Posted on 01/11/2012 7:10:01 AM PST by greyfoxx39
Edited on 01/11/2012 7:15:18 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Perplexing but true: Mitt Romney is on the glide path to the most easily secured nomination a Republican presidential candidate has ever had
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I went that way....with McCain. Not going to do it again.
I will be voting....but I'll just write someone in for POTUS.
I intend to write in George Washington for president and vote conservative on all other ballot measures.
"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton
Amen Brother ! We must clean our own house first, come what may !
Oh?
I happen to know that a LOT of us want to be in that position!
We did in the 2010 elections!
Occupy WHO?
” - - - Paul will certainly stay in it with Romney all the way. Somebody has to.”
How about Dr. Paul for Veep?
Willy and Paul are currently the top vote getters after Iowa and New Hampshire, and each has different skills. “The Vulture and the Doctor” - - - - a very scary movie title for the lovers of Obamanation.
Konrad Adenauer in post WW2 West Germany did very well as their chancellor from 1949 to 1963. He was 87 when he retired and lived another 4 years.
Ron Paul is a medical doctor, in good health, and realistic about the LONG length of time required to downsize the Medical Entitlements of Medicare, Medicaid, and the illegal ObamaCare.
The medical doctor as Veep could in just ONE year set up the blueprint to downsize the medical entitlements, and still have 3 years to ram it down the libs throats. ( Say AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, libs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
The odds are that the libs, (in both parties), will rally in 2016, and mount a massive reaction Campaign against President Willy Rom-Rom RINO.
But if Willy holds up his end of the Vulture bargain, and picks the bones clean on ALL the rotting crops in THE ENTITLEMENT PLANTATION, then he may be able to stay in office for a full eight years. Otherwise, the RINOs will be served Willy-Rom toast, and the cancer of Obamanation will again pollute our Republic.
BTW, Ron Paul would probably step down in 2016 and allow his son Rand to replace him as Veep AND continue the DAILY, thankless, ( except by us), task of keeping BIG Government RINO Romney on the Conservative side of the GOP Establishment RINOland. A DAILY check and balance system on BIG Government Willy Rom-Rom RINO. (Sort of a Paul cast over the flaming-lib tendencies of Willy Rom, the Massachusettes Moderate.)
BTW, BTW, REALITY knows no loyalty. Paul is the best AVAILABLE reality check to Willy Rom. So suck it up FReepers, and make the best of the cards that are being dealt, and DOWNSIZE the US Federal Government!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And it is admirable of you to stand on first principles like I do.
I admire and applaud it.
But that doesn’t alter the possibility that to not vote at all in the general could have serious consequences resulting in the reelection of Hussein.
I have a number of GOP friends right now, supposed Conservatives, who say things like “Mitt isn’t my first choice but I can live with him”..Those are the voters, however many they number, who will hold their noses and vote for Mittens, if he is their choice.
This is a pivotal and crucial time for Conservatives but it would help to have the backing of the GOP. I’m all for Newt mounting a successful surge if he is able to pull it off. Just contributed. Many more need to do the same.
If I have to look at Ron Paul’s face anymore or hear from some how he can win...
But Laura I. correctly points out that a study of why and how he has so much support would be a good idea...
Yup that’s an example of Romney’s view on “free-market” capitalism. He believes Obama’s takeover of GM was a great idea. He also still says TARP and the bailouts were absolutely necessary and that Obama’s stimulus was the right idea. And he does believe that government is going to have to do something about global warming. He is without a doubt a big government solutions guy. Not an ounce of free-market conservatism in his body. Repeal ObamaCare (his own bastard brainchild)? Riiiight.
And the President will thank you for your support.
What do you have against Huntsman? He's perfectly sane (unlike the good doctor), has a reasonable conservative track record (unlike Romney), is largely free of baggage (unlike Gingrich). And he's on an upward trajectory in the polls.
Utah is a red state. Huntsman won his first term as governor with 58% and his second by 78%.
Some have expressed dismay at his ambassadorship to China. But, if David Petraeus had thrown his hat in the ring, would you hold it against him that he had been Obama's DCI? The fact is, Petraeus was well qualified to be DCI. And Huntsman was well qualified to be ambassador to China, knowing the language and having already been ambassador to Singapore under GHWB, at 32, the youngest US ambassador in 100 years. Would you rather Zero had appointed one of his czar types to either of those posts? Huntsman's ambassadorship to China is just another resume item in his favor.
I've been in that position my entire life. I like being at the top even with the other challenges it presents. You and I understand the obvious. The problem is politics and like it or not, stating the obvious is not going to play in peoria, as the saying goes.
That sort of pabulum sure as hell is not how you take the battle to the current enemy.
Interestingly, Romney sang a more critical tune in 2009, as the GM bailout was going down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F70dnHfWcTk
But, then, tune versatility is Romney's true forte.
Huntsman wrote a love letter to BHO - nuff said.
And a heavily MORMON one.
What religion was Huntsmans opposition?
Roughly 2% of Americans are Mormon, and they reside overwhelmingly in the West. Two in three Utah residents are Mormon; Mormons settled Utah in the mid-19th century and the headquarters of the church is in Salt Lake City. The data suggest that one of every three Mormons in the United States lives in Utah. Idaho also has a rather large proportion of Mormons, as more than one in five Idahoans affiliate with that religion.
U.S. States With Most Mormons
State |
% Mormon |
|
|
Utah |
67 |
Idaho |
21 |
Wyoming |
9 |
Nevada |
9 |
Arizona |
5 |
Montana |
4 |
Washington |
4 |
New Mexico |
3 |
Oregon |
3 |
Gallup Poll
Podhoretz is just an establishment butt likker.
New Hampshire is a basket full of nut cases and defines nothing for real people. The GOP establishment is playing “Fish” for America’s future.
I don't know....
Sarah did quite well with the obvious.
SOMEone is going to have to say the King has no clothes.
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