More’s the pity Willard wasn’t born to the manor. He’d be very happy in Edwardian England and much better liked than he could ever be in America.

Here is the crux of the problem facing Mitt Romney today. He is simply not trusted by the right-wing base of the Republican Party. Mitt is a flip-flopper, and he has never stopped flopping from the day he entered the political universe. More importantly, he does not engage in the kind of overheated hateful rhetoric against President Obama that the Tea Party adores and has made it a litmus test for any presidential candidate. Mitt doesn’t play the kind of dog whistle politics the conservatives are demanding. He’s a “progressive”! And then there’s “Romneycare.” He’s finished!   http://www.sunstateactivist.org

Let’s never forget why we need people like Grover Norquist and his pledge, even it it means moving away  from good deals (like Bowles-Simpsons or the grand bargain Obama proposed to Boehner) : we need to be intransigent in the negotiations with the opposition, because as soon as we’re accepting a compromise, despicable politicians like Chuck Schumer or Bill Clinton will call us liars and use it for political purpose, like they trashed Reagan and Bush before.

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‘Pretending to care about the deficit — created exclusively by their own profligate spending — Democrats demanded that President George H.W. Bush agree to a “balanced budget” package with both spending cuts and tax increases. In June 1990,  Bush did so, agreeing to tax hikes in defiance of his “read-my-lips, no-new-taxes” campaign pledge.

‘Again, Democrats, being Democrats, produced no spending cuts, and within two years the increased federal spending had led to a doubling of the deficit. All that mattered was that they had tricked Bush into breaking his tax pledge, which they celebrated all the way to Bush’s defeat in the next election.

‘On CNN’s “Crossfire,” then-congressman Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., gloated: “All the spin control in the world can’t undo the fact that the president is moving away from (no new) taxes.”‘ (Ann Coulter, http://m.newsbusters.org/blogs/ann-coulter/2011/11/24/medias-unhealthy-tax-hike-fixation-getting-old )

Progressives are utterly convinced Romney is despised by Republicans, his winning primaries notwithstanding.   Fret not liberals, come November Romney will get all the love he needs to win the day.

Liberals see race and money first.

A successful businessman is a threat to remove a community agitator, who had a big hand in the housing crisis, from a job he was wildly unqualified for.

Chuck ( “I always say extreme”) Schumer is A walking Dem talking point wearing a suit. Totally useless and uninformed.

A middle-class that would bet you 10 grand on the spot, thinks 300 grand is a few box. 

Big Petty, might you call your boss, Little Andy Blightphart, and have him set up a meeting to coordinate whether “liberal” or “progressive” ought to be the word of art these days. You rightist reactionaries seem confused and are diluting your talking points.

I know of no one who thinks Republicans despise Willard, Chuck. At heart, all Republicans are Vulture Capitalist, only with varying degrees of success at it. Rather, Willard doesn’t seem to inspire much, if any, enthusiasm. Were I a Democrat, I might be concerned that might change. Were I a  Republican, I might be concerned that the kind of contempt and disdain Republicans have for President Obama is going to become tiresome by November.

Surely lefties have noticed that Obama is trying to turn into what he thinks a Republican is in order to be reelected. He did it in 2008. We won’t get fooled again.

“Watching MSNBC is a chore and an exercise in frustration waiting for the other side of the story. It simply will not be presented. Instead we are treated with angry scowls and insulting language thrown at Republicans. Let’s not forget those thrills up and down Matthews’ leg.”

http://bigjournalism.com/aliciacolon/2012/02/01/if-bloggers-arent-journalists-neither-are-many-members-of-the-msm/#more-263752

In Florida, 38% of voters said they want someone else. Only 51% of Romney voters said they are satisfied with their candidate. Total voter turnout was down from 2008. None of those seem like a problem to you? You don’t think a significant number of Republican voters are unhappy with Romney?

Do you think his wealth was a problem for McCain in 2008? Remember the fuss about how he couldn’t remember how many houses he owns? Forget left and right for a minute. Did that hurt him with independent voters?

As far a candidate with money is concerned, did liberals say Kerry was out of touch? His money was fine because he didn’t earn it.

Actually it was Republican John Heinz’ pickle dough that Te-re-za brought to the table.

Te-re-za. Hmm. Maybe Kerry did earn it.

Despised is a strong word, but certainly you’re not denying that there’s been a lot of resistance to Mittens by Republicans. The far right thinks he’s insufficiently conservative, evangelicals don’t trust his Mormonism (which is why he lost so dramatically in SC), rank and file conservatives think he’s a “moderate” and his unfavorables have shot up as voters have gotten to know him.

I’m sure he’ll get most conservatives to fall in line in November, but along the way he’s going to have to kiss A LOT of right wing butt, and that’s where he’s going to lose independents in droves, and they’re the real key to his having any chance at winning the presidency.

Despised is too strong a word, I agree, should have worded it differently.  What I mean to express is for the most part (not exclusively but nearly so) the criticism of Romney attributed to Republicans are from liberal commentators projecting.  Just as with the Democratic Primary in 2008, Republican primary voters include those who are invested in a candidate (such as Santorim or Gingrich or Romney or Cain) and will express doubts or disagreement with the others.  As their candidates drop out their support moves to someone else.  Many of those who are disagreeing with Romney or Newt are doing so because they support someone else.  As the field narrows down the survivor(s) support will increase.  There was lots of anger about how the media and Obama’s campaign treated Hillary, yet once Obama was the nominee Democrats got behind him (after some weeks of bitterness and threats of non-support).   In spite of what the liberal commentators on this site have been saying all along, any of the Republican candidates (except maybe Ron Paul and to a much lesser extent Cain because of their views being on the fringe), any of the candidates will be a good choice.

 any of the candidates will be a good choice.
By simply putting an (R) beside their name.  Nothing to do with the good of the country.

Isn’t the lack of enthusiasm for Romney going to be a problem in terms of voter turnout? It is ridiculous and untrue to suggest that Romney criticism is mostly liberal commentators projecting. That completely ignores reality and the plethora of criticism Romney receives from the right every single day. Stating that the right will gladly rally around Romney and enthusiastically support him simply because he is the GOP nominee is naive and foolish.

Schumer claims that Obama is the middle class president, so
the question begs; what has he done for the middle class in the last three
years?

 Answer to what has
Obama done he has lost the 80% middle class jobs and has placed them in more
debt than they can ever hope to repay in the next 30 years.

Sen. Chuck Schumer called for Obama to ‘Take a two-by-four ‘Hillary
R Clinton and that was a member of his own Democratic Party!

Imagine, with the Billion dollar war chest Obama has
accumulate via his SuperPacs et.al what he will call for Obama to  do against Romney, the future POTUS…

Teabag Donahue sure does get it up for DoucheBart, doesn’t he? What about the other “conservative” teahadist who keeps linking to that “American Stinker” rag? Is that Teabag Donahue, too? Man, those clowns just don’t stop exiting that small (minded) car!

Romney doesn’t care about the poor voters because he doesn’t need the poor vote to win and that’s a fact.  Plus a lot of poor voters don’t have ID cards so it doesn’t matter anyway.

And he has absolutely no concept.  Just what Murcuh needs.

Schumer is a useless piece of crap

Give it a couple of months and see how fast Obimbo become the middle of the road candidate fighting for the middle class. That same middle class he wants to tax out of existence! Obimbo’s hypocrisy knows no bounds.

As insensitive and uncaring Romney’s remarks about not being concerned regarding the poor.at least he acknowledged low income people actually exist in the US.  That’s significally better than the rest of the Repugnants