Posted on 10/29/2011 12:59:50 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Republican candidates for president have been busy for weeks now, laboring strenuously to give the 2012 nomination to Mitt Romney. And he keeps trying to give it back.
The former Massachusetts governor could walk to next year's GOP convention without touching the ground, treading exclusively on the bodies of rivals who have fallen on their faces.....
....True, he has been guilty of occasional deviations from orthodox Republican theology,...His heresies on gay rights, abortion and gun control required extensive displays of penance, which he performed the last time out.
Besides, the GOP actually tends to nominate candidates closer to the party's center than its right edge. George W. Bush, remember, ran as a "compassionate conservative," to distinguish himself from the other kind.
Romney has also come up with an unpersuasive but not intolerable excuse for his health care reform plan, which is that it's suitable for Massachusetts and Massachusetts alone. This story is not enough to please Republicans, but it should serve to appease them.
Romney does not aspire to be the fellow at the party who enchants the girls with his dance moves and charm. He's more like the guy they settle on once all the other guys have passed out drunk, gotten distracted by a ballgame or come on way too strong. He's not thrilling, but he's not a disaster.
It would help, though, if he could stop committing inexplicable mistakes. Weeks ago, he praised an Ohio ballot initiative to curb the collective bargaining rights of government employees. Then..
All Romney achieved was to remind everyone of his uncanny resemblance to a windsock. In The New York Review of Books, Christopher Benfey writes that when he asks Bay Staters about him, "I get a recurring response: Nixonian." They see him as slippery, smarmy and void of principles.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Ha, that would be clever.
“Mitt romney is a two faced, snake oil selling, GOP elistist yankee RINO socialist sleezebag, and I’m just getting warmed up...”
Don’t hold back! Your on a roll. Let it rip..........
Mittens could not beat super RINO Juan McAmnesty in 2008. He’s in the second place again in 2012. He needs to fade away.
Spot on!!
Indeed! LOL!
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