Comments about ‘GOP insiders reaching for panic button in face of Santorum surge and rise of social issues’

This is great!

Karma baby - karma.
What goes around, comes arond.

The GOP has NO ONE - not even Obama - but themselves to blame!

He just needs to show-up to win.

What do you all think?
Santorum is a plant.... President Obama hired him. Rick will receive his great reward come 2013.
Couldn't be any stranger of a scenario than anything else that is going on.

They should have panicked a long time ago. The Republican field is pathetically weak this time. Whoever ultimately prevails will be squashed like a bug in the general.

Can't

Stop

Laughing.

Republicans need to pull their heads out and realize that the only candidate who can beat Obama is Romney. Obama is such a failure as a president that he is completely beatable. He can't run on his record. He can't run on his ideology. He can't run on his management skills. He is completely beatable....BUT Romney is the only one who can do it. It's time for Republicans to realize that.

Romney is a conservative.

I'm truly torn.

For my own family's welfare and that of the country, I would love to have Romney as President.

However, I admit the other side of me really loves to see the "GOP insiders reaching for the panic button".
I love the panic and squirming and hand wringing and fact twisting of tea partiers, conservative talk show hosts, evangelicals and others who sure won't consider voting for Romney and are intent on trying to poison the water to prevent anyone else from considering him either.

Much as I'd like it, it is hard to wish success for Romney.

Who would want to have someone you actually like stuck with the daily increasing no-win situations, self important but do nothing Congress, and all the impossible-to-fix problems which would be the new President's lot?

So Romney, since you are still running and if you really want all that, may you WIN.
Anything you do with our problems will be better than any other option.

'Mitt Romney's continuing weakness against Rick Santorum heading into Michigan has GOP strategists and pundits scrambling.' - Article

As well they should.

The 'anyone but Obama' Republican mantra is...

not creating any American jobs.

As such, voters realize the Republican party is offering no solutions.

And the issue then becomes, what is the Republican party, offering?

If we look at previous Republican leadership:

The Iraqi regime . . . possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons.' - George W. Bush - Ohio Speech 10/7/2002

** US gives up search for Iraq WMD' - BBC News - 01/12/05

** George W Bush says Iraq intelligence failure is his biggest regret' - By Alex Spillius - 12/01/08 - The UK telegraph

Result?

** U.S. Military deaths in Iraq war at 4,485 - AP - Published by the DSNews - 12/20/2011

Do we really want this...

again?

** GOP contenders argue on Iran' - By Kasie Hunt - AP - Published by DSNews - 11/12/11

"If we re-elect Barack Obama, Iran will have a nuclear weapon. And if you elect Mitt Romney, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon," vowed the former Massachusetts governor." article

Obama?

Libya.

Zero troops.

This country needs Ron Paul. Everyone else is as phony as it gets and has WAY too much religion making their decisions for them. This is a multi-religion nation ... to start criticizing who is Christian or not is embarrassing. This WAS a christian nation in the beginning ... and a sad one full of slavery, burning 'witches' at the stake, slaughtering natives, and countless atrocities.

Let the evolution of mankind ... into secularism and peace ... happen gracefully!

The GOP is ideologically bankrupt, so this is overdue. They've been trying to find that illusive center in order to capture more votes. All that's happened is that they've moved further and further left until they've lost their political soul. They have to stop trying to be Democrat-lite, which is essentially what it means to be a "Rockerfeller Republican."

Democrats are united in their faith in goverment as the vehicle of social progress. Republicans were opposed to that at one time, but now they've adopted the same belief as long as their guy is in office. The result is that Republicans have played right into Democrats' hands by making the federal government bigger and stronger. Federalism is dying if not already dead. Republicans are nowhere as good at this as the Democrats. They need to either sell out the rest of the way and join the Democrats or return to their strengths.

Anyone notice how much negative advertising Hatch is doing? Is he worried or what?

The biggest elephants in the party ought to be worried. The fact is that none of the 4 that are dancing has a snowball's chance in you know where of winning the election. The Republicans big big mistake is that they've purged all the middle of the roaders from the party in favor of the ultra-right and it's "not a workin'."

Santorum = a guy who uses religious rhetoric as ladder for his own personal political gain.

Didn't Jesus have a name for guys like this? Pharisee? Hypocrite?

There have been some rumors about bringing in Mitch Daniels or Chris Christie. I'd be fine with that. I think Romney was pretty much born to be President, but if he can't get the party firmly behind him, get out of the way.

As for you Obama cheerleaders, don't get too comfortable. Gas prices are projected to go through the roof this summer. If you thought people were upset about ATM fees (as the president seems to think) just wait until they have to pay $4.50-$5.00/ gallon for gas. This is going to look really bad in light of Obama killing the Keystone project.

My guess is that most Obama supporters still cannot truly articulate WHY he would be better for the U.S. economy. Pagan always turns things to foreign policy and avoids the economy. Some try to argue we are adding jobs every month. Apparently not enough to make a dent in the 8% unemployment. This country can't afford 4 more years of Obama.

@Earl, I agree with you that the Republican party is ideologically bankrupt, but I strongly disagree with you about the direction they've been trending.

The only candidate who can beat Obama is Romney? Uh huh...that's why Rasmussen's tracking has Obama ahead of the two by about the same margin (today it's +3 over santorum +4 over Romney).

@A1994
"My guess is that most Obama supporters still cannot truly articulate WHY he would be better for the U.S. economy."

Any chart of monthly jobs numbers or GDP percentage will show that as soon as Obama got into office we started digging ourselves out of the massive hole we were in. We've gained private sector jobs for 23 straight months.

@Cats

And Romney is such a weak candidate that he is going to have to spend 30 times more money to hold off heavyweights like Santorum, Paul and Gingrich!

That's how much faith Americans have in Mitt.

My perspective comes from comparing the GOP during the time of "Mr. Republican" Robert Taft with the GOP of today. Taft, a senator from Ohio, was a huge thorn in the side of FDR. He barely lost out to Dwight Eisenhower as the GOP candidate for president. Few worked harder at deconstructing the "imperial presidency" created by FDR and empowering the principles of federalism. William F. Buckley, Jr., succeeded in diverting those ideas and advocating a strong central government, especially in the areas of national defense and clandestine operations. Unlike Democrats who promoted a foreign policy of diplomacy, Buckley and the new GOP pushed for a foreign policy of military power and covert manipulation. He presaged the neoconservative movement and made the GW Bush presidency possible.

Briefly stated, the GOP of Taft was strongly non-interventionist versus the interventionism of Democrats and the political left. Both parties are increasingly interventionist, although in different ways, in both foreign and domestic matters. The GOP needs to return to the principles of non-interventionism to find its identity again, or join the Democrats.

I am for Romney as of now. At first I thought he was taking conservatives for granted and focusing on independents. But now it seems he really is not conservative to the degree we need, i.e., someone who is really aware of the Obama catastrophe and the danger our country is in. I must wonder if he really will fight to reverse what the Obama administration is doing. To become the nominee, he needs to appeal to the base - and it is obvious he is not doing that. He is a good man, but he does not grasp or does not want to embrace the furor felt by conservatives.

Christy | 3:45 p.m. Feb. 20, 2012 ,

My vote for best comment.

If the GOP is hitting it's 'panic button' now...

how would they be in leadership?

Answer?

Pretty bad.

We've already seen the 'jobs' they created since they 'took our country back' in 2010.

Zero.

Oh, but hey!

At least they're against birth control! :)

Pagan: You might think you're clever, but your style is unreadable. Please write paragraphs that include more than one sentence.