Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Romney Still hasn't Solidified The GOP


It took him a while, but Willard Mitt Romney (aka Wall Street Willie) finally has enough delegate votes to assure him of the Republican presidential nomination. Normally, this is the time (after a majority of delegates have been won) that a party starts to solidify behind the nominee. But that is not happening for Romney -- at least not yet.

There are still two groups of Republicans who are saying they will not vote for Romney in the Fall -- and together, those two groups potentially make a significant number of voters. The first group is the libertarian wing of the party -- the Ron Paul supporters. This group has never liked Romney, or any of the other candidates for that matter. They are not ready to back Romney, and the chances are he won't get many of these people's vote in November.

The other day, after realizing that the race was over, Rand Paul (Ron's son) endorsed Romney for president. If anything was going to bring these people on board to support Romney, that should have been a very good start. It wasn't. All it did was to make them angry with Rand Paul. They are calling the younger Paul a "traitor", a "turncoat", and a "sellout". It's really looking like this group will either vote for the Libertarian candidate (Gary Johnson) or stay at home on election day.

The second group is the teabaggers. Teabagger leaders are saying that a lot of their members are telling them that they are going to stay home in November rather than vote for Romney. This is the group (along with evangelicals) that backed candidate after candidate in the hopes of finding someone other than Romney, and finally wound up supporting Rick Santorum.

The teabaggers have never trusted Romney. They consider him to be a moderate (or maybe even a liberal) who adopted their beliefs just to secure the GOP nomination. Now that he has that nomination, many of them believe he'll abandon them and move back toward the left -- and they may well be right about that. Romney has had so many differing beliefs that it makes one wonder if he really has any beliefs at all (other than to cut taxes for himself and his rich buddies).

Teabagger leaders are encouraging their members to vote for Romney -- saying that no vote is actually a vote for President Obama. Will that work? Only if they can convince the rank-and-file teabaggers that Romney is a real improvement over Obama for right-wingers. And that is still up in the air right now. Many teabaggers may also find a third party to vote for, or just stay at home.

This has to be somewhat worrying for establishment Republicans. They got the candidate they wanted, but if significant numbers of these two groups stay at home on election day it could cost them the White House -- and it would hurt them down-ballot also.

It's still a little more than four months until the election, but Romney definitely has his work cut out for him. He needs to start winning over the independents, but he can't really do that until he solidifies his own party's support. 

2 comments:

  1. FOR MANY PRO-AMERICANS, GOP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MITT ROMNEY’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE LDS/MORMON CULT ARE A MATTER OF CONCERN , AS THEY SHOULD BE!!!!!!

    HOWEVER, PRUDENT CONSIDERATION MUST BE GIVEN TO HOW WE WHO LOVE AMERICA AND FREEDOM ARE TO RESPOND!!!!!!

    UNFORTUNATELY, SOME WELL-MEANING PRO-AMERICANS ARE HARSHLY AND OPENLY CHASTISING MITT ROMNEY!!!!!

    YET, THIS REBUKE SHOULD BE DONE IN PRIVATE, NOT IN SIGHT OF AND TO THE ENTERTAINMENT OF AMERICA-HATING, TERRORIST-CODDLING, PIAPS-LOVING DEMLIBS!!!!!!:

    “MOREOVER IF THY BROTHER SHALL TRESPASS AGAINST THEE, GO AND TELL HIM HIS FAULT BETWEEN THEE AND HIM ALONE.” ~ MATTHEW 18:15 (KJV)

    RATHER, MITT ROMNEY SHOULD SENT PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE BY EACH OF US WHO ENJOYS THIS LIFE-CHANGING AND INFORMATIVE NEWS SOURCE, ADDRESSING THREE AREAS OF CONCERN FROM A RAPTURE-BASED PERSPECTIVE!!!!!

    1.) HIS INDIVIDUAL AND PERSONAL WELFARE:

    MITT ROMNEY MUST BE WARNED AGAINST BEING LEFT BEHIND TO SPEND THE REST OF HIS LIFE… AND ALL OF ETERNITY… WITH PIAPS!!!!! HE MUST COME TO UNDERSTAND THAT IF HE FAILS TO REPENT OF LDS/MORMONISM, HE WILL BE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE ALONG WITH COMMUNISTS, CATHOLICS, HOMOS, ISLAMOFASCISTS, GURU MAGGOTS, DEMOCRATS, HARE KRISHNAS AND ACORN!!!!!! AFTER HE REPENTS, HE WILL NEED HELP TO FIND A MARK 16:18 FELLOWSHIP WITH SIGNS FOLLOWING!!!!!

    2.) AMERICA’S DOMESTIC POLICY:

    IN ADDITION TO DISMANTLING SOCIALIST MEDICINE IN AMERICA, PRESIDENT ROMNEY WILL NEED TO REVOKE ANY EXECUTIVE “ENVIRONMENTAL” ACTION BASED ON A RAPTURE-DENYING “LONG-TERM” PERSPECTIVE [A/K/A “GLOBAL WARMING”]!!!!!! AFTER THE RAPTURE, “GLOBAL WARMING”, EVEN IF IT DID EXIST, WOULD BE THE LEAST OF WORRIES!!!! AND CERTAINLY, A LONG-TERM PERSPECTIVE IS UNREALISTIC, AS THE TRIBULATION PERIOD WILL LAST ONLY 7½ YEARS UNTIL PIAPS IS TOSSED INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE ALONG WITH ALL THOSE WHO TOOK HER MARK!!!!!! DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!!!!

    3.) AMERICA’S FOREIGN POLICY:

    PRESIDENT ROMNEY WILL NEED TO NOMINATE GOV. SARAH PALIN AS THE SECRETARY OF STATE SO THAT, UNDER THE FULL MANIFEST POWER OF THE DEBORAH ANOINTING, SHE CAN CLEAN OUT PIAPS’ NEST OF LESBIANS IN FOGGY BOTTOM!!!!! ISRAEL MUST BE STRENGTHENED IN THESE LAST DAYS AND URGED NOT TO DIVIDE THE LAND GIVEN THEM!!!!!! MILITARY ACTION IS NEEDED FOR REGIME CHANGE IN TEHRAN AND DUBLIN!!!!!

    NOW, IS THE TIME FOR SPRING CLEANING OUR HOMES AND CARS, AND ALL OF US CERTAINLY HAVE PLENTY OF TRACTS LYING AROUND!!!!! WHAT BETTER IDEA THAN TO SEND ONE OF EACH TO!!!!:

    ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT
    PO BOX 149756
    BOSTON, MA 02114-9756

    REMAINING COPIES CAN BE SHARED WITH LOST CATHOLICS ON THEIR WINDSHIELDS IN R.C. CHAPEL PARKING LOTS THIS SUNDAY!!!!! ALWAYS EFFECTIVE AND DRAMATIC!!!!

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  2. WOW! It is simply amazing how people like you can take a religion supposedly founded on love (Jesus' only commandments were to love god and love your neighbor), and turn it into a politics of hate.

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