Romney's 2012 base: Utah?
By Wally EdgeVice chairman of the Utah Republican Party Todd Weiler on why Gov. Mitt Romney (R), not Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), has the upper hand in Utah for 2012:
"The conservative base in Utah, I think they're still looking forward to a Romney run in 2012," Weiler said. "I'm not surprised people aren't lining up to jump on the Palin bandwagon just yet."
Weiler said the success of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake guarantees Romney will "always be Utah's favorite son. If he wants to run, he's going to have a home base here. Just being Mormon is not enough."
During the Republican primary, Romney carried the state with 89.5 percent of the vote, a much higher share than the 51 percent he earned in Massachusetts.
Romney won a total of 11 states during the primary including -- you betcha -- Alaska, where he garnered 36 percent of the vote.
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Republicans will only lose worse in 2012 if the voices that ascend to the leadership of the GOP are Culturalist crusaders like Palin and Huckabee. America is very large, very diverse, yet increasingly collegial. You simply cannot have success as a major party by purging supposedly "nonpure" or insufficiently conservative members (based solely on cultural identity) from the rolls.
I'm not anti-Palin as I am anti-Huckabee, as obviously Governor Palin got a bad rap from the disgraceful media over her 9 weeks in the national spotlight of the general election. So we'll get to see how she develops as she still has an important job to do, which goes for our other media name young gun, Bobby Jindal, as well. Aside from those two, the other names outside the known talent pool of 2008 are Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor, Mark Sanford, Mike Pence, and Jon Huntsman.
My pipedream is that General Petraeus (and he is a Republican) will consider running if the state of the world at war is still in shambles. I'd take a Petraeus/Romney ticket or Romney/Petraeus in either order. If things are peachy in foreign affairs in 3 and 4 years from now, and the economy's in the tank still, or in a malaisse, or even impotent to a degree, this one's Romney's to lose. The only question would be, Who will be his runningmate? Sanford would be good, and ironically Palin would've been a good runningmate for him, but she will have to shake the Dan Quayleness that has been attached to her name first.
Romney will win in 2012
I'm really looking forward to watching Mitt Romney bitch slap the black Jimmy Carter all the way back to Chicago and then starting to undo the economic damage in 2012.
Mitt is STILL our man!
Check out www.myspace.com/americansformitt to show your support for a Romney Revolution in 2012. Be sure to purchase "Romney 2012" bumperstickers!
great comments. Speaking
great comments.
Speaking of Romney 2012 gear, I swung by www.gopshoppe.com to see what sort of things they had post-Bush, post-McCain, post-power, and aside from the predictable anti-Obama stuff, and the Don't Blame Me I Voted For McCain/Palin stuff, well what do you know, you can get Don't Blame Me I Voted For Romney magnets and bumperstickers! I can't recall another time where a primary runner-up had Don't Blame Me gear for sale, anywhere.
Our job over the next few years is to recollect the fractured factions of our party. Now, despite the rabid Hickabean types, Romney actually did better than the Huck among evangelicals--got more of that vote, total--just not in the South, as Mike was but a regional candidate. In four, well, three years, not even, Mike'll likely find his appeal dried up as Palin and Jindal will each by drawing from that well as well. With McCain vanquished, Rudy irrelevant, the moderate flank they straffed Mitt from this year will come around, naturally. It's hard to predict who else will emerge (Cantor, Ryan, Sanford, Huntsman, Pence are all worth tracking; Petraeus--a dream but a stretch, and yeah, hotspots will have to be cooking), and Obama may prove tough to defrock as picking off incumbents is pretty tough to do anyway, but if someone can it's Mitt Romney.
This is why people like us didn't vote this time, or didn't vote for McCain. We saw the wrong guy get nominated, and we stayed home. Anyway, the macroevents that could shape the Obama Presidency and lead to an easy second term or his ouster are out of our hands, so we need to do whatever it takes to do as Mitt Romney said in his first ad for this cycle back in 2007: clean our own house because when Republicans act like Democrats, America loses.
So the first order of business is to unite the party, and that's best done by a level, articulate, pragmatic voice, not someone snipping and picking at Obama left and right.
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You're absolutely right ds. We need to regroup and take the party back from witless wonders like W and McCain.
The first order of business is to end all this talk of Caribou Barbie and Gomer Pyle being the nominee in 2012. We not only need to throw Palin and Huckabee under the bus but back the bus up several hundred times.
Then we need to help Romney stay in the limelight and highlight his economic/business expertise over the next four years. Then he will be a viable alternative for those of us who haven't put a gun in our mouths after four years of the black Jimmy Carter to vote for.
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