I’ll be honest – not 100% sure if this is an official Newt ad or if it was created by Right Face, but it’s a very well done web-ad I’ve seen floating on Twitter. It says at the end it’s an official Newt ad…so, you be the judge for me:
Rick is starting to show signs of a very weak candidate, his campaign is in disarray and very unorganized, his surrogates are talking about pills between women’s legs, and just today he said Obama is not a “true christian” and Romney supported earmarks for the Olympics.
The fact is Rick Santorum was built up to be the great white knight of the GOP, and now that people are seeing him for what he really is, a hard right social conservative who lost by more points for Senate reelection than any other Senator in US History! Little Ricky is falling fast!
Newt is radioactive. There’s no more resuscitating him than there was for Rick Perry. When people saw him at his worst, like they did during Florida and Nevada, they wrote him off. The negative impression is hardwired into their brains, and it’s there for good.
This will happen to a somewhat lesser extent with Santorum, but it will happen. There can be only one.
#6 no one dislikes Santorum, they may not think he is ready or prefer someone else, but to say people dislike him is flat our wrong
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Not, true, there are many that don’t like him, he comes off as too much of a theocratic hypocrite.
I still can’t get over the fact that a month ago, people though Newt was the rising star. It just goes to show that the electorate is clueless. Santorum is going the same way. Let’s just elect Romney and get this thing over with.
Sometimes I wonder if the Media is feeding this white knight frenzy just to keep the election going. It’s good for their ratings. It seems like they will do anything to keep Romney down. They go grasping at straws to find things wrong with him. Criticizing Romney over the Olympics? I can tell you that nobody in Utah is criticizing his handling of the Salt Lake Olympics. He turned them around. He saved them. People should seriously get a clue. The media should get a clue, and the Tea Party should seriously stop looking for their “christian boy.” Romney is a christian as they come!!! Sorry for the rant, but people are missing the boat!!! Let’s just get this thing over with so we can beat Obama!
So, what……..? Now that Mitt and friends pulled the GA debate out from under Newt, he has to run ads of old debates? Well, better than nothing, I guess.
Meanwhile Newt has people dressed up like chickens running around mocking Mitt for not doing the GA debate. How utterly dumb would it be for Mitt (or any of them) to see a repeat of the rockin’ Southern crowd in SC?
#14 Nobody in UT is criticizing the Olympics and nobody in MASS is changing MassCare.
However, there’s more to the StopMitt campaign that just the media trying to keep things going. Rush/Palin/FreedomWorks/Levin etc. are hard-core, dead set against Mitt and the Establishment. As Palin put it: “She’s not going to sit on the back of the bus (meaning vote for Mitt.)
Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks has written a new book: “Hostile take-over of the GOP.” If you listened to Tea Partiers at CPAC, their fight is not with Obama and the Dems, but with the GOP. The are madder than hell and plan to take a wrecking ball to the Republicans.
They see Mitt as the “GOP” candidate and they are not having any part of him. To do so would meaning admitting defeat forever. They will die before they see Mitt as our candidate. If Santourm can’t cut it, they will be promoting a brand new face at the convention. Freedom Works is already lobbying for someone completely new.
K.G. If Romney was an Evangelical, they would be all about him. There is nothing wrong with Mitt Romney as a GOP candidate. He is a conservative! He is smart, competent, he has money, organization, , a great family, and a record of success. I have no doubt in my mind that Rush/Palin/and Levin would support Romney if he came out an said “I’m a born again.” While they will never say it, you know they are thinking it. They don’t like him because he is a Mormon. The whole south is thinking it. I think it’s sad, and speaks to loudly about peoples ignorance about matters of faith.
“Was it appropriate for Romney to ask Congress for money for security after 9/11? Of course it was!!!”
Santorum would be well advised not to bring it up in the debate…can you imagine the response?
“Senator, the Olympic games occurred less than six months after the September 11th attacks, and those earmarks were dedicated towards protecting the events from any terrorist attacks. Now, if you can’t understand the basic difference between money dedicated towards national security, and money spent on pet projects, I don’t know how you could ever have a claim to the Presidency.”
#18: It might be only the Mormon thing. But they use the excuse of NorthEast Establish Elite Massachusetts Modern Modern to divide the GOP. The Elite Establishment vs. the Tea Party “conservatives”. I marched with the Tea Party in DC with Freedom Works. I’m about as conservative as you can get. I’m trying with all my might to understand Rush, whom I’ve listened to for 20 years. I just cannot get my brain around what’s going on taking a wrecking ball to the GOP.
Mitt the Massachusetts Mormon “Moderate” has a way better chance of winning in the general than any of their unprepared, unserious ABRs and yet they slam the heck out of him day after day. These lying You-Know-Whats are now saying that all the ABRs lost because Mitt used his money to destroy them and that’s why people are down at the primary voting.
Nothing Mitt has done to anybody can compare to what Rush/Palin/Levin/Fox/Red State has done to Mitt. And they are hate filled. They have taken all their venom and spewed it on Mitt. I guess we could speculate what’s going on, but it wouldn’t do much good to come out and say it.
If you’ve listened to Rush then you know what he said about McCain in 2008. But the underground stuff was worse. Rudy had a bunch of stuff said about him, as did Obama and Clinton on the other side. There was a report yesterday, in response to Santorum saying the media gave Obama a pass on Rev Wright, that said 42% of political stories during that time were about Rev Wright. Hardly a pass.
I am almost convinced that FoxNews is determined to get Obama re-elected. The more I think about it the more it makes sense. Obama is the best thing that ever happened for them. What are they going to talk about if he loses? O’Reilly is the most fair. Hannity acts neutral but you can tell, Fox and Friends is the worst. I have to turn the channel now when Palin comes on !!! Dick Morris did say that Romney will pull it off.
On another topic, I keep getting the impression Paul would be happier with Romney than anyone else – more proof that Romeny is the true fiscal conservative !!!
I found this site about a week ago and I am now addicted. I’m so excited to find so many Romney supporters. To listen to the media, I was beginning to wonder if there were any.
Come to think of it…maybe I should just throw around statements…. like….. everybody who is not voting for Santorum in the GOP is Anti-Catholic.
No…that would be stupid.
It must be nice to be able to wave your wand around anytime things get a little tense for Mitt and accuse people who are not supporting him of being anti-Mormon.
At first I ingnored that kind of stuff…but now its just getting pathetic.
I now understand why Matt “MWS” handels all that kind of crap with humor now…..it’s the only way to deal with all this victimization talk.
It is simply unAmerican to bad mouth the Olympic Games, especially after 9-11. The country needed the Olympics to remind us of who we are.
The DNC and Rick Santorum are despicable people who would have our Olympic atheletes unprotected.
Suppose there was no extra Security and the terroists had killed many of the world’s atheletes on American soil… what would the world be like right now?
These attacks are the sickest thing I have ever seen in politics.
Rick needs to go home and grow up before he tries this kind of thing again.
What a disgusting excuse for an American.
Oh and… Rick voted for the funding!!! Add hypocrite to the unAmerican.
I can’t wait another day I want the good poll numbers now! lol
Just have to take it day by day, the longer this race goes the uglier it will get you can bank on that, that’s why i want this thing over sooner rather than later, and the only way that happens is if Romney starts winning and fast
The fact is, it’s true. If Romney was an evangelical, there would be no problem with him. The south would all be on board. The nomination process would be over. Same record, just different religion. It’s sad but true. If Romney loses, it’s the Mormon prejudice that brought him down. He’s the perfect candidate, he just happens to attend a different church on Sunday. I think that’s wrong. Mormon’s are as American as anyone else. People should stop hiding their Mormon prejudice behind Romney care. Let’s let the cat out of the bag.
The SLC olympics were full of corruption and the taxpayers had to bail them out. That is what disgraces the athletes and America. $1.3 billion in earmarks at a time when we were trying to fight a war is selfish and unpatriotic.
But seriously, cut the crap on the bigot stuff. He’s not losing states because of bigotry.
It’s because he’s a northeastern, rich, somewhat stiff dude with nice hair who has been savaged by the media for 5 years. Has very little to do with his religion.
His religion makes him more at odds with the base, culturally. But it’s not like if he were the same guy with the same background and style but Evangelical he’d be winning the South. Come on.
But it is naive that the public wouldn’t have rallied behind Romney more quickly, come to his defense more swiftly, give him a pass more promptly if Romney had been of more traditional Christian background.
Not noticing this is blindness, admitting it really doesn’t help or change the circumstance that much. So everyone should just move on to the issues.
36 I don’t know if religion has nothing to do with it. I tend to think and say it has little to do with it, but I remember back when Romney first announced, people would parrot some liberal talking point against him, then when they didn’t have the facts to back it up, they’d resort to saying it’s really about his religion. So some of the early criticisms gained traction because of it in my opinion, but this race is a lot bigger than that.
41. How about this, if Romney was evangelical, he would have received the nomination in 2008. McCain would have lost! I know not all republicans think this way, but it can’t be denied in the South. Romney has spend the last two years telling people, and I think truthfully, that he would repeal Obama care. Still, people have a problem with him, even though he has everything else going for him (except the “right” religion of course). If the republican party doesn’t get past the Mormon issue, they are going to lose to Obama!
41. Actually, I don’t think so. But I’m with you, spending time on the bigotry issue is pointless. About as pointless as dragging on this Republican Self Destruction party.
40. You could say that you were one of the unique ones, I guess. It’s like the racism issue. Jesse Jackson will likely see racism were none was intended. Mormons have lived as outsiders and been treated badly for so long, its hard not to see when bigotry was unintended. Another question we could ask, was bigotry intended when Mormons voted against Romney? (And, yes, there are many – they usually support Ron Paul.)
How about this, Everyone on this blog site seems to still have that tingle up their leg for O’Bummer because if Rombo is nominated he will get clobbered and you can walk around for the next 4 Yrs. with that tingle up both your legs. None of these morons are perfect including O’Bummer they all have records now. Newtie is the only one that can clobber O’Bummer and get this country back on at least a stable track from day one. I for one don’t care about their religion or personal life. We’ve got a perfect family man on duty now, hows that working out for you. If Jefferson or Regan was running today you people would prefer Robo, I can’t believe you people. This country is screwed!
not4bummer, just be sure and keep that vote going to an individual(Newt) by his own childish and insane actions that the American people will never let him hold the reigns of power, and that is good for the nation. Your vote for Newt is in essence a vote for Romney because Newt is history. K.G. I have read many of your post and agree with most.I left the Republican party, as the self righteous religious fanatics began to take over. I like a separation between church and state and don’t agree with anything these folks try to implement in government .I believe those beliefs should be left in the church and home. To my way of thinking and many others all political party ideology should be left out of the church or lose their tax exempt status. I have also listened to Limbaugh since 1991 and began tuning him out about 11yrs ago. His spin got so heavy as a rational person I could not buy most of it. I believe this turn against Romney is because for so many years he has been preaching that the party needed to flush and purge the Moderates and Rhinos that he cannot do a flip and support Romney, who the hard right(remember they have just about done what he wanted) think is a Moderate, yet he says that if nominated he will support Romney. He would have to say that to stay in good with the party and be on the right side(winning)if he were to beat Obama and if he lost he would say you did not run a conservative, he wins either way(Who really knows about that guy, he might really support Romney no one will ever know). He certainly doesn’t live like the middle class, we don’t have 35mil contracts, live in a mansion and have aircraft. There is no way Palin, Ryan, Walker, Rand Paul or any other individual on the far right of the political spectrum can ever get elected, same is true anyone on the far left of the political spectrum. I know that some people on either side always feel that whoever is in office is way out on one end or the other.This is usually not true only in the mind of like thinking individuals who group together and we usually call those groups cults.
February 18th, 2012 at 6:10 pm
Santorum: Mainline Protestants Are Not Christians
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT9bbadUapo
February 18th, 2012 at 6:23 pm
1.
Rick is starting to show signs of a very weak candidate, his campaign is in disarray and very unorganized, his surrogates are talking about pills between women’s legs, and just today he said Obama is not a “true christian” and Romney supported earmarks for the Olympics.
The fact is Rick Santorum was built up to be the great white knight of the GOP, and now that people are seeing him for what he really is, a hard right social conservative who lost by more points for Senate reelection than any other Senator in US History! Little Ricky is falling fast!
Steady as she goes…
February 18th, 2012 at 6:24 pm
wow… gave me chills.
When Newt is on.. he’s the best I have ever seen.
February 18th, 2012 at 6:29 pm
#3 … yep, that comes with the territory for folks that are bipolar. They have powerful and grandiose moments for sure.
It’s just that they don’t stay there very long and the rest of the time they are NOT FUN TO WATCH OR BE AROUND.
February 18th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
Thank goodness Newt has resisted the urge to serve Obama by attacking his fellow Republicans.
February 18th, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Newt is radioactive. There’s no more resuscitating him than there was for Rick Perry. When people saw him at his worst, like they did during Florida and Nevada, they wrote him off. The negative impression is hardwired into their brains, and it’s there for good.
This will happen to a somewhat lesser extent with Santorum, but it will happen. There can be only one.
February 18th, 2012 at 7:01 pm
#6 no one dislikes Santorum, they may not think he is ready or prefer someone else, but to say people dislike him is flat our wrong
February 18th, 2012 at 7:04 pm
Killjoy Says:
February 18th, 2012 at 7:01 pm
#6 no one dislikes Santorum, they may not think he is ready or prefer someone else, but to say people dislike him is flat our wrong
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Not, true, there are many that don’t like him, he comes off as too much of a theocratic hypocrite.
February 18th, 2012 at 7:05 pm
Newt can talk all he wants, he’s still a loser.
February 18th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
9 Newt does talk all he wants.
February 18th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
9, 10
LOL
February 18th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
Newt, good talker, lousy husband.
February 18th, 2012 at 7:08 pm
10 That’s for sure.
February 18th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
I still can’t get over the fact that a month ago, people though Newt was the rising star. It just goes to show that the electorate is clueless. Santorum is going the same way. Let’s just elect Romney and get this thing over with.
Sometimes I wonder if the Media is feeding this white knight frenzy just to keep the election going. It’s good for their ratings. It seems like they will do anything to keep Romney down. They go grasping at straws to find things wrong with him. Criticizing Romney over the Olympics? I can tell you that nobody in Utah is criticizing his handling of the Salt Lake Olympics. He turned them around. He saved them. People should seriously get a clue. The media should get a clue, and the Tea Party should seriously stop looking for their “christian boy.” Romney is a christian as they come!!! Sorry for the rant, but people are missing the boat!!! Let’s just get this thing over with so we can beat Obama!
February 18th, 2012 at 7:19 pm
So, what……..? Now that Mitt and friends pulled the GA debate out from under Newt, he has to run ads of old debates? Well, better than nothing, I guess.
Meanwhile Newt has people dressed up like chickens running around mocking Mitt for not doing the GA debate. How utterly dumb would it be for Mitt (or any of them) to see a repeat of the rockin’ Southern crowd in SC?
Better a rockin’ crowd in AZ, I say.
February 18th, 2012 at 7:24 pm
#14 Nobody in UT is criticizing the Olympics and nobody in MASS is changing MassCare.
However, there’s more to the StopMitt campaign that just the media trying to keep things going. Rush/Palin/FreedomWorks/Levin etc. are hard-core, dead set against Mitt and the Establishment. As Palin put it: “She’s not going to sit on the back of the bus (meaning vote for Mitt.)
Matt Kibbe of FreedomWorks has written a new book: “Hostile take-over of the GOP.” If you listened to Tea Partiers at CPAC, their fight is not with Obama and the Dems, but with the GOP. The are madder than hell and plan to take a wrecking ball to the Republicans.
They see Mitt as the “GOP” candidate and they are not having any part of him. To do so would meaning admitting defeat forever. They will die before they see Mitt as our candidate. If Santourm can’t cut it, they will be promoting a brand new face at the convention. Freedom Works is already lobbying for someone completely new.
February 18th, 2012 at 7:25 pm
Hey, Noot, the Romney camp has invited you to a debate in Boston. Care to join?
February 18th, 2012 at 7:32 pm
K.G. If Romney was an Evangelical, they would be all about him. There is nothing wrong with Mitt Romney as a GOP candidate. He is a conservative! He is smart, competent, he has money, organization, , a great family, and a record of success. I have no doubt in my mind that Rush/Palin/and Levin would support Romney if he came out an said “I’m a born again.” While they will never say it, you know they are thinking it. They don’t like him because he is a Mormon. The whole south is thinking it. I think it’s sad, and speaks to loudly about peoples ignorance about matters of faith.
February 18th, 2012 at 7:40 pm
Let’s go after Romney for the Olympics. Was it appropriate for Romney to ask Congress for money for security after 9/11? Of course it was!!!
February 18th, 2012 at 8:06 pm
“Was it appropriate for Romney to ask Congress for money for security after 9/11? Of course it was!!!”
Santorum would be well advised not to bring it up in the debate…can you imagine the response?
“Senator, the Olympic games occurred less than six months after the September 11th attacks, and those earmarks were dedicated towards protecting the events from any terrorist attacks. Now, if you can’t understand the basic difference between money dedicated towards national security, and money spent on pet projects, I don’t know how you could ever have a claim to the Presidency.”
Game. Set. Match.
February 18th, 2012 at 8:07 pm
Well this just brought Rick Santorum another few days of bad publicity, right after the pill between the legs! Fall Ricky Fall!
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/18/santorum-calls-obamas-agenda-about-some-phony-theology/?partner=rss&emc=rss
February 18th, 2012 at 8:14 pm
#21 FlorCon: Check one of the other threads where we had a lot to say about these strange, unpresidential comments RS keeps making.
February 18th, 2012 at 8:23 pm
#18: It might be only the Mormon thing. But they use the excuse of NorthEast Establish Elite Massachusetts Modern Modern to divide the GOP. The Elite Establishment vs. the Tea Party “conservatives”. I marched with the Tea Party in DC with Freedom Works. I’m about as conservative as you can get. I’m trying with all my might to understand Rush, whom I’ve listened to for 20 years. I just cannot get my brain around what’s going on taking a wrecking ball to the GOP.
Mitt the Massachusetts Mormon “Moderate” has a way better chance of winning in the general than any of their unprepared, unserious ABRs and yet they slam the heck out of him day after day. These lying You-Know-Whats are now saying that all the ABRs lost because Mitt used his money to destroy them and that’s why people are down at the primary voting.
Nothing Mitt has done to anybody can compare to what Rush/Palin/Levin/Fox/Red State has done to Mitt. And they are hate filled. They have taken all their venom and spewed it on Mitt. I guess we could speculate what’s going on, but it wouldn’t do much good to come out and say it.
February 18th, 2012 at 8:43 pm
If you’ve listened to Rush then you know what he said about McCain in 2008. But the underground stuff was worse. Rudy had a bunch of stuff said about him, as did Obama and Clinton on the other side. There was a report yesterday, in response to Santorum saying the media gave Obama a pass on Rev Wright, that said 42% of political stories during that time were about Rev Wright. Hardly a pass.
It goes with the territory.
February 18th, 2012 at 8:44 pm
I am almost convinced that FoxNews is determined to get Obama re-elected. The more I think about it the more it makes sense. Obama is the best thing that ever happened for them. What are they going to talk about if he loses? O’Reilly is the most fair. Hannity acts neutral but you can tell, Fox and Friends is the worst. I have to turn the channel now when Palin comes on !!! Dick Morris did say that Romney will pull it off.
On another topic, I keep getting the impression Paul would be happier with Romney than anyone else – more proof that Romeny is the true fiscal conservative !!!
I found this site about a week ago and I am now addicted. I’m so excited to find so many Romney supporters. To listen to the media, I was beginning to wonder if there were any.
February 18th, 2012 at 8:46 pm
More of this?
Really?
If you are against Santorum you are just trying to save the GOP from the knuckle dragging hate filled monsters.
If you are against Mitt you must be Anti Mormon because it’s quite clear he is the greatest thing since the invention of slice bread.
Good grief.
You all should go to bed and relax.
Wake up tomorrow and you will see some better poll numbers for Mitt and everything will be right with the world.
Now go to bed.
February 18th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
Like most of what Newt does I am sure the funding for this was not done according to any rules. Newt is corrupt… pure and simple…
February 18th, 2012 at 8:53 pm
Come to think of it…maybe I should just throw around statements…. like….. everybody who is not voting for Santorum in the GOP is Anti-Catholic.
No…that would be stupid.
It must be nice to be able to wave your wand around anytime things get a little tense for Mitt and accuse people who are not supporting him of being anti-Mormon.
At first I ingnored that kind of stuff…but now its just getting pathetic.
I now understand why Matt “MWS” handels all that kind of crap with humor now…..it’s the only way to deal with all this victimization talk.
February 18th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Newt is corrupt…
…..Of course he is.
And Santorum hates Women…
…..Of course he does.
..there I just condensed the next 25 Pro-Romney posts.
February 18th, 2012 at 8:57 pm
It is simply unAmerican to bad mouth the Olympic Games, especially after 9-11. The country needed the Olympics to remind us of who we are.
The DNC and Rick Santorum are despicable people who would have our Olympic atheletes unprotected.
Suppose there was no extra Security and the terroists had killed many of the world’s atheletes on American soil… what would the world be like right now?
These attacks are the sickest thing I have ever seen in politics.
Rick needs to go home and grow up before he tries this kind of thing again.
What a disgusting excuse for an American.
Oh and… Rick voted for the funding!!! Add hypocrite to the unAmerican.
February 18th, 2012 at 9:01 pm
Smack,
I can’t wait another day I want the good poll numbers now! lol
Just have to take it day by day, the longer this race goes the uglier it will get you can bank on that, that’s why i want this thing over sooner rather than later, and the only way that happens is if Romney starts winning and fast
February 18th, 2012 at 9:07 pm
“Rick Santorum are despicable people”
“What a disgusting excuse for an American”
Who is spewing the hate?
February 18th, 2012 at 9:09 pm
The fact is, it’s true. If Romney was an evangelical, there would be no problem with him. The south would all be on board. The nomination process would be over. Same record, just different religion. It’s sad but true. If Romney loses, it’s the Mormon prejudice that brought him down. He’s the perfect candidate, he just happens to attend a different church on Sunday. I think that’s wrong. Mormon’s are as American as anyone else. People should stop hiding their Mormon prejudice behind Romney care. Let’s let the cat out of the bag.
February 18th, 2012 at 9:11 pm
32.
Good night to all and to all a good night.
Give em severe spewing hell Mitt!
February 18th, 2012 at 9:14 pm
The SLC olympics were full of corruption and the taxpayers had to bail them out. That is what disgraces the athletes and America. $1.3 billion in earmarks at a time when we were trying to fight a war is selfish and unpatriotic.
And it is a lie to say it was spent on security.
February 18th, 2012 at 9:15 pm
You guys sure know how to piss Smack off.
But seriously, cut the crap on the bigot stuff. He’s not losing states because of bigotry.
It’s because he’s a northeastern, rich, somewhat stiff dude with nice hair who has been savaged by the media for 5 years. Has very little to do with his religion.
His religion makes him more at odds with the base, culturally. But it’s not like if he were the same guy with the same background and style but Evangelical he’d be winning the South. Come on.
February 18th, 2012 at 9:17 pm
35
What the Hell is wrong with you? Wow, you’re a nutcase.
Mitt saving the Olympics from corruption and a lack of security funds is “selfish and unpatriotic?”
Wow, just wow. Go to Hell.
February 18th, 2012 at 9:18 pm
#33 Amen. So true.
February 18th, 2012 at 9:24 pm
#36 For the most part I agree with you…
But it is naive that the public wouldn’t have rallied behind Romney more quickly, come to his defense more swiftly, give him a pass more promptly if Romney had been of more traditional Christian background.
Not noticing this is blindness, admitting it really doesn’t help or change the circumstance that much. So everyone should just move on to the issues.
February 18th, 2012 at 9:24 pm
independentthinker,
“If Romney loses, it’s the Mormon prejudice that brought him down.”
So if there are people like me who do not support Mitt Romney, but it has nothing with his religion…what do we get to say?
Because right now you want the playing field/scoreboard to say Romney supporters = good guys..Santorum supporters = bad guys.
The depth to label non Romney supporters bad people here at RACE42012 has reached a new low.
Congrats.
February 18th, 2012 at 9:28 pm
39
The best way to think of it is like this:
If John McCain were Mormon, would he have won the nomination in 2008?
If Bush were Mormon, would he have won the nomination in 2000?
Yes, and yes.
February 18th, 2012 at 9:28 pm
36 I don’t know if religion has nothing to do with it. I tend to think and say it has little to do with it, but I remember back when Romney first announced, people would parrot some liberal talking point against him, then when they didn’t have the facts to back it up, they’d resort to saying it’s really about his religion. So some of the early criticisms gained traction because of it in my opinion, but this race is a lot bigger than that.
February 18th, 2012 at 9:55 pm
41. How about this, if Romney was evangelical, he would have received the nomination in 2008. McCain would have lost! I know not all republicans think this way, but it can’t be denied in the South. Romney has spend the last two years telling people, and I think truthfully, that he would repeal Obama care. Still, people have a problem with him, even though he has everything else going for him (except the “right” religion of course). If the republican party doesn’t get past the Mormon issue, they are going to lose to Obama!
February 18th, 2012 at 10:04 pm
41. Actually, I don’t think so. But I’m with you, spending time on the bigotry issue is pointless. About as pointless as dragging on this Republican Self Destruction party.
40. You could say that you were one of the unique ones, I guess. It’s like the racism issue. Jesse Jackson will likely see racism were none was intended. Mormons have lived as outsiders and been treated badly for so long, its hard not to see when bigotry was unintended. Another question we could ask, was bigotry intended when Mormons voted against Romney? (And, yes, there are many – they usually support Ron Paul.)
February 18th, 2012 at 10:48 pm
How about this, Everyone on this blog site seems to still have that tingle up their leg for O’Bummer because if Rombo is nominated he will get clobbered and you can walk around for the next 4 Yrs. with that tingle up both your legs. None of these morons are perfect including O’Bummer they all have records now. Newtie is the only one that can clobber O’Bummer and get this country back on at least a stable track from day one. I for one don’t care about their religion or personal life. We’ve got a perfect family man on duty now, hows that working out for you. If Jefferson or Regan was running today you people would prefer Robo, I can’t believe you people. This country is screwed!
February 19th, 2012 at 2:18 am
not4bummer, just be sure and keep that vote going to an individual(Newt) by his own childish and insane actions that the American people will never let him hold the reigns of power, and that is good for the nation. Your vote for Newt is in essence a vote for Romney because Newt is history. K.G. I have read many of your post and agree with most.I left the Republican party, as the self righteous religious fanatics began to take over. I like a separation between church and state and don’t agree with anything these folks try to implement in government .I believe those beliefs should be left in the church and home. To my way of thinking and many others all political party ideology should be left out of the church or lose their tax exempt status. I have also listened to Limbaugh since 1991 and began tuning him out about 11yrs ago. His spin got so heavy as a rational person I could not buy most of it. I believe this turn against Romney is because for so many years he has been preaching that the party needed to flush and purge the Moderates and Rhinos that he cannot do a flip and support Romney, who the hard right(remember they have just about done what he wanted) think is a Moderate, yet he says that if nominated he will support Romney. He would have to say that to stay in good with the party and be on the right side(winning)if he were to beat Obama and if he lost he would say you did not run a conservative, he wins either way(Who really knows about that guy, he might really support Romney no one will ever know). He certainly doesn’t live like the middle class, we don’t have 35mil contracts, live in a mansion and have aircraft. There is no way Palin, Ryan, Walker, Rand Paul or any other individual on the far right of the political spectrum can ever get elected, same is true anyone on the far left of the political spectrum. I know that some people on either side always feel that whoever is in office is way out on one end or the other.This is usually not true only in the mind of like thinking individuals who group together and we usually call those groups cults.