You don’t see much of anything, which is why you went full bore for an unstable candidate like Santorum. Once the result of this move, by so many like you, has become painfully evident, we are all being forced to live with the result.”
Your name is absolutely fitting. At least your honest. However, as my time stamped election morning video proves, I voted for Newt Gingrich here in Florida and urged all conservatives to do the same.
The problem is people like you who refuse to work strategically with other conservatives (Santorum & Gingrich) to defeat the liberal hi-jacker, Mitt Romney.
If we as conservatives would simply take the “snapshot” the night before the election and vote for THE -one- of whichever two conservatives is the leader in each respective state, then we could defeat Mitt Romney, his Superpac money would dry up and then Santorum and Newt could fight it out like gentlemen.
What is far beyond rational is the fact that a small percentage of conservatives have become just as infatuated with Newt or Rick - that they obstinately REFUSE to work together because their crushes are as bad as those by the Romulans for Romney.
It defies all logic because as much as I like Rick & Newt - neither of them are so pure as conservatives - to merit the degree of implacable devotion and veneration.
They are good conservatives, especially compared to the socialist, unacceptable candidate Mitt Romney.
But if someone is such a staunch purist to the degree necessary to justify deliberately allowing Romney to hi-jack this party because they will not vote for Newt or Rick when they live in a state where their preferred conservative is behind by 20 points in the polls - they SHOULD in that case be too much of a purist to actually support Santorum OR Newt Gingrich from the beginning.
Both of those candidates have some embarrassing compromises. It’s just that when you look at their entire body of work, they are undeniable conservatives. To stubbornly vote for the conservative candidate who is behind more than double digits, while the other is neck and neck with the socialist Romney is an example of the type
of impetuous infatuation that causes Romney supporters to consider his egregious trespasses.
This rational conservative who “doesn’t know anything” despite voting for Newt despite my personal preference - also was the first to propound the Gingrich/Winston Churchill comparison.
The next link http://youtu.be/XJ1EM7t32wo proves via time-stamped upload date, preceded by 10 days the famous Investors Business Daily column that also compared Newt to Churchill. It also preceded my election day video in which I endorsed and voted for Newt.
So you intelligent people can see that I have a long track record of objectivity and am not infatuated by either candidate specifically. They both have strengths and weaknesses but I will support either one of them in the general.
The problem is that neither of them will make it to the general and we are all just pissing in the wind, wasting our time - if people listen and heed emotional appeals such as your acrimonious post. It’s like trying to overcome someone with a school girl crush, much like with Rombots.
I am really surprised that you are regurgitating the pabulum about Obama wanting to face Rick Santorum...
National polls have recently shown that Santorum fairs better against Obama than Romney does.
The Democrats for the past year from Axelrod on down to ALL of the liberal media pundits have been FLOODING the media telling us, out of their benevolence, that Mitt Romney is the best candidate the GOP has to face Obama and has the best chance of beating him.
Do you believe they have inculcated us for the past year that Romney is the best candidate for us to nominate because they (like Axelrod) just want us to have the best possible chance to defeat Barack Obama? Seriously?
So, is it just possible that after they see Santorum RISING in the polls and winning several states including the trifecta, is it just POSSIBLE that these evil and cunning people might employ the OPPOSITE strategy against Rick Santorum by inculcating us with the notion that they actually “dream” of facing Santorum?
Of course it is possible. It is more than possible; it is glaringly transparent.
If you do a news database search over the past 4 years searching “Mitt Romney” + “individual mandate” - you will see literally tens of thousands of columns like the following.
If you can read this and still not figure out that they are using psychologically deceptive strategies to manipulate the passive Republican voter into nominating the candidate they want - than obstinance and dogmatism is the real problem.
SAMPLE COLUMN (of thousands):
HEALTH CARE DOCTORING THE PARTY LINE - “ Individual mandate ‘: A GOP baby, disowned
Free Lance-Star, The (Fredericksburg, VA) - Monday, January 3, 2011
“The idea of an individual mandate as an alternative to single-payer was a Republican idea,” health economist Mark Pauly of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School told The Associated Press.
In fact, during debate over the Clinton health care plan in 1994, Hatch himself co-sponsored a bill that included an individual mandate . Back then, the mandate was seen as a free-market alternative, far preferable to the employer mandate President Bill Clinton was pushing.
More recently, Massachusetts Gov. Mitch Romney signed a law instituting an individual mandate as part of his state’s effort to provide universal coverage…Despite the hue and cry over the “socialist” Obamacare plan, this highlights the fact that the Affordable Care Act is actually an extremely moderate approach-some might even argue a conservative approach-to health care reform, and that, for some, the constitutionality of a provision depends chiefly on who proposes it.”
“In an interview with USA Today , Axelrod goes out of his way to credit Mitt Romney for implementing a universal health care plan when he was governor of Massachusetts that shares many similarities with the White House-backed law that has proved so unpopular with Republicans.
I am copying “all” because this is a recurring argument that needs to be addressed. If we cannot work together as conservatives and vote intelligently and for our interests or we are just wasting our time.
In your own words; [”The problem is people like you who refuse to work strategically with other conservatives.”]
You mean those voters like yourself, who had a perfectly adequate candidate with obvious ability and qualifications in Newt Gingrich, instead, decided that it would be better to switch to a completely unknown and incompetent impostor like Santorum? Which is now, the exact reason that none of us may be able to win?
Since I have a Military back ground, you need to refresh yourself on the definition of “strategic”.