Posted on 02/02/2014 11:08:19 AM PST by nickcarraway
Political power players have descended on New York for Super Bowl weekend.
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Why do not both of them just go away? Geez!
Actually, I kind of like that. It could cause folks to go out and vote in mass, just to get kicked up the nomination ladder during the next primary season.
I would eliminate states with open elections from being a part of the nomination process.
I would look real hard at making sure a more significant slice of registered Republicans actually got to take part in the nomination process.
I might tighten up the nomination process, so that actual votes and not delegates got to take part in the process.
Some of these small states can be gamed big-time, by politicians coming in from out of state and making sure they are over-represented by delegates. It’s just not a clean process. Someone may be able to correct me on that, but it has been my take on it.
Others will probably have additional and perhaps better ideas.
I didn’t see that the Tea Party held it’s collective nose and voted Romney. It stayed away and we got BO for a second term. I will crawl across broken glass to vote for anyone running against Hillary. Staying home is no option.
Ugh .... can you imagine? I suspect they’d both get boo’d big time!
I hope Mitt does run and hope Mitt does win. That said, I can understand the first reactions of many folks here to the very suggestion that Mitt is signaling “This is NOT over!”. Some might think him a masochist, a Rich Man’s George Zimmerman, if you will, who appears to going ‘shopping for trouble’ every day in the week. I disagree with that reflexive analogy.
I think Mitt has been chosen to do this, to keep trying. Even if he loses, Romney will force the nation to focus on aspects that are lost or that we as a culture are on the verge of losing. I think Romney sees this ‘Casandra’ type ringing of warning bells in the town square as part of his mission.
MaceMan, muchisimo gracias for posting all those telling quotes by Bill Clinton. I had forgotten most of these. Bill later became more careful, more evasive, about telling the truth to his public. This is who he and The Hillster really are!
This one picture says it better than I ever could. Look who is absolutely thrilled with what Romney was moved to do.
This is how Romney would operate as president. He couldn't be counted on to move our nation back to the right. Obamacare, Immigration, a host of other Leftist hopes and dreams, Romney would simply be a vehicle to their destination, not ours.
He's good family man. I get that. He's had business acumen. I get that. We can find those things out there. We do need a man with successful executive experience. I agree with that. We also need someone who is well grounded in Conservatism.
When something comes up, they can wing it off the cuff, because they have viewed life's (our nation's) problems from a Conservative perspective for decades, not just the last eight months, or through a couple of campaign seasons.
This nation must be turned back to the right. Romney doesn't even know there is a Right vs a Left, on far too many issues.
I'm sorry folks, but it's time to either put up or shut up. And Romney is not my idea of putting up. He's merely another way of putting it off.
Who are they going to run as the third candidate ?
Great question.
I don’t know at all.
It could be somebody who fails to win the R primaries, but I don’t know how that works in states with “sore loser” laws.
But I really think another Republican try with Romney, Huckster, or NJFatboy would likely result in a third party effort.
``If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.’’ -- President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993
``The purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people’’ –- Bill Clinton during an interview on MTV in 1993
``We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans…that we forget about reality.’’ -- President Bill Clinton, quoted in USA Today, March 11, 1993, Page 2A, ``NRA change: `Omnipotent to powerful’’’ by Debbie Howlett
“When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly… that they would work for the common good, as well as for the individual welfare… However, now there’s a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there’s too much freedom. When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it.” – Bill Clinton, April 19, 1995
Wow.
Don’t look now but Mitt Romney is on his way to the 2016 nomination. With Christie knocked out and Sarah Palin showing no interest whatseover, there are no other serious GOP players at this time. None.
Mitt Romney is a power player?
As he turns 67 years old, with decades in elective politics, having invested at least 50 million dollars of his own money, and 100s of millions of other’s in his races, he has a single election win to his name.
The man won a single election with less than 50% and failed in office, unable to run for reelection and leaving with 34% approval, and creating what appears to be a permanent democrat seat, after his having been their 4th GOP governor in a row.
Illusion seems to be the new reality in modern America.
I concur. He’s being set up and he knows it. More money to be made being the fall guy. He’ll get a job as a secretary of something, probably an ambassador ship.
They are already setting the stage for a Hillary victory.
No matter your skilled research, the American people aren’t buying it.
The problem is that NH will send him a big launch into liberal FL.
Probably so...
I like New Hampshire, but man they get way too much power in the early part of the nomination process.
One win in one of these Podunk states, and the media runs with it like it was a general election coup.
Sorry about the Podunk comment New Hampshirites, but it really stings to see idiots win elections up there only to get trounced once they’re nominated. Enough already.
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