Poll: Romney’s Favorables Among Republicans Drop Below 50 Percent

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Haha. The GOP is stupid. Mitt Romney is the most qualified person in the US and their bias distracts them to choose unintelligent candidates like Huckabee or Palin! Looks like Obama 2012!

No worries here. Right now Romney is keeping a low profile compared to the others. Next spring when his new book is released and he does the book tour thing on all the morning talk shows his numbers will surely rebound.

I think most of conservative America knows that Palin and Huckster aren't serious candidates, but if either one hangs around for too long like Huck did last year we are in trouble again.

I think Romney is probably the one who will run simply because he loves his country the most. The others just might have ulterior motives.

Praise the Lord!!!!!!!! Mitt the flip flop polls are dropping.

Some low profile, he is jet setting all over the country appearing everywhere he can, it that is a low profile someone is delusional.

flippers and flippers are not intelligent.

Upchuckabee is a disgusting bigot, with half an IQ, who should back to torturing dogs with his son, Jabba the Hut.

Morons, Reagan 'flip-flopped' from Democrat to Republican–how can he be trusted? He also 'flip-flopped' to being pro-life–what a heathen. Lesson: a change of one's mind is not a flip-flop; it's a sign of intelligence. To be a flip-flop, you have to go from A to B and back to A again, imbeciles.

Now, if you Romney-bashing people were the bulk of the electorate in 1980, Reagan would've of won the nomination because, well, you wouldn't have found him conservative enough because he “flip-flopped” parties, gasp, my God…what was he really up to?

Face it, Palin or Huck as nominee = Obama landslide. Maybe either one could get, maybe, one-third of the general vote….it'd be humiliating. Romney is the best single prospect for president, from either party, since George HW Bush. He'd do a lot to improve matters that have deteriorated under Clinton, W., and of course Obama, who is hyperspeeding us towards the cliff's edge.

Correction of second paragraph:

Now, if you Romney-bashing people were the bulk of the electorate in 1980, Reagan wouldn't have won the nomination because, well, you wouldn't have found him conservative enough because he “flip-flopped” parties, gasp, my God…what was he really up to?

Nasty, nasty calling people names that are not running for office, Romney IS a flipper flopper, Romney’s change of heart is NOT due to intelligence, it is due to he is an OPPORTUNITIST, meaning the issues have no real importance to him, they are ONLY issues he uses to place himself in the particular offices he is wanting at the moment and will appeal to the voters in a particular area (such as Mass.) and later the Conservatives
(Such as in his run for president). His flipping shows a lack of character on Romney’s part, and also his distain for people, whom Romney feels are merely there for his use.

In truth for one to understand Romney one only needs to understand 1. Verbal abusers and 2. Emotional abusers, the techniques employed by him are similar. Romney flipping and flopping is not due to intelligence, it is due to distain for others, and a sense of superiority.

Nasty, nasty calling people names that are not running for office, Romney IS a flipper flopper, Romney’s change of heart is NOT due to intelligence, it is due to he is an OPPORTUNITIST, meaning the issues have no real importance to him, they are ONLY issues he uses to place himself in the particular offices he is wanting at the moment and will appeal to the voters in a particular area (such as Mass.) and later the Conservatives
(Such as in his run for president). His flipping shows a lack of character on Romney’s part, and also his distain for people, whom Romney feels are merely there for his use.

In truth for one to understand Romney one only needs to understand 1. Verbal abusers and 2. Emotional abusers, the techniques employed by him are similar. Romney flipping and flopping is not due to intelligence, it is due to distain for others, and a sense of superiority.

Romney said he was NOT another Reagan, in his debate with Kennedy. Gasp, Romney cannot be himself, he has to try to be JFK, Reagan, and anyone else who comes to his mind.

Gasp, the Real Mitt Romney? One thing is Kennedy nailed him, and JFK Jr. was a far better man, whom by the way Romney was jealous of, and scared would take Romney s chances of being President away, knowing in the future if JFK Jr. decided to run for President, Romney would not have a change in blazes.

So, all in all it would be wise to stop comparing to Reagan, because Romney is NOT Reagan, nor is he a JFK or a JFK Jr.
A slick used car salesman works.

Then Romney is on equal footing, poor Seeman, tortured on top of a car, until he pooped.

My point, scott, has never been that Romney is another Reagan; nostalgia is a big problem for us. Reagan had 1st term ratings ten or twelve points lower than where Obama is right now. Reagan wasn't Reagan until after he was elected, and in fact not until heading into his re-election campaign.

Now, I don't assign godlike status to Reagan and thereby do not think we need another one in order to win an election — the proof has been both Presidents Bush. The greater logic would be to look for another Bush, not a Reagan, since, well, Bushes have gotten in twice and there's Jeb, with gobs more potential than W. had.

Both mindsets characterized, neither Palin nor Huckabee nor Rudy nor Fred nor Romney nor Thune nor Ryan is a Bush or 'the next' Reagan. Palin is expecially dangerous, though, because she is, as long as we're drawing parallels to Presidents, our Obama: no experience and questionable intelligence (at very best) and really no record, especially successwise.

Not to worry, though, because should she decide to run instead of being the next Oprah (which I think she wants more than the Presidency, hence her quitting the job she was actually elected to do immediately after becoming famous), she and Mike Huckabee (himself who'd have to pick between his TV show and running, well, maybe not given the fact that he spent much of 2008 doing non-campaign speaking engagements to increase his personal income, not his campaign's) will dilute each other among the whole social conservative, culturalist voting block.

The Republicans will fare much better nominating Romney. He's a fierce debater, a policy wonk but one who can speak concisely, he has a lifelong record of success in every endeavor he's set out upon. Plus, the singular findings of this lone poll aside, he has by far the highest ratings among independents and moderates, the ones who decide elections. Palin and Huckabee lose to Obama, big, in that segment.

I'm not some permaRomney sycophant, but of known talent he is our best shot in 2012, as he was in 2008. I do think he is the best presidential prospect from either party since GHWB, but I do see others who could be just as good, only not anyone you seem to be championing. Paul Ryan is one. The other is General Petraeus, of course, though I hear he hasn't the interest. Paul Ryan is likely a cycle or two away from attaining success on the national stage, but you never know. So, like I said, if we want to seriously defrock Obama from office, denying him a second term, it will not come by nominating someone who is divisive and firebrand who turns away the middle of the road faster than a teenage driver texting her girlfriend lols and omgs.

“My point, scott, has never been that Romney is another Reagan; nostalgia is a big problem for us.” end of quote.

Reagan was brought into the picture when Romney tried to say he was like Reagan, in an attempt to appeal to a segment of Republicans, there was NO nostalgia involved in his calculated move.

Romney is NOT a fierce debater, saying during a debate 'he would ask his attorneys' is not a method of fierce debate. Romney needs a reality check and an honest assessment of who he actually is, not all the people he wants to be like, or all the stands he wishes to take which he feels appeals to an body of votes he is wanting to seize their votes, Romney comes across as insincere, at times snotty, (he should leave the LDS abrasive, arrogant, condescending comments, which are typical of conversions heard in church foyers, on the side lines of the Gold and Green Balls, and echoed in the conversation of many a missionary and priesthood holder — he is no doubt too close to LDS culture to realize the arrogance of many of the cultural attitudes.

Romney, scott, like every other Republican who has ran since 1988, always states they are Republican in the tradition of Reagan: strong national defense, economic liberty, and traditional values. Huck, Rudy, Romney, Fred…and dear Sarah…they all say it because, well, that's the party platform. All Reagan was doing was popularizing what Barry Goldwater established before him. Period.

Reagan was populist insofar as using political stunts like inviting some victim of sorts to a state of the union to single out and tell a story about. It worked so well, every President since does the same staged trick. Sincere or showmanship? Reagan also outspent even George W Bush in percentage of GDP. Small government? And Reagan did raise some taxes, indeed. Plus, Reagan was a pro-life convert and when it was politically beneficial to make the switch. Does this fit your doctrinalism?

I don't consider Reagan a god, nor do I consider him some phony conservative or Republican. Looking at Romney's record, you cannot conclude he is and Reagan was not. Romney may have been pro-choice or of no particular, functional opinion prior to being in office as Governor of MA; it doesn't matter because when push came to shove, where the rubber met the road and legislation landed on his desk during the stem cell debate, Mitt Romney had to act and he came down on the side of life. He wrote so in an op-ed, even, in the Boston Globe in 2005, long before any 2008 campaign began.

You bring up his mention of consulting attorneys with regard to bombing Iran as evidence he's not an effective debater. How's that the case? A President should not know the legality of all his actions? Romney was merely describing the process of making a decision. The phrase made for a sound byte, which some people apparently value more than an actual explanation.

Finally, I'm thankful you uttered your final paragraph above because it exposes you as someone of a particular religious bias, which of course negates the entirity of the argument you were failing to make anyway. Last time I checked, freedom of religion was pretty much cornerstone to the establishment of the United States. I'm Episcolpalian. Part of our tradition includes burning frankincense, often from a gold ball. Does this offend you as well? I don't view any adherent of any religion in any negative light so long as part of their adherence does not include strapping on a bomb-belt and murdering innocents.

Bigotry, in any form, is always a loser. Do try to have a happy Thanksgiving and pray for an open mind, especially about those who are your allies in political philosophy.

“Like every other Republican who has ran since 1988, always states they are Republican in the tradition of Reagan”

If this is the case, then Romney is most unoriginal, and other reason other candidates should be considered. I don’t think I have heard other candidates say they were like Reagan any or as much a Romney.

“Finally, I'm thankful you uttered your final paragraph above because it exposes you as someone of a particular religious bias”

How silly your statement is above, there is a difference between bias and knowledge. Didn't you every LISTEN when you were at church?…… didn't you ever THINK? and ANALYZE? Nope, you just cackled away like so many of them do. “We're great! “God wants US to be the world leaders!”. “My gggrandfather had fifteen wives, and people who come from pioneer stock who were polygamist, are the most blessed of all, we were the most valiant spirits in the spirit world”, “We're the best, God does' nt like you because your gggrandfather didn't have five or more wives.”, “I am more blessed than you, my patriarchal blessing is better than yours, mine says I am going be called to work in the stakes of Zion, yours doesn't. ” “Oh, they don't belong to the church, ugh, don't go around them.”

“Reagan was populist insofar as using political stunts like inviting some victim of sorts to a state of the union to single out and tell a story about.”

A victim telling their story to a state of the union, what a great idea!!!!!!! I know a few, where can I put their name in at?

“Bigotry, in any form, is always a loser. Do try to have a happy Thanksgiving and pray for an open mind, especially about those who are your allies in political philosophy.”

Romney is not my ally, I pray this Thanksgiving our nation will be saved from a Romney presidency.

Romney and I are very different kinds of people. Never could do to people what the Romney s are capable of.

I give thanks for the strength of my ancestors, for their love of country, for their love of God as their fathers, and their fathers father taught them, I give thanks of the legacy they left, of standing up for what one believes in, my bowing to wrong doers, or those who mis use God..

Didn't you ever LISTEN when you were at church?…… didn't you ever THINK? and ANALYZE? Nope, you just cackled away like so many of them do “I am great!”. uhmmmmm….

Thanks, scotty. If you get your way, enjoy Obama's second term.

I give thanks for the strength of my ancestors, for their love of country, for their love of God as their fathers, and their fathers father taught them, I give thanks of the legacy they left, of standing up for what one believes in, by NOT bowing to wrong doers, or those who mis use God..

What part of this don't you understand?

I take it Romney has a savior complex.

My ancestors left the legacy of NOT bowing to wrong doers.

I take it Romney has a Savior Complex.

Bravo.

Bravo.

bravo !Upchuckabee is a disgusting bigot, with half an IQ, who should back to torturing dogs with his son, Jabba the Hut.