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Five Ways Conservatives Will Have to Sell Their Souls if Romney Wins
townhall.com ^ | 1/17/2012 | John Hawkins

Posted on 01/17/2012 6:06:55 PM PST by TBBT

f you were trying to come up with the most atrocious candidate imaginable to go toe-to-toe with Barack Obama in 2012, you couldn't do much better than Mitt Romney. He was an unpopular moderate governor who lost 2 out of the 3 major elections he's run in and whose signature issue Romneycare is an enormous failure. Moreover, he's so uninspiring that he makes Bob Dole look like Ronald Reagan and that's before you consider his incessant flip-flopping that makes it impossible to really know where he stands on any issue.

Romney's candidacy also runs counter to almost every political trend in the book right now. He's the antithesis of everything the Tea Party stands for -- a moderate establishment-endorsed, principle-free Rockefeller Republican. On the other hand, he's like a bad guy straight out of central casting for the Occupy Wall Street crowd, a conscience-free 1 percenter who makes $10,000 bets and lectures the public about how corporations are people -- while hordes of poor and middle class Americans that he fired trail in his wake telling tales of woe about how Romney made their lives into a living hell.

At one time, I thought both Gingrich and Perry were more electable than Romney. I have, however, reassessed and now believe Gingrich, Perry, Santorum, and even Huntsman, who just left the race, are ALL more electable than Mitt. It's also worth noting that all of those candidates, including Huntsman, are more conservative than Romney. It's mind-boggling to consider the fact that if Romney wins, the conservative base will have chosen the guy behind Romneycare over the man behind the Contract with America, America's premier social conservative, and the best job-creating governor in America, all of whom would also be more electable.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: romney
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To: reaganaut
Dude, I'm fed up with it.

The faux conservatives have run the show too long, and I've been 'too busy' to do much about it.

But if the country goes to crap, either because Romney wins, or Obama wins, I can go to God knowing I didn't vote for either.

Lord knows I've done my best to pull the party back to conservatism. But I'm done.

And it sounds like a whole lot of other folks are, too.

We have way too much government. And we can't afford it. Gotta cut bills somewhere.

And it will either be done politely, or just get done.

/johnny

41 posted on 01/17/2012 8:13:35 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I’m with you. I’m done too. I am sick of holding my nose and every election the GOP giving us someone even more liberal to the point that the ‘frontrunner’ (I use that term loosely) is indistinguishable from the Marxist in the WH.


42 posted on 01/17/2012 8:20:48 PM PST by reaganaut (If Romney is a conservative then IÂ’m the frickin Angel Moroni.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I suspect Romney may be the default GOP candidate again here in IN, like McCain in 2008.
And I’ll be working to replace Dick Lugar with state treasurer Richard Mourdock. Romney will be Obama’s GOP doorman again.
2012 feels a lot like 1860. I was just a little shaver then, but it was an interesting time to be alive: the end of the Whigs; politicians like Douglas, Clay and Calhoun; a national domestic dispute, that got heated ...
It’s a good thing Zero thinks he’s Lincoln! Or is it FDR this week? Kennedy?
Napoleon?


43 posted on 01/17/2012 8:28:19 PM PST by tumblindice (I'll vote for Mittens if Nappy Janet makes the cover of the SI swimsuit edition)
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To: tumblindice
Napoleon?

Now that, I wouldn't mind. Go attack russia in the fall. It never ends pretty. ;)

/johnny

44 posted on 01/17/2012 8:33:31 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: fso301

Look at the judges Romney appointed. Are they really any better? I, along with most conservatives will not support a socialist candidate just because he has an R behind his name.

I won’t continually be McCain’d by the GOP. I’m a conservative first.


45 posted on 01/17/2012 8:39:52 PM PST by vmivol00
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To: fso301
Then you deserve whatever bad things happen as a consequence. Unfortunately, we're all stuck in the same boat and I don't believe I deserve what will happen to us if obama is reelected.

If you vote for Romney, you are telling the GOP that it's okay if they bend you over the barrel and that you agree with them moving to the left.
46 posted on 01/17/2012 8:41:08 PM PST by af_vet_rr
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47 posted on 01/17/2012 8:56:16 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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To: svcw
I agree. Romney is Barak Obama's brother by a different mother.... 'nuff said. I'd rather have my enemy in front than holding my shoulder and giving me a shiv in the back.

Mitt=Dole=McLame= Obama...=P.O.S.'s

48 posted on 01/17/2012 9:09:07 PM PST by Dick Vomer (democrats are like flies, whatever they don't eat they sh#t on.)
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To: TBBT

I think Bachmann and Cain are more electable than Rromney.


49 posted on 01/17/2012 9:39:21 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBBT

I think Bachmann and Cain are more electable than Romney.


50 posted on 01/17/2012 9:39:30 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBBT
the outcome is becoming more and more inevitable.

Not at all. So Romney has 12 delegates out of 1,144 needed and now it's inevitable?

51 posted on 01/17/2012 9:40:49 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: Rebelbase
Republicans deserve another 4 years of Obama if they make Romney the nominee.

I'd agree, if that was true, but it's not completely true. It's the states that don't have completely closed GOP primaries that give us this BS.

52 posted on 01/17/2012 9:41:22 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: TBP
the outcome is becoming more and more inevitable.

Not at all. So Romney has 12 delegates out of 1,144 needed and now it's inevitable?

Remember "The Big Mo"?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Mo

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0407/3562.html

"It can change with time."

53 posted on 01/17/2012 9:47:27 PM PST by thecodont
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To: fso301
"Slugging it out in the primaries is fine but you have to support the nominee. "

====================================================

Not if it is immoral to.

I believe in voting pragmatically to a point but my conscience will not allow me to vote for a pro choice candidate period, let alone all the rest of Mitts liberal track record.

There are many more like me.

Mitt can't win and won't win.

He must be defeated now or the GOP is over.

Over.

Finito.

This election has already gone pear shaped.

54 posted on 01/17/2012 10:07:58 PM PST by Manic_Episode (Politics is fake. I think it's owned by Vince Mcmahon)
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To: fso301
Perhaps people should stop enabling the crazy bastards claiming to be conservatives.

That would be you, and the RNC, supporting Romney, who is NOT conservative.

He's not Ron Paul crazy, but he's no genius.

/johnny

55 posted on 01/17/2012 10:10:03 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: tumblindice
No, I don’t

Then spend your time on Daily Kos and DU worshipping obama because you will have him another 4 years.

56 posted on 01/18/2012 4:05:42 AM PST by fso301
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To: af_vet_rr
If you vote for Romney, you are telling the GOP that it's okay if they bend you over the barrel and that you agree with them moving to the left.

Nobody forced Romney or any other candidate to run. GOP elites do not control what takes place inside the election booth. If Romney runs the least crappy campaign, then let him have the nomination and blame the other candidates for running such poor campaigns.

57 posted on 01/18/2012 4:09:43 AM PST by fso301
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To: JRandomFreeper
That's the problem with the go-along to get along RNC.

Rather than blaming Romney and the RNC, why not look in the mirror and blame the people such as yourself for failing to raise up a better field of candidates?

58 posted on 01/18/2012 4:16:03 AM PST by fso301
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To: fso301

Count me among those who will no-way no-how vote for Mitt Romney. He won’t win. He can’t win. If he gets the nomination I hope a viable third party conservative candidate emerges.


59 posted on 01/18/2012 4:17:32 AM PST by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: af_vet_rr
If you vote for Romney, you are telling the GOP that it's okay if they bend you over the barrel and that you agree with them moving to the left.

This isn't China. Romney and all other candidates are running of their own free will. It's neither Romneys fault nor that of the GOP that such a poor list of "conservative" candidates is being fielded.

Don't blame Romney for the sorry group of conservatives presently running. Blame conservatives for failing 10-20 years ago to raise up politicians having presidential potential.

60 posted on 01/18/2012 4:23:29 AM PST by fso301
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