Posted on 01/14/2012 10:48:42 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Since I wrote this little blog post the other day, picked up at Real Clear Politics, all of a sudden (by coincidence; I'm not claiming I had anything to do with it, but just am remarking on how rapidly the 'meme' has taken off) all sorts of people are suddenly realizing that Mitt Romney is hardly the candidate with the best chance to beat Barack Obama.
It certainly isn't all at the Center for Individual Freedom, but we did have a written colloquy on the subject the other day, with Troy Senik and Ashton Ellis insightfully joining me in weighing in. Actually, Jonathan Last made the case earlier, here. Tina Korbe, a rising star, argues the same thing at Hot Air. Phil Klein at the Washington Examiner makes the case that Romney's flip-flopping is a big liability in a general election (as it was for Al Gore and to a certain extent John Kerry). Back in late December, John Hawkins at Right Wing News also argued the situation quite well. Of course, Peter Ferrara made the case right here at the Spectator, although he also segued into (strong) arguments against Romney's ability to do a good job if he were elected anyway. William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection also has questions.
The scholarly take on it, again doubting Romney's electability, was by Larry Lindsey at the Weekly Standard. From the center-left, the very smart former U.S. Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL) thinks his (former) party doesn't have much to worry about from Romney: "The fact, however, is that Democrats have not had to strain to plan the race they would run against Romney....
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>>That’s must be what the country-clubbers are aiming at: A “respectable loss” so that Mr. Obama is given a free hand for another four years. Nothing else makes sense.
Exactly. The economy is in free-fall, with nothing but credit paying the bills. The country club wing of the GOP wants to retain their personal wealth and power. They already have their offshore bank accounts in place to shelter their wealth when the bubble bursts and the “common people” are left with nothing. They sure don’t want to be in charge of the country when that occurs. They trust Obama to set up the communist system that will give the little people some work and a roof and some food so they don’t riot too much.
If you like what Obama is doing, but it is happening too fast for you,
you’ll absolutely LOVE RINOmney!
He will get you there at a pace you can enjoy as you boil...
Romney: I save the Olympic games.
Obama: I saved the US from the brink of ecomonic diaster.
Obama: I supported TARP,I pretended to be against Gay Marriage, I am Pro-choice, and I believe in Government Bailouts.
Romney: Me too! I know who I am voting for and its Barack Hussein Obama..mmm mmm mmm.
You are right on. That is why I call King Obama a communist black Muslim. We have moved so far into communism now that even if we got Gingrich it will take generation to recover back to a Constitutional form of Government and if frightens me.
A “respectable loss”? Winning might not be everything, but losing isn’t ANYTHING.
Losing is what losers do. Don’t know what the business model is for that, but it cannot pay very well. In fact, the whole concept seems to be on the level of playing a board game, or at most, a gentleman’s athletic competition.
America’s future is a WAY more serious proposition than winning or losing a tennis match or a bowling tournament.
We HAVE to have an interesting headliner on the ticket, to pull along all the Congressional districts and Senatorial contests that could in any way be marginal. Once we have that assurance, the real fight is still ahead, as there is still some reluctance about “taking down” another’s legacy.
But the mischief these “legacies” visit upon our nation and our capability to meet future challenges are just the things that HAVE to be dismantled.
Is Mitt Romney the person to do this? I do not see him as the inspiring leader we need so desperately in the near term, and he is likely just as corrosive to liberty and freedom as Obama is sure to be and has been already.
Pray for a brokered convention. That way, we have the opportunity to DRAFT the person who was reluctant to step into the race at the beginning, but is sharply outspoken against the abuses we are suffering now both within our country and in the world at wide.
Unfortunately, Newt is busy attacking from the left instead of trying to make the debate about conservative issues.
Thank goodness our GOP Overlords have annointed Romney. What could go wrong after they backed Poppa Bush, Dole and Mccain?
I commented on an NRO thread on some other writer who was having second thoughts as well. What were these guys thinking? Romney has to run as Obama-Lite because of his past, so he is a guaranteed loser. The Elite will be tarred and feathered along with Romney’s political corpse.
They are getting buyer’s remorse now that they’ve got what they wished for.
You're right, a loss is a loss and that's what is killing the rest of us conservatives. From what I've seen (in spite of JimRob's known opinion on Romney), there isn't a ground swell of support for Romney here or anywhere.
Maybe the author inserted the word "respectable" for somebody's digestion and it just isn't for you or me.
What are the chances that the real reason for Romney being the nominee isn't to be a respectable loser, it's so he get's clobbered. A land slide victory for Obama should do well to silence his critics and marginalize any Tea Party gains in Congress.
Who in the GOP would wish for that result is beyond me.
>>You are right on. That is why I call King Obama a communist black Muslim. We have moved so far into communism now
Yep. Years ago, we could have gotten by with European Socialism, but now we’ve filled our society with so many people with a third-world mindset through multi-culti and transnationalism that the poor will not accept anything less than full-blown communism. And once the middle-class is thrown into poverty from the economic meltdown, there won’t be any more “petit bourgeois” left to defend the so-called free market that used up and discarded the workforce of the most productive country on Earth.
Newt is the only person I see running who is pro-America and pro-freedom, but also willing to tell at least part of the truth. I think that if he wins, he will be the only one willing to tell us the whole truth about what needs to be done to climb out of the pit we find ourselves in. It will be a bitter pill to swallow, but it has to be done.
The country-clubbers are the least of our worries.
Globalsim v. Anti-Globalism (Global Social Justice).
It is all about money and power.
Gov.Romney is the candidate for the elitist Republican’s Globalism, and President Obama is the champion of the Global Social Justice league (communism in another of its many aspects).
Per Wikipedia: Globalism can have at least two different and opposing meanings. One meaning is the attitude or policy of placing the interests of the entire world above those of individual nations. Another is viewing the entire world as a proper sphere for one nation to project political influence.
The Republicans, and Wall Street, have combined the two definitions in an attempt to dominate international commerce and the monetary structure, and establish a New World Order for establishing that control. This is neither conservative nor liberal in orientation.
Who is their rival, trying to subvert and seize control themselves and alter the eventual structure and purpose of this New World Order?
The Global Justice Movement, or, I guess you could say, Communism all grown-up and combined with the quest for an Islamic Caliphate brought about through the United Nations. (Both are antagonists, and eventually will try to destroy one another). BHO2 is the movement’s puppet. Leo Gerard, via the International Labor Unions (plus Russia, perhaps?), is one of the puppet masters and together are the driving force behind this group as it stands now.
These two groups are struggling to see who controls the U.S. government because it is in the way of establishing a New World Order. What that NWO will finally look like, fascist or Marxist/Islamic, is still up in the air.
Mind you, I’ve distilled the scenario down to its molecular level, so to speak, though there are many different groups playing minor roles in this struggle. And it is a struggle with the results to yield dire results for the U.S. if Conservatives don’t choose the right champion for the American people.
Neither group gives a damn about the rights of individuals. The common man, or woman, on the street is just a “unit” to be taxed or obliterated, it matters not to them.
And when someone like Newt Gingrich has the temerity to pop-up and challenge both groups, both go ballistic.
The last thing that either group wants is for conservatives with Bibles and guns asserting their God-given rights and demanding that Washington, D.C., changes how it does business.
Ta-da.
As Groucho used to say: “Say the magic word, the duck flies down and you win a hundred dollars.”
The magic word(s) for today are “respectable loss.”
The duck just flew down.
Thanks to the Fed, there’s no money for your prize.
amen
US Communist Leader Lays Out Strategy for 2012: “Big Progressive Change is Closer Than We Think”
In a Christmas break message to his party, Communist Party USA vice chair Jarvis Tyner has confirmed the vital importance of the build up to the 2012 elections to “set the stage for a new progressive era and for a socialist transformation.”
Tyner draws clear right/left battle lines and the communist’s commitment to Party ‘friend’ President Barack Obama and to the Democratic Party cause:
Organized labor understands this. The major anti racist organizations under stand this…
And I can tell you, comrades, we can criticize Obama, and when it is done in a united front way he has shown that he can be moved. The whole effort of the Congressional Black Caucus and Progressive Caucus to organize town meetings and job fairs, which drew large crowds across the country, played a big role in pushing Obama to come up with his American Jobs Act, which is laying the basis for a big defeat of the right in 2012.
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Romney is to liberal to draw the necessary distinctions to beat Obama. We need to clarify those differences, not blur them.
The three big Republican wins of recent memory are 1980, 1994, and 2010. In each case, the Republicans (for the most part) ran as unabashed conservatives. When they run go-along, get along “moderates” like Dole or McCain, they lose. (”Moderate is a base-stealing word for liberal Republicans.” — William F. Buckley Jr.)
And the “moderates” aren’t good for the candidates down-ballot either. If you want more conservatives in Congress, you need conservatives at the top of the ticket. Go for principle and go for the coattails.
Romney’s assignment is to lose the election a la McCain and Dole, neither of whom actually ran campaigns as if they wanted the job.
A “respectable loss” and an established fact that the combined vote for Romney and the kenyan will be recognized as the total available vote for socialism.
We will find soon enough that even the USSC is no longer relevant. A Congress that would pass and presidents who would sign such laws as we now have and will soon get will ignore the Court. The Constitution will be cited and invoked for a while yet but it is a dead letter. Besides, another socialist/communist (Romney or the kenyan) presidency should be enough to tip the Court irretrievably to the Left.
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