“Romney… won’t excite the base”
York, Byron. 4 February 2008.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZTQ5ODgxNTViNTRjMjIxY2M5NjdjNjRiODMwNmUzZTk=#more
If Romney does not make significant progress on Super Tuesday, he might decide not to make the investment required to go on.
The key to that decision, and a fundamental question of this campaign, is whether Romney’s advertising blitzes have any lasting positive effect, or whether they are like putting a lighter under a piece of damp wood. The wood will stay lit as long as you hold the flame beneath it, but it will never catch fire by itself. Romney might be like that with the voters. As long as he keeps the TV ads going, he can do well in the polls. But take the ads away, and he fails to catch fire.
“His ‘baggage’, if you will, is his liberal tendancies (do we REALLY need another McCain on the ticket?)”
Romney and McCain members of Republican Main Street Partnership
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=c950b53d-1270-42c0-970f-5ef079071753%40s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com
Romney listed as a RINO
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=135f54bc-32f0-47ec-94dc-9aa605272711%40b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com
Romney owes talk radio debt of gratitude
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.republicans/msg/f66e6dad0487ed0f
