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Petulant -- yes, in the sense that a termite exterminator is petulant.

The reason I don't mind the aggressive anti-Romney talk here is because I see the guy as a true threat to the limited government conservative movement. Romney thinks that includes a belief in cap and trade, global warming, bigger government intrusion in health care, more benevolent government oversight, and more management and efficiency techniques to better serve the American taxpayer in the government's oppression of them.

There was a time it seemed it must be impossible to come up with someone worse than Clinton. Then, unbelievably before our eyes, grew Hillary ... and then Obama! And Obama won!

Look at the Republicans we've had in office, doing many good things but also growing government. Getting along. Negotiating. Reaching across the aisle. In fact, betraying limited government principle. It pushed the right to the left, and the center position moved to the left as well.

So now we have Obama because compared to the "right," he's not so far left! Think four to six years of a Republican president who believes in global warming, thinks cap and trade is a way to save the planet, thinks that American government needs to be more efficient. Any downsizing of government is to increase efficiency.

Meanwhile, otherwise politically aloof plain Americans yearn for a party whose candidates will steadfastly stand for less government not to increase efficiency, but to reduce government, period. IN PRINCIPLE. They want somebody who is willing to say outloud that global warming is obviously crap, that government needs to get off our backs and back into the servants' quarters. They want the government out of health care. They want limited government conservatism.

Imagine a Republican administration that in essence embraces the concept of growing government into the health insurance picture among individuals, employers, employees, etc. Imagine a Republican administration that goes along in principle with the cap and trade environmentalist scenario. Now visualize Romney, because that's what he is.

THEN imagine how far left and crazily socialist will be the NEXT Democrat wave. Obama makes Clinton look dignified and principled. How will Obama's next Democrat president successor make him look?