Dean: Dems feared Romney most

I think the constant exposure to the FLDS polygamist sect and its association with Mormons pretty much seals the deal that Romney will not be chosen as McCain’s running mate. The distribution and coverage of this story makes Mormons (and therefore Romney) guilty by association. Even though Mormons no longer practice polygamy, the link between FLDS and LDS will make Romney a political liability in the general presidential election. My prediction is that McCain will get lots of Mormon money, but he will not select Romney as his VP. He will keep hanging names out there though just to keep hopefuls interested in McCain as the Republican nominee.

I can't believe Howard Dean (who should resign after 2008, by the way, for the poor way the DNC has handled itself so far this primary season).

As a Democrat, I was wishing up and down that the Republicans would be stupid enough to nominate Mitt Romney, by far the phoniest of all the GOP candidates.
That guy is so obviously a faker and a disingenuous blowhard, with a terminal case of foot-in-mouth disease. He would have gotten nowhere, and lost by a landslide to a Democrat. Too bad he didn't get the nomination.

McCain is the strongest GOP candidate by far, and will take Democrat votes away for a number of reasons, such as his acknowledging global warming for one. Romney would have stayed behind in the polls all the way up to November. McCain will be a problem for either Obama or Clinton.

There's always hope that the GOP will stay dumb and choose Romney as VP...

While I don't think Romney would have been the more dangerous candidate (except for women who really really LIKE animated KEN dolls) but I do think he would have been a dangerous president. He's a slightly smarter, more literate Bush with some added risk. He's the scion of a rich and powerful political family, a one-term governor, and a devoted panderer because he has no real positions of his own. This makes him prone to agreeing to take on powerful advisers to placate the neocon right, which would have meant four more years of the same military madness and deliberate antagonizations of friend and foe alike. His economic policies, forged in the economic madness possessing Wall Street, would have destroyed far more families far faster than any other candidate.

Type your comment here...The FLDS stuff is 3 days in the news cycle and guilt by assocation sentiments against Jews, Mormons, Baptists for abortion clinic bombers, or Obama with his bigoted Preacher don't have staying power.

Dean is probably right. McCain is really Johnny one-note: Iraq! Iraq! Iraq! "Only Iraq matters, forget all the trivial domestic stuff and trivial American problems. We owe the noble heroes and the wonderful Iraqi heroes our fullest attention for 4 more years." Romney, on the other hand, would have made a big dent in America's massive domestic problems. Just as I think poor Hillary would have worked them hard.

Unfortunately, the conservative vote was split 3 ways, allowing the Open Borders maverick to come back from what half Republicans wished was his political grave.

McCain will select John Kasich,Rob Portman,Olympia Snowe,
JC Watts,or Christopher Cox.
The Cable guys are in love with Tim Pawlenty.
Maybe one of those.
It will come down to who he faces
and who they pick for their Running Mate.
Probably not Mitt Romney.
He should make Mitt Romney,
Treasury Sec though or something very high level
on the Financial Front.

Its not just Howard Dean who fears Mitt Romney. Democrats dont like to talk about issues they like to play heart strings with emotional drawn out stories, but if they faced Romney they would have to defend their actual positions in laser detail. And when it reallt comes down to it (GOPor DEMs, etc) America is lucky a guy as COMPOTENT as Mitt Romney is even interested in the political arena.
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Taken from the previous comment " [Republicans] would be stupid enough to nominate [Hillary or Barack Hussein], by far the phoniest of all the [Democrat] candidates. That guy/[woman] is so obviously a faker and a disingenuous blowhard, with a terminal case of foot-in-mouth disease. He/[she] would have gotten nowhere, and lost by a landslide to a [Republican]. " With some minor edits we see how appropriate this comment c becomes for the absolutely stellar selection of candidates they have to choose from......America, who do you want? Jeremiah Hussein Obama or Billary "watch out for that sniper" Clinton. Amazing choices amazing.

This is a bold yet extreamly cutting edge article, and I enjoyed reading it. The "comment"results are screend through slandering bias.

Romney would have been a lot harder to beat in a general election than John McCain. People will realize that the troops will never leave under McCain and they will vote for Obama.

I predict that Obama will win this election because people are fed up with the Iraq war. However Obama has no leadership experience and will run this country into the ground. It will take Mitt Romney in 2012 to fix the economy and mess that Obama will leave it in. I predict that Obama will be another Jimmy Carter.

FLORIDA still loves Romney. . .Keep it up don't quit!

The two Democrats are looking silly fighting -- like the Republicans two months ago. Unfortunately, Romney ended up a casualty of the fighting. After watching the debates it was clear to me that Romney was the only person of ideas on the GOP side. The DNC had determined his potential much earlier than most Republican. It was the DNC that labeled Romney as a flip-flop when they started the campaign / web pages / etc. to discredit his him last spring. A large group of Republicans took the bait and parroted the term to Romney’s defeat.

The cost may be a lost election to the DNC.

Isn't it about time for intelligent Americans to get smart about Mormons and who they are? There is absolutely NO association or link between the Mormon Church and any of these sicko, evil polygamist communes. NONE. AND THERE NEVER HAS BEEN. Imagine if some whacked out evil nutcase left YOUR church and started his own church and stuck the title "Fundamentalist" in front of YOUR church's name, stole the stuff they liked about it as their own, but created all their own new doctrines, rules, beliefs, and lifetsyle to pursue their evil lifetsyles. Do you really think Mitt Romney has anything in common with Warren Jeffs???
There is no such thing as a Fundamentalist Mormon Church. They have simply plagarized the honorable name of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Wake up America! Mormons, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is is NO WAY related, AND NEVER HAS BEEN, to these whackos who live in polygamists communes and have called themselves the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. There is nothing fundamental about them. They have plagarized the name of the good Mormon church by simply adding the word "Fundamentalist" in front of it. They could have done it to your church, as well. They were never Mormons and they have never been a part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, ever! Not even in the 1930's. They have simply taken the good name of the Mormon church to steal some semblance of legitimacy as a church. When Americans can finally figure this out, they will make great progess in knowing truth from error.

McCain is toast without Romney. There will always be one issue bigots that are a liability in many ways. The Republican party does not need them, want them, or wish to associate with them. Romney brings the majority of the Republican base which puts McCain over the top as the 44th President of the United States. Without Romney, Obama comfortably wins the Presidency. Deep in the bowels of the DNC they rejoiced when Romney suspended his campaign. They will re-order the malox and tums when he is put on the ticket as VP.
Mike

Dean is smart. Romney would have provided optimum contrast to the shallowness of the democrats vs. Romney's sharpness and depth of values and knowledge. Romney is such a powerful speaker and articulator - the dems wouldn't have had a prayer in debates.

Another factor is that Romney gets more votes as people come to realize that the smooth and polished delivery, that is so easily seen as stereotypical smoothness of a corperate grubber, is actually genuine and that what lies underneath that venere is actually an honest all-american family man who loves this country and wants to make it a better place.

If Romney would have stayed in the race, he would have been dominating the Republican party by the time of the convention and it would have been really aqward because he still wouldn't have had the delegates.