I'm sorry but this kid has the most stacked resume ever. And Republicans would rather have Sarah Palin!?!?! Democrats have it too easy....
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I completely agree with you man but thats the problem...he looks to fucking good. Hair slicked back, High end suits etc. Maybe 10 years ago he would have been a good candidate but in today's environment of treating wall street like a punching bag, this would not go over well.
All this is ultimately irrelevant as a lot of his policy positions are shit.... He's your typical neocon hack
According to whom and for what? Yeah, from the perspective of a future/current Wall Street analyst, Romney looks like a god. On the other hand, when Joe Sixpack looks at Romney they probably see someone who epitomizes what they hate about those "fat cat bankers". Now I'm not saying either person is right, but you have to look at it from the political party's perspective -- will the candidate get the requisite votes, not just from the demographic/party the candidate appeals to, but from those swing voters who control the fate of an election?
Winning elections isn't about fulfilling requirements or else we wouldn't have a 1/4 term rookie senator who's isn't qualified to be a senior partner at his own law firm becoming president. Elections are about demographics and pandering.
Romney has two issues that will always kill him with Republican voters:
1) He's a Mormon and the Bible Thumper faction of the Right is not having that.
2) He's done a lot of things in his Massachusetts time that are reminiscent of Liberal policy. His health care approach was very similar to Obama's (actually, Pelosi's if we are going to see things as they are in reality). So that kills him with fiscal conservatives.
That's two pretty big bites off the pie chart right off the bat. Droll personal not helpful either.
You got it right on with this midas
He's been my favorite candidate for awhile because the guy seems to be a winner but it doesn't look like it will happen at this point. No matter how impressive his track record is the "solid south" just cannot handle the religious difference. So much for separation of church and state, being non-religious I find this frustrating.
I guess you people get your news from the daily show. Romney is currently the Republican front-runner.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/143309/romney-palin-front-gop-presidential-f…
Romney lead the Poll – despite not being in the news at all.. Once campaign season opens up, watch Romney take a sizable lead. Palin will remain a polarizing, and to some, galvanizing fringe figure. I also consider Paul Ryan and Chris Christie dark horse candidates.
A neocon hack who was instrumental in providing healthcare to the impoverished? I guess Pelosi is a neo-con hack as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid
This healthcare bill has nothing with helping poor people. Medicaid was created in the '60's and every state has it. It is explicitly for low income families. When you add to the fact that no emergency room is going to turn someone away, the poor have perfectly fine, free heath insurance.
Mitt Romney = flip flopper of the highest degree
He's moved so far right on every issue, it's laughable.
"I was actually for abortion before I was against it"
My favorite though, was when he actually said "freedom requires religion." Uh, no, it doesn't. Don't push that bullshit on me.
Mitt Romney was never CEO of Bain, he was a high level partner. Still a good resume though.
In 1990, Romney was asked to return to Bain & Company, which was facing financial collapse.33 He was announced as its new CEO in January 1991[36][37] (but drew only a symbolic salary of one dollar).33 Romney managed an effort to restructure the firm's employee stock-ownership plan, real-estate deals and bank loans, while rallying the firm's thousand employees, imposing a new governing structure that included Bain and the other founding partners giving up control, and increasing fiscal transparency.27[30]33 Within about a year, he had led Bain & Company through a highly successful turnaround and returned the firm to profitability without further layoffs or partner defections.
i wrote him in last election
lol even intelligent ppl are partisan to the death. there is no hope for politics in this country.
I like Romney, but if you want a winning horse you better find another stallion. This country is a lot bigger than the 13 original colonies and a lot of people are not huge fans of east coast financiers. As far as I am concerned, the President is mainly a figure head anyway. Sarah Palin has no business being the President. Her role is along side Rush Limbaugh for firing up the base of the party. She has more power as a private citizen anyway. The Republican party needs someone with more moderate views, true to the conservative (fiscal) core. Someone a little younger and someone from the middle part of the country.
IMO, this is the biggest weakness of the Rep party right now. They brought Obama down to earth. They are looking like that are going to take out another one of his legs with this upcoming election. Now they need to really develop a contender. How about Colin Powell? He criticized Obama, he has an amazing resume and I think he could get votes across the spectrum. He was the sect. of State so he has to be pretty clean (controversy wise anyway). Pick him and a strong VP. That would nullify the race argument, you couldn't call him inexperienced, the whole Bush argument would be DOA since basically walked out on Bush. He lead the troops to victory during Iraq. I think he would be perfect.
I'm not a fan of Powell. I just can't trust anyone who drank the Obama koolaide at ANY point in time, even if they have since spit it out and switched to Tea. And I think a lot of conservatives would feel the same.
Yeah Mitt's the shit. The SLC Olympics where the only Olympics ever to be profitable. He could be president right now, and we COULD be 2-5 years further in terms recovery.
I think a lot of us can agree that Sarah Palin isn't the brightest candidate out there, and you know what, I think that's a good thing. Most of her commentary really doesn't have much substance, and I'm pretty sure she's said "common sense conservatism" at least 1,000 times, but isn't that what we need? If she was president, she would basically follow that rule. I don't care if she doesn't know foreign policy or the history of the US, I think she won't screw up THIS country any more than Barack Hussein Obama has already done.
Agree with Palin. Her role is to talk to the foot soldiers, get them pissed, basically a hot, female Rush Limbaugh.
Agree with Collin P for pres. maybe have mitt as VP , then u got both : soldier & financier. pls pls pls no sarah palin. I'd move to Canada if she's pres
It's too early to talk about 2012 , but according to the polls Obama even with all the negatives still beats Romney, Huckabee and Palin. I think Obama's poll numbers will eventually get better like Reagan and Clinton, but anything can still happen.
The republican candidates mentioned above are in a very tricky situation. Romney has a lot of experience and will appeal to moderates and maybe a few democrats, but he will fail the test to appeal to the republican party base and conservatives because of his controversial positions on social issue. Palin and Huckkabee are very popular with the conservative base, however they are not liked by moderates. It's difficult see any standouts from this group.
The only two candidates that do pass the test with the conservative base on social issues, and can appeal to moderates are Jeb Bush and Haley Barbour. They are not in the news and they are trying to keep a low key profile about the ambitions
Paul Ryan and Chris Christie might also run but I am not sure a lot about their plans, but they are definitely exciting figures.Romney is a jackass. He is big government personified. If the Republicans nominate him I will go my 2nd straight election with no vote. How about trying a candidate that actually believes in reducing the size of government?
ron paul?
Yes! unfortunately he is considered a "crackpot" because he actually believes in reducing the size of government rather then just talking about it.
well hes a libertarian. thats something people cant wrap their heads around. and if they can, they feel disenfranchised
I like Chris Christie..but he would have to lose weight. I think Taft is the last obese president we are going to have. NOTE: I would vote for him, I just don't think the general public will.
Additionally, I want to say I HATE Obama, but if Palin won the nomination I would still vote for Obama. I would rather let Obama ruin the country for 4 more years than let a moron like Palin represent me and make me hate my own conservatism.
BTW--who here likes Carl Paladino?
romney is the man - despite what people might think about him, I think he would fix a lot with the government if he was elected...
sure, there are always people who will disagree with certain policies, but i think he can clean up the place quite a bit...
@JC - Taft was fucking huge. The guy was beyond Christie fat.
I like Christie. Anyone that stands up to the teacher unions is ok in my book. How conceited and selfish can these teachers be? Parents are losing their jobs, no one has a union anymore, no one has a pension anymore, we all are seeing healthcare increase and when the Gov. tries and pass along an increase they go ape shit. Fuck them all.
I remember when I was in school and for the first time ever we did not pass a school budget increase. The home economics teacher came into class and begged us to tell our parents to vote for it again because she was going to lose her job. What they ended up doing was cutting the football team and threatening to cut the buses. Typical thug behavior. In the end they cut 20K off a multi million dollar budget and it pass by 30 votes. Every year the Valedictorian goes to a SUNY school. I am so sure we are all getting our money's worth out of that school. They do have one of the nicest tracks in the area though.
great thread, i am really loving this forum
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