The Long-Distance Runner (Be afraid, be very afraid for 2012)

Boston.com ^

[Replace all Democrats]

Just before Thanksgiving last year, a group of former aides to Mitt Romney convened at his salmon-colored Belmont home, many of them gathering for the first time since Romney had disbanded his presidential campaign some nine months before. Romney had invited them for a post-mortem of the election weeks earlier, the type of dispassionate assessment that the Harvard Business School alumnus so enjoyed. But over cookies, they found few of the metrics for success that Romney prized -- Republicans had been decisively thumped at all levels -- and his attention shifted from 2008 to the future.

[Allegra]

At the end of the day, both a liberal Republican (otherwise known as a "RINO") and a liberal Democrat are both still liberals.

The only difference is that one is milder than the other.

Agree completely.

RINOs like Romney will continue to support having a massive government, will be lackadaisical on the border issue, will encourage social liberal garbage like gay marriage and socialistic initiatives such as government health care.

We do not need a RINO like Romney. We desperately need a conservative who wants to drastically reduce government and subsequently the out-of-control spending and who will help us to restore our lost liberties and our strength as a nation.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”I'd go for Romney to STOP the CRAP that is going on with LIBERAL DEMOCRATS in charge!!!!!!’

Good luck, like Romney stopped socialized medicine in MA ?

[sickoflibs]

RE :”I think you purists really want the Republicans creamed by the Democrats for decades and decades.’

This assumes that a McCain win in 2008 would lead to future election wins. That is completely faulty logic. The loss of Mccain has led to an uprising against democrats, and a wave of conservative best sellers and polling that suggests most people want to call themselves conservative now. Do you think any of that would happen with a president “work with the other side” McCain.

The problem with the wrong republicans being in power (at the national level) is that they mis-represent capitalism and conservatism. When Obama and Pelosi do socialist stuff, it is seen as a failure at socialism. But Mccain was largely supported by ‘conservatives’ and moderates in November and sometimes spoke that language, as does Romney now.