Quotes of the day
posted at 11:25 pm on February 28, 2012 by Allahpundit
“Voters in Tuesday’s Michigan Republican primary were looking for a candidate who they thought could beat Barack Obama in November and they found him in Mitt Romney. The former Massachusetts governor won 61 percent voters who said the candidate quality that mattered most was the ability to defeat Obama.
“Overall, 52 percent of Michigan voters said Romney was the Republican candidate most likely to defeat Obama in November; only 26 percent thought former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum was most likely to beat Obama.
“An overwhelming majority of voters in Michigan — 54 percent — said the economy was the issue that most mattered in deciding how they voted, and 45 percent of them voted for Romney, compared to 29 percent who voted for Santorum.”
“In Michigan, it was less of a resounding victory for Romney than a near-miss of a humiliating defeat at the hands of a toppled Pennsylvania senator who is to the right of the Republican mainstream and running a seat-of-his-pants campaign. And that was the easy part…
“‘He’s still in the fight of his life for the next month,’ said Republican consultant John Weaver, who advised former Romney rival Jon Huntsman and GOP nominee John McCain in 2008. ‘If Romney wins the nomination, it will be because he dragged the base kicking and screaming.’…
“‘A win is a win,’ said Republican consultant Charlie Black, who is advising Romney, said of Tuesday’s results. ‘The race is going to go on for a while, but he’s back in a fairly commanding position. There will be plenty of time for him to get back on his main message and re-establish a connection with independent voters who right now are looking askance at all Republicans.’…
“‘Tuesday’s results will certainly stop some of the handwringing over Romney,’ Goeas said. ‘The Romney campaign has had a lot of ups and downs and I haven’t seen any signs of them pushing the panic button. They systematically look forward, and at some point he should get credit for the sturdiness of his campaign.’”
“‘It does seem that his campaign is having a tough time sort of garnering that — not just that support, but that energy that’s needed,’ former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, a favorite of the movement, said in an interview late Tuesday. ‘Whether Romney wins or loses in Michigan tonight, just the fact that he’s had such a fight in his home state is evidence of that blessing not yet being given to him across the board.’
“Ms. Palin said that if Mr. Romney became the nominee she would support him ’100 percent,’ but said he still had considerable work to do get important portions of his base on his side…
“Yet, there are those conservatives who view Mr. Romney as plenty conservative enough, and are eager to move on to the battle to defeat Mr. Obama, with Mr. Romney as the nominee.
“‘Frankly, the candidates are so close ideologically I just think that we’re losing sight of the huge gulf between our candidates and Obama,’ said James Bopp Jr., a conservative activist and party official in Indiana who supports Mr. Romney. ‘We’re suffering from the ‘grass is always greener’ syndrome.’”
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We should’ve annexed Mexico when we had the chance.
eva3071 on April 4, 2013 at 4:42 PM
Huge waste of time and money. These pols have no interest whatsoever in managing this border.
Dr. ZhivBlago on April 4, 2013 at 4:44 PM
But Napolitano says our border is as secure as it’s ever been! Did we always suck at defending our border? Or did we just lay out a banquette of free government benefits and dare foreigners to walk over and take some?
Socratease on April 4, 2013 at 4:49 PM
Time to let the military control the border…the boys in camo-pants know how to hold and defend a line in the sand!
powerpickle on April 4, 2013 at 4:49 PM
They’re still capturing that many?
Doomberg on April 4, 2013 at 4:53 PM
They don’t care about the “illegals.” They care about us.
http://www.examiner.com/article/dhs-confirms-it-s-spying-on-anti-government-americans
rrpjr on April 4, 2013 at 5:02 PM
That’s the plan.
NeoKong on April 4, 2013 at 5:02 PM
Well duh… Barky O’Dogeater won’t let anyone enforce our immigrations laws, how could border security possibly get better?
SWalker on April 4, 2013 at 5:03 PM
No, we only started sucking at defending our borders when the Marxist’s infiltrated our government.
SWalker on April 4, 2013 at 5:05 PM
Looks like we need armed drones for that task.
Obama is so good at whacking Talibanese, I wonder how well he’d do against the rabblke scooting across the border in Arizona?
dockywocky on April 4, 2013 at 5:12 PM
The bill will be be deficit neutral just like Obamacare and you can take that to the bank!
Wigglesworth on April 4, 2013 at 5:25 PM
50% is like a SOLID B+ for 0bama.
BTW, how many jobs were lost or not created by not building the fence that the will of the people Congress authorized. 0 sure is adding a precedent for the next president to ignore any and all legislation from previous congress’s. Not sure why the next president couldn’t refuse all of 0bama HellCare bill because he thinks it unconstitutional.
jukin3 on April 4, 2013 at 5:31 PM
What really bugs me is the poll at the top of the LA Times story that asks if drones should be used to patrol the border. 92% are in favor. Ok great, but if you have good desert survival skills and can evade the drone technology more than 50% of these people are in favor of giving these border jumpers a path to citizenship? Morons!
Wigglesworth on April 4, 2013 at 5:38 PM
Ya know, that was an almost done deal back after the Mexican American War. There was the concern though of all those Mexicans we’d have to accept as citizens, Catholics to boot, and both the culture and fact that we’d have millions more Catholics, who, at the time, weren’t especially liked by the majority of US citizens, most being Protestant and intolerant if not bitterly loathing of Catholics put the kabosh on the whole annexation thing, IIRC.
hawkeye54 on April 4, 2013 at 5:55 PM
Perhaps it’s time to call out the unorganized militia?
Another Drew on April 4, 2013 at 6:42 PM
Could someone politely explain to Senator Rubio that he is in grave danger of becoming Florida’s next Charlie Crist?
Another Drew on April 4, 2013 at 6:45 PM
Nothing to see here. These are simply undocumented border crossings by unnamed unmentionable entities that we don’t apprehend, see or even acknowledge. Until they are registered Democrats.
ghostwalker1 on April 4, 2013 at 6:57 PM
Well for now. Once that great and grand utopia has been put into place and the leftist have perpetual control of government, and just about everything else, we’ll see how fast the borders are manned and managed……to keep all the producers in our paradise.
Just remember who built the Berlin Wall and who installed the wire and guard towers on the East German border……it wasn’t the West Berliners attempting to keep all those communists out.
hawkeye54 on April 4, 2013 at 6:58 PM
When ya set back and think about it, its way, way, past time.
If only.
hawkeye54 on April 4, 2013 at 6:59 PM
410/7333 =/= 50%!!!
abobo on April 4, 2013 at 7:29 PM
LOL. Based on what?
Anyone who believes any numbers that come out of this lying, sack o’ sh!t government deserves what they get.
How about some fraud prosecutions? Sure …
I do like the “64%” to make it sound as if the number is based on something other than “pull it out of my azz”. It reminds of Barky’s junta claiming that their porkulus had created 3,231,873.32 jobs. Okey doke.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on April 4, 2013 at 8:51 PM