I was watching the Final Four at a tavern on the South Side of Chicago with some old college buddies of the mine, most of whom were conservative Democrats, all of whom hate Obama.
One of them, who’s very involved in the Democratic party, and very knowledgeable about Cook County and Illinois Democratic politics, turned to me and asked me, as the sole Republican there, why in the world are the Republicans nominating Romney.
I tried to explain the herd mentality of establishment Republicans, the desire to find anyone that can beat Obama, the thinking of the establishment that Romney can attract independents, the arguments about money and organization, Romney’s carpet bombing of the airwaves in Republican primaries, etc.
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 had no response.
Paul is the weakest followed by Saintorum.
It’s looking more and more like Romney is gonna take this thing and I find I have an odd detachment about it.
All I want now is someone who can get Obama out of my life, out of the country’s life and hopefully he can move back to Hawaii or wherever he’s from.
I think Romney can beat him if we concentrate on what’s important, i.e. beating Obama.
I might feel more passionate if there were a candidate I could back wholeheartedly.
I spent 3 years fully expecting Sarah Palin to run. She should have. I was greatly comforted though when Rick Perry entered the race. Still disappointed about what happened there and still a little bitter.
We didn’t have a great field to start with and it’s narrowed down to two mediocre candidates. I don’t care. I wish we’d done better but we didn’t. We now need to get behind Romney. Santorum convinced me of that this morning when he totally failed to counter any of Chris Wallace’s accusations in a satisfactory manner. No fire.
Sorry, but I can’t get enthusiastic about Santorum though I prefer him to Romney.
Sadly, Gingrich is out and admits it himself. He’s got some sort of delusion going that he can stop Romney by staying in.
Great post, really helps the left so your plan of attack now is what?
We had a year and a half of Wall Street meltdown, fueled mostly by bad USG policy but PR’ed by the media as all Wall Street greed. (And yes I don't deny there was a lot of that!) So what are our GOP elite election geniuses doing, promoting a guy who on day one will be painted as Gordon Gekko! The OWS’ers will come out of the woodwork in mass and their “outrage” will now look plausible to mostly nonpolitical John and Jane Q Public! Now add in his nonstandard religious background. (I am not a religious bigot on this. I am saying what the Rat counterattack will do!) The attack on his religious background will consist of, endless yapping by panels of “beautiful people”, numerous made-for-TV movies, reruns of Sister Wives and probably another FLDS crack down. Opposition historical research will force Romney to have to answer questions regarding some half-baked bleating by some 1880s Mormon leader. Also given the fact that the LDS didn't regularize their relationships with blacks until 1976, Romney will have endless questions regarding that! Where will there be any time for Zero's failures to be discussed? Romney is an election PR disaster of epic proportions! Notice I haven't even gotten into Romney's liberalism! ( And yes I know this never comes up with Reid, the Udalls and probably others!)
Ronmey’s liberalism will suppress conservative turnout. Ronmey’s business career as a investment guy couple that with how the Rat's and their media minions will paint his religious beliefs will depress the independent turn out. (Which negates the whole argument for him!) .
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What were this guys thinking? (Were they thinking?)
======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.