The fact that “moderate” is now considered a dirty word within the Republican party bubble tells you everything you need to know about the party’s chances of success in 2012.

Uh oh, every time Mitt wins a state something like this happens.

I’m waiting to see how irrelevant Palin is. She already has two comments. How long until liberals make it 200+?

Gotta love her irrelevancy.

That was what I call an “Undorsement”.  If Palin liked him she would have said so.

Spats here. Gloves’ liberal cousin talking. Gloves says Milt Rombley is the one who will beet Pres Ombamba this year. I say, why change? Ombama’s stuff is allready in the White House. Why pay movers ? Just keep the guy. How much more can he steal?

Your material is so much smarter than Gloves’.

And unlike him you don’t feel the need to comment on your own comments. (WTF is that about anyway?)

Sarah stutters a lot. She’s pretty, but she still hasn’t found that rhetorical and grammatical sweet-spot yet. And it’s been awhile. 

I’m the brains of the gang. I’m the one who hijacked the shipment of TicTacs back in ’84. We’re fencing them one pack at a time, so we have merch for years to come. Gloves don’t understand fiscal strategy.

He’s planing to watch some goff at the Pebble Beech Golf Field today with Tiger and Fill playing together. What a dumy.

Gallup polling currently shows Romney polling even with Obama . When will democrats get behind Obama ? Are they waiting for a new catch phrase ? T-shirts ?

 She’s imploding every 3 sentences. She’s just an airhead on heels (former MILF, if you wish).

 Will he carrot him as well as beet him?

Actually, RealClearPolitics’ survey of polls (Fox, Rasmussen, ABC/WaPo, Reuters, et al) all show Obama with a solid lead nationally as well as in several key swing states. And that’s after months of assaults by Republicans that have largely gone unchallenged. Once he gets his actual campaign in gear, the likelihood is that he’ll widen that gap.

At any rate, good luck appealing to independents by trashing moderates within your own party.

Who cares what you think, Sarah?

If Sarah was honest she would have said she would never be convinced.
I see Mitt as just what the Doctor ordered. He is the only one in the field
capable of putting America back to work. If we don’t do that FIRST, none
of the rest will follow.
Will it happen? Not if the candidates continue to divide  and conquer (not)!

I simply enjoy comedy

You have to wonder how much McCain dislikes her privately. She was clearly chosen because McCain wanted a boost from female voters. But then she openly broke with McCain’s top strategists in 2008 and made embarrassing gaffe after gaffe. It’s arguable that whatever boost McCain got from her from her supporters was erased by the disdain that even people on the Right feel for her because she clearly wasn’t up to the job. And now she’s basically trying to screw the guy that McCain has endorsed. 

The funny thing about her supporters is that they don’t realize how much of a flip flopper she is. She very openly supported cap-and-trade (a Republican idea) in the 2008 campaign but now calls it “cap-and-tax” because she wants to make it seem like “big government.” She’s a snake oil sales(wo)man and an opportunist, only she’s not as clever by half as most of the other crooks in politics these days. I wonder whatever happened to all that PAC money she got last year. 

Fox polls show Obama far ahead of ANY GOP hopeful.

Not to mention she had a pretty moderate record herself while governor of Russia’s neighbor.

I’m not convinced Sarah is a member of the GOP. Seems like GOP members wanna keep their distance from her.

“MHIT HAPPENS”

Evidently quite a few people.

Destructive plaques found
in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients have been rapidly cleared by
researchers testing a cancer drug on mice.

The US study, published in the journal Science, reported the plaques were broken down at “unprecedented” speed.

Tests also showed an improvement in some brain function.

She makes me miss William F. Buckley even more. I disagreed with him on everything, but he actually knew shit.

I don’t think Sarah Palin could define the words “conservative” or “liberal” or “cat.”

In reality, he hasn’t polled above a 50% approval but for a couple of instances the last 2 1/2 years . Maybe he’s a slow starter.
As to the independents , it would seem that they quickly realized that the emperor has no clothes.

That’s funny. You sound more like Herb Cain than any librul I’ve ever met.

“I’m not convinced” that Sarah Palin is a human being.
Besides the pretense at “values”; what point is there to be a dark-matter conservative…

The Republican base seems completely blind to the fact that making their candidates bow to Limbaugh is easy enough now, when most American voters are hardly paying attention, but will be tremendously damaging in the general campaign. Sure, some Republicans agree with some of the far-right things Santorum and Gingrich have to say, but most independents don’t. 

They are going to alienate Latinos, gays, anyone who has encountered serious illness and anyone who has gone through tough economic times. Anyone who has ever had to go on unemployment, for example, now has a reason to not vote Republican. The fight over payroll taxes likely annoyed even some GOP voters. Now, they’ve made the stupid bet that the percentage of Catholics upset about having Catholic-run businesses offer voluntary access to contraceptives (not abortion services) will outweigh the percentage of women (much bigger demographic) that are annoyed by fight to limit their insurance coverage (most women working for Catholic businesses already have access to contraceptives through their employer’s insurance program). Whoever made that calculation is an idiot. 

And yet most or all of the RCP polls show him beating Romney (aka, the father of Obamacare) by 5-10 points and ahead by similar margins in many of the key swing states:

http://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/elections/

Dear Sara Palin, please shut your pie hole…your not helping. 

Two things. 

First, look at Reagan’s approval rating in early 1984, and look at the unemployment numbers. Reagan was in worse shape than Obama, but went on to crush Mondale in a general election. Look it up. Reagan and Clinton, by the way, were slow starters. Critics had written off both of them midway through their first terms but they both left office relatively popular. 

Secondly, these are the polls that exGOPman point you to. They show that Obama is pretty solidly leading any match up against an actual GOP candidate despite his approval rating. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/elections/

Sarah , Mitt Romney will be whatever you want him to be !  He does what he is told and that is all. Mitt is not capable of original idea’s.

By that standard, Nancy Grace’s nipple is more relevant than Palin.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/the-top-10-most-popular-mediaite-posts-of-2011/?pid=1288#image 

Why does anyone care what Sarah Palin is “convinced” of?  She can’t even name a newspaper she reads regularly.

 Ouch.

I cracked a rib and you made me laugh so hard I fell on the floor in pain.

In pain or in palin?

This woman is a joke…if she had blond hair she’d be a cliche.

I think the word you looking for is devisive.

That’s so funny, Sarah. Since I’m not convinced that you even have a brain.

“Devisive” is not a word.
I think the word you [are] looking for is “divisive”.

Interesting that you would care about whether or not any GOP candidate is a conservative Sarah.  In truth, none of you guys are conservative.  You, the GOP and its bastard step cousin tea baggers are simply self servants who want unbostructed power through positions of public service.  The word conservative does not really mean conservative when applied to republicans or in American politics.

Sarah – I’m convinced you are an idiot.

I’m fairly sure that recently when he said that choosing Palin was ‘one of the best decisions of my life’ he went straight home and showered three times in a row, scrubbing so hard he drew blood. Everyone involved in the campaign, everyone, saw what a empty headed diva she was and loathed her appropriately.

I believe anyone that fails to dislike Palin has serious issues. The woman is walking talking pure hate and venom and anyone that fails to see that is tragic. Two of her three eldest children have been in serious trouble with the law well before the age of 18, and the other wrote a totally classless book smearing her own childs father against all prior factual information. What sort of mother writes a book that will poison the mind of her child against their father? What sort of mother refuses to comply with court ordered visitation rights of the father and also refuses to allow the fathers family to see their own grandson/nephew? I’ll tell you what sort, the sort of person brought up with the classlessness and lack of morals of one former half term governor of Alaska!!

That’s a laugh coming from the likes of sarah Palin. She is no conservative, either–just another right-wing hack who can’t form a complete sentence without her lines being written out for her by Roger Ailes and staff.

What I cannot understand is why CPAC allows audience to Palin, the is loser and quitter. She has little if any common sense. A competitive battle over the months leading up to the convention will show glaring divisions in the TEA-GOP-Republican parties. Yes, there are three parties; Lincoln’s, Roosevelt’s and Reagan’s. The TEA party, the GOP and the Republican’s now have a three-way stand off arguing over Social programs and religious issues that have no real bearing of everyday American life, except they want to make these into issues, religious issues. Countering the doctor’s Hippocratic Oath and imposing rules that border on draconian orders, reeks of Hitler-Stalin impositions. Palin further stated a brokered convention wouldn’t be bad. Again, she shows her complete ignorance as brokering a convention would further fragment this uneasy coalition. The CPAC attendees are very aware of the news and the divisions that point to the re-election of president Obama. They have been going in circles trying to nominate some one with strong credentials and no one has come into view. They still perceive yet another nominee, but have none in sight. What they are up against is Bush’s two unfunded wars and the Bush tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans, along with the “Housing Bubble” started in the Bush administration. Things are trending up for the president, and possible the house and Senate as well.

SARAH PALIN,
You are not qualified to tell voters how to vote.  Remember, you lost the election to Obama.  We are trying to defeat Obama.  I was born in Massachusetts.  MITT ROMNEY was a Republican Governor with a State Legislature of 80% Democrats.  That is a long road to hoe.  He is an excellent leader, that is envied by all of the losing Republicans in the debates.  All of the losing Republicans have been using their mouths as assault weapons in an attempt to destroy MITT ROMNEY.  Now, MITT ROMNEY has been giving them a taste of their own medicine, and they can’t stand it.   You, Sarah, had your husband endorse Newt Gingrich.  Voters can see right through his lies.  Sarah, let us handle our own election.  I am voting for MITT ROMNEY.  He can and will defeat Obama and his radicals.   What are you and Fox News looking for….the front row in White House Briefing Room?
MITT ROMNEY will help us take our nation back!
Delores Smith
Delores109@cox.net

Agreed…although the “pitbull and lipstick” thing comes pretty close.

 Why is it important that we know who Sarah Palin officially endorses? Isn’t that something actual politicians do?

Are you really an EX GOP?  I’m just curious and I don’t mean in any way to offend you.  I’m an ex Democrat.  I come from a family of Democrats and I voted liberal till I was 40, then I took a look at the party and realized they didn’t care about me.  I’m not sure the Republicans care about the public either, but right now they do seem the lesser of two evils to me.  I still think we should vote all incumbents out of office.  Let’s shake them all up and see what happens.  It can’t get any worse. 

She is only relevant in that you and others like you think she is.  She is also relevant because we love to see what her new wig is up to these days; and her trailer trash “beautician” daughters.  It’s like the Clampetts move to D.C.  Thank God she didn’t make it all the way.  But yes, she is a celebrity we like to trash, but by no means anyone we fear.

Limbaugh hasn’t picked a candidate.  You really need to listen to his shows more carefully.  He might turn you away from the DARK SIDE. 

Now that’s depressing news.  I checked it out, and your right.
I would like a voting box, under the candidates names, that says “Check here for None of the Above.”  Why can’t we have that?  Were always made to choose between the lesser of two evils and I’m tired of it.

But who’s boob’s would you rather look at? 

In her defense, she always says what she’s thinking.  So does Obama.  He’s thinking there are 57 States and he say so.  And…How about that Joe Biden, he’s a hoot.  Were are they hiding him at.  We haven’t heard any words of wisdom from him in a long time.  I’m missing the dude.

 Just for the laughs that she will give us.

I gave you a “like” for this because this cracked me up.  Unfortunately, I may end up having to vote for MHIT as the lesser of two evils.

And yet she still would have made a better President than what we ended up with.  Life isn’t fair.

And you think Obama is?  He’s like the Wizard of OZ. 

Her candidate Newt is in the crapper.  Some influence she has.

She should have taken the offer from Hustler.

Sister Sarah can see your cracked rib from her porch!!!!

Well, the majority of Americans — i.e., the ones who are not drooling Palinites — are not convinced that Sarah is anything more than a political poser.

Hey Gloves,between your posts yesterday and today,it sure looks evident you started on the sauce early this weekend.

 Given the fact that RINO romney(care) has supported EVERY SIDE OF EVERY ISSUE – the totally clueless will ALWAYS find something to support about him.

The #1 joke in the Repub presidential nomination campaign:
A conservative, a moderate and a liberal walk into a bar.
“Hello, Mitt,” says the bartender.

(To be fair-and-balance, here’s the #1 joke in the d-cRAT socialist presidential nomination campaign:  “barack hussein obama”. )

Another John Kerry…

Romney(care): He was FOR abortion before he was AGAINST it; he was FOR the individual mandate before he was AGAINST it; he was FOR appointing leftist activist judges before he was AGAINST it; he was FOR coddling ILLEGALS before he was AGAINST it; he was FOR the auto bailout before he was AGAINST it; he was FOR massive tax increases BEFORE he was AGAINST it….

SO WHERE ARE THE SWIFT BOATERS WHEN WE REALLY NEED THEM ?????

Yeah, the GOP has a word for moderate Republic.  It’s called a centrist Democrat.
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7934

Seriously—-is there anyone on the Right—who actually think this man will EVER get into office and reverse , first of all, Obama’s Health plan which is HIS creation?       Does anyone picture this Pro Choice guy, suddenly working to get rid of abortion, to take away Gay rights?         One flip flop on an issue is one thing, but the number of issues he suddenly switched in order to be President???       Only the naive would even think he will ever be a Rightie.      The man is more Democrat than Republican, and everyone knows it.     Let’s see if he can buy the Presidencyor not, and then watch the faces on the right when he doesn’t do a single thing for their cause.

Our chances are just fine.  I know a lot of conservatives, most don’t consider Romney all that conservative and he is not their first choice; however, to a person they vow to get behind him if he’s nominated…given the alternative.  This is after all the PRIMARY.  Palin will come around once the nominee is decided.

Really?     Didn’t the Wizard kill off Bin Laden and 24 top AlQaeda leaders?   Din’t he pass more legislation in the last 50 yrs of any Pres?    Don’t we have the lowest taxes in 50 yrs?         Aren’t the stock market and jobs and the economy turning around finally from where Bush took them?        Maybe you should pull your head out, and see the sunshine, pal.

Thank you John Mccain for this backwoods, grifting, snowbilly quitter.  Now years later, we still have to hear from this shrieking magpie.

You mean because she is not Black???????

Read through the comments below, and see how much substance there is to refute anything Palin has opined, and then compare it to the pure vitriol.

Hate, like the Democrats hold on power, is short-lived, and will soon dissipate with the November Rain.(Pick up any votes with that War On Religion, Dems? heh-heh)

11-06-12!

Make sure you either read or see the Movie—”Game Change”.    McCain did not choose Palin—he wanted Lieberman.    It was the top Right leaders that insisted he put in a Religious looney to court the religious vote.        By the end of the campaign, you could see he could not barely even look across the stage at her.    Read the book, you will like it.

Same old standard establishment line, “Independents are just sitting there waiting for the candidate who is willing to “compromise” and play nice…If we don’t compromise and play nice, they will go to Obama.”  Pure unadulterated BS.  When has Obama EVER really compromised let alone played nice?  ON ANYTHING?  By your logic, Independents would all detest Obama.

I’m not convinced that Palin deserves to be in the 1%. What did she do? How has she made the world a better place? She makes her living by saying stupid things. At least football stars and Hollywood starts work. They have some natural talent … but Palin?

President Obama is ahead of all your Klowndidates in All the Polls…… including your precious Rasmussen totally “right wing” poll.  Heh-Heh

Exactly…

Another example of Republicans making a huge mistake, that probably cost McCain the election!!

Except Newt who wants her as part of his cabinet…..and you can see where his campaign is.  In the “toilet”.

From my observations, conservatives don’t believe anyone besides themselves is a conservative.  It’s a very self centered ideology right now, and I don’t no if it relates well with public policy where you have to work with people who are likely to think differently from yourself.

She also dedicated day in Alaska in April 2008 to “end of life counseling”.  Now she calls it “Death Panels”. 

How many “Gloves” are there now??

Unemployment is going down and we’re adding JOBS.  As a matter of fact 243,000 jobs last month.  So why do we need Mitt?

But do they “respect” her.

Thanks for the newsflash Palin, everyone knows Mittens is not a Conservative… He’s a fraud that the Republicans are going to be forced to vote for!!  Lol!!

Maybe she was pretty 10 years ago. But….She is now a “bitter old grandma” of two children conceived “out of wedlock”.

She is a JOKE to liberals. Your side thinks she puts us in “fits”.  If she had any real power to elect a President then you would be correct.  But she’s just a “sideshow” riding around on a bus in the backwoods of Kentucky “spewing” childish nonsense to her “faithful toothless wonders”.  Her supporters are jealous of people who got a good education.  So they love Ms. (5) mediocre schools for a B.S. because theythink they’re sticking it to the “smart guys”.  But just as her low IQ supporters were in school….she is also a JOKE nipping from the bottom of the barrel envying the “hip kid”.  That would be President Obama.

Sure…and Republicans tried to do that last year and sent 73 new Teapublicorp representatives to Washington.  The Republican Congress NOW has a 10% approval rating.  And….they tried to push the country into bankruptcy causing a DownGrade.  And it was worse.  It is NOW better. You may NOT like it but Manufacturing, GDP, Durable Goods, consumer Confidence, Imports and Stock Market are all UP.  Unemployment is going Down and we added 243,000 jobs to the economy last month.  Bin Laden is dead and so is Quadaffi.  DADT was repealed and millions of Americans NOW have heatlthcare.  What have Republicans done other than refuse to vote for extended unemployment benefits for the unemployed unless the top 1% get to keep their tax breaks.

I’m amazed that with all the practice she has had Palin still sounds like a dope in front of a camera.

Spin…Spin…Spin….miraclelurker……Rasmussen, Fox (Right Wing Polls). Reuters, ABC/Washington, PPP, NBC/Wall St. Journal, CBS/NY Times Polls show President Obama ahead of Romney by 4 to 7 pts.  And RealClearPolitics a combination of ALL the polls has the President ahead of Romney by 4.3 pts.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/us/general_election_romney_vs_obama-1171.html

I listened to his show once.  I think he’s still on Oxycontin.

LOL

C’mon you lost everybody when you equated Palin word salad to substance.

 The only War on Religion has come from the Republican/Tea Party. How fast you forget the whole Mosque fiasco.

Yes, I was a Republican for almost 30 years, the last 10-15 of them pretty unhappily. I simply couldn’t make excuses any more for the increasing insanity of the rhetoric coming out of the GOP. From “death panels” to “drill, baby, drill” I found it a party aiming and lower and lower for votes. I just didn’t want to be a part of the circus act anymore.

Do you mean the symbolic “Victory Mosque”? – Where purveyors of the ostensible “peaceful religion” were defiantly intransigent about considering the sensibilities of the thousands slaughtered in the name of that Mosque’s religion, and refused to even consider another location?

Is that the Mosque to which you refer?

There’s a litany of public anger to draw upon in ousting this Marxist from the White House, but the Democrats War On Religion is going to be the biggest motivator!

I love how she inadvertently says “Obamneycare” (at about 1:25) and thinks she invented a new word.  Poor Tim Pawlenty – nobody listened to him.

Did you ever think there is not much substance in anything Palin says to criticize besides her old worn out talking points.  How can you criticize anything that’s not there in the first place.  For instance, have you ever heard here explain any of her talking points.  If you have I would love to hear any of it from you.  That’s the main reason people criticize her and say she’s not intelligent.  

 After the CPAC vote yesterday The Washington Times, a paper owned by Rev Sun Myung Moon, a big Republican supporter and CPAC did a national survey.  Believe it or not  20% chose None Of The Above. Coming in above Newt and Paul.

She is constantly contradicting herself and needs to get out of the way.  She is hurting the Republican party.  Palin stay away.  Go eat a Pizza with Trump.  

 like 9 or 10.

I’ve listened to that guy for hours and hours. I’ve listened to them all for hours and hours–Hannity, Savage, O’Reilly, Limbaugh, etc. I’m not saying Limbaugh picked a candidate. I’m saying he has helped pull the GOP in the wrong direction, in my opinion. People who would be considered mainstream Republicans in the Reagan administration, and even more so in the Nixon administration, are called RINOs and ridiculed by Limbaugh and the Far Right. This phenomenon is one of the reasons that some of your best candidates sat out this election, I’d bet. People like Christie, etc, would be considered RINOs because they are basically like Romney and Huntsman. The fact that you guys took Gingrich, Cain, Bachmann, Palin and Perry seriously is laughable. 

Not to worry, Sarah.
Any one of the GOP candidates far surpasses the bigoted, Kenyan, anti-Christian Muslim  usurper we now have sniping at our allies and coddling our enemies from his White House perch.
How wonderful it will be to see God welcomed back into the White House.

How can you honestly call yourself a Christian when you speak of the President this way? God IS welcomed into the White House, by our Christian president, who treats others with respect and dignity. It’s too bad you can’t do the same.

 I’m sure you would love it if it were true, but there is no “war on religion”. It is a complete fabrication, embraced by those with little knowledge of the facts who are easily manipulated. Same with “death panels”, no such thing. And the president isn’t a Marxist. There are plenty of things to be angry about in this world, why don’t you try something that’s real?

My friend just met a chocolate man on Blackwhitemeet.COMit’s where for men and women looking for interracial’ship for a fabulous lifestyle
It’s a nice place for black white sing’les, to interact with each other…no bounds or extremes in front of true love.

Lol!! One was bad enough!!  =)

Gov.Quitter.

This thread is about Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney; not Sarah Palin and Herman Cain. 

Well, if Sarah “You Betcha-*wink*” Palin isn’t convinced, then neither am I!  Good thing she’s the brains of the GOP.

Good thing you’re not.

I didn’t call myself a Christian (you “assumed”)….but I did call Obama a Muslim.
He has done the same thing himself:
In September 2008, in a conversation with George Stephanopoulos set up
to quell any rumors that Obama was himself a Muslim, Obama slipped up
and referred to “my Muslim Faith” before correcting himself at
Stephanopoulos’ prodding. To be sure, this did little to quiet citizen
concerns.
http://www.cashill.com/natl_general/understanding_obamas.htm
You state that he treats others with respect and dignity yet he insulted our ally the Israeli Prime Minister:
Obama had been in what he thought was a private discussion at the G20 summit in Cannes last week with French president Nicolas Sarkozy
but their comments were picked up by a live microphone overheard by
journalists. Sarkozy said: “I cannot bear Netanyahu. He’s a liar.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/08/obama-netanyahu-comment-sarkozy

I suggest you get your FACTS straight before putting your unclean foot in your “sub-righteous” mouth.

No, it’d probably amount to the same thing.  I’d take advantage of your willingness to shell out money for ghostwritten books, then I’d help fragment the party even further.

You mean like liberals shelling out food stamps for the “ghost-written” Dreams of My Father?
We aren’t fragmented…we are debating and you will witness the unity in November.
Remember you heard it here.

 Mitts are for baseball
Palin is for Presidents
Even Mitt doesn’t know who Mitt will be tomorrow.

One of those candidates is bigoted, anti-Muslim Christian, switch of words but has the same feelings.  There are other terms also that apply to that candidate who is running as a fake hypocrite conservative.  He does not want to allow abortion in any circumstance except the one he has had to experience.

lmao… the GOP is destroying itself. everyone can see the hateful bigotry. good luck though.

That’s funny I don’t remember the constitution saying that you must be a Christian to become president.

Who cares if he’s Muslim or a Christian?  Your front runner worships magical underpants… big deal.

 Yes take it Back to the Bush Era. and Recession.

She looks like shit.

mitt and newt are double agents for the progressive party

When Boehner and the President came to an agreement to cut the deficit by 4.4 Trillion which was demanded by the Republican Tea Party. The President compromised not getting the tax increase on the rich. When the light bulb went on over Boehner’s head he ran away from the deal realizing he was cutting social security on a major block of his voting public and said so!

I’ve been a Republican for 40yrs and I won’t board the crazy train either. I keep hoping the Party will stop at the station marked “Reality”. Not sure that will happen anytime soon. I’ve been considering going independent for some time but then fall back on that hope! I’ve gotten claims of friendly fire for critisizing the extremism as if your not intitaled to an opinion. Didn’t want GWB and warned those I knew that it would not end well. Sadly I was right.

A good mother of family values………

She is amusing at times dotcha know!

Put that on a T shirt it should sell really well! Lol!

 The same thing was thought by many back in ’08 when Barry and Hillary were smoking each other and the liberal slag came together.
Considering how much better we are than you (in every way) ….I see more than conservative unity…I see prison time coming for many liberals after we kick your asses.

This sentiment hardly reflects Sarah Palin’s views.  In 2008, when asked on the campaign whether a Moslem could aspire to be President, she answered simply yes, there is no religious test for public office in the US.

It takes one to know one.

McCain was a poor candidate and the author of his own defeat.  The ineptitude of his campaign staff Schimdt and Wallace didn’t help either.  The only time he was ahead in the polls was after he picked Palin and the only time his stump meetings had crowds larger than Obama’s was when he had Palin with him.  The exit polls also show that those voters for whom the VP pick was important voted 58/42% for the McCain/Palin ticket.  Obama won but it was Palin who denied him a real landslide.

Romney can’t and won’t be what Palin thinks he should be. He’s not capable of it. He should just be himself. Everytime he tries to portray himself as one of us, he screws up. Everyone knows what he meant about not caring for the  very poor. But, on this one he’s wrong and Newt is more right. The leaders should try to get people off food stamps and welfare and into the job market. Drive by a poor, drug infested, section of your city and look at the 5 year olds playing in the these neighborhoods. That’s what they see. They think that poverty and drugs are the norm. They grow up thinking and living it with no way out. So, they become their parents, and a burdon on the state, ie, welfare, medicaid, food stamps, etc.. They turn to crime and wind up in prison at cost to the state greater than what they could live on, on the outside. I grew up in the 60s in Baltimore. I saw it then and I continue to see it. But, I don’t drive through those neighborhoods anymore. So, at least on this one. Newt is heading in the right direction, and Romney doesn’t know what he’s talking about. The question is how does this country get there, when were 34 among the developed countries in terms of child poverty and health issues.

I’m not convinced Romney is an America-firster…

I never read it.  I’m heartily enjoying the denial I’m seeing from you, though.  Not fragmented?  Delicious.  What’s a RINO, and what’s all this I hear about this elusive “Establishment GOP?”  Are they anything like the Tea Party candidates?  

The dissonance within the foundation of your party started long before this presidential race.  Does the congressional election of 2010 ring a bell?  Sure, Republicans took the House, but a good portion of them are Tea Partiers, effectively driving a wedge between the existing two parties represented.  Have a look at the approval rate of Congress when you get a chance, by the way.  Your party isn’t fragmented?  

But don’t let me piss on your parade. Keep holding out for that magical day when everyone in your party starts getting along and accomplishing things.  It’ll happen someday, right?  Right?