JoeB131
Diamond Member
Romney gives the impression that he is somewhat reasonable and is not going to run off the scale pandering to the extreme right wing. He is the only candidate capable of appealing to moderates
I also hear he's going to appeal to Nessie and Bigfoot.
Who are these moderates you keep talking about?
Frankly, I haven't seen them. You're going to vote for Obama no matter who the GOP nominates, and no matter where the economy is going to get. So is nearly everyone else who talks about Romney being a "moderate" or "electable".
I'm wary of people who are never going to vote GOP telling the GOP who they should nominate.
It would pretty much the same if I said, "I think you guys ought to dump Obama and Run Hillary." I could even make a good case why Hillary would be a better candidate. But the fact is, it would be disingenous of me to do so, because I won't vote for her any more than him.
Now, there are a few people in the GOP who don't want a real conservative, they just want someone who is going to make it easier for them to make money.
I have voted in seven presidential elections and have voted for the Republican candidate in five of those seven elections. What is different about the new breed of Republican candidate is that they have completely abandoned appealing to the middle, the independents and moderates who actually decide elections.
The Republican of today is forced to live at the extreme right in order to get nominated. In order to get that conservative vote they have abandoned sanity and developed a callous view of most Americans
Romney is the only candidate running that remotely resembles Republicans of old
Oh, come on, there are people who think I'm not right wing enough here and even I don't buy that.
I do think there is a schism in the GOP. Between teh Country club rich "Republicans of old" as you say, who bring the money and the rank and file "Tea Party/Christian Right" who bring the votes.
And when the GOP nominates real conservatives- Reagan, Bush - they win. When they nominate RINO's who are "moderate" and "electable", they don't.
Now, again, I voted for everyone who the GOP has put up, even when they suck, like Dole and McCain. If Romney weren't a Mormon, I'd probalby hold my nose and vote for him.
But please, the problem the GOP has had is not that they are "too right wing". Because on most of those issues, the country is actually to the right of me, not the left.
I do think the GOP has lost touch with what worries working folks, and Romney's inability to connect will probably be his biggest undoing.