I believe Mitt Romney will win the Republican nomination for President.

[liberaldemocrat7]

I believe that Mitt Romney will win the Republican nomination. The Republicans want a nonthreatening looking person that they will prop up as a potemkin.

Underneath this potemkin will come the very privatization plans for social security and medicare and other social safety net destruction with more tax cuts for the wealthy that the Republicans had with George W Bush. Mitt will cover the themes of not raising taxes that every Republican has uttered since 1976 and before. Yes even Gerry Ford uttered this in his campaign in 1976. Republicans don't want taxes raised so they can squeeze social programs between defense and the amount of money the government takes in. Republicans run on tax resentment decade after decade.


Different asshole, similar structured shit.

[mwb970]

1. Romney strikes me as absolutely worthless.

But so did bush in 2000, and look what happened!

[marmar]

9. All of the top-tier Repug candidates are.....

They're just hoping to be installed as the next figurehead for the organized crime syndicate that is today's Republican Party.

[Vinca]

2. I agree with you. The other day I saw a "Mitt '08" bumper sticker

and nearly lost my lunch. Creationist Huckabee might rise to the top - long shot - but I don't think it will be Ghouliani.

[PDenton]

3. Romney if nominated, will be a hard push on the base

Expect evangelicals to be uneasy about Romney if he gets nominated. Expect lots of dodging about questions about Independence, Missouri and Kolob. Heck, we might get a few underwear questions too. He's ran as a "man of faith", well, I think his faith will come under scrutiny because he opened his big mouth. Also, he can be easily labelled as a "flip flopper". He was governor of one of the most liberal states in the US and suddenly has changed alot of his stances. The Republican party is going to have to do a massive spin job on this guy.

He might win the primary but he will lose a general election.

[Glorfindel]

4. You're right...Southern Baptists do not consider Mormons Christians

and the Repukes can't win without the votes of the Southern Baptists. I hope they will nominate him.

[tekisui]

6. The questions he could be asked about his *faith*

are endless. And some things in hi religion would seem so bizarre to others that even his ducking away will tell a story. Mormons are last-dayers. They believe that a *final battle* will come. They also believe that Israel and her allies will be destroyed in this battle and that will usher in the second coming of jesus christ. Then, they believe that when jesus comes back he, he will be a warrior-general and wipe all non-believers from the Earth. Non-believers in mormonism, that is. They believe that they are one of the tribes of Israel, chosen people. Watch out.


He is as phony as they come and we all see right through him. Even other mormons don't like him. They do not want someone like him to be the most recognized mormon. My family are mormons and won't vote for him.

[mwb970]

7. Wow, that's far-out stuff.

And thanks for posting this info. Should the Mitten actually get nominated there are sure to be a number of books going into detail on the points you mention. (Actually, it sounds pretty interesting, in a car-wreck way, but not something I want my president involved with!)

[tekisui]

10. Tip-of-the-iceberg.

[PDenton]

13. Don't forget the Garden of eden being in

Missouri. Even most fundamentalists will scratch their head and wonder why it's not in the generally accepted mesopotamia (ironicly, smack in the middle of Iraq).

Or God residing near Kolob (which most Christians would either say God is transcendent- he doesn't live anywhere in particular, or he lives everywhere, or outside the universe, or in the hearts of believers... not near a particular star).

Or the fact that in Mormonism, in order for a woman to reach the highest level of heaven, she must be married to a good Mormon husband and bear children, and please her husband because he has to call out her name when he ascends to heaven, or else... (instant divorce, and use your imagination...) Mormonism is especially hard on single or barren women, to say nothing of gays and lesbians (in fact some Mormons encourage gay Mormons to enter into sham marriages, really sad). Utah's anti-depressant use is above the national average, and its suicide rate is higher than the national average as well (it also has an extremely high teen pregnancy and divorce rate).

I don't particularly relish mocking anybody's religious beliefs, but if Mitt is going to run as a "man of faith", his faith should bear scrutiny.

[book_worm]

5. I agree. He's leading in Iowa and NH and raises alot of money (plus his own)

If he can get a lot of publicity if he wins NH and IA he could do it.

[Marrah_G]

8. As a resident of Mass the thought of him as Pres makes me want to vomit

Will he despise the citizens of America as much as he despised the citizens of Massachusetts? He was rarely in the state and when he was he made it clear he disliked the majority of us.

[rurallib]

11. Wow - filthy rich white man as the republiKlan party nominee

Something new. and he inherited his wealth also. so different than usual.

[MilesColtrane]

12. "The Republicans want a nonthreatening looking person that they will prop up as a potemkin."

Sounds like you're describing Fred Thompson to me.

I predicted Giuliani was going to be the next president, back in 2005 when he hooked up with Bracewell & Patterson and Patrick Oxford.

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1180688732250

Right now he is the leading Rep. candidate for the nomination. He's got an average of about 5 points over Thompson.

Rasmussen says that, of a sample of registered Republicans, Giuliani has a 75% favorable rating.

We'll see if his endless supply of money can be used to persuade the remaining 1/4 of Republicans to vote for him.

The only way I can see the Religious Right getting fired up to vote for Rudy is if he will be running against Hillary.
(Although, right now she's leading a head to head general election polling by 5 points.)