What’s going on, you ask?
Simple: people are basing their votes solely on their view of which candidate is more electable.
They are overlooing the negatives of each candidate and weighing how the positives of each candidate might play out in the general election.
They want to defeat Obama, first and foremost.
The fight between Romney and Gingrich is about one thing: who can convince the most people that he can defeat Obama.
It doesn’t matter how bad or how good their record is, it all has to do with defeating Obama.
That’s my analysis.
So, knowing what we know why would we want to face Obama with another Obama?
Also, bear in mind physical appearance.
Romney looks to be in good physical condition: he’s relatively slim, looks good for his age, dresses sharply, has that nice full head of hair with the greying at the temples, then contrast that to Gingrich....pudgy, out of shape, full head of hair (though grey), etc.
Look back at the contest between Obama and McCain in 2008; I knew Obama would win simply on the basis of his appearance.
Call us a youth-obsessed society or what have you, but appearances do matter in elections. It’s an unavoidable fact of life, starting with the Kennedy-Nixon era (I know, JFK may have cheated his way into the Oval Office, and his seemingly robust appearance masked the fact that he suffered from Addison’s Disease as well as other rumored maladies). The more attractive candidate generally wins.
Romney does not have a chance in defeating Obama. Democrats are going to use him to push EVERY stereotype they have pushed on the Republican party. To name just a few:
1. Racist: the mormon church didn’t allow blacks until 1978. IOW, Romney was a member of a racist cult. He was 30 years old before the LDS church let blacks in. He did not do a thing to stop this racism.
2. Super wealthy: speaks for itself.
3. Corrupt: watch the Blood Money video. Romney defrauded taxpayers to pad his own pockets.
4. Heartless: Bain corrupt takeovers resulting in people losing their jobs while Romney got rich.
In addition, Romneycare is the precursor to Obamacare which makes that issue moot, and that will kill voter turnout on the right—the same people who brought the landslide in 2010. The Obama team will run ads exposing Romney on gay marriage and abortion resulting in social conservatives staying home.
The question is not will Obama beat Romney, but how bad. I just wonder how many down ticket races will be lost as a result of putting Romney at the top of the GOP ticket.
Not surprising, given that Santorum supporters here are regularly belittled for not supporting a guy who is "electable", and Santorum has been called vile names, the mildest being "unpatriotic", because he won't give up since he is "unelectable".
So the idea becomes, "let's run Romney, who lost to McCain, who LOST the last election?"
Someone posted last week that Romney has run for office 22 times during his political career and has LOST 17 of those attempts.
I'd say his chances of beating Obama are nil.
FightingJag I think your opinion is spot on. Republicans are searching for the anyone but Obama candidate. That is why the polls are fluctuating wildly.