[mojito]

Flailing and failing with the Mitten's gang.

Mr. Fix-it needs to get some tools for the mind - they're called "ideas," conservative ideas - and use them to explain the mess we're in to the American public.

But alas, I don't think Mittens has ever had an idea, let alone a conservative one, in all his years in politics.

[RIghtwardHo]

Every single poll, EVERY SINGLE POLL, except Rasmussen, is NOT surly wrong. Even Fox has Romney down 9. Let’s stop fooling ourselves. Look. I know we are upset, but let’s not stand in the rain and tell ourselves it isn’t raining.

But you are absolutely 100% correct. “It’s the conservatism, stupid”. And Romney is not only ill qualified to run on that, he is utterly inept.

The sooner we face the fact that we have been played by the GOP elite, the sooner we can recover. But if we sit here and spend the next few months saying “the polls are wrong”, well . . .2016 is going to be a replay of this nightmare.

[Diogenesis]

RomneyCARE News from TODAY

"RomneyCare 2.0 With costs rising fast, Massachusetts moves to dictate medical care
Under the plan, all Massachusetts doctors, hospitals and other providers must register
with a new state bureaucracy as a condition of licensure—that is, permission to practice.
They'll be required to track and report their financial performance, price and cost trends,
state-sanctioned quality measures, market share and other metrics."

[MasterGunner01]

It's my understanding is Mittens has surrounded himself with a campaign team that's only familiar with MA politics and has no clue on how to appeal to a national audience. Mittens is totally clueless because he has no core beliefs nor does he understand what conservatism is (because everyone around him is a MA lib team of RINOs).

[tsowellfan]

With so many unemployed and gas and heating oil prices these three alone should result in Obama trailing the GOP Candidate by at least 15% nationwide!

[JudgemAll]

Mitt has a language problem, and this is going to be another “Bush is stupid” to “Romney is boring”. We have got a dunce who has not done his ideological homework again, aside from what he would be distributed in colleges from Marxist teachers. Hence he is going to admire his opponents for their knowledge and completely misunderstand the conservatives. Talk about communication skills.

Professionalism and work in the American workplace is going to be thus going out of the window in favor of KGB liberal tactics who are going to use the workplace as their usual favorite political football field and means to snitch for the government, their homosexual “lovers”’ plight pimping them and lawyers.

[dalebert]

with unions, government employees, illegals and welfare ..Democrats out number conservatives ...thats why nothing works. and dont forget all the fraud votes. we are dooomed

[Sola Veritas]

“But alas, I don’t think Mittens has ever had an idea, let alone a conservative one, in all his years in politics.”

That pretty much says it all. I salute you.

[Reddon]

Romney is as dull a candidate as John McCain was, only worse. And he probably doesn’t have the courage to pick a VP candidate who isn’t just as dull and uninspiring as he is himself, so there is not going to be a “Palin bounce” with this guy. I’m not surprised the polls show him getting his butt kicked. Republicans deserve exactly what is happening to them.

[Tau Food]

Don't let Romney's disastrous campaign cause you to vote for Obama. There is another choice - Tom Hoefling.

If you don't like having to choose between the two liberals running in the major parties, consider Tom.

P.S. The major parties won't be the major parties for too much longer.

[driftless2]

I’ll wait until September after the conventions are done before I take the polls real seriously. Carter actually led Reagan by almost double digits in June of 1980 and ended up getting crushed. Some pollsters even had it close right up to the election.

[antonico]

Romney has a strategy?

[Kansas58]

You are ridiculous.

Of course, if Romney was up by 5 you would still be saying Romney was doing something wrong.

No, he is not perfect, as a candidate.

I must say, however, that the anti-Romney crowd sure will not go down as “perfect” conservatives.

Ronald Reagan supported Gerald Ford, after the primary.

That is the way the game is played.

Some of you WANT Obama to win.

[Political Junkie Too]

Right now, I think it's a different problem than you suggest.

It's not that Romney doesn't have ideas. I think it's because Romney's faith is preventing him from running the kind of campaign that is needed against Obama. Where McCain was soft because he was afraid, Romney is soft because it's his upbringing.

Romney is running a "Donny and Marie" campaign, while Obama is running a "Gangsta Rap" campaign.

-PJ

[SaxxonWoods]

Romney losing.

You don’t like Romney and won’t vote for him so you should all be happy then.

[roylene]

Romney can’t campaign as a conservative because he is not one.
Every now and then he uses a conservative word but doubt he even knows what the words mean.
He has a record and it is not conservative.

[cripplecreek]

I was listening.

Rush Goes On the Record with Fox News Channel's Greta Van Susteren (December 2011)

Here's the big problem, Greta, for the Republicans. And I am a lone wolf on this. The rule of thumb in elections, both parties, 40 percent are going to vote Democrat automatically, whatever you do, 40 percent are going to vote Republican, automatic, no matter what you do. And in the middle, who do we have? The precious, God love them, independents and the moderates. And they are the targets. They are the focus of every election. And our brilliant campaign consultants tell our candidates they are the ones that know how to go get a majority of those independents. And we have, as Republicans, put ourselves in prison to this whole silly notion that you only win elections by moving to the center and getting great independents. Fine and dandy, but if you squander your base in the process, you haven't a prayer.

The Republican Party is trying to do something in this primary that is unprecedented. They're trying to split the conservative vote and win the primary with a moderate, with Romney. It's the other way around. You consolidate your base and then you move to the center in the general. The Republican establishment has decided they don't want any part of conservatism. And this is really not new. People are surprised to hear this, but the Republican Party formative event with conservatism is Goldwater's landslide defeat. That's what they think of when they think conservative. They don't think Reagan. They think Goldwater.

They believe what the inside-the-Beltway philosophy is about conservatives. They're racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, Southern hayseed hicks. They're pro-lifers. They're embarrassing to have to go to the convention with them. And they're just embarrassed to have those kind of people in the party. They're dumb. They're not erudite. They're not educated in Ivy League schools. We'll take their votes on election day, but we really don't want to hang around with them. We don't want anybody in Washington thinking that we're really that close to them and aligned with them. So in the process -- you know, it's a very sophisticated electorate. The Republican primary voter can sense that the Republican Party really doesn't like them, really doesn't want them, thinks that they are the route to defeat. That's the problem in a nutshell. The Republican establishment thinks that a conservative nominee is the route to defeat because they think Goldwater landslides are going to happen because they believe what the popular misconception the left has created of conservatives -- they think everybody thinks that.

[Armaggedon]

Romney will win the election. Let us support him and not spout the Obama misinformation. If Obama can get someone to hate or ridicule Romney that is another boost for Lord Obama. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent to spread the lies. People are hired to do this work. Millions buys lots of misinformation agents.

[Fledermaus]

Mitt and his people are tone deaf. Blew an opportunity during the Chick-Fil-A instance to declare conservative values and back people’s rights. A great opportunity to attack the left as intolerant and unconstitutional A-holes.

Should have attacked Rahm et al on the idea they could “deny” a business license due to a personal belief. Isn’t this kind of difference you would DIE to point out?

Another HUGE mistake, in my opinion, was the initial response to the LYING AD with that jerk “husband” who let his wife die.

MASSIVE opportunity to hammer the left. Instead, his stupid spokesperson said, “we’ll, if he lived in MA, she’d have been covered under Romneycare”.

REALLY? Lame, lame and beyond lame.

[Oak Grove]

Here is a report on how well the Romney strategy is working.

On Wednesday, I drove from Central Virginia to Western Maryland. On Friday I returned — 250 miles up and 250 miles back.

I drove through three states: Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland.

I drove on Interstate highways and I drove on local streets and roads.

During that entire trip, I saw no Romney bumper stickers — not one. I saw only one Romney lawn sign — just one.

Something is terribly wrong with the Romney campaign.

[spodefly]

I have seen this movie before ... in 1996 with Dole ... in 2008 with McCain.

Gutless politicians are gutless.

Republicans are gutless.