“Obama losing means no chance for a conservative president until 2020 at the earliest. “
Not necessarily. I am not a Romney fan by any means, but it is likely that the economic situation will get worse under Romney (Not as bad as it would under Obama, mind you, just worse than it is now). Everything is on the brink globally. Let Greece default, as they probably will, because of France’s decision to screw austerity, let Spain follow suit, let China pop, let the Euro go down, and even Reagan couldn’t save the global economy. Once the scramble begins, and it is every country for itself, the debt will stop flowing, and we will be hit hard. That will be horrible for the incumbant.
It is not impossible Romney will get LBJ’d in 2016, maybe by a real Conservative.
We’ve got a crappy situation. But Romney could at least be a place holder until 2016, and even though he’s pretty much a total RINO, he would be better than Obama on SC nominations.
“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday.
The cause of death: failed leadership.
The party is survived by a few leftover legislators
and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists
who have been ignored for years.
Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow.
In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican
Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more
Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor
as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans
have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely
ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time
during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign.
He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate
the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months
after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
The only person Willard ever served as a placeholder for is his Marxist successor as Governor of MA, Deval Patrick. He is a fiasco of epic proportions.
So your theory is that the same party fathers who would not let us choose a conservative to run in 2008 or 2012, during open primaries will not only let us run one in 2016, but they’ll let an INCUMBENT SITTING president step aside so it can happen.
Pull the other finger.
No. First we save the GOP, then we can save the country. The mittbots have it all backwards. The GOP must be taught a lesson.
If the economy isn't better by 2016 the White House might well revert back to the Democrats. With Romney controlling the party apparatus from the beginning of the primary cycle and reluctance to primary a sitting President, we're stlil talking 2020 before we get a conservative.