It’s been a tough primary season...and some of us were really blasted for supporting Perry and others early on.
Some are still smarting from the beating up more conservative candidates took...
I must’ve missed the Romney supporter posts..LOL
I’ve lived long enough to know I don’t always get my preferred candidate..and I have yet to vote for a perfect one.
I voted for Barry Goldwater when conservative wasn’t cool...
Namecalling rolls off my back now..I know who I am.
I believe in all my years since voting for Eisenhower for my first Presidential vote..NO President has been as dangerous to my beloved country as Obama and his administration.
Votes downticket are also SO important.
I am passionate about getting Obama OUT.. and as many good conservatives as we can in Congress and the Senate..on down
Perry was almost as dreadful as Willard. His supporters also had a singular antipathy to hearing the truth about his record.
You may remember the incident then, the protest against the conservatives and Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan.
Mitt was actually there with his governor dad.
1964 - Conservative hero Barry Goldwater was leading the race for the Republican nomination against his main opponent, the arch-establishment left-wing shill, Nelson Rockefeller. Romney viciously attacked Goldwater as "suicidal" for the Republican Party.
At the Republican National Convention in 1964, with son Mitt in attendance, George Romney joined the Rockefeller Republicans in bashing Goldwater and his allies (including Ronald Reagan), calling him an extremist for his unapologetic defence of free markets and limited government under the Constitution. Ronald Reagan strongly defended Goldwater in a rousing speech defending economic and personal liberty as the system that was intended by the Founding Fathers. Goldwater won the nomination in a landslide. Romney then refused to support Goldwater's campaign against President Johnson, and said so very explicitly. Lyndon Johnson used this in his campaign ads to great effect
Lyndon Johnson ad using George Romney's anti-conservative rhetoric which Mitt was raised on and has lived.
George Romney in LBJ 1964 Presidential Campaign Commercial
“Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.”
“I’m not a partisan politician. My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses.”