Posted on 07/08/2012 8:01:01 AM PDT by Colofornian
n an appearance on WWL radio in New Orleans earlier this week, James Carville surveyed the Romney campaign and said the presumptive GOP nominee still hasn’t overcome the issue of his Mormon religion.
According to Carville, who has a forthcoming book called “It’s the Middle Class, Stupid,” Romney’s reluctance to talk openly about that is keeping him from dominating the campaign against President Barack Obama.
“One of the problems that Romney has honestly is — the thing against him the most is his religion,” Carville said. “And he doesn’t understand the reasons. He doesn’t talk about that. He was a bishop in his church. And he doesn’t talk about the one public office that he held much and that was being the governor of Massachusetts. So, he talks about Bain, but that’s become sort of a big issue in the campaign. He’s got to, you know — if you look at the numbers, Romney should win this campaign.”
“So, I think Romney is going to come out — I think they’re going to recalibrate their strategy a little bit,” he said. “I think they’re going to have to. And he just going to have to be more aggressive talking about some of the things he has done and give people a window into as who he is.”
The best thing for Romney to do, Carville said, would be to highlight his ability to “fix things.”
“I would say, look people are looking for someone that can fix things,” Carville said. “And you got to tell them Romney is that guy. You know, you accomplished that with the Olympics. You actually accomplished that when you were governor of Massachusetts. And you actually accomplished that when you ran Bain.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/06/carville-romneys-religion-still-a-problem-with-his-presidential-candidacy/#ixzz202gM8gr0
Well, do it again because I missed it. I even went back to read your posts, and couldn't find it.
So to humor me because I missed it, please repeat how a conservative can support a liberal as well as disparage other conservatives who disagree with you.
Thanks.
Here it is. His “Answer”
Team Romney: No, we’re not declaring ‘cease-fire’ on Obamacare
Tuesday, July 03, 2012 1:09:20 PM · 41 of 508
rogue yam to Norm Lenhart
My estimation is that your offer is utterly insincere.
Thus, no deal.
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No, Norm, it is you who is a liar.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2902450/posts?page=239#239
Team Romney: No, we’re not declaring ‘cease-fire’ on Obamacare
Tuesday, July 03, 2012 1:09:20 PM · 41 of 508
rogue yam to Norm Lenhart
My estimation is that your offer is utterly insincere.
Thus, no deal.
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Landon lost.
Willkie lost.
Dewey lost.
Dewey lost again.
Nixon lost.
Goldwater lost.
Ford lost.
Dole lost.
McCain lost.
Their brand is not doing as well as random chance!
It's time to start viewing them as a minority party seeking to subvert the Republican party. Hold their feet to the fire on credentials ~ first NO RINOS ~ and that's going to be TWO DEFINITIONS. First, no one who was ever elected as a Democrat is allowed to register with the party to run as President. Second, no one who ever contributed to a Democrat is allowed to register with the party to run as President.
You guys might add a third standard regarding Conservative voting records if you want, but that's not as hard and fast as being a Democrat in public.
Romney donated to a Democrat!
We also need to do a one-time purge of the Republican National Committee excluding former Democrat party campaigners.
Where in his bedroom or in front of his bathroom mirror.
Why do you claim otherwise?
Because he hasn't done it.
Not one word of that explains the impossible scenario of how a conservative can vote for a lib without abandoning his beliefs to do so. It is paragraphs of self justifying bull$hit.
OBAMAcare is United States Law and is the responsibility of the Congress and Senate and the people of The United States. If they like it, fine. If they want to change or eliminate it, they can.
Do you disagree with that? Is Obamacare a legitimate exercise of Legislative Power?
Under what theory of Liberty would you authorize Massachusetts to institute Romneycare and punish people who just want to be left alone and take care of themselves?
I have a bigger problem with Obamas communistic principles.
I like it.
A little bothered by once a democrat though.
I want people to get with the program, having said that Romney become Republican just to run for office, that should end. Before that he and his family were big liberal dems. (Now they are just big liberal Rs).
Ping for later.
It's not just the ABO crowd.
The people we've elected were suppose to uphold the constitution. They did not!
How could America turn upside down in just a few years? I'd blame Obama but part of the blame goes to the Republicans. Where the hell were they? Why the hell have they been so silent?!
You damn right people are filled with fear. We are afraid for the future, for our loved ones, for our children!!!!!
Blood isn't just on the hands of those voting for Romney but also for those who supported those so called conservative candidates who said they'd defend us. They did not!!!!
I'm not asking anyone to vote for Romney but I am opposed to those who toss around comments that we are some how supporting abortion, gays etc. The truth is, the majority of the candidates we've voted for have lied to us and have let us down, otherwise we would not be in the mess we are in today.
Romney is going to be a back flipping weasel. He's proven that before and it's only logical that he will do it again.
The only thing we can hope for is that the people will demand the RINO to keep the promises he's made. If Obama stays in office, we will have no voice at all.
If there is another plan to take back America, I'm all ears.
And for those who vote for Romney, at least keep your eyes open when you do vote him. Don't ignore the truth about him because it will come back to haunt you. Don't go to sleep and think he's going to rescue us, because he won't. He'll be like some of the other republicans that were elected to do something and did not.
Not just ‘once a Dem’, but elected as a public official under the Dem label!
They violate fundamental rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Carville is no champion of Obama. He understands the importance of O losing and frets about Romney's inability to step up. Carville's criticism is perfectly approipriate. Mormanism is notoriously opportunistic and amoral. We do not need another consummate politician in the WH. We have one now and he is an unmitigated disaster. Better the devil we know than the devil playing god.
First thing I see is this:
I do not necessarily answer this or other simple questions asked of me by the worst Mitt-haters on this site, because the fact is there are numerous posters here that have completely abandoned reason, honesty, and decency in their single-minded campaign to prevent the GOP nominee from being elected President.
Admitting you do not answer "simple questions", whatever that means.
Several lines disparaging reasoned conservatives, then this.
I believe he has very few conservative accomplishments in politics because his only office was as Governor of a Democrat-dominated state. In Massachusetts he got along by going along with liberalism.
Then you add:
I support him for President now, and believe that in doing so I am not setting aside my conservative principles, is because of the circumstances of this moment. I hope that the GOP will control both houses of the next Congress and that the tea party movement will exert substantial influence on the legislation that Congress passes and sends to Pres. Romney for signature.
The above statement still says nothing about how a conservative can vote for a liberal, except you HOPE he does the right thing.
Then this line comes along:
Romney says he will repeal Obamacare. I believe he will. Obama will not.
The real question is why do yo beleive him. He in essence wrote obamaCare, his advisers DID write it AND they have said Romney will not repeal it.
Then you continue by trashing FR and conservatives, making the claim you are a conservative and people who disagree with your analysis can not possible be anything but Romney haters.
So I realize you have declared you will not answer what in your mind are simple questions because it is a waste of your time, just pretend this is a really complimented question: how can you claim to be a conservative and vote for a liberal?
Your list proves nothing. Parties lose sometimes. They lose when they have weak candidates or strong opponents. They win when the economy is with them and lose when it's against them. Sometimes the right conditions produce the right candidate, sometimes not, but you can't expect the wrong conditions to produce a good candidate.
Landon, Willkie, Dewey, Ford, Dole and McCain were weak candidates. Anybody running against FDR was bound to lose. Nor is it likely a Republican could have prevailed in 1996 (running against incumbent Clinton and spoiler Perot in prosperous times) or in 2008 (with economic crisis and all the hostility to the Bush administration).
If there were a strong candidate who could have beaten Dole or McCain for the nomination, that candidate would have gotten the nomination. Maybe that candidate would have won the election, probably not. But there was no such candidate. It was a weak field that produced a weak nominee who was weak in the general election.
That suggests that "our brand" as well as "their brand" has some real problems. Saying that Non-existent Imaginary Fantasy Dream Candidate was really stronger than the people who actually got the nomination is wishful thinking. You run with who you have and if you don't have a candidate strong enough to beat the feeble candidates who get the nomination, then you're worse off than the (now largely imaginary?) "GOP-e".
Those who accuse others of "projection" don't seem to realize that the accusation itself is "projection". And as usual, it's a straw man built to try and derail the discussion.
Question is, does Rogue Yam receive a regular payment from the Romney campaign? If not, IMO he should.
“I’m not asking anyone to vote for Romney but I am opposed to those who toss around comments that we are some how supporting abortion, gays etc.”
I do not see any logical way around the reality that when we intentionally cast our vote for a person, we give power to that person.
When that person has told us he supports abortion, gace money to support abortion, signed legislation supporting abortion, said he supports gay rights, signed legislation that supports gay rights...and on and on...; and we empower that person with our vote, then he has been given the power to do more of it. By the people who supported him/ner and his actions/policies etc...WITH THEIR VOTE.
It’s my opinion that many people are simply not fully thinking this through. If they ARE thinking this through and still vote for such a person, it logically follows that they willingly support his positions and thus are part of the problem themselves.
Not a Romney fan, but Car-vile is all wet. The media never vetted The First Dictator and were content not finding out who he was. After all, a Leftist, reared by Communists and Muslims, wouldn’t have contributed to their fairy tale.
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