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Posted on 02/07/2012 11:12:03 AM PST by throwback
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.—Local Republican activists Debbie Brown and Lynne Cottrell share a similar story. After backing other Republican presidential candidates over the past several months, they have now swung over to Mitt Romney.
It boils down to this: Mr. Romney's mildness, seen as a demerit by many conservatives, is a plus for him in swing areas such as voter-rich Arapahoe County, a bellwether for this key electoral state and a place where women dominate the electoral rolls.
"I have come to see him as disciplined and competent. And unlike many of the others, he doesn't carry any baggage," said Ms. Brown, a Republican campaign strategist who works from her home in the suburbs of Denver and once backed Herman Cain, among others.
Ms. Cottrell, a former Arapahoe County GOP chairwoman, puts it differently: "He's a fixer. He sees problems and goes in and fixes them."
Arapahoe is one of three swing counties, in the important swing states of Ohio, Florida and Colorado, that Journal reporters are tracking through this campaign year. In a lunch gathering with seven prominent Republican women in the county, all said they had come to support Mr. Romney in part because he seemed reliable, moderate on social issues and inoffensive.
Their decisions are in keeping with the views of many Republican women in the county, and the state as a whole, who tend to have relatively liberal views on social issues. All three female Republicans in the Colorado Senate, for example, favor abortion rights and gay marriage.
Mr. Romney's main Republican rivals, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, both lean heavily on their social-conservative stances, such as opposition to abortion, while knocking Mr. Romney for being too weak on that front.
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So these woman supposedly want "mildness", yet this chick backed Herman Cain???
This may sound silly, but remember Clinton won a huge majority of women and kept them to the end even though he was a cad.
Sufferage, by and large a huge mistake.
ya newts three marriages have nothing to do with it
SO Mitt Romney is just another symptom of the feminisation of American society?
Mildness a positive quality in a politician? Good thing our Founding Fathers were nothing of the sort.
Probably part of the mega-million $ campaign by Colorado liberal billionaires to take over the state. They've been very successful so far.
Ugh! I suppose I can hold up my head knowing I don’t share their utterly corrupted values.
It isn’t silly, you are absolutely right, it’s looks. It has always been looks.
Clinton was elected based on his looks. Bush was much easier on the eyes than Algore and Kerry.
I also suspect some of these women are not quite as pro-life as they sometimes claim. Mittens’ commitment to pro-life is questionable.
Looks are the reason Paul has never had a prayer.
I think the tendency to vote based on appearances are one reason the founding fathers did not want women to have the vote.
When I see polls saying that 50% of Republican voters see Romney as the most conservative, I know they are wishfully attributing that to him based on his “Presidential” appearance.
Not all women are so easily swayed by a handsome face. I am a bit undecided between Newt and Santorum at this point. Can Newt overcome his past? Can Santorum best Obama in a debate?
Yeah; no baggage.
How can these people be so f$$%ing ignorant?
Romney's Grandfather had 12 wives....legal ONLY in the Mormon Religion, and might also be interpreted as 12 mistresses on call, or cheating on his wife with 11 others....
Gimme a break.
On a purely emotional (not political) level I can understand the women’s perspective.
Romney stood by a wife with MS and through her battle with breast cancer. Gingrich divorced his first wife (who had breast cancer) and his second wife (who had MS.)
Romney’s wife, is his only wife, bore him 5 sons and they present a very positive family image. Gingrich’s wife was his mistress, before she was his wife. Women’s view of the First Lady matter, probably more than men’s. (well maybe not the case, look at all the negative remarks about Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton coming from men on FR)...all that to say, a mistress, turned wife, as First Lady turns off some women voters.
As I said, none of this has to do with their politics...but
if a woman is inclined to look at things aside from political stand (and there are many who do), Romney is the antithesis or Gingrich.
“So these woman supposedly want “mildness”, yet this chick backed Herman Cain??? “
Probably for very different reasons than most Cain conservatives.
“And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.” — Ann Coulter”
Projection from big time Romney supporter!
I think with Paul it's the Alien Abductions that he had endured, moreso than his looks.....
For instance, Mark Levin was correct the other day on Romney's lack of understanding on the minimum wage question from a conservative standpoint. His advocacy for indexed minimum wage is the "progressive" position, not the conservative and overlooks economists like Dr. Walter Williams who points out how minimum wage laws hurt youth and others.
Likewise, Romney's remark about "the poor" didn't indicate a callousness to "the poor." What it did fail to do, however, was to take advantage of the opportunity he had to present a case for a truly conservative solution for helping 'the poor' and all other citizens.
And, to win the battle for the minds and hearts of citizens, the nominee needs to be someone whose quickness of mind and ready familiarity with founding principles can refuse to "class" people by "rich," "middle class," "poor," etc. That is Obama's playground. It is how the collectivists/redistributionists classify and divide us, and it is how they avoid accountability for providing real solutions in economic matters.
Romney, as Krauthammer has pointed out, seems "incapable" of responding with and explaining conservative ideas.
To restore America's greatness will require leaders who, like America's Founders, have thought through the ideas which made America great, for it is the restoration of those ideas to the American mind which can give freedom back to the citizens and wrest power from the hands of "rulers" who use "poverty" as their vote-getting mechanism.
Would suggest readers here visit another thread recently referencing Jonah Goldberg's observations on Romney's "not speaking the language naturally," meaning he doesn't speak the language of conservatism.
My post there points out that the problem is much deeper than "language," as this matter of his full embrace of the idea of the minimum wage illustrates.
Romney's natural philosophy, as evidenced by these and other debate answers, are just indications that his well of thought on America's core constitutional philosophy is not very deep--and certainly does not include a grounding in the Founders' ideas sufficient to rebut, rebuke, and reveal Obama's firmly-held ideology.
As a result, his "private sector" experience, while impressive and to be commended, has not prepared him for preserving the ideas which made possible his personal success in the Founders' system.
Women, especially, should understand that each candidate brings "baggage." Some "baggage" is not as consequential to the cause of liberty for our children and grandchildren as other "baggage."
No baggage is as disqualifying for the man who will compete in the battle of ideas with Obama as a lack of deep understanding and ability to differentiate between the ideas of liberty and the ideas of tyranny.
“Yeah; no baggage.”
I think they are more concerned about the kind of baggage that appears under the eyes and above the waist than any other kind of baggage.
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