Abortion and gun control. willard is on the wrong side of both issues and I won’t be able to vote for him as a result. From where I’m sitting, I think the election is not going particularly well for willard. Although I really don’t think its going to boil down to the south. I think its going to be decided in the midwest. If VA and FL go for hussein then it was a rout anyway.
Unfortunately if willard does lose, we can expect the willardites to spend the next few years blaming those of us who refused to line up for the willard wagon for that defeat. Rather than placing that responsibility belongs: on the shoulders of the gop and their abysmal candidate.
Oh well. At least with 20:1 odds it’ll be a fair fight.
One point I’d make is that whoever wins, will bring coattails with them that will affect downticket races. This has always been the case, and always will, and not just because of straight ticket voting.
Thus, if Romney loses, there’s a good chance that a lot of good, conservative Republicans on down their respective tickets will lose, as well. Which in turn means that Congress and the statehouses and the governourships will be Democrat enriched.
And THAT’S where a lot of the things you’re worried about really take place. As President, Romney wouldn’t just get to “make policy” on abortion and gun control. He could really only sign or veto bills presented to him by Congress, and would have to get his appointments through Congress. The downticket races will affect whether it is the Democrats or the Republicans crafting the bills that will go to his desk and whether a bad judicial appointment gets filibustered successfully or not.
So do we want Democrats sending gun ban bills to Romney’s desk, or do we want Republicans sending bills that will synchronise conceal-carry to all 50 states (as Romney said he wants in a recent NRA interview, take it for what you will)?
I agree with you about abortion and gun control. Homosexualism is also a huge issue for me.
So far as the current state of the campaign, I’m fairly convinced that Rasmussen does not change his standards to be partisan. He has it as a dead even race, so that’s pretty much how I see it.
It’s surprising that Romney is not farther behind given that he’s barely been fighting yet. He has allowed Obama to far over-spend against him here in Ohio, and it’s still even.
With the foreign affairs fiasco of this last week, I don’t see how Obama can survive, but it’s no telling what Americans think anymore. If I were the Republicans, I’d be targeting senior citizens and the not yet senior boomers like crazy with Obama’s failures in this area. They are the cold war generation and they will understand how Obama has weakened the nation. They won’t like it.
But, will Romney do it? Who knows. He’s not shown much gumption yet.
So, it all depends on if and when Romney decides to fight.
I’ve not heard a peep out of Goode on this that has made it into the media.