this flip-flopping buffoon is the “shoe in” to be the nominee by Fox News and other pundits.
He flips on Ohios bill,then flips on Global Warming.
Never have I seen a politician (yes,Mitt,you are a politician whether you like it or not)switch position so many times.Im starting to think the only reason why hes a Republican is because they dont allow Democrats at his country club.

Coulter made a good case the attacks are coming from Left, but it could easily be the mud slingin’ Romney or Perry camps imho

Shades of Clarence Thomas… but this one’s tough too

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I found George Will’s analysis of Romney appropriate. He is the Michael Dukakis candidate of the Republican party. Heck, he was even governor of the same state.

For those who don’t remember, Dukakis was 20 or more points up on Bush ’41 in 1988. He lost it primarily because his wonkishness in policy showed him to be totally contradictory and doing stupid things like letting Willie Horton our for a weekend from prison. Just like Romney and all of his RomneyCare, his approach toward welfare as the MA governor, etc. I find the analogy very good. Down to the point that the people, once they understand his policies, will not support them.

Any Conservative that wants to save this Country would stand with his Party and go after Obama. Ron Paul should quit and not think about running as an Independant. He would not win——God forbid, Obama would.

Erickson states that if Romney is the candidate we should vote for him to defeat Obama. Why?
Romney is Obama in disguise. Absolutely nothing will change. Only a softer way of double dealing the American public.

What ever happened to floor nominations at the convention?
What about Buddy Roehmer? Why isn’t the RNC allowing him to have a voice?
The whole nominating process stinks. It’s a fix from the word go. The Media in cluding TV chooses the candidates and the public is supposed to accept their selections without question.
Revolution!!

With so many in the field, all but Huntsman far more conservative, Romney enjoys a monopoly on the moderate vote. His support will NOT exceed 30%.

When the field narrows, Romney should be out.

Go Cain!

Romney is the weakest challanger to Obama in the general election. Not only the flip flopping, though that’s certainly a part of it, but also that he’s saddled with Romneycare. It’s pretty tough to attack Obamacare when you enacted what amounts to the same thing on the state level.

If Romney gets the nomination, which he very well might, Obama wins…pretty easily, I might add. There’s a good reason why Obama isn’t hammering Romney with attacks right now, despite his lengthy frontrunner status. It’s not because he’s being nice, it’s because he’s not feeling threatened. Romney is a known entity, and known for being more or less the same thing as Obama with a worse record on gun rights. It’s hard to get people to vote for you on a platform of “I’m just like him, only worse!”

Republicans and the Republican Party tricked me into voting for McCain in 2008. Never again! If Republicans cannot find better candidates than McCain and Romney, I’m voting Democrat or 3rd Party from now on.

Giving Obama another 4 years may be just what this country needs in order to move further right…

They know that all of this that we are reviewing now can be used successfully. All they have to do is show the American people we can’t trust Romney because he flip-flops; that you never know what his position on any given issue will be day to day. On the other hand, Dems will say, you know what Obama stands for and his beliefs are concrete.

Don’t laugh, they already have the campaign strategy set.

As for “anyone but Obama”, Romney won’t be much better. He’s Obama-lite

And to be honest: and I’ll probably get a lot of crap for this: I don’t think I can support Romney. It would be like voting for Obama.

But why, tell me why, we are settling for this swarmy mole? Are we that desperate? Here in NH he has a 20 pt lead over Cain.

Do you really think that Romney is going to be able to deal with a Mid-East that is getting ready to explode? A new Russia that is going to be a new threat militarily?

Geez, people, at least lets get someone who is more concerned with the country than keeping his hair in place and his next campaign. (I can’t have illegals working here, I’m running for office!)

that Newt Gingrich has thought with the “wrong head” in the past;the fact is he is the most informed and most experienced dude of the bunch of wanna a bees viey for the Repub nomination.I really don’t give a damn who he bedded in the past etc.I do care that he is a true conservative and if you look at his proposed policies (ie: taxes,spending,etc.) he has the best ideas.Regardless,anyone will be better than four more years of “OBOZZO”

Whomever is sitting on it should release it now. Somebody has it and it’ll be dribbled out a few pages at a time but not in time. Romney fans are just like Paul fans; they refuse to believe anything negative, assuming everything is an unfair attack. The Cain-ites will be out in full force today defending him against Politico’s piece on, well, go look it up yourself. EE is right. Why, on the night before the big headlines of this morning were going to be more Romney flip flops, Romney not wanting to do a sitdown interview and get grilled on his flip flops, is this Cain story breaking? Why after Rick Perry had a very positive and successful interview with Wallace is nobody talking about it? Does Romney have more media plants beyond J. Rubin? How come Fox is reporting today that Romney has acquired more Congressional support than anybody else, yet doesn’t quantify that with also reporting that Romney is the only one in the race that has contributed to Congressional campaigns? Why is the fact that he’s paid forward for support from Congress not a headline story?

It sure is starting to look like he’s got his own version of state-controlled media. Does he have that much power already that he, like Obama, can control what is being talked about and has bombshell stories waiting in the pipeline ready to launch as soon as he needs to change the subject?

C’mon, folks. Are we going to sit here and allow all this garbage to taint the election and allow Obama another term? Where’s the tea party? Where’s the angry seniors that went to townhalls and demanded more of our system than this stuff? Mitt Romney is an East Coast Liberal. End of story. Even if we win the Senate, the 3 Amigo’s of Romney, McConnell and Boehner are not going to do the will of, We, the People. Nothing will get done. We won’t get tax reform; we won’t stop spending. Chris Wallace choked when Perry stated that yes, he’d roll back spending to the level of the 1960′s. We’re in deep trouble here! It’s going to take drastic and emergency cuts and freezes to fix this! What’s so startling about that?

The Congress has so much infighting going on right now its insane. The Establishment despises the newbie tea party members. The Left is getting away with destroying guys like Marco Rubio. There has to be a complete push-out of the weak-kneed moderates or nothing will change. Who in Congress do we hear standing in bold defense of Rubio? Nobody. They’ll stand up and defend Romney all day long, though.

The voice of the people is claiming that the likes of Herman Cain, an inexperienced, unproven entity is good enough to carry our banner. And if that doesn’t work, we’ll settle for Romney. God help us.

Seems pretty obvious this is a set up job from the big-money, checked pants Republicans in the RNC. They know the “little people” can not tolerate moral failures in their candidates. So low and behold! We have one right here just in time to cover up Romney’s liberal record. They want the good ole boys club of McConnell and Boehner to continue regardless of the Tea Party. They want our votes but not our candidate. Any one can sue and most business people pay to be done with it no matter how baseless the suit.

I can’t believe we’ve been reduced to this. We’re still a year away from the general election, and conservatives are already all but accepting another RINO for thier candidate. We all complained last time around how we held our noses and voted for McCain because he was the lesser of two evils. Now we’re already talking about doing it again! Romney is far more pathetic than McCain was and people are talking about supporting him. If Romney is the candidate, Obama and the media will have an absolute field day with him. What happened to “Conservative Principles”? Instead of waving the white flag a year ahead of time and saying that we’ll support Romney if it comes down to it, let’s concentrate on doing everything humanly possible to make sure Romney has no chance of becoming the candidate. I’m gonna start doing just that. Today I’m going to get out the checkbook and send a donation to Herman Cain because he seems to be the closest thing to a conservative that we have to choose from.

…who’s your alternative? Perry, who makes W look articulate? Cain, whose next foreign policy thought will be his first? Paul, certifiable? Bachmann, purveyor of whacko vaccine rumors?
To paraphrase Rick Pitino: Ronald Reagan isn’t walking through that door, folks. Paul Ryan isn’t walking through that door. Marco Rubio isn’t walking through that door. Not this time.
And to paraphrase a formerly-great former defense secretary: you go into an election with the candidate(s) you have.

I have yet to meet any of this 25% who support Romney.

Honestly, who are you people? Why do you support him?

Let me get this right…McCains’ camp supplied you the information on Romney … and I suppose you trust McCain’s people because they, like him, are so very conservative?
You lost credibility with me as soon as you named the source for the information you used in your article.
I don’t think Romney is the best candidate but McCain was never even honest about his malice toward Romney. (Huckabee’s actions indicated that he felt the same way)

“I was for this before I was against it” could as easily have been said of Romney

I bet Sam and John Adams are rolling in their graves over what has happened to their state

One other thing.
There are no conservatives running for President in the Republican Party.
Just Big Government or Bigger Government Republicans

And Ron Paul is not a viable candidate

As I have been saying for some time – once the ad wars begin, Romney is in trouble.

Romney was not the frontrunner in 2008 and did not get the all out assault in the ad wars.

In 1989 in NYC. Most people thought that Rudy Giuliani would win that year, then Ron Lauder spent a ton of money in the ad wars attacking him. Rudy did win the primary, but lost the general. He did win in 1993 after 4 awful years under Dinkins.

One of the big attack ads was pointing out all of Rudy’s controversial positions and flip and flops. Once it become know to Republican voters in Iowa and South Carolina and Romney was at one point recently pro-abortion and Romneycare is the blue print for Obamacare it will be all over for him.

We all know that the lot of you are just waiting for a Romney supporter to bash, so I’ll play the part.

I just don’t see how any of these pieces change anything. It has already been discounted. We all know that he was governor of a liberal state and compromised on conservative principles in order to govern.

I’ve had a close eye on this guy ever since he fixed the olympics here in Utah. I’m not happy about what he did in Massachusetts, but I can understand it. I still support him because I know he would be an effective president. That’s something I just can’t say for the rest of the field. His competence will lead him to the wise decisions, and the wise decisions are almost always conservative.

I doubt luck has anything to do with it. I’m around socialists (not liberals) on a regular basis and they don’t seem very upset about the prospect of a Romney presidency. What if this was planned by Politico?

I’m not dead set on Romney. I’d be open to supporting someone else if I thought there was another plausible general-election candidate. But all of our best options chose not to run or, at least in Tim Pawlenty’s case, dropped out early.

Rick Perry is probably the next best behind Romney, but it is a distant second place. Redstate has really been pushing him hard, but I’ll tell you as a born-and-raised Texan of nearly 30 years: Perry would get stomped by Obama. He’s a fantastic candidate for a deep red state like Texas that applauds secession comments, but he’s going to turn off the middle-of-the-road voters we lost in 2008. And Perry has his own history of slipping from conservative positions, such as enacting a first-ever franchise tax in Texas that is essentially a personal income tax on LLPs.

I like Herman Cain, but he needs more experience before we put him up for president. The past month of gaffes and backpedaling and clarifications reflect a candidate who is not quite ready for the prime-time spotlight.

Despite what the economy and Obama’s chances look like now, you’re kidding yourself if you think this is going to be anything other than a hard, grueling campaign to win back the White House. Any one we nominate is going to get trashed by Obama and the media, so we need to put up the person who is absolutely best able to handle it. Romney may not be the perfect conservative or even the most conservative in the race, but he is so far the only person who’s demonstrated an ability to stay on message, articulate a conservative agenda, and push forward with a relentless and meticulous campaign. Anything less, and we’re stuck with another four years of Obama.

When his support hovers at 20-25%, I’m to believe that is Conservative support? I just can not believe “Conservatives” are amongst those numbers (now let’s not begin to split hairs on what makes a Con, So-Con, Fi-Con, and my favorite, the anybodybutObama-Con?).

Perhaps my definition of conservative is too narrow. I guess I’m one of those unyielding, my way or no way, shut the government down until we fix it folk the Dems are trying to make all of the GOP labeled as (btw I’d welcome that – so come on board!). I supported Christine O’Donnell’s run for 2010. I liked much of her platform, but even what I did not like – I was willing to get behind. She gave “us” a true alternative to the socialist the Dems ran and the Liberal the GOP supported. If a Leftist Agenda is to be advanced in this Nation, who I consider “Conservatives” have agreed that we will not be a part of it. We won’t vote barely to the Right of the Dems Left any longer. We will not provide cover for Lefty again. 2008-2010 is the model we prefer. Liberals owned the agenda and everything wrong with it, just as these Executive Orders are theirs and theirs alone. We note that we won the 2010 elections, yet the only “Conservative” action since was in the “Lame Duck” session of the 111th Congress. We hate the Boehner Leadership.
We believe we are at the tipping point; that our finances are in crisis NOW; that our sovereignty is faltering NOW; that our prestige and power is collapsing NOW! We believe that an abrupt and severe change in course is all that can save this Nation; that minor tweaks to our behavior still lead us over the edge. Some of us look at our not to distant future and see the great Nation we knew is gone. That’s why it is easy for us to be unyielding. We see it just that clearly, and Romney is not a drastic change from Obama.

If Romney becomes the nominee, how do we sell our lack of support now…you know, given the vast articulation of negatives above, which consequently aligns with Democrat talking points unveiled this weekend- with our eventual support for him as our nominee? If that happens, of course.

Oh and where is the brief side-by-side comparison of our nominees jobs plans? Economic plans? Who has the better plan? What can we sell to an otherwise disengaged electorate, many of whom are looking for jobs and suffering economically? Because I am thoroughly confused by all of this. You know, with all this dwelling on the past and such.

Please don’t tell me this is all part of Mr. Romney’s vetting, which makes him better and more bulletproof for the general election. And no, Romney is not my first choice.

Oh and John McCain’s opposition research? Yes. Because we know how well that turned out for John McCain.

Over200 years of reruns have gotten the American people over $16,500 000 000,000.00 in debt. Do you think they are doing a good enough job to keep the same old two party system alive and well? America needs a party of the people and vote out 95% of congress and 99% of the working parts of Washington that get the two parties agenda done. Both parties and the so called news media put out their propaganda to destroy anyone that tries to change what they have . Obama’s ( socialist ) change IS NOT the peoples will ( the Obama new world order ). If the American people knew their true history and the constitution and do their research for the truth,they would see through all the smoke and propaganda to elect the only one running on his RECORD for president that would do the American peoples will 100%. That person is RON PAUL……Do not judge without sifting through all the propaganda, hear say, opinions and get facts only. Judge not that you be not Judged…….Charles of Waveland, MS.

lately, especially with his flip-flop on the Ohio ballot measures. The crisis I find myself in is finding a candidate who can win the nomination and govern effectively as president being guided by conservative principles. The fight is not just for the nomination, but the White House and all of the responsibilites that go with it.

9-9-9 has absolutley no chance of becoming law, and I would oppose the sales tax as long as there is a national income tax. Tax reform is possible and I would say probable.

Rick Perry on the surface is almost ideal, except the more you watch him, the less impressive he is. The fact that he was so tone deaf about the birth certificate issue convinces me he can’t effectively carry the conservative banner. Conservatives are used to being on the defensive in Washington, but we need one who can lead the fight. I’m not sure Perry has it in him.

It makes me angry that so many conservatives have decided to pass on this election – one in particular is Paul Ryan. But, if they don;t have the fire in the belly, to heck with them.

Bachmann, Gingrich, Santorum??

That leaves Mitt Romney and that is a crying shame. I think many conservatives hope that once he gets into the White House, he’ll understand where is bread is buttered and govern as a conservative. The problem with that is hope is not a real strategy and we are almost guaranteed to be disappoined.

Is it too late for another candidate? I think it probably is. If it isn’t, who could it be?

Romney is horrible because he’ll say anything to get elected but if he’s the nominee you’ll swallow your principals and vote for a candidate you despise and don’t trust. Is that correct?

if you get that interview with Romney finally,

ask him if he likes to drive an automatic or if he prefers to shift himself.

This is why Conservatives do not want him in office and if he is elected, he will cave to the liberal ideology and the GOP will fall the same way as the Whigs…in fact, the entire country will fall.

Perry might not be great a debates…flubbed a little when trying to say that Romney was a flip flopper…but I got the message, although I already knew it.

I care about policies. I like Perry’s entire economic plan.. AND IT IS NOT STEVE FORBES ORIGINAL PLAN. I like the cap. I like the energy plan that fills the hiatus before the bucks come back in. The energy plan creates jobs and has a ripple effect few have even thought about….and that does not even touch the flat tax…which anyone can understand…unlike Herman’s that uses apples and oranges as a metaphor…but no specifics.

We want private sector jobs in the USA. Perry has the record…the rest do not.

candidates than ORomney.

O he can’t make up his mind

O he can’t stop flip flopping

O he can’t remember what he said years, months or even days ago.

O he reminds me of Obama.

O we’ve got time to bury this guy because he’s a RINO with liberal leanings and everyone on this site knows it. Dems will eat this choad alive and they will own him which will lead to more entitlement spending.

Will Romney raise taxes??? No one could say no for sure.

Romney should be nominated as Secretary of State