I think that’s why they have these things called primaries. That’s just me though. As a moderate who voted for Obama, I’ve been wrong before.

We don’t need a national redux of RomneyCare™, we certainly don’t need a politician who has a real problem figuring out what he stands for - if anything - and we don’t need a guy who spent $50MM or so of his own money in the last primary and came up waaaaaaaaaay short.

Romney is a loser. No thanks.

I don’t know enough about him to know if he’s a potential for POTUS, but I’ll be looking closer at what he says and does.

Every supporter with the “my guy is the only guy… or gal” will be piling out Diaries of dribble….

IT IS FAR TOO EARLY FOR ANY FRONT-RUNNER BS….. WHO CARES??? CAN WE FOCUS ON 2010 FOR AWHILE OR JUST GIVE AWAY ANY/ALL THOSE RACES?!?!?

They all have positives and negatives they bring along to the Campaign. There are things I PERSONALLY like and dislike about ALL of the “supposedly” potential front-runners. To setup up the MY GUY/GAL OR NO-ONE BS is to just piss-away the 2012 Election to ObamaBinBiden re-election as many will again SIT-IT-OUT!

But I don’t think there’s any question that Palin quitting is a very, very good thing for Romney.

but can’t carry the base. Too many flip flops,and he’s for this state run health care garbage. But he would be a good fundraiser…for say..I don’t know Pence,Palin,Pawlenty,or the yet to appear dark horse. In other words anybody but Romney.

It’s. still. 2009.

Remember the ungodly long primaries most of us are still getting over? Because I sure as hell do. Can we pretty please focus on what’s actually happening, and and not force feed us you candidate? Please? With sugar on top?

MittRomney was the first name out of a Democrat’s mouth. Mike Huckabee was second. Do we really want the media and the left choosing our candidate for us again this time? Especially since, as randy said, isn’t it a little early to start campaining for an election that’s over 3 years away?

The title of this article is so completely unrealistic, and could almost only be written by a shill, I just don’t see the point in bothering.

Feel free to poke fun at me if the diary is written ironically, but I’m taking my chan ces.

except Sarah Palin.

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2012 is all up to Obama, really. If he stays strong it doesn’t matter who the Republican is, they will lose. If the economy continues to tank and the Obamorons actually start to realize that The One can’t make it all better, then it will matter more who we put up against him.

Hopefully Romney will only be the nominee if the Republicans need a sacrificial lamb to throw up against a strong Obama. He’s too slick, too insider, too liberal to really excite the base. We are trying to NOT get Romney style governmental interference in health care.

Maybe Jindal’s lukewarmishness about 2012 had alot to with not wanting to enter right after a gubentorial campaign in LA, a hard nomination campaign agnaist Palin. Maybe even Rudy becomes more popular because he is the last one left with a pair to go in the trenches with the left and fight them shot for shot. There is 2 whole years before the Iowa Straw poll and 30 months before an actual vote is cast. There is time and time changes everything. Maybe Romney decides not to run because he doesnt see enough base support to merit another 40 million dollor investment.

And explain yourselves…

This is the same site that mostly supported Fred Thompson. Where did he go? Oh yeah, the base wasn’t too energized about him either and he didn’t win a SINGLE PRIMARY! Not to mention the fact that Fred’s entrance into the race was the most reluctant of any politician I’ve ever seen. I told you the same thing back then and I was right.

I told everyone that McCain was an awful candidate…and I was right. He was. He was the worst candidate since Dole in ‘96 (in fact, I believe I actually compared him to Dole during the election). So far, all your sacred cows like Thompson, Sanford (yes I know there were Sanford fans out there), Ensign, Huntsman, Palin, McCain and others have all fallen by the wayside in one way or another. By the way, I had very high hopes for Bobby Jindal but that State of the Union response was awful.

You’re trying to tell me how bad Mitt is when he actually got 2nd place in the primaries last year. Just like…. Reagan in ‘76! Most of you jumped on the McCain bandwagon when he became the frontrunner and ditched him when he lost. He was the most left-leaning candidate we had and most of you supported him. So don’t act like you know how to better energize the base.

Romney was more conservative than McCain (even most of you would agree with that) and he actually won a lot of states. He ended up with more delegates than Huckabee, even after the race was over. How can you not see that this is at least similar to Reagan in ‘76?

You can whine about his “flip-flops” or “RomneyCare,” make lame jokes about how he lost to McCain, or dismiss my post because it’s “unrealistic,” but none of you have made a legitimate case for anyone else or reasonably challenged what I said in my post. Keep in mind, the guys that you supported all lost too (including Palin and McCain) last year. So without dismissing me as a “shill,” can you honestly debate me or cowardly dismiss Romney without any real facts or logic?

going to become the top contender. He’s too slick.

You will be in for a surprise. Look at Sarah as a shooting star. She is more popular that the party’s presidential candidate.

One thing that this party needs to do is get away from the talking heads and pundents who try to tell us what we need and where we are going.

There is nothing that burns me more than hearing someone like Chris Matthews tell me what the Republicans need to do.

There is a grassroots momemtum building and it is not for Mitt or others who are trying to court the illegal immigrant vote. Throw them all out in 2010. Starting with Harry Reid.

but he does not inspire. He lost to McCain. Our entire party needs an overhaul, we don’t need retreads from 2008. Sure he should run, but saying he is the “only choice” basically dooms us to four more years.

Of course…this is a joke…

What about Fred, or Barbour, or Pence or Jindal? And Palin isn’t gone yet.

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

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forget 2012. We need to start developing viable and successful candidates for the congressional elections.

We also need to start by redefining who we are as Republicans and what we have to offer to American. I would offer these three issues that we need to address in order to win over the American voters.

First, smaller government, less taxes. This is clearly the most important issue that faces the US under the democrats. It defines who we are and draws a contrast between the socialist government and the capitalist society. It is time for Americans to choose.

Solving the immigration issue.is second. That solution is not one where the government simply waves the amnesty wand to make the proble morph into a greater problem. Instead, the govenment needs to recognize that undocumented means illegal. What we have today is a congress that hopes to pacify illegals so that they can get their vote and there cheap labor. Of course, all of that comes at the expense of American who we are told would not do that kind of work. Ask my 18 year old if he would like to take some of the constuction jobs that go to the cheaper paid illegal employee who doesn’t pay taxes. Add to that the drug gangs and people runners and we can thank our elected official and Napolitano for the chaos at the border. Security demands a no amnesty answer.

The third thing that needs to be fixed with our country and party os that we have to get away from this one world philosophy. That means bringing back our manufaturing base to our country. I don’t want to hear that it can’t be done. It can and it will get done with th eright leadership. One reason why Regan was elected in landslides was becasue he appealed to a broad group of people. Union workers loved him because as individuals they believed in America first as he did. Congress needs to stop using the government as the stimulus for growth and promote a healthy business climate that stimulate true economic growth. That means lower taxes. That means less gorenment spending, especially wasteful pork laden spending.

Start talking up your candidates if they are on this three point plan. Let’s take back our country!!!

But Obama vs. Palin: 48% to 42%. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2012/2012_match_ups_obama_romney_tied_at_45_obama_48_palin_42

Were he somehow to win the nomination, it will be as the Bob Dole slot holder, and Obama will trounce him regardless of how bad things are.

Now, can we please get back to 2010 and stopping this current insanity in DC?

Thanks.

Goes something like stop worrying about bridges we won’t approach for another year and a half! Much bigger bridges looming close ahead for worrying about!

Obamacare = Golden Gate Bridge x 10, FYI.