My wife had her book club over this evening and I interrupted their serious discussion to show them the Drudge headline on my lap top. This group of Chapel Hill moderate liberals all said that they would vote for Romney just to have a woman as VP. One even said that it would take the guilt out of voting against Obama if they could vote for “another black”.
Romney must have done a lot of polling like this to discover the appeal to libs to “transfer” the Obama vote to a black female.
One woman said that Condi is “supremely qualified” having been the Provost Chief Academic Officer) at Stanford and SoS. Interesting insight.
I guess Romney figured that the pick-up in people like my wife’s friends more than offset the loss of the FR vote.
There are pros and cons to every VP candidate mentioned here on this thread. Where are all those a month or so ago who cried “ABO ABO”. If you are so disgusted then go over and Freep Drudge’s poll where you are losing almost 2 to 1.
Andy in Chapel Hill quietly just told you all a very important PLUS to Condi Rice. I can support her and feel it enhances the ticket. (and, No, I waasn’t at the book club meeting)
There are pros and cons to every VP candidate mentioned here on this thread. Where are all those a month or so ago who cried “ABO ABO”. If you are so disgusted then go over and Freep Drudge’s poll where you are losing almost 2 to 1.
Andy in Chapel Hill quietly just told you all a very important PLUS to Condi Rice. I can support her and feel it enhances the ticket. (and, No, I waasn’t at the book club meeting)
You nailed it. Romney could not care less about the opinion of any conservative voter. He is a socialist. He wants to round up as much of the socialist vote as he can gather. He can't win if they all want to vote for Obama. So he is trying to find ways to chip away at the democrat party's liberals, and make it easier for them to feel good about voting for a RINO.
As for the conservatives, the ones who know him well won't vote for him anyway. The ones who don't know anything about him except that he's a republican, will vote for him and get a huge surprise later, just like the ones who believe he is just pretending to be a liberal to get elected and the ones who think they can hold his feet to the fire. All of those people are in for a surprise. The ones who just want to win, just want to get Obama out, may or may not be happy. Their happiness will depend on how socialist they really are deep down because Mitt will eventually give us all the full socialist monty.
There would be tons of upside with the one-third of voters who are independents and little downside except with social conservatives who already hate Romney.
There are still lots of PUMAs smarting over how Barry treated Hillary. Also, single women are Romney's worst demographic except for Blacks, and peeling off even a few percentage points there would kill Barry's chances.
Note that the Arpaio Posse findings will be announced this Tuesday, July 17 and if Trump signs on, Romney will be accused of racism by association. What better way to inoculate against the racist charge than to have Condi in the bullpen warming up for the VP slot, even if Romney doesn't ultimately pull the trigger.
I like this optimism.
Mittens doesn't care about the FReeper vote.
He cares about “moderates” and independents in swing states. People who don't follow politics that closely or passionately but who will vote and are concerned about the economy and are “disappointed” in 0bama.
These are the people that Condi will appeal to. Yes, she has negatives but the Bush presidency is ancient history to these swing voters. Her “moderate” position on abortion will also be a plus to them.
The other thing is that it takes the wind out of the sails of the Zero campaign. Race and the “war on women” get taken off the table - and even the MSM won't carry Zero's water for him on these issues if Condi is the nominee. Then the campaign becomes about Zero's record and the economy - a battle the Mittens people are prepared to fight.
Do I wish there was going to be a Goldwater conservative giving Zero heck day and night? Yes, absolutely. But it's just not going to happen, and the way the Mittens people see it Condi is so much more appealing than having to name Tim Pawlenty as the VP that this is probably a done deal.