“Romney did not win every question, but he did present himself as the front-runner in the nature of Walter Mondale. Steady and gray. Some may sprint ahead, but slow and steady can win this primary race.”
Just a reminder:
Ronald Reagan (Republican): 54 and a half million votes, won all 50 states except Minnesota (where Walter Mondale was from) and Washington DC (which has always voted Democrat since the constitution was amended to allow the federal capital to vote in 1964).
Walter Mondale (Democrat): 37 and a half million votes, barely held his own state by 3,761 votes (which would be small in a British parliamentary election) or 1,036,364 to 1,032,603 votes.
If I were Mitt Romney, I wouldn’t want too many comparisons with Walter Mondale, least of all approving ones.
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The other Republicans did not attack Romney (or each other – with the exception of Gingrich with his “if you can not convince the American people of your plan perhaps you are wrong”, but that was an attack on Paul Ryan, who was not there to reply, not on Romney).
Pawlenty failed to press home an attack on Romney and so did the others – everyone seemed very aware that they were in enemy territory – CNN and so was careful in what they said).
The grunting “moderator” and the demented questions (“coke or pepsi” – and many like it) seemed designed to mock the Republicans present (and, of course, CNN managed to find the one guy in the Navy who was in favour of big defence cuts) – basically it would have better for no one to turn up.
The last election for President of the United States that the msm covered faily was that of 1956 – they are not going to change (at least not for the better), it is time to have nothing more to do with them. Certainly not with Time Warner (the owner of CNN and Time magazine), but not with the dying newspapers or with the evening news shows either – after all so few people buy newspapers that the paid circulation figures are not even published any more, and so few people watch the network news shows that they presentors might as well stay at home and talk to the bathroom mirror.
Who to take on Romney?
Will Pawlenty attack? Hard to see it happening.
Will Michelle take on the mantle? Perhaps – but perhaps not.
Now people seem to be begging Rick Perry to step in the ring.
Well at least he is a real Texan – not the fake one who was in office for eight years (with his William Hague style EXAGGERATED accent and way of speaking).