Posted on 04/10/2012 9:55:58 AM PDT by xzins
The basic reason Romney should be opposed by conservatives is that Romney is not a conservative. More specifically, Romney is the author of the $50 abortion, the originator of the gay marriage license, and the founder of big government-forced health care.
Those 3 are a mix of social and fiscal issues. The conclusion is that Romney is neither a fiscal conservative nor a social conservative. His tenure as governor of Massachusetts proves that point.
Now, as Romney is touted as the “etch-a-sketch” candidate who will shortly begin his tack to the left, principled conservatives will do well to begin listing their reasons for not ever supporting Mitt Romney for anything other than Citizen Mitt.
1. Abortion: Romney is the author of the $50 abortion.
2. Gay Marriage: Romney signed legislation requiring the issuing of gay marriage licenses. Romney has tried to “moderate” his position by becoming pro-gay union....big deal. He once told gay operatives that he was the gay lobby's best hope for getting their agenda into the republican party. (Look at that, too, in terms of abortion and judicial selections.)
3. RomneyCare: Sadly, Mitt thinks it's just fine to have state governments force you to buy health insurance. I suppose he finds the power to do that in the US Constitution. Oh...I remember...the place where the Constitution says “states can force the people to buy things they don't want to buy and enter into contracts they don't want to enter into.”
4. Give notice to the GOP-Establishment: It probably is very wise to shove down their throat what they are trying to shove down ours. They are not the masters of the conservative universe. Allowing them to think they are will simply encourage more of the same in the future. I'm sure the romney-bots and the romney-enablers will want their say about Romney opponents handing the election to Obama, but the manipulation by the GOP-E is what will lead to that.
5. Romney's “Scorched Earth” Campaign: Romney has divided conservatives and seriously weakened voter turnout. His strategy, liberal that he is, was to run ads via his SuperPac pigeonholing the conservative purity of his opponents. That kind of outrageous hypocrisy deserves punishment and not reward.
6. Conservative Resignation to supporting Romney appears to be surrender of conservative principle. The results of that could be far-reaching. It could mean that the republican movement is totally abandoned to the liberal establishment.
7. Judicial Appointments: "Liberty Counsel Action Vice President Matt Barber said Romney’s appointments were constitutional “living document” poster children.
“Many of Romney’s appointments were not only liberal, not only Democrats, but were radical counter-constitutionalists. How on earth can we expect that, as president, he would be any different?” Barber asked rhetorically."
8. Other reasons "Conservatives Should Continue to Oppose Romney after the Nomination" are welcome. Please post them below.
FUBO, FUMR, FUKR, FURNC.
TS
So, what’s the alternative? Obama? Don’t think so.
WTF? I don’t like Romney at all, but there is no way in hell I oppose him if he becomes the nominee. That is suicide! We cannot survive 4 more years of Obama, but that is what what we will get if we keep pushing crap like this.
Obama must be defeated at all costs.
The eventual GOP nominee will be running against a man who HATES white people, hates Christians, hates Jews, hates America and would love to destroy capitalism.
I will crawl to the voting booth to vote for whomever is running against Obama.
If this Dumb A$$ party sends him to the General election, I WILL change to the Independent Party and waste my vote....hows that for being pissed off!!!
If this Dumb A$$ party sends him to the General election, I WILL change to the Independent Party and waste my vote....hows that for being pissed off!!!
Because they’d rather watch Obama destroy America and then sit around reminding us “I told you so”.....
Ping for your input
If Romney is the nominee, that will suck.
Because Romney sucks and Obama sucks.
I guess I’d have to either decide who sucks most...
OR.. if we’re being driven inevitably into a ditch, would it
perhaps be better to let the driver with the “D” after his
name be the one to do it? Or not?
Any way you look at it, opposition to WHOMEVER our nominee
is helps only Obama. There are no knights in shining armor
riding in to save the day at the last moment. You betcha.
Quite the conundrum.
see #4 above
Further, a Romney presidency may even be WORSE than a second Obama term. At least with Obama in office, the Republicans have grown a little bit of a spinelet and fought him on some things, and really have served to hinder a lot of what Obama *could* have done. With Romney in office, it'll be 2000-2006 all over again - they will go right along with everything Romney proposes (which won't differ in substance, if only somewhat in degree), since he's "our" President. We could actually end up even DEEPER in socialism, debt, and trouble by the end of it all than with Obama.
It's not what we want; but at least Romney loves this country and, as they say, "has already forgotten" more about its history than Obama will ever know.
You know, if all of the so-called "conservatives" who have resigned themselves to simply rolling over and accepting Romney were to actually get together and all vote for a credible, broad-based conservative alternative, that alternative would probably have a very good chance of winning.
The only thing worse than a Mitt Romney presidency is an Obama Presidency. I’m not a Romney fan, but I’m not ready to commit haraki and hand Obama another four years.
Better to have Obama that can be opposed in both the House and the Senate on principled issues than to have Romney who really can't be opposed because he will be the de facto party leader. Better the enemy without than the one within.
Also, for the long term GOP direction, the party bosses need to learn that they cant win elections with a RINO. You simply MUST have the support of your base to win elections.
Symbolism is everything.
Perception is everything.
If Romney wins it will not be a Conservative victory. I think most conservatives get that.
However?
If Obama wins IT WILL BE A LIBERAL VICTORY!
And, more to the point, Obama wants to completely destroy the profit motive, making it very hard for Conservatism to finance itself.
We can live to fight another day, with Romney as President.
Obama might not let us live.
Financially, or literally.
I’ll spend my time opposing hussein instead. I hope that still makes me a conservative.
Excellent post, YC. Romney won’t win. However, if it were to happen, he’d be a liberal big spender, an appointer of liberal justices, and a political hack who would force the dead carcass of obamacare onto the nation.
The anyone exc Barry line presupposes ORomney is somehow different in a better way. He isn’t, he’s no different than Barry. Perhaps he’s not an overt hater of this country but a hater nonetheless. ORomney is for himself and a small cliche of elites who will continue robbing the American people. Its not a liberal-conservative Thing any longer. Its all about those who would be king vs free men. Voting for ORomney is no different than voting for Barry. The outcome will be identical. Unless the electorate begins to engaged their brain nothing will ever change.
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