Posted on 04/12/2012 5:47:42 PM PDT by Engraved-on-His-hands
If and when Barack Obama wins another four years in the White House, one of the first people he should invite over is Rick Santorum.
That's because when the scholars chronicle the history of his 2012 race, it will be Mr. Santorum who will get credit for handing the victory to the Democrats. And if you don't believe it, just ask Mitt Romney.
Without his buddy Santorum in the contest, Mr. Romney could have taken a more moderate path to the nomination and would not have been dragged so far to the right in order to compete for the ultra-conservatives who didn't much cotton to Mr. Romney and were more comfy with the former Pennsylvania Senator.
The contrast between these two guys on the stump has also helped the president.
Mr. Santorum had a more down-to-earth style that his opponent desperately tried to immolate but just couldn't pull it off.
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Actually we the people should blame the good old boy country club Republicans that gave us Mittens Romney & Juan McCain before him & Bob Dole before that. Yet these zipless f*cks keep telling us we need to be democrat lite to appeal to the democrat leaning swing voters.
Please tell me that this was a transcription error and not what Skubick actually wrote. I've always had respect for TS as a journalist (I remember his days on Lansing/Jackson TV).
“A negotiated surrender?”
Anyone? Boehner...Boehner?
I was there. I was in YAF. Volunteered for Reagan. He was no RINO. No serious person can claim he was.
Here is the speech to which you referred. (BTW, it was only after Justin Dart and Holmes Tuttle asked him several times that he agreed to run for Governor — against a genuine RINO, Mayor George Christopher. The first few times he said no, until Nancy persuaded him that the state needed him.)
This speech, “A Time for Choosing”, was written by Reagan himself (as he often did.) Listen carefully and tell me if a RINO could write or deliver this speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXBswFfh6AY
Every time I hear or read Skubic, I am reminded how idiotic he is!
Who’s they?
I said pretty much the exact same thing a few days ago. I live in Virginia. I am in a swing state and my vote counts. Jim is both old and in California - what he does matters little.
You’re absolutely right - people who live in Connecticut, Massachusetts, California, New York, DC - their votes really don’t count. For those of us who have 60 years left to live AND who live in a swing state, I have to take what I can get now no matter how flawed he may be.
I have seen these idiotic checklists of all the liberal things Romney has done and how evil he is. The last one is something like “nominated 27 of 36 Democrat judges.” Well, even if you assume the rest of the list is true (and it’s not), I know for a fact that with Obama, that would’ve been 36 out of 36.
It’s simple. It’s either Romney or Obama.
Two things. First, there’s no way in hell FR would be happy with a candidate that’s 50% conservative. McCain was more than that, and he wasn’t welcomed.
Second, I am well aware that Romney doesn’t cut it. The problem is it’s either him or Obama. At worst, Romney buys us time.
Lots of people from industrial northern states and rural southern states would agree. Those two types of voters disagree on many things, but both found common cause in supporting Reagan.
Most of us now involved in politics have only a dim memory of the old populist anti-big-business and anti-Yankee elitist Democratic Party, which in the North was heavily Roman Catholic and in the South was heavily evangelical. It often shocks people when I remind people that William Jennings Bryan, the fiery opponent of Darwinism, was the Democratic Party's nominee for president, and was considered a representative of the **LIBERAL** wing of the Democratic Party! A position like that would today be considered far-right Christian conservatism and disowned by many in the Republican Party.
The modern Republican Party has several wings which can, in their own ways, legitimately claim Ronald Reagan's heritage.
As for me, I'm not an old-fashioned Democrat. I have serious problems with a number of items in the old Democratic Party agenda. However, I think we'd be much better off finding a way to support a consensus conservative candidate than attacking each other on areas where we can legitimately appeal to Reagan's heritage.
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