Huge Democratic turnout in New Hampshire = Mitt upset in the making?
posted at 1:55 pm on January 8, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Confederate Yankee beat me to it. Maverick needs independents to win. Does he have them? Maybe not:
Of course, if they do all break for Obama and McCain still wins, the loss is that much more devastating for Romney, proving that he can’t even beat Mac head to head on a vote among the base.
I’m wondering now just how bad it might get for Hillary. What if she loses by 20 points? Who’ll be left tomorrow who believes in her, besides Billy Jeff? And you get the sense that even he’d be supporting Obama if he wasn’t, you know, obliged.
Exit question for the Fredheads, with whom my love/hate relationship continues: Which noted media apologist, blind to the conspiracy to torpedo Fred, said this?
If and when the Fred campaign finally calls it quits, there will be no one to blame but the candidate and his top advisers who blew it with spurned diehards ready and willing–but unable–to help.
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Rose: Mitt governed one of the bluest of the blue states. This presented significant obstacles to implementing a more conservative agenda. The country, as a whole, is far more balanced and this will free him to pursue more conservative policies. Even then, he will have to work within the political framework that the American people have put in place or he will accomplish nothing. The law of the land doesn’t allow women to chose abortion because most Americans oppose it. It allows abortion because the majority of Americans support such a choice. Mitt’s core principles are conservative and he will pursue conservative governance as far as the current political system allows him to. Of that, I have no doubt.
NuclearPhysicist on January 8, 2008 at 4:34 PM
It was after the “Faith in America” speech that many of us noted that the gibots would not be as vocal in their personal lives because their friends, family, and fellow congregation members, would see them for the gibots they are. Of course they will still be vocal on the anonymous internet, but we all know they are cowards, so who cares?
csdeven on January 8, 2008 at 4:39 PM
Gotta agree here. I lived in Mass when Mitt was in office (got out in 2004, not because of Mitt). Comparing him to the previous 3 Republican Governors is a pretty scathing commentary on the 3 RINOS (Weld, Celluci, not-so-Swift).
Mitt did the best he could with what he had. The fact that he was able to accomplish
crazy_legs on January 8, 2008 at 4:39 PM
Ugh! Hit “Submit” by mistake!
The fact that he was able to accomplish anything conservitive at all is an amazing feat in and of itself.
crazy_legs on January 8, 2008 at 4:41 PM
I’ve never heard of Mormon say that I will never vote for an Evangelical, but I have heard an Evangelical state unequivocally that he would never vote for a Mormon. (Was in the news about 4 to 6 months ago. A little film clip in the MSM.) My first choice, Tancredo is out. My second choice, Duncan Hunter is trying to run on a mud track with slick tires. Thompson currently reminds me of a beached whale. Conservatives would like to help, but the resources needed to move him off the beach is beyond our capabilities, especially since the “whale” is flopping around. McCain I just don’t trust because of his past and very recent stances. Giuliani is power hungry when in office. Huckabee has his own agenda, which to to use the power of government to destroy liberties and our right to make stupid choices and other decisions for ourselves and our families.
PrettyD_Vicious on January 8, 2008 at 4:58 PM
TeeDee on January 8, 2008 at 5:15 PM
I am inclined to vote for whichever Republican that ends up on the ballot in the general election, although I am generally leaning toward Romney. So, it would be great to see him win in NH and get a little momentum going. Of the current leading prospects, only the “Huckster” gives me significant pause, because he looks like a wolf in sheep’s clothing to me. He governed a southern state that should have allowed for a much more conservative agenda than his record shows. Populist is a good descriptive term for him and it would be best for this country, if we stayed away from politicians of this ilk.
NuclearPhysicist on January 8, 2008 at 5:20 PM
I wish Mitt would win this one…
but he wont.
I wish Hillary would win this one…
but she wont.
boo
Drunk Report on January 8, 2008 at 5:37 PM
Why not?
km on January 8, 2008 at 5:38 PM
In regards to an earlier post (the low Vietnam joke):
The html absorbed it as code, oddly, but it intended to read [low blow alert], except with the inequality sign. I know it’s a pretty low blow, but my point is this: what constitutes a war hero? What about the guys that didn’t cave in Vietnam, in Korea, in WWI, in WWII, in Operation Iraqi Freedom, who withstood the torture and didn’t give an inch? Are they on the same level with the guy who cracked? I don’t mean to discount his service, and there is no greater force for good than our military (and since he was a part of it, he was thus a force for good), but I do think it’s a relevant point; if your entire campaign is about being a “straight-talking war hero,” then there should be room for debate as to what constitutes a war hero. Yes, he served the nation; yes, he deserves to be thanked; but “war hero” is a bit of a reach.
I will note, though, that no one got my Morrissey-Romney joke. Which, given how perfectly quaffed both of them are (or at least were), was dead on!
emailnuevo on January 8, 2008 at 5:41 PM
Hot Air and Michelle Malkin Trying to Rally Around Flip Romney?
Lane on January 8, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Latest Hillary’s new strategy: Ou of Ballots, no problem. Reuse ballots, erase Obama, add Hillary.
AverageJoe on January 8, 2008 at 6:01 PM
Latest Hillary’s strategy: Out of Ballots? No problem. Reuse ballots, erase Obama, add Hillary.
AverageJoe on January 8, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Everytime I see him, McCain looks more and more like a head of lettuce
I am very weary of the weeping women blubbering all over OBama-man. Dr Phil must have given them permission to let it all out. Hysteria isn’t pretty. Where was the blubbering two months ago?
This zoo is starting to make Mitt look normal. As a monogamist descended from polygamists Mitt offers some proof of evolutionary progress. He gives light in a field devoid of lumens or hankies.
Slap me but Hillary is beginning to look refined
entagor on January 8, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Hillary’s new strategy: Out of Ballots? No problem. Reuse ballots, erase Obama, add Hillary.
Oh forget it.
AverageJoe on January 8, 2008 at 6:02 PM
Out of ballots? wow.
Ya mean ya have more people than ballots?
Who ordered the ballots?
Oh no problem they’ll print up tons and tons more and oh make sure they all have Hillary already checked off on them ok?
johnnyU on January 8, 2008 at 6:11 PM
Heck, ya dont even have to be alive to vote.
johnnyU on January 8, 2008 at 6:11 PM
I’m tellin ya people. Get ready for some stunts from the Hillary side. Its coming.
johnnyU on January 8, 2008 at 6:12 PM
Don’t drink the kool-aid, pal. Bryan was even quoted on Fred08 as a positive not 2-3 days ago.
Spirit of 1776 on January 8, 2008 at 7:36 PM
Poor Mitt can’t buy a vote..
All the spin from Hugh Hewitt, Hot Air, Fox News and his personal fortune cannot salvage his lies and flip-flops..
the guy is damaged goods, he’s exactly the same as John Kerry!
“I actually was for McCain’s immigration plan and thought that it was reasonable and quite different than amnesty before I was against it.. ”
The guy will say or do anything that the polls tell him to,
he’s a mixture of John Kerry and Bill or Hillary Clinton!
Calculating… I don’t believe 1 word he says.
Chakra Hammer on January 8, 2008 at 10:14 PM
This quote is getting tired…if he was such a good leader, so charasmatic, so effective…where is the coatails, that is, where are the other republicans that he helped win office? When Reagan took office, he was against a liberal blued congress,but he won them over with his great ideas (well not them, but there constituents). He brought in a conservative majority, he had coatails.
Mitt is not a a leader, after the vote in New Hampshire he spent what? About $50 per vote for him, in a small state he spent over $8 million, for a few thousand votes. That has to be a near record, and the Dems know it, they will skewer him for it…they are holding back. He will be painted as an elitist, wealthy, ultra religious, vote buying snob, that can’t hold an idea or principle for more than 6 months.
That is the reality of his weakness…unfair, probably, but the Dems will hammer away at those themes until he is bloody. He can’t spend $50 per vote in America to win the Presidency.
It is not the reality of who can just be nominated, but who can win…and Mitt has too much baggage…sorry Mitt-wits. Rejoice in you primaries, even maybe your candidate, but he will lose in a landslide.
right2bright on January 9, 2008 at 9:30 AM
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