Spoken like a true Romney lemming. Vote for Romney! Vote for Romney! It's the only way! It's the only way! Whee!
Posted on 04/06/2012 2:06:49 PM PDT by upchuck
As Mitt Romney assumes the role of presumptive Republican nominee, polls suggest a competitive general election matchup between the former Massachusetts governor and President Obama. Typically, both candidates poll in the mid-40s, while 10 to 12 percent remain uncommitted to either side.
Among these uncommitted voters, Rasmussen Reports polling shows that just 22 percent approve of the way the president is handling his job. Seventy-two percent (72 percent) disapprove. As for intensity, just 2 percent strongly approve, and 40 percent strongly disapprove.
At first glance, this seems like good news for Romney. These uncommitted voters will be difficult for the president to win over. But it raises another question: If these uncommitted voters are so unhappy with the president, why aren't they already Romney supporters?
The data suggest that voters are less than thrilled with the choices they'll have in November. The lack of enthusiasm for Romney among GOP voters has been well documented. Among Democrats, enthusiasm for their candidate is noticeably down, as well. Among young voters, for example, just 20 percent strongly approve of the job the president is doing.
Most young voters, of course, will still end up voting for the president just as most disgruntled Republicans will end up voting for Romney. But neither candidate connects well with white working-class voters. Romney has struggled to win over these voters in his primary contests, and Obama lost them to Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries. For many, Election 2012 is shaping up to be another choice between the lesser of two evils.
One reason can be found in the issue that stirred more political passion than any other over the past four years. The bailouts remain the most hated pieces of legislation in recent American history. They spurred both the tea party and the Occupy movements and convinced millions that a corrupt relationship exists between big government and big business. But both Romney and Obama are supporters of the bailouts. Given the public mood, it is almost beyond comprehension that neither party could come up with a presidential candidate opposed to the bailouts.
Looking ahead, most voters hear a lot of rhetoric about deficit reduction but don't believe either party has proposed a serious plan to stop ever-increasing government spending. Most don't even believe that the budget cuts agreed to during the debt ceiling debacle will ever be implemented. Politicians have spent years trying to blame voters for this problem, but my book "The People's Money" shows that voters are far more willing than their politicians to make the hard choices.
The disconnect can be found on other major issues, as well. On national security matters, GOP Congressman Paul Ryan's budget calls for cutting everything but defense spending, a position shared by just a third of voters. The president wants to trim the military budget but expand U.S. intervention into a growing list of countries. But 75 percent reject that approach and believe U.S. troops should be deployed abroad only when vital national security interests are at stake. Half of the nation's voters are even ready to follow President Eisenhower's advice and bring home U.S. troops from Western Europe and Japan.
There are certainly differences between Obama and Romney. People will find plenty of valid reasons to select one over the other. But if the winner of Election 2012 governs as he campaigns, the disconnect will continue, and voters will grow even angrier.
Spot on.
FRiend, I have that piece memorized and I have posted it at least a couple of hundred times over the years.
From the Declaration of Independence:
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
Here we freakin go again.
I'm thinking there is a reason Texas primary is scheduled toward the end of the primary cycle.
It is to take the conservatives out of the primary election process. I'm absolutely convinced of it.
Our primary election has been pushed out to the end of May.
By that time, the most moderate/liberal candidate will have secured his footing on the process.
Freakin disgustingly corrupt process.
Beautiful... and far more than mere words.
LLS
Screw the leftist within the GOP, don’t vote for Romney.
Fight for another 2010 type victory in 2012, and to advance conservatism.
Anyone but Obama nobody is as bad as Obama.
Agree
We know how bad Obama is so a voto for anyone else is a step forward.
Strange what some people think what a conservative is.
Obama is the most soicalist president ever.
Don’t let your fears operate your logic.Romney may not be a Reagan but he’s a hell of a lot better than Obama or any democrat.
Spoken like a true Romney lemming. Vote for Romney! Vote for Romney! It's the only way! It's the only way! Whee!
There is little to no difference between a fascist and a communist.
Of the three losers who would opt for?.
Radical ideas are dangerous.
When you look at who the parties really work for, it all makes perfect sense.
There's only three?
The only choice Conservatives have now is to take the Republican Party back from the elitests who are only interested in money and power. The Romneys and Bushs’ are Globalists, see themselves as citizens of the world and do not share the American values most of us possess.
If this is radicalism, it is the radicalism of our forefathers. I think it is about time for a comeback, don’t you?
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