Posted on 06/01/2021 9:24:01 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
“He threw that election.”
Agreed. Mitt really beat zero in the first presidential debate. The rest were downhill for Romney.
Mitt Romney’s successful 2012 campaign could serve as a template for 2024 hopefuls
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If anyone asks you for just one example of the media being overtly baised against conservatives, then just show them the title of this article. When the legacy media isn’t trying to outright slander/libel conservatives, they are trying to divide them.
Hint: They ain't won one in 3 decades (1991).
I like poisonous snakes and spiders better than I like Rommitt
Romney won his first debate with Obama and then, consciously or unconsciously, decided that he didn't want to become President.
I must have slept through president Romney because I don’t remember that.
Hahahahahahahaha
It’s like saying that the Hindenburg was successful because it crossed the ocean. It was successful if you don’t count the catastrophic failure part.
Assuming that the President isn't running in ‘24 it looks like DiSantis might be the best choice.
President Romney slept through those years also.
Like always comments are shut down at yahoo
Which one was he? The dog on the car guy?
President Romney put the whole country asleep so no one remembers his presidency.
“ it looks like DiSantis might be the best choice.”
I dunno, democrats have been saying he is bad, kinda of like a man that is orange which is bad
74 million Americans agree...
I wondwr if anyone in Washington can actually stand Romney. My guess is no.
Nimrata Nikki Haley (née Randhawa; born January 20, 1972) is an American politician, diplomat, businesswoman, and author who served as the 116th and first female governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017 and as the 29th United States ambassador to the United Nations for almost two years, from January 2017 to December 2018.
Haley was born in Bamberg, South Carolina, and studied accounting at Clemson University. Haley joined her family’s clothing business, before serving as treasurer and president of the National Association of Women Business Owners. First elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 2004, she served three terms. In 2010, during her third term, she was elected governor of South Carolina and won re-election in 2014. Haley was the first female governor of South Carolina, the youngest governor in the country and the second governor of Indian descent (after fellow Republican Bobby Jindal of Louisiana). She was the first Asian-American female governor, and in 2017 became the first Indian-American in a presidential cabinet.
Haley served in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet as United States ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 to 2018. She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in a 96–4 vote, and was sworn in on January 25, 2017. She affirmed the United States’s willingness to use military force in response to further North Korean missile tests in the wake of the 2017–2018 North Korea crisis. She strongly defended Israel at the Security Council and led the effort to withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
Her father was formerly a professor at Punjab Agricultural University, and her mother received her law degree from the University of Delhi.
Haley’s parents moved to Canada after her father received a scholarship offer from the University of British Columbia. When her father received his PhD in 1969, he moved his family to South Carolina, after accepting a position as a professor at Voorhees College, a historically black institution.
Her mother, Raj Randhawa, earned a master’s degree in education and taught for seven years in the Bamberg public schools.
Haley implemented a plan in which teachers’ salaries would be based on not only seniority and qualifications but also job performance, as determined by evaluations and reports from principals, students, and parents. She supports school choice and charter schools.
She has stated “I’m not pro-life because the Republican Party tells me, I’m pro-life because all of us have had experiences of what it means to have one of these special little ones in our life.”
“They will bring about impeachment, yet they say they are for unity. They beat him up before he got into office. They are beating him up after he leaves office. At some point, give the man a break. I mean, move on” However, in an interview given on January 12, 2021, but published a month later, while Trump’s second impeachment trial was underway on charges he had incited the January 2021 storming of the Capitol, Haley said, “We need to acknowledge he let us down. He went down a path he shouldn’t have, and we shouldn’t have followed him, and we shouldn’t have listened to him. And we can’t let that ever happen again.”
In February 2021 Haley stated:
Most of Mr. Trump’s major policies were outstanding and made America stronger, safer and more prosperous. Many of his actions since the election were wrong and will be judged harshly by history...I will gladly defend the bulk of the Trump record and his determination to shake up the corrupt status quo in Washington.
The Economist described Haley as a politician with high approval ratings who possesses a combination of “fiscal ferocity and a capacity for conciliation,” and stated as a female candidate and ethnic minority she would have appeal.
Books
Can’t Is Not an Option: My American Story, Penguin, New York (2012).[11]
With All Due Respect: Defending America with Grit and Grace, St. Martin’s Press, New York (2019).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Haley
Here is the problem with Mitt’s successful campaign for the nomination, which is also the problem with the primary election system.
I can understand the reason, when the result of the election is final - the winner gets the job - of using “most votes wins” as the rule - what the Brits call “first past the post”.
I do NOT understand how, in a primary with six candidates, the “winner” gets 29% of the votes when 71% of the primary voters didn’t want him.
Back in the day (yes, I’m that old) the requirement at the convention was that the nominee needed 67% of the delegates to be nominated. This meant that (most) of the party was united behind the nominee.
Now, Romney, who won 53.24% of primary votes cast (according to Wikipedia) failed to bring along enough of the 46.76% who wanted somebody else to win the election.
I think primaries are stupid since there is no qualification for voters to participate, but if they are to occur, I would suggest that the following reforms take place:
1) You must be registered in a party for >3 years to vote in that party’s primary.
2) Delegates are assigned in strict proportion to vote totals.
3) Nomination requires 67% of elected delegates.
I see that Yahoo! is copying stories from the Babylon Bee.
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