Perhaps this is why Cain and Romney are off limits and given a microphone by the MSM: Romney and Cain Opt Out of Signing Anti-Abortion Pledge
Posted on 10/03/2011 1:00:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
If all the poorly articulated political and economic philosophy and the multiple contradictory and confusing major issue stands of George Herbert Walker Bush, Bob Dole, and John McCain were tossed into a blender, and the device were turned on high for a minute, the result would be a smoothie whose taste would be indistinguishable from the murky concoction that's been served up by Mitt Romney for the last five years: saccharine, bland, and utterly forgettable five minutes after it's choked down.
Is it so late in the 2012 nominating process that anyone can say with even quasi-certainty that this pasty, unidentifiable mush, served up by the Republican field's sole polished moderate manikin, is the only beverage Republicans can sell in 2012?
The anxious GOP Establishment, which has detested every conservative would-be Republican presidential nominee -- Ronald Reagan not excluded -- since 1952, is desperately trying to sell this argument right now.......
Don't believe any of it.
If for no other reason, don't believe it because the same electability narrative -- less blatantly but with equal vigor -- is being peddled by the MSM, which has been carpet-bombing Rick Perry from 30,000 feet for some three weeks now. Does any reader of this site believe that the MSM is trying to help the Republican Party avoid an electability mistake in choosing its nominee?
Or...is it not rather just slightly more likely that the MSM would try to kill off whom they fear? Has a negative word been uttered by the MSM in recent weeks about Mitt Romney? Think long and hard about what that benevolent silence might mean.
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Perhaps this is why Cain and Romney are off limits and given a microphone by the MSM: Romney and Cain Opt Out of Signing Anti-Abortion Pledge
You’re right, it can’t be the case that the conservative base is simply unwilling to swallow Perry’s nonsense on the illegals, it MUST be a conspiracy between Cain and Romney. /sarc
Looks like Perry is getting carpet-bombed by FR too.
Wants to sell-out natinal security for Chinese Yuan.
Wants to sell out American sovereinty to Mexico.
Only jobs created in Texas for illegals.
Yada Yada Yada.
The test would be:
Could Romney and Perry share the same ticket as President and Vice President?
And the answer would be no, because they are both liberal.
The Republican establishment does not represent me or any other patriotic American. I have no illusions that any of these people would ever stand up for any of the principles which I believe in.I see them as nothing but phony opportunists who come to conservatives right before elections to try to win our votes and who consider conservatives to be nothing but saps who will accept whatever dishonesty they promote.
Exactly. Both of them cannot appeal to the Center-Right. They are too liberal for the Right and the Center tends to vote for the Liberal with a D after their name in a contest of two Liberals.
Romney’s detestable, but at least he’s not doing the typical (and dishonest) feign to the right. Personally? I don’t think he’s got a snowball’s chance of winning the nomination. His only hope is to divide and conquer the conservatives, but that will only take him so far. A number of conservatives will probably drop out quickly, and the conservative vote will unify behind a leader. Romney only looks viable, because the conservative vote is currently split four or five ways.
“.......The mutually hostile tenor has emerged at an unusually early point in the nominating contest, and it illustrates the high stakes involved. But it also shows that Romney - who for months hardly ever mentioned his primary opponents - is trying to quickly stem Perry’s rise. Just six weeks ago, Romney and his advisers said they did not feel threatened by having Perry in the race and would not change their strategy. Now, rarely a day goes by that his campaign does not try to put Perry on the defensive.......”
That's too bad, because the RNC plan has been to carpet-bomb FR with articles booming up Perry, courtesy of FReepers Cincinatus' Wife, Clairity, smoothsailing and others, to get the conservatives and Tea Party folks to move to Perry on the "electability" con .....
And then send Perry the word, to accept the Romney man-hug and capitulate for a sure spot on the ticket as Romney's No. 2 at the moment juste, to beartrap the conservatives into falling behind Romney.
At least, that was the plan.
Couldn’t be that we remember what happened when we got George Bush who was just saying moderate things to get elected, but he’d move to the right after elected. *cough, cough*
That's right. Because Romney is supposed to be the No. 1 man on the ticket -- it's his turn -- and Rick is supposed to be No. 2. Rick's just there to give the Tea Party chumps someone they think they can vote for, when they can't choke down Romney and would quite possibly fail to deliver GOTV on Election Day for Mittens.
But we conservatives are screwing all that up, by pointing out that Perry is a faux conservative, that he's really just a tool of a few rich investors and businessmen instead, and that his political instincts vary in no great degree from those of Prescott Bush, the founder and progenitor of the Bush Dynasty.
tin foil...need some?
I’m not going to engage with you. It’s pointless.
Bwahaha!!! The MSM hasn’t done anything to make Perry look like a faux conservative and a dolt in the last three debates!
I'm not a Perry guy...and I've stpulated that, while he might be a conseervative politician, he is no conservative.
But, for cryin' out loud, that's an absurd assertion.
Prescott Bush!!!???
lol he didn’t need any help did he?
Perry must be praying by now that Christie and Palin hurry up and get in, so he himself can just fade away quietly.
Really,under MSM “gotcha” pressure, CONSERVATIVE candidates like Cain may slip up and say something RINO—which they later regret and correct.
But Mitt and Perry have RINO IN THEIR RECORDS.
Giving in state tuition to illegal alien invaders alone is a fatal RINO act—an anticonservative act he BRAGS about.
And of course,RomneyObamacare is another.
To me the more important issue is how Romney is running an incredible campaign--something folks who can`t stand him seem blind to. He is running as the guy who isn`t scary to those in the middle. He tried the same thing in Massachusetts against Kennedy and failed miserably; then he was trying to show he`s really kinda liberal, now he`s trying to pose as someone who`s KINDA but not really conservative.
The primary season is for exactly what has been going on. I don`t dislike Perry as some do, but my logline is sincere--there isn`t a candidate running now who doesn`t have major problems, and bringing up uncomfortable positions and history isn`t a bad thing. At the very least, we get to see how these people hold up under fire.
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