Why Michigan Is Romney’s D-Day
EmailAll eyes are on Michigan and if Mitt Romney can pull off a win in this large industrial state.
Carter Eskew, a Democrat, weighed in Tuesday writing that Romney will not win the nomination if he doesn’t win the Michigan primary first.
Eskew might be going a bit too far but it’s hard to overstate the importance of Michigan and the Romney campaign is taking the Feb. 28 primary very seriously – after all, they are lagging in the polls in a state they won four years ago.
The Romney campaign is outspending Rick Santorum by 50 to 1 in television ads and trying to paint Santorum as pro earmarks and against right to work laws. They’re trying to do to Santorum what they did to Newt Gingrich in Florida. But Michigan is a different state at a different point in the race and Santorum is not as vulnerable as Gingrich.
Bottom Line: If Romney can’t win Michigan he’ll have to fight this all the way to the convention in order to secure the nomination.
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If Main Street Media, & even Fox News, are not pushing for Santorum win, why are they not reporting Michigan Governor supporting Romney? Plus, why twice as many negative stories on Romney and not Santorum? Santorum earned his money as a Washington Insider…is that not news?
Posted by: Rick | February 16, 2012, 3:39 pm 3:39 pm
If Michigan is stupid enough to vote for Romney, who wanted to “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” in 2008, then they’ll deserve it when President Romney says “Let Michigan go bankrupt.” Isn’t it the ultimate poetic justice that this clueless millionaire needs the same people he turned his back on? It’s payback time!
Posted by: Fred | February 16, 2012, 4:01 pm 4:01 pm
If Michigan is stupid enough to vote for Romney, who wanted to “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt” in 2008, then they’ll deserve it when President Romney says “Let Michigan go bankrupt.” Isn’t it the ultimate poetic justice that this clueless millionaire needs the same people he turned his back on? It’s payback time!
Posted by: Fred
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This is not the general election. This is a Republican primary and most Republicans, particularly, conservatives were AGAINST the auto bailouts. Far left liberals were for them.
Santorum is campaigning on the grounds that he is MORE conservative than Romney. If he campaigns on how he was FOR the bailouts and Romney wasn’t, he’d be sounding like a liberal, thereby alienating the conservatives. Romney’s position would normally GAIN conservatives.
As to the general election, there are not very many people in the United States who were in favor of the auto bailouts. If the majority of Michigan citizens are, they are in the vast minority.
BTW Ford actually advertises the fact that it was the only one of the three American auto makers that did not ask for a bailout. As a result, they generated more sales.
Posted by: ivan | February 16, 2012, 5:37 pm 5:37 pm
Carter Eskew, a Democrat, weighed in Tuesday writing that Romney will not win the nomination if he doesn’t win the Michigan primary first.
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Being a Democrat, I’m not surprised he said that. However, even if Romney were to lose Michigan, he would still have a majority of delegates and he is still expected to win Arizona and at least half the Super Tuesday primaries.
However, if Romney is actually behind Santorum he is only behind by 3 points according to the Rasmussen poll and he still has an excellent chance of winning the state.
Posted by: spike | February 16, 2012, 5:43 pm 5:43 pm
Romney wanted to let Detroit go bankrupt and he wants to take on the Union bosses and is all for Right to Work. If Michigan has any sense this guy will lose in a landslide. Obama 2012!
Posted by: Julie | February 16, 2012, 6:28 pm 6:28 pm
Romney wanted to let Detroit go bankrupt, he wants to take on the Union bosses, and he is strongly in favor of Right to Work. I hope he loses by a landslide! OBAMA 2012!!
Posted by: Julie | February 16, 2012, 6:30 pm 6:30 pm
What’s he have to do, give a speech? yeah, that’s just like D-Day.
Posted by: ray | February 16, 2012, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm
Romney swamped McCain there in the 2008 primary. But then he wrote that NYTimes op-ed opposing the bailout of the auto industry!! Bad one. That’s not one of his home states anymore, that’s for sure. He treated the people of Michigan like his dog Seamus.
Posted by: hopesprings52 | February 16, 2012, 7:05 pm 7:05 pm
Santorum is way to far right to win in the general election. We are in trouble and should not be playing games that are not winnable. Obama’s budget ignores the mess our economy is in and Greece is just a small microcosm of what is in store for us. I checked the government’s own web site, Treasury Direct and found that Bush increased spending 3,478 trillion in 8 years. In Obama’s 4 years, spending increased a whopping 5.993 trillion and he did not have to contend with 911 or Katrina. The graph on the page shows it even more blatantly. Meanwhile, we are borrowing more than 10 billion a day and owe upwards of 15 trillion. I am voting for Romney, the only person with the experience in business and government, working with the opposition, 85 percent democrat, and able to appeal to independents, moderates and conservatives. The only one who can beat Obama.
Posted by: Mrs D | February 16, 2012, 7:15 pm 7:15 pm
Republicans kept trashing the left wing media, now its time for the media to trash the right wing Tea Trash
Posted by: S | February 16, 2012, 7:18 pm 7:18 pm
MRS D, You say the republicans need the more moderate candidate. That is what they did 4 year ago and it didn’t work out so well. I would vote for Paul Ryan, but then again he is not running. Hopefully, the one that wins chooses Ryan to run as VP.
Posted by: Tom | February 16, 2012, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm
Romney will loose in Michigan and the reasons are summed up in the following editorial letter. Romney turned his back on Michigan, now it’s time to return the favor
Mitt Romney may be from Michigan, but he certainly is not for Michigan. His short sighted, politically motivated position to refuse help for Michigan’s auto industry cannot, should not and will not be forgotten in this primary vote. Today he claims to be all for jobs and the middle class, yet was willing to destroy both by killing off GM and Chrysler. He will try to claim that he recommended that they go into bankruptcy like they did, but understand that his form of bankruptcy was liquidation and not reorganization. Without the federal loans, which he opposed, both companies would have been forced to liquidate, taking with them the livelihood of tens of thousands directly and many more indirectly linked to their survival. The fallout would have been wide reaching with foreclosures and lost tax revenues that would make todays financial difficulties look minor. But Romney was all too eager to support the huge, no-strings attached bailouts for Wall Street. He clearly values jobs on Wall Street, but not Michigan auto jobs. Just imagine the nightmare we Michiganders would be living if Romney had been calling the shots when we needed the help. Let’s make sure he never is given the opportunity to be in that position. He turned his back on us when we needed his support and now it is time for us to do the same to him. Payback time has come.
Posted by: Jim Kos | February 19, 2012, 10:57 am 10:57 am
There is something troubling about Romney outspending Santorum yet is lagging in the polls. The law of diminishing returns may be in effect. It seems like the more Romney spends, the less attractive his candidacy is.
Posted by: NoFlyZone2 | February 19, 2012, 12:08 pm 12:08 pm