Well who of our mind and spirit would not prefer "a conservative over a liberal?
That's why I have sympathy for your dilemma, Betty. Short of having a conservative candidate intentionally misrepresent himself as a liberal, I don't know how you would elect a conservative. That poses an ethical dilemma as vote after vote reveals the Manchurian conservative to be a sleeper. A second election win would be more difficult.
Whatever Romney's sense of civic duty, his legacy will be a lousy campaign and his unwillingness to close with the enemy, a prevent defense that ended up preventing him from winning. I really don't fault the purist conservatives who voted for others or who didn't vote at all. Adding up their numbers one might say Romney would have won had they voted the way they did. But Romney had plenty of money and plenty of experts, and I'm sure he added up their lost votes ahead of time when he went off into liberal areas that turned them off. There's no doubt in my mind that they performed some behind-the-scenes calculus regarding the number of liberals they would peel away from Obama by moving to the left.
The bottom line is their calculus was wrong. Those folks went for Obama anyway, despite all Romney's signals that he might be liberal enough to satisfy them. His calculus and his campaign failed. He ended up alienating people who would never have supported some of the positions he espoused and others he hinted at. Only in retrospect did they say that those conservatives would have helped them win. Oh what a tangled web we weave when liberals we court and conservatives we leave. In writing history, his staffers want to point at those they rejected rather than at their strategy that didn't work.
Which get us to Virgil Goode. Poor Virgil was a Goode foil for conservatives who hoped to keep Romney on the reservation. That failed too. He threw us under the bus anyway. That left Virgil trying to do something, but it wasn't effective, whatever it was. His party didn't try at all, and that hurt him, but it hurt them far more. Now we think they aren't serious about this serious enterprise. Serious men would have had Goode run in his old congressional district to see if they could actually elevate one of theirs to the House of Reps. He might have succeeded at that, and that would have been a far better result than the apathetic bungle they made of the national election.
At the last minute, due to Benghazi I switched to Romney and Ryan. I couldn't imagine anyone being as bad on foreign policy and military honor than Obama. (Ryan proved me wrong last week on military honor.)
I retrospect I'm embarrassed by my vote for Romney/Ryan. Those who leave their veterans behind are shameful. Romney did it by failing to close on Benghazi. Ryan did it by selling us down the river with his anti-veteran budget plan.
Where does a conservative turn?
Getting back to this article, my point was this: Not to Huckabee.
Right, NOT huckabee……and on another subject, the Romney’s and Browns of the world are fine as governor and Senators from Mass…because they are the best we can do from Mass….but they are NOT who we should be running as a national nominee…...