The pointlessness of Mitt Romney

Daily Caller ^ | 122911 | Theo Caldwell

[Fred]

“Pointless … like giving caviar to an elephant.” ~ William Faulkner

Leave it to Faulkner to create a simile so apt that it reaches across decades to apply, very neatly, to the futility of foisting Mitt Romney upon the Republican Party as its presidential nominee. The image of the elephant is self-evidently appropriate. As for caviar, despite its association with money and privilege, one wonders who actually enjoys its taste. Truth be told, it is over-rated, as most delicacies are. Caviar is a lot like Marmite, only more expensive and lacking its nutritional value. So it is with Romney, moneyed and privileged, yet without much to recommend him.

Of course, the late Nobel Laureate knew nothing of the former Massachusetts governor, but ’twas always thus with a masterful turn of phrase — it can be wheeled out again and again, pertinent to any number of circumstances.

In this case, nominating Romney to lead the GOP in November, and even electing him president, would be pointless. While a President Romney may slow the country’s deterioration, and may even make good on his pledge to repeal Obamacare (that is, if the Supreme Court doesn’t drive a stake through that vampire-law first), his toothless policy proposals will do no more than delay the inevitable — that is, the end of America as we know it.

[reaganaut]

Romney IS Obama, just paler (or white and delightsome to use a Mormon phrase). Policy wise they are NO different.

[Vendome]

hey! I like caviar!

Well, not really. It’s just one of those things you do when it’s served.

Need more egg and onions.

[ansel12]

That is a weird source to be using to defend Romney for his homosexual agenda support.

[Gator113]

“I see dumb people...
... they’re everywhere...
... they walk around like everyone else...
... they don’t even know that they’re dumb...

And...
Some of them...

...THEY POST HERE”

[reaganaut]

Conservatives have to take a stand and show that Romney is a bridge too far for the Rockefeller/Romney GOP left, and they need to be stopped.

The GOP establishment actually supported candidates running against the Republican nominees in 2010, that was a formal declaration of war.

I won’t vote for Mitt Romney if he wins the nomination.\\ - - - - - - - -

WORTH A REPOST! Amen, Brother!

[maine-iac7]

So, are you two just woefully uninformed, gaga over mitts plastic ‘good looks’ or, as he, Progressives?

http://mrctv.org/videos/mitt-romney-2002-my-views-are-progressive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7OQoBxZZPqU

http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/york-romney-briefed-church-abortion-stance/282721

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/06/us-usa-campaign-romney-computers-idUSTRE7B500X20111206

[reaganaut]

Yet another one of his flip flops. Romney bragged about his support of gay rights consistently and didn’t think DADT went far enough.

See post #32 on this thread, and that is just for starters.

Romney is a lying, flipflopping POS who is basically a paler Obama.

[reaganaut]

I can spot them in a crowd. I can also smell them. It’s creepy. ;)

[reaganaut]

Ohhhh, egg and onions. And blinis and lox and...

now I’m hungry.

[maine-iac7]

You say, naively or as seeing nothing wrong with the Progressive Agenda - Obama-Light? “While some conservatives think he has gone to far in compromising as governor, I don’t see strong evidence of him lying or reversing himself on pledges he made to voters.”

Naivete or Socialist? Which is it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7OQoBxZZPqU

http://mrctv.org/videos/mitt-romney-2002-my-views-are-progressive

[Lady4Liberty]

Gay marriage happened in Massachusetts under his watch. He’s VERY much for the radical gay agenda. He was the one who appointed openly gay rabid activist judges that forced through homosexual marriage in that state. He proudly said he’d be better than Ted Kennedy on gay “rights”.

[Waryone]

I would not use the gayest source you can find as proof that Romney is not pro-gay. The report they used was filled with misinformation.

Romney was pro-ENDA, by the grace of God it did not pass Congress. Romney was also pro gays in the military. He even had the audacity to say so in a 2008 debate and was booed for it. He appointed gays to Massachusetts courts. The same courts he used as cover to institute gay marriage in Massachusetts.

When the courts told the Massachusetts legislature to change the laws to allow gay marriage, the legislature balked. The dems in charge did not want to get thrown out of office. Mitt provided cover for them by ordering his justices of the peace to marry gays even though the courts did not instruct him or the executive branch to do anything and the courts by themselves were prohibited by law from instituting any new laws. Only the legislature could change the laws.

Since he knew the legislature was way too afraid of what the public would do to them if they passed gay marriage, Mitt decided to help both the democrat legislature and the gay cause by doing just what Obama likes to do, make legislation by executive order. So the courts got to see their wish for gay marriage fulfilled. The legislators were spared from having to defend gay marriage to the voters and Mitt could pretend there was nothing he could do about it, since he told everyone who would listen that the court made him do it.

I know of no other candidate in either party who can claim they have done as much for the gays as Mitt Romney. If he were running for democrat nominee, he’d be claiming it right now.

[Vendome]

Romney is a Christian?

Who knew?

[Vendome]

I only take the whites. the other color gives awful gas....

[woofie]

Isnt that illegal to say that?

[Finny]

If Romney had gotten the White House in 2008 instead of Obama, we'd probably already have nationalized health insurance.

Methinks that if Hillary Clinton switched parties, you'd praise her as highly as you praise Romney because apparently, conservative principle sails over your head; you figure a Republican is worthy of your vote by sole virtue of being registered as a Republican. Romney has a long track record of betraying limited government conservatism. He is truly, demonstrably, Republican In Name Only. That you fail to recognize it is perplexing.

[Finny]

Also, some important Constitutional rights are hanging in there by a 5-4 thread at the Supreme Court. We simply cannot afford a President we are not sure will fight for a nominee who will uphold the Constitution.

Amen, but tell that to LL2, who wrote on a different thread: if it’s Romney vs Obama I have to vote Romney if for no other reason than Obama cannot be allowed to pick 2 or 3 more Sotomayors.

Romney's record indicates that his SCJ choices would be just as dangerously misguided and risky as Obama's. Mitt Romney is bad news for the GOP and bad news for America. I hope he loses.

[iopscusa]

You’re correct, the Whig Party is about to die a 2nd time and when the nominated Mitt loses to BHO the RNC/GOP will blame the racist T-Party!

[Finny]

...what will happen with four more years of Obama is an absolute certainty.

You are scared out of your wits and your panic is clouding your vision.

There are zero "absolute certainties" as to the consequences of four more years of Obama, but there is an EXTREMELY HIGH PROBABILITY that four more years of Obama would mean:

1. A MUCH more conservative congress, with the power to make Obama nearly impotent politically.

2. A stronger Republican party as Americans gravitate toward it as a functional antidote to the big government tyranny of the Democrat party.

There's only one absolute certainty with a Romney win: liberalism would be nourished and strengthened in both the Republican and Democrat parties.

With Romney in the White House, there'd also be an EXTREMLY HIGH PROBABILTY that:

1. We'd get nationalized health care and the Republican party would get the blame for it.

2. People who voted Republican for the first time seeking an antidote to big government would feel so betrayed that they would likely hate the Republican party passionately for the rest of their lives.

3. Congress would go left, along with the Republican party.

Panic makes people do stupid things. Get a grip and THINK IT THROUGH.

[Timaeus]

Romney will be the man. What are you going to do all those years he's the president?? Just sit out there in the wilderness?

I'll oppose Romney's progressive policies just as I oppose Obama's. But somehow I doubt that Romney will "be the man" since he's never "been" a man his entire life.