Nancy Pelosi: GOP knows Mitt Romney can’t win

[kpete]

Nancy Pelosi: GOP knows Mitt Romney can’t win

“If the far right thought that Romney could win, they might be more enthusiastic about him,” Pelosi told POLITICO’s Mike Allen during Tuesday’s Playbook Breakfast. “But they question what he stands for and they don’t think he’s going to win. So what’s the sell? I’m not sure he knows what he stands for, and that makes it harder too.”

“I don’t know who knows him,” she added of Romney. “Does he know him?”

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“He’s not going to be president,” Pelosi said. “But I think it’s indicative of a hard line that doesn’t seem consistent with who he was as governor.”

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“This is a Congress that has done such a disservice to our country,” Pelosi said. “Bless their hearts. They do what they believe, these Republicans. They do what they believe. And they do not believe in a government that has any role in clean air, clean water, food safety, public safety, public health, public education, Medicare, Medicaid.”



Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0112/71531.html#ixzz1jjrVG7ea

[callous taoboy]

1. The MePublicans are not pro-public anything.

[Life Long Dem]

2. I agree.

Romney couldn't even beat McCain last time around. So I doubt Republicans think Romney can beat Obama since McCain couldn't even beat him.

[Orsino]

4. You're forgetting all the national leadership skills Romney has been secretly developing...

...in the four years since he lost to the last loser. What the hell has Obama been doing in that time?

Oh, yeah. Being fucking president.

[unblock]

5. wrong on so many levels.

for starters, it was rather obvious, certainly to the big money, that there was simply no way republicans were keeping the white house. shrub had tarnished the brand far too much for them to recover.

this is why so much money poured in to the democratic primary campaign, because that was the contest that would pick the next president. the republican primary was simply about picking who got the privilege to lose.


as for the rest of your post, i'm sure any arguments i made would be simply banging my head against the wall.

[MGKrebs]

6. She's not really helping fundraising efforts with comments like that.

[randome]

11. She's rubbing their noses in it.

It helps to confuse and disillusion the enemy.

[Cal33]

7. Romney won't win even with the all-time greatest vote fraud in U.S. history? GOP must be slipping!

[BlueCaliDem]

8. I don't believe the GOP want the presidency yet

They're waiting for another Democrat to steer this country back on track and flourish - like they did with President Clinton - and then they'll pull out all the stops in 2016 for Bush 3.0 or Christie to do another Bush 2.0 in 2016.

Mark my words. This is the strategy exactly.

[randome]

12. It's not strategy.

It's the Fall Of The Republican Empire. (I hope.)

[BlueCaliDem]

22. If only I could believe

that were true. But considering the incredible strategy they'd put in place in 2000 in order to get Bush 2.0 into the WH, and the concerted efforts they'd deployed to the run up of the 2010 midterms, I can't believe they'd be this disorganized now.

But I'm hoping you're right and I'm wrong, and that this is the start of the Fall of the Republican Empire. I'd be much happier.

[Cal33]

18. I don't understand this "strategy" at all.

[MGKrebs]

30. I don't either.

I can't imagine Karl Rove spending $240 million of other peoples money just to pretend to be a player. Sure would make it harder to fundraise next time.

[rtassi]

19. +1

[BlueCaliDem]

9. And Nancy Pelosi is trying to tell us something very important here.

If Romney wins before America is back on more stable economical footing, the GOP will further destroy this country until it's irreparable. How is Bush 3.0 or Christie going to win in 2016?

Willard would've been butt hurt if he didn't at least get the GOP establishment to back his lifelong dream of becoming president so they sent him in for this round knowing he can't win from Obama. NONE of their candidates can. That's not by chance. That's by careful design.

No. She knows, as Matthews has predicted, that the GOP is keeping their powder dry until 2016 when Obama has brought this country back on track like President Clinton has been able to do, and then let their lackey wreck everything again for two terms.

[snagglepuss]

10. I agree about their waiting for 2016. I think they are just using thei election

as a lab experiment.

[BlueCaliDem]

23. Me, too.

They're setting their sights on 2016, and hoping the economy will be back on track by then.

I can't believe they're this disorganized, not after having seen how meticulous they were in 2000 to get Bush into the WH and how everything unfolded in the run up to the 2010 midterms. Suddenly they don't know how to choose a viable candidate to go against President Obama now? It just doesn't make sense.

[Napoleon838]

13. At least it isn't now

I agree that it would make them look less bad after the econ has recovered, but at least the GOP wont get the white house until then. Romney would be the best of a worst case, he seems to have more sense then the other Republicans at least.

[MGKrebs]

14. Y'all are crazy if you think Mitt Romney doesn't want to win, and

Karl Rove doesn't want to win, and Rush Limbaugh doesn't want to win.

[BlueCaliDem]

24. It's not about winning elections. It's about winning power

at the right time, and now is not the right time.

After 2000 and 2010, do you seriously think this cadre of clowns being paraded for our entertainment is a serious attempt to win the WH?

[MGKrebs]

25. Not the right time for who?

Who is pulling the strings? You are saying someone is telling the good candidates to not run this time and making all these guys run just to have a dog and pony show for us?

[KeepItReal]

26. "Good" GOP candidates are smart enough to sit this one out

Obama is going to be hard to beat for re-election in part due to the current do-nothing, GOP and Tea Party-strangled Congress.

What is the GOP offering? Blocked unemployment insurance benefits, union busting, more tax cuts for rich folks that didn't even ask for them originally?

People can at least point to Obama and see *some* successes at turning the country away from 8 failed Bush years.

[BlueCaliDem]

27. Thank you! I'm sure that poster

knew this exactly, too, but apparently feels the irrepressible need to defend the GOP's not-so-subtle strategy.

[MGKrebs]

28. Individual candidates sitting out is different than

implying a conspiracy that is controlling who runs and who doesn't. I'm all for a good conspiracy though, so I was just asking who you think it is that is parading these candidates for our entertainment.
And I take offense at your accusation that I am defending some sort of GOP strategy.

[BlueCaliDem]

29. It's not a conspiracy. It's, as I've pointed out in my post, a strategy.

The GOP and the monied Powers That Be, and perhaps even some so-called monied Democratic backers, are backing this GOP cadre of clowns.

Some people were pretty shocked when neither Jeb Bush or Chris Christie tossed their hats into the race for the WH. They wanted to, that much was clear, but they suddenly backed out after meeting with so-called captains of industry.

The economy is still too weak to have them in the WH pushing their tax-cuts-trickle-down-economics bee ess. They'll keep their powder dry until 2016 when the American electorate isn't so pissed off at the Republicans. Once we calm down, jobs open up, the economy looks as if it's going the right direction, THEN they'll put in their formidable candidates and pull out all the stops - just like they did in 2000 when Clinton and the Democrats got us back on track.

The American electorate had gotten lazy and some overreached, thinking it was safe to vote third party and voila! Duhbya was crowned King!

They plan to enact the same strategy in 2015 because it works.

[MGKrebs]

31. Jeb didn't run because 3 Bush's in 20 years would be

hard to swallow after hammering Mrs. Clinton last time around.
Christie didn't run because he's too fat. He'll never win a national election, he couldn't even campaign nationally without having a heart attack, although somebody might appoint him to something.

I don't have any inside knowledge, but I can be pretty sure that Republicans are not trying to lose. As evidence, I will suggest that they will probably exceed campaign spending from last time, the Super PAC's are already all-in, they desperately want to repeal the health care law and they need control of the Justice Department to do that.

Sure, some candidates are sitting out because the time isn't ripe for them, but that can be said at any election season.
Also, remember, it's about delegates and this country is closely divided. This website thinks that Obama probably has about 196 safe delegates and the Repub will have about 181 safe delegates, the rest are up for grabs. But it will only take a couple of states like Ohio or PA or Michigan to go the wrong way to lose this one.
http://www.270towin.com/

[yellowcanine]

15. “I don’t know who knows him,” she added of Romney. “Does he know him?”

You rock, Nancy!

[patrice]

16. and "what they believe", by definition, has squat to do with real world phenomena & THAT'S the point

[MADem]

17. I think she's right. They will be rebuilding for 2016, I think.

It would behoove us to keep a weather eye on them in the next four years.

[Ineeda]

32. Yes and

start looking for, or grooming uber-strong Democratic candidates to fight them off.

[Skittles]

20. yeah thanks Nancy

would hate to see them unite and vote for him because of their utter hatred for you

[Javaman]

21. The upshot is: once mittens loses, we will never have to see him again...

a loss will kill any future chances.

[Quantess]

33. From Politico. What does that tell you?

(I'm asking because I don't know what it indicates, that this would be in Politico. It must be telling of something...)