Posted on 02/01/2012 4:32:22 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Mitt Romney's plastic and philosophically vapid campaign secured an easy victory in Florida on Tuesday night. Sunshine state GOP voters swallowed his "electability" argument whole, according to the exit polls.
It appears that country club Republicans have succeeded again in duping the GOP electorate into crowning a "centrist" Republican. Never mind that "centrist" Republicans rarely win the center. They usually lose the center while sapping the spirit of the party's conservative base.
Out of Bob Dole's and John McCain's tattered Big Tent steps another "reformed" RINO, Mitt Romney, who will receive, should he win the nomination, a similar thumping from the Democrats.
But let's say that he is "electable," for the sake of argument. Who cares? The purpose of politics in a republic is not simply to win but to win on sound principles. A party that pursues victory by scrapping or sidelining its platform will have no truth left with which to govern once it does.
If "electability" is the goal, why don't the politically correct plutocrats of the GOP just call for a one-party state? That way they could win every time.
The "electability" argument is bankrupt on both philosophical and practical grounds. It destroys the party's soul and guarantees defeat.
Even though Romney paid for this Florida win on his debit card -- outspending Newt by millions -- he still couldn't nail down the rank-and-file vote. Seven out of ten self-described conservatives didn't vote for him. This foreshadows the boredom and disgust that will keep conservatives home in the fall.
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And he won't in November, either. It's rather depressing to see that, in a nation of 305,000,000+, a better contender than these two squabbling clowns couldn't be drafted to run against Obama.
Nominating Romney is like an NFL team promising not to throw the ball downfield or in any other way attempt victory, in exchange for the opponent granting them a "graceful and respectable" defeat.
Establishment Republicans embrace minority status. It absolves them of responsibility, yet allows them to retain the perks of status.
They can piss off, IMO.
I disagree. Palin is about....well Palin. She sucked money, coverage and devotion away from the very farm team you speak of at a very crucial time in late 2010 and well into 2011 until it was too late for the farm team to step in.
Let’s face it. George W. Bush was just another big-tent liberal Republican like Dole, McCain, and Romney.
He just happened to get elected twice because the alternatives were worse.
Notice that “Obama is worse” is the only argument that the Romney supporters have. It’s the only argument that Romney himself has.
I won’t vote for Romney in the general. I honestlynwould rather hve for more years of liberal, lying Obama than 8 years of liberal, lying Romney.
Let me try again...
I won’t vote for Romney in the general. I would honestly rather have four more years of liberal, lying Obama than eight years of liberal, lying Romney.
Can he buy a lot of votes?
Willy-Boy, Willy-Boy.
Can he buy a lot of votes?
Charming Willy.
He can buy a lot of votes,
In a twinkling of his eye.
But he’s cool shark,
And cannot leave his PAC Men.
A stealth socialist, like Romney, can do a lot more damage, than a socialist who doesn’t hide it, like Obama.
I felt as sick to my stomach when I heard this news today as I did when I heard 0 bummer won in 2008.
From where I’m sitting, it’s beginning to look like the R and the D party elites are dead set on Obama-RomneyCare becoming part of our lives — as the masses become more locked to them, their power base is more set. They’re unabashedly exempted from this healthcare system designed just for us. And they pick and choose who else can be exempted. The whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Thanks!
LLS
Wait until Romney gets the Republican nomination.Then you will find out how the media really feels about him.
I am with you... ON MY SACRED HONOR I WILL NOT VOTE FOR mitt.
LLS
It’s important to note some details about Florida.
First of all, remember that it is an East Coast state downstate, and a red state in the northern panhandle. And this bodes ill for Romney, because Gingrich was a hands down winner in the panhandle.
The East Coast part of Florida has a lot of winter residents from more northern East Coast states, who are uniformly liberal. Think of the politics of Republicans in those states, so liberal that New York has a separate Conservative party.
So the bottom line is that Romney is going to get the blue states, Gingrich will get the red states, and hopefully neither will have enough delegates going into the convention to get the nomination on the first ballot.
Delegates are not rewarded in MO’s primary but a caucus held later. Newt is not on the ballot for the MO primary. I think that Santorum would win the MO primary. Strange thing is, he is only running ads in CO and Nevada against Newt. None against Romney anywhere.. Doesn’t make much sense as MO is his real opportunity to show that he can unite the conservative base. Why no ads against Romney in MO, Rick?
Do not forget... the same people that promote romney are still the very same ones that tried to prevent Reagan from winning the nomination.
And they (Doles, etc) don't have anywhere near the power that the liberal Democrats and Marxist Media have.
So what then?
If it's too hard to expect Sarah to run, who, indeed, has been through the Cain sausage grinder, then what?
Start a new party and face even more opposition?
I think the reason we had few (if any) good conservative candidates running this time is because the dumbed-down electorate has long past hit the tipping point. They don't want a message of responsibility and hard work in the face of towering competition, and so we get candidates who don't either.
Unfortunately, Romney is the least objectionable candidate — the default candidate. Gingrich is a failed Speaker of the House, voted out by his own party; Santorum is a failed Senator, who could not win his state’s election; and Paul has a whacko foreign policy.
“Your SOLUTION is?...”
My solution is as it I have articulated for weeks
No Newt, No Romney, Yes to a brokered convention.
THIS will be where the rubber meets the road for conservatives. If they want as much conservatism in their nominee as possible (we have to be realistic) that is the only way to get it. Newt was never the guy, and we don’t need to rehash that.
A brokered convention with an activist grass roots gives conservatives the best shot this time around.
This is where we are. It’s where we’ve been for some time, but we needed the Newt-ers to get it out of their system first.
This.
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