Posted on 07/17/2012 5:11:59 AM PDT by xzins
Without going to great lengths to establish that there is continuing dissatisfaction with Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee for the presidency, let us play the game of "What If". What if the convention were to somehow become open? Who would you want to be the Republican nominee?
If we were to point out that Romney did not win the support of two-thirds of the primary voters, the reply would be that the process is engineered that way. When there are more than two candidates, one shouldn't be surprised to see a candidate polling much more than a third. That is reasonable. However, it doesn't mitigate the fact that most were not Romney supporters.
We will balance this out in the game of "What If" by placing any of the candidates who ran against Mitt marginally off limits. Participants in the game should not pick Pawlenty, Bachman, Johnson, Huntsman, Paul, Gingrich, Cain, Perry, or Santorum. They have all already lost. We will leave the option open, though, because many believe Romney was aided by the GOP-E, by a complicit media in the tank for him, and by an enormous financial advantage. So, if you absolutely must write-in Bachman's name, then go ahead and do it. (We couldn't really stop you, anyway.)
My criteria for a candidate would be that they be a real conservative. This is the complaint most heard about Romney, that he is a lifelong liberal who governed as a liberal. There is good reason for seeing Romney in this light since just weeks ago he came out in favor of gay couples. Moreover, he announced that at the state level those gay couples should be allowed to adopt children. This is not ancient history. This is recent. Folks might say that Romney has changed here or there, that he's converted to this or that, but the gay couple and gay adoption thing is brand new.
It underscore for those of us who don't support the man that he truly is a radical liberal, and that it's liberalism that's in his bloodstream and not anything that is severely conservative.
So, who would you support if the convention were to open up? If you were a delegate and if Romney announced he was stepping down, to which leader would you turn?
For me, it would have to first be a pro-life candidate. Life is a right and not an issue. Life shouldn't be taken except by due process of law, and that only after one has committed a violation that warrants the death penalty. A pre-born child could never commit such a crime, so no due process could ever make it right to take the life of a pre-born child.
Other minimal requirements would be: pro-God, anti-homosexualism, pro-gun, pro-small government, and pro-American exceptionalism. I could add other qualifications to this list, but we'll just shorten it for the sake of this article.
Who?
Let's just offer a few names that have been brought up as possible Vice Presidential nominees (alphabetically): Tom Corbett, Mitch Daniels, Jim DeMint, Susana Martinez, Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, Rob Portman, Condi Rice, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Rick Snyder, and Alan West. Some of these might or might not fit the requirements I've listed above, but they are a starting list. I'm sure there are others who should be considered. Feel free to add other names.
So, vote now. If the Republican Convention were to suddenly open up, if we suddenly found ourselves rid of Mitt, for whom would you vote to be the nominee of the Republican Party?
Since this is all fantasy ... Reagan.
If Walker is pro-abort, we’d have heard about it by now. He’s across the board Conservative.
A couple of Wisconsonians (?)....Badgers....on the thread informed me that he is pro-life.
He’s one badger who bears watching.
Here’s another Reagan that’s appropriate:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2907765/posts?page=4#4
1. Palin
2. Gingrich
I like both....good choices
Wisconsinites. Walker is about the best Governor in the country at present.
Regarding Gingrich, I couldn’t consider him either a reliable Conservative or a viable Presidential candidate. His approvals have been toxic since 1996 and they’ve never changed (at or below 30%). He couldn’t win a general election. His willfully staying in the race and splitting the vote with Santorum is largely the reason Willard obtained his plurality whereas in a one-on-one, he couldn’t have done so (not that I thought Santorum was the greatest, but certainly preferable to Willard — but I would not draft Santorum at this point).
Perry is my guy - anyone else is a compromise.
I’ve always liked “paisley”. I’m not sure about paisley’s position on abortion.
Sorry for taking so long to reply - I'm making an effort to catch up on a backlog of past posts to me from the last few days.
Anywise, to answer your question, the answer is emphatically yes.
Back in April, the Left was apparently incensed that he signed bills against abortion and for abstinence education "quietly," i.e. he didn't hold a huge ceremony with fanfare. Of course, they try to insinuate that by doing so, he's trying to "hide" the signing from "the people" - since we all know that bills that were debated and passed in both houses of the legislature are really "secret" bills or something.
Walker is the kind of Republican we need running for President. He walks the walk on economic issues and will make a steady case for them, yet is also reliable on social issues.
Sounds like a winner for the future. Thanks, Yash.
IMHO STUPID post. We need to get behind Romney as our best chance to defeat the Maxist.
So, you don’t think there is dissatisfaction with Romney all over the place out there?
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