How was the Romney speech?

[BYU71]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

In fairness, he is not. Matthews tends to bend to the right, but hey....dont all men?

Surely you just. His pecker is the only thing he has that may bend to the right.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by BYU71

Surely you just. His pecker is the only thing he has that may bend to the right.

He voted for W!

And dont call me Shirley.

[Sleeping in EQ]

Originally Posted by Tex

This is Chris Matthews we're talking about? Speech writer for Carter, advisor to Tip O'Neill? You're being sarcastic, right?

The same Chris that has a schoolboy crush on Ann Coulter.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by Tex

This is Chris Matthews we're talking about? Speech writer for Carter, advisor to Tip O'Neill? You're being sarcastic, right?

I think so. the one who voted for George W Bush? That one?

[DJRoss]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

Not sure what it means to "knock it out of the park." Bush's post 9/11 speech in his SOU address was fantastic, but it did little for him in the long run....even in the short run. So whether Mitt "knocked it out of the park," not sure how that really will affect anything at all.

All this speech did was indicate something that Mitt had been trying to say before....his Church wont dictate his presidency.

I doubt too many people are going to bed tonight saying, "Phew....now that we have that clarified, I am going to vote for Mitt instead..."

That being said, Mitt did a nice job. It was a nice speech. He took a gamble by giving a speech specifically to discuss his faith....and in my opinion he definitely came across in a positive light.

On CB, some have said it was the greatest political speech of all time....another said it was the best political speech of the past 2 years......so it is obvious that everyone, pro and anti Mitt, are hearing what they want to hear.

We are more inclined to have taken the time to find out what Mitt has been saying prior to this speech regardless of our support of him or other candidates. There are still a huge number of voters who have no clue about what he has said in the past due to their lack of interest, or willingness to swallow the sound bytes in the MSM. This morning a national poll showed that over 50% asked were not aware that Mitt Romney was even LDS? So this could have a strong influence on fence sitters.

This morning more news came out about a Huckabee support group that has been actually caught push polling (not necessarily related to the initial pp campaign against Romney) in Iowa. Huckabee's spokesperson has been forced to distance the campaign from this group. So fence sitters in Iowa or recently swayed voters from other camps to Huckabee (Romney has not lost significant support since his firm stamp in the lead), could take in the Romney speech together with the flack from over eager Huckabee supporters crossing the line and give Mitt just enough to take Iowa. He will take New Hampshire, he has leads in Nevada, Michigan and recently has taken the lead in South Carolina.

So if Romney takes 5 out of 5 of the early primaries, It eliminates all remaining candidates sans Giuliani, and Support for him would be severely hit as Huckabee, McCain, and Thompson supporters fall in line behind Romney. Mitt is close enough in Florida that just Huckabee and Thompson supporters would give him more than enough to beat Giuliani there, and after than it is all she wrote.

[SeattleUte]

Chris Matthews is conservative regardless of what he may have been in the 1970's.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

Chris Matthews is conservative regardless of what he may have been in the 1970's.

And Bingo was his name-o......

[woot]

Chris Matthews is quite the conundrum. He's hated on C&L for being a Bushie, but hated on here and CB for being a liberal. He generally seemed pretty neutral when I used to watch him, hating Bush, but also Clinton.

[il Padrino Ute]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

I am sure Rush and Hannity think so, too.

What does Bill Maher think?

My guess is that Bill Mahr is too busy watching tapes of his own show to worry about anything else. He is his biggest fan. Just like Rush and Hannity are their own biggest fans.

[BYU71]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

Chris Matthews is conservative regardless of what he may have been in the 1970's.

Why because he jumped down Bill throat over Monica.

Watch the dude. If he isn't a liberal then he is a bona fide Bush hater. He hates Cheney. His wacky network (real network, not cable) show that was on for a while got dumped. If he got dumped he wasn't conservative. Conservative talk shows get ratings and stay on.