Posted on 01/14/2012 9:28:39 AM PST by Kaslin
South Carolina: Just Say No to Obamney
The Palmetto State is known as a bastion for American conservatism. If that reputation is well-deserved, then South Carolinians will do their civic duty and reject Mitt Romney – the candidate that repudiates everything conservatism is supposed to stand for – in their crucial primary on January 21st.
Since the dawn of the contemporary primary process, no Republican presidential candidate has won the nomination without winning the South Carolina primary. Given the changes to this year’s process like the emergence of SuperPacs, delegates being proportionally allocated as opposed to winner-take-all, and the more drawn out primary calendar, that trend may or may not continue. Despite all the media hype over his second place finish in Iowa (if the Appanoose County chairman is to be believed) and his win in New Hampshire, Romney has less than 2% of the delegates it takes to actually clinch the nomination.
Nevertheless, there’s no doubt the vital importance South Carolina will provide from a momentum standpoint, and there’s no doubt that momentum fuels perception of where the race stands for the states (like Florida) still to come.
This is why if you’re one of the 75% of Republican primary voters who want anyone other than Obamney…err…make that Romney as your nominee, then South Carolina is the place to take a stand against media-anointed frontrunners. The same media that chose John McCain as our nominee four years ago only to hammer him in the general, are doing the same thing all over again this time with Obamney Romney.
There are three primary reasons South Carolina primary voters should reject the media and Republicrat establishment’s attempt to shove Obamney Romney down our throats.
1)Obamney Romney accepts the Left’s premise on most key issues.
His economic plan doesn’t call for an overhaul or reform of a corrupt tax-and-spend system, but rather the hackneyed class warfare middle-class “targeted” tax cuts the Left usually argues for. This is why the Wall Street Journal referred to Obamney’s Romney’s economic plan as “timid.” He raised taxes and fees by $700 million as governor of Massachusetts, which empowers the tax-takers as not the taxpayers.
Crony capitalism and targeted tax cuts as opposed to real, pro-growth reform. Does that sound more like a conservative, or more like a Democrat?
Obamney Romney has refused to sign the Personhood or Susan B. Anthony pledges, so he can claim all he wants that he’s had a sincere pro-life conversation but actions speak louder than words. Since his alleged pro-life conversion,Obamney Romney signed into law taxpayer-funded abortions for only $50/kill, appointed a Planned Parenthood presence to a permanent post on a Massachusetts state medical board (without appointing someone who is pro-life), appointed pro-abort judges, and expanded access to abortifacients.
Pretending to be personally pro-life while advocating and enacting anti-life policies? Does that sound more like a conservative, or more like a Democrat?
In 2008 Barack Obama stated he believed marriage should be between one man and one woman, but that he was in favor civil unions and in favor of imaginary “homosexual rights.” That is verbatim the same position Obamney Romney took in a recent New Hampshire primary, when he proudly made the case he’s a champion of imaginary rights that if enforced will restrict your God-given right to religious freedom, and even admitted to appointing homosexual activist judges in Massachusetts. Anybody that shares Obama’s passion for promoting moral depravity cannot be counted on to defend moral values like marriage, which is why Obamney Romney again reiterated his support for civil unions (so-called homosexual marriage by another name shortly after giving a speech at the 2011 Values Voters Summit. And according to Mat Staver at Liberty Counsel, Romney disobeyed his own state’s constitution to wrongly impose so-called homosexual marriage when the Massachusetts Constitution explicitly forbids the courts from changing the marriage law.
Not defending marriage while claiming to be for it, and then actually pursuing the policies of the homosexual lobby which undermine marriage and morality. Does that sound more like a conservative, or more like a Democrat?
When it comes to Obamney Romney this disturbing trend shows up on every single issue. Obamney Romney was for Massachusetts’ “tough” gun laws before becoming a life-long member of the NRA. Obamney Romney was for amnesty before he was against it. Obamney Romney was against the Bush tax cuts that saved us from a post-9/11 recession, and now he’s running as the economic mastermind who can get America back to work again. Up until the summer of 2011 Obamney Romney was an adherent of global warming mythology. And of course, Obamney Romney signed into law the very model for Obamacare, complete with its own government mandate.
2) Electability = Wreckability
Whether someone believes in limited government or not, or is pro-life or not, can be objectively defined. What is totally subjective is the issue of electability, and often the candidates who only have to meet that subjective threshold end up becoming the worst train wrecks once in office because they are people of position and not conviction.
The reason why is simple, really. After all, who determines who is “electable?” It’s often the same liberal media and Republicrat establishment that most opposes the principles that make us conservatives, that’s who. So it shouldn’t come as any surprise the candidates our opponents think are the most “electable” end up opposing us once they’re elected.
In my own state a RINO governor won the 2010 primary because he was the most “electable.” Now in office he wants to increase spending by hundreds of millions while flirting with raising the regressive gas tax, which is something the Democrat incumbent he was running against wasn’t even willing to do.
If a candidate isn’t willing to take bold and defined stands on the campaign trail when it’s in his own best interest to do so, I can promise you he’ll never do it while in office when it’s our best interests on the line. Obamney Romney’s history shows he’s at best an opportunistic moderate, if not an outright malleable RINO.
We must remember that after the emotion of the election and the competitive fervor of Republicans vs. Democrats wears off, the winners still get to govern. The decisions they make could last a lifetime, especially because the winner gets to determine an infrastructure that lasts long after they’re in office. Think of all the political offspring Ronald Reagan gave birth to long after he left the White House, and now imagine Obamney Romney doing the same.
3) For such a time as this.
Not since 1980 has the country been more eager to evict a liberal Democrat from the oval office. In that election we were blessed to get a true contrast in Reagan nominated, and the rest is history.
That opportunity exists again in 2012.
Florida, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin are all key battleground states that Obama won four years ago. They’re also all states that went Republican in the 2010 midterm elections and are now trending against the president. There is simply no way a Democrat can get the necessary 270 Electoral College votes without a majority of those states, and a Democrat with high unemployment and a bad economy on his record isn’t winning a majority of those states. He might not even win any of them.
This is a chance to put someone in office that has actually done the things Obamney Romney use to oppose and is now promising to do.
That’s why I’m supporting Newt Gingrich for president, and I encourage my South Carolina listeners to do the same.
If Rick Santorum would put his country first, instead of putting himself first, he would get the hell out of the way so New Gingrich can win SC going away. No way in the world Rick Santorum can get the nomination. Newt Gingrich can.
I’m with you. Rick needs to get out and so does Perry.
Newt cannot win a general election, period. Folks need to face facts on that. Santorum is the only viable option left.
If New Gingrich would put his country first, instead of putting himself first, he would get the hell out of the way so Rick Santorum can win SC going away. No way in the world Newt Gingrich can get the nomination. Rick Santorum can.
Oh......and Newt has done things like sit posing and advocating with Nancy Pelosi, ditto for James Clyburn, who wants to make Newt a bonafide Democrat, with Paul Begala’s blessing. Like Newt supporting Dede Scozzafava in the NY23 Congressional race which “we” lost to a liberal Democrat because Gingrich backed Dede instead of the Conservative. like Gringrich bad mouthing Paul Ryan over his budget proposal, you mean like Newt fawning all over Climate Change and Individual Mandates, you mean like Newt and Bain, where Newt looks like a fool because of lies from his supporters which he never checked out to verify, you mean the Newt filled with hate, envy, emotion, unbalance over a couple of negative videos.
This is the Newt you may want, but......as an original Goldwater conservative, I want nothing to with him!!! The man is not fit to be a dogcatcher, let alone a major party POTUS nominee!!! If you had any common sense, you would broom him immediately!!! He and Perry have gone over to the dark side!!! And......please....do not call me a Romney supporter!!! I am not!!!
Rick is the right guy for the wrong time. We need someone that can take out two people: Romney then Obama. The stage has been set and Rick knows he is not going to be on it. Time for him to step off and let Newt do the heavy lifting.
There is only one, only one that can withstand what the Obama machine is about to unleash, and that is Newt. Romney would be pissing his pants IF he would get the nomination after the attacks from the Obama machine. Romney doesn’t have the balls nor the nature to take on the machine like Newt will.
Newt is the only one of the candidates that has the political background to campaign against these corrupt son’s of bitch’s. Newt will take it to them. Newt is the only one that can or will go nuclear on Obama. And that is what it is going to take to defeat this Marxist. This is our future, this is war and we can’t play nice. There is to much at stake!
If Rick went up against Obama it would look like Mr. Rodger’s against Genghis Kahn.
People are delusional supporting Rick and Rick right now. This is like Perot: by GOD I’m stick’n to my guy and I don’t care the outcome. How did that work out for ya’? Time for everyone to get Frick’n Real! If this thinking doesn’t stop we will get Romney and he is betting on it. This is the ROVE and RNC plan. We are just being suckered again.
GO NEWT!!!!!!!!
Based on Newt’s dalliance with Fannie Mae, prior support for the Global Warming myth, and now his attack from the LEFT on Romney, I can’t see much difference between him and Romney. But I do think Newt would have better chance against Obama. Having said that, gotta be Santorum all the way at this point - Newt is too unpredictable and is now sounding like a liberal.
Then who do you support if not Romney?
Those who really believe “winner take all” has been replaced by proportionality should read this:
A detail of each state’s policy in pdf form is found at this site.
There is the maxim: “Vote for the most conservative that can win the election”.
The corollary to that maxim is now in play: “Vote for the man that stops the non-conservative Romney”.
That is why I support Newt.
For everyone who thinks anybody but obama so romney is doable because we will have the house and maybe the senate, remember this. McConnell and Boehner would be running the legislative side. Anyone really think that they would curb Romney’s RINO tendencies? IMHO it would be a giant RINO fest that would ensure the demonrats make a roaring comeback in 2014.
You are right Romney does not have the balls or nature to take on the 0bama machine. Go Newt!!
But, hate if you will--I will vote for Anybody but Obama in the general election. I don't love Romney, but I'll crawl over glass to vote, to donate to, and to stump for the eventual Republican nominee. Even if it's Songebob Squarepants. I am committed to the ABO party.
And I spent years swearing to anyone who would listen that I would never, never vote for McCain. Guess what? I voted for Palin's running mate.
I'm not driving myself crazy this time around having to eat my swearings.
I heard a good caller on Rush yesterday saying that instead of letting our hearts get broken on the Republican we don't love, to turn that energy into getting into Romney's face at every opportunity if he does make it to the WH.
Remember how loyal we were to W? Where did that get us, but Amnesty?
We have to do to Romney what we did to W when he was trying to shove Amnesty at us--burn up the phones and pick up the picket signs.
I’ve been saying this over and over again...if conservatives want to beat Romney, they need keep starve him of delegates. Plan and Conquer or Squabble like children and Lose! Here’s the only winning plan...Vote for whichever Not-Romney candidate is ahead in the polls going into Primary even if he is not your guy. At the end of the day you will have accomplished 2 things. You will have starved the Rino and second you will have nominated the true conservative winner!
I used to live in South Carolina and wish I did right now, because the whole nation is depending on them to do the right thing.
That is far too sensible for the passions on this forum. :)
Every time he reads that line, Lindsey Graham gets a big laugh!
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