The day hell froze over...

[EternalOptimist01]

The owner of FR has gone insane(r). Every post at FR contains an anti-Mitt Romney header and a video.

Romney is an unrepentant abortionist/statist lying political whore! Just to be absolutely clear, there will never ever be a RINO Romney campaign on FR!! If he somehow becomes the nominee, FR will be running a full-time campaign to DEFEAT him!! If you wish to support him then I suggest you sign off FR and onto Wankers for Mitt!!

Wow! So if Mitt Romney is the nominee for the repubs.. Freerepublic will campaign for President Obama!

I think I smell an opportunity here... :P

[mzteris]

1. wow. I think I just became Romney supporter.

(For the republican nom, anyways!)

That would be funny as hell, wouldn't it? I'd love to watch FR completely implode.

[EternalOptimist01]

3. Serious!

That would be so amazing... I think that might be the complete downfall of FR. The place is already a cess pool of hate. I think the conservatives would bail on them completely. -Just a thought.

[alittlelark]

2. Romney/Palin 2012

My dream ticket.:evilgrin:

[mzteris]

4. Palin/Romney - for reals... n/t

[whathehell]

5. You betcha...

:party:

[customerserviceguy]

6. I used to lurk over there

The fundie base over at freeperland absolutely despises Mittens over his religion. A number of their LDS posters actually left the site during the 2008 primary campaign, they couldn't believe the number of attacks on their (goofy) religion. It seems that the reich wing wants Mormons on their side for political support, but when it comes down to it, they are even less tolerant of Mormons than they are of Jews (both of which are going to a fiery hell in the minds of the freeper fundies).

This doesn't surprise me at all. The way that Mittens had to tack to the left to get elected as governor of Massachusetts has given everybody pause as to what he's willing to say to get elected as President. That's why they call him an abortionist, he was OK with the procedure while trying to suck up to MA voters.

The freepsters need not worry, Romney cannot win the Repuke nomination. After spending heavily in Iowa and New Hampshire, all he could win was the Wyoming primary (who cares?), the Nevada primary in a place that still has a lot of Mormons, and the Michigan primary, where you always vote Democratic if you're paying any damned attention at all.

[EternalOptimist01]

8. Be careful

That was last time.... Mitt Romney's support has grown. In some polls he actually leads the pack of potential candidates in support. If there's a ton of people that enter the race for the repubs so that the vote is split enough.. Romney will win. Not all fundies are against him...only the total freaks. And they hate everybody...

Another question is: will the Mormons vote for an evangelical? That is if one wins their nomination, like Palin for instance.

The fundies have been hating on the Mormons for so long...will it come back to bite them?

Either way it's a lose/lose for the Evangelicals. They'll have to decide who they hate worse Romney or Obama...

I really would like Mitt Romney to win the repub nomination. I'm serious. Just to watch the evangelical heads explode. I honestly can't think of a situation they'd hate worse.

[customerserviceguy]

10. Romney doesn't have to fight either McInsane or Ghouliani

but he's got a formidable opponent in Palin. She'll kick his butt in any place that has a quarter to a third of the population as fundies, since they don't vote in Democratic primaries.

So what if the Mormons don't like Palin or Hucksterbee? The only places they make up any reasonable proportion of the electorate is Utah, Idaho, and Arizona. None of those states are going to vote for Obama or any other Democratic nominee in 2012.

If it comes down to the Romney vs. Obama, the hardcore fundies will either not vote the top of the ballot, or will cast a protest vote for some third party candidate. Right now, Mormon missionaries are trying to poach their flocks, and they sure as hell don't want to give them one more talking point in peoples' doorways. They'd much rather rail against the devil from the opposite party than the devil in their own.

[EternalOptimist01]

13. Palin is damaged goods...

There will be a few areas that will go hard core for Palin. But it will depend on who else is in the race. Jindal would draw off huge amounts of would-be Palin supporters.

I think the public is having Palin overload at the moment. And that Couric interview will hurt her forever.

The Mormons are a huge factor because they number in the millions (5 to 7 million in the US). With states with close races their support could tip the scales. Hard core fundies are only a marginal issue in the general election. They're vocal but like the Mormons, they'll only matter in tight races.

The pure entertainment value of a Romney run is worth it's weight in gold. The fundies will be in the spot light for all the world to see their bigotry. They'll come off looking like idiots.

[customerserviceguy]

15. While she may be 2012's Prissy Chrissy from Delaware

I still maintain that she can be nominated by the Repukes. And if the economy doesn't get out of the toilet in two years, her damage won't make a tinker's damn worth of difference.

As for the Mormons' political influence, it won't even make a difference in California, where they have a lesser proportion than either Idaho or Arizona. Yes, if it was close in CA, Mormons getting pissy at Palin might make a difference. There are far more fundies than Mormons out there, and the fundies are doing everything they can to keep that a reality. Including denying Mitt the nomination.

[EternalOptimist01]

17. When you're right, you're right

I totally agree with your assessment.

If the economy doesn't improve...she very well could win.

I lived in CA for a couple years. The fundies in CA are worse in some ways than the fundies in the south. They are really vile. At least the fundies in the south still have southern hospitality on their side. So they have their polite moments.

The fundies in CA are militant. They'll be rabid if Mitt is in the race. The smear campaign against him will be vicious.

[pacalo]

7. So they must be leaning toward Palin?

That would help us out tremendously! Sounds good to me.

[EternalOptimist01]

9. hmmm

I couldn't tell.. but it's seems they'd vote in a cat before Mitt though.

[customerserviceguy]

12. I'm sure many there would be happy to support her

Mittens is the only one that the hardcore reich wing is dead set against. They felt that way about Rudy as well.

[surrealAmerican]

11. Wow, what did he do to piss them off?

Oh, and welcome to DU.

[EternalOptimist01]

14. Socialized medicine & Abortion

...and he's a Mormon.


Thank you very much! :-)

[superduperfarleft]

16. Didn't Jim Robinson call Bush a cokehead back during the 2000 primaries? n/t