Comments | pseydtonne: Why doesn't Romney want to be elected?

pseydtonne

Why doesn't Romney want to be elected?

Aug 07, 2012 17:00

Ever since he became the statistical nominee of the GOP, Mitt Romney has been saying weird things. Why pick a fight with fellow Olympic organizers? Why pretend you have no clue when your tax-dodging horse will be competing? Why go to Israel and propose moving our embassy to Jerusalem? [Thanks to arib for checking me on that.] Why... frankly, why say ( Read more... )

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mmcirvin August 8 2012, 00:16:51 UTC

Back in 2004 he had ninety days to offer a case to the highest court in the commonwealth, the Supreme Judicial Court, against the institution of same-sex marriage. He did nothing and that was excellent.

The way I remember it, he whined about it in irritating fashion.

pseydtonne August 8 2012, 05:15:55 UTC

Good point. He still never filed anything.

mmcirvin August 8 2012, 15:35:44 UTC

True. He did make a halfhearted attempt to get some kind of stay of implementation pending the first constitutional-amendment attempt, didn't he? (To which I think the courts just said MASSACHUSETTS DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY.)

arib August 8 2012, 00:34:11 UTC

Why go to Israel and propose they move the capital to Jerusalem?

Did you mean embassy?

pseydtonne August 8 2012, 05:13:54 UTC

Uh, yeah. That makes more sense. Let me fix that...

teddywolf August 8 2012, 02:03:51 UTC

Mitt is not aiming for the center, but then again the median voter model is fatally flawed. Mitt doesn't have to cater to the middle. The GOP has spent 35 years building up its clout and its war chest, not to mention lots of creative ways to disenfranchise political opponents. They run on Fear, Hate, and Big Lies. If they take control of the White House and Congress this fall, I will watch the country self-immolate and turn into a second-rate industrialized power within two years, unless the Dems use a lot of filibusters. I am not holding my breath. For that matter, the GOP might decide that, since the filibuster was so abused during the previous two years, it should be removed "to ensure it won't happen again." Never mind that they were the ones abusing it.

Right now I am betting that Scalia and possibly Thomas are waiting for a GOP president so they can retire from the bench.

Al Franken put it best. The Republicans tell people that "government can't work, so vote for us." Then they get in and they prove it.

mmcirvin August 8 2012, 11:39:13 UTC

At this point, I think it'd take some huge game-changing event to get Romney elected. This despite the fact that he often seems to have a slight lead in national-popular-vote horserace polls. Sam Wang has the analysis, based on a stochastic model of the electoral vote using his aggregate of state polls:

http://election.princeton.edu/2012/08/03/a-true-prediction-take-1/
http://election.princeton.edu/2012/08/07/presidential-prediction-take-2/

Control of the House and Senate, on the other hand, is genuinely up in the air, so Congressional elections might be the ones to concentrate on with regard to activism, campaign donations, etc.

lightcastle August 9 2012, 05:14:51 UTC

[i]If he were to pick someone that would actually help the nation, he'd be sitting down with General Petraeus and they'd have a plan.[/i ( ... )