Mitt Romney will beat Barack Obama and he will beat Obama for the same reasons some conservatives don’t like him. I am well aware that some of my fellow authors here find Romney less than ideal but I do believe the future of this country depends on Barack Obama being defeated in November and a Romney-Santorum ticket is just what is needed.
Obama has already taken a stab at Romney for his financial history but it is not going to gain traction and Jack Lew is the reason.
Barack Obama named Jack Lew to replace Bill Daley as chief of staff. Jack Lew was one of the investment bankers who bet that worthless CDO’s, sold to investors as financially solid vehicles, would fail. This was all done without disclosure, of course.
Lew got a $1 million dollar taxpayer funded bonus in 2009.
Obviously Barack Obama highly regards such a person as this.
And here’s a beauty of a quote from Lew:
“[I don’t] personally know the extent to which deregulation drove it, but I don’t believe that deregulation was the proximate cause.”
Barack Obama’s chief of staff does NOT believe deregulation caused the financial meltdown. Save that one for discussion with liberals about deregulation. Barack Obama cannot harp on Romney’s past without inviting scrutiny of his own choices.
A Southern evangelical declared that Romney was “not Mormon enough” for social conservatives.
A leading Southern Baptist figure predicted Friday that Christian conservative leaders won’t rally around an alternative to Mitt Romney until after next week’s South Carolina primary, while warning that the former Massachusetts governor is “not Mormon enough” for most socially conservative voters.
Dr. Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said during a newsmaker interview on C-SPAN that evangelical leaders hope that the Palmetto State primary Jan. 21 will whittle down the GOP presidential field and make it clear whether they should rally around Romney rivals Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich or Rick Perry before Florida’s primary later this month.
But this reminds of George Stephanopoulos’ colossally stupid moderation of the Republican debate. The country is mired in economic doldrums, foreign tensions run high and what does Stephanopoulos ask? He presses Romney about contraceptives.
Social conservatism is not going to solve the big issues facing this country and social conservatism is not enough to win this election.
Mitt Romney is going to become the Republican Presidential nominee and he will beat Barack Obama in the election and in no small part it will be due to Barack Obama:
“It’s in many ways like the ’08 campaign when Barack Obama ran as a candidate to be an alternative to George W. Bush. That was true in his announcement speech in Springfield [in February 2007].
“This was true when Ronald Reagan ran [against Jimmy Carter in 1980]. We went back and looked back at his [Obama’s] speech. He closed it out offering an alternative to George W. Bush, much to John McCain’s frustration.
In 2012, the economy would be the “one big, dominant issue” as in 2008. “This race is about the economy and a referendum on Barack Obama.”
In terms of New Hampshire this week, however, the Romney campaign looked long and hard at what Obama did here in 2008 when he arrived in the state from Iowa with momentum from his win there and a poll lead in the Granite State. It all evaporated on voting day when Hillary Clinton won.
“We studied what Obama did wrong,” said Stevens. “A lot of people thought that Obama was going to win big. I would have bet you anything Obama was going to win big. So we went and said, ‘OK, what did Obama do wrong?’
“The best thing we could figure out was that he didn’t take questions, that he isolated himself in the bubble. I can remember being in Manchester on a Sunday. He had an event in mid-afternoon and there were people lined up. It was very moving actually. It must have been what it was like with Bobby Kennedy or something. And then he [Obama] lost.
“So we said, ‘OK we’re not going to do that. We’re going to do the exact opposite. We’re going to keep taking questions from voters’. If they sense that you’re on a glide path, that you’re not taking questions I think that’s really bad.”
Another reason that Romney will win comes from democrat flack Donna Brazile:
BRAZILE: Mitt Romney won tonight because no one touched him — and for Democrats, you know what? It was good news for us.
KARL: Why is that?
BRAZILE: Because we believe that the weakest candidate is the candidate that the Republicans are not attackin’, and that’s Mitt Romney.
KARL: Oh, come on.
Brazile is politicking. She is the canard. She knows that Romney has the best chance to beat Obama and so do most Republicans.
While the Republican presidential hopefuls continue to fight it out on the campaign trail, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney is the only GOP contender that most voters view as having a chance against President Obama.
Fifty-three percent (53%) of Likely U.S. Voters think Romney is at least somewhat likely to beat the president in November.
Lawrence O’Donnell takes a more sober analysis:
“Romney is the one they don’t want. They know they can beat anybody else. Romney, they think they can beat, but it’s a harder road.”
Probably the best choice for a VP would be someone who appeals to the social conservatives and Rick Santorum fits that need rather nicely. Such a choice would shore up Romney’s right while Romney is free to court the middle upon whom this election depends.
Santorum has taken a far more gentle approach to Romney than have his rivals. Santorum may be thinking the same thing I am thinking. Santorum’s painting Romney as “not conservative enough” could be exactly what both Romney and Santorum need.
No candidate is perfect. None of us ever gets everything we want. But this election is much more than about getting the ideal candidate. It is first and foremost about getting Barack Obama out of office and this combination can achieve that.
DrJohn has been a health care professional for more than 30 years. In addition to clinical practice he has done extensive research and has published widely with over 70 original articles and abstracts in the peer-reviewed literature. DrJohn is well known in his field and has lectured on every continent except for Antarctica. He has been married to the same wonderful lady for over 30 years and has three kids- two sons, both of whom are attorneys and one daughter on her way into the field of education.
DrJohn was brought up with the concept that one can do well if one is prepared to work hard but nothing in life is guaranteed.
Except for liberals being foolish.
@MataHarley:
I think this is rather important…
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/19/us-usa-campaign-obama-poll-idUSTRE80I0B620120119
SATORIUM WON in IOWA, BUT THEY DON’T WANT TO RECONSIDERING , THERE WAS 50 MORE FOR HIM IN ONLY ONE COUNTY,
I did not like the harsh radical answer from ROMNEY ON THE QUESTION OF FELON,
HE JUMP RIGHT AWAY TO THE VIOLENT CRIME ‘S FELONS,THAT WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT, WHILE WE KNOW IN THOSE MILLIONS
many are small crimes which where not danger to civilliens and that they had paid the price, and where not likely to redo it knowing it after many years of trying to find a job,
ROMNEY showed a vindictive part of him not where you would want compassion from a president to
the young REAL ROOTED AMERICANS, WHO WANT TO BE PART OF THE AMERICAN DREAM, AND KNOW THEY CAN HELP AMERICA WITH THEIR CREATIVITY, THEY ARE NOT TO BE LEFT OUT,
IN 2012 FOR ANY CANDIDATES WHO WANT TO BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT OF ALL AMERICANS,
NOPE, THE FELONS ARE TOO MANY TO BE LEFT OUT, DON’T LET THEM GO TO OBAMA WHO NEVER DID ANYTHING FOR THEM, BUT WILL GIVE THEM PROMISES FOR THOSE WHO CAN VOTES,
AND THEY ARE MANY WHO EARN THEIR RIGHT TO VOTE, THEY CAN PROPULSE to the top position, A RICK PERRY WHO WAS THE ONE ASKING THE QUESTION TO ROMNEY WHICH HE GAVE THAT ABOVE ANSWER SO SWIFTLY WITHOUT THINKING .
Now that Santorum droped out a Romney-Santorum ticket would make people like me less pissed about voting for Romney.We have to now if we want to get rid of obama.I feel like the kid that has to take the medicine the establishment is giving me to get rid of a cold named Obama.I know I’m not the only one that feels that way
Me too.