Newt made a splash announcing that any one of the Republican candidates would do a better job than Obama. But he was wrong. Romney would be worse than the status quo ante. He would continue our string of progressive Presidents who believe they can fine tune fiscal policy so that our economic engine will once again operate within design parameters. We can't afford any more delusional government.
A Romney presidency would be bailout, stimulus, regulatory, tax and monetary business as usual, even as the whole progressive structure that Wilson, Roosevelt and LBJ built crumbles around our ears. Romney is committed to shoring up that structure. He can't significantly reduce the size and scope of government, so he'll have to scrounge a lot of new revenue in an effort to fund the government we have. The revenue won't materialize, the debt will grow and our metamorphosis into Argentina will continue. Worse yet, Republicans and conservatives will now catch the blame for it.
America might recover from four more years of Obama. Four years of Romney would pose a significantly greater challenge. When Obama fails there is a chance of replacing him with a conservative. When Romney fails the two party system almost guarantees that he will be replaced by someone even further to the left.
We may have more candidates to choose from before all is said and done. We may not. Assuming we don't, conservatives don't have the luxury of dropping Perry. We have no place else to go. He is the only available port in a storm.
Gingrich, Santorum, Bachmann, Cain, Paul, Johnson and Huntsman are all going nowhere. Holding a torch for any of them is foolish. Individually and collectively they're a write off. It doesn't look as if anyone else is running. So if Perry loses you, to paraphrase Scarlett O'Hara, where shall you go, what shall you do?
” conservatives don’t have the luxury of dropping Perry. We have no place else to go. He is the only available port in a storm.”
Not true. Any one of those other candidates on that platform last night would be 1000% better than BHO.
By Nov 2012 Obama will likely not even be on the Democratic ticket as his own party in a state of desparation may well force him to resign or announce he is not running in 2012. If he does actually manage to stay in the race the GOP could run a corpse and win.
At this point I am waiting to see Newt’s new Contract For America which he will unveil in Iowa next week. I think a Gingrich/Cain ticket would win handily in 2012.
Perry is committing suicide with this immigration stance. If he keeps it up he’s toast.