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Florida Picks Mitt
Romney wins the Sunshine State primary, as expected.
TAMPA — Mitt Romney scored an impressive victory in Tuesday’s Florida primary, winning by such a decisive margin that the networks called the race as soon as the polls closed. And his choice of this city as the site of his celebration was not accidental.
‘When we gather back here seven months from now here in Tampa for our convention, we will be a united party with a winning ticket for America,” the former Massachusetts governor said in his victory speech at the Convention Center downtown. Saying that Democrats believed the tough fight for the GOP nomination would leave Republicans “divided and weak,” Romney said, “A competitive primary does not divide us, it prepares us.”
Romney’s appeals to party unity surely rang hollow to supporters of Newt Gingrich, who was on the receiving end of a weeklong barrage of attack ads from Romney’s campaign and the Florida winner’s so-called “super PAC,” Restore Our Future. Between the two entities, Team Romney spent something like $17 million on TV and radio ads in Florida, compared to about $5 million spent by Gingrich and the pro-Gingrich “super PAC,” Winning Our Future. The vast majority of the ads by both camps were of the attack variety, and media analyst Ken Goldstein pronounced it “the most negative campaign ever.”
If Romney proved nothing else in Florida, he proved what a 3-to-1 ratio in campaign spending can accomplish in a Republican primary. Gingrich came into the Sunshine State10 days ago fresh from a triumphant victory in South Carolina, leading Romney in Florida by nine points according to a Rasmussen poll. When the votes were counted Tuesday night, however, Romney won Florida by 14 points and, in terms of delegates to the GOP convention, the result was even more lopsided than that: 50 to zero in the winner-take-all primary. And in his victory speech here in Tampa, Romney sounded very confident that he will return to accept the nomination in August, ignoring his Republican rival and focusing his attacks on the incumbent Democrat as if the general election campaign had already begun. “My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity,” Romney told his cheering supporters, promising to “build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.”
Eighty miles away in Orlando, Gingrich drew applause from his supporters by describing the various executive orders he would enact on the day of his inauguration as president. While supporters behind him held signs saying “46 States to Go,” Gingrich addressed himself to “the elite media,” promising he would “contest every place and we’re going to win and we’ll be in Tampa as the nominee.”
In Tampa, however, Gingrich’s boasting was greeted with derision by Eric Ferhnstrom, a top advisor to Romney. “He’s not even on the ballot in 46 states,” said Ferhnstrom, noting that Gingrich failed to qualify for the ballot in next Tuesday’s primary in Missouri, which will thus be essentially a two-man contest between Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. Ferhnstrom said he expects that Romney’s most formidable opponent in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses will not be Gingrich, but former Texas Rep. Ron Paul. And neither Gingrich nor Santorum qualified for the GOP primary ballot in Virginia, which votes on “Super Tuesday” March 6, which will thus also pit Romney in a head-to-head match against Paul.
Gingrich didn’t bother explaining any of that to his supporters in Orlando. “It’s now clear that this will be a two-person race between the conservative leader and the Massachusetts moderate, ” he said, obviously attempting to discount Santorum’s claim to be the “consistent conservative” in the 2012 Republican field. Santorum left Florida early, returning home to get a copy of his income taxes demanded by the media, and also to attend to an illness of his 3-year-old daughter, Bella. Santorum spent Tuesday night with supporters in Las Vegas, where he told CNN that the expensive Florida contest was “a death match that I didn’t want to get involved in.” Santorum said Gingrich’s lopsided loss might inspire Republican voters “to look at this race now and say if you don’t want Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich doesn’t have what it takes to win this, let’s give someone else a shot.” Santorum said in a Tuesday interview on CNN that his campaign raised more than $4 million in January, boosted by his victory in the Iowa caucuses, and was now raising money at the pace of $200,000 a day.
Romney’s rivals will have to continue their campaigns now without benefit of the free national exposure provided by televised debates. There were six debates in January — two each in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida — but three weeks will elapse before the next TV debate, Feb. 22 in Arizona. Furthermore, a glance at the campaign calendar shows a three-week gap between next Tuesday’s contests — the non-binding primary vote in Missouri, plus caucuses in Colorado and Minnesota — and the Feb. 28 primaries in Arizona and Michigan. This hole in the GOP calendar is the result of Florida’s decision to leapfrog its primary from March to January, a decision that scrambled the entire campaign schedule. (See, “Why Does Florida Hate America?” Sept. 30.) As originally approved by the Republican National Committee, the schedule would have begun Feb. 7 with the Iowa caucuses, with Florida voting on the first Tuesday in March. Instead, by the time January was over, four states had already voted and as February arrived at midnight, Romney was riding high as the winner of the biggest prize so far.
There were many conservatives who suspected that Florida’s decision to switch its primary to January was a move orchestrated by the GOP establishment, intended to achieve exactly this result. But there was no talk of sinister conspiracies late last night on the patio of the Marriott Hotel in downtown Tampa, where a young Romney campaign staffer sat relaxing in the warm night air and remarked that his flight was scheduled to depart at 8:30 Wednesday morning. “On to Vegas, baby,” said the Romney staffer. And he was smiling like a winner.
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Robert Stacy McCain is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). He blogs at The Other McCain.
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Luap Nor| 2.1.12 @ 6:12AM
Jack, Clint,
What's seven per cent of nothing?
spike59| 2.1.12 @ 6:15AM
hahahahaha...i think they've gone back under the bridge...
Vern Crisler| 2.1.12 @ 9:35AM
I will never vote for Romney. I only vote for those who walk on two feet, not for those who slither on the ground.
Jack in Wi.| 2.1.12 @ 7:00AM
It's still Ron Paul or ruin. each florida delegate cost Romney well over 400,000 dollars apiece. Obama and Romney are the Goldman Sachs candidates. Ginrich is the candidate of the Israeliworldwide vice sydicate. We still are not voting for either one of them.
Commander Jim Bob| 2.1.12 @ 7:12AM
We don't have time for this! The militia musters at noon behind The Golden Corral! And did you spit shine my boots like I told you?
Snap to it, man!
Clint| 2.1.12 @ 7:16AM
These Celebratin' Bibi Boot Lickers Are Sellin' Out The Conservative Movement Of The GOP Insurgency.
This Is McCain Redux.
Commander Jim Bob| 2.1.12 @ 7:23AM
And I've told you a dozen times, young militia man, to stop using terms like "flunkie" and "stooge". Everybody knows those are old school neo-Nazi terms. Tuck the brown shirt in, man, so to speak.
And don't leave you undies in my truck again! I had to tell the wife I started wearing Underoos!
Clint| 2.1.12 @ 7:42AM
Can Ya Say," Romneycare" Commander Bibi Boy.
Con Chef (NB) | 2.1.12 @ 8:43AM
Can you say 7%, douchebag?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Dr. Dementia thanks you for contributing your milk money to his retirement fund, suckah.
Clint| 2.1.12 @ 7:14PM
Can Ya Say, Israel Firster Smear Bund 4-F Neo-Chickenhawk Coward.
The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To Nevada & Maine.
Con Chef (NB) | 2.1.12 @ 8:37PM
Can you say valor theiving coward who never even attempted to join?
The Pee Party Rebellion is good for 7%.
Fred| 2.1.12 @ 8:26AM
I knew you were a moron Jack, but I didn't know you were an anti-semite as well. It figures, though. Look, not only is Israel a strategic ally (We bomb Arab nukes so you don't have too!), we have a moral obligation to protect the lone outpost of civilization in a savage wilderness. Americans of all people should understand that. And Ron Paul is still a nut case.
PS: I'm sure Romney will survive without your vote. He may or may not beat Obama in the fall, but he's the only Republican running that even has a shot.
Fred| 2.1.12 @ 8:27AM
We bomb Arab nukes so you don't have _t0_. Preview is our friend.
Jack in Wi.| 2.1.12 @ 10:01AM
Who cares if either of the Goldman Sachs guys wins? The Eastern banking elites have picked the Republican nominee in almost every election cycle. The only times they didn't was Goldwater in 1964 and Reagan in 1980. Reagan caved on the vice presidency and put Bush on the ticket. In the end that decision ruined to Conservative movement. We ended up with the Bush gang running the party into the sewer. Romney is just anther Bush.
Gingrich has always been a a Rockefeller Republican, posing as a conservative. Now he is the candidate of the Israeli crime sydicate. He represents the worst elements in Israel who are afraid that Romney will not bomb Iran and start WW3. I am somewhat hopeful in that regards. The Bush gang followed the neocons on going into Iraq. They got their fingers burned so bad on that one, that they may hold back on Iran.
Why bomb Iran it has no nuclear weapons and isn't working on developing any? General Petraeus has just said so and told the Mossad the same thing. Of course the Mossad knows all that already.
Con Chef (NB) | 2.1.12 @ 10:36AM
Yes, its all part of the insidious Zionist World Domination Plot. Eventually, we will force you to all eat latkes & LIKE IT.
Dumbass.
Al Adab| 2.1.12 @ 1:12PM
NB:
I know it's strange given my name but, I do like latkes with applesauce. All cultures have some strong points.
Con Chef (NB) | 2.1.12 @ 1:24PM
My Dad liked them that way as well. I'm partial to sour cream myself. And as someone who lives to eat, & not vice versa, I'm a sucker for kibbe, dolmeh (meat filled, not the crappy vegetarian ones) & hummus.
RCV| 2.1.12 @ 7:07PM
Iran isn't working on developing a nuke...right ... and Hitler assured us that Czechoslovakia would be his last territorial demand in Europe.
W| 2.1.12 @ 10:12PM
Have you seen that five Iranian scientists working on the nukes have been killed in the past few years by gunmen riding motorbikes? At least the Mossad is on the job.
bill| 2.1.12 @ 6:52AM
Go Mitt, go. No Boma for me.
Clint| 2.1.12 @ 6:53AM
Interestingly, American Spectator's Resident Moniker Changin' RINO-CINO Israel Firster Smear Bund Are All Giddy & Head Bumpin' Over Their RINO-CINO Frontman, Mittens Romney.
53.6 Percent Of The Florida Republican Primary Vote Was Against Their RINO-CINO Frontman, Mittens Romney.
Now Add The Democrat Vote And Independent Vote And Tell Us How Their RINO-CINO Frontman, Mittens Romney Wins Without The GOP Insurgency Votes.
The GOP Insurgency And Tea Party Rebellion Benefits From A Brokered Convention.
BWAAAAAHAAAAHAAAHAAHAHA !!!| 2.1.12 @ 6:59AM
Brokered convention! Good one! Snort... giggle... wheeze... wipes tear...
BWAAAAAAHAAAHAAHAAHAAHAHAHAHA !!!!
God times, man, good times.
Jack in Wi.| 2.1.12 @ 7:04AM
He's right no pro war, pro bankster Republican has a chance in this election. The demographics are against the Republicans. Why would any sane person bother to go vote for Romney? He is just one of the Bush's in magic underwear.
Clint| 2.1.12 @ 7:09AM
Attention:
The New Shipment Of "Vote For Newt" Mormon Undergarments Has Arrived And Will Be On Sale In The Lobby.
Thank You,
The Management.
Clint| 2.1.12 @ 7:06AM
We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.
These Are The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.
Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail.....
The GOP Insurgency And The Tea Party Are Bein' Served Another RINO-CINO McCain Redux Crap Sandwich.
martin j smith| 2.1.12 @ 7:39AM
I do not support Romney. He ran negative because like Obama he fears his record to be exposed. Not-Obama still won having so I gather 54% and in a purple state of Florida. Romney had better wake up ( and Republican Party establishment Types as well ) that if they want their goodies--their money and power --they need votes and that includes millions of NOT Romney's
so--be careful if you want your goodies--butif you only want to "defeat" Conservatives and do not care--have it your way--you will cry later.
mney's
Clint| 2.1.12 @ 7:44AM
Uh Oh !
Here Come The The Arlen Specter-John McCain "Lesser Evil" Redux Squad.
Con Chef (NB) | 2.1.12 @ 8:46AM
Yeah, as opposed to the "if Dr. Dementia doesn't get the nomination, I'll stay home & pout like a child & give a de facto vote to Obama" crowd like you & Jackboot.
Clint| 2.1.12 @ 7:17PM
That's A Lie.
You're A Liar, Israel Firster 4-F Neo-Chickenhawk Coward, ConJob.
The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To Nevada & Maine.
Con Chef (NB) | 2.1.12 @ 8:38PM
So you WON'T stay home?
MikeG| 2.1.12 @ 8:18AM
Time for Newt and Paul and Santorum to go home and start writing their book about the campaign, which was probably their goal, and make a couple of million.
Sean| 2.1.12 @ 8:42AM
Florida picks a liberal. Of course another liberal came in second. That is right a individual mandate, Tarp, global warming supporter is not a conservative.
Con Chef (NB) | 2.1.12 @ 8:50AM
Oh, for the record, thanks for the endorsement of Santorum Ms. Malkin, but don't you think you're a day late & a few million bucks short? Wouldn't that endorsement have been better AFTER Iowa? Santorum's the only one left in this race I believe in. And I LOATHE the idea of voting "against" something. But I love my Republic too much to see her suffer through another 4 years of the enemy people were duped into voting for 3 years ago. I'm not one of Paine's "sunshine patriots" like Jack & Clint are. And those "sunshine patriots" are just as much a cancer now as they were then.
Clint| 2.1.12 @ 7:47PM
ConJob's A 4-F Israel Firster Neo-Chickenhawk Smear Bund Coward.
Patriotism Is The Last Refuge Of A 4-F Israel Firster Neo-Chickenhawk Smear Bund Coward
Con Chef (NB) | 2.1.12 @ 8:38PM
Spoken like a true coward.
Bill| 2.1.12 @ 8:52AM
Why Romney will lose to Obama:
1. Romneycare
2. Pro abortion
3. Pro gay marriage
4. Pro gun control
5. Pro climate change
6. Lack of southern heritage, instead personified being a "New England big-government liberal RINO"
7. cannot unify the GOP voters
If Romney gets the GOP nod, I'll not vote for him. Obama will have 4 more years. Who cares? The GOP voters dumped Rick Perry, they got Gingrich, they chose Romney, they will have Obama.
Alas! What we have done!
Con Chef (NB) | 2.1.12 @ 9:15AM
You're another "sunshine patriot" then. MaoBama thanks you for your support.
Clint| 2.1.12 @ 7:50PM
ConJob's A 4-F Israel Firster Neo-Chickenhawk Smear Bund Coward.
Patriotism Is The Last Refuge Of A 4-F Israel Firster Neo-Chickenhawk Smear Bund Coward
Con Chef (NB) | 2.1.12 @ 9:03PM
Congrats, sonny boy. You sound just like a regressive with a statement like that. Of course, we knew you were a "conservative" poser a long time ago.
You're as big a joke as your perpetual candidate.
Derek Leaberry| 2.1.12 @ 2:35PM
You are most probably right. I wish your concise list would be debated rather than seethed over. Romney has had over five years to dispel his past liberal views on emotional issues to the Republican base. One wonders whether he is that obtuse or truly is a Massachusetts moderate who wishes to win the presidency as such. Perhaps the Massachusetts marinade blinds him to what Red-State America considers truth.
Siegfried X| 2.1.12 @ 9:19AM
It's amazing that the Democratic trolls spend time trying to divide the Republicans. Obama is far, far worse than any Republican candidate, so no matter who is nominated the Republican Party will be united against Obama/
Bill| 2.1.12 @ 9:41AM
Romney will be the GOP nominee in 2012, and Obama gets 4 more years. Rick Perry will clinch the GOP nod in 2016, and there will be Nobama. Rick Perry will be shoe-in in 2016.
Drunken Sailor| 2.1.12 @ 10:02AM
Actually the Not Romney vote won. In every Primary so far the Not Romney vote has gotten more than Romney. Problem is the Not Romney vote is split 3 ways and no one shows signs of backing out. If this could be narrowed down to a 2 or even 3 man race I believe it would look much different.
At this rate if Romney wins I will still vote for him as I do not think we can stand another 4 years of Obama (especially how much farther left he will go with no reprecussions). I will need a long, hot, soapy shower afterwards though. The race still has a long way to go before anyone gets the 1044 delegates needed.
Con Chef (NB) | 2.1.12 @ 10:37AM
I'm right there with you, Brother.
Drunken Sailor| 2.1.12 @ 11:37AM
I'm afraid that we may have to drown our sorrows. Is it any wonder when the national mood turns shouth liquor sales go north?
Drunken Sailor| 2.1.12 @ 11:46AM
Apparently I can't type today or hit the bottle to early.
National mood turns south, Liquor sales turn north.
Al Adab| 2.1.12 @ 12:30PM
NB/DS:
Overloaded site today.
OK Mitt wins as expected with a plurality. A consistent plurality may gain the nomination given the GOP establishment money coming in. Question: Can he win FL, NC, VA and Ohio in November? If so, well fine; if not what is the point? Another moderate republican loser in the grand tradition of Dewey, Ford, Bush, Dole and McCain. Four years ago we took McCain over Romney as the more "conservative".
Drunken Sailor| 2.1.12 @ 12:40PM
What can I say Al? Looks like the only way the Repbulican party is going to get back to it's conservative roots is by us turning it back locally and then working our way to the top. A long road but seeing as they are not listening to us , it looks like the only path.
Al Adab| 2.1.12 @ 1:15PM
DS:
Obviously time for the scotch...then donate lots of money to Conservatives of choice.
Con Chef (NB) | 2.1.12 @ 1:26PM
I've told the RNC to get bent when they've called asking me for money. Individual candidates ONLY. Period. End of story.
Oh, Mike Pence! If only he had run...
Siegfried X| 2.1.12 @ 11:37AM
I'm a conservative, but I don't understand the intensity of the anti-Romney crowd. Is the real reason his religion? Yes, Romney is from the left side of the party, but so are most of the other candidates (Perry, Gingrich, ...), while last he election's nominee, McCain, was a RINO. Also the Bush administration governed left wing, by passing Ted Kennedy's socialist legislation.
So why is their such passion against Romney?
Siegfried X| 2.1.12 @ 11:45AM
Also, who _DO_ you all support? All the talk is anti-. Why aren't conservatives talking about their perfectly conservative candidate, the one they proudly support?
The Bush administration and his Republican Congress spent money like there was no tomorrow, so there aren't many Republican politicans who went the past 15 years without voting for something left-wing. RomneyCare is a drop in the bucket compared to the Bush administration and everything Democratic which McCain supported in his 8 years of backlash against Republicans for choosing Bush instead of him in 2000.
Al Adab| 2.1.12 @ 12:47PM
Siegfried:
Simple. Romney is no Conservative. Bush was no Conservative although more so than Romney. McCain was no Conservative, although more so than Romney. The Romney establishment, accomodationist, Eastern wing of the GOP has opposed the Conservative Movement since the beginning. Unless, as I said above, he can win FL, NC, Va and Ohio in November there is no point. Add another name to the moderate losers like Dewey, Ford, Bush, Dole, McCain.
Bill| 2.1.12 @ 1:02PM
Amen. Also, Romney is proud of Romneycare in MA, and the individual mandate that he put in place there (although he denied that sometimes). How can he make an argument over Obamacare, telling Obama that "You're wrong, Mr. President." Obama will reply, "I used your playbook, Romney. My Obamacare is the blue-print of our Romneycare." As being a Christian and "staunch" conservative, I do not trust a "New England big-government liberal RINO," and will NOT vote Romney.
Bill| 2.1.12 @ 10:24AM
Romney cannot defend Romneycare, neither he can outperform Obama over Obamacare in the debate, and Obama;s argument will be "Mitt, we've learned from you." The GOP voters, who voted for Romney, will be demoralized when they will watch the fall of Romney in the debates and in the campaign trails. Romney wins in FL in the GOP primary, wait, Obama will wind up in the "FL Purchase" with his "$1 billion" war-chest and an army of "union-thugs." Romney cannot win against Obama.
Bill| 2.1.12 @ 11:02AM
I was born and raised in the South, and don't like the "New England Rockefeller big-government liberal RINO." Romney is the Gerald Ford, lost to Carter, it's 1976, all over.
WL| 2.1.12 @ 2:12PM
Just in case you Romney folks are taking a victory lap at this comment section...I just want to congratulate you on the short-lived victory...
Romney is out there running his trap about "not caring about the really poor.."
Of course it is taken out of context. Of course the Dems will use it anyway. Of course, he will lose when he shows he has a glass jaw and his act falls short of keeping himself out of trouble...
You see, that's the problem with posers...It's the same problem that liars have...
They don't instintively know what it is they stand for (other than telling the particular audience of the moment what they want to hear)...and when you get off script...BAM...it happens.
You can bet there will be many more of these moments in the next 10 months...
I wouldn't be surprised if he starts talking about how the people in bad mortgages deserve to be homeless....
And let you dimwits explain it away...knowing your guy is sinking.
hunter| 2.1.12 @ 3:10PM
What would anyone expect of a state where 12 of their peers turned a skank like cazy anthonnie loose? Besides how can 4 states decide who is going to be the next president? Ohh I know, the same way Zimbabwe keeps Mugabe in office. Screw 300 million voters in 46 states. This whole process best be changed b-4 its too late, if already isn"t. Be sure and vote, every vote counts.... Yea RIGHT!
Derek Leaberry| 2.1.12 @ 3:18PM
Add Gingrich's infidelities and three marriages to that long list of reasons why he lost. Gingrich lost women handily to Romney. Florida is saturated with older women, a generation for which divorce was a new phenomena. Many have been divorced and their ex-husbands married the trophy wife. And almost all these senior women have some girlfriend who has been divorced in favor of a younger, prettier woman.
Tony| 2.1.12 @ 3:21PM
Newt's biggest problem is that he goes on every radio and television show he can, and all he does is whine about Romney.
David| 2.1.12 @ 4:08PM
Santorum will provide the greatest contrast with Bam Bam.
Remember, Newt, Mitt, and Barack all hold the following positions.
They believe in man-caused global warming baloney, and the regulations and restrictions that have resulted from such thinking. Santorum does not.
They supported the Wall Street bailouts. Santorum did not.
They support and/or supported individual mandates for health insurance. Santorum never has.
They all criticized Paul Ryan's plan to get our fiscal house in order. Santorum embraced it.
Santorum cannot be accused of being a flip-flopper.
Santorum cannot be accused of telling people what they want to hear.
Santorum cannot be accused of stating his positions based on the particular audience in front of him.
It is clear that Santorum has been the adult in this race. It is also clear that he has been the true, principled, consistent conservative his entire politcal career.
Bill| 2.1.12 @ 4:54PM
Santorum's problems:
1. Money
2. Organization
3. lost his senate bid in 2006
PCP Smoker| 2.1.12 @ 8:20PM
How exciting!! The southern racist creep RS McCain is soo excited at Romney's win, he likely came in his pants. Yippee! One to Vegas, baby.
POST American| 2.1.12 @ 11:41PM
-----CFR-front Republican cardboard
set to do battle with 'BAR-Rockefeller' Obama.
------------------EWWWW! ---CAN'T WAIT!
--------------HUAC/ Nuremberg 2012-----------------
MontereyZman| 2.2.12 @ 5:29PM
You can't put the blame on anti-Romney people if Obama gets another term ... You progressive (rino) republicans put us in this position ... Romney has never garnered more than 25 percent of support ever and you all want us conservatives to fall on our swords when we are the majority .... NEVER .... we will wait till 2016 to put in a real conservative !!! NO VOTE FOR ROMNEY !!!
TxPatriot| 2.3.12 @ 12:49AM
My wife and I stayed at home when the Repub elites ran RINO Dole, we stayed at home when they ran RINO/TRAITOR McCain, and we will stay at home in Nov 2012 if LIBERAL Romney is the Repub nominee. If fact, after the TEA PARTY returned the House to the Republicans in 2010 for which we have been screwed by the gutless leadership ever since, I really don't see any reason to remain in the Repub Party nor to bother voting to replace the current set of crooks with a new set of crooks.