Posted on 02/06/2008 3:11:00 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Mitt Romney Can Crush McCain
That’s the most optimistic headline I’ve seen in 24 hours. Won’t happen, but good to see it.
A month ago I told Jim Robison I wouldn’t vote for a third party, I wouldn’t want to get Hillary in as Ross Perot got Slick in. I might change my mind now. A good third party candidate might beat Hill or OB.
“McCain won 15 percent; he wasn’t expected by many Republicans to be popular in the state, given his opposition to earmarks and drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
“To have a Republican in the White House that’s against ANWR, I think there’s a visceral Alaskan reaction to that,” said Jacqueline Tupou, a Romney supporter and organizer.”
And there you have it.
Does it compare with McCain’s deliberate efforts to frustrate his own party? I agree Romney is less conseravtive than Bush and Bush has never been a conservative. Bur McCain is the head of a block of “moderate” Republicans who constitute a separate faction in the party. It is the hard core of the liberal wing of the Party. It is now poised to regain the control of the national Party for the first time since 1980. I think Romney has now committed himself to the Conservatives to the extent that McCain cannot match even if he would try. You want a conservative candidate? We don’t have that choice.
You are leaping off the bridge with your reply to my post.
I state a simple fact. In Mormon theology there is no absolute morality and there is no final judgement. This is antithetic to conservative Christian theology.
Mormons are not monsters as you apparently want to believe I believe. Atheists do not accept an absolute morality either. That does not make them axe murderers.
All the folderol about Romney changing his position is moot given his theological disposition to do whatever is necessary, within the bounds of his sense of decency, to be successful.
There are some very good reasons for Christians to refuse to support a Mormon presidency that have nothing to do with bigotry.
if i wasnt in a rock band thats doing well, or the fact my mom is disabled and i gotta help out. i would.
Now he needs to do a Reagan, 1976-1979 version. Let the election happen....and use the time to build more bridges with conservatives. I guaran-damn-tee you, come 2012 there will be a conservative hunger for a real candidate. And Mitt can be there, if he uses this time wisely.
One thing is for sure: Washington DC isn't going to give us a conservative in the Oval Office for the next four years--the coming administration, whether Hitlery, Hussein or McInsane, will make George W. Bush look like a member of the John Birch Society.
You are still speaking in general platitudes, not specifics.
You want to be "impressed" .... yet you can't accept a promise to keep government spending to the CPI index - plus 1% -- which every economic in the country agrees would equalize government revenues and outlays in about two years.
Romney said that dozens of times.... yet you have some imaginary belief that no one has proposed any specifics.
Romney did exactly that in Massachusetts, and in dozens of private companies which were bought and controlled by Bain Capital, the holding company partially owned by Romney.
The only reason Romney GOT wealthy in the first place -- (and why he was a successful Governor and Olympics director) was because of his acute ability to analyze and solve a problem.
He solved the economic mess of the Olympics.... and of indebted Massachusetts, which was $3 billion in the hole when Romney took over.
Methinks there must be another reason you don't like the man ....
The Evangelicals will never vote for Mitt. At the end of the day, they’ll wind up throwing their support behind McCain.
I don’t like it, but that’s what will happen. Romney’s campaign is over.
There’s till time for McCain to implode.
It’s funny how you never hear mention of McCain’s religion.
I can’t remember EVER seeing anything about it in a single article, newspaper, etc.
It’s at the forefront of every story about Huckabee and Romney, though, but never McCain.
Just an observation .....
Que?
Give or take a decade or two. There was nothing impressive about this guy. He proved only that he would have told you ANYTHING you wanted to hear.
Look at the things he said to become governor in a liberal state and compare those things to the things he said to become president. He'd say ANYTHING.
Obviously, talk and a ton of money wasn't enough.
Romney has always been an empty suit.
And the fact that the minority of voters that supported Fred are going to pick up their marbles and go home is almost meaningless.
The moderate independent and democratic men will more than make up for your loss. Hillary can barely find a man to vote for her fat rear end.
And, the pundits wonder why Obama cannot get more than 20% of the white vote down south. Duh?
McCain has the best chance to pick up the moderate Republican, Independent, and Moderate Democratic vote. While he may have lost the fringes, he will more than make up for with the folks that NEVER would have voted for Bush.
While you may think of him only as a RINO, in 2008-2012 that is the best that we can do since Bush messed it up.
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