Does Romney have a prayer for 2012 ?

[steve2470]

I don't think so. He could be the next Ronald Reagan for the R's but the Mormon affiliation kills him with the fundies.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Au contraire.

I'm betting he has a lot of prayers for 2012.

Not to mention magic underwear.

[steve2470]

2. good one ! :) nt

[femmocrat]

3. I think he is the heir apparent.

Like Dole and McCain before him, it's "his turn". I'm still not sure how gwb jumped the line in 2000, though.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Or is that HAIR apparent?

:evilgrin:

[femmocrat]

17. LOL Some of both.

He does have that perfect "republican hair"!

[AlinPA]

19. Their base loves Palin. She acts like a Christian fundamentalist and leads the teabaggers.

With the media on her side, she is the one to beat in their primaries.

[Enrique]

4. can the inventor of Obamacare win the GOP primary?

I think he can, actually. Deep in their lizard brains, I think that even the teabaggers know that all the crap about Obamacare being radical is a fantasy.

[Vincevega]

9. Agreed

With the most hideous aspect of the bill(mandate) coming from the leading conservative think tank(hate those rethug compromises) The Heritage Foundation, I seriously doubt Romneycare will be an issue in the primaries. Also the guy is not lacking in the stud/sexy department, watch out for him if he gets the nomination, he cannot must not be taken for granted.

[Enrique]

13. if you think Mitt is sexy, you might enjoy this photo

[Jennicut]

5. Anyone can win the nomination for the Repubs.

But the whole New England Romney Care thing won't sit well with some ultra conservatives. Romney also has tried to make himself more conservative then he really was.

[the other one]

6. It's all his.

Iowa - hucklebee
NH - Romney
Nevada Romney
scarolina - newt and willard are even. If Romney wins sc it's all over before super Tuesday

[WI_DEM]

7. The Mormon thing will not kill it with fundies if he's nominated they will support him

over Obama.

[Douglas Carpenter]

10. I think the Teabagger Fundamentalist FoxNEWS WorldNutDaily crowd will pick the nominee in 2012

and I don't think Romney is their man. Most GOP base activist genuinely believe that they lost in 2008 in large part because McCain was way, way too liberal and too cowardly to expose Obama as foreign born/Socialist/Communist/Atheist/Muslim Fundamentalist that he obviously is.

In the eyes of most of the GOP base besides being a Mormon, Romney is boring and has a record as Governor that is way too liberal.

I cannot see the Republican Party base willing to go along with the 2008 strategy of running a "liberal" like McCain or Romney - Of course I mean liberal according to their world view that considers Obama a Communist.

I suspect whoever wins the Republican nomination in 2012, their first requirement is that they will have to be BATSHIT CRAZY - or at least fake it and convince the GOP base that they are.

[CanonRay]

11. He can't win in Iowa or S. Carolina

so I don't think he can win. Period. He's too mainstream for today's brand of nutbag Rethuglican.

[Arkana]

16. True. He could win New Hampshire and Nevada, though.

[old mark]

12. He will probably get the nomination, sending the very right into a frothing fit...

I expect the 'Baggers ahd their allies to select at least one candidate to run against Mitt in the general election as a separate party candidate and split their vote from the moderate gopers...may be the end of the GOP as we have known it.
I am thinking Newt may be involved with this, but it is way too early to tell.
The article by his ex wife may have done a good job of sabotageing his ambitions...


mark

[woodsprite]

14. Only if he's prayin' with Palin. n/t

[Arkana]

15. Not anymore.

Republicans just voted to go to proportional delegates in their primaries, which more or less erases any chance Romney had. He's the kind of guy who if he doesn't wrap up the contest early, he's fucked.

[JI7]

18. you mean getting the nomination ?; the new vote count system should make it easier

than the winner take all they had before.