RR Poll: Romney takes the lead in SC!!!

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/south_carolina/election_2012_south_carolina_republican_primary

This thing could be over really, really fast.

I know this goes without saying, but if Romney, after cruising in NH (which seems inevitable now) somehow wins SC, this thing will be OVER. If that happens, Florida will be a coronation and the later primaries will be a mere formality.

If Republicans want liberal activist judges appointed, then Mitt is your man!

Originally posted by sh76
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/south_carolina/election_2012_south_carolina_republican_primary

This thing could be over really, really fast.

I know this goes without saying, but if Romney, after cruising in NH (which seems inevitable now) somehow wins SC, this thing will b ...[text shortened]... If that happens, Florida will be a coronation and the later primaries will be a mere formality.

A few more jobs reports like this one: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-06/u-s-payrolls-gain-more-than-expected-200-000-jobless-rate-falls-to-8-5-.html

and they might as well put a crown of thorns on Mitt's head. It would be interesting to see which face of his the blood would pour onto.

Originally posted by no1marauder
A few more jobs reports like this one: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-06/u-s-payrolls-gain-more-than-expected-200-000-jobless-rate-falls-to-8-5-.html

and they might as well put a crown of thorns on Mitt's head. It would be interesting to see which face of his the blood would pour onto.

Oh the imagery! Niiiiice.

Originally posted by Sleepyguy
Oh the imagery! Niiiiice.

Would Romney be better than Obama?

Originally posted by FMF
Would Romney be better than Obama?

He couldn't be worse.

Originally posted by no1marauder
A few more jobs reports like this one: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-06/u-s-payrolls-gain-more-than-expected-200-000-jobless-rate-falls-to-8-5-.html

and they might as well put a crown of thorns on Mitt's head. It would be interesting to see which face of his the blood would pour onto.

Long ago I predicted 8% unemployment by 2012.

Close but no cigar. 😕

Originally posted by FMF
Would Romney be better than Obama?

Impossible to tell, but might would be nice to have someone with actual experience running things successfully get the chance to run the world's largest economy*.





* (I don't consider the EU a single economy)

Originally posted by no1marauder
A few more jobs reports like this one: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-06/u-s-payrolls-gain-more-than-expected-200-000-jobless-rate-falls-to-8-5-.html

and they might as well put a crown of thorns on Mitt's head. It would be interesting to see which face of his the blood would pour onto.

Yup, if Obama is lucky, he may just have waited long enough for the economy to rebound.

If he's unlucky, the pending European debt mess will drag us down along with it and the President may have to re-apply for a job as a Chicago community organizer.

Originally posted by sh76
Impossible to tell, but might would be nice to have someone with actual experience running things successfully get the chance to run the world's largest economy.

Well, he's only "running the world's largest economy" when the economy is pear shaped. When it's running well and not pear shaped, it has nothing much to do with the president, right?

Originally posted by FMF
Well, he's only "running the world's largest economy" when the economy is pear shaped. When it's running well and not pear shaped, it has nothing much to do with the president, right?

It always has something to do with the President, although the President's role is admittedly overrated. For example, I give President Clinton great credit for the economy in the mid to late 1990s. The Obama administration's policies have had mixed results, at best and we have been stuck in a sluggish economy with poor unemployment numbers for more time than the typical recession lasts. Was this all the fault of factors completely outside of the the President's control? Perhaps, but I'm unconvinced.

I think (don't know, but think) that a Romney administration would have been better equipped to handle the economic malaise than the Obama administration.

Incidentally, I an NOT saying that Obama is a bad President. I really don't think he is. I give him credit for successfully ending the Iraq occupation and certainly I give him credit for having the guts to go get Osama. Repealing DADT was a good move as well. I am not in love with Obamacare, but at least I admire the President's determination to change the status quo.

What I am saying is that I just don't think that he has the expertise and experience to manage the US economy and I think the proof of that is in the results.

Originally posted by sh76
It always has something to do with the President, although the President's role is admittedly overrated. For example, I give President Clinton great credit for the economy in the mid to late 1990s. The Obama administration's policies have had mixed results, at best and we have been stuck in a sluggish economy with poor unemployment numbers for more time than th and experience to manage the US economy and I think the proof of that is in the results.

If the Republicans had filibustered bills like the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 instead of just voting no, things would have been quite different.

This chart is just one example of how obstructionist Obama's Republican opposition has been.

http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/reference/cloture_motions/clotureCounts.htm

Add to the fact that this was no simple recession. When Obama took over the entire banking and automotive industry was poised to completely collapse. We we losing 750,000 jobs per month. You act like this was some normal, cyclical recession and it most definitely wasn't. Obama didn't simply have to stop the bleeding and fix his mess. He had to do so with a well oiled and disciplined political opposition that was hell bent on stopping him, and has the legal means to do so.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
Long ago I predicted 8% unemployment by 2012.

Close but no cigar. 😕

The year isn't over yet.

Originally posted by no1marauder
and they might as well put a crown of thorns on Mitt's head. It would be interesting to see which face of his the blood would pour onto.

According to romneyian quantum field theorists it will pour onto all faces simultaneously as a probability cloud exhibiting properties of wave-particle duality.

Quote of the day from Andy Borowitz – “It says something about Mitt Romney that even compared to Rick Santorum he seems like a dick.”