On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The Republicans are in a bad spot because all of their normal talking > points are in trouble: > > (1.) Small government. > Regan and GWB were the largest spenders in recent history and the > public - even the tea partiers! - want Medicare and social security.
Wrong. > (2.) Strong defense. > America is tired of 2 wars and Obama just got Bin Laden. That bump in the polls is long gone. > (3.) Low taxes. > Low taxes are not consistent with medicare, medicaid, and social security Yes they are if you fix the problems rather than raise taxes and throw more money at them. > (4.) Social regulation. > The majority are accepting of gay marriage and gays in the military. > Condi Rice even said she was glad for it and that GWB hadn't "gotten > around to it" because "he had a lot of things on his plate" It's not a top priority during war. > (5.) Business friendly. > This means Wall Street and most people are not quite looking up to > Wall Street or CEOs these days. > > Newt tried to pivot towards Medicare and got killed. Trump tried > delegitimize and got killed. Haley Barbour lost 40 lbs to run, but > has decided there's no win there. > > It's going to be Romney, Pawlenty, and Ron Paul. and maybe a few no names. > > Romney will get the nomination and lose by a large margin > Romney won't get the nod and Paul is too nuts. Newt might be the media's choice as a central candidate and convince the masses to select him like they did with McCain. Then the GOP will lose again. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338063 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
