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    Mitt Romney’s challenge: Convincing GOP he can win

    Mitt Romney’s challenge: Convincing GOP he can win



    Romney’s likability gap extends to some members of his own party. | AP Photo
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    By JONATHAN MARTIN | 4/20/12 4:37 AM EDT Politico

    Poll after poll indicates the presidential campaign is a dead heat, but you wouldn’t know it from talking to many Republican professionals. If you gave them truth serum, they would tell you they think Mitt Romney will lose.

    Romney’s likability gap, it turns out, extends to some members of his own party.
    use race taking place right now. In the public eye, Romney is consolidating the GOP behind his candidacy. Most all the holdouts – including House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell – are getting behind the presumptive nominee and making the case for his candidacy.

    But under the table, there is pervasive pessimism among Republicans about Romney’s prospects this fall. It’s apparent in rampant discussions about which Republicans will run in 2016 - talk that obviously presupposes a loss in November - and it’s downright glaring in private conversations with GOP officials on Capitol Hill and in consulting shops across Washington.

    And the skepticism about Romney isn’t just a Beltway phenomenon. Rank-and-file Republican voters are also uncertain he can win, though it’s the chattering class that is most bearish.

    The bed wetters, as White House adviser David Plouffe would call them, may ultimately be proven wrong or change their tune altogether. Polling patterns have a remarkable way of altering the conventional wisdom among insiders and Romney is enjoying some success on that front in recent days.

    But he recognizes the danger posed by the downcast assessments of his candidacy and is taking steps to reach out to Republican opinion shapers and activists. Among his first tasks as nominee-in-waiting is to convince members of his own party that he can win.

    Some of that strategy is playing out in a very public way. There’s a reason why, even after he’s locked up the nomination, the former Massachusetts governor is still doing talk radio appearances on the Breitbart network and Laura Ingraham show as well as appearing on Fox News, where he has teed up endorsements from big name Republicans. It’s the same reason why Romney is making an appearance at the RNC state chairs meeting later this week in Arizona and giving the commencement speech to the evangelical Liberty University next month.

    Behind the scenes, Romney and his campaign are just as engaged in shoring up support from Republicans. Some of the outreach is done by the candidate himself. Romney, for example, phoned Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels to secure the Hoosier’s endorsement. And he met with a small group of conservative elites, including Ed Meese and David Keene, when he was in Washington for a speech earlier this month.

    Much of the stroking, though, is being done by Romney’s advisers, who have divided up responsibilities. His point man with movement conservatives, Peter Flaherty, called evangelical leaders Tony Perkins and Gary Bauer within hours of Rick Santorum’s withdrawal from the race last week.

    Ed Gillespie, the former RNC chairman who has become a senior adviser, has spent considerable time on the phone during his first weeks aboard the campaign as well as sitting down with a mix of establishment and conservative Republicans who were lukewarm about Romney.

    Former Minnesota Gov Tim Pawlenty, a frequent Romney surrogate, has been helping to bring the GOP governors in line.

    Romney’s top policy hand, Lanhee Chen, has held two conference calls in just in the past month with congressional policy aides, including the top issues staffers for Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

    Zac Moffatt, Romney’s digital director, has been wooing conservative bloggers.

    Read more: Mitt Romney’s challenge: Convincing GOP he can win - POLITICO.com

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    Basically Romney must convince his base to come out and vote,I honestly don't believe a woman nor Hispanic as vice will help,what he must avoid is McCain mistakes who alienated white base voters in the millions, Rubio is taking Romney down that same path not sure why perhaps through ignorance or purpose but the GOP must stop pandering to the main stream press. Jobs,manufacturing, freedom applies to all people not just one group, simply Romney needs to put out the idea of freedom vs socialism and sadly the GOP hierarchy is scared to do so.
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    Romney: My Only Connection To The Republican Party Is That I'm Registered Republican



    Does the Term RINO mean anything to the GOP anymore
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    Quote Originally Posted by AirborneSapper7 View Post
    Does the Term RINO mean anything to the GOP anymore
    Nobody here still won't tell me what Paul will do with the millions of illegals already here except call all of us a Nazi for wanting them deported.

    Please tell me I've been waiting for months now to hear what he will do with them, and still have not received an answer!

    What kind of Presidential candidate would call Americans, millions unemployed "Nazi's" for wanting to deport aliens here illegally! Never understood that.
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    Romney Immigration Adviser Kris Kobach Says Mitt Romney Won’t Support GOP DREAM Act

    By Amanda Peterson Beadle on Apr 18, 2012 at 2:20 pm



    During the GOP presidential primary, Mitt Romney staked out the most extreme position on immigration of any Republican candidate. Romney even campaigned with his immigration policy adviser Kris Kobach, the author of Alabama and Arizona’s harsh immigration laws, on Martin Luther King Day. Now that Romney is the presumptive nominee, he’s trying to soften his immigration rhetoric to win over Hispanic voters. The Romney campaign even tried to publicly downgrade Kobach from “adviser” to mere “supporter” yesterday — an effort that failed after Kobach refused to play along.
    Nor is this the only example of Kobach refusing to let Romney etch-a-sketch away his harsh positions on immigration. After Romney said over the weekend that Republicans need to embrace a Republican DREAM Act to win over Hispanic voters, Kobach told the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent that the former Massachusetts governor will not support any version of the DREAM Act that offers a path to legal status — like the GOP version Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) plans to introduce. And he added that no Republican should support such a proposal:
    [Kobach] stated flatly that he didn’t think Republicans — or Romney — should, or would, support any version of the DREAM Act that provides undocumented immigrants with any kind of path to legal status.

    If Romney sticks to this — and Kobach said he would — there’s very little room for him to moderate his approach to immigration. In addition to advising Romney on immigration, Kobach is a national GOP voice on the issue, suggesting the right would not permit any move of this kind.
    I’d absolutely reject any proposal that would give a path to legal status for illegal aliens en masse,” Kobach said. “That is what amnesty is. I do not expect [Romney] to propose or embrace amnesty.”
    Details of Rubio’s proposed DREAM Act have not been announced, but the first-term senator has outlined a plan that would not offer a direct path to citizenship but would enable them to remain in the country legally. Despite his promise to veto the DREAM Act earlier in his campaign, Romney told a crowd at a private fundraiser that he wants a Republican DREAM Act to make the GOP the party of “opportunity.”
    But if Rubio’s plan includes a path to legal status, or if Romney supports a plan that does, then Kobach said it would be an “unacceptable” proposal. “A path to legal status for someone who is here illegally is amnesty by definition,” he said. “It gives the alien what he has stolen.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by stevetheroofer View Post
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