Romney's Hill Meeting Tomorrow

We can't know why Romney is meeting with Congressional supporters tomorrow. I fear they will pressure him to step out and take one for the GOP team. At the end, the GOP always protects its own. Realistically, does Romney have a choice? I'm not sure.

The GOP will be working to pull conservatives into the McCain fold. Romney may go along, looking at a run in 2012, assuming McCain gets his likely trouncing in the Fall. But we can't really know.

I guess we'll see.

Comments

[serfer62]

I doubt if a quiter would be received well by conservatives.

If MacAss wins Sen Clinton gets my vote. Rather only 4 (or less) then that person for 8.

[barbie nixon]

It's being said on the Hill that Romney wants to try and run for president another time down the road and will pull out of this race the end of this week. Don't know if it's true, but he can't catch up to McCain and it's all but over for Romney!

[tally]

there's no reason why romney couldn't run again, he's young. perhaps next time i and other people would "get" him.

[mike]

Romney will stay in until CPAC forcing McCain to tack right. It is a threat to McCain that he tack right or face a drawn out primary. He wants support from the Hill to make McCain, well, more conservative

[Corey Cronrath]

I have never been a fan of Romney. I can't understand why conservatives who favor idoelogical purity have seen him as their guy. He has changed his positions so often and so sharply that it is apparent to me that he will tell any group of voters anything they want to hear to get them to vote for him. I think if Bill Clinton were running for the GOP nomination, he would be saying the exact same things that Romney has been saying. I do understand that many conservatives have issues with McCain, and I respect their position. But I don't think supporting a person who seems to have no core convictions is any better than supporting someone whom you sometimes disagree with. On the most pressing issues, McCain is usually quite good, and on the ones he is not, he is at very worst a centrist. Since we are at war with Islamofascism, I want someone with the fortitude not to flinch, and that is not something you can buy or pander for. Vote John McCain in '08!

[right]

Put a third party candidate in, further right than reagan, on all policies.

[seekeronos]

"--- Since we are at war with Islamofascism ---"

Single issue vote, really.

1) "Islamofascism" is a bugaboo word meant to scare folks. We need to address the real threat with a real word that the enemy uses: Jihad.

Our conflict is with Jihadists, muslims who take up arms against the United States and their interests, and most importantly, their citizens. (note that my use of the plural refers to the United States - as a collective nation of united states).

2) Ideological purity should not be rejected in favour of doing things the same way the opposition party does. We should not re-make ourselves over as the DNC-lite. We will loose to the real liberals every single time.

3) Mitt is by no means the perfect conservative, but I'm willing to let him prove his newly found conservatism by his new deeds, and not beat him over the head with his past. He was a liberal turned more conservative, and he hasn't stuck his thumb in my eye on policy yet. McCain has, and repeatedly so.