Posted on 08/06/2012 6:09:52 AM PDT by Kinder Gentler Machinegun Hand
Despite some worries among tea-party activists regarding Mitt Romney’s conservative credentials, Mr. Cruz predicted the movement will “overwhelmingly” support the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in November.
“The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama,” Mr. Cruz said. “I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists — I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney and work hard for him.”
While polls show Mr. Romney is significantly trailing President Obama for support among Hispanic voters, Mr. Cruz said Hispanics should feel comfortable with the Republicans because their values are fundamentally conservative.
Mr. Cruz — whose father immigrated to the U.S. from Cuba — added that Hispanics are about “hard work and responsibility” and don’t like to accept government handouts.
“In my life, I never once have seen an Hispanic panhandler,” he said. “Because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.”
When asked on Fox News if Mr. Romney would be wise to pick a tea-party-supported conservative like Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida or House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin as his running mate, Mr. Cruz said both men would be “terrific” choices but declined to speculate further.
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Check this out.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2915158/posts
There really ARE pro-obama trolls.
Actually panhandlers rarely vote so that comment isnt very useful. It’s the ones who vote who are the problem, because they vote for food stamps, etc.
He didnt say he never saw a Hispanic on food stamps.
Is there such a word as “underwhelmingly”?
Don’t believe there are 20-30 point differences in any polls, ever. As far as defining Romney, how about right here in Free Republic City? He’s being defined by everyone right up to and including the owner based on everything he ever did or said since the day he was born.
By then, you'd have gay activists crawling all over our schools, you'd have Susanna Powers as Sec of Defense, we'd be in debt to the tune of 7 trillion or so and there would be 10 times as many mega-mosques built in the US.
Oh, and the Muslim Brotherhood would likely be in charge of the whole Middle East.
Sit back and allow this if you want but the less-than-naive will not be waiting for it.
And I have been known to complain about him too LOL.
Romney has a problem that he took a bunch of positions in the primary that he doesnt believe in and everyone including Dems know it. So they go after Romney for taking those positions and he has no idea how to respond to them.
I just hope that this is not a 2008 where the RINO uses kid gloves against Obama until the end when it's too late, then lashes out and looks desperate,. McCain did that.
Obama is paying millions to pollsters, STILL can't get out from under "You didn't build that," and the response is to call for Romney's taxes? Seriously? That's working? Sorry. I don't see it.
Either these HUGELY bogus polls are in fact accurate, or Romney is absolutely taking this guy apart and while the wins at individual state levels will be tight, the overall EC total will be damn big for Romney.
lol it isn’t fun to say it anywhere.
I’ll probably end up voting for Romney, but.... Never mind. Too depressing. I just don’t want to talk about it.
Generally I try not to have emotions for politicians and Romney is not really one that inspires hate in me, of the ones that do.
But I think if he was POTUS 4 years the hate would grow on me quickly.
Obama has done a great job the past 2 years of getting me to despise him. It's not what he does that gets me as much as the fact that he gets away with it with his likability numbers, and seeing Romney so lame is making it worse.
I am usually a pessimist anyway but Obama is focusing on the swing states like FLA and Ohio and MI. Even Rove has been having trouble painting an optimistic picture on those states.
National average polls are not that meaningful when they include solid states that have high populations.
The past few years Republicans have been worse (er better) than Dems at predicting victory just before disasters even though at this stage both sides are trying to spin their best.
“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
"A political party cannot be all things to all people.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs
which must not be compromised to political expediency
or simply to swell its numbers."
-- President Ronald Reagan
"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""
-- President Ronald Reagan
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The question then is, where are the REAL national polls? And Ras has had Romney up consistently (gee, seems like 1994 where only he was right) for two weeks; there are rumblings that the Dems are now afraid of losing the Senate so badly that a 60 vote majority might be in the making (I doubt it, but possible). The fact that Obama is focusing on OH and MI and FL says that he KNOWS he can't win with his 2008 combination and he is the one who has to run the "inside straight" to win, not Romney. Even Ed Rendell said that PA was up for grabs.
But feel free to wallow in your pessimism.
Hahahaha. Doug, sorry to see what they have done to you around here.
Hahahaha. Doug, sorry to see what they have done to you around here.
Of course he cant win the same as 2008. That was always impossible. But he doesn't have too. If he wins with a margin like GWB did in 2000 by focusing on swing states as he is doing that is still a win, and with things this bad it would be a big win for him. Of course that would NOT give him a governable DC which in itself would be a good thing.
At this point in the race I expect both sides : Dems (MSNBC=Obama home ) and Republicans (FNC/Rove=Romney home, +Rush) to be showing only polls that indicate that their man is winning, and we do. So that means nothing.
But when I see Fox and Friends (Romney;s home) start off in the morning talking about how Obam's personal attacks on Romney (etc taxes ) are working and hurting him, then I take note.
Romney is a disaster for a candidate. He is an empty suit who cant argue what he really is for, assuming he believes in anything, because most of the positions he took are someone else's. So he avoids talking about them, and Dems define them for him.
Yes, There still is the RNC convention, but it looks like it will be the parade of the RINOs.
That first night is looking like the first night of a Democrat convention.
You have three women, one White, one Black, and one Hispanic. Then you have John McCain.
So what we have is gender and racial specific. Then we toss in a dash of Ted Kennedy for flavor.
Sound like a Republican Convention to anyone? It sure doesn’t to me.
That is who they are courting. The primary is over. This is why Romney cant talk about what he is for.
We don't count. We are assumed to support him no matter what
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