Mitt Romney has reason to be singing tonight, but I don’t think it’s time to crank up the Crowded House yet. Don’t say it’s over, because it’s not. The big win in Florida hands Romney 50 delegates, maybe, probably, unless Florida ends up doling them out proportionally as other states are. If that happens, Romney’s lead will be reduced. But winning in Florida, as the first closed GOP primary and the first state that can be said to be a microcosm of the entire US is significant.
Nevada caucuses on February 4, territory that favors Mitt Romney and Ron Paul for different reasons. Super Tuesday is coming up March 6, and includes some states friendly to Gingrich, Santorum and Romney. At this point, even if Romney had won Florida by 50 points we have still seen less than 6% of the total delegates awarded. Romney has less than 100 delegates to date, and needs more than 1100 to clinch the nomination. A lot has already happened to upend this primary several times, and a lot more can still happen.
The exit polls keep telling us that a majority of Republican voters want someone else in the race. That’s very unlikely to happen, but those numbers do tell us something important: Mitt Romney has not sealed the deal. He hasn’t sealed the deal because the base of the party distrusts him, and it has valid reasons for that distrust. He still has some time in the primary to earn that trust. Or, someone else has time to earn it instead.
Update: Click the links below for other reaction to the primary results.
Glenn Reynolds – Slouching Toward November
John Hawkins of Right Wing News – On Romney’s Florida Win
PJTV’s Alexis Garcia, reporting from Florida – Romney Wins, But the Race is Far from Over
Roger Kimball – Landslide? Mitt’s Big Spending Helped that Along
Patrick Reddy looks at the CNN exit poll data, and more here.
Roger L. Simon – Why Gingrich Lost Big and What’s Next
Stephen Green – Through New Hampshire, Under South Carolina, Over Florida – Nothin’ But Mitt
Tea Party captain Katrina Pierson – Florida’s Results are the Best that Money can Buy
Ali Akbar – Florida Happened and It Ain’t Over Yet
Myra Adams – Romney’s 46% to 45% Conservative Vote Signals Trouble Ahead
17 million in negative advertise can, indeed, buy you a decisive win.
Quick, tell me why I should vote for Mittens the Inevitable Moderate again without using the word “electable.”
It’s time for conservatives to blow this GOP popsicle stand the day after election day 2012. It’s clear to me that my vote is already counted. Last time.
“17 million in negative advertise can, indeed, buy you a decisive win.
Quick, tell me why I should vote for Mittens the Inevitable Moderate again without using the word “electable.”
Your first sentence answers your question. Mittens has shown he’s ready and willing to go nuclear in a big way when the time comes. He’s the bumbling moderate, and then he buries you in negative ads. He’ll do the same to Obama.
“he buries you in negative ads. He’ll do the same to Obama.”
except obamanation has at least a billion (plus, there are still hundreds of billions tarp and stimulus leftovers in obama’s stash)to do the bare knuckled/brass knuckled big boy version that romney is unable to compete with
the only way to beat obama is to herald the simple message of conservatism in contrast to obamanation’s cronymarxism; no way in hell romney can go toe-to-toe with obama in the realm of lying, cheating, misdirecting, extortion, etc…
“he buries you in negative ads, he’ll do the same to Obama.”
Cant’ happen. The polls that show that Romney does well against Obama are misleading. They don’t take into account that Obama has 1)about a billion dollars for his campaign 2)the White House pulpit 3)the ability to campaign on the taxpayer’s dime 3)the media in his lap 4)the race card 5)entitlement promises to buy votes 6)OWS paving the way for class warfare against Romney wall street-corporate-country club-rich Republican.
No way Romney can compete with that.
And besides, Bain Capital is a SERIOUS achille’s heel for Romney. (see interview below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmrEUHdwAwQ&feature=youtu.be
“he buries you in negative ads, he’ll do the same to Obama.”
Cant’ happen. The polls that show that Romney does well against Obama are misleading. They don’t take into account that Obama has 1)about a billion dollars for his campaign 2)the White House pulpit 3)the ability to campaign on the taxpayer’s dime 3)the media in his lap 4)the race card 5)entitlement promises to buy votes 6)OWS paving the way for class warfare against Romney wall street-corporate-country club-rich Republican.
No way Romney can compete with that.
And besides, Bain Capital is a SERIOUS achille’s heel for Romney. (see interview below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmrEUHdwAwQ&feature=youtu.be
Sorry for the duplicated comment. I’m new to this.
That’s really the question. Will he do the same to Obama? McCain was absolutely nasty to conservatives prior to the 2008 election, yet on a one to one against Obama, he was pre-emptying his own team’s attack on Obama! Reference the Bill Cunningham incident, where Willie was reproached for mentioning Obama’s middle name. It’s not just Rinos like McCain and Romney, when have you seen the GOP Establishment, including the Wall Street Journal attacking Obama they way they attack their conservatives? I’m on the couch ready to sit this one out, unless your prediction comes true.
If you’re a Tea Party Conservative like me (fiscal conservative and anywhere on the social scale, whether conservative, moderate, or liberal), you should take heart in the fact that it’s the Congressional elections that will count. Even if a RINO like Mitt is president, as long as fiscal conservatives hold both houses, we’ll bring back some sense to this country.
My last time was McCain/2008.
I bolted the Dem party when the DNC pulled this crap in 2008. Went full conservative, only to find I’m right back where I was four years ago…pwned by the media and party insiders.
A pox on both their houses.
Clearly a person of deep conviction and commitment…
Because A) Newtie is a sore-loser crybaby, who has no real beliefs and will say anything when his back’s against the wall?
Because B) Romney has the $$ and the drive to take it to Obama and hopefully damage him like he did that pest Fingrich.
because C0 Campaigns aside I think Romney is a good and moral man who will pramatically cut spending and make the ruthless business decisions that need to be made.
the media keeps brain washing the people by repeating the same thing over and over, which is?? Romney is more “electable” and the “only” one who can beat Obama. and to many people have bought into it. he is a flip flop Rhino who cant be trusted.
Let me say it again. If your guy cant beat Romney, he cant beat Obama.
If you want your guy to win, stop cryin on the internet about how unfair it all is, go give your guy some money and some of your time and go work for him to win.
Or is that just out of the question?
The exit polls keep telling us that a majority of Republican voters want someone else in the race. That’s very unlikely to happen, but those numbers do tell us something important: Mitt Romney has not sealed the deal. He hasn’t sealed the deal because the base of the party distrusts him, and it has valid reasons for that distrust. He still has some time in the primary to earn that trust. Or, someone else has time to earn it instead.
No, it’s not over…but it should be. It’s odd how a lot of folks who don’t want Romney like to refer to “the base” and yet they have a very difficult time defining “the base.” Just like they also have a hard time defining “the establishment.” The fact that so many Gingrich supporters refuse to acknowledge Newt’s longtime insider, establishment status and prefer to pretend that he’s the grassroots, outsider is proof that it should all be taken with a large dose of salt.
It’s called projection.
“The base” becomes whatever the complaining person wants it to be (i.e. those who agree with him). So it’s not accurate to claim that “the base” doesn’t trust Romney. There are those who support him and those who don’t. The ones who support him, on voting day, clearly outnumber those who don’t. That’s not going to change in any substantive way going forward. Romney may not win all the primaries and caucuses. But he will win the nomination. Because he’s the best candidate.
“The Base” was a term invented by the liberal media and is also “Al Quaeda” translated into english. The fact so many Newt fans use this term tells me all I need to know about Newt. The man is a liberal.
“The base” in both parties are disgusting crazies who hijack primaries, pull politics down to kindergarten level and are responsible for massive losses when they get their way and nominate extremists that the population won’t vote for all the while muttering “we’re losing because the candidates aren’t extremists like I am”
I’m always ashamed of people’s stupidity when I read all the “we’ll win next time when our candidates are more pure and extreme” crap both on Democrat and Republican sites.
The worst thing that can ever happen is that the nuts manage to convince the population – then look out, we’re gonna see idiots in office.
How much per vote? $20? More? That’s the story of this election.
That and the fact that, after spending gazillions and having the slavish devotion of conservative pravda, that McMitt still can’t hit 50%.
What a loser he is. If unemployment is over 10% in November, McMitt might have a chance to be a little-brother statist, if he can buy enough delegates. Otherwise, assuming the pocketbook is deep enough to get him in the losing position that the Ruling Class wants him to be in, hello four more years of big-boy statism.
He’ll never get a chance to tack into the wind. He’ll be overwhelming by the guys who are even better at lying than McMitt is.
But at least we would have a polite loser.
Can’t wait for Mittenhead to be president so we can listen to HIM blame Bush instead of Obama doing it.
Breathe into a paper bag and stop hyperventilating. You’re not making any sense right now.
i think it’s perfect sense
how can romney out obama obama?
Making sense isn’t his forte.
Imagine how little chance you’d have of winning if he could pick the candidate. Who would we have, Bachmann?
Strange to read the phrase “making sense” from this guy
It’s like strolling by a barn and getting kicked in the head by a mule.
Except a mule is smarter…and makes more sense.
Romney was not my first choice by a long shot. But I think he will repeal obamacare, be tough on illegals, and cut spending as much as any republican would.
Not perfect but compared to Obama he is terrific.
How does he repeal his own child?
Repeal obamacare? Are you serious?
The only thing a “gifted” politician will do is tweak it to “keep the good parts that people like” because, at the end of the day, the Constitution means as little to a guy like Romney as it does to The Won.
By that, I mean he’ll summon all his “executive experience” and have “conferences” and hold “meetings” to discuss those parts of the healthcare plan that THEY think are good. To hell with what the people want. He and his experts will know better.
Plus even though he has said he’d repeal it, I cannot believe for one minute that he would. To do so is to admit that his own beloved Massachusetts healthcare is flawed. People in positions of such note NEVER admit a mistake. To do so, as they see it, is a sign of great weakness. Plus, they have that dysfunctional personality to rationalize anything/everything.
I would love to be wrong but in 2013, if Romney is elected, we will still see federally managed healthcare. Our government has never grasped the simple concept that everything they meddle in gets worse,more expensive, more complicated and troublesome. But they feel it’s their duty to legislate answers rather than leave well enough alone. They just can’t do it.
Hold you nose and vote for the RINO in Novemeber (again).
exactly, well said and what lame running mate will he pick? if Newt wins he could pick Allen West, how can the Obama worshiping media play the race card like they did before? just something to think about.
Reasons to vote for Romney:
Good, moral man with a large posterity, ensuring that he has a vested interest in America’s future.
Successful businessman and turn around king at the Olympics, Bain, and in Massachusetts–the last being done while dealing with a large majority of Dems in the state’s legislature.
Will follow through on his promise to cut spending and government and has experience doing this.
Not a Washington insider.
Will not take a taxpayer salary as President–will do the Presidency because he wants to serve the people of this land and is does not need to nor is interested in profiting off his Presidency.
Has great love and respect for this country.
Dropped out of the race last time rather than battle on because he recognized that a long, drawn out primary would weaken the eventual candidate. Spent the past 4 years working to elect conservatives across the country. Do you like Rubio? Thank Romney. He was involved in helping Rubio get elected.
Not afraid to use the veto. Used the veto 884 times as governor.
And finally, if conservatives really want to make a difference they’ll focus on keeping the House and taking the Senate. Let’s see what Romney can do with a conservative Congress in place.
Texan gets the kewpie doll.
He’s the first poster today to say positive things about Romney without being browbeaten into it. I was beginning to think I was the only person who knows anything good about McMitt.
I was about convinced that every single Romney supporter is drunk with hatred for Newt.
So now I’ve got one Romney backer that I can respect.
Howie Carr, Boston conservative talk show host, has been fair about Romney as have the callers. They know him better than anyone. MA Republicans don’t sit around and worry about if someone is a bonafide conservative. Our philosphy is that anyone is better than a Democrat. It’s our reality. We just want to win and we don’t win very often.
Though it may be true that “anyone is better than a democrat” it is still the slow path to tyranny vs. the fast. A true conservative what is needed, not more government involvement in our lives at ridiculous cost.
At the end of the day, one has to step back and look at what government has become since the days of our childhood. Has it gotten smaller or larger? Has it had more involvement in our day-to-day activities or less? Has it been largely good or bad?
I have watched since I was a kid in the 60′s the thousands upon thousands (millions?) of pages of legislation to adjust, modify or otherwise tinker with constitutional law to make it more “fair” when the existing laws were just fine.
“Hate crimes” are a good example. They are ridiculously unnecessary to say nothing of how ludicrously enforced they are. All because people can no longer think rationally and must resort to an emotionally-based set of “new improved” laws.
The RINOs are no different, except in regard to speed and depth of same. And they STILL think they can get the media to like them. They are not the “cool kids” and never will be. What’s worse is that they aspire to BE the cool kids. That in itself is a whole other level of pathetic.
Thank you Texan, well said.
I would add that people should not be fooled by Romney’s style, underneath he is a real hard ass.
who won the ipad?
ABO in 2012. Never forget that, guys.
Mitt doesn’t have a chance in the general election. There isn’t enough difference between Obama and Mitt to get out the conservatives. Many of us don’t want to or won’t vote for a gun grabber. Between his anti-2nd amendments stands and Romneycare there is just too much to dislike. I hear many people talking about just staying home if Romney is the nominee. Yes, that would mean Obama is elected, but they can’t see that it would be better with Mitt. And just maybe the GOP establishment would learn something about nominating left of center canidates.
Go ahead and vent. Get all the whining out of your system. And when you calm down you’ll hopefully realize how ridiculous your rant really is. Frankly, this is troll talk, imo.
Thanks for giving us the Obama/Soros spin on the GOP primary. If you truly think there is no difference between Obama and Mitt, I don’t think I need to pay any more attention to what you say. If you think four more years of Obama will punish the mythical “GOP establishment,” ask yourself what will it do to our country. I love our country more than I hate the GOP establishment, so I don’t follow your logic.
We need to stop putting all our hope in politicians and get active to educate and motivate people to get involved. That is the only way to save our country. So you vote for the best option and keep putting pressure on both parties to return to the Constitution. Neither party will do it on their own.
@fahagan Well since you seem to think that anybody that says there is no difference between Obama and Romney is off their nut, how about George Soros (you know, the one who finances Obama and the left wing idiots) saying himself there is no difference between the two…That seems to be a pretty big endorsement for Romney if you ask me..
There is no putting pressure on both parties to return to the Constitution. You know as well as anybody else that both parties are drunk with power and do what they wish regardless of what their constituents want. There is only one solution and that is a “3rd” party against the Repucrats and beat them all.
Romney is no more a conservative than is Eric Holder or any of the Won’s czars. Will I vote for him if he is the candidate? With a clothespin on my nose but it ABO if he makes it that long…
It’s interesting that so many people on so many blogs are declaring that they won’t vote for McCain again.
Live is a series of risk assessments.
The chances that McMitt could beat clone obama are less than 1 in 10. So the issue is whether a 1 in 10 chance of having a republican statist in charge of implementing obamacare is worth encouraging the republican ruling class to think they can get away with it again.
It’s not an easy decision.
I’m going to wait to see if McMitt ever calls obama anyting other than “sir”.
Plus, of course, the cringing in the country at the thought of McMitt means that the race is far from over.
And hey, has anybody else notice that moira and myra are just about the same name?
You probably have never voted for anyone but a DEMOCRAT.
Meh, the party is a bit too far from the center to win this election easily.
A different Republican party could have walked away with this one.
Remember all those polls showing that a “generic Republican” was more popular than any of the real candidates? That’s because people’s image of “generic Republican” is what Republicans have been all their lives, not the nutty hysteria we’ve heard since Obama was elected.
And Romney is the nearest you ran to “generic Republican”
He’s hampered by the rest of you being so poisoned with Obama Derangement Syndrome.
It’s just like how the Democratic party lost to GWB. Bush wasn’t that popular, it could have been a walk in the park but the Democratic party stank of madness and hysteria.
You resent the America that will vote and decide this election. That’s a mistake. The more you try to be pure and exclude half of America the smaller your party gets.
I’m not much of Romney supporter but the sore losers posting here just might make me change my mind.
Romney may have won the Florida primary, but he has yet to win the hearts, minds and votes of the rest of us.
Judging by the polls “the rest of us” is a dwindling number.
I am not necessarily an Anti-Romney Republican, but I deeply loathe the fact that we have become a nation so superficial that can be so easily swayed by a slick massive publicity barrage and smooth Hollywood presentation and look. We are so very, very lost.
I think all the conservatives who are making the threat of not voting because they are not getting their pick as the nominee, or who don’t believe any nominee fits their ideal mold for the white knight that will slay the dragon are a bunch of stubborn babies.
Liberals are the ones looking for their earthy messiah.
Practically nobody is getting their pick. How much talk was there of Sarah Palin, Allen West, or Paul Ryan? Put aside your quibbling and do what’s right for the country, at least. You think not voting out Obama is what’s right for the country, THEN DO IT.
What people are upset about is moneymen running roughshod over the candidates that the people prefer.
If McRomney hadn’t spent tens of millions in huge negative bloodletting campaigns against all of his opponents for five years, people might be unhappy, but they would accept it.
As it stands, a lot of people are convinced that McMitt is close to buying the election. Gingrich was far ahead in Iowa before the gazillions were spent. Then he won SC, and more gazillions were spent against him. Florida wasn’t an election it was a brainwashing exercise.
We’ve been there before, and despite what you choose to tell yourslef, the anger at Romney is justified and the people who are thinking about not voting for him are rational.
I can make as stong an argument that voting for a nasty, mean-spirited candidate who can’t win the debate but can buy the election and who will maintain the status quo is worse than sending the establishment the message that we view them as the enemy and those tactics as intolerable. I’m not completely on board with that thought process, but I certainly understand the sentiment.
If you think Romney would have won Florida without outspending Gingrich and Santorum by 15 to 1, you are a fool. It’s that simple.
Liberals are the ones looking for their earthy messiah.
Wow, talk about a straw man. Yeah, Mitt is just a little bit shy of the conservative messiah we are looking for. But he comes so close.
There is a sure way to prove Romney’s electability; that is, have an election. We’ve just seen what the Florida Republican sheeple think of the guy. Let everyone else have their say. He just won’t get my vote, that’s all. Not now, not ever. After voting for thirty years of Republican skunks and waiting for some hint of an interest in their return to constitutional conservatism, they’ve finally worn me out. I’m now one of those Independents. Maybe I’ll throw my vote at the Constitution Party or the Libertarian Party. Just don’t call me a Republican anymore. That’s so over…
Mitt sucks and once again we have a boring stiff from RINOland, but I’ll vote for him if I am alive.
He is going to lose. These RINO stiffs always do, unless the Dems put up a really bad candidate.
Then we are going to have to listen to the RINO Punditariat blame us Conservatives and Libertarians for not being enthusiastic about Mr Stiff.
Oh well… There is always hope in 16, Biden may run and give us a chance. If we have an election in 16. I got a bad feeling about this.
If we have an election in 16. I got a bad feeling about this.
I am so sick of paranoids telling lies about our presidents. An elderly friend called me convinced that GWB was going to.suspend the constition and there would be no more elections. What ignorant, pernicious nonsense!
This crap has been promoted about most presidents in my lifetime. I remember it being said about Nixon, Reagan, Bush1, Clinton, Bush2.
There’s some idiot in another thread saying that Democrats are Nazis, no doubt he has a weak mind and has been listening to Glen Beck. I read this shit and it occurs to me that my friends who are actually diagnosed as schizophenic are saner and have better sense than that. God!
Ok, no one will ever suspend the constition. No one will ever declare martial law. No party will ever be so suicidal and anti-american that they try to end democracy. The end of America is not at hand and it will never be at hand, ever. Our system is stable and it will continue indefinately. There has never been a system in the history of the world as stable as liberal democracy.
@Josh Scholar
“I am so sick of paranoids telling lies about our presidents. An elderly friend called me convinced that GWB was going to.suspend the constition and there would be no more elections. What ignorant, pernicious nonsense!
This crap has been promoted about most presidents in my lifetime. I remember it being said about Nixon, Reagan, Bush1, Clinton, Bush2.”
You must be a Democrat, you don’t even know how to spell Constitution, or that when you are referring to ours, it should be capitalized.
Comrade O is not my President. He does not have America’s best interest at heart. He is a Stalinist and will do whatever it takes to bring the USA down. He has done a good job so far. Four more years and we are toast. Too bad Mitt won’t be able to win. He wouldn’t be a good president, but at least he isn’t an agent of the enemy.
That the sort of Anti-American crap you’re peddling is not only tolerated, it’s being promoted is the deepest shame.
Yes, people said the same about GWB, and I avoided the sewers their crap floated in. I hate Kos, I hate the Democratic Underground, I hate IndyMedia and I hate their exact mirror reflection here at PJMedia. You are covered in shame because you have no shame!
I suppose I’m here because Michael Totten a courageous journalist who has never allowed a single partisan lie on his blog is here. He doesn’t belong among you lying, dishonest, anti-American creeps.
You guys hammering Mitt should listen to yourselves. You all sound crazy. You want a guy with a record to judge by, you’ve got two of them. Romney put Mass back into the black despite facing two houses of spendthrift Dems. He saved the 2002 Winter Olympics and made it the FIRST
@Josh Scholar
Thanks for outing yourself as a Progressive, which means slow motion Commie.
I am pro American. I believe in Freedom, Liberty, Free Markets, and Laissez-faire government. I am from the Republican wing of the Republican party. I am crazy enough to want to live in a Capitalist Republic. I think the term Liberal Republic is an oxymoron. These days Liberal means Progressive, which is just a Commie by another name.
Mitt is an Ivy League educated elite Crony Capitalist Progressive, who never did a lick of work in his life, no different than the Bush Triplets; corporate raiding is neither work, nor does it create jobs.
He managed to win the primaries by stabbing all the real Conservatives in the race in the back. But I will vote for him anyway, because he at least is not an agent of the enemy. A Republican Progressive is preferable to a Democrat Progressive because they will implement the Progressive plan at a slower rate. There will be less damage to undo when we finally get a Pro-American President and Congress.
So, do you really think that a second term President Obama is likely cancel elections and become President for life, or are you going to back-peddle on that mad, hysterical, deliberately seditious, anti-American fantasy?
@Josh Scholar
“So, do you really think that a second term President Obama is likely cancel elections and become President for life”
Yes. I know the next Dear Leader when I see him.
And Milquetoast Mitt is going to lose. He successfully stabbed all the Real Republicans in the back, and now will take a dive in the General Election, just like McCain, guaranteeing the end of America as we knew it. See you in the Re-education camp.
There are no “dear leaders” in American politics. Richard Nixon who tried to have journalist Jack Anderson murdered (but was stopped by the watergate investigations) was the nearest we’ve ever come and ever will come.
Some people took Obama too seriously when he said “Hope and Change”. All he meant was that he’s black and Democrat and president – oh also that he was gonna address health insurance reform because it was the winning issue whose time had inevitably come for whatever Democrat won the Presidency next. Really, there’s no there there. No great change. Just another “first” like the first black baseball player and policies that would have been implemented by any and all Democrats.
And while you’re right about crony capitalism you miss that “the real conservatives” lost because they’re not electable any more than the far left wingers are. Michell Bachmann is every bit as disconnected from reality as Dennis Kusinich and the public isn’t stupid enough to vote for either of them.
Romney isn’t in front because of some conspiracy, he’s in front because the majority of voters will pick a slick boss over a foolish nut every time. I agree that Romney is morally suspect for liquidating jobs for cash, but people wisely prefer that over candidates who are ignorant, delusional, incapable, stupid and miseducated like the “real conservatives” who lost because not one of them was capable enough to be president.
Milquetoast Mitt O’Bomney has my vote because he will be on the GOP ticket.
However, I know he is going to lose. He is a candidate that makes the Dole/McCain Ticket look appealing. He won despite having 75% of the base being for one of the Conservative candidates because those of us who believe in and value America are not as well organized as the Looters.
Mitt and Progressives like him and you have destroyed Western Civilization, and are the direct cause of the New Dark Age that is coming to a theater near you soon. I hope you enjoy your Country Club membership while it lasts.
“enjoy your country club…”
Heh, I don’t have a country club; I barely get by. Strange assumption on your part. It’s funny how much reflection there is between the tea party and occupy wall street. You both assume that your opponents are fat cats.
If I had a wish it would be that the fissure of hatred and vilification between right and left that divides the two sides disappears. But it won’t, it’s only getting worse.
I guess what bothers me about Romney is not just his John Edwards level of smarminess, but the fact that he hasn’t mentioned one thing he’d do to fix a real problem. What is more, I don’t get the sense he has any plans to make major changes, he just wants to get his hands on the river of pork so he can reward his cronies and have a really first rate private jet.
We need to close TSA & EPA, drill for 100% of our oil here, de-unionize the government, dial back the toxic level of regulation, tort reform, repeal CAFE, and stop the looters on Wall Street from liquidating the country so their third yacht can be even more splendifferous. And that’s just a start.
What will Mitt do about anything? He is just a technocrat promising to manage the fall better than Obummer.
Once again, we are left without hope for the future.
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WINTER OLYMPICS EVER TO MAKE A PROFIT! Romney made millions for the companies he worked for. Now he wants to work for us.
Obama ran for office with no record, no background, no nothing. He was the Invisible Man who materialized almost out of nowhere. We know less about Obama than we have ever known about any prior American president, and this happened at the peak of the information age. We do know, however, that he’s hit us with trillion-dollar-plus deficits every year he’s been in office. That’s an absolute certainty. So is the fact that America got its credit rating downgraded on Obama’s watch and is moving rapidly toward a second one.
Here’s your choice: a tax cutter who could even bring the left-wing idiots in Massachusetts into fiscal balance, or a fiscally incompetent fool who has presided over the largest increase in debt in American history. If you don’t think we need to rein in the out-of-control spending and you think we can continue down the path we’re currently on without difficulty, vote Obama. If you think that is unsustainable, vote Romney.
Choose wisely.
My answer to Milquetoast Mitt and his shills on this forum to night is screw you.
I’ll hold my nose and vote for him, but don’t expect much more. I haven’t missed an election or voted for a Democrat since Jimmy Carter convinced me to switch from the party of my parents, but Mitt O’Bomney is just another Progressive RINO, and proof that the GOP needs more cleansing.
Josh said inside the 17th thread:
“No one will ever suspend the constition. No one will ever declare martial law. No party will ever be so suicidal and anti-american that they try to end democracy”
As someone coming from one of the worst countries in the world, (with a legal hell, strikes always ending in a coup d’etat, 10 presidents in 7 years and lots of constitutions in the history) I can tell you’re wrong here.
Indeed, the best way to END the Constitution is by elevating the DEMOCRACY principle to power.
USA is a Republic, remember, in a Republic there is Rule of Law while the democratic procedures are mostly limited to elections, people elects people, who then are bounded by the Law -or should be.
OTOH, in a true Democracy there is Rule of People (or whoever claim to represent it) and the Laws are modified as much as the dominant culture moves, i.e. according to the polls, the national mood, the mass media, Hollywood, etc.
USA is going in that direction. You think you can’t be like a third world country? You think is too big to fail? and the Titanic can’t be sunk? I assure you, sir, that the Usa and the third world countries are made of the same raw material: Human beings, all those human beings having Free will. That and bad decisions (which humans use to make) is all you need to end the Constitution and the Republic.
I’d prefer most others, including Newt, over Romney — but won’t need to hold my nose to vote for him.
He’s boring, and a bit of a Rino, but good. Yeah, I’d prefer Palin, or to have a hung convention and maybe draft one of the more conservative, yet still serious candidates. But Mitt’s positively good, mostly.
Reagan, too, was a bit of Rino (no-fault divorce, abortion, higher spending for many programs). Reagan was a Great Communicator, Romney not. But Romney’s actual policies are likely to be more like what Reagan would be trying to do than Obama.
And almost any Rep will be vilified and demonized by the polarized press — the unjust and mean press against pro-life Christians, capitalism, working white men, American military, conservatives; often against America. It’s no wonder the constant unfair WaPo NYT press assault has been successful in creating an aggressive defensive group of conservatives who hate the liberals, too.
But the Tea Party needs to continue its Congressional District work, and get more conservatives on more ballots. Both in primaries against Rep RINOs, but especially against Democrats.
The US Pres is NOT a king — and in fact, Congress has more power than the Pres. So winning Congress, both House and Senate, is more important for the budget than winning the Presidency, but the Reps have a good chance to win all three this year.
Thanks to terrible Dem policies since the 60s.
“in fact, Congress has more power than the Pres.”
Really? Try telling that to Obama & his evil band of czars; also, Obama has a way with the EO as well,using it as a means to get around Congress. He has even said so…out loud.