You can say what you want about Romney, but you are destroying the party when you push Newt Gingrich all because you don’t want Romney. I’ll tell you why. I am a life long social conservative. I was raised in a Republican family and in a Republican town. Even with all that, if we nominate Newt Gingrich into our party as our presidential candidate, I am gone. I will never vote for another Republican and only vote for third parties and Democats, until of course there is another Clinton or Gingrich type social monster from the Left. My children should never see their President with a landfill full of smelly garbage that Gingrich is proud of. The bible has strong words for people that worship the beast. I will have no part in it. Gingrich thinks he’s God’s greatest gift to mankind. Christ is and will always be God’s greatest Gift to mankind. You guys go off and worship the beast but as for me and my family we will serve the Lord.

Moe, Who is urinating on peoples legs and calling it precipitation? You are, on ours, but I call it negative spin. If someone where trying to read into or explain Romney’s segment on immigration in a honest way, they would look into his long term public stated position and how he governed as Govenor. Unless that someone’s (you) purpose is to undermined Romney, then truth be DAMMED!
Romney record:
1) Romney has said since at least 2007: Illegal immigrants should have to register, go home (their home country) and get in line with everyone else, with NO special pathway for citizenship or residency. He has also said that “they may have to a pay fine.” .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzhBjUaiBfk&feature=player_embedded
2)As Governor he directed his state police to enforce the immigration laws.
3)Vetoed Massachusetts’s Dream act law.
4)Vetoed Licenses for illegal’s immigrants.
5)Was and is AGAINST sanctuary cities.

Moe, don’t urinating on our legs!

This idea of if “x” is the nominee, then i’ll leave the party is all crap. I HEARD a lot of hollywood types spew this trash, but they never left or changed parties. That is what happened and why we got Carter and Co. And more of the same. Too many sat on their hands. and voted for no one. Hence the Obamonation.

The TEA party types (not all of one stripe or governed by one leader) may not be the best, but it did manage to get the most people to come together. Under the banner that ” The basic” is government is too big and too tax based. Thats the people talking and liking what they hear. and they VOTE.

When all of us get cast in stone and never change for the better or worse, then we will have Utopia. Never will happen and for thousand years or better it is tried and fails.

Get a life and select the best, warts and all, none are perfect, but one must be the best at this time. Right now Newt looks the best, in my humble opinion. Beat Obammo boy wonder and his coherts.

Both parties are controlled by corporate puppet masters. Let me make that 101% clear. The main puppet master is Wall Street (Fnance, Insurance, and Real Estate). Mitt Romney is the #1 beneficiary of FIRE money:

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/10/mitt-romney-wall-street-money.html

In fact, Romney is raising more money from Wall St. than Obama:

http://www.cnbc.com/id/44920282/Romney_Beating_Obama_to_Wall_Street_s_Cash

And it is not just Romney. John Cornyn, head of the NRSC, and Harry Reid, repeatedly hold secret fundraisers with Wall St. executives:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/93359-reid-wont-comment-on-wall-st-fundraiser

It probably makes the taco bell food more authentic in the eyes of these supposed managers and investors who are skirting the law.

And all the candidates are more than 100% better than Obama.
If you want to change the party, do it from within.
And if you want to post, think before you do.
You wouldn’t look the dufuss if you did.
That, or give the laptop back to Mommy.

You do have an example, don’t you.

Most people don’t care about Romney’s Mormonism.

If Romney had made an effort to court conservatives, he could have easily avoided his current predicament. Instead, he “played it safe” put out tepid policy papers, and bam…. he hit problems.

I like Romney as a person, but not as a politician. I would of course vote for him in the general election.

There is an anti-Romney attitude on this site, but to attribute that to religious bias is analogous to what D’s do on race. You don’t like my policies/my guy, it must be X.

Romney’s record is not what people are looking for. Obamacare is the big issue, and Romneycare makes Romney unique unsuited for 2012.

Romney may be Constitutional, but the “its legal” defense of a bad idea is not what people want to hear. Had Romney said, they were going to pass something, and Romneycare is the best of a bad situation—I could swallow it.

instead he is proud of it, and says its a good thing for his state.

Does that make RS anti-Roman Catholic?

Methinks not.

I could sit down and – through the use of reason, example, and vicious mockery – demonstrate that this is an absurd statement for anybody to make, particularly when the person who made said statement didn’t believe it either and is just trying to shut me up before I say more unfortunate (and in my opinion, accurate) things about Mitt Romney. Or, I could not waste any more of my valuable time and just ban the person accusing me of hating Mormons.

Guess which one I did? No, guess.

Well said!

And here I thought he was just poor excuse for a Rockefeller Republican.

…a bit of a brawl? Not that I remember much of it; at the time, I was only – never mind; it’ll just depress people.

For a Republican to win, he must carry at least 33% of the Hispanic vote.

Bush did very well among hispanics.

The Tea Party movement has pulled the party so far to the right on immigration and a host of other issues that the Bush of 2000 and the Reagan of 1980 would not have survived the primary election in today’s GOP.

We will be in the wilderness for at least 4 more years if we don’t hit the right notes on immigration. Something between opening up the borders and Tom Tancredo’s eradication program would be fair.

But Bush did much better with Hispanics than the current GOP field will unfortunately all for the wrong reasons.

Right now, they split between parties.

The Dems hope to turn them into a bloc to replace the crumbling Labor Bloc … I’d like to think the GOP is smart enough to do a shared-values-based outreach, but .. so far they’re approach seems to assume all Hispanics came from Cuba on a raft in the 1970s.

Mew

Thanks for short-circuiting the review process for us like that.

Shoo.

…that the “enablers” of illegal immigration will simply do what the drug dealers do: tunnel under it.

The only way to secure the border is how Rick Perry has already proposed: boots on the ground.