Posted on 06/27/2012 7:06:20 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
Now that Mitt Romney has secured the GOP nomination, he is obviously free to be himself. His masquerade as a conservative is over as he has returned to many of the moderate to liberal stances he held as Governor of the People’s Republic of Massachusetts. He has also returned to being the polite politician who treats his Democratic opponents with respect.
Mitt Romney only gets nasty against other Republicans. In the GOP primary, the Governor eviscerated his opponents with high priced, non-stop, hard hitting attacks. He is not employing the same tactics in his general election showdown against President Obama, who he continues to refer to as a “nice guy.”
At the same time that Romney is playing nice, Barack Obama has been on a rampage, tearing to shreds the U.S. Constitution. On June 15 at the White House Rose Garden, Obama decided to issue de-facto amnesty to 1.4 million aliens who illegally entered the country at a young age. The President evidently decided that standing immigration laws do not apply to this category of individuals, who will now be able to apply for work permits and no longer have to face the threat of deportation. To the 23 million unemployed Americans looking for work, get ready to face more competition for scarce jobs. Romney’s response to this outrageous move is that he wants to seek “common ground” on the immigration. During an interview on Face the Nation last Sunday, Romney refused on five occasions to pledge that he would rescind the new Obama immigration policy.
Last week, the President issued a questionable Executive Privilege order protecting his Attorney General from congressional investigators and covering up documents that dealt with the scandalous Fast and Furious program. In response, the Governor should be condemning the President’s order, demanding that Holder resign and insisting on full transparency and the release of all documents. Instead, Romney’s response has been non-existent, as he has been “largely silent” on the Fast and Furious debacle, which resulted in the death of a border patrol agent.
On Monday, the Supreme Court struck down three of the major provisions of the state of Arizona’s law dealing with illegal immigration. The justices upheld the remaining provision, which allows law enforcement to question suspected illegal aliens about their immigration status. After the ruling, it only took the Obama Department of Homeland Security several hours to rescind agreements with seven law enforcement agencies in Arizona. Thus, the federal government will provide no assistance to Arizona in dealing with illegal immigrants arrests, except those caught crossing the border or with felonies in their criminal history. Horace Cooper of the National Center for Public Policy characterized the administration’s move “a complete disregard of the constitutional process.” As noted by Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, Obama told Arizona, “drop dead.”
With the U.S. Constitution, law abiding Arizona residents and a Republican Governor under attack, what did presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney say? His spokesman refused to condemn the Supreme Court ruling or offer support for the Arizona immigration law. After being hounded by reporters for an answer and evading 20 questions on the issue, Romney spokesman Rick Gorka offered this meek response, “The Governor supports the right of states, that’s all we’re going to say on the issue.”
When the people of Arizona, the conservative movement and the GOP needed a champion, Romney hid under his moderate cloak. He did the same disappearing act several weeks ago when President Obama announced his support for gay marriage. This cowardice in the face of controversial issues should alarm conservatives. It does not bode well for a potential Romney administration. It is another indication that the worries of conservatives about Romney were well founded.
Romney masqueraded as a conservative in the Republican primaries. Now he is being his true self, the Massachusetts Moderate. If he is elected as President, he will be another George H. W. Bush who will manage the growth of government, not seriously curtail it. He will work with Democrats, not oppose their socialist agenda. He will use government to “solve” problems and not provide the only real solution, limited government.
So called political experts claim that any Republican presidential nominee must “move to the middle” to win the general election. Romney is obviously following this advice; however, just the opposite is true. America is thirsting for a conservative alternative to Obama. Voters want a real choice, not an echo. Romney should be clearly differentiating his positions with the President on all issues, not just the economy.
At this time in our history, illegal immigration is a vitally important issue. Millions of citizens along with southern border with Mexico feel overrun with illegal immigrants and are frustrated by a federal government which refuses to take action.
Romney is trying to placate the Latino vote by toning down his rhetoric on this issue. During the Republican primaries, Romney expressed staunch support for the Arizona immigration law. Today his spokesman goes to great lengths to avoid the issue.
Sadly, Romney does not possess the core conservative principles that the Republican Party and this nation desperately needs.
Governor Romney may become our nation’s 45th President, but as his tap dancing on these issues prove, he will not govern as a conservative.
Why ???
Because I cant be threatened into voting for your boy even if my life was at stake ???
Kid dont you know that for me to be absent from the body is to be present with the LORD ???
Now tell me who is the mental case ...
Smart? I disagree. Cultic, yes.
What's being overlooked here is that Romney has to keep in mind that "mormonism is enjoying dramatic growth in Latin America"
Mormon leaders wouldn't be pleased with him if he interfered with the message that 52,000 mormon missionaries are out in the world spreading.
Mitt will take care of his church before considering anything else. Count on it!
Obviously you completely misunderstood what I said. So rather than respond to you again I’ll just hope you go back & re-read what I posted.
Sarah Palin’s opinion is not my plumb line.
Kid I dont give into manipulaters, blackmailers, intimidators etc..
A guy with a gun is just a guy with a gun...
If he has one trained on me he intends to use it...
I dont intend to vote for your boy Willie Mitty either way...
If Willie Mitty is so desparate that he needs to hold me up to steal my vote then maybe he is not the one to lead our country for the next four years...
1. we need someone who knows what they are doing...
2. We need someone with guts and determination
3. we need someone who has confidence in their ability to lead ...
4. we need a leader...
It doesnt sound like you think Willie Mitty has the wherewithal to lead or any confidence in himself...
We dont need a common highwayman...
We need a leader...
Go ahead and shoot if youre going to...
You look silly holding that cap pistol..
I have no idea what you’re talking about.
....same as the old!!!
from page 261 of the paperback edition of “The Audacity of Hope.
“Romney is the better of two evils.”
I’ve concluded Romney is the different of two evils.
He isn’t the solution to the problems we face, and will add additional problems in the future as he continues to revert to who he is.
Only a Republican Party that elects a Congress with balls and fights, will defeat the decline of our nation.
They could fight now. They fight weakly. That is our problem.
To me, the overriding question is, what will galvanize them to fight?
Mitt?
Zero?
Someone or something else?
Nothing?
In 2012 I tried and failed.
You haven't failed until you give up. There's still time to change this, but we're certain to have the quisling liberal Romney as our nominee, if everyone simply rolls over and accepts it.
I guarantee you, that if every true conservative drew a line in the sand and said, 'Not Another Step Further!', that there'd be fireworks in Tampa, and we'd emerge with a better nominee.
Can you name any conservative media pundit or elected Republican that is spearheading this mutiny?
The ones I listen to (Garrison, Rush, Steyn, Dana Loesh) don’t seem to be promoting it.
A monumental turnaround like you mention won’t happen without a high profile leader, IMHO.
You need a leader to tell you when to rebel against blatant left-liberalism in your own party?
I guarantee you, that if every true conservative drew a line in the sand and said, 'Not Another Step Further!', that there'd be fireworks in Tampa, and we'd emerge with a better nominee."Every true conservative" is easily outnumbered by all the other demographics and political sub-sects that comprise the right hemisphere of politics. "Every true conservative" ain't enough to get it done. We would also have to convince all those folks who aren't "true conservatives" who are voting for Romney and donating gobs of cash to him.
Consider the more conservative candidates running against Romney in the primary. *NONE* of them got anywhere near "threatening close" to Romney. There were just too many moderates, rinos, centrists, blue-bloods, etc. lined up to vote just like they were told to vote -or- they actually preferred Romney. Not to mention Romney's gazillion "bucks of backing". Conservatives never had a chance.
Probably no one here will agree and they definitely won't like hearing it, but we need to grow our conservative-voting head-count by multiple orders of magnitude. We need more financial leverage to compete with "the elite/RINO" money bags as distasteful as that is. I don't see how anything changes in our favor until we get those done, and more. The best we can do for this particular election now is cross our fingers and push some mystery candidate like Hoefling who is virtually unknown outside of conservative circles.
We have *GOT* to find some way to do far, Far, FAR better next time than we did this primary season.
Can you name any conservative media pundit or elected Republican that is spearheading this mutiny?
***This is not a mutiny. Folks like you seem to think that FR is a republican website. It is NOT. It is a conservative website.
Maybe you principle-compromising republicans should focus your efforts on the mushy middle rather than trying to separate conservatives from their principles.
Hopefully
***How’s that hopey-changey thing going?
(this is probably wishful thinking, I know)
***Thanks for being honest. Your efforts are better spent on pushing your hopey-changey/wishful thinking agenda on the mushy middle rather than trying to separate conservatives from their principles.
And for November, I have to play the cards I’m dealt.
***You play your cards, and principled conservatives will play theirs.
Your premise is valid, but there's another factor that I believe played a far greater role in the final outcome of the Republican primary, and it's that the right Reagan Republican never stepped forward to run.
All of the candidates who stood to the right of Romney had their plus points, but none of them had the total package of conservative idealism, smarts, courage, executive experience, charisma, outspokenness, and eloquence that would have (and could have) eliminated Mitt.
The stars were perfectly aligned for that person to step forward, but for whatever reason, she didn't. Had she done so, she would have walked to victory in the primary and the general without breaking a sweat. She would have also gone on to do the exact things in office that are needed to turn this country around.
Of this, I have no doubt.
The stars were perfectly aligned for that person to step forward, but for whatever reason, she didn’t.
***I think she chose the welfare of her family over her own political ambitions. Plus, she makes a lot more money now at Fox. However, by not running, she has entered into an irrelevance death spiral.
You guys don't remember that she had played it all perfectly and was building to an announcement although the media and the GOP was against her she was pulling off something that we had never seen, but then suddenly, Rick Perry stepped in and squashed her momentum just long enough to keep her out of 2012.
Perry mysteriously and ineffectively jumping in, neutered the Palin effort towards beating the bipartisan system that was united against her.
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