Posted on 03/06/2012 5:17:16 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Mitt Romney won easy victories in Massachusetts, Virginia and Vermont Tuesday as he looked to take a commanding lead in the Republican presidential race. Newt Gingrich, hoping to revitalize his campaign, notched a home-field win in Georgia.
Together, 10 states scattered across the country hosted Super Tuesday contests, the biggest day yet in the fight for the right to challenge President Barack Obama this fall.
Ohio, a critical state in the general election, was the spotlight race, with Mr. Romney running close to former Sen. Rick Santorum, who has seen his Ohio lead erode. The former Pennsylvania senator was hoping a win there would infuse his campaign with new momentum.
No matter the results, the Romney campaign said it was prepared for a long race measured by delegates won. "This is a process of gathering enough delegates to become the nominee, and I think we're on the track to have that happen," Mr. Romney said Tuesday in Boston.
"Thank you Georgia!" Mr. Gingrich said in a message posted on Twitter. "It is gratifying to win my home state so decisively to launch our March Momentum."
Attention also focused on Tennessee, where Mr. Santorum has led polls. A Romney win there would show support in the South, a region where he has struggled. Mr. Santorum, who has emphasized social issues and blue-collar economics as he works to attract conservatives unhappy with Mr. Romney, also was the leading contender in Oklahoma.
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So he won a state where it is a one on one against Ron Paul, and two of the most liberal states that he has no hope of winning in the fall. I am not impressed.
RE: and two of the most liberal states that he has no hope of winning in the fall. I am not impressed.
He was expected to win in Massachusetts (practically his home state).
I think he’ll take Idaho as well ( large Mormon population there I hear ).
The Republican Establishment in Virginia should seriously consider the way they are handling their primaries.
To not have leading candidates in the ballot is a huge travesty. Many Republican voters were disenfranchised and as a result, many stayed home.
Today’s turnout in Virginia was totally PATHETIC.
The guys we blame for this debacle and terminal embarrassment are CONSERVATIVES ~ IGNANT Conservatives, but Conservatives nonetheless.
All of us find it hard to believe they wanted to engineer a Romney victory here. It's just so stupid.
It sure worked out for Romney though, every irregularity has worked out for Romney in this primary.
If you lined up Idaho’s Mormons from one end of the state to the other along the Snake river, and they peed, it would double the flow and destroy both Wyoming and Washington!
The GOP of course. Not like there is a great deal of difference between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks ath this endgame stage. GOP cadre have been VERY open about pushing Bishop Willard. Every dead soul, withered one of them.
You guys might reconsider your fundamental philosophy after this mess in Virginia.
You guys might reconsider your fundamental philosophy after this mess in Virginia.
So basically, he’s a Roman?
You may search all of my posts and you will not find me identifying myself one time as Tea Party. The Tea Party has always been very vocal about recovering and restoring the GOP as a platform for conservatives. This is wishful thinking based on a continuing deception, and as this year has shown, wholly unrealistic.
I agree and identify with Tea Party objectives and passion, but I have always thought that the first step to a conservative resurgence is to recognize that the GOP is an enemy which will not be subverted or ‘taken back’. It can be broken down into irrelevance, but it is not a fixer-upper. That is a major point of divergence from at least 90% of the Tea Party people.
The GOP is the graveyard of conservative dreams. It is intended to be such. Wrong people, wrong vehicle, wrong motives, wrong goals.
No. Basically, if you read my original reply, I’m suggesting that his name (Romney) might indicate that his ancestors were gypsies......Romanies.
If you check on the reputations of gypsies you’ll find that they live by lying, cheating and will steal you blind if you let down your guard. I don’t know about the cheating or stealing, but I have observed that Mitt has a terrible time keeping his stories straight.
And the LAST thing I said was: FWIW.
Exactly....had Virginia not been taken over by political thugocracy so that 'Romney and Paul were the only candidates' it would have been a different story altogether.
And New Englanders are all liberals just as you said....wait til Romney hits the south...tsk tsk...then this race will take on another face altogether!
Go Newt Go.....even if it takes a brok. convention!
My point - Romanies were Romanians were Romans ...
interesting connection, but only partly true as Gypsies were actually a tribe from India (from ancient times). They suffered a lot from European bigotry, not dissimilar to the bigotry of antiJewish anti-semitism of old. so they became ‘travellers’ of ill-repute.
BTW, just found this website, Romney’s real ethnic heritage is English:
http://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/mitt-romneys-ancestry/
The "travelers" are of non Roma ancestry. What seems to have happened is the Romany (aka Gypsies) showed up ~ in very few numbers ~ at just the time the Brits were imposing the enclosure laws on Ireland and Scotland.
There were tens of thousands of people who all at once had nowhere to live except in the streets. Some of them were co-opted by the Romany and the culture spread among the dispossesed.
Interesting piece of analysis done years ago demonstrated that Christopher Columbus had 12 Romany on board on his first voyage.
There are a number of different "tribes" or "hereditary occupations" among the Roma. There are also different "colors". Several years back I encountered a crew affiliated with a traveling carnival show down at a nearby Giant grocery. They think I look like their lawyer in this area who gets them out of jail, so they showed me how they stole stuff. Very interesting. They also managed to pull my wallet, remove all the threads, and return it to my pocket with a brandnew folded up dollar bill enclosing my dry cleaning ticket. Now that was cute ~ never detected a thing.
That group was made up of blue eyed blonds, brunettes, black people.....!
Yup, the Gypsies adopt others particularly if it benefits them. This happened in the South during slavery days where they had a scam involving selling a farmer a strong slave for cheap ~ they'd come back a night and rescue him.
They are very adaptable.
These weren't Travelers.
If you want them you have to check out Bill Clinton's lineage. His 5 times Great Grandfather Billy Blythe was a trail boss who was known as "a king of the gypsies" ~ all those towns ~ Blythe CA, Blytheville TX, etc. are named after him. His Baby Daddy was also a member of the Apostolic Church of the First Born, and his grandmother traveled with carnivals as a fortune teller.
Needless to say there are subtle distinctions not always obvious to the uninitiated!
The Europeans always sought to force the Gypsies and Travelers to settle down and become good citizens. It worked to a degree. America never fought them ~ and they settled down mostly in Los Angeles county in WWII where they went into the airframe manufacturing factories where their skills in light metal work were highly desired.
In Europe Gypsies are not terribly assimilated. In America they are.
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