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Will reporters ask Mitt Romney the Ron Paul question? (photo: Gage Skidmore/flickr)
Governor, will you disavow an independent candidacy should you not be the GOP nominee?
There might just be enough wholly dissatisfied GOP officeholders and establishment players, should their choce of Mitt be invalidated by primary voters, to convince Mitt that he can run somewhere in the theoretical center-right, right between bomb-throwing, dog-whistling, majority-disliked Newt Gingrich and the Socialist Devil Baby Kenyan. GOPs have already pledged not to support, donate to, or run alongside Newt. Could they prevail on Mitt to continue his campaign for the presidency into the fall?
At any rate, I’d like to see Mitt face his own campaign’s inevitability, on stage with cameras rolling. He’s no longer the front-runner; let’s find out if he’d be willing to be a spoiler in the general election. Legacy Media journalists think it’s important to press Dr Paul on this issue, but Mitt has the establishment backing — and the money — to make the case to himself. GOP voters deserve to know that the vast Romney campaign, already robust in multiple states awaiting their primary and caucus dates, won’t be turned against their own nominee.
Of course, Mitt will reply that he intends to be the nominee. But that’s much less a foregone conclusion, and its prospects fade every single day as new polls are released. Why shouldn’t he be asked to make the pledge? “Are you a sore enough loser to run against the GOP nominee, Mitt?”
Besides, the PAC-produced ads show some extraordinary clips of Romney calling himself a moderate, a progressive, not a lockstep Reagan/Bush party adherent. Mitt has the chameleon nature, the resources, the motivation, and the ambition. GOP voters had better lock him down.
Who will ask Mitt Romney if he will support the nominee of his party?
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He can run on the Americans Elect ticket. They’ll probably have ballot access in 50 States.
Alternatively: “Many hard-fought intraparty races for the nomination have ended in Unity ticket between the top two finishers. Would you accept the Veep nod from the man who vanquishes you, should you lose?”
Burning question: has he shown Orly his birth certificate yet?
This is a silly subject. The powers that be of the GOP (hey, I’m a poet!) wouldn’t do something that stupid.
No.
More likely Gingrich, who is so out of shape, would have a “heart attack.”
Why would anyone care.
I’d like to point ou that Mitt’s Great Loss so far took place in South Carolina, a place where they probably have more churches than bathrooms, at least 5 guns and 2 pickups per household, and they still use the word “‘coon”.
The Republican Party’s white supremacist hillbilly redneck evangelist vote will still get behind an anti-Romney in the primary. Less extreme Republican states, if they exist, will vote for Romney. Finally, absolutely no Republican will vote Democrat in the general.
Romney will be the party’s nominee. There is no way that the party’s power brokers will allow Gingrich to win. They’ll Dean-scream him first. Do you think you’ll ever see David Brooks or Ross or Bill Kristol or The Post arguing for a Gingrich presidency? They couldn’t. At this point, after Bilush, there is no way the elites in the GOP could present another extremist candidate-of-hicks to thr nation and the world. It just won’t happen.
Really – run an I-hate-welfare-queens-damn-poor-just-wont-work candidate at a time of high unemployment and public outrage against wealth inequality. You’d ve throwing in the towel and your donors squanderimg huge sums on a clownish candidate who was guaranteed to lose.
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LiebermanRomney?Mitt’s Wealthy Fox News Repugnants are worried. They know Gingrich would be destroyed by The Socialist Kenyan – Obama who (in their imaginations) takes all their money and gives it to blacks.
They’re saying that Mitt has got to win Florida. They also claim that Mitt must get Marco Rubio for VP to beat Gingrich in Florida.
Puke on a stick. Romney/Rubio
(Obama and Biden are also pukes.)
My scenario envisions the grassroots stealing the GOP nomination for their candidate, with all the elites you name urging Mitt to run third-party or independent. Study 1912 for more info.
You are aware, I presume, of his father’s exact problem with this issue. George Romney, a serious candidate for President in 1968 until his unscripted blunder about having been “brainwashed” by American generals in Saigon about the Vietnam war, was actually not born in the USA. He was born in Mexico to a prominent Utah Mormon family whose patriarch fled south with his multiple wives to escape the change in US law prohibiting plural marriage.
So, no born-in-Panama-to-an-Admiral-in-military-service like McCain and no “was Hawaii a state?” like Obama. Just plain old fundamentalist religiosity fleeing discrimination for its anti-woman views of marriage: that’s what disqualified Mitt’s dad from the presidency.
Breaking Callista Story. Callista Gingrich noticed an ultra lefty or hippy or undocumented alien, engaging in outrageous and obscene behavior. Callista alerted the authorities and Virginia has dodged another evil public breastfeeder.
This public obscenity will not stand. Frankly I am appalled. The lamestream media will twist this story to get sympathy for some riff raff belonging to the 99%.
http://www.womensviewsonnews.org/2012/01/breastfeeding-mother-arrested-for-obscenity-in-virginia/
Because it puts Mitt closer to the “loser” box.
And would rattle him, I think.
Pierce his sense that he is the CEO of the nominating process.
Mitt also didn’t get above 40% in a state populated by people he used to govern in Massachusetts before they moved north that is exclusively served by Boston media markets. No Massachusetts candidate has ever done so badly in New Hampshire.
And we know how MItt’s “history-making win of both Iowa and New Hampshire” turned out once Iowa managed to count the votes correctly.
Your presumption that Newt is the only alternative to Romney is where the GOP’s elite thinking refuses to be rooted now. Why else the tryout of the disastrous Mitch Daniels last night, but an attempt by the Congressional Wing to find someone, anyone, but Mitt and Newt?
Source: Weekly World News, therefore untrue.
Also: there is no McLean Police Department.
But the story suits Callista to a T.
What! Stupid lying internet pranksters. But it is true that Newtie did release the Starr Report detailing the intimate details of Bill Clinton’s sexual escapades. That may have been when he was shlepping Callista.
No statewide GOPs in Florida have endorsed. Scuttlebutt is that Jeb! was ready to follow Poppy & Quaker Oats’ lead, like a good son, and endorse Mitt until the SCarolina fiasco. His announced neutrality is not good for Mitt.
And how, exactly, would Rubio’s selection as Veep move Floridians as they vote right now? Are you suggesting Mitt announce his Veep now?
Or, Mitt can fight that out with Colbert.
Mitt recently swung through my corner of San Diego, and since I try to be hospitable (you know, never talk religion or politics at the dinner table…), I was part of a time-off afternoon for Mitt.
We had a well-contested couple sets of tennis, and since I thought we were kind of opened up to each other, I asked if he would support any of the other principals if they won the nomination.
“Of course!” he said, without hesitation.
ha!
I love getting caught lying.!.