Since Romney (with massive plutocratic cash advantages to spew his lies and rank distortions as advertising) has trashed the entire conservative GOP field of other candidates for the payments to be made later to his benefactors who also finance the despicable strategies of the GOP leadership's in both houses of Congress, good luck on GOP congressional resistance to ANYTHING Romney proposes. Romney's liberalism will be "GOP policy" when it will usually be no better than Obozo's unless your Holy Grail is yet more tax cuts for plutocrats and removal of any and all regulations on megabusinesses and yet more subsidy for moving American blue collar jobs to Bangladesh.
If, God forbid, Mittwit were to be elected, he will run again in 2016 or choose another leftist quisling in GOP drag. The GOP will be as dead politically as its Whig and Federalist forebears for about the same reason: greed uber alles and to the exclusion of any other issues. Protecting Muffy's trust fund will be the Mittsters' overriding priority.
Spare me the rhetoric to the effect that Obozo's re-election (somehow unlike Romney's election) will cause a leftist takeover of the Supreme Court and other courts. Based on his track record, the spineless Massachusetts mushball will do no better. Remember those brilliant SCOTUS appointments by Republican presidents: Earl Warren, William Brennan, Potter Stewart, Herod Blackmun, Warren Burger, Lewis Powell, John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Sandra Day O'Kennedy, and David Swish Souter. Of these Anthony (Sandra Day O') Kennedy is the one genuine turncoat (when he chooses to be). He was thoroughly vetted as being as trustworthy as Scalia or Thomas but was reached by leftist professor Lawrence Tribe and sold out fatally on Webster vs. Planned Barrenhood which otherwise would have overturned Roe vs. Wade.
You will not see much resistance in GOP legislative ranks against Romney efforts favoring socialized medicine (denying constitutional 1st Amendment freedom to refuse to support baby-killing directly or indirectly to Roman Catholic and other churches as employers every bit as much and then some as Obozo has), elitist "green" everything, high gasoline prices by gummint policy, Cap 'n' Trade, other global warming fantasies, Envirowhackoism generally, playing Hamlet in foreign policy, failing to re-arm the military, baby-killing, gay everything, gun-grabbing, land-grabbing (from ordinary folks), class warfare from the top against normal Americans, and each and every other pantywaist elitist agenda and priority.
By comparison, Romney will make Dwight David Eisenhower look like a Bircher, Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller look like a social and small government conservative, Nixon look scrupulously honest and idealistic, Ford look like a militant right-winger, Poppy Bush look like a common man, Bob Dole look like a relentless tax slasher, and make Republicans fondly remember Herbert Hoover as our greatest and most effective POTUS and make us remember whose election killed the GOP as an effective political party (to the extent that it may be called that at any time since the constitution forced the retirement of Ronaldus Maximus).
Power in the states depends on the state. It has been rather well proven that such power (at least for actual conservative goals) is rather hard to find or even to imagine nowadays in Connecticut, Illinois, Taxachusetts, California, Oregon, New York, Delaware, the People's Republic of Vermont, Maryland, and a number of other states. That does not count or recite all of the states where the GOP exists as the lifeline for GOP corruption, nor all the ones that insist on being what used to be called "post office Republican parties," that exist for occasional national patronage when conservative voters can be suckered into voting for accommodationist trash like Romney.
Is Santorum perfect? Hell no. Would I have been willing to support Gingrich if (and only if) he was the leading non-Romney? As the partially divine Miss Sarah would say, you betcha and I did when he was the leading non-Romney. Ditto Perry and Cain and Bachmann. I would not cast YOUR vote for crackpot Ron Paul, or leftist Jon Huntsman or for the thoroughly liberal (whatever lies he may be telling or the desired image of the week) Mitt Romney. I feel sure I am forgetting someone. I would have enthusiastically voted for Sarah Palin but she apparently saw what was coming and would not voluntarily subject herself and her family to being slimed by Mitt Romney and his pals, the big money guys whose corruption she interrupted in Alaska. Santorum is the closest thing to a viable non-Romney left. Paul is nuts. Gingrich now trails even Paul. We are down to Romney or Santorum. If Santorum is not the remaining preferable CONSERVATIVE choice, then the word "conservative" no longer has a meaning.
The conservative movement is certainly not and never has been a movement obsessed with the cause of corrupt zillionaires throwing temper tantrums to get control and lying their backsides off to pad their kids' trust funds. That last sentence is the left-wing propaganda notion of who and what conservatives are and not our definition of ourselves and it NEVER will be. Our movement is a far richer tapestry than mere obsessive greed whether Mittens and his cronies like that or not.
And for anyone salivating to whine against this post that it is "class warfare" (lions and tigers and bears, oh my!) you may regard it as a defense against the class warfare perpetrated by the elitists who believe that the world should be ruled (not just governed) by those who own it without further interference from the peasants.
Excellent post. I am sure some lickspittle toady will be along shorty to correct you, and instruct you in how you should vote and think.
Beats the hell out of what Bobo would do with a second term...
I really think that the Obama administration is working to make sure that Romney secures the GOP nomination before the Supreme Court rules on Obamacare in June.
My guess is that Obama is going to offer to withdraw the federal mandateand substitute a call for state mandates, if the court will allow the rest of the law to stand.
A Romney advisor has said that their plan is claim that a court ruling against the federal mandate proves that Romney was right all along, that the state mandate is the only way to go.
It would be a win-win for Obamneycare, a real heads they win, tails we lose scenario.
The best thing that could possibly happen is to drag this primary out to the convention floor and force Romney to disown Romneycare or elect Rick Santorum.
I hate to say this,but Mitt Will get the nomination and he will lose the election because he cant compare or contrast against Ozero.
The people are wandering aimlessly.
I would not cast YOUR vote for crackpot Ron Paul, or leftist Jon Huntsman... Santorum is the closest thing to a viable non-Romney left. Paul is nuts. Gingrich now trails even Paul. We are down to Romney or Santorum.I wholeheartedly agree with your remarks about RP. Huntsman is RP-lite.
If only they could get us to voluntarily step into the Soylent Green machine like Edward G. Robinson, then they would not have to get all messy.
Your post #143 is right on target. Thank you. Bob
Agree on pretty much all your post. Santorum is not my first (or even second) choice, but he’s a heck of a lot better than Romney.