What could have been
Michael Crowley at the New Republic's political blog The Stump asks the question increasingly haunting Utah Republicans: Would Romney Be Doing Better? Crowley's not talking about Mitt as John McCain's running mate. He's talking about Mitt as the GOP's presidential candidate.After all, who would undecided voters trust more with the workings of the economy — a returned POW who struck it rich by marrying a beer heiress, a politically ambitious urban activist, a beauty-queen-turned-Alaskan chieftain or the guy who rescued the Olympics from scandal and made a profit on it?
Crowley points out:
The economy is collapsing and the GOP is stuck with a candidate who doesn't know jack about economics. . . .Few pragmatic conservatives are taking comfort that the McCain-Palin ticket has held on to the party's anti-Mormon religious right.
Romney's whole business career was about turning around distressed companies. Plus, he's far less identified with George W. Bush than is McCain. And unlike McCain he might not have had to give up on Michigan, where his father was governor. (What state pray tell is McCain holding that Mitt couldn't?)
As a result, Mitt is the leading contender for the GOP's standard 2012.
3 Comments:
Indeed; can you imagine where McSame would be now if he had the Mittster to watch his back about the economy? Personally I'm glad he didn't, but with Mitt's reputation for econ-savvy, McLame would have been in a much better position than he is with Sarah-Plain-and-Crazy. Speaking of, my head just about explodes when I think about how people in Eu-taw just think she's wonderful, when her church and her ilk are the very ones who saw to it that Mitt didn't get the nod, and are out yelling "SATAN LOVER" at the LDS conference every year. Dichotomy much?
Barack would have smoked them both. Mitt's holds the same loser policies. Pro-Bush tax cuts for the rich, same pro-torture. Give it up losers. Barack is the man.
So, if Obama is the man, why is he statistically tied with McCain. The economy's in the tank, there's a sitting president in office who has less support than perhaps any other in history, the media absolutely refuses to report anything negative about their Obamessiah, he's outspending McCain 3 to 1, and he's STILL in a statistical tie? Maybe that means Americans aren't as stupid as the democrats hope they are.
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