowd at this point are democrats.
Some people are CLUELESS or so damned IDEALISTIC they can;t see the forest thru the trees.
Jesus isn't running, Palin isn;t running......GROW UP and GROW A PAIR!! Our country's future hangs in the balance!
Ty. Some on this tread are proof that our education system is a complete failure.
When you and D-one can predict the future, let me know. Seems to me that neither of you is very good at recognizing reality and dealing with it.
Big boys don’t take their ball and go home.
Try using your vast insights to be constructive instead of defeatist.
Ty.
I’m not taking my ball and going home! I am simply not going to vote for your crappy, leftist candidate just because the Republican establishment refuse to back a true conservative. Perhaps you are the one ignoring the reality of where this nation is headed, and that both Parties are taking us there as quickly as they can.
So, explain to us how Romney signed Romneycare and the AWB. Do you think those were just flukes? If those didn’t represent his core beliefs, why did he do them?
Nope, sorry—I was a diehard Reagan supporter. Nice theory you had there, though.
I stand with you Doughty One.The coolaid drinkers on FR are relentless in their support of obamalite.They are part of the problem as I see it.I believe this election is a sham set up by the powers that be with the result being total control of our every waking moment.Screw them.
Unicorns can fly also. People walk on fire to vote against barry
Romney is no prize.
HOWEVER, he isn’t Obama, not by a damn long shot.
If he has a dem congress he will be a very squishy RINO.
If he has a pub congress he will get Rid of Obamacare (as he has said he would. Lower taxes as he has promised, and pass the Ryan budget.
This is worth voting for.
The big key IMO is electing the “Palin” Senators. That will send a message to the GOPe and start the game change this country needs.
We need to look at the big picture and no react like a bunch of whiny libs.
will walk
Sad but true. I can’t believe folks are ready to hand this GREAT COUNTRY over to a known and proven commuist just because Romney isn’t “conservative” enough.
You people are living in dream land.Please tell us what romney has done(RECORD AS GOVENOR)that leads you to believe he would be any different than obama?I dont expect a reply but feel free to do so if you like.
I like your style D1.
Tomasky’s article needed to rely heavily on polls like Pew’s D+19 poll giving Obama a lead in the general election. Basically The Daily Beast, Politico, Morning Joe and the rest of the MSM continue to construct and live an alternate reality where 2012 continues to be 2008. Obama is in deep do do and Tamaskky and the rest of MSM all know it.
Please enlighten us on the differences between the two.How about start with romneycare?I await your reply.
Had that stupid amnesty plan of his passed he would have destoyed the country.Just how blind are you?Are you sure you are at the right wedsite?
Look dinodino—
I’m not here to teach pigs to sing.
I don’t need to explain anything to your satisfaction.
You’re a defeatist bore and I have no need of your further opinion.
The one extremely powerful advantage we have to get Obumo the heck out is enthusiasm for “the other guy” and you are just a big slopping bucket of larva infested water trying to put out any ABO fire.
I expect to deal with Romney and all his faults after he’s in office and Obumo is out. But first things first...... Obumo must be OUT - pure and simple.
Your idealism and purist attitude is infantile.
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