More 2012: Romney sets sights on Illinois

ILLINOIS: “Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney might not be campaigning in Illinois until Monday, but he's poised to saturate the state's airwaves during the final week before the Illinois primary,” the Chicago Tribune reports.

NEBRASKA: Bob Kerrey went up with his first ad.

PENNSYLVANIA: Santorum leads 36%-22% over Romney, according to Quinnipiac. Gingrich, who was born and raised in the Keystone state, gets just 8%. Paul is at 12%.

UTAH: Orrin Hatch says this is his last campaign.

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That's actually a good approach for Romney. Don't show up and give people more reasons to dislike you, and just let the campaign warchest do the talking. The sum value of the Romney campaign is found in the accounting of campaign coffers. The candidate adds nothing, and actually probably detracts because of that "say anything" perception.

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Reply#1 - Wed Mar 14, 2012 9:39 AM EDT

Truer words were never said. Romney looks great for 65, and certainly looks like a President from central casting, but that's about all he brings to the table - that, and the ability to raise money.

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#1.1 - Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:33 AM EDT
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This is the way Romney would govern. Set back watch the polls and make his decisions on the poll numbers, or more likely what he thinks his rich friends want to hear.

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Reply#2 - Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:04 AM EDT

The eventual Republican presidential candidate should be defeated, along with John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Michele Bachmann and several others. Why?

Because they simply are grossly dishonest and consistently offer deception without hesitation or conscience. Because they put their political ambitions above all else, at any cost to the people. Because they cater to and patronize “the few”, acting as “puppets” for the influential, powerful and extremely wealthy who strongly support them and who “pull their strings”. Because they are arrogant, obnoxious and stubborn, just faulting and blocking all real efforts, as they put their self-interests first. Because, as was clearly demonstrated by Bush-Cheney, they totally neglect their responsibilities to the people and count on, with the substantial covert and overt support of their backers, being able to con the people and manipulate public opinion. Because, like with the representatives and candidates themselves, the SuperPacs, Limbaugh, Palin, Beck, Hannity and others, they aggressively push their deception and insultingly assume they can con the people, sway emotions and control thinking. Because, for twelve years now, they have just taken the people for granted, focused totally on their political ambitions and served only “the few”. Because when people are really objective and rational, with their emotions checked so they can’t be used to con and manipulate them, they then can see and understand these truths ... and fully understand and accept that the only way to “break the back” of “the money”, for the people to ever regain control and have real representation, is to firmly and totally reject “the money’s” candidates.

Too extreme? Actually that is the only way we will ever get money out of politics, ... to simply render it ineffective. The supreme court wouldn’t do it and the politicians won’t ever do it ... the question now is, will the people do it? We can rationalize that the Democrats aren’t “pure and holy” but they simply are no where near as owned and controlled as the Republicans and then (contrary to propaganda) we actually have room to come back some to the “left”, with that being the first step in the people regaining control. Then we can push for representatives receptive to term-limits, caps on political spending, control over 3rd parties and limits on lobbyists moving in and out of government - all currently significant abuses contributing to the problems. There really is no hope for the majority when they aren’t even considered and rather are just conned and taken for granted; when the “more” mentality is aggressively pushed and the country is continually moved towards being a two-class society with “the few” (1%) competing in having it all and the majority (99%) struggling to simply survive.

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Reply#3 - Wed Mar 14, 2012 11:35 AM EDT
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