======He just shook his head, “Santorum would’ve been a problem for us. But this guy’s a joke. He’s going to get destroyed. Obama’s really vulnerable, and you guys are picking the weakest candidate to run against him.”=====
I have to say this is confusing since just a few weeks ago .....
According to exit polling Tuesday night, 9% of Michigan voters identified themselves as Democrats. More than half of those voters, or 53%, said they voted for Santorum while 18% picked Romney.
Maybe being in Chicago they are closer to the Obama machine, but remember we thought Obama would be a patsy and that Hillary was the one that we feared. Its only been 4 years since Rush’s Operation Chaos, have we forgotten that trying to choose your opponent is not always a winning strategy.
I heard both Romney and Santorum speak last night. If you want unfocused passion in a candidate, Santorum is definitely the guy. I identify with his passion and that he is more conservative, but this is a deadly election and we need to be deadly accurate.
And his repeated gaffes where he falls for the Democrat’s trick play of ‘war on women’ contraceptives, declares war on porn, etc. fall in line with what I hear as Santorum’s lack of focus. Sorry to disagree with your Chicago friends, but the media would make this election about everything except Obama’s socialist unconstitutional tear. And Santorum has shown he can’t refuse the bait.
Unlike McCain, I think Romney has focus and is going to keep the crosshairs on Obama. He’s getting better on economic freedom and I think he will be able to explain why Dodd-Frank is just more Democrat crony capitalism, why Paul Ryan’s budget is going to be effective, why investing in Solydra is a failure, in a way that Santorum just won’t be able to.
BTW, I was for Cain (who came to Wisconsin and didn’t know about Walker’s reforms) and Perry. Its incredible that conservative stalwarts can’t up their games.
I may be wrong, but in our fearful careening debt economy and the constant division of Obama’s socialist games, quiet accuracy, imperviousness to being taken off message and strategic effectiveness may be the winning strategy.
Declaring War on Porn, while we are under the most un-American, dangerous fearful president ever, is not.
Flame away.
You’re 100% correct. Mitt has also been at this game for a long time. His Dad was a serious candidate in 1968 (44 years ago!). Mitt is accused of being wishy-washy because he is CAREFUL. Why get knocked out of the race like Perry forgetting the 3rd of “3 agencies he’d immediately abolish”? Why go down in flames like Bachman? His Dad (brainwashed over Viet Nam - Hell the Dems say this daily about the War on Iraq!)?. Mitt is a winner. He is The winner of the 2012 GOP sweepstakes. Newt argues Mitt only does that because of his vast resources and Obama will have more. Well, O will have more than Newt and Rick too. Way more. Newt can prep Mitt for the debates. Mitt has gone after O while the rest of the field has gone after Mitt. Rush says “anyone” could beat Bambi, even PeeWee Herman. I am not that confident, but I know that Mitt can beat Obama. The people are tied of the punk wannabe and his mooching wife. Then a Tea Party Congress can sway and mold Mitt. Drop Bpoehner and McConnell and the other Old Bull Rinos