Posted on 01/07/2008 12:59:04 AM PST by MitchellC
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Romney did well in yesterday’s debate, its not a ‘conspiracy’.
Out of our field of candidates, I am beginning to believe that Mitt may be the only one who can win. I'm not seeing Fred get any traction and he's not breaking out at these debates (with what little time he has to "shine").
I'm not saying I like all of Mitt's positions (let alone the fact that they change!), just being realistic in my analysis (FWIW) of the election at this point.
I don't think any of the other RINOs could beat Hillary or Obama.
Other then Bush 41, who was mainly considered a Texan, who was the last Republican President from the northeast?
These are the things you run into when you have the highest negatives of any Republican.
Once again, idle speculation which during the thread becomes hard fact here on FR. You think it might have happened, therefore it did. The word sleaze gets thrown around but the majority of what many Freepers regard as sleazy tactics are entirely based upon such speculation represented as fact. Until this campaign, I thought only the lib nutters were the only ones afflicted with this disease but I can see now it is spreading. That’s the real sleaze here.
“Past performance does not indicate future results”.
Or how about: when is the last time a Senator was elected President?
I thought that Romney and Rudy were 1&2 and Thompson was last, (which was disappointing because Fred's the best conservative.) My 'take' was pretty much mirrored by Luntz's group. And I'm not a Romney supporter (at least I wasn't prior to the debate).
I wish I could remember... perhaps the FReeper that was there will find this thread. It was in a live thread on an Iowa debate about 3 or 4 weeks ago. I had several exchanges in that thread with the FReeper I referenced.
LLS
NH is a yankee state: Mitt is a Yankee
Parroting Romney talking points.
Welcome to FR.
Posting history: "I liked McCain until I learned he was evil! Now I support Romney, he's great. I used to hate Romney because of his flip flops. Now I realize that I can truly believe in him! Go Mitt! I used to support Fred Thompson until his poll numbers were bad and he got old. Now I support Mitt, he's great!"
Yikes....
Any campaign [sleaze or not] that is worth their salt may try to get a few people in the focus group but I doubt they all did. Example would be Thompson’s and maybe Giuliani’s as they are concentrating on NH.
Conspiracies don’t lurk around every door. Sometimes things are just what they are.... Romney did well last night and that was his objective. I would have preferred to have seen Thompson shine better but he didn’t, imo. Some days you’re on and somedays you’re not.
In any case at midnight tonight Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location will begin the primary selection process in NH...
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/
Laissez les bons temps rouler
I'm not representing this as anything beyond speculation.
Let me speculate in a little more detail. What probably happened was, Luntz allows 'undecideds' to seek him out to get into the groups, someone in the Mitt camp knew about it and nudged some faithfuls in that direction, they got into the groups and swayed a number of others.
You're naive if you think Mitt's camp wouldn't involve themselves in something like that, given they're involved with the guy who did push polling against McCain in 2000 and that Bob Novak stated as a matter of fact that the 'Fred will drop out' lie was traced back to Mitt's camp.
Or maybe all of these things are part of a big conspiracy by every other candidate's campaign against Mitt. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Thank You, very disturbing.
Thank You, very disturbing.
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