Either that or they are truly ALL oligarchical frauds. That too would explain it; Republicans in power are content to be the loyal, permanent opposition - spouting off at the mouth during campaigns to ensure votes but never QUITE doing what they know needs to be done to reverse the rot. This would also explain their repeated shutting out of any candidate who even smells like a true conservative.
Either way, barring a true miracle, I believe our Republic is already irreversibly brain dead and on life support.
So why are Republicans overwhelming choosing Mitt Romney as the standard bearer? Of all those left in the race, Mitt is the most like Obama. Gay marriage, left wing judges, raising not taxes, but fees, and Romneycare the forrunner to Obamacare. By the way, Romney got federal monies for both the Olympics and for Romneycare. This is how he was able to turn a "profit" on the Olympics.
If Rick Santorum is our nominee, Obama will lose big time. If Newt is our nominee, it will be close but he will win. If Romney is our nominee, I don’t think we will win it.
The Obamas care about no one other than themselves, and their feigned concern for others — cynically expressed by dumping cash to favored constituents — is nothing but their means to power.
Could this be because most substantial donors are really investors seeking financial returns, but Obama thought these people were really giving because they loved him?
ML/NJ
An increasingly perverse characterization in a society where 45% don't pay any federal tax at all, public employees get special benefits the rest of us don't & 50 million Americans (and non-Americans) are on public assistance.
Its especially demented coming from a woman who stepped into the white house from a $350k/yr patronage position and can't seem to squeeze enough vacation time into her schedule.
Zero will win re-election thanks to illegal voting, multiple voting, dead voting and supression of the military vote.
Looks like Republicans have been hijacked by a non conservative faction.
Wasn't the horror of 20 million uninsured Americans the main reason that ObamaCare was rammed through in the first place?
—Obamacare could cost as much as $2.134 billion and the employer-mandate penalties could hit $221 billion. —
I assume he means “trillion”. 2.134 billion really isn’t much.
—While Obama’s 2012 campaign is already showing signs of stress, other issues will impose great pressure. Unemployment affects most American families either directly or because some member of the family or a friend is unemployed. Even the unemployed vote. —
This reminds me of why the anti-war movement was so effective against the Vietnam war, but not the war in Iraq. In the former, almost everyone knew a kid who was killed over there. It mattered.
As it will matter in November regarding unemployment.
I suspect that the average person—not aware Freepers, mind you, but the average, exhausted, hard-working, fundamentally conservative person who isn’t that deeply involved in politics—does not know the backstory on Mitt. He seems nice, he’s attractive, he sounds conservative, and he’s not Obama. That’s what they see. They see Newt as an angry guy who almost never smiles, even if he’s smart, and isn’t there something fishy about his past, they ask? They think Santorum looks nice too but he keeps saying out-there things that make them uncomfortable and make them wonder how he’d face down the nut-jobs in the Middle East if he talks about sex so much. So they vote for Romney with a shrug. They just aren’t that well-informed.
If Romney is the Republican nominee, it won’t matter who wins. We lose.
Obama is afraid of Newt because he knows Newt would hand his head on a platter every time that had a debate or discussion on virtually any topic. He’s afraid of Newt’s ability to articulate fundamental republican principles over the marxist dogma Obama espouses.
If Newt is not the Nominee, and if we win in 2012, Newt should be made the Secretary of State.
If Santorum is not the nominee, make him the US Attorney General.
Make Paul the Secretary of the Treasury.
Romeny, if he is not the nominee, would be an excellent head of the economic council.
West for Secretary of Defense.
What an unbelievable GOP cabinet could be created by the individuals that we have. And if they were working with large majorities in the Hosue and Senate, we could make unbelievable progress in turning things around and in have a 12-16 year run that fundamentally restores America to its roots and its stength as a nation, economically, foreign policy wise, defense wise, and socially.
AMERICA AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
http://www.jeffhead.com/crossroads.htm
IF I WERE PRESIDENT, HERE’S WHAT I’D DO
http://www.jeffhead.com/aspres.htm
Just say NO to Socialism - it’s easy if you have any self-pride.
My spam filter has been catching several obama emails the last few weeks. I don’t know if a practical joker friend put me on their list, or if the marxists have harvested emails from big lists and are emailing everyone.