And so concludes the author having treated us to a catalog of assertions, virtually all of which having gone unsupported.
He tells us:
he [Romney] ran a pathetic campaign,
and totally alienated the base of the party.
he and his supporters were openly hostile to both the Tea Party and Sarah Palin.
Romney allowed his people to spend four years trashing Governor Palin and the Tea Party.
This cost Romney the election. That and his incoherent campaign
The amount of work that must be done to undo the treachery from Team Romney is massive.
These people are more worried about their own power than the nation as a whole.
They aren’t about to relinquish that power to an outsider
even though that’s exactly what must be done.
It’s not just Romney who is the problem, it’s the entire Republican Party.
I surrender my conservative bona fides no one but I will not permit myself to be stampeded into a series of assumptions and conclusions which are nothing more than the unsupported and mutually inconsistent vituperations of a frustrated Palin supporter. I have long believed that Palin was an authentic conservative but she was not in the race. The author would have you believe that she did not get into the race because of Mitt Romney and his calumnies and not because of her own personal pecuniary interests, or her personal family concerns, or her own missteps. Whatever her reasons for not entering the race, we remain unenlightened by the author, at least if one depends on proof. In her absence, I was among the first on these threads to support Newt Gingrich. At the end of the primary process I did what every other good conservatives did and should have done, I supported Mitt Romney.
Now I support a searching investigation into what went wrong and how to fix it. I have campaigned from the very night of the election when it became obvious that we had lost that we must not draw conclusions until we understand what happened and we cannot understand what happened until we analyze the data. Once again, I turn to Newt Gingrich who has outlined a penetrating and intelligent analysis of how that indispensable job should be undertaken.
Of all the ways a job could be undertaken there is one sure way to get it wrong and that is to prejudge.
It should not be undertaken with feel good diatribes like this. All this does is grant us conservatives a temporary sugar high. It does not enlighten us one damn bit. This is temptation as dangerous as it is beguiling.
