David Axelrod Generously Provides Ad Material for Mitt Romney’s GOP Primary Opponents
**Written by Doug Powers
What are the odds that this will be mentioned at some point in an ad from one of Mitt Romney’s opponents during Republican primary season?
Romney “did some interesting things there on health care, you know,” Axelrod said. “We got some good ideas from him.”
Message from Axelrod to Romney’s primary opponents: “You’re welcome.”
**Written by Doug Powers
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Romney has to use his healthcare program to his advantage with statements such as ” I tried it and it doesn’t work”. Unless he does this he is unelectable.
I liked Romney better than McCain and Guiliani, but that’s it. I didn’t really want him for President.
Romney asked for it and he got it. Maybe it’s time for a new line of work. I will definitely support him on that.
I don’t and won’t support Romney, but there is one important difference between Romneycare and Obamacare: Romneycare was done BY A STATE. It is completely appropriate for a state to create something like that. It is inappropriate for the Feds to IMPOSE such a system.
BINGO! Score one for the 10th Amendment.
I’m liking Herman Cain more and more…
Had Romney admitted that Romneycare was a failure, he might have been forgiven however he has fought tooth and nail to insist that it is a fine program….which is BS!
Romney can have all the money in the world to run but a RINO will not be the next Republican President, an actual Conservative will win, not a Republican with Conservative traits!
Why would Axelrod do that. You would think he would be promoting Romney’s bid. Mitt is the McCain of 2012.
that is:
1) damned by faint praise
2)lowball hand
3) both 1 & 2
Romney is 2008 part two. No thanks. We got McCain out of that. WORST.CANDIDATE.EVER! Romney wouldn’t be much better. Too much baggage.
Yes, Herman Cain sounds great!! Most of the RINO’s that keep being dragged out by the media (including FOX) are unacceptable and will lose! NO to Huckabee, Romney, Gingrich, Palin, Pawlenty, etc. We CAN and MUST do better than that or we are done.
Romney isn’t what our country needs. We need a committed Conservative prepared to undo and repair the damage being done now. We are on very dangerous grounds now thanks to OBambi and company. It will require someone special and Mitt isn’t that.
I just hope Romney doesn’t run. Along with the rest of the usual establishment neocons.
It’s time for someone who will follow the Constitution is all matters, Foreign and Domestic. If not, the Republic is toast.
You are all wrong. What we need is a conservative Congress. All we need in the Presidency is a President who won’t wield the veto pen against that conservative Congress. Romney would fill that role adequately, as would any of the current major R candidates.
What the country absolutely, positively will not survive is six more years of any Democrat in the Presidency. That veto pen will be a sword of death to any chance to roll back Obamacare.
Now, if you want to talk about what would be better, rather than about what we need, then that is an entirely different conversation.
BTW, I supported Duncan Hunter until I saw he had no chance. Then I switched to Romney to try to stop McCain, and then I voted for McCain-Palin to try to stop Obama.
2008 really sucked.
Errah
1. a root canal with a chain saw
2. a Lewinsky from a foot away
3. Oh and McCain (and his family)
mmmm I thought, as did others here, that the Marxist Democrats and their collaborator friends would select Romney as the Republican candidate. Why throw him off the dogsled unless they like Rudy or Newt better? Inquiring minds want to know.
Well said, Roland. I was the same way. Hunter, Romney, then McCain-Palin. But if you had a truly motivational president who had great leadership skills and exceptional wisdom to guide a conservative Congress (Herman Cain), think of how much better this country could fare.
Yep. Pawlenty, Guliani or Huckabee would work too. Throw Trump in there as well.
Yes, and that is why we must not allow the MSM to choose OUR candidate. Whoever they pick as their “darling” and start paying more attention to is someone we DON’T want!! Remember how they put McCain on all the time?? Ugh!! WE know what they were doing and now we can’t let that happen again! If the GOP is that stupid again, they are done. As for the MSM…they are all traitors and should be deported to socialist countries, since they seem to love that type of government so much.
Oh, and I agree… taking back the Senate is KEY!!
I agree. I don’t pick the candidate I will support early on on the basis of whether or not I think they can win. Winnability only factors in later, once the battle has really begun. Even a goofy guy like Perot can catch fire early on and get a real shot at winning.
Yes. At this point, out of those three (I don’t know nearly enough about Trump’s politics to make any kind of judgment about him now), I would take Pawlenty, but any of them in the WH would be vastly better than any Democrat.
But let’s not get to scraping the bottom of the barrel until it’s late in the game and we have to do it.
Romney is just another in a long line of New England Rinos espousing compassionate conservatism. Ford, Bush1, Bush2. McCain tried, Now we have Gingrich, Romney, Pawlenty, Huckabee, Daniels. The only Republican conservative we have had in the WH in the past 40 years was Reagan, and he fixed the economy, collapsed the Soviet Union, and set the world onto a 30 year growth spurt which allowed the socialists to come in and spend all the money they wanted and bankrupt the whole damn world.
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Mitt Romney would be a hell of a lot better than Comrade Obama. So would my Chihuahua.
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But why go second class? When you care enough to send the very best–send the Sarah’Cuda.
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Governor Palin has a much more conservative track record than these RINO’s being floated for POTUS by the American Pravda media. And I think she is the only candidate that will work for us peons–unlike the RINO’s. They are real quick to throw us overboard as soon as we elect them.
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The goings on in Egypt have added another dimension to my criteria for candidate.
I’ll wait …
If Axelrod is promoting Romney then we know he isn’t the right candidate. I don’t want to see the GOP parade Romney, Huckabee or any of the stale candidates from 2008 in front of us and tell us they are the best they can offer. If they couldn’t win then, they can’t win in 2012.
By the time 2012′s elections come around,the situation will be critical, and we can’t afford second best, or less. Romney, Huck’ster, Newty, all fail to measure up at every opportunity.
I disagree, it still has the same Constitutional issues at the State level. Either way, Fed or State should not be telling me to purchase any service under penalty!
On February 1st, 2011 at 10:32 am, cheapseat said:Ah come on and lighten up cheap. You’ll blow a gasket. All we have do is get us one of them fancy clonin’ machines and do up a new Reagan.… a 30 year growth spurt which allowed the socialists to come in and spend all the money they wanted and bankrupt the whole damn world.
oops. I hit strike instead of quote.
TIGERLADY, now that’s where you’re dead wrong. Axelrod is doing all he can to derail Romney’s bid. This is not the first time he’s attacked Romney on the sly. Axelrod is not an idiot (well, you know what I mean). He is trying to paint Romney as “one of us” even though he knows very well Obamacare is nothing like the Mass plan. Because of the heavy Democrat prescence in Mass, Romney had to make many concessions-so everyone blames him for the current Mass disaster.
As Malkin pointed out, this is a “freebie” to Romney’s opponents. With public and private experience, turning around many businesses AND an Olympics in the red, he would do a helluva lot better job in office than Obama or Palin. Many of you appear to dislike him for some very obscure reasons.
Sorry, Doug Powers not Malkin.
Exactly.
If any of these GOP candidates refuse to speak PLAINLY when confronted by the liberal media, that’s my signal they’re only interested in getting elected. Look at how Sarah Palin speaks. She is direct, she is honest, and she is quick to call out the lies. When I listen to Gingrich, Romney, sometimes Huckabee, and Pawlenty, my teeth ache. They are too appeasing to the liberals. Anyone the liberals promote,even remotely, cannot be our candidate.
Like when the company he founded (and had left) was involved in some deal that would give the Chinese access to secrets – Duncan Hunter asked him to denounce the deal, and he kept silent.
(This is all from memory and a bit vague, it’s Googlable.)
I think he values profit over principle. Better than the Obamunist? Sure – but so is the woman who cuts my hair.
Hah a new word! I knew a girl like that once!
“We” won’t be selecting our candidate at all, unless we change the primary system so that purple and blue states with open primaries can’t eliminate the more conservative candidates before anybody else has had a vote.
The media, the left and the Democrats (as if those are three separate entities) are trying to – yet again – choose the Republican nominee. They feigned outrage when Huntsman resigned, in order to boost his credibility with Republicans, and they are giving fodder to Romney opponents, by “praising” his health care plan. It would seem to me that they would rather face Huntsman than Romney.
No Amnesty Candidates!
That drops off a bunch of names from consideration.
We will not survive as a nation if we don’t draw a line and enforce our borders and laws.
ATTENTION GOP!
I would not hold my nose and vote for amnesty in 2008 and I won’t do so in 2012. Nominate any of the establishment squishes at your own peril.
You have hit on the very issue why Trump will flip the RINO stampede on its head. The top RINOs are jobs exporters/killers. It’s a new game with Trump running.
Donald Trump is a Chump. He puts his finger in the wind when real estate deals are needed. I give him credit for voicing a hard line opinion when the wind blows strong enough. Right Rosie O’Donnell?
Search Trump’s DEMOCRAT political donations OpenSecrets.org
Romney is a socialist health care joke.
Huckabee is a pardon/commutation joke.
Gingrich is a global warming joke.
Pawlenty is a green jobs joke.
I am open, going through the possible candidates but a few have turned me off. Newt with his buy-in to global warming, Romney with his RomneyCare, Huckelby, with his endorsement from Joy Behar, and most recently Mitch Daniels, who just got tore up by Laura Ingraham. First he calls her Dr. Laura, then he defends China and the gigantic trade imbalance. Trump is not my guy, but he exposes guys like Daniels.
If you leave the veto pen in Obama’s hand, you will destroy America just as thoroughly as if you had thrown open the borders.
If the R’s give us an amnesty supporter, then we’ll have to fight him in the Congress, like we did against Bush, only this time we’ll have a conservative Congress.
Priorities matter. That veto pen has to be put in an R hand. Anything else is suicide.
And, thanks to the LMS, the GOP leadership,open primaries, and savage media attacks on anyone else outside this select group it is probable one of these will be the GOP candidate….
probably, with a real conservative running mate tossed in just to attract those who won’t be thrilled to cast a vote otherwise…as in 2008 with much the same results.
Romney might do better than Obama but who wouldn’t. I don’t know about Palin but I don’t think Romney’s record supports your argument.
You don’t think Palin would be better than Obama?
Romney had his day in the sun and now he is just another retread. The GOP has to give up their “next in line” garbage. The tea party needs to get the GOP away from all the entrenched GOP elites and change the machine. We want the republic back. The GOP has to be on board or get out of the way. We don’t have time for any self-preserving party spin.
Romney is center right, which makes him more likely to win a general election but less likely to win the GOP primary in today’s Tea-Party mood. I think he would be good for the economy but a little soft on social issues.
His healthcare reform concerns me but, unlike Obama, Romney didn’t go against the will of the people when he did it. His state wanted it. And such experiments should be done at the state level first, to see what works best, before ever being attempted at a national level. So I’m withholding judgement on his elect-ability until I see his platform.
Exactly! McCain had won 12 states at the time Romney conceded the GOP primary. How many of those 12 states do you think McCain won in the general election? Only four out of 12 – 33%! One of them was his home state of Arizona, and another one, Missouri, was a virtual tie.
Why do we allow blue states to choose our nominee? Why can’t we revise the process to allow the most red states to vote first in the next primary? Why not reward the most republican state in the last general election to vote first in the next GOP primary? It doesn’t make sense to do it any other way.
This is the major problem and why the RNC has more say in who the nominee will be than “we” do.
Stupid would be running Romneycare against Obamacare.
Exactly what I expect the Stupid Party to do.
Without my vote.
Again.
stupid
Wht not Herman Cain?
why
Lord I hope you are right, but I fear there are not that many true conservative politicians that are willing to run for pres and we all know the old school GOP has flashed too moderate to fund a true conservative. We’ve got 1.75 years to get this corrected guys. Pray hard and frequently.
Why not Herman Cain?
Read this and get back to me:
https://draftcain.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/nine-words-that-could-change-the-debate-in-america/
You simply cannot find a bigger flip-flopper on abortion or queer marriage than Mitt Romney. Nein, nicht mit Romney.
1. Have ALL the primary elections take place between January 2012 and April 30. (Can we de-couple the schedule from the demorats?)
2. If no candidate has over 50% there must be a run-off between the top two.
IMO McCain was nominated by a minority of RINO leaning republicans because he was the most RINO-esque republican on the ticket, amnesty, bail outs, global warming, etc.)
The rest of us split our vote among a variety of others each with some quality more conservative than McCain.
I don’t know about you, but by the time VA’s primary rolled around it was already over, there was no choice, Huckabee or McCain.