‘We’ve Had Enough’: Revved Up Romney Claims Illinois Victory and Turns Sights on Obama
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SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (AP) — Front-runner Mitt Romney sailed to an easy victory in the Illinois primary Tuesday night, trumping Rick Santorum in yet another industrial state showdown and padding his already-formidable delegate lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
“What a night,” Romney told cheering supporters in suburban Chicago. Turning his attention past his GOP rivals, he said he had a simple message for President Barack Obama, the Democrat he hopes to face and defeat in November: “Enough. We’ve had enough.”
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Romney triumphed after benefitting from a crushing advantage in the television advertising wars, and as his chief rival struggled to overcome self-imposed political wounds in the marathon race to pick an opponent to Obama.
Returns from 47 percent of the state’s precincts showed Romney gaining 50 percent of the vote compared to 33 percent for Santorum, 9 percent for Ron Paul and 7 percent for a fading Newt Gingrich.
Exit polls showed Romney preferred by primary goers who said the economy was the top issue in the campaign, and overwhelmingly favored by those who said an ability to defeat Obama was the quality they most wanted in a nominee.
The primary capped a week in which the two campaigns seemed to be moving in opposition directions — Romney increasingly focused on the general election battle against Obama while Santorum struggled to escape self-created controversies.
Most recently, he backpedaled after saying on Monday that the economy wasn’t the main issue of the campaign. “Occasionally you say some things where you wish you had a do-over,” he said later.
Over the weekend, he was humbled in the Puerto Rico primary after saying that to qualify for statehood the island commonwealth should adopt English as an official language.
While pre-primary polls taken several days ago in Illinois suggested a close race, Romney and Restore Our future, a super Pac that backs him, unleashed a barrage of campaign ads to erode Santorum’s standing. One ad accused the former Pennsylvania senator of changing his principles while serving in Congress, while two others criticized him for voting to raise the debt limit, raise his own pay as a lawmaker and side with former Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to support legislation allowing felons the right to vote.
In all, Romney and Restore Our Future outspent Santorum and a super PAC that backs him by $3.5 million to $500,000, an advantage of 7-1.
Romney’s victory was worth at least 13 delegates.
That gave him 535 in the overall count maintained by The Associated Press, out of 1,144 needed to win the nomination. Santorum has 253 delegates, Gingrich 135 and Paul 50.
In the long and grinding campaign, Santorum looked to rebound in next Saturday’s primary in Louisiana, particularly given Romney’s demonstrated difficulties winning in contests across the Deep South.
A 10-day break follows before Washington, D.C., Maryland and Wisconsin hold primaries on April 3.
Santorum is not on the ballot in the nation’s capital.
Private polling shows Romney with an advantage in Maryland, and Restore Our Future launched a television ad campaign in the state during the day at a cost of more than $450,000.
Wisconsin shapes up as the next big test between Romney and Santorum, an industrial state next door to Illinois, but one where Republican politics have been roiled recently by a controversy involving a recall battle against the governor and some GOP state senators who supported legislation that was bitterly opposed by labor unions.
Already, Restore Our future has put down more than $2 million in television advertising across Wisconsin. Santorum has spent about $50,000 to answer.
Neither Newt Gingrich nor Ron Paul campaigned extensively in Illinois.
Gingrich has faded into near-irrelevance in the race, but he was defiant in a statement issued after Romney sealed his victory.
“To defeat Barack Obama, Republicans can’t nominate a candidate who relies on outspending his opponents 7-1. Instead, we need a nominee who offers powerful solutions that hold the president accountable for his failures,” it said.
Gingrich said his campaign will spend the time leading to the party convention “relentlessly taking the fight to President Obama.”
Illinois fell into Romney’s column far more easily than Michigan or Ohio had.
The night’s vote count was plagued by ballot difficulties. Rupert Borgsmiller, executive director, of the Illinois State Board of Elections, said in late afternoon that 25 counties and the city of Aurora were affected by the ballot problem. He didn’t know how many ballots were affected but said “clearly you can say more than hundreds.”
Romney and Santorum campaigned energetically across the state, and not always in respectful tones.
“Senator Santorum has the same economic lightweight background the president has,” Romney said at one point. “We’re not going to replace an economic lightweight with another economic lightweight.”
Santorum had a tart reply. “If Mitt Romney’s an economic heavyweight, we’re in trouble.”
Anticipating a primary defeat, Santorum’s campaign argued that the race for delegates is closer than it appears.
Santorum contends the Republican National Committee at the convention will force Florida and Arizona to allocate their delegates on a proportional basis instead of winner-take-all as the state GOP decided. Romney won both states.
On Tuesday, about four in 10 voters interviewed as they left their polling places said they were evangelical or born again. That‘s about half the percentage in last week’s primary states of Alabama and Mississippi, where Santorum won narrowly. Despite an unusually lengthy race for the nomination, less than a third of those voting said in the polling-place survey they hoped the primary season would come to a quick end even if that meant their candidate might lose the nomination.
The findings came from preliminary results from the survey of 1,555 Illinois Republican voters, and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. The exit poll was conducted for The Associated Press and the television networks by Edison Research at 35 randomly selected polling places around the state.
As Illinois Republicans voted on Tuesday, Romney raised more than $1.3 million at a luncheon in Chicago.
Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator, has been seeking to make up in broadcast interviews what he has lacked in advertising money.
On Monday, his campaign began before sun-up and ended well after dark, including four appearances at rallies around the state as well as an extraordinary 19 radio and television interviews. He accused Romney anew of putting his signature on a Massachusetts health insurance law that is similar to the one Obama pushed through Congress.
Romney cut short his planned time in Puerto Rico, site of a primary last weekend, to maximize his time in Illinois. He has eked out victories in other big industrial states over the past few weeks, beginning in Michigan on Feb. 28 and Ohio on March 6. Defeat in any would be likely to trigger fresh anxiety within the party about his ability to wrap up the nomination.
Illinois was the 28th state to hold a primary or caucus in the selection of delegates to the nominating convention, about halfway through the calendar of a Republican campaign that has remained competitive longer than most.
A change in party rules to reduce the number of winner-take-all primaries has accounted for the duration of the race. But so has Romney’s difficulty in securing the support of the most conservative of the GOP political base. Santorum and Gingrich have struggled to emerge as the front-runner’s sole challenger from the right.
Whatever the reasons, the race appeared unlikely to end soon, with Santorum and even Gingrich vowing to campaign into the convention.
David Espo reported from Washington
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cuinsong
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:44pmI don‘t know if Romney will make a good president or not but he can’t be any worse and I already know the devil in the WH now is about as bad as it gets!
Report Post »This song reflects the lighter side of what one needs to do in order to participate in a game of poker and I use it here as a metaphor about running a business.
Obviously Romney has done that well in life and knows the lesson of the song.
“The Game of Life” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_12524752
Itsjusttim
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:04amI was thinking about that proposed Dwight D. Eisenhower statue, and then I started thinking about the past. I started thinking about the idea of glory years that modern Americans are taught about. Then I started thinking about how I was doing too much thinking about the past. Then I remembered Ezekiel’s warning about trying to go back to the past. Then I started thinking about how the Eisenhower family probably relishes in the glory of Dwight, and how Dwight was probably the most well known person from their family and how they probably cling to the past. Then I started thinking if I was a bad guy it would be beneficial for me to blind people with the historical past, and to spot-light their mortality. Well, it’s just a thought anyways.
Report Post »83plus
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 1:00amThe Wright Brothers would‘ve likely had an issue with EPA’s emission regs too. I‘m going to miss Thomas Edison’s light bulb also, especially when we find out why CFLs and LEDs don’t work in oven lights. I can smell that burnt plastic and solid state circuitry already. I wonder if the people who put light bulb ban together realized that little issue.
*sigh* Oh well.
Report Post »MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 1:06amHas the novelty of the first black president worn off yet ?
Report Post »Chuck Stein
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 1:42amI’m not sure if any of the 4 still in the race “deserve” to be president — but I am certain that America doesn’t deserve another 4 years of Der Obamasar — 4 years without him having to worry about re-election.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 2:33amIt will be a Sarah Palin/Allen West victory at the Tampa Convention! They will wipe the floor with the defenseless DemonRats who spent their Billion getting ready for Romney/Rubio!
TEA
Report Post »TeaPartyForRomney
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 3:10amIf you haven’t heard about the Eisenhower statue that was mentioned above, here is a recap from Fox News: http://www.thedailycandidate.com/video/2012/mar/eisenhower_family_memorial.html
Report Post »mamatango
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:08amI can’t stand ANY of them! When will people realize that there is no difference between Romney, Santorum, McCain, Bush…..they are all owned…bought and paid for by the elite.
Quit playing their game! It’s a joke. Even video proof of rigged voting machines. WAKE UP!
I miss the great country I used to think I lived in.
Report Post »mamatango
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 5:09amOoops, meant to include Obama, Clinton and all democrats. Rigged system.
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:04am@MAMATANGO
Report Post »So what’s your solution? Don’t tell me your a Ron Paul guy. If you are your beating a dead horse.
mwhaley
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:45amThe Progressive that lost to the progressive that lost to Obama won last night. It really sucks that Obama could be running in 2012 to the second place loser in 08. Crap!
Report Post »black9897
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 10:37amSo have I. That is why I will not vote for anyone but Ron Paul.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 11:28am83plus
Report Post »Posted on March 21, 2012 at 1:00am
The Wright Brothers would‘ve likely had an issue with EPA’s emission regs too. I‘m going to miss Thomas Edison’s light bulb also, especially when we find out why CFLs and LEDs
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Too bad George W. Bush signed the legislation to phase out the light bulbs,
MS-GlenNBC
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 11:41amThe Problem with Newt Gingrich was he was a progressive…. Right?
What does that make Romney?
Breaking News
Jeb Bush Endorses Mitt Romney
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/jeb-bush-endorses-mitt-romney-in-gop-primary/
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:13pmDid theblaze cover this interview with top #Rmoney adviser?
HOST: Is there a concern that Santorum and Gingrich might force the governor to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election?
FEHRNSTROM: Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.
The guy is made of jello. Mitt emptysuit Romney is in for a shock that vid exists of his crazy-talk to pander to the far-right.
Report Post »83plus
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 1:28pmencinom
I know
Report Post »brookerfam
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 3:44pmBeck, still in love with your Whiner extrodinare Rick Santorum? Still think this career politician is “the next George Washington”? Still putting all of your support behind this never had a real job whiner? Still turning a blind eye to Santorum’s economic plan that picks manufacturing as the winner and everyone else as the loser Mr. Progressive Hunter?
Wake up! Santorum is a first class DORK!
America needs to get behind Romney, the first truely private sector candidate in at least a century, to beat Obama!
Report Post »ephraimtheox
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:43pmThere should be a study done on the IQ’s of Republican Evangelicals. The Democrat ones scored really low
Report Post »Paul
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:56pmDoes anyone think there is going to be an election “as usual?”
So easily fooled.
Report Post »Paul
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:02amThey didn’t put in over a hundred years to go home empty handed.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:31amPaul you’re a conspiracy theorist.
Yes, there will be an election, as usual.
Report Post »Ralleo
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 3:29amJJ, while I am not sure Paul is right about us being that far gone, I still worry that it is a possibility that the election we are about to see in November is nothing more than a huge charade, and will end in riots and civil unrest and a new dictator being born. Conspiracy theory?… probably… but plenty of scary things have already happened in this administration. I just hope it doesn’t come to that.
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 1:39pm@JJ COOLAY
Report Post »No offence but I think you are naive. If you really know who Obama is and understand what is really going on you will quickly change your thinking on that matter.
soybomb315
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:42pm“Enough. We’ve had enough”
Why does he want to shut the primary down before he has achieved a proper victory? That is the attitude of an elitist – obama style. Just because a very liberal state goes for the moderate – does not mean the rest of the country wants this guy.
Why is romney so afraid of getting the amount of delegates required to win? why doesnt he fight like a man? its not like he doesnt have the name recognition, media attention, money advantage, and campaign staff. if he is pulling these tricks in a republican primary – what kind of president will he be?
Report Post »PRRedlin
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:47pmThis is exactly why mitt will have trouble in the general. The only states he’s winning are the ones where liberal/moderate republicans out number the conservative republicans. So in the general, if you are a moderate republican, there’s really no reason to switch from obama to rmoney.
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:10am@PRRedlin
Obama is not popular with independents and moderates, so why would he fare better than Romney in the general? He wouldn’t.
Romney has won swing states that have plenty of conservative Republicans: OH, FL, VA.
Report Post »xyfbx
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:13amLMAO
Report Post »Mitt would like to get to business of beating Obama. Is it his fault he prepared for the elections? The only reason Santorum is still in this and Romney has won are all the evangelical bigots who hate Mormons. They hate them so much that they vote or an Opus Dei adherent, who are scarier in every way the Mormons. Basically the evangelical leaders have about as much wisdom as a hub cap.
JJ Coolay
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:33amOh so Mitt would have trouble in the general election because the conservative states would vote for Obama over Mitt????
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Think before you write something.
mikee99
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:38amActually Romney was saying we have had enough of Obama, not the primary nomination.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:18am@jj
Report Post »i refer you to Virginia and North Carolina in 2008.
b.mclane
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 9:52am@SOYBOMB315…….uhhh…dude…the “WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH” is a Romney reference to the Obama Presidency and all the stupid stuff they have done…..not the Republican Primary Race. So the rest of what you rambled on about is all off the mark and baseless. He is winning the Primary the “MAN” way…one Delegate at a time.
Report Post »DanSt
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:35pmAs I read through these comments I noticed that some Paul supporters are intent on allowing Obo the Clown four more years to complete the destruction of this once great nation…I guess it’s true what they say…You can’t cure stupid…ROMNEY 2012…because our kids can’t afford to support the lay-abouts who are content sucking at the taxpayer teat as our future generations are foisted into serfdom…
Report Post »inblack
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:44pm@Danst
Remember when Glenn said that it was better for america for Obama to be elected than McCain.
What has changed? No one knows what Romney stands for. He is Obama II. Will he balance the budget? Will he pull out of the world bank? Will he stop provoking war and providing foreign aid to Israel’s enemies?
It’s not Ron Paul we support, it’s liberty and the ideals of the tea party. But hurry up and vote for the guy with an R next to his name, because people like you are why we know nothing about Romney’s plans beyond a few false platitudes and why we have no idea who is funding him.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:44pmromney has not proposed fixing the entitlement system. he wants to ‘fix the safety net if it is broken’. his budget plan calls for slight decreases in the future spending increases (huh?).
are you aware of these things – or are you already in romney’s cheesy grits?
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:12am@inblack
“What has changed…”
Four years of Obama as president, the tea party movement, the 2010 elections. Without Obama getting elected, there is no tea party, no resolve, no national movement back to limited gov’t.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:35amI don’t what Glenn said.
Report Post »It’s far worse for Obama to have a lame duck session than for Mitt to be elected.
MammalOne
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 3:00amLet it be known that while the country crumbles at our feet under the leadership of democrats or republicans, some of us stood true to our principles and didn’t settle because it was convenient.
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:29pmRonPaul has his superpac-hedgefund guy AND he wants to deregulate wallstreet, what’s the difference justangry?
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 3:17pmOff the top of my head, taking on the Federal Reserve is the biggest difference, but I don’t really know squat or care about the economy as much as I care about civil liberties and ending the empire building.
Report Post »drenfroe
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:33pmHe‘s also big business and bringing Obama’s guys to his team now. Both sides of the coin. Scary.
Report Post »eileen for freedom liberty
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:30pmReported lowest turnout in 70 years for a presidential primary….tells me that the Democratzi ‘loons’ in Illinois plan on voting for the fraud again in 2012!
I just heard a pundit say that Santorum only wins in conservative states…and that holds true for NWO Romney he only wins in moderate states! So as far as I am concerned they are even…and this is not yet over…more states to follow…many conservative…many moderate and many up for grabs…and we wipe the dust from Illinois and move on to the next one!
RICK SANTORUM CAN WIN!
RICK SANTORUM WILL WIN!
RICK SANTORUM IS DOING IT WITH ONLY ‘REAL’ CONSERVATIVES FROM ALL PARTIES SUPPORTING HIM WITH VOTES AND MONEY!
NWO ROMNEY IS BUYING THIS ELECTION!
http://support.ricksantorum.com/
Report Post »GoodStuff
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:14am“RICK SANTORUM WILL WIN!
RICK SANTORUM IS DOING IT WITH ONLY ‘REAL’ CONSERVATIVES FROM ALL PARTIES SUPPORTING HIM WITH VOTES AND MONEY!”
Romney is winning voters who identify as “tea partiers.” Heck, he even won the catholic vote in Michigan. You can deny it all you want, but you are just willfully ignoring the facts.
Report Post »xyfbx
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:17amSantorum is a religious zealot who if asked truthfully would call all you evangelicals apostates from the true RC church and the pope. Remember what they used to do with apostates when they had power? Mormons think evangelicals are deceived but believe in freedom of religion.
Report Post »Simonne
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 4:35amRomney raised money for this election & Santorum & Newt weren’t prepared. What would they do running against Obama? Whine like they always do but that won’t win an election. I’m a conservative & Mitt is getting the majority of those votes. It’s those on the far right that has a problem with him & they would have a problem with Reagan if he ran today because he was not far right either.
Report Post »DownWithDems
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:32pmEileen,
You must be drinking spiked Kool-aid.
Report Post »Santorum will win, like you will become Cinderella.
People like you obviously refuse to accept reality.
How sad.
rebel999
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:30pmAmerica is in the mist of a revolution, an economic and culture revolution. It is a revolution of the rich and the Republicans against the rest of us. The Republicans use character assassination, lies, deception and fear to get people to vote for them so that they can enrich themselves even if they destroy America in the process. The Republicans plan on permanently extending the Bush tax cuts and making abortions illegal if they win the next election. Why people who make less than $70,000 a year would vote for the Republicans is beyond me. The Republicans are just using you. The Republicans show no respect for anyone they don’t agree with. Read my web page at http://www.mybetteramericaplan.com to see how the Republicans have destroyed America and will destroy America more if they win the next election.
Report Post »DanSt
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:36pmHey Rebel, have you ever had an original thought?
Report Post »inblack
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:37pm@rebel
You are a communist. We don’t want you here.
If you think that we should vote for the communist Obama out of class envy you have no idea how real americans think. We want to be left alone, to work at our own lives, not suck the blood out of the rich so that losers like you can get your Obama Money.
You and the rest of the Obamaites are immoral, muney grubbing children – now go get a job.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:43pmHey InBLack, have you ever had an original thought?
Report Post »inblack
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:46pmHey SURVIVORSEED, have you ever had an original thought?
Report Post »jeezpeeps
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:50pmSo Reb… Am I supposed to line up to pleasure Barry? I hope you can sleep at night. Tell your kiuds you love them… must be a heck of an actor.
Report Post »AxelPhantom
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:57pmWhy people who make less than $70,000 a year would vote for the Republicans is beyond me.
Because we believe that with enough hard work, someday we will make $70,000+ and with a little creativity, frugality and inventiveness, we can become evil-ly rich.
If you don’t believe that, I feel sorry for you as you have swallowed the defeatest attitudes fed to you by elitists who don’t believe you have the smarts to figure out how to eat a balanced diet without their help much less create wealth for yourself.
Report Post »survivorseed
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 1:01amI wouldn’t get out of bed for less than $70 000 a year. I’m still not voting for any of these fringe lunatics that have been put forward. You think sharia law is bad, wait until you taste santorum law.
Report Post »rdjones
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:26pmFolks, we are hosed.
Report Post »figueroajf
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:04pmNewt and Paul need to drop off, plain and simple. Yet it is too early to tell for sure but the delegates are not going their direction. I know you Paul and Newt supporters don’t or may mot agree but you have to face facts here, americans do not want these two. Truth be told they are hindering Santorum and they know this. I know Paul voters will go for Romney.
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:22pmI’ll never go for Romney. Do you not understand. We are going to write Paul in. We aren’t going to give in to your little tactics. Paul has a ton of delegates. And the GOP are breaking a ton of rules too during the Caucus in many states. I will never vote for some one who is for the NDAA, HR-347 & The Patriot Act. I like Freedom.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:37pmIt’s hard to say what Americans want based on the GOP primary, though it does appear the GOP wants another big government statist. I don’t know what Newt will do. Probably whatever his buddies at the CFR want him to do. I’m pretty sure however the RP will not drop out. Some say he‘s playing a delegate game that the media isn’t really being all the honest about. If they’re right, what happens when Paul goes 3rd party after the convention after setting up all those GOP candidates that are only loyal to him? You might also consider that independents are the largest block of voters. What happens in a 3 way race? Well, I’ll hold on hope that America will make the right choice. Both parties are trash. I will vote my conscience not matter what and that doesn’t include voting for traitors to the Bill of Rights, no matter what my TV tells me to do.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:48pmpaul is the wild card. nobody know how many delegates he will have but it could be ALOT. Paul has no reason to drop out because his supporters would likely just go home instead of voting for one of the other candidates in the primary.
Newt, however, will not be getting any more delegates than he currently has. Most of his supporters would almost certainly go for santorum. Newt dropping out would have a HUGE impact on this race
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:37amGo ahead and vote for Paul. Waste your vote.
Report Post »He’s getting 10% of the GOP vote.
Mitt can still win the general without the RP vote.
He will get the entire Gop vote, save the RP voters and he will also get Indy voters and some moderate dems.
So go ahead, waste your vote on a write it, it won’t matter.
PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 1:00am@JJ Coolay – I am not wasting my vote. I could care less if he wins. I would love if he does. I refuse to pick the lesser of the evil. I did that last time. ( Mccain ). I defend my Liberty, unlike you. You could care less about Freedom of Speech right? Do me a favor, keep thinking Romney can actually win. Your all brainwashed or your Obama Supporters destroying the GOP.
Report Post »justangry
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 2:55am@JJ, I’ve been reading so much stuff lately, I truly don‘t know what’s going on, so I’ll be voting based on what I know. What I know is everyone except RP believes the president can kill or detain indefinitely American citizens without due process. All of them, except RP believe it’s ok to have federal agents determine who they can spy on instead of having to present evidence to a judge like the Constitution says they have to do. All of them, except RP believe it’s perfectly acceptable to have, soon to be, union thugs grope my daughter. All of them, except RP believe it’s ok for a group of unknown bankers (perhaps foreign) print money out of thin air and rip off the American public. All of them except RP believe it’s ok go around the world preemptively killing people who have never harmed us based on shotty, at best, inteligence, which is a violation of the “just war” theory of Christianity. I know my TV lies and all news is filtered through a globalist think tank. Finally, I know that conventional wisdom that says voting for someone other than the traitors the two party system tells us to has gotten us into the mess we currently find ourselves in. So you can take you conventional wisdom and shove it right up the old wazoo. I’m voting based on what I know.
Report Post »Tankertony
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:04pmI’m a Santorum guy but I was impressed with Mitt tonight. Great speech, I love the ‘economic freedom’ pitch. Direct–> to the truth.
Report Post »Economies, like most things, thrive when given freedom. Freedom comes from God.
Progressive marxist leftist ideology is antithetical to freedom, therefore their economies SUCK.
Woe be to the godless left.
CatB
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:33pmMe too TANKERTONY …. about time they concentrated on Obama … and lay out a plan to defeat him and restore America! I have heard Santorum speak in person and he was more like Mitt tonight than the sound bites that usually make the press (I wish Santorum had concentrated on Obama tonight also) …. they need to go AFTER OBAMA NOW! Stop eating our own … and RESTORE AMERICA.
OMG 2012!
Report Post »jeezpeeps
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:41pmI for one was a Cain supporter first, then shifted to Newt, thinking all the while that Santorum was an acceptable alternative… Looks like Mitt is gonna WIN it… Whoo hoo! Beat Obama! Go Mitt! Your my HERO!!! Who Da’ Man!!! I for one can’t wait for November! There is only one possible hope for America gang! Of course we haven’t had our Primary yet… and Santorum is gonna get my vote. But if Mitt wins it all. I am behind him 1000%! If your heads are firmly planted where the sun doesn’t shine… please remove it and at least cast a vote that may get us on the right road… I have grandbabies depending on it. I would not write in Jesus Christ’s name for President. I’ll only pray to that one. So if you write in a losers vote please don’t tell me… I’d rather think that your just an Communist S. O. B. than a complete and utter fool.
Report Post »ScratInTheHat
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:50pmStop the BS! You were Romney all the way! You can’t blind everyone to the truth! God you shills PMO! He is a complete chameleon! Vote for the weasel! Vote for Romney!
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:03pmMr. Beck. You better try harder propping up candidate Santorum better than you did today.
We’ve got to keep the race going.
A lot of people’s incomes depend on the advertising money to keep flowing.
The mantra:
It’s far from decided (cha ching, cna ching)
Report Post »It’s far from decided (cha ching, cna ching)
It’s far from decided (cha ching, cna ching)
inblack
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:55pm@MARYBETHELIZABETH
Really, are you worried that Romney will run out of TV attack ad money? Hell George Soros must be funding him because Mitt is outspending the other candidates 10:1. How is he doing that? Where is the money coming from? Why will he never talk about his plan for being president, but just bash others?
No, we’re not going to give up and submit just because Mitt has bought himself a lead.
Report Post »trappedinwv
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 2:40am@INBLACK
Apparently you missed or dumped his speach tonight right out of your head.
Report Post »Icnivad
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 10:00amIt’s his money, Black. Derpyderp?
Report Post »Gracchi
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:01pmKolob, magic shorts, negative ads, and wimp doth not maketh a president. Take it to the convention. We have had enough of odd ball presidents with this current misfit.
Report Post »WithoutGuile
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 9:02amYou are a sadly misinformed Mormon hater… you should spend some time talking with real Mormons about what “they say they believe” In fact here is a link to “Their official website” so you don’t have to keep living in your dark misinformed and bigoted little world. See the light!! WARNING it won’t be what you pastor told you… or what you read on that anti-mormon site you love so much. It’s simply what they believe without spin. http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/mormonism-101#C14
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 9:19amI can’t believe the fighting going on here. Relax and go along with whoever the canidate is going to be. We might not like it, but do you like Obama? We all need to get behind whoever our canidate is going to be. It will be the start of getting our Country back on the right track. It will take time to straighten this big mess that the administration has made. It is not going to be easy. Anything is better than what is growing in the sewer in Washington. Remember that.
Report Post »b.mclane
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 10:12amCareful, you bigotry toward the MORMOM Religion is showing. BTW: for all you True and Right Christians out there…Mormonism IS a Christian Religion, Here is its Proper name: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. ( see???? JC is in their name……they are Christians…its Ok to vote for Romney. He is not “one of them”…he is one of you). Mormons banned bigomy a century ago, they are FAMILY CENTRAL. Family is all and they feel its their duty to help others.Giving to charity and charitable causes is an everyday thing. OMG HOW HORRIBLE !!!! A President without a checkered past!! Who adores his family and gives MILLIONS away every year !! To call Romney a Moderate is calling the biggest chunk of the Republican Party Moderates. This Primary has shown that rabid Conservatives are no different that rabid FAR LEFTIES. Both are extremes. Romney gets called names by religious nuts because he does not go around thumping his chest like a Crusader so therefore, he must be evil. Lets pick Saint Rick who voted to save hs own hide most of the time and will lose to Obama. That will show them all Conservatives are a thinking bunch. You wanna gets this economy running again adn save this country for your kids or you wanna make a stupid point?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 10:39amGracchi
Report Post »Check out the Scientology website too. We must accept all cults without judgement now or we’re biggots.
LibertyGoddess
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:15pmGonzo all your comments prove you are a bigot. No one is asking you to accept anything. You and your sour evangelicals are the only ones making this about religion. STHU.
Report Post »Jimbo
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:01pmRomney Wins Illinois — But Still Vulnerable Among Conservatives, Middle Class
Big headline on Newsmax. Their bias has reached a level above laughable to the level of absurdity.
Report Post »He won 56 to 27. They claim he didn’t get any votes from anyone who made under $100,000 a year. Newsmax has lost all credibility. I am glad to have Foxnews and the Blaze.
neverending
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:05pmNewsmax never had any. They are nothing more then just a joke – a really big and very laughable joke.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:56pmcheck yourself – romney 47% and santorum 35%. not sure where you get your news
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:41amRegardless of the %, you’re telling me there are 424,981 people in Illinois who make over 100K and vote Republican?
Doubt it.
Report Post »Simonne
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 4:38amNewsmax has become a joke. They have zero objectivity.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:53pmHey! Wait a sec! Where’s his teleprompter!? How can he be Commander-In Chief without a teleprompter!?
Report Post »Icnivad
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:09pmLeft the rest of your apple in the trash bin, bud. Go fetch.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:52pmHa ha, Romneys on your team.
Report Post »saveamericafromthestupids
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:50pmHey Romney, what exactly have “we’ve“ had enough” of??!! Please explain to me!! Let’s see…Obama has ended the awarding of “no-bid” defense contracts, ended the Bush-era policy of protecting credit card companies, & placed a 35% tariff on Chinese products after China was found to be illegally “dumping” exports below cost (Bush refused to do this 4 times)!
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:58pmThese people DO NOT understand the concept of facts and knowledge, they hate education. They understand uneducated knee jerk just fine though.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:04pmSo driving up oil costs by shutting down refiners, putting moratoriums on oil drilling, and will say nothing of buying oil from other countries why touting green energy jobs, makes Obama a savior of this country? Do us all a favor. Follow your tag name, and we’ll pray you get back to your own common sense in the meantime.
I won’t lie, I used to support the Democratic party years ago, my last vote for one was Clinton’s 2nd term. But something clicked on inside of me. I realized who they were and understood their tactics, realizing how foolish I was by supporting them. The people claiming to be Democrats aren’t Democrats at all. The party was hijacked by Liberal Progressives. Their sole goal is to used the misinformed masses as a MEANS TO AN END.
It’s a mere lead way to Socialist-like tendencies by transforming this country without justification or reasoning. If you don’t see this in time, many like your self will be used and discarded when it’s all said and done by them. Listen to what they’re saying to you and think about the words they speak. Their words don‘t represent America or it’s people. It represents an ideal of government control over the people by way of stripping them of their Liberties.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:12pm@saveamericafromthemarxists
Report Post »We’ve had enough of your dumbass in the whitehouse, telling us that government is the solution to everything, we’ve had enough of him running our kids 5 trillion more in debt, so he can payoff his his lazy union thugs, and his green energy criminals, we‘ve had enough of him bowing and apologizing to the world for America’s so called crimes, we’ve had enough of his attempts to get everyone addicted to his welfare and food stamp crack, so they can be easily controlled, we’ve had enough of his gun running attorney general,his share the wealth but not the labor…….. Enough of his fu%*^#ing hope and change,,,,,now do you get it
Tankertony
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:32pmFor the next eight months you‘ll hear nothing but ’what we‘ve had enough of’.
Report Post »It will be explained to you hundreds, perhaps thousands of times by many different people, so be patient.
If you’re lucky, you‘ll wake up to the fact that the good ol’ democrat party has been hijacked by a bunch of godless progressive marxists, and you’ll vote accordingly.
If not, try to enjoy the next eight months, when progressive marxism and your messiah gets put under the microscope for all to see, on a daily, hourly basis.
Come November, we‘ve got BIG suprises for ya’. November 2010 was only the beginning…..
Detroit paperboy
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:23am@13thgenerationmoron
Report Post »And Harvard educated people , can not tie their shoes correctly, but they can tell others the theory behind it, Dumbass.
JJ Coolay
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:43amDetroit, well said.
Report Post »People who actually question what we’ve had enough of have their heads in the sand. Geez!
broker0101
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:46pmAs I’ve said here repeatedly, Romney has been our nominee since the second week of November, 2008. Deal with it. And if you desperately need to follow someone, follow me. I’ll tell you what to think for only $2.99 per month.
Report Post »soybomb315
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:03ama candiate chosen by the GOP establishment and elitists will ultimately fail against obama because they forgot to check with their own party. A strongarm tactic no doubt – but people dont blindly follow leaders like they used to
Report Post »jeezpeeps
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:05amHey Broker! Do you take checks??? lol
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:45amSoy… get off it.
Report Post »The people of the GOP are voting for Mitt. It has nothing to do with the establishment.
soybomb315
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:53amjust trying to wrap my mind around the Nov’08 comment
Report Post »shustring
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:45pmcorrect me if Im wrong here, but all votes are not counted yet
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:51pmYou are wrong.
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:45pmAnyone who believes God lives on a planet called Kolob is not fit to run this country period. Now the Planet Ork is a different story.
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:53pmBut is such a man fit to run a small, widely unknown online “TV” station and peddle Gold?
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:54pmNa-Nu, Na-Nu!
Report Post »Icnivad
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:54pmI don‘t know what this rumor is and I’m a Mormon. And telling yourself that I‘m lying when I say I don’t believe God came from this Kolob your talking about won’t prove or do anything, except pester people. Why would I lie about my religion, which I am not ashamed of?
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:02pmHey ICVINAD, you need to read your religious teachings, I’ll help ya
Kolob is a star or planet described in Mormon scripture. Reference to Kolob is found in the Book of Abraham, a work published by Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. According to this work, Kolob is the heavenly body nearest to the throne of God. While the Book of Abraham refers to Kolob as a “star”, it also refers to planets as stars, and therefore, some LDS commentators consider Kolob to be a planet.Other Latter Day Saints (commonly referred to as Mormons) consider Kolob to be a Christian metaphor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolob
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:05pmBirthplace for the earth
Report Post »According to several LDS writers (such as Cleon Skousen in his book The First 2000 Years), the earth was created near Kolob over a period of 6000 years (six “days” in Kolob time), and then moved to its present position in our solar system. This hypothesis is based on oral comments attributed to Joseph Smith, Jr.
bullcrapbuster
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:24pm@13th Generation American………..lets see your proof that God does not live near a star called Kolob. Please enlighten us preacher man.
Report Post »Luke611
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:37pm13thgenerationAmerican
I‘d like to challenge you to commit to baptism in the Lord’s church.
Report Post »13th Generation American
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:48pmI’d like to sentence you to a year in a Library
Report Post »WithoutGuile
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:59amYou are a sadly misinformed Mormon hater… you spend some time talking with real Mormons about what “they say they believe” In fact here is a link to “Their official website” so you don’t have to keep living in your dark misinformed and bigoted little world. See the light!! WARNING it won’t be what you pastor told you… or what you read on that anti-mormon site you love so much. It’s simply what they believe without spin. http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/mormonism-101#C14
Report Post »Icnivad
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 10:10am13th:
So prophets can’t be curious? When a pastor makes a comment or answers questions to the best of his ability, on an unknown thing, and is perhaps wrong (but possibly correct, remember), is what he says now part of doctrine? Just because someone who is a Mormon and says or even writes down his thoughts on references, for example, in those books you’re mocking as a loving believer(?) in God, those sources aren’t now official LDS doctrine.
Report Post »glennrocks
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:42pmSantorum and Newt, Man up and bow out gracefully.
Report Post »figueroajf
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:59pmI refuse to give the pleasure to the democrappers of having Mitt. Newt and need to drop off the race. It’s most obvious nobody cares about neither of those two. Just being honest about it. If Newt were to drop, majority of those votes Santorum will get and he knows it too. I know you’re a Mitt supporter but the facts are that if Newt and Paul were to drop Santorum would get their votes. I doesn’t take a genius to see that.
Report Post »PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:24pmNobody is dropping out. We are waiting for the Brokered Convention because we know Romney doesn’t any where near what the media is telling you on Delegates.
Report Post »DanSt
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:43pmAnyone who thinks Santorum can garner the women vote necessary to defeat Obo the Clown hasn’t been paying attention…both he and Gingrich are hated by the women needed to sway the election…It really is that simple…
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:49amFiguer… I‘d like to know how it’s a foregone conclusion that every single vote for Newt and RP would go to Santorum.
Report Post »I strongly disagree with that.
There surely are some Newt and RP supporters that would swing to Mitt.
PoliticiansRCrooks
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 1:03amRomney doesn’t have a chance. It’s a set up. The establishment picked this guy before the election process even started.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 4:14amUh huh, and the voters have nothing to do with it?
Report Post »Zcat
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:41pm(Politico) — The Obama 2012 team hosted an off-the-record briefing for Mitt Romney’s press corps at Chicago headquarters today, reporters tell me.
Obama Campaign Secretly Briefs Reporters Assigned To Follow Romney…
Obama press secretary Ben La Bolt and deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter hosted the event, during which reporters were given a tour of the office and asked questions about the Obama team’s strategy and outlook on the 2012 race. Campaign manager Jim Messina is said to have made a cameo appearance.
Reporters described the event as unrevelatory and said nothing groundbreaking was discussed, but also described it as an important “get-to-know-you” session for the TV, print, and wire reporters in attendance.
The Romney campaign, which has had a complicated relationship with its press corps, seems to have been unaware that the meeting took place.
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/03/20/obama-campaign-secretly-briefs-reporters-assigned-to-follow-romney/
Report Post »LongRange
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:37pmThis is how Romney needs to speak from here on out if he wants to send Obama back to Cicago in November…
Report Post »Icnivad
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:32pm*DING DING DING* All right, the bell has rung and the gloves are off! Today we have Romney face to face with Knawt Rawmknee! *Romney wins* (again for the watchamacallits time)
So, looks like the battles won’t be with ourselves but against Obama. Hope so. I’m tired of candidates “pecking at each other like meth crazed chickens”, as is says in the BS of A highlight. ;)
Report Post »MightyMouth
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:32pmI am not convinced mitt. I don’t know why, can’t put my finger on it but something is missing here…
Report Post »Icnivad
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:46pmMaybe the cricket that is your conscience has been replaced with a whispering paranoia-worm. And I’m just kidding, don’t go crazy.
Report Post »nowhereman
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 1:01amTruth.
Report Post »Goldi
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:31pmI pray, I pray, I pray. Good luck Mitt Romney. We need an answer to this admin. I hope and pray for your health as you go through this!
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:43pmPray, pray, pray in one hand; defecate, defecate, defecate in the other. See which one gets full first.
Report Post »bullcrapbuster
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:27pmRomney has the trolls howling like jackasses. Go Mitt.
Report Post »JJ Coolay
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 12:51amBroker, just because you‘re an atheist doesn’t mean there isn’t a God.
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:10am@GOLDI
Report Post »You bet! It’s time we all get behind Mitt. He was my choice for the 2008 election and now I believe he is our only hope 2012. America has an enemy in the WH and it is time to remove him and his puppet master from carrying out their plan.
budzy1911
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 7:30amThe problem is this – Romney is no different then Obama – both love big government, both support gun control, and both love government run health care. As a conservative I can’t vote for another RINO – McCain was bad enough. Remember OBAMA=ROMNEY.
Report Post »BehindBlueEyes
Posted on March 21, 2012 at 8:13am@BUDZY1911
Report Post »Hey Bud wipe the sleep out of your eyes. Educate yourself on Obama and then you’ll see the error in your judgement and the magnitude of difference between the two.