I think you’re right. Romney and the GOP-E are ignoring her, to their own peril. The idiots have yet to realize they need her voters, like us.
“The idiots have yet to realize they need her voters, like us.”
I’m not so sure they’re idiots. Look at the push here at FR to get conservatives onto the willard wagon. The gop-e is doubling down on what has always been a safe bet in the past: that conservatives will slink back to vote for whatever crummy candidate the gop nominates. There will be a few holdouts like myself, but by and large I think it’ll hold true once again.
Wrong, onyx. Romney and the GOP know they're guaranteed her voters no matter what those voters swear, vow, and declare. The GOP-E knows most of those vows are empty. As FR has confirmed.
Come 2013, the only thing that will matter is what you voted for. There's no voting "against" -- and about a gazlilllion pathetically hopeful and scared gutless Republicans and conservatives are going to learn it harder than they ever have before.
No matter what you hope or threaten or expect to do once he's in there, Romney will consolidate power in moderate Republicans and Democrats. If he gets a landslide, he'll have a Flagship Republican "popular mandate." And he'll do exactly what he has always done: advance liberalism and squelch conservatism -- with YOUR PERMISSION.
A popular landside would be hailed as "an electrifying cultural validation of Romney's progressive brand of 'Republican.'" You had better pray that the bastard only gets a plurality.
Romney is going to cost too much -- see my tagline. He already has cost Free Republic, the last stand -- so much for "hold fast." Eternal Vigilance has pointed out that Romney has been able to make more Republicans abandon more principles in two weeks than Obama could ever even hope in a lifetime to achieve. EV has eyes to see.
Only bad can come of elevating an agent of such bad stuff as Romney. It's as hard a rule as gravity. It is one of God's rules, not man's.
Jim, you've made a mistake. And onyx, your husband should listen to you.