Romney for Republican nominee

[billynomates]

He's now 1.3- I've had to lay him(he still wins me) but seems as if he still the choice through elimination. He'll probably go even shorter after he wins next week and I'll lay him again-but still keeping him a slight winner.

My gut feeling is I', being too timed. he seems a short price for someone noone seems comfortable with. Any thoughts would be helpful(from a betting/laying point of view)?
ps You can still bet him at 275 to be President- possafter Nynus wrote lay him to be Republican nominee but bet him to be President??

[billybob]

I think he will be the Republican nominees but not sure he will be president. The best thing he has in his favor is who he is running against. Lot of people are just not happy with the present one, me for dam sure, but the Republicans are just pitiful the way they slaughter each other.

[Nynus]

You're forgetting one thing about Romney.....

He's been holding VERY steady at 20 to 30%.

There are two key questions you have to ask about that. Why hasn't he gone up or down like the others, and what is going to happen when instead of Romney vs. 4 or 5 others, it's only Romney vs. 1 other?

There is a chance, that the 20% to 30% is a good as it's going to get for Romney and that the other 70% of Republicans pretty much want anyone BUT him as the nomination. Now that Cain, and Bachmann are out, and Perry is slipping, you may see that 70% split between Newt and Santorum. If one of them can pull it together you may start seeing one of them at 40%, The other at 20% and Romney still around 30%.

If it ever gets down to heads up for the Nomination, there's a very good chance that Romney won't be able to get more that 35%.

However when all is said and done, it doesn't matter if it's Romney, Newt, or Santorum. The party will rally to take down Obama. That is the one most solidifying goal of the party.

[wubders]

Santorum won the Iowa "GOD" preacher politician popularity contest.....so he will fail nationally like all the former Iowa jehovas--lol

But Romney being mormon may scare even catholics from him...not that they would admit it

Personally, I think a candidate that thanks the lord in his second sentence of his post Iowa speech is much much crazier than anything Ron Paul can say.

I believe in freedom of religion and separation of church and state

[skyguy2007]

Personally, I think a candidate that thanks the lord in his second sentence of his post Iowa speech is much much crazier than anything Ron Paul can say.

I believe in freedom of religion and separation of church and state

GREAT points, the religious slant of some scare the shit out of me.

[bluffmanxx]

why is it so hard to find a fiscal conservative and a social moderate in either party? those who say a person isn't a "true" conservative unless they want government mandating morality according to the values of the christian coalition scare the crap out of me almost as much as obama does.

[billynomates]

He's been holding VERY steady at 20 to 30%.

That's my thoughts. He polled near exactly the same in Iowa as he did 4 years ago.(and votes cost him 165 times more than Santorums) still possible for someone else to enter.

[billynomates]

Looking ahead, Mr Romney will handily take New Hampshire, where he's got an insuperable lead. But South Carolina and Florida are still on the table. After tonight, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann and probably Newt Gingrich are finished, which ought to give Mr Santorum a further boost, especially if the clearly embittered Mr Gingrich lashes out at Mr Romney, as he seems to intend. As for Ron Paul, his third-place finish just wasn't good enough. He'll continue to pull out third-place finishes, maybe even a few seconds, and his relevance will fade down the stretch. Mr Romney's still the frontrunner, and tonight's performance at least met expectations. But he didn't clinch the sort of win that might have made him seem the inevitable nominee. Like it or not, you're about to get to know Rick Santorum a whole lot better.

The Economist

[billybob]

and evidently he has big money behind him !!

[billynomates]

Romney stutters again! Soon as he diverts from the script he makes mistakes(shades of Obama). Huntsman putting all into New Hampshire- make or break for him. Will Mitch Daniels, Christie or even Boy Bush decide this election will take little winning?