From Politico.com:
TAMPA, Fla. — Hundreds of evangelicals gathered in downtown Tampa, Fla., on Sunday afternoon to talk about exactly the things that Mitt Romney wants to avoid this week: abortion, birth control, gay marriage and religion.
The Faith and Freedom Coalition rally drew the expected rock stars of the evangelical movement — Mike Huckabee, Ralph Reed and even Newt Gingrich. Yet few of the speakers talked about Romney himself — the rally was designed to fire up the most red meat, anti-Obama crowd here in Tampa just a few days before Romney accepts the nomination.
How will Team Romney steer away from the issues that the evangelicals deem important and stick to the Romney issues? How does Mitt Romney avoid topics that will only drive more potential voters away and focus on economic issues that so many folks care about without alienating that base? Romney is already iffy with those guys in the first place.
Romney is iffy because of his moderate Republcian governorship in Massachusetts and because of his religion. The evangelical base just doesn’t seem to like him and hasn’t warmed up to him like they did many of the earlier GOP primary candidates. Most of these Romney watchers aren’t speakers. That takes care of some of the problem.
Can Team Romney avoid the obstacles? It will be an interesting watch.
The problem, since the Democrats took control of congress in 2006, is high unemployment, record deficits, spiraling debt, and rising energy prices. And THAT’S what Obama doesn’t want to talk about!!
Absolutely, it was perfect before 2006! butterflies flew, flowers bloomed, there was no war, no NCLB, no Medicare overhaul no tax cuts.
Life was definitely Utopia. Swoon.
It WAS better than this. At least people had jobs and no trillion dollar deficits.
@Cargo, but was it better….we were running up to a disaster? I guess looking back at it, maybe things weren’t so good. We were in 2 wars, Americans were cannon fodder, houses were overly inflated, ridiculous banking practices were pushing us closer and closer to the precipice.
Reality says you don’t right yourself to those kinds of conditions overnight.
Just why do we have deficits? Lots of reasons….programs, wars, weapons, trying to fix a near depression.
The stocmarket is also rising and most of the board members of the big companies
are making more money than ever. They aren’t hiring but hoarding their money /
ergo: high unemployment .
If those who started the Iraq war had been forwardlooking enough get a war tax enacted, things might have been a lot better at present. Maybe Grover Norquist stood in the way….
Funny… at the height of warfare in two theaters, the deficit was 450 billion. Today, its running at 1.2 trillion. So, blaming this on wars….not so much. We don’t have a taxing problem. We have a spending problem.
It all adds up. funniest thing about the calculus. Recession recoveries aren’t cheap either. You will never know how deep it might have gotten.
@punchak
But do you understand WHY they are hoarding their money?
Because it’s nice to have lots of money; gives power.
What’s the old song about a penny? Somthing like:
Lend it, spend and you’ll have so many
they’ll roll all over the floor.”
@punchak
So you don’t understand why….OK.