Posted on 05/09/2016 9:41:19 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
…Unless, of course, you're trying to put Hillary in the oval office
Donald Trump is a boorish, horrible, human being who fails to live up to even the dismal behavioral standards of Bill Clinton. He’s also not a “true conservative” - whatever that is. This is the message being offered by the #NeverTrumpers who are hell-bent on handing the election to Hillary finding a “real dyed-in-the-wool conservative” who will run as a 2016 third party candidate. Because Trump is so odious, someone with honest-to-God “right-wing credentials” simply must be dragged into the race.
To that end, “real conservative” and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol has been meeting with the ultimate conservative candidate. His name is… Mitt Romney.
Jeb Bush-sized crowds await.
Exactly!
“Mitt, I could get you 2-3% of the base!!!”
Milt isn’t a big enough loser yet, evidently.
What could possibly be the end goal? Clue to “elites”: Romney lost. He can’t beat Trump or Hillary.
As much as I can’t stand Deceptive Donnie and am debating whether I could vote for him, there’s no way Romney is an option for me this time around.
I don’t think even Romney is that stupid
Not just Jeb, but sub-Jeb.
The RINO GOPe is going down kicking and screaming.
Their actions are part of why they face open insurrection.
That just shows how out-of-touch Bill Pistol is with reality. Romney got smoked in ‘12. Let’s bring out this retread for another run.
My nose still hurts from casting a ballot for Romney last go around (and likely will never recover from the McCain vote cast..) But sure, run with it. I’m sure Yeb’s team is eager to sponge up as much cash as you’re willing to throw at Romney.
Let them spin their wheels.
It may at least keep them busy.
The most effective counter anyone can make is to say “who is Bill Kristol” whenever they hear that name.
Give us a break!!
Of Trump, Newt Gingrich may have made the most insightful observation so far, as reported on the Fox Radio web site:
"“I don’t think of Trump as a traditional conservative but I think what Trump is, is an anti-left, anti-political correctness, anti-stupidity American nationalist. I think he may do more to break up the left than any conservative in our lifetime except maybe Reagan.” - -Newt Gingrich on if Trump is a conservativeFurther, prior to the 2012 election fiasco, one of my FreeRepublic posts concerning the Romney campaign contained this prediction:
"Romney will lose to Obama, because he fits right into the narrative of the so-called "progressives" and becomes their perfect opponent.Sadly, that prediction proved to be true.If these "GOP establishment" types, using the Left's tactics, force a Romney candidacy, then they must be held accountable for the consequences, including the loss of liberty for their posterity.
The Fall (2012)campaign will be a battle of ideas. Romney is no ideas warrior.
Obama understands the foundations of his ideology, and he understands how to frame those ideas in a manner that is misleading and appealing to those whom he wishes to enslave to government.
Romney shows no capacity for understanding nor articulating the ideas essential to liberty, and the way he frames what he does understand does not excite passion.
Oh, how we need a Jefferson or an Adams!
Even sadder, however, is the fact that now, in the Year 2016, the very man who failed to inspire America's citizens to reject false ideas of progressive oppression and political correctness of the Administration, along with his running mate who, likewise, did not use his elected office effectively to halt or stop the Obama programs which have now degraded our freedom--those two men now reject the consequence ("the People's" choice of Trump) they and the rest of the GOP-E brought about by their failure to act courageously to act on their voters' mandate .
Gingrich, in his comments (above), may be on to something. Perhaps "the People's" visceral reaction to the loss of freedom and national standing their elected GOP representatives and Senators allowed to happen has become so strong that, without focusing on the philosophical ideas underlying that freedom, they chose a potential nominee who will shake up the status quo and force their representatives to bend their will to that of their bosses, "the People," just as the Founders and Framers of the Constitution intended.
Many individuals have claimed the banner, "conservative", since Reagan.
Problem: Ronald Reagan had studied and "marinated" himself (thanks for the term, Laura Ingraham) in the Founders' ideas of liberty and the seedbed of ideas which preceded them: many recent "conservatives" have not, and have, therefore, sullied the name "conservative" because they have not exhibited that "visceral" reaction to a President and Party who describe themselves as "progressive and "servants" when they are, in fact, regressive and masters.
I always suspected Bill Kristol was a ninny. Now we have prima facie evidence of that fact.
The goal will not be to win, the goal will be to make Trump lose. The party wants someone who will allow illegal immigration, sign huge trade agreements shifting capital and wealth offshore, protect tax havens for the wealthy, and keep the elites safe.
Hillary and anyone GOPe likes will fit that bill.
lunacy. mittens lost in part because the base stayed home — precisely because he wasn’t conservative enough.
Spoiled children.
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