Posted on 03/07/2010 7:58:15 PM PST by Bigtigermike
I watched the Mitt Romney interview on Fox News Watch with Chris Wallace this morning. I actually watched twice, I was stunned. What a debacle! Apparently, this was his opening gambit in his 2012 Presidential campaign, since he has written a book. Wallace, by far the most skilled of the talking head interviewers, pressed Romney on his two primary claims: that Obama has spent his first year apologizing for being an American, and that his health care plan is awful.
Romney was unable to delineate any major differences between the plan he developed in Massachusetts and Obama’s, except that the latter is a national policy, whereas Romney’s just applied to one state. He claimed that insurance companies bear no responsibility for rising health care costs, and then said that when insurance companies act ‘badly’, actions should be taken against them, but couldn’t clarify what he meant. When he tried to say a difference was that the Massachusetts plan didn’t have a public option, Wallace nearly laughed out loud. I don’t know if Romney thought that Wallace would give him a free ride, since it was on Fox. If he did think that, he might have wanted to watch the show once in awhile or at least prepare.
I readily admit that he is the presumptive nominee. Wall Street adores him. My guess is that if he gets the nomination, it would be a debacle. Name one Bible Belt state that would support him – perhaps Mississippi. He will bring down a number of Republican House seats in this region. He didn’t say anything that I thought was believable in the last campaign. I had made a bet with a friend that if he and HRC won their respective nominations, we could set up lie detectors on both of them, and make a drinking game out of it. But that’s beside the point. Instead of just foisting another nominee upon the American public, it might be worth the party’s time to actually try to figure out who the voters would support. For his part Romney might try being honest, and see how Americans like actually knowing what he would do. But I sort of think he doesn’t even know what he believes any more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgEIpEQclJQ&feature=youtube_gdata
The libertarian streak will only help her. We’ll see how Rand Paul does in the Kentucky Senate race yes? He’s leading in the polls so far.
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She supported the bailouts and TARP because she was under McCain campaign, just like Cheney had to support Bush’s anti-gay marriage although he personally supported gay marriage because of his gay daughter.
**Name one Bible Belt state that would support him – perhaps Mississippi**
No, I don’t even think Mississippi would vote for him!
Mitt Romney is a flip-flopping socialist bum!
Some people just don't get the TEA Parties. RINO Romney is just more of the same. Dump him!
The elite is smarter than you think. They know that most conservatives (including most people on this site) DID cover for McCain in 2008 by voting for him. Those folks will do the same if Romney is the nominee in 2012. I don't like it but it is a simple fact. They will be "scared" into it as they were last time.
His advisers have already stated that he is looking to abandon the south in the Primaries and is looking for the Northeastern states and the Western states to pull through to the nomination
Like Romney supported Government Healthcare too, just doing what the people wanted.
Bad decision making is bad decision making. And Palin continues to show bad decision making supporting McCain right now.
Romney has no clue what he talks about, and never has.
Quoted for truth! Like our conservative brethren at NATIONAL REVIEW and THE WEEKLY STANDARD. Even Rush and Hannity have a bigger ear to them than they do to us. And THAT is a BIG problem --
The divide is not just between the liberal elites and "the people" but it is also between the Republican elites and us as well!
The liberals are currently getting a taste of our anger, but will the Republicans get the memo before the election?
Sarah gets it. Who else? We will embrace any politician that understands our anger and takes it to heart and actions.
Even Rush understands why Palin is supporting McCain.
I'm always puzzled why some Freepers seem so thickheaded.
Not really because if you’re running under the guy’s campaign there is not a lot of leeway, Bush Sr. was under Reagan and he did not one bit believe in Reagan’s “voodoo economics” as he called it during the 1980 primaries battle, and once he got the Presidency he did his own thing going away from Reagan......
I still have a dull ache in the pit of my stomach thinking back to the trauma of voting for McCain. I won’t repeat that experience with a clone.
Just because you do not agree with her decision does not make the decision a bad one. Sarah has been caught in a catch 22 situation and everybody knows it. If Sarah threw McCain under the bus there would be as many people bemoaning her decision making skill as there are due to that fact that she didn’t throw him under the bus. I would much rather see McCain retain his seat than see the Democrats win Arizona, and at this point the dirty campaigning is shaping up to hand the Democrats Arizona. McCain and Hayworth are both guilty of jeopardizing the Arizona seat at this point. They both need to tone down rhetoric in my opinion.
I console myself with the fact that I was voting for Sarah....I really was, I couldn’t care less who was listed before her name.
Mitt Romney makes John Kerry look intellectually consistent. The man spouts off whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear. In Mass he was pro-abort, pro-gay, and anti-gun and in 08 he tried to remake himself as a conservative.
He usually has two positions on every issue, and sometimes three.
Awesome cartoon!
Exactly, these folks that name drop 20 names think running for POTUS is as simple as saying I want the job, and instantly you will gain instant viability, immense MSM recognition, and the ability to fundraise on the same par as Romney and Palin.
For newcomers to presidential politics, this is not how it works. Experts say in the 21st c you have to begin preparing for your presidential run no later than summer 2010 and that’s even cutting it close.
Why are Palin and Romney the frontrunners? Yes because of the votes they command, but also neither has a full-time job and have devoted themselves since fall 2009 to get their ducks in a row. The days of parachuting in to the fray and stealing the nomination are long gone.
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