Posted on 06/13/2011 5:46:04 PM PDT by Kaslin
Poor Mitt Romney. With every poll showing him in the lead for the Republican presidential nomination, his heart must sink. Like Hillary Clinton, Rudy Giuliani and quite a few others who never got to be president, Romney has the misfortune of being an early front-runner.
Normally, we'd expect the rest of the field to make an issue of every crazy, intemperate thing the leading candidate has ever said or done. This year, however, the pack is assailing Romney with documented examples of chronic, blatant, incorrigible moderation. Even — shudder — pragmatism.
Oh, the humanity.
The truth is that Romney is basically an ideological conservative who believes in tax cuts as a panacea and is content to watch the American middle class continue its long, sad decline. But in today's Republican Party, merely positioning oneself to the right of Ronald Reagan isn't enough. Apparently, it's also necessary to eschew all reason.
Hence the young campaign's most unfortunate new coinage, courtesy of Tim Pawlenty: "ObamneyCare." That's the word he used Sunday to describe President Obama's health care law, which borrowed ideas from the reform package Romney devised and implemented when he was governor of Massachusetts. ObamaCare plus RomneyCare equals .. . OK, we get it, we get it.
Flying Pigs
T-Paw clearly received the stop-making-sense memo and perhaps took it a bit too seriously. Last week he released an economic "plan" — I'm stretching the word here — meant to showcase his boldness and optimism. Instead, he drew near-universal skepticism, along with quite a bit of laughter.
(Excerpt) Read more at investors.com ...
There, fixed it for them.
For some Republicans, Conservatism is a nothing more than a political strategy.
Why is a guy that has won a single election in his life, for an office that he left with a 34% approval rating, and turning that seat over to the Democrats, the Republican front runner?
Pragmatism?
I reject the premise.
What’s pragmatic about big government?
What’s pragmatic about pandering to the drive by media?(we saw how well that worked for McCain)
What’s pragmatic about supporting global warming?
Someone’s late getting on the bus at IBD, Pawlenty isn’t the first to rail against Obamacare.
Heh, a lot of affirmative action columnists making the rounds on FR threads these days.
Milt is to the “right of Ronald Reagan”? It must be time to tilt toward Milt! *BARF* Bob
Romney? Willard "Mitt" Romney? That Romney?
Well, "I'll be switched", as my old granny used to say. I didn't know Romney was a conservative!
He's just laying his carcass over the concertina wire to provide a path for Huntsman, the LSM's real candidate.
Do I really have to put a big, fat, grotesque /S here?
So far, every time that I see the name Huntsman I kind of chuckle, I don’t see him ever being a serious GOP contender.
Another lib ahole trying to pick our candidate for us.
Listen, Eugenie.
We’re going to pick a hardcore conservative. Just as we picked hardcore conservatives in the TEA party in 2010.
And that hardcore conservative is going to win in 2012. Just as the TEA party kicked your liberal ass in 2010.
I can’t speak for everyone, but if we don’t get a conservative and it’s just another RINO, I’m going third party and let the country hit rock-bottom before rebuilding it...by whatever means necessary.
So you leftist jackasses ought to give up on this approach. We’re all over you like Obammie the Commie on the golf course, like Pelosi on the Botox and eye lifts, like Wiener on Twitter.
This article puts Romney in front, in Utah.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20110203/pl_politico/48753
How so?
He is an ideological end justifies the means statist.
What do you mean someone’s late getting on the bus at IBD? IBD didn’t write the editorial. The left wing lunatic Eugene Robinson did
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