John Boehner: Voters 'Aren't Going To Fall In Love With Mitt Romney'

[Mayhem]

....or, "This Is How You Lose An Election By Picking The Wrong Candidate."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/07/john-boehner-mitt-romney_n_1656424.html

Try to contain your enthusiam, John Boehner.

According to Roll Call , the House Speaker said at a fundraiser in West Virginia last month that "the American people probably aren’t going to fall in love with Mitt Romney."

Roll Call reports that at the June 30 event, a female attendee asked Boehner, "Can you make me love Mitt Romney?" He responded, "No."

The Ohio Republican explained: "Listen, we're just politicians. I wasn't elected to play God. The American people probably aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney. I'll tell you this: 95 percent of the people that show up to vote in November are going to show up in that voting booth, and they are going to vote for or against Barack Obama."

Boehner endorsed Romney in his campaign for the White House in April after repeatedly dodging the issue.

"It's clear now that Mitt Romney is going to be our nominee," he said as the GOP primary race came to a close. "I think Mitt Romney has a set of economic policies that can put America back to work and, frankly, contrast sharply with the failed economic policies of President Obama. I will be proud to support Mitt Romney and do everything I can to help him win."

It's not the first time a prominent Romney endorser has made less-than-glowing remarks about the candidate in recent months.




Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) accidentally criticized Romney over his position on earmarks earlier this year while speaking on the former governor's behalf.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R-S.C.) told Fox News in January, "There's no such thing as a perfect candidate."

And, as HuffPost's Jon Ward recently reported, Romney has been drawing more substantive criticism for the way he's conducting his bid for the White House:

The chorus of voices knocking Mitt Romney for running an "anybody but Obama" campaign and calling on him to do more continues to grow louder.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Former Bush White House policy adviser Yuval Levin. The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan. The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol. National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru. The New York Times' David Brooks. Politico's Jonathan Martin. Slate's John Dickerson. The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin. And Noonan again.

All of these people -- either conservative supporters or nonpartisan, credible voices in the media -- have said Romney is either failing to provide a compelling vision for his candidacy or failing to lay out sufficient detail to explain how he would govern if elected president.

Whether Romney can overcome the speed bumps on the right side of the aisle remains to be seen. For John Boehner, he's good enough.

According to Roll Call, Boehner called Romney a "solid guy" and added, "He's going to do a great job, even if you don’t fall in love with him."

This is why Romney is going to lose. The Libs have already seen this play out with the likes of Mike Dukakis and John Kerry. Independents are either going to stay home or go with Obama as the lesser of two evils. VP selection is going to turn off a significant number of Republicans. Hardcore Cons and TeaPartiers are going to dismantle what little headway he has as we get closer to election day.

You guys picked the wrong horse. And I still don't get why you insisted that it had to be this way.

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

I honestly don't understand why the Republicans chose Romney. Admittedly every single major candidate would have been horrible, but why pick someone who has so much difficulty appealing to people outside of the party, let alone within your own party? Unlike a lot of Democrats I think the Republicans have a lot of valid points concerning the direction of the country, but with the current direction the party is headed the Republicans with great ideas are becoming fringe members within the party. It's going to take a rude awakening in November for them to hopefully correct their ship.

Although I will admit that voters won't exactly be in love with Obama this year either. I think there's too much disenfranchisement with government in general for anyone to fall in love with either candidate.

 

[Mayhem]

Ron Paul was right there, asking for Republican votes.....and they completely turned their back on him. :dunno:
He was the only one who could have given Obama a run for his money. And he was the only one with enough fact-based intelligence to get people to trust him. Hell, I might have voted for him, depending on how the debates went. But we will never know.

For my part, I'm what the "anyone-but-Obama" crowd sees when they look in the mirror. "Anyone-but-Romney". How anyone outside of Indiana and Mississippi can see anything but a corrupt, inneffective joke is beyond my comprehension. 4 years of this turd will be a nightmare, nothing less. And every credible VP candidate knows it and refuses to commit political suicide by hitching their wagon to him. He will be stuck with some Palinesque goofball, who either has nowhere to go but up, or who doesn't mind giving up electoral politics to hop around the talk show circuit, just like Sarah.

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

Ron Paul would probably have been the best choice, but I don't know if he would have faired any better than Romney where it counted. A lot of what Paul was campaigning on certainly made sense, but at the same time required a major shift in policy which a lot of Americans may have been uncomfortable with. And same with Romney, Paul wasn't univerally supported within the Republican Party, either. There would have been a chance that, if he was elected, he would face a Congress that would fight/block each of his changes. I'm not sure how much more effective Paul would be than nearly any of the candidates. The reality of the Republican Party is that they cannot field a candidate that can unite the party when half of the party wants to go farther right and the other half doesn't, so each candidate would have been a bad choice, I think. None of them have what it takes to win an election because they can't even motivate their base to come out and vote for them.

I think Romney's approval ratings come from disatisfaction with Obama himself, rather than actual approval of Romney and his credentials. Once Obama's campaign team begins firing on all cylinders and attacks Romney's history his support will die easily, unless the economy tanks before that. And as for his VP candidate, I'm still pulling for a computer simulation of Ronald Reagan that runs on jelly beans.

 

[Master Roshi]

Obomney SMH how about voting for anyone but elephants and donkeys, good points Plasma

 

[Rey C.]

A lot of wingnuts suspect that Obama is not (really) a native born American. But Romney's problem is, many people suspect that he's not a native born Earthling. So many things about this guy just make him seem like he could be from some other planet. I demand that he take a DNA test and make it public... or I'll refuse to accept him as my President. I'll stop paying taxes and start running stop signs. Who's with me?! :nanner:

But in all honesty, considering some of the complete kooks who were running for the GOP nomination this year, I guess Romney was seen by many as the most electable. I guess that's somewhat debatable, but I can see where they were coming from. All of the others (including Ron Paul) seemed to have too much baggage, that would have been hard to explain away in a general election. But with Romney, pick any issue, and he's taken every conceivable position on that issue that a man possibly could. He's a liberal, a moderate and a ("severe" ) conservative all wrapped up into one. I'm not really all that concerned that a Romney Presidency would be the worst thing to happen. The people that concern me are the neocons/Zionists, religious extremists/Evangelicals, paranoid schizo wingnuts and complete flakes that are now in solid control of the GOP, especially those in the House. And my fear is that if Romney gets in, he might become a sock puppet for those whack jobs.

Just like with George W. Bush (who I honestly don't think was quite as bad as many see him now)... it's the people calling the shots and those the President takes advice from that typically screw things up the most. I just hope you younger folks are ready to give your lives for the "cause of freedom" (again). Because if Romney is elected, I can easily see us in a war with Iran within the first couple of years of his first (and probably only) term. Iran is stronger than Iraq was, so this one might cost us $2 trillion, instead of the $1 trillion that Bush pissed away in Iraq. But as long as the Chinese will loan us the money, I guess you can't put a price on freedom.

 

[ballzano]

john just sucked his dick, he may not be in love but, have you seen biden's face lately?

 

[zeeblofowl_1969]

Boehner is a twisted sick piece of shit.

 

[Master Roshi]

Boehner is a twisted sick piece of shit.

I concur