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3 reasons Mitt Romney can win

Navy Pride said:
Be afraid my left wing friends.......be very afraid..........
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Oh god, you've said that as an introduction to every single not-Romney for the past year and a half.
 
jamesrage said:
Why would they be afraid of a liberal republican winning?Your left wing friends win no matter who wins.
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If Romney wins it will be because Obama's base doesn't turn out for him. If Obama's base doesn't turn out the republicans will take control of the Senate and maintain the House. No matter how liberal Romney may be, he will be pulled to the right. Remember what happened to Bush on immigration, Dubai, Harriet Myers, etc? Even during Romney's honeymoon a conservative House and much more conservative Senate won't give him much leeway.
 
Look what I found in the Archives. Posted by NP on 7/11/08:

Navy Pride said:
Be afraid my left wing friends.........Be very afraid.......;)

Rasmussen Reports™: The most comprehensive public opinion coverage ever provided for a presidential election.

Friday, July 11, 2008

The race for the White House is getting a bit closer. The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows Barack Obama’s lead over John McCain down to a statistically insignificant single percentage point, 43% to 42%. Prior to today, Obama had enjoyed at least a four-point advantage every day since Hillary Clinton dropped out of the race over a month ago. This is the first time his support has fallen below the 45% level since May 31.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/archives/33367-rasmussen-poll-shows-statistical-tie-president.html
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You're "be afraid, my left wing friends" comment was something you used many times 4 years ago. You were wrong then. Four years from NOW, I'll be posting the same thing about THIS election, showing how you were wrong, now.
 
Cardinal said:
Oh god, you've said that as an introduction to every single not-Romney for the past year and a half.
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More than that. He used to do this all the time 4 years ago. I remembered.
 
I would like to reiterate one thing--Stan Smith, from American Dad=Navy Pride.
 
Here's one from 8/20/08:

Navy Pride said:
This is the first time that McCain has had a clear lead above the margin of error in the polls.............Momementum is on his side........

Be afraid my left wing friends, be very afraid......Your empty suit is going down.........

McCain winning in new poll, follows trend - David Paul Kuhn - Politico.com

John McCain has overtaken Barack Obama in the presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released Wednesday morning.

McCain leads Obama 46 percent to 41 percent among likely voters, which is outside the poll's margin of error. Reuters/Zogby had Obama ahead by 7 points as recently as mid-July.

http://www.debatepolitics.com/archives/34901-mccain-winning-new-poll-follows-trend.html
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Now, I can keep doing this, but what would be the point? Fact is NP was wrong and the reasons were twofold. Firstly, NP pays attention to polls, but he attends to polls FAR too early in the election season. Polls are pertinent from about mid-September on... maybe. Currently, polls and predictions are pretty meaningless. Secondly, NP is going to overreact to anything that is anti-Obama. If a poll comes out and says that Obama is going to lose, even if every other poll says otherwise, NP will state that the anti-Obama poll is the accurate one.

Come on, NP. Don't do what you did 4 years ago. We KNOW you don't like Obama. But show some objectivity when assessing each candidate's chances.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
Here's one from 8/20/08:



Now, I can keep doing this, but what would be the point? Fact is NP was wrong and the reasons were twofold. Firstly, NP pays attention to polls, but he attends to polls FAR too early in the election season. Polls are pertinent from about mid-September on... maybe. Currently, polls and predictions are pretty meaningless. Secondly, NP is going to overreact to anything that is anti-Obama. If a poll comes out and says that Obama is going to lose, even if every other poll says otherwise, NP will state that the anti-Obama poll is the accurate one.

Come on, NP. Don't do what you did 4 years ago. We KNOW you don't like Obama. But show some objectivity when assessing each candidate's chances.
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You are on a roll.
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
Look what I found in the Archives. Posted by NP on 7/11/08:



You're "be afraid, my left wing friends" comment was something you used many times 4 years ago. You were wrong then. Four years from NOW, I'll be posting the same thing about THIS election, showing how you were wrong, now.
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I love to fire you guys ups, but I was right in 2000,2002, 2004 and 2010. that is 4 for 6 that is a .666 BA. Not to bad my friend..........

I know polls don't mean much this time of the year but to be honest with you I never thought romney would be anywhere near Hussein Obama when he got the nomination.........I must be pulling a lot of libs over to Romney by calling him Hussein.....:wink2:
 
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Navy Pride said:
I love to fire you guys ups, but I was right in 2000,2002, 2004 and 2010. that is 4 for 6 that is a .666 BA. Not to bad my friend..........
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It's like betting on red in roulette, NP. You bet on it EVERYtime. Streaks are going to happen, and it has nothing to do with you being "right".

I know polls don't mean much this time of the year but to be honest with you I never thought romney would be anywhere near Hussein Obama when he got the nomination.........I must be pulling a lot of libs over to Romney by calling him Hussein.....:wink2:
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You're just looking like you did back in 2008. Wrong.
 
1. If Romney was "broadly acceptable to most conservatives, moderates and even a few disillusioned liberals," why was a political "dark-horse" like Rick Santorum, with little financial support, able to win 7 states.

2. Santorum labelled Romney as "the worst Republican candidate" because he introduced "Romneycare" in Massachusetts. While the OP accuses Obama of not being able to run on his record as president, Romney can't run on his record as governor.

3. Many of the economic factors that effect US job creation are beyond an American president's control. Economic instability in Europe, Iran, Syria, North Korea and the world price of oil are all factors beyond Romney's control. As a member of the top 0.01% ($250+ million in assets), the Romneys are now trying to portray themselves as one of us - they're not!
 
jgarden47 said:
1. If Romney was "broadly acceptable to most conservatives, moderates and even a few disillusioned liberals," why was a political "dark-horse" like Rick Santorum, with little financial support, able to win 7 states.

2. Santorum labelled Romney as "the worst Republican candidate" because he introduced "Romneycare" in Massachusetts. While the OP accuses Obama of not being able to run on his record as president, Romney can't run on his record as governor.

3. Many of the economic factors that effect US job creation are beyond an American president's control. Economic instability in Europe, Iran, Syria, North Korea and the world price of oil are all factors beyond Romney's control. As a member of the top 0.01% ($250+ million in assets), the Romneys are now trying to portray themselves as one of us - they're not!
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Either is Ubama. Come November, pick your poison. Ubama who government IS his religion who believes in high taxes, huge nanny government, huge spending, getting around the Constitution as much as possible and as a Lame Duck will govern with unrestrained authority or take a chance on a RINO?
 
CaptainCourtesy said:
It's like betting on red in roulette, NP. You bet on it EVERYtime. Streaks are going to happen, and it has nothing to do with you being "right".



You're just looking like you did back in 2008. Wrong.[/QUOTE]


We shall see....There are a lot of people out there not happy with this prez.
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jgarden47 said:
1. If Romney was "broadly acceptable to most conservatives, moderates and even a few disillusioned liberals," why was a political "dark-horse" like Rick Santorum, with little financial support, able to win 7 states.

2. Santorum labelled Romney as "the worst Republican candidate" because he introduced "Romneycare" in Massachusetts. While the OP accuses Obama of not being able to run on his record as president, Romney can't run on his record as governor.

3. Many of the economic factors that effect US job creation are beyond an American president's control. Economic instability in Europe, Iran, Syria, North Korea and the world price of oil are all factors beyond Romney's control. As a member of the top 0.01% ($250+ million in assets), the Romneys are now trying to portray themselves as one of us - they're not!
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I can remember some of the things Hillary said about Hussein Obama in 2008. Its called political infighting to win the nomination.
 
TheNextEra said:
I thought you told us to be very afraid of Santorum? How'd that go for you?

Also, it seems you are telling us that since Romney is like Obama that the only difference is an R in front of the name. If that's how you do politics, I'm afraid that is one of the severe problems of this country.
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Thus far he has told us to be very afraid of Palin, Gingrich and Santorum. Each of those were very scary propositions, though each had no chance in hell of actually happening. What he should be afraid of is that Romney, while not a great choice, is not really that scary to us liberals.

That all said, short of an economic setback (which could happen), Romney has very little shot of actually winning this thing. He has a very bad math problem, as Romney can not win without winning both Ohio and Florida (Obama currently leads in each of these states), yet Obama can win without winning either state.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/2012_elections_electoral_college_map.html

At the end of the year, the Republicans are going to realize that they can not suppress enough vote (through voter ID laws) to offset all of the Latinos they have alienated through the absurd immigration policies.
 
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I can think of 3 greast reasons why Obama can win and is the right choice and why he is the bad choice, so before I continue let me say let's keep that for another thread. Here are my three reasons why I think Romney would be a bad choice:

1) Would attempt to mess with the tax code in more ways that effect it negatively.
2) Would attempt to get more deregulations that would hurt the economy and us in the long run, as well as wind down infrastructure and science spending, while likely increasing welfare and warfare spending
3) From a public figure point of view, he would seem even more far out of touch than HW Bush did. One of the good thing about Romney though, is all these asinine "insults" thrown at Obama before have just mysteriously vanished. It's kind of hard to call your party's boogie man an elitist when you want an actual elitist to run yours.
 
Marshall said:
What? Why does Romney have the best chance?
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Because they key to winning an election isn't your base. You already have them. The key to winning is the independents, and independents don't vote for extremists.
 
I'd like to see Navy post 3 original ideas about Romney... (you know, the guy he was badmouthing a month ago)
 
JohnWOlin said:
I can think of 3 greast reasons why Obama can win and is the right choice and why he is the bad choice, so before I continue let me say let's keep that for another thread. Here are my three reasons why I think Romney would be a bad choice:

1) Would attempt to mess with the tax code in more ways that effect it negatively.
2) Would attempt to get more deregulations that would hurt the economy and us in the long run, as well as wind down infrastructure and science spending, while likely increasing welfare and warfare spending
3) From a public figure point of view, he would seem even more far out of touch than HW Bush did. One of the good thing about Romney though, is all these asinine "insults" thrown at Obama before have just mysteriously vanished. It's kind of hard to call your party's boogie man an elitist when you want an actual elitist to run yours.
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translation-Mitt is not going to whine about the rich nearly as much as Obama
 
"What goes around comes around!"

What makes Mitt Romney and his supporters think that Democrats in the next session of Congress will be any more cooperative with his "conservative" proposals for improving the economy than the Republicans have been for the last 3 1/2 years?
 
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As Dan said the Conservative base which I am a part of will come around and Independents who are moderate which most are will flock to Romney because like mw they know that this country can not stand another 4 years of the community activist or whatever he calls himself...........As everyone knows Romney was not my first choice but I truly believe he can win...........
 
Navy Pride said:
As Dan said the Conservative base which I am a part of will come around and Independents who are moderate which most are will flock to Romney because like mw they know that this country can not stand another 4 years of the community activist or whatever he calls himself...........As everyone knows Romney was not my first choice but I truly believe he can win...........
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"What goes around comes around!" - Do the Republicans actually expect a different reception from the Democrats in Congress to a Romney Administration over the next 4 years, than the one they extended to the Obama Administration since 2009?
 
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jgarden47 said:
"What goes around comes around!" - Do the Republicans actually expect a different reception from the Democrats in Congress to a Romney Administration over the next 4 years, than the one they extended to the Obama Administration since 2009?
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Over 100 hundred bills passed by the HOR all tabled by that slimeball Reid on order from Hussein Obama............
 
Navy Pride said:
Over 100 hundred bills passed by the HOR all tabled by that slimeball Reid on order from Hussein Obama............
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Labelling the opposition's leaders as "slimeball" and "Hussein" says it all - the Republicans and their supporters will be the first to scream "foul" when its their turn to confront a "mirror-image" of themselves in Congress!
 
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