Don't run Romney! The guy can't win. Independents won't vote for him because he's an icky flip-flopper, with his finger constantly in the wind. Supporting ethanol subsidies just to sleeze a few votes in Iowa? Puh-lease. Conservatives won't vote for him because he's not conservative. His pitiful flailing excuses for Romney-Care should be enough to sink his boat. He and Newt can have their own Fleet Week at the bottom of the Potamac.
I'm lukewarm (at best) about the current crop of contenders. I could get very excited about Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, Allen West, or Marco Rubio, but I think we'd have to drag them kicking and screaming to the ticket.
As a default, Bachmann/Cain or Cain/Bachmann would be interesting, but are they electable? Can they fire up the base? Are either tough enough to go the long haul in the rotten sewer we lovingly call a Presidential Election? Are their families tough enough? Can a staunchly conservative ticket carry the independent vote?
If the repubs don't choose someone very strong, I expect to see a third-party bid for the White House. This would be the death-knell of the Republican Party, and Obama would be swept back in for another four years of catastrophic foreign policy and inept domestic money-churning and "regulation by czar".
How are you all seeing things? Any Romney fans out there?
I cannot understand why a party thinks all is lost because it does not have a candidate 47 years before an election. Anyone who is running for President that far in advance must not be doing anything else. We have plenty of time left.
ReplyDeleteRight now the poles do not reflect anything more than name recognition. Except for candidates that get crammed down their party's throats (Dole and McCain) and sitting Vice-Presidents of a second term President and those who do not have to work for a living, why else would someone seriously be a front runner now?
Rank and file Republicans are not going to idly by and allow a Rinosaurus Deficus to be the candidate for 2012. There will be a revolution if that happens.
I like Romney. His care program was just what his blue state wanted. I don't want to see Palin run as I think she's unelectable. I really like Cain and Bachmann but I don't know if they could win a majority. Now Allan West? Definitely. I was also excited to see Giuliani leading the IA poll. I would love to see him as our nominee. My favorite is John Bolton but I don't think he has enough name recognition. Newt is toast, IMO. Just as well.
ReplyDeleteThere are florrie's prognostications in a nutshell. :D
"Can a staunchly conservative ticket carry the independent vote?"
ReplyDeleteYes -- usually what happens is that "conservatives" start floundering around and try to "moderate" to reach out to the "independents," when that isn't really whant the "independents" want. They want a "stick to his guns" conservative. That will win. When the Republican Party nominates a Rino the party gets its clock cleaned.
ReplyDeleteYes -- usually what happens is that "conservatives" start floundering around and try to "moderate" to reach out to the "independents," when that isn't really whant the "independents" want. They want a "stick to his guns" conservative. That will win. When the Republican Party nominates a Rino the party gets its clock cleaned.
Right on the money!!!
Matt says Rank and file Republicans are not going to idly by and allow a Rinosaurus Deficus to be the candidate for 2012. There will be a revolution if that happens.
ReplyDeleteI don't put Romney in the same category as McCain and Dole but I hope you are right in what you say there, Matt, and Romney is not my choice although I would vote for him were he the nominee. I'm afraid we might get 4 more years of the JEM until Christie, West, Rubio or Ryan are ready to run. I hope the country isn't irrevocably boken by then.
...and Obama would be swept back in for another four years of catastrophic foreign policy and inept domestic money-churning and "regulation by czar".
ReplyDeleteAbsent anything credible emerging from the GOP in the immediate future, that's my assumption.
Fortunately, Canadian PM Harper will be around for those four years making Obama's life a living misery on FP matters- viz., this week's G8 smackdown of The One by Harper.
/proud to be a Canadian
Ooooh, I missed that, Earl. Excuse me while I go googling for a bit...
ReplyDeleteYes, just another reason to respect and admire Harper. I wish I could say the same for what we're saddled with.
ReplyDeleteAh hem florrie, see here re G8 and Harper.
ReplyDeleteOh dear, I'm sorry, Fay, You know what an airhead I am!
ReplyDeleteI just went right for the videos and didn't even notice the link....now where's that red-faced emoticon again...
LOL florrie, airhead is quite possibly the very last word I would use to describe you :)
ReplyDeleteI watched "Hellcats of the Navy" with my wife a few nights ago.
ReplyDeleteUm... so? -Ed
Yeah, um, well, it starred Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis (later known as Nancy Reagan).
It was surreal watching Reagan - essentially it seemed like he played himself. Playing The President. Or something.
Point being: nobody took Reagan seriously when he ran.
My take is that if the GOP put forward a candidate taken seriously by the MSM and the Democrats, they're running the wrong candidate.
Lewy said "My take is that if the GOP put forward a candidate taken seriously by the MSM and the Democrats, they're running the wrong candidate."
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree wholeheartedly.
It's funny how the MSM (and the dems)are clambering all over themselves trying to "close the field" of repub candidates. There's still a year and a half until the election! It would be fun to watch Christie or Ryan jump in at Christmas. That would upset NBCs applecart (and their penchant for creating the news rather than reporting it).
I agree with Lewy, too. We still don't know who is even a likely real contender.
ReplyDeleteCain, I like ... until he goes of the deep end about the "Fair Tax." I am intimately familiar with both federal and state tax collection agencies and their laws ... and I can tell you up front the "Fair Tax" is lunacy, and IMO equally as absurdly complicated as what we have now....worse, it proposes "Pre-bates" ...e.g., checks from Uncle Sugar up front instead of "deductions." Those that think it would eliminate the IRS are either delusional or on drugs. If anything it will enlarge it.
Never mind you'd never get Congress to eliminate all other tax and fee schemes that the "Fair Tax" would purportedly replace. N-e-v-e-r. E-v-e-r.
The only hope on taxes is a revision of income taxes to a simple flat tax, no hockey stick, top to bottom, with very few exemptions & deductions for AGI calculation. I could write one up on less than 10 pages, but even then Congress would never dump all the rest. This is why Mizz Pelosi just adores the idea of a VAT on top of everything else.
So far ... Bah on all the declared houses.
Oh, and let me add ... I think it should be a capitol offense to begin any campaign more than 6 months prior to an election. Including incumbent office holders ... one itty bitty pure BS venture, bang! Even one committee formation would trigger an indictment. We would need a gulag to house all the violators ... it would ideally be thatch huts laid out on a bed of pure sh*t.
ReplyDeleteAridog, you mean you don't think at VAT would be put in early just to tide us over until established at which point the other taxes would go away???
ReplyDeleteRadioMattM ... sarcasm aside ....
ReplyDeleteNo I do not. In 1968 when I enlisted I left Michigan that had just put a "temporary" income tax in place at 2.4% or so ...in 1971 when I came home it was a permanent tax of 4.6%, and has changed little since that time.
I believe in a tax that requires everyone to pay something, however, small or large, on the product of their labors ...e.g., "income" either earned or gained.
If we do not do so, and we're close to half the country, those that file, not doing so today, we're not "vested" in our nation and will lose it.
It could be made simple. Maybe someday it will. But not in my lifetime.
I'm 100% behind comment #15.
ReplyDeleteOK, I can finally comment again - Blogger has been giving me a runaround for the last few days.
ReplyDeleteI like Cain, except that he did not know what the 'right of return' was in regard to the pali's, and that makes me nervous about his foreign affairs chops.
In fact, I cannot really enthusiastically endorse any of the current candidates, including most especially the current resident.
Romney has essentially made Obama-Care a non-issue by his signing of the essentially identical MassMedMess.
But all that said, I will still vote for essentially ANY GOP candidate over Barry-O, and pray we can elect enough actual conservatives to the congress to reduce the RINO tendencies of a Romney or Pawlenty.
DAnces, I had problem posting comments over the weekend. I would post a comment and click for the Google account. It would then tell me I had to log in. When I clicked to the page to log in, it would show my information indicating that I was logged in. I went back to the comment page, and it would again ask me to log in. I finally cleared it up by logging out and logging back in.
ReplyDeleteAri -- the voters of Washington State wisely voted last November. Washington does not have a state income tax. It is against the state constitution. There was a ballot measure that would have put a low (1-1-1/2% IIRC) on people making over something like $250,000. "It was a small tax only on the rich." Problem with the measure was this: it changed the state constitution to allow a state income tax. Once that was done, the legislature could raise the tax rate and make it apply to anyone they wanted after two or three years. It failed.
And thank gawd it did, Matt. Tom & I were both holding our breath on that one. Bill Gates dad spent the big bucks on misleading commercials to get it pushed through.
ReplyDelete"I'm 100% behind comment #15."
ReplyDeleteMe too. Aridog for President in 2012!
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Aridog, your #15 made me giggle and clap. I love it!
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