I am not bashing anyone. I simply stated my reservations about Mitt Romney. I don't happen to believe his "pet candidate" is the one who can rally the troops, either. His negatives are too high. That is a problem.
The endorsement was a letdown to read. That is how I saw it. I was expecting-oh, I don’t know- a little more fire. A little more passion. He wasn’t very convincing for someone making an endorsement that is all I meant.
He gives you a sober, qualified, careful analysis that takes account of the problems all around and you fault it for lack of passion.
If he’d have given a gazillion decibel passionate paen to Romney you’d fault him for not being sober and analytical enough.
His endorsement is what it is. A cautious assessment of who can best stop Julieannie. If he thought Hunter or Huckabee could stop Julie, I imagine he would line up closer with their positions in many ways. Thompson might well have been his choice but on close analysis he thinks Thompson can’t stop Julie, in part because Thompson doesn’t seem to really be passionate enough—sort of like the thing you fault Weyrich for.
None of the others stand enough of a chance of stopping Julie, so he did the intelligent thing and asked himself if there’s anything about Romney that’s a deal-breaker and whether Romney is sincere or merely pandering. He satisfied himself as to the former. Others can believe the opposite about Romney if they wish, but Weyrich did his analysis and testing and reached a conclusion, not out of passion and emotions but sober assessment.
In contrast, most of those who are disagreeing with him here do so with hyperbole and passion. Perhaps passion is the key to it all. But Weyrich thinks the time for passion comes later; the time for sober assessment comes now and if the values voters keep dissipating their energies in chaotic passion, then
I repeat for the umpteenth time
then we get Julie and if we get Julie we end up with Hillary.
If people can really make a sober case for someone else stopping Julie, fine. But there’s been precious little of that on this thread and a lot of bombast and character assassination directed at Weyrich and Romney, which does not bode well for stopping Julie and thereby stopping Hillary or Obama (who is not by any means out of the picture yet and could be a dangerous opponent even if he is an empty suit—we’ve become enough of a demogogic culture that a platitudinous emptyness like Obama could win)—expecially if the Pubbies refuse to stop the bickering.