Posted on 01/19/2015 5:06:02 PM PST by Maceman
I am praying for Romney, Jeb, and Christie to divide the liberal vote so we can finally elect a conservative. It’s the only hope America has left.
Which is exactly why it won’t be allowed to happen. Now, faux conservatives bleeding off votes from real conservatives? That’ll happen!
You’re not including my fav’, Huntsman. Let’s not leave him out of the mix! He’d feel so dejected.
What is it you’re talking about?
I’m wondering if Romney is really serious about running, or if he’s just there to thwart Jeb? I know that sounds a bit kooky, but when Fred Thompson ran in 2008, there was a lot of talk that he was doing so to peel potential Huckabee supporters off in order to help McCain get the nomination.
Either way, I don’t want Romney as a candidate. I voted for him in 2008, because I knew what another 4 years of Obama was going to bring. But we conservatives have so many good options out there for 2016. We don’t have to settle for Romney, and we shouldn’t settle for Romney.
Howdy Doody’d be OK. Or, micky mouse .
Let’s avoid the Huckaby/Peroit technique.
You're being funny, right?
But just in case you're not: I'm talking about having a whole bunch of RINOs splitting the "moderate" vote, thus handing the nomination to Ted Cruz.
That's what I'm talkin' bout, foo. Watchoo talkin' bout?
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Which is why it won’t happen.
“This is going to be corporatist on corporatist crime,” said Steve Deace, a respected conservative radio host from Iowa. “And whenever corporatist blood gets spilled, we all win.”
This race will show the relative strength of the conservative vs. moderate wings of the GOP, that’s for sure.
It could work unless the conservatives/Tea Party support half-a-dozen or more conservatives.
Some 20 Republicans have apparently expressed interest in 2016. That field needs to be reduced very fast.
Unfortunately it doesn’t matter if Ted Cruz had the support of 90% of Republicans and Romney or Bush each had 5%. The RNC will fund either Romney or Bush (probably Bush because he’s further to the Left).
The actual level of public support, or what the public wants, is totally irrelevant to the RNC. They play by an internal, private “cash to play” mset of rules that none of us are privy to. We are outsiders, just curious onlookers, to them. All they care about is the status quo cash machine. Us peasants are just footstools to them.
Is that how it's going to work? They just nominated Cruz?
Thanks for the breaking news.
BTW you taking like a black person was very 70s. Clever.
I won't hold ya from your celebration...
Cheers.
I don’t think the corporatists are that stupid. Sure, political theater will be on display, but at the end of the day big money almost always wins.
Romney doesn’t want to run in order to thwart Jeb Bush....
Romney wants to run in order to thwart Ted Cruz.
Romney doesn’t believe Jebbie can win the primaries, so Romney wants to jump in the race in order to (try) to prevent Ted Cruz from getting the nomination (this is what Romney thinks, anyway).
Romney had his chance. He should have used his vast wealth to run ads in the summer of 2012, instead of waiting for the GOP’s money after the late summer convention. Obama had plenty of time to define Romney.
Obamacare needed to be hammered over the heads of the dems, but with the father of Romneycare heading the ticket, that was not going to happen.
Maybe maybe not....one thing is true: conservatives MUST get behind one candidate early and ride that horse to victory. No more of this mamby pamby stuff waiting to see who might win
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