Posted on 05/13/2011 8:05:23 AM PDT by Brookhaven
Mitt Romney wants to become America's next president. He's been very successful, according to a number of reports, at raising millions on Wall Street. But the paper named after it, the Wall Street Journal, isn't satisfied with Romney. In a lengthy and extraordinary editorial, it calls him the worst epithet a conservative could probably think of—"Obama's Running Mate."
When a political party is out of power, or at least doesn't hold the presidency, numerous dissenting voices are usually heard. It can be a fructifying time. But it can also be a time when ideological agendas are ruthlessly enforced. The Journal clearly believes that it is flushing out a Trojan Horse—a false prophet, in the form of Romney, who laid down the lineaments of the Obama health care plan during his own tenure as Governor of Massachusetts—and is now attempting to palliate, not disown, his record. Romney's "fatal flaw" is that he doesn't understand the free enterprise system, says the Journal:
Mr. Romney's fundamental error was assuming that such differences could be parsed by his own group of experts, as if government can be run by management consultants. He still seems to believe he somehow squared the views of Jonathan Gruber, the MIT evangelist for ObamaCare, with those of the Heritage Foundation. In reality, his ostensible liberal allies like the late Ted Kennedy saw an opening to advance their own priorities, and in Mr. Romney they took advantage of a politician who still doesn't seem to understand how government works. It's no accident that RomneyCare's most vociferous defenders now are in the White House and left-wing media and think tanks. They know what happened, even if he doesn't.
The Journal's message could not be clearer: he is not one uf us. He has a credibility gap. He isn't a true conservative. He's a phony, a pretender who will sell out conservative principles the second he enters office. He is, in other words, George H.W. Bush reincarnated.
Now it's clearly the case that Romney, in a weak Republican field, has the most practical experience as a businessman and Governor. It would also seem that his Republican bona fides are in order—after all, his own father, George, was Governor of Michigan. If he became president, it also clear that he would be subjected to a barrage of criticism, much as George H.W. Bush was, for not acting like a real conservative. The war against Romney has begun. His greatest hurdle may not be battling the Democratic party but the conservative base in the GOP itself.
CAT FIGHT!.................
Mitt is working on becoming the next McCain.
Where’s the line?
The war against Romney has begun.
DManA reporting for duty.
Wow. Natl Review spanked Newt just yesterday or so, and now the WSJ hits Romney!
This is good.
Not gonna vote for him. Wouldn’t be prudent.
I look for common sense in those I support and Romney doesn’t have it.
Sarah Palin’s appeal lies in her down-home common sense.
Ouch!
Wrong. The Journal's message is that he is full of crap.
He has Hugh Hewitt promoting him and Medved is still covering for him while both of those hosts want Palin out.
Conservatives should remember that Hewitt and Medved are against them.
The WSJ did not “attack” Romney. It merely laid out the truth about him in a dispassionate, surgically precise manner.
The fact that it damns Romney so thoroughly just indicates how awful Romney truly is.
Gosh, maybe if we help the most conservative Mitt hunt down and destroy the other Mitts, he can absorb their powers and be the Last Mitt Standing.
That was a great editorial. It was like a punch right between the eyes.
Mitt’s done, he should just lie down now. He’s a man whose time has passed.
Nobody is going to win these primaries with out tea party support. We need someone who can get support from both the tea partiers and the evangelicals and later from the mushy middlers.
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