The Question for Romney: Is Electability Enough?

looks like a president,talks like a president, walks like a president ,thinks like a president. Must be a president.

And why are people always giving him a bad time about money ? That he was smart enough to make a lot of money should be encouraging to us. He EARNED it–he didn’t inherit it -that’s a smart business man. We need it.

And just because he has money is no sign he is some arrogant stuffshirt who can’t relate to the average citizen . Bet you a bundle you COULD talk to him. Money doesn’t mean a person is a snob, so it’s not fair to judge him that way. Besides–anyone with five kids is bound to be pretty down-to-earth .

The GOP really puts the “fun” in dysfunctional.

Yea, I watched him come into Portland, OR a few weeks ago to have an expensive lunch with some rich folk, from the West Hills. He was in town all of about an hour. Grab his campaign contributions and ran. Never spoke to the media or nothing. That’s the kind person I don’t want for President. He’s just in it for the money. Besides, if he is so rich why does he need campaign contributions. Personally, I think the entire GOP should collectively jump off of a short pier.

The right will hold their noses and vote for Romney. They have nowhere else to go. Christi will sweeten the odor. In essence, it will be a race between two democrats. Obama will win if he successfully taps into the anger thing. The GOP tries to boomerang the anger by blaming the economy on Obama, but that only sells to the party faithful. Everybody knows when and how this all started if they are paying any attention at all, and that’s from where the anger stems. Romney doesn’t know how to manage anger. It’ll be close, but Obama gets the edge. He’s already playing his strategy, and strategy is his strongest suit.

I think a ham sandwich could win. The news media still keeps trying to prop up the worst president in our history and run down any one else.

If three quarters of his own Party cannot or will not support him, why should the rest of the nation?

I’m predicting Romney will win it all.

But, the more critical issue is Congress. Has long as conservatives control congress, it won’t matter that Romney is president, he will fall in line with a conservative Congress. Because, once we start implement proven conservative priinciples (smaller govt., free market competition, reasonable regulations, sensible energy polices, etc.), the country will start to turn around and Romney will want to be part of that movement.

NYT, ABC, CNN, right wing blogs and talk shows equally distain the only man to win the General. I read the other day a sign – Crazies on the left, clowns on the left, me stuck in the middle. The right is determined to damage Romney to the point if he wins the primary, he will limp into the general. The left is terrified because they know that most people are somewhere in the middle, the old silent majority, will beat Obama. It will not be easy. I know why the left leaner dislike him but the why of the right is the mystery. I would like some of these people to put country before idiology.

Because, once we start implement proven conservative principles (smaller govt., free market competition, reasonable regulations, sensible energy polices, etc.), the country will start to turn around…..Posted by: jorge | November 7, 2011, 9:15 am 9:15.

“Implement proven conservative principles”?!?!? The last THREE Republican presidents oversaw the biggest EXPANSION of both the size and reach of the federal government seen in the last 60 years. GW Bush ALONE set records for increasing the size and scope of the federal government, through the creation of the Homeland Security department and the Patriot Act. Not to mention two wars and the unfunded Pill Bill.

These may be “conservative principles”, but the Republican Party sure as hell doesn’t adhere to them………..

Personally, I can’t stand Romney. He has no core principles to fall back on and without them, he will be another DC politician: Pass-out-the-pork and kKck-the-can-down-the-road kind of guy. American needs someone that isn’t a DC politician; Someone that isn’t reasonable. America needs the jobs that come from making our own energy, making our own clothes, making our own toys – America needs someone that will end the psuedo governmental agencies that screw this country up, and that cannot happen with the current DC political class getting their way.

After the disaster of the (Not ready for prime time) Obama Administration it will be a breath of fresh air to have a President who has accomplished something in his life! Mitt Romney wants to make the country the best it can be where as Barack Obama wants to throw the baby out with the bath water!

I am so sick of the tea party and their little vendetta against Mitt Romney! If the Tea Party want’s to nominate someone like Rick Perry or Ron Paul, and throw the election over to the Democrats, then do it. You guys are nuts.

First of all, why dose Rick Perry get a pass on all of the flip-flops that he has committed? The guy is so two faced, whishy-washy, and plasticky that he makes Mitt Romney seem like he has the consistency of concrete! Perry’s whole career is a giant contradiction. FIrst he is a Democrat then a Republican. First he want’s to succeed from the US, now he want’s be President. He was for healthcare mandates before he was against them. On, and on, and on, and on. Why dose he get held to a different standard. Mitt changed his position on abortion! So what? So did Reagan and Bush 1 and 2.
Of course there is healthcare. At least Mitt tried!!! Rick Perry and Ron Paul’s state of Texas has one of the highest percentage of uninsured in the country at 25%. That is unacceptable! Romneycare may be far from perfect, but it was one states attempt to fix a massive problem in this country. I would bet my last dollar that “Romneycare” would have looked far more conservative had it not been passed in a deep blue state, with a very liberal state legislator, and a liberal state supreme court.
I respect Ron Paul to a point. I like his bold plan to cut $1 trillion in his first year in office. But he loses people when he says that we should try to be friendly with Iran. Didn’t Obama try that? Iran gaining nuclear weapons in NOT an option. How about getting rid of the Center for Disease Control. Can you say bird flu, swine flu, listeria outbreak??? The bottom line is this is the third time the guy has run for President, and 12% among likely GOP voters is all the support he can muster. He can’t win! Period ! End of story!!!!
Here is the bottom line for all you “conservatives”. I am forty years old. I voted for Clinton twice, Gore once, Kerry once, and I supported Hillary Clinton in 2008. I left the Presidential and Vice Presidential choices on my ballot blank in the 2008 election in protest of the terrible choices we had for President. I will gladly vote against Obama if my choice on the Republican side is either Romney, Gingrich, Cain, or Huntsman! If my choice is Paul, Perry, Bachmann, or Santorum I will vote for Obama to send a message to the Tea Party. The deal is, you “conservatives” better understand with people like me your just a 20% fringe group. So if you are serious about beating Obama you better hold your nose and vote for a moderate!

After the disaster of the (Not ready for prime time) Obama Administration it will be a breath of fresh air to have a President who has accomplished something in his life!
Posted by: Common _ Sense | November 7, 2011, 11:51 am.

LOL! Yeah, being the first Black president in US history certainly doesn’t qualify as an accomplishment in 21st century America…….. (he said very sarcastically). Nor does being the first Black editor of the Harvard Law Review. And 8 years in a state legislature? Piffle, that’s less than nothing. Yep, Obama has just sat around his whole life because he was born with a silver spoon up his arse…..oops, sorry, that’s Romney with the silver spoon. Romney, who has won exactly ONE election in his entire life. Romney, whose daddy gave him everything, and then some. Yeah, he sure has accomplished so much on his own……… (he said sarcastically, again).

Why do republicans always think businessmen will make a good president? It shows where their mindset is. Let’s face it most company CEOs don’t know their a— from a hole in ground. There are very few Henry Fords, Andrew Carnegies, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs left out there and most of them are smart enough not to want the job.

Amazing… A candidate that is charged with Sexual Harrassment Complaints by three past female workers (and who were paid off by Cain’s Company), a candidate who has been caught in numerous gaffs and falsehoods, is a candidate that scores the highest in Honesty among the GOP Candidates for President…
Posted by: poyman | November 7, 2011, 1:26 pm.

Republicans have completely lost their way. Their Party has been hijacked by their extreme Right lunatic fringe, and it manifests itself in things like this. I blame FOX, Rush, and the rest of the Right Wing media presence in this country. They have driven all sense out of the Party. They have driven all the Moderates out into the ranks of the Independents. And the truly sad part is that there are poor and middle class people who STILL carry the water for them, not comprehending that the Republican Party does NOT have their back and does NOT have their best interests at heart. They are the very definition of “useful idiots”…………

I remember when Newt was caught on his cell phone, having a conversation with someone that was not exactly ethical. He went balistic, pushed through legislation to force manufacturers all over the world to modify the radio scanners that supposedly intercepted his conversation and since that time no scanners coming into the USA to be sold, had a “Cellular Gap”.
It did not stop the monitoring, just banned the Cell phone coverage.
Now thinking about it, like banning guns because the guns kill people.

Wonder if Newt is in favor of that?

Me thinks Newt has “Two Faces”, the one to get him elected, and the other one that is for the 1% and to feather his nest like George did with his buddies, the Military Industrial Complex, two wars and putting the debt of the wars on 99% and giving his 1% buddies a 10 year tax break putting $477 Billion more debt on the 99%.

I think we can do better than “Fig Newt”.