Many major former Romney supporters not backing him this year?

November 2006 Rasmussen poll taken to project ahead to 2008:

1)43% of American voters say they would NEVER even consider voting for a Mormon Presidential candidate.

2)Half (53%) of all EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS say they would NOT consider voting for a Mormon candidate.

3) Also found that 35% say that a candidate’s faith and religious beliefs are very important in their voting decision, while 92% of EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN VOTERS consider a candidate’s faith and beliefs important.

4)78% of Republicans say that a candidate’s faith is an important consideration, a viewed shared by 55% of Democrats.

technopeasant on January 28, 2011 at 10:53 PM

Geochelone on January 28, 2011 at 11:01 PM

Despite the way the MSM has treated Palin, I just wrote a piece detailing why I think she has the primaries now all wrapped up, failing a Jeb Bush change of heart to enter the 2012 race or if Romney can find a stalking horse to bleed votes away from Palin:

http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/01/all-of-pawlentys-pacs-raise-48000-in-the-final-six-weeks-of-2010open-thread.html

(half way down page)

technopeasant on January 28, 2011 at 11:12 PM

On Sept 22, 2010 Mitt Romney spoke to an audience of capital financiers in Los Angeles, California. The You Tube tape was shown at HA on Sept 24, 2010.

After listening to the 15 minute tape then I believe I have discovered the essence of the man politically and the man personally and why frankly he is simply “a losing proposition” for our side. Yes I know it real easy for any Romney critic to take a cheap shot at the former Governor of Massachusetts, so instead of doing that I’m going to now provide proof of my assertions allowing Romney to hang himself with his own words on the tape:

a)”I had 63 slips of paper to call (phone)after I left the theater (Iraq and Afghanistan) and before the kids woke up and we go water-skiing and so forth on Memorial Day I’m going to “bang out” three or four of these calls and get started.”

COMMENT:

Mitt Romney visited with Massachusetts National Guardsmen over in Iraq and Afghanistan and promised he would call their spouses or parents when he got back home. Notice he prefaces his story about the phone calls by referring to water-skiing with his family; in other words Mitt was basically suggesting that he was fitting these calls into his down time rather than they being his utmost priority or sacred duty on Memorial Day. And how do I know this? Mitt uses the term “banging out” to refer to these calls as if he is doing them by rote or with detachment rather than because he was really emotionally bound to make contact with the folks on the slip of paper.In other words Romney is a man who knows how to structure his life and perform what he needs to (80% of success is just showing up as Woody Allen says) but regarding if he feels emotionally tied, committed, or passionate towards what he is doing, at a given time, that is definitely open to speculation. Is Mitt Romney shallow? I think an argument could be made that he is. And I don’t think Romney even realized at the time how shallow he sounded.

b)”I was a little hesitant about making the calls because this was before the surge was successful…I expected a number of spouses to say to me, “Why is my loved one still there? Why can’t you bring them home, governor? What are you doing to bring them home?

COMMENT:

Mitt Romney confesses unbelievably that as the governor of Massachusetts that because he thought the spouses or parents of the soldiers overseas could be anti-war, he was not totally committed to making these calls which he promised the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan that he would. I guess Romney doesn’t understand when you PROMISE to do something you are committed to doing it regardless of how you feel about it personally. If you are hesitant about doing something don’t cavalierly make the PROMISE to begin with.

And then Mitt subtly casts aspersions on the spouses and parents themselves suggesting that they might be anti-war or “caught up in the Harry Reid view” that “the war was lost.” and then expresses surprise that not one of them questioned the nobility of the service of their loved ones for their country. How dare he? Do you think Sarah Palin would ever cast aspersions on the families of the soldiers in this manner? And talk about being out of touch with the positive mindset of military families.

And then when he suggests that some of these spouses might plead with him to “bring the boys home” he shows how stupid he thinks the average American is. It is only the federal government, the President and Congress which has that authority. What a stupid comment to make!

c)”This gives me confidence, even though we make EXTRAORDINARY MISTAKES and have massive challenges the American people will do what they have always done before and that is rise to the occasion and keep America as it has always been the hope of the earth.”

COMMENT:

In this one statement Romney rings the bell of American exceptionalism, then in the same breath sounds like Barack Obama apologizing for America’s sins and exacerbating America’s decline into the abyss. What EXTRAORDINARY MISTAKES is Romney talking about? What makes the challenges that America faces now any more massive than were faced by Americans during the Depression and WWII? Is he of the ilk of Obama who favors a revisionist approach to history and that a focus should be placed on white guilt? For those of you who don’t know this the unemployment rate in the Great Depression was between 20-25%. It is now under 10% in 2010.

d)”To win a surfing championship requires two things, a good surfer and a good wave.” (explaining why he didn’t win in 2008)

COMMENT:

Romney then goes on to talk about how he did not catch a good wave because of Iraq, that John McCain had an advantage because of his military record. He does NOT mention his own inadequacies as a candidate or the wrong decisions he made during the 2008 campaign, that perhaps he was not a good surfer.

e)”Unfortunately…the wave changed. Iraq disappeared…it all became the economy, AND THAT WASN’T JOHN’S WHEELHOUSE OF COURSE…”

COMMENT:

Imho, that was a cheap shot against John McCain because he was asked why he lost not why McCain won or should not have won, In addition by making this comment he was trying to rationalize why he lost rather than admitting he screwed up during the campaign. Sarah Palin would never attempt to demean the winner of a contest to justify to the world why she lost.

f)”I think President Obama will be difficult to beat in 2012 because an incumbent has extraordinary advantages. He will pull out all the stops…HE WILL DO EVERYTHING HE CAN TO GET THE ECONOMY GOING BACK AGAIN…the economy will be coming back…in spite of what was done in Washington the economy has turned around; recessions do end, the economy recovers, it always has and it always will…it will be possible to bet him but not easy…but I do believe we have a good shot of replacing President Obama.”

George Orwell coined the term DOUBLETHINK to note the conscious or unconscious holding of two opposing beliefs at the same time. This is what I think Romney was indulging in here and to me representative of his reputation for inconsistency or being a flip-flopper. Does Romney believe that Obama will be difficult to beat in 2012 or not?

And why is Romney playing the role of TV pundit? Let them speculate on such matters. Instead he should be positive, give people hope and re-assurance and cite reasons why Obama SHOULD NOT BE RE-ELECTED. That is what a partisan politician should be doing or saying when asked this question.

And with reference to the economy coming back, Romney is either totally clueless to Obama’s motives of purposefully using the Cloward-Piven strategy to deliberately bring down the American economy for good or disingenuous thinking that the recession America is currently in is of the same nature as the other recessions in the economic history of America. Obama is an ideologue and given Obama’s current record as POTUS and manager of the economy, what gives anyone hope that he wants the economy to return to good times? Clearly Romney is a moderate because no conservative knowing what they know about Obama’s Marxist roots would ever utter such nonsense about the Messiah.

g)”Sarah Palin is terrific…This is a PERSON who brought energy, spunk, and passion INTO MY PARTY…she is one of the INSTIGATORS behind the Tea Party movement.”

Mitt, why can’t you say LADY rather than person? Are you so focused on being politically correct? And Mitt you act like you own the GOP or talk for the GOP. Who gave you that right? The GOP is NOT your party or Sarah Palin’s party but the party of its members. And using the word INSTIGATE, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt Mitt, is the wrong word to use; the connotation of the word is to cause trouble by urging somebody to do something destructive or wrong. Instead you should have used the word INSPIRATION or CATALYST.

And Romney’s depiction of Palin makes her sound more like a cheerleader or frivolous than a serious politician.

h)”Marco Rubio…an Hispanic-American. Thank heavens MY PARTY has some Hispanic-American leaders running for statewide office. Governor of New Mexico (he hesitates) is Hispanic-American…a lot of women candidates running for office…particularly if we our message across to women, Hispanic-Americans, and African-Americans, then we have a shot in being a leading party in this country for years to come.”

COMMENT:

Here is Mitt displaying his loyalty and belief to IDENTITY POLITICS which imho is the bane of the GOP. Mitt even goes so far to make the success of the GOP in the future dependent on catering to certain interest groups, women, Hispanics and blacks, when the success of the GOP is dependent on turning out all right-of-center voters on election day, especially WHITE CONSERVATIVES.

Here is what Timothy Noah of Slate Magazine wrote after the 2008 election: “The greatest favor the WHITE RACE did for Obama this year may have been to stay home.”

And forgetting the name of the GOP gubernatorial candidate for New Mexico, Susana Martinez is unforgivable, especially after you have formally endorsed her.

i)”I respect both parties; I respect people who have different philosophies for the right course for America…Democrats have a heavy burden…liberals have a heavy burden; their party has become attached to special interests…”

COMMENT;

Clearly, Mitt Romney does NOT consider Obama, the Democrats and the Left as the enemy and does not see that they consider us their enemy and seek our destruction. Instead he talks about the Dems having a “heavy burden” and implies they are misguided, if it were not for their attachment to special interests somehow they would be able to cleanse themselves (my words) which is complete hogwash. Romney fails to acknowledge what Obama, the Democrats and the Left is doing is purposeful and inspired by ideology and being Marxist radicals., that part and parcel of their strategy to take over America is to attach themselves to certain groups who will ensure they remain entrenched in power. What Mitt Romney calls their burden is actually the Left’s modus operandi.

In saying he respects both parties, Romney is essentially saying he is willing to play footsie with the Dems if he feels he needs to, and that he is either so politically naive or acquiescent to not only tolerate the Marxist agenda of Obama and the Left but also to encourage its thriving existence as part of the respect he so much boasts for the Dems.

Instead Sarah Palin wants to thoroughly defeat the Left a la Joan of Arc and send it to the gates of political hell. She is not about to play footsie with Obama, the Dems or the Left. That is why they fear her so much.

In conclusion Mitt Romney, by way of this 15 minute You Tube video has been imho thoroughly exposed as an emmperor who has no clothes. We know the cut of his jib, we understand what makes him tick, and from a political point of view we know what he will campaign on in the GOP primaries in 2011.

If Romney gets the GOP nomination in 2012, his prediction will come true–Obama will be hard to beat.

The tape can be seen here:

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/09/24/romney-lets-face-it-obamas-going-to-be-very-tough-to-beat/

technopeasant on January 29, 2011 at 4:17 AM

PhiKapMom on January 28, 2011 at 9:34 PM

In 2008, the field was really devoid of a conservative who was a first-tier candidate. For many, including Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney was as close as you were going to get.

So don’t blame Demint.

But in 2011-2012 if Sarah Palin runs and I expect she will, if one is a conservative and votes for Romney or another moderate in the GOP primaries and we subsequently end up with a second term of Obama, that person only has himself or herself to blame. Voting by “proxy” because the MSM tells you how you should vote is self-defeating.

If you vote on conservative principle at least you know you are going down fighting. And if you think there will be another viable conservative brought forward to consider other than Palin, you are living in a dream world. Viable conservatives in the GOP don’t come around very often. And Sarah Palin is a viable conservative. That is why the Left fears her so much.

technopeasant on January 29, 2011 at 4:59 AM