The Republican Nomination For President: The Race For The Race For The White House

Another queef from Ci

Can't spell Romney without Money

Cycloptichorn

Cyclotroll lets loose with a queef

End Of The 1st Quarter...
...To use a football analogy. There will now be a lull in the race for a couple of weeks. There is the quirky, week-long Maine caucus which will end on February 11th. It seems to be designed to give Maine-iacs something to do in winter. It is a non-binding contest meaning none of the delegates will be committed to a candidate.
Maine's 4 electoral votes went to Obama in 2008 and the state is in the "Leans Dem" in 2012.
On Feb 28th, Michigan will have a primary with 30 delegates at stake. That is down from the 60 they would have had if they hadn't jumped the gun in scheduling the contest. It, like the other races, is open only to Repubs. I forgot to look at how delegates are awarded. I do know that it is listed as a "hybrid" with a footnote explaining that process. MI has 16 electoral votes. Obama carried the state in 2008 and it is listed as "Leans Dem" in 2012, although it kind of is Romney's home state, where his father was governor years ago.
Arizona also has a primary on February 28th, with 29 delegates up for grabs in a "winner takes all" contest. The only debate in Feb will be in AZ a couple days before that. The state went for McCain in 2008 and is listed as "Leans Republican" in 2012. I would watch AZ and its 11 electoral votes.
Any A2K reporting from AZ would be appreciated.

The Enthusiasm gap has reversed itself, re: the upcoming elections:



http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/02/republican-enthusiasm-issue-is-real.html

Cycloptichorn

It Was The Best Of Times And The Worst Of Times
Tuesday was the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. Did you know that?
Romney does well when he campaigns in person and/or spends money on ads. He doesn't do well when he doesn't.
I speculated earlier that this could end up being a wide open convention of Republicans. The odds are likely still against that but, if I had any money, I would be thinking about that.
The depth of support for Romney within the party seems shallow. Soz and others here alluded to that.
Romney, without coming up with his own specific proposals, has focused on attacking Obama regarding the economy. There is no doubt in my mind that the economy will be the major factor in November, but the recent bump up (which may be temporary, of course) has left him a bit out of step as Santorum et al have shifted to the "social issues" that have recently surfaced:
abortion/contraception with Planned Parenthood and the Catholic church and the strikedown of the gay marriage thing in California. For the moment, they are getting attention and Romney seems to be at a bit of loss for words.

When George Bush as in the White House, the Democrats didn’t have any problem blaming the president for any increase in gas prices. In fact, here’s a look at what Nancy Pelosi had to say in 2008 …

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday blamed the “two oil men in the White House,” President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, and their Republican allies in Congress for gas prices exceeding $4 a gallon.

Pelosi, a California Democrat, said multiple initiatives intended to lower high energy costs have passed the Democratically controlled House only to “run into a brick wall” in the Senate because they did not receive the 60 votes needed to overcome Republican filibusters.

“The price of oil is… is attributed to two oil men in the White House and their protectors in the United States Senate,” Pelosi said in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer.


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“Let me go on. I’m not yielding my time.”

For someone that argues we should keep the government out of business, you sure spend a LOT of time telling us how the government should control gas prices.

That's because he knows that if business ran gas supplies there would be mayhem. Enron style. He means business that government knows can be run with no interference such as poaching or playing marbles.

It's code for simple-minded folk to be led to believe with that his lot, when they get in office, will take government off our backs. A great weight will be lifted from our shoulders to lessen the suffering from our other burdens.

Don't all laugh at once. At least not at one of the gigs. You'll all be reading this at different times and in widely different locations so your laugh will be a private affair. Between you and me.

Are the swap meets regulated yet?

As liberal moonbat Nancy Pelosi has said: Are you serious!

I spend a LOT of time telling government (Obama) to get the hell out of the way and let the private sector work.

Your pas at the pump averaged $3.37 in January. In 2010, January gasoline prices averaged just $2.71 a gallon. And experts predict that gas will be around $4 by this summer.

Who will the Democrats blame now that they don’t have their two oil men in the White House? Remember – oil production on federally owned lands in the US is down … that’s DOWN … by 40%.

Deep water drilling rigs that used to work in the Gulf of Mexico now work off the coast of Africa and Brazil. And some Obama sycophant was telling us in the last election that Americans really needed to be paying the same for gas that they’re paying in Europe.

Gas supplies are a very important matter with regard to inter-state commerce: which is the big problem really.

It is taking us so long in Europe to thrash out a Union Constitution because things are a lot more complicated than when Founding Fathers thrashed out yours, and they did thrash after the fashion of the times when a few straggling settlements on the north eastern seashore were unionising by candlelight. Possibly European candles. In which case we lit the way.

It is obvious we are not that enamoured of the US model Constitution because we could have adopted it and saved these long years of pushing and shoving and sneaky tricks which show no sign of getting anywhere. Why would anybody doing very nicely out of years of pushing and shoving and sneaky tricks which show no sign of getting anywhere ever wish to just adopt a ready made, and fully functioning, template.

At least Mr Romney seems to have done very nicely doing something else.

And Obama blocks all attempts at oil exploration & pipelines that
have a chance at succeeding... he is a simple minded Marxist moron.

What!! $10 a gallon!! Which institution was being suggested as the recipient of the colossal tax take? The States or the Feds? Where would be the "tax point"? At the refinery it would have been collected before being used. Like with alcohol here. Probably with gas too.

Non drivers, mainly urban people, would be in clover.

Yep, that's Obama's plan for America and it's all about killing our free market economy.

If you don't drive, drink or smoke here you can vote the most extravagant government programmes into being with hardly a care in the world. Such people only pay about 40% tax. The rest of us it's nearer 90. Than 100 I mean.

City office workers on government programmes are actually voting themselves into Eldorado. One might think they would look more cheerful than they do.

Spendi, that's all very interesting and I appreciate your sharing it, but
what does any of it have to do with the 2012 race for The White house?

If Obama blocks all attempts at oil exploration then why are their more wells now than when he took office? Why is the US producing more oil now and importing less than when he took office?

Facts don't support your contention Spurt.

Parasite, if you could read - you wouldn't have posed such a stupid question.