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A Candidate that will SAVE America

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ravens24

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I'm hoping the next president that can SAVE America. Mitt Romney I think is the perfect candidate. He's saved countless number of businesses in his career, he saved the Salt Lake Olympics, and he's doing a good job getting rid of debt and providing much more affordable healthcare and education in Massachusetts. He isnt our run of the mill republican even if he has to play a little more conservative to win the nomination. Liberals shouldnt be scared off if he comes off to conservative at first because he knows America has more important things to worry about than the semantics of gay marriage vs unions and so on.

I think America needs somebody that is different, new, refreshing, a reformer.
I dont believe McCain and CLinton fit that, they are basically your run of the mill, next in line sort of candidates.

Barack Obama on the Democratic has a lot less experience than CLinton, but he is a guy I can see as capable of reforming our place in the world.

My ticket is Romney/Obama lol will never happen

Romney Obama vs Clinton McCain
 
MR was a successful Republican in a Democrat state. He is probably the cleanest and most honest politician available. But as long as the evangelical bigots of the religious right are involved, he is as bad as Satan himself.
 
I don't think Romneys religion bothers most Christians........I know it does not bother me and I am a Christian..........Although I like him I don't think he is electable.........
 
I don't think Romneys religion bothers most Christians........I know it does not bother me and I am a Christian..........Although I like him I don't think he is electable.........
 
I don't think Romneys religion bothers most Christians........I know it does not bother me and I am a Christian..........Although I like him I don't think he is electable.........
 
I'm from MA, and I have to disagree with those who think Romney is the one. He can't pick a side on any of the issues conservatives want him to go conservative on. For the last year he was in office, he was out of the state almost as much as he was in it. Education went to crap on his watch, and he was likely the most invisible governor MA has ever had outside of Dukakis. The only time he wasn't hiding under his desk was when he was cutting a ribbon to open a bridge that would fall down a year later or to issue weather emergencies.

The whole scale of presidential candidates is looking pretty bleak at the moment, in my opinion. Hopefully somebody emerges in the next two years.
 
Navy Pride said:
I don't think Romneys religion bothers most Christians........I know it does not bother me and I am a Christian..........Although I like him I don't think he is electable.........
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If you are right....then I think that when it all boils down...Romney will be the nominee. Here's why.

McCain was definitely the front-runner...but his move to appease the right-wing has caused him to self-destruct.
I don't think that McCain is much of a viable candidate (at this point). Maybe he can redeem himself...but I think, like Dean in 2003...he has damaged himself.

Giuliani...the current front-runner, is too out of synch with the conservative wing of the party. The ONLY way that Giuliani gets the nomination is if the party gets scared and sees him as the ONLY candidate that can win...in which case they may throw their support behind him.

Which leaves Romney, who at this point is the only other viable Republican candidate in the race at this point. I think that when the steam clears he will emerge the nominee. Why? Because he's conservative...he appeals to the base. Because he appeals to moderates (C'mon...the guy got elected in Massachusetts)....and sad to say....he's good looking and has charisma (which unfortunately are attributes that a large percentage of the population base their vote on). Romney has two draw-backs, the mormon thing and he is not as well known as McCain and Giuliani.

If, as you say, NP...that most Christians don't have a problem with the Mormon thing....I think he emerges as the Republican candidate.

It is definitely going to be a fun and interesting campaign....personally I'm excited for the first time in at least a decade....1996 was no race....Dole was never a viable candidate....2000...well...we all know what a fiasco that was.....2004...never all that interested in Kerry....but 2008....either way Democrat or Republican or Independent....we all come out ahead and maybe...just maybe.....honor and integrity will finally be restored to the whitehouse.
 
The funny thing is, almost every time I've heard his religion brought up, its by someone on the left stating it in the guise of "the republicans won't vote for him due to BEING A MORMON!!!!!".
 
ravens24 said:
I'm hoping the next president that can SAVE America. Mitt Romney I think is the perfect candidate. He's saved countless number of businesses in his career, he saved the Salt Lake Olympics, and he's doing a good job getting rid of debt and providing much more affordable healthcare and education in Massachusetts. He isnt our run of the mill republican even if he has to play a little more conservative to win the nomination. Liberals shouldnt be scared off if he comes off to conservative at first because he knows America has more important things to worry about than the semantics of gay marriage vs unions and so on.

I think America needs somebody that is different, new, refreshing, a reformer.
I dont believe McCain and CLinton fit that, they are basically your run of the mill, next in line sort of candidates.

Barack Obama on the Democratic has a lot less experience than CLinton, but he is a guy I can see as capable of reforming our place in the world.

My ticket is Romney/Obama lol will never happen

Romney Obama vs Clinton McCain
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Romney's ratings are for shite. Preliminary polls indicate he's got something like 3% of the GOP vote.
Giuliani is leading (even in the South!) but just by a few points, with McCain hot on his tail; a huge percentage of GOP voters are still "undecided".
The brick wall that Romney's up against is that he's wooing the fundamentalist extremist faction of the GOP, and they won't vote for him because he's Mormon. They think it's a cult.
 
disneydude said:
If you are right....then I think that when it all boils down...Romney will be the nominee. Here's why.

McCain was definitely the front-runner...but his move to appease the right-wing has caused him to self-destruct.
I don't think that McCain is much of a viable candidate (at this point). Maybe he can redeem himself...but I think, like Dean in 2003...he has damaged himself.

Giuliani...the current front-runner, is too out of synch with the conservative wing of the party. The ONLY way that Giuliani gets the nomination is if the party gets scared and sees him as the ONLY candidate that can win...in which case they may throw their support behind him.

Which leaves Romney, who at this point is the only other viable Republican candidate in the race at this point. I think that when the steam clears he will emerge the nominee. Why? Because he's conservative...he appeals to the base. Because he appeals to moderates (C'mon...the guy got elected in Massachusetts)....and sad to say....he's good looking and has charisma (which unfortunately are attributes that a large percentage of the population base their vote on). Romney has two draw-backs, the mormon thing and he is not as well known as McCain and Giuliani.

If, as you say, NP...that most Christians don't have a problem with the Mormon thing....I think he emerges as the Republican candidate.

It is definitely going to be a fun and interesting campaign....personally I'm excited for the first time in at least a decade....1996 was no race....Dole was never a viable candidate....2000...well...we all know what a fiasco that was.....2004...never all that interested in Kerry....but 2008....either way Democrat or Republican or Independent....we all come out ahead and maybe...just maybe.....honor and integrity will finally be restored to the whitehouse.
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I think Romney has very little chance to get the nomination and it has nothing to do with his religion..........Very recently when running against Kennedy for the senate he was pro abortion and gay marriage..........He has done a complete flip flop on those issues.......

I think the guy you dems need to fear is Rudy G. He has explained his stand on gay marriage and he is fo domestic partnerships......He is pro choice but said he would nominate judges like Roberts and Alieto who are strict constructionists.......He said his gun control stance was based on NYC not the rest of the country.............Most important he is a strong fiscal conservative and strong on the war on terror............

If the election were tomorrow he would beat any dem candidate......
 
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