It may be a good bill of goods against Romney. And you won't listen? How open-minded is that?
Look, if Romney did the things that are said that he did, then he engaged in gross deception of conservatives when he campaigned for the nomination.
I suspected that he was another "too cool for school" country-club Republican, another social snob who couldn't rub elbows with "those people", the troglodytes who helped nominate first Barry Goldwater and then Ronnie Reagan, or even level with them about where he was coming from.
It was good enough to fob them off with half-truths, to manage them, just to get "the right kind of people" in the White House again -- Ivies, snobs, cultivated secularists hiding behind a rotten facade of pretended belief and phony political solidarity with churchgoing, dues-paying, tax- and bill-paying conservatives.
At some point you have to admit it, that Mitt Romney was just another Obama with a slightly different agenda. Same schools, same mannerisms, same tastes, same social milieu -- New Mandarin .... and very probably the same beliefs about leadership and what makes people and politics tick.
So how do you get another Ronald Reagan or Sarah Palin out of that?
I’m sure no fan of Mitt Romney, but I’m not in favor of going after a publication that has been one of the consistent, principled voices of conservatism because of THIS. And I agree, Romney engaged in a very transparent campaign of deception which fooled almost no one. Let’s not mistake the very desirable impulse to avoid beating up on one another leading into a presidential campaign with the principled differences that do exist within the Conservative movement.
I am sure I differ on issues with other equally conservative individuals of principle, and I would not demonize them because of those differences. Nor do I expect to be demonized by them, or see those I respect, like Fred Thompson demonized.
This is especially true when every time it happens it is the same crew, the same issue and the same intolerance.