Posted on 03/14/2012 5:17:49 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Via RCP, the key bit comes at around 3:40. This is his whole strategy in a nutshell and I still can’t decide whether to admire him or loathe him for it. He doesn’t care if you trust him. He doesn’t care if his rallies leave you flat. He doesn’t care if pulling the lever for him reduces you to dry heaves in the voting booth. He cares about two things: 1,144 and 270, and he’s likely to achieve at least the first thanks to hard work, careful planning, and the great good luck of having extraordinarily weak competition. Those qualities — high energy, fortitude, diligence, not needing to be liked — could be huge assets in a president if he applied them to enacting a worthy policy agenda, starting with entitlement reform. But I don’t think he’d use them to policy ends; he’d use them to position himself for re-election by pandering to centrists, which means no meaningful entitlement reform or anything else. He’s telling you right here why he’d be such a risk in office to the right. When push comes to shove, you’ll always hold your nose and vote against the Democrat, no matter how annoyed at him you might be. And he knows it — and he doesn’t care. He doesn’t need his base to like him. That’s a recipe for squishiness.
Mitt Romney leads the pack in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. He’s also the second pick for enough Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich supporters that if one of them dropped out, Romney would remain the frontrunner.
Romney has the backing of 38 percent of Republican primary voters in a Fox News poll released Wednesday. He’s followed by Santorum at 32 percent, Gingrich at 13 percent and Paul at 12 percent…
In a straight two-way matchup, GOP primary voters prefer Romney to Santorum by 49-44 percent…
Meanwhile, a 58-percent majority of primary voters would rather nominate a candidate who is more likely to beat President Obama, even if the candidate is not a true conservative. Less than a third — 31 percent — would pick the true conservative who might be less electable.
Romney actually leads Obama by nine points on the question of who’s best equipped to manage the economy, but head to head overall O leads by four. The key data point:
That’s a nice trend for Mitt, but again — he doesn’t care either way. The magic number is 270. If it all comes from column two instead of column one, hey.
Here’s his interview today with Megyn Kelly. Watch for the part where she asks him whether Newt should drop out; Romney, who I think is benefiting considerably from Gingrich’s perseverance notwithstanding the poll data above, conveniently has no opinion. There’s a fun exchange on the mandate at the very end too, but that’s because of the old clip Kelly chose to torment him with. In that same vein, via BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski, watch the second one below on the vagaries of “ultimate conservatism.”
NO WE’RE NOT; You don’t own me, Obama..I mean ROMNEY!
You’ve got that right.
If this guy were to become the nominee, I would expect him to insult and antagonize Conservatives on a daily basis.
My opinion, anyone thinking Romney is no longer a Liberal is going to be awfully disappointed if he gains the Republican nomination.
I watched “The Battle of Athens (1946)” last night and went to bed with a smile on my face.
It certainly makes me wonder if our perpetual war isn’t a means of keeping our troops somewhere else.
That’s a good idea if we all write the RNC and tell them we will not support Romney maybe the GOP-E will get the picture:
Office of the Chairman
Phone: 202-863-8700
Fax: 202-863-8820
Email: Chairman@gop.com
Office of the Co-Chairman
Phone: 202-863-8545Fax: 202-863-8631
Email: Info@gop.com
He’s only running as a Republican because it was convenient in 1994. He knew he could not beat Kennedy in the democrat primary. He and Paul have poisoned the well.
I agree. We can call it a tea party action.
I’ll pass the info along to my neighbors (true tea partiers)
FUMR
I will write in Mickie mouse before I will vote for mitt!
Wait till the troops come home to double digit unemployment, inflation, cuts in medical care, overbearing regulations taking the freedoms they fought for, and rule by judges and bureaucrats.
We’re seeing more violence involving courthouses, police and gun sales have skyrocketed. Should be fun times ahead.
True that.
After the election, if he wins, I see him teaming up with the libs, because that is where he stands. People are idiots if they think that a republican congress will be able to influence him. A republican congress has a hard time being conservative even when they have winning hand. They fold to the libs even before the fight begins. The biggest fear or a republican congress is if libs are going to be mad at them and say mean thing about them. So it is kind of dumb to put your trust in a republican congress to influence a lib president.
Not only that but only about 50% of the Republican majority congress (in our day and age) will have a complete conservative view, of those only about 10% have the guts and fortitude to stand against the liberal media, “my dear college from-across-the-isle”, and other social pressures to stand up and FIGHT for conservative principles-let alone be consistent about it 100% of the time!
It’s a losing proposition, as we have seen with the “W” Years. Only Mike Pence and few were actually fighters during that time. Now he is being rewarded as the next (hopefully) governor of Indiana-too bad Mr. Pence hadn’t decided upon the Presidential race instead~.
Well, I certainly won’t vote for the kenyan in November, but neither will I vote for the Managerial Socialist Republican.
If Romney is nom in Nov. I will down ballot vote conservative and at Prez write in a name. Will never vote for Romney.
HIMSELF. Romney is not multiple. The use of the plural pronoun instead of the English proper singular pronoun to refer back to a singular noun is politically correct speech and the point is to erase the masculine pronouns altogether. Masculinity is not politically correct. It depresses me that most conservatives have accepted Leftspeech as the only acceptable way to talk. It is part of the same syndrome that is giving us de facto dhimmi status to the supposed Moslem moral overlords.
Lapse.
Forget the Tea party. Those folks, the ones who got elected in 2010 gave us unlimited detention and assassination of citizens “determìned” by the president or some bureaucrat to be dangerous to the government.
I've thought of this, too. When those troops come home, they will be voting.
I cannot vote for someone who doesn’t try to be themselves.
“HIMSELF. Romney is not multiple. The use of the plural pronoun instead of the English proper singular pronoun to refer back to a singular noun is politically correct speech and the point is to erase the masculine pronouns altogether. Masculinity is not politically correct. It depresses me that most conservatives have accepted Leftspeech as the only acceptable way to talk. It is part of the same syndrome that is giving us de facto dhimmi status to the supposed Moslem moral overlords.”
Thanks for the grammar lesson. It depresses me how often people come on here, and spell check and grammar check a person’s comment. Instead of exchanging ideas. I personally find it condescending and sad that is the only thing you can say about my thought. Have a nice night.
When you adopt leftist language you gradually adopt leftist patterns of thought. It is not a trivial matter and is not unrelated to thought and its exchange. You have succumbed to the leftist view of the world and society even as you protest it.
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