Kos Urges Strategic Votes for Romney

From the man himself:

Next Tuesday, January 15th, Michigan will hold its primary. Michigan Democrats should vote for Mitt Romney, because if Mitt wins, Democrats win. How so? ...image mitt romney democrats dailykos kos

Mitt Romney, who’s suffered back-to-back losses in the last week, desperately needs to win Michigan in order to keep his campaign afloat.  Bottom line, if Romney loses Michigan, he’s out. If he wins, he stays in.

And we want Romney in, because the more Republican candidates we have fighting it out, trashing each other with negative ads and spending tons of money, the better it is for us. We want Mitt to stay in the race, and to do that, we need him to win in Michigan.

They’ve even gone so far as to Photoshop up the pic to the right. I wonder how Hewitt will spin this one?

Posted on Friday, January 11 2008 | Permalink

How will Hewitt spin it?  A win is a win!  See, Mitt has broad appeal, look at all the Democratic and Independent votes he got!

Posted by KG  on  01/11  at  02:12 PM

The correct spin: when is Kos ever a smart political operative? If he wants Mitt, it’s probably bad for the democratic party. Right Senator Lamont?

Posted by Brendan  on  01/12  at  12:18 AM

Brenden - Kos supported Lamont over Lieberman not because he thought Lamont had a better chance of winning (no one doubted Lieberman would win if nominated) but because Lamont opposed the Iraq war and Lieberman supported it.  I don’t think that people supporting a politician because they agree with their positions over another politician who they strongly disagree with is evidence they are not ‘a smart political operative’.  I suspect his prediction record about the events of 2006 was better than most.

Posted by  on  01/12  at  01:04 PM

The Democrats would love, love, LOVE to run against Mitt Romney.  Of all the possible GOP candidates, Romney is the weakest—with the possible exception of Alan Keyes. In a general election the Dems would take Romney apart like a cheap Chinese toy—which he may in fact actually be.

Romney is so transparently phony, has such a long and demonstrable record of flip-flopping, moral cowardice and mendacity, that any of the 1st or 2nd tier Democrats would beat him in a landslide. 

Kos isn’t crazy enough to think that Romney could win the nomination, but a fella can dream, can’t he?

Posted by Uncle Mike  on  01/14  at  12:13 AM
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