Ridiculous Romney Cites Book By Scientologist L. Ron Hubbard May 2, 2007, 1:07 PM
This is not helping Mormons seem normal . . .

MITT ROMNEY, L. RON HUBBARD FAN

What’s next? Winking at Islamic fundamentalists for being the last Americans to give up polygamy?

Oh, and this, too:

Gov. Mitt Romney will never recover from his acquiescence to the Massachusetts Supreme Court’s miraculous discovery of a right to gay marriage.

Pervez Musharraf is better than Mitt Romney! Ann Coulter said so!

If Republicans end up with a divided convention between Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, I say we pick Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

I think that anything really can happen however, whatever the polls say. Hillary and Giulliani got too cocky and look at what happened. I think the right got that way too in reverse. They thought that if they hated McCain enough the rest of the party would do as they were told. It has not worked that way.

If Romney gets the nomination, I will vote for him. I will not have fit, or take my marbles and go home and act as if it is the end of the world. Too bad the same can not be said for some of the Romney supporters.

We shall see, what we see.

Like I said anything can happen, but this poll with Rasmussen is the only one of a half dozen that even have Romney close to McCain, none of the others come close to a tie. I think people who want Romney should vote for him, but it is a long shot.

But as far as fighting Islamic terrorism is concerned, McCain has the edge. He just does.

Romney just won the Maine caucus big today! And, he has gained 9 points in Missouri since the Florida vote. He has higher favorables than McCain in Tennessee.

Left by Terrye says some people are just tired of the right. The right says Romney isn’t conservative enough. It’s all perspective. And, most people haven’t even paid attention. It also doesn’t explain why Democrats will vote Republican if Hillary is the nominee. I think you meant to say that people are sick of it all. Guess what? Romney is as new as Obama. McCain isn’t.

Read Walid Phares’ endorsement of Romney for fighting GWOT called:

The Candidate Who Can See the Enemy, Can Defeat It
by Walid Phares
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=24808

excerpt:

I am sure Senator McCain can follow the same reasoning and catch up with the geopolitics of the enemy but so far Governor Romney has readied himself better in the realm of strategizing the defeat this enemy. The next stage of the war has to do with a mind battle with the Jihadists. The latter aren’t a just a bunch of Barbarians set to bloodshed. They have a very advanced strategy, projecting for decades, and they are ready to confront our next President and defeat the United States. This is why I have come to the conclusion that -based on what was provided to the public by the four leading candidates- Governor Romney has the capacity of managing the counter strategies against the Jihadists, only because he stated to the public that he sees the enemy as to who they are. And if a President can see them, he can defeat them. His Republican contender, now leading the polls, can sense them but haven’t shown them. The leading candidates on the other side are making progress in the opposite direction: One wants to end the War unilaterally and the other wants to make Peace with the oppressors. In short, if elected, Romney will try to destroy the mother ship, McCain will supply the trenches, Clinton will pull the troops back to the barracks and Obama will visit the foes’ bunkers.

Hence, as is, I have recommended Governor Romney for the Republican Primaries as first among equals while considering Senator McCain as a genuine leader. If Romney is selected I believe America may have a chance to try new strategies. If his contender is selected, we will have four or eight more years of the past seven years. On the other side, I have suggested to counter-Terrorism experts to help Democratic candidates restructure their agendas on national security in line with the reality of the enemy: For I would like to see both Parties presenting a united vision of the threat while differing on how to confront it. That would be the ideal situation America can be in and a response to the deepest will of the American public.

Just before Edwards dropped out of the race, Gallup did a poll on favorability for different candidates. In the top 4, there was only one Republican, John McCain. He had a rating the same as Obama’s. Romney’s rating was 32. The chances of someone with a rating like that winning a national election is practically nonexistent. I think that many people are just tired of the right, they want something different.

The underlying advantage that both McCain and Hillary have in the minds of voters is that a rejection in either case would be definitive. After this year, there will be no further opportunities to give McCain a chance at the helm, and the defeat of Hillary would represent a firm break by the Democrats with the most recent, extended period of successful (again from the D’s point of view) Democratic. In other words, the electorates can refuse Romney and Obama this time, and still bank them for later – something very realistic for Obama, perhaps less so for Romney but still psychologically valid.

In the meantime, if, as seems likely, McCain wins the nomination, failure by the party to rally around him would represent an historical error of calamitous proportions. The level of delusion and self-importance on the part of the group AJ calls “hyper-rightists” truly does deserve the word “extreme.” It’s pure fantasy to expect that the party and the conservative movement would likely recover easily from such an exhibitionistically self-destructive act, that voters would at any time soon want to reward a movement seen to be dominated by hate-filled ideologues – almost regardless of how disappointing a period of unified Democratic governance seemed.

The next Democratic Administration, if put in place by 2009, will be able to fix huge new client constituencies based on health, immigration, and environmentalist initiatives. Look to the 1930s if you want to see how bad results can be manipulated for the sake of retaining power for statists: They got a massive failure of an administration re-elected 3 times, and 70 years later it’s still viewed as one of the great episodes of American politics.

“I am at a disadvantage. Senator Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands. And as they have been gazing at this attractive picture so long they cannot in the little distraction that has taken place in the party bring themselves to quite give up the charming hope, but with greediness anxiously they rush about, sustain him, give him marches, triumphant entires and reception, beyond what even in the days of his highest prosperity they could have brought about in his favor. On the contrary, nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.”

I think the Dems may get this one right. They’ll unify around Obama. The Repubs seem ready to sink the ship and vote for McCain.

What we need is an Obama vs Romney campaign and debate so that it is the issues that decide, and not polarized politics.

Rally for Romney.