INDEPENDENT AMERICAN MOVEMENT FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION
Posted on 09/21/2009 10:29:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
At the 2009 Value Voters Summit this past week, Mitt Romney directly addressed President Barack Obama’s incomprehensible and fatally flawed decision, unprecedented in the American political tradition, to tax future generations. In an administration quickly marked for its wistful look to the past, Obama’s decision brought to mind 15th-century Russia. Is that why they call them czars?
"Putting such a spirit-crushing, back-breaking debt burden on our children is unworthy of our national character," Romney said. "That is why I believe that this spending and borrowing is not just economically irresponsible, it is morally wrong."
It poisoned this most auspicious and most inclusive Obama administration from the very beginning. History — the future — will rise from that moment. It already has. Directly following, back in February, New Hampshire state Rep. Dan Itse proposed that the federal government had no right to do this, that it was immoral to do so and the states have constitutional defenses against this. Almost overnight, 30 states followed his cue. Tax revolts and the current town hall disturbances followed.
Blame it on Glenn Beck, blame it on Sarah Palin, blame it on Rick Perry, but that Romney has endorsed these efforts, as he did this weekend, changes the political scenario. Because if Glenn Beck is a demagogue, then now Mitt Romney is a demagogue. If Sarah Palin is a threat to the republic, then so is Mitt Romney. If Texas Gov. Rick Perry, possibly the most competent and successful sitting governor, is a traitor and a secessionist, then so is Mitt Romney. Questions will rise now it the hearts and minds of networks chiefs: Whom do we stake our political future on now, Mitt Romney or Tina Fey? Who will market our heroic charade for this just one day today? Mitt Romney or David Letterman? And how will we be remembered when the moment is recalled?
As The Hill reports, Romney called the tea party protesters “patriots” who have often been derided by Democrats, and said they could block the president’s agenda.
“Thanks to millions of Americans who have stepped up in town halls and tea parties across the country, he’s not going to get his way,” Romney said.
The Romney speech is an auspicious beginning. The Christian Science Monitor called the conference “a more genteel anti-Obama tea party.” Prior to this there was a division between what might be called Western Republicans like Rick Perry, who supported, endorsed and participated in the April 15 tea parties, and what might be called the traditional, culturally conservative Eastern Republicans who opposed.
The question since February 2009 was how mainstream conservatives like Romney would respond to this movement. The question since August 2008, was how mainstream conservatives would respond to the rising spirit in the heartland personified by then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. This week Romney, possibly the smartest and most capable conservative politician since Eisenhower, closed the gap.
Things end where they begin, the Buddhists tell us. The great leader and conservative thinker, Irving Kristol, who passed away just this past week, asked this question in abstraction back in the late 1950s when liberal lions like Norman Mailer and conservative writers like Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter were still friends: Which should we trust in our hearts to lead us into the future, New York and Washington or the American heartland?
I wish it was just the media. But, no, the establishment in or supportive of the Republican party has also been pushing him. The ones that view themselves as “conservative” and king makers only more refined and wise than those they “Lead”. :p
Mitt's gonna be so embarrassed after the primaries.
Mrs. Palin is not only the personification of the heartland, she is the personification of America as envisioned by Jefferson, Madison, Jay and Monroe.
Sending donations to Sarah for 2012 everytime these rinos kick dirt on her.
At this rate I should be broke by the weekend
Jeff do ya have that IAM link to share again ?
ROFLMAO!!!! I don't know whether to laugh at the absurdity of that comment, or be incensed at the insult to the real conservatives.
I think the Media senses a democrat loss next election. So they are promoting the most democrat like republican.
See my tagline...
From an interview with Sir John Mortimer, author of the "Rumpole of the Bailey" series.
Q: "Rumpole has been around since 1975. How has he changed over the years?"
A: "I don't think he's changed at all. He's like Sherlock Holmes -- he doesn't seem to age. He stays the same. But then I'm not a great believer that people change. People who write Hollywood scripts always think that characters have to learn things and change and develop. I think nobody learns anything. I think they make the same mistakes throughout their lives till they drop dead."
Sweet ! She gets my full support based on her past record. She gets such till she shows me she no longer seeks such or proves to me she no longer warrants such.
Trust is limited these days. Sarah has mine for now based her past performance. Not promises of the future. I know she will try. That is all I ask of anyone.
Great tagline !
Stay Safe !
Did Romney pay the author to write this puff piece?
If Romney is the conservative favorite, then why didn’t he win the Value Voter Summit straw poll?
That’s it - we know who will be getting the anointed tap on the shoulder. Fits right in w/his commie views.
I'm so confused. I thought that the "state run media" and the DNC had already picked the Huckster from Arkansas as the next presidential candidate for the Republican party.
If only I'd been born a demoRat, then I'd be smart enough to see through all of this complexity.
/sarcasm off
Romney laughed at Ron Paul when he warned during the debates what would happen. He is horrible
Thanks Jeff !!!
The big push is on to make Romney our next nominee.
As many have said in “Get Smart,” I find that hard to believe.
Ike was a great president. Period.
You’ve got to be kidding.
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