Beck is wise. Romney did so well in the last Republican primary, I suspect he will easily secure the nomination and be readily elected.

By the way, the sky is falling.

Beck is correct on this. In a head-to-head matchup with Obama, Romney would fare best of all of the leading Republican contenders.

The problem with Romney, as it was in 2008, is he’s not strong enough to survive the primaries. All it takes is one far right candidate to enter and Romney will flame out again. And then there’s the Mormon issue which is more of an issue with the biggest voting block of the GOP; the Social Conservative Religious Right, than a lot of people realize. Romney may be the best general election candidate for the Republicans right now, though I still think he’s too much an empty suit, but his general election palatibility won’t count for much if he can’t make it all the way through the primaries.

“Romney did so well in the last Republican primary”

If he did so well he would have made it all the way to the Convention. He didn’t.

Beck is a mormon too, interestingly enough.

Romney though…hilarious guy. He looks like someone who came from a GOP Factory. Slick? Rich? Elitist? Check, check, check. Surprises me to no end how people who are against “DURRR elitez” would vote for someone like Romney.

One can be rich and as a slick as a game show and not be elitist.

Elitism is illustrated in your “DURRR elitez” mockery.

However, being elitist is NOT synonymous with having class.

I agree with Spud and Beck.

I know that I’ve said it elsewhere and I may have said it in a comment here sometime, but Iowa is kind of unpredictable, Romney could likely carry New Hampshire, but then he gets stopped in South Carolina and will have no traction throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. And of course, let’s say Iowa goes for Pawlenty, Romney gets NH and Huckabee gets SC, then there’s no momentum for anyone and the Republican nomination becomes a race for delegates.

Then say, Romney does narrowly pull it off with the help of the country club set… on paper he’s the most legitimate challenger to President Obama, but I don’t know that there’s enough hatred of Obama in the Republican’s key region to overcome both, the Southern prejudice against Mormons and Obama’s strength in the African-American community.

Perhaps Beck could help change this by speaking more about his faith, but because he’s often associated with a more radical wing of Mormonism, it could be a double-edged sword. But I find it hard to believe that Romney could become the Republican’s consensus candidate or that they can win without the South.

Disclosure: I’m a native Southerner who has lived throughout the country, currently residing in the Midwest.

Romney is a shrewd, smart guy who actually understands how jobs are really created. The voters understand how important that issue is. Too bad the President hasn’t figured it out.

I tend to think the Mormon issue is a show stopper in the primaries. The largest denomination in Texas is Roman Catholic. About 60% of that group is Hispanic. No votes for Romney there. 20% is historical Democratic Catholics. That gives us 20% possible Republican Catholics, or roughly 8% of all potential Texas Republican voters. I would be surprised if Romney, any Mormon, would take more that 20% of that group.

The second largest, but far smaller denomination is Southern Baptist. There is going to be significant resistance there, as well.

Factor in all the non-SB fundamentalists, and it is just not going to happen. There aren’t enough Methodists and Presbyterians to offset that.

Lastly, remember the raids on the LDS compound in Texas? That is a burning issue here. I don’t know that many voters are going to be willing to draw the distinction between Mormon and Fundamentalist LDS.

If Romney can’t win Texas, I doubt he can win many places.

So, if a follow Cecelia’s reasoning, someone who is “of the people”, home-spun, common as dirt, could be an elitist. Remind anyone of another prominent Republican? Or two?

I’ve never heard a single conservative mention Romney’s religion as an issue. Beck is also a Mormon, and that doesn’t seem to hurt his following on the right. A bigger concern is Romney’s support of a government health care system in Massachusetts. But Obama can’t attack him on that, can he?

I’ve never heard a single conservative mention Romney’s religion as an issue.”

That’s because it’s liberal media hype. The ONLY people I hear bring up Romney’s religion are the far lefties.

@felixw: Run of the mill folks don’t have have enough knowledge about the Mormon church, other than the bigamist stereotype and a couple of other incomplete tidbits. I’d say that unless there’s some kind of educational effort, a couple of strategic push-polls could do irrevocable harm in parts of the country. Not so much in the West or New England and in the upper Midwest, but perhaps the most telling thing is that after placing second in Iowa and New Hampshire, Romney came in fourth in South Carolina and that was without an unfair push-poll and before Jim Demint started talking purity tests.

wingnutz and mini-Baboons!

Keep track of the Baboon’s Beck turds.

If you haven’t noticed yet, you morons, he just dumped on your other fetish – Moose Boogers.

GO BABOON! GO!

Romney has no chance beating Huckabee in the GOP primaries. Beck is delusional….as if we didn’t already know that.

“felixw says:
April 8, 2010 at 8:29 pm
I’ve never heard a single conservative mention Romney’s religion as an issue. Beck is also a Mormon, and that doesn’t seem to hurt his following on the right. A bigger concern is Romney’s support of a government health care system in Massachusetts. But Obama can’t attack him on that, can he?”

That’s the good thing about conservatives and republicans. They do not TALK about it. They just VOTE how they feel about an issue. Yes, Romney’s attack on health care will come from his right, not from Obama. Obama will be more than happy to elucidate the fact that his “Obamacare’ was inspired by Romney’s own health plan policies in MA. Romney’s own republican challenges will make it their goal to drive that point home during the primaries. He has no chance.

Maybe it’s just a tip of the hat to a fellow Mormon?

Ahhhh, yes…I forgot about that link…

“Run of the mill folks don’t have have enough knowledge about the Mormon church, other than the bigamist stereotype and a couple of other incomplete tidbits. I’d say that unless there’s some kind of educational effort, a couple of strategic push-polls could do irrevocable harm in parts of the country.”

Oh, there would be a push to educate people on the faith of the Mormon Church.

The same people who argued that Rev. Wright and his church was incidental to Pres. Obama’s mentality, would be arguing quite the opposite in Romney’s case.

“Home spun” and “of the people” sorts don’t tend to put-down mockery of the sort used by m and by you, TRRK. That’s why they are considered to be homespun and of the people…

One can be as folksy as an old shoe and shine with class, and conversely, one can have the air of an elite and reek of low-rent callowness.

@Cecelia: My point was that Romney would have to get through the Republican primaries. As I said in my initial comment, he looks like Obama’s most formidable opponent on paper, but there are parts of the country where he’ll have trouble and there’s a reason that Romney quit campaigning in South Carolina to concentrate his resources, elsewhere.

And again, considering the importance of SC on the Republican calendar, I really don’t see how anyone could expect those who censure Lindsay Graham for being too liberal to wholeheartedly fall in line behind the former Governor of Massachusetts.

Romney is clearly the Man! More and more each day he engenders the values of right-wing, patriotic, Murcuhn heroes. Just a few short years ago, Mormons were strapping electrodes to the genetalia of gay BYU students in order to “cure them of their homosexuality.” (sic).

As an added plus, we can ALL take a cue from that long-held Mormon tradition of dressing at all times in tight-fitting harness-like underwear – in order to “thwart all untoward urges.” And we can call this: “Progress.”

Romney a conservative? Ha!

Despite Glenn’s assessment, let me spin a narrative for you in which Ron Paul suddenly becomes presidential. California capsizes from the weight of its debt, making Greece seem like a minor bout of indigestion. Six other states are teetering. The Fed rushes in with trillions of cash against China’s advice, so China (and every one else) pulls the plug on credit and has a fire sale on US treasuries, figuring the dollar is not long for this world. Lo and behold, the very next day, hardly anyone accepts dollars at more than 50% their prior value, then 40%, then 20%, Zimbabwe here we come! In other words Ron Paul’s vision of our fate unveils itself and everyone knows it.

Under such circumstances even an old, wrinkled, scrawny congressman with a whiny voice, but with a geeky understanding of monetary policy, can become the savior of the hour and the president all America needs. Remember this because we’re about to see TSHTF.

Glenn Beck loses absolutely all his credibility by supporting a liberal, statistic and progressive like Romney.Can’t say what will happen in 2012 but i stopped to watch this show.
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Check out Romney winning a straw poll at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002208-503544.html

I guess that tells you about the credibility of the posts above claiming that Romney could never win Republican support in the South.

@felixw: From your link…

Straw polls offer a signal about the level of support for various candidates, though detractors are quick to note they are easily manipulated and that the pool of respondents do not necessarily represent the party overall. The winner in 2006 was former Tennessee Sen. Bill Frist, who won when the conference was held in his home state of Memphis.

And just for the record, Romney received 439 votes from the attendees at this conference, beating Ron Paul by one and if you do the math, 1367 non-representative, self-appointed delegates voted for someone other than Romney as their first choice.

Oh, and there’s also this, where it’s revealed that an interest group gave away free, $119 tickets to the event, if the recipients agreed to vote for Romney. Though, it may not have been entirely coordinated by his campaign.

But, if you subtract 200 from 439…

Mr. Romney is a good man and had he won the nomination, it is likely he would now be the President, which gets me back to what I’ve said all along: Mr. -0bama did not win the White House; Mr. McCain lost it.

I wish I had your problems.

Romney can not beat Obama. There is only one person who can beat Obama and that is Ron Paul.

The rules have chanced. All the primaries before April are proportional delegates and all after than can be winner take all delegates. For Romney to take it he best have it wrapped up by April. Now take the fact that Ron Paul Delegates have been working hard to get them selves elected as delegates and I think Romney is going to get a huge surprise before the end of April.

He looks good in those thousand dollar suits while the rest of us are down to rags. But he can always count on his big banker friends for the cash. This is why I like Ron Paul. He takes no money from big bankers so he owes them nothing. In one day he has raised $2.6 million from people like myself who have to do without in order to fund his campaign, but it is a good investment towards keeping my liberty.
For any one who thinks he has no support then consider that he was $100,000 shy or raising in one day what it took Herman Cain three months to do.

Words that describe Mitt Romney,——————LIAR,———–RINO,————-FLIPFLOPPER,——-FAKE,———–FRAUD,————–POSER,————–HYPOCRITE,————-JOBKILLER,————————PRO-GAY,—————GUNCONTROL,—————ROMNEYCARE,——UNCONSTITUTIONALMANDATE—————SOCIALIST,————–PHONEY,——————–MADOFF,————-DECEPTION,—————-LIES,——————–GLOBALWARMING,————————–BIGGOVERNMENT!

GLENN BECK is a LIAR!

The only people supporting Romney are establishment types and Mormon like BECK!
MITT ROMNEY is left of Teddy Kennedy and Obama!

ROMNEY spent his entire career as the most pro-abortion, pro-gay rights Socialist in the nation. Romney is a DRAFT DODGER with more than 3 deferments to avoid serving in Vietnam. There is no difference in Mitt Romney and Obama!

We have a Socialist in the White House no need to vote for another.

MITT ROMNEY CREATED OBAMACARE! Romney’s own advisor admits ROMNEYCARE was the Blueprint for Obamacare. OBAMACARE IS GOING TO DESTROY AMERICA! ROMNEYCARE=OBAMACARE OBAMA AND ROMNEY ARE THE SAME!

IF MITT ROMNEY IS NOMINATED AS THE GOP CANDIDATE I’LL NEVER VOTE REPUBLICAN AGAIN! I’LL BE DONE WITH THE REPUBLICAN SOCIALIST PARTY!

I’M done with the MORMON GLENN BECK TOO!

felixw,————-I agree with you 100% the DEMS will DESTROY Mitt Romney with his own Socialist baggage! ROMNEY has a free pass now.

If Mitt Romney is the nominee against Obama everything he did and supported like Global Warming,–Gun control,–Romney’s Commisssion on gay and lesbian youth— pro-gay, pro-abortion, promoting homosexuality in the public schools it’s all going to came out.

Mitt Romney will lose against Obama. I’ll never vote for Romney! There isn’t a bit of difference in Romney and Obama. ROMNEY WILL NEVER BE PRESIDENT!