Posted on 09/11/2012 11:19:55 AM PDT by morethanright
By Mr. Curmudgeon:
Republican talk radio is not happy with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's performance. In particular, Laura Ingraham. And like most Republican Party boosters, she chalks it up to Romney's campaign advisers.
"If you can't beat Barack Obama with this record, then shut down the party. Shut it down. Start new with new people, because this is a gimme election, or at least it should be.
"I keep going back to the millions and millions of dollars that are paid to these political consultants. Election after election, we hire people who've lost previous campaigns, who've run campaigns that have failed, who have message campaigns where the message fell flat, and they keep getting re-hired.
"If you're Mitt Romney, with all of your expertise, and all of your knowledge about how the economy works, and you're in this, and you have one shot ... Man, this is going to be the first line of your obituary - you won or you lost. It's all on the line for the country and it's all on the line for you."
Ingraham is too kind. It's easy to blame the help. It's a lot harder to blame the candidate. Back in the day, "message campaigns" emanated from candidates and not consultants. Lincoln hated slavery; Reagan hated the despotism of Marxism. Both of these ideas were unpopular with a number of Americans in their day.
Meanwhile, radio host Mark Levin is equally frustrated. "I should not have to play clips of Milton Friedman for Mitt Romney to explain his problem with his position on minimum wage. I should not have to argue with Mitt Romney's appointed hacks to explain the problem with RomneyCare. I shouldn't have to explain to Mitt Romney why he shouldn't feel guilty about his wealth and that he can explain to the American people more broadly why we want wealth creation in this country.
"Because only that way can we lower unemployment. Only that way can we save the housing market. Only that way, through capitalism, wealth creation, productivity, can the American dream be returned.
"Now if I can explain this in literally 3 minutes, why can't he?"
Reacting to MSNBC host Chris Matthew's claim that an Obama win this November means the end of conservatism, radio host Rush Limbaugh said, "Nope, if Obama wins, it's the end of the Republican Party. There's going to be a third party that's going to be orientated towards conservatism - or Rand Paul thinks libertarianism.
"If Obama wins, the Republican Party will try to maneuver things so conservatives get blamed. The only problem is right now, Romney is not running a conservative campaign."
The Democratic Party once had its conservative, moderate and liberal wings. That's all over. Obama's Saul Alinsky influence has transformed it into a leftist, authoritarian movement. The collectivist rants televised from their convention stage last week proved the point.
The Republican National Convention was equally disappointing. Speaker after speaker insisted that the Republican Party does not exist to bury Progressivism but to save it.
America's major political parties are two wings, left and center, of the same political ideology - Progressivism. It's a misnomer, therefore, to say the rise of a constitutional, small-government party represents a third player. In reality, it would restore America's traditional two-party system.
That means the Tea Party has two paths standing before it: If Romney wins, it must re-double its efforts to change the GOP by unseating Progressive-leaning Republicans in the House and Senate. These two bodies are where GOP candidates for president hail from. Second, if Romney loses, rendering the Republican Party irrelevant, networking with libertarian and other liberty-centered groups should begin in earnest, with an eye toward the establishment of a small-government political party.
It's time Republican talk-radio hosts stop blaming political consultants. If Republican candidates are devoid of conservative ideas, it's because the party hierarchy discourages them. The problem IS the Republican Party.
Change it or dump it.
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Enough with this pant-wetting!!
I say, these scurrilous attacks on Mr. Romley by these insipid “Tea Party” types must stop!
I like the cut of this Romley fellow’s jib. We need more men like him manning the yacht of state.
The debate will make or break Mitt. At first the two campaigns were total opposites and today you can’t tell them apart. That is why Romney is having hard time connecting.
She lives in a media bubble world totally unaware that her perceptions are carefully manipulated by a Democrat directed media machine. Rather then just regurgitate what the media tells her to think she might want to look into the internals of the polls she is so scared of.
horseshat. You can tell them apart.
Really odd how the most arrogantly certain of their religious infallibility Freepers are the ones around here most feverishly working to reelect a pro Gay Marriage, pro Taxpayer funded Abortion on demand up to birth candidate like 0bama.
It is the libertarian/liberal wing of the GOP that is killing us.
Mitt is very left/libertarian on social issues and immigration.
Yet this writer says that we need more of their ruin if Romney loses. What we need is conservatism.
When you spend all your time working feverishly to trash Romney, you accomplish one thing, help re-elect Obama.
One day you will be called by God to explain why you worked so desperately to re-elect a Pro gay marriage, pro tax payer funded Abortion on demand up to birth candidate like Obama.
You will no longer be able to claim to God you did not know what your evil you were doing.
Romney or Obama will be the next President.
When you spend all your time working feverishly to trash Romney, you accomplish one thing, help re-elect Obama.
One day you will be called by God to explain why you worked so desperately to re-elect a Pro gay marriage, pro tax payer funded Abortion on demand up to birth candidate like Obama.
You will no longer be able to claim to God you did not know what your evil you were doing.
What are you talking about? I find these attacks on Mr. Romley to be a scandalous as you do! I’ll smoke a pipe with the good Mr. Romley anytime he likes!
At least now you will no longer be able to claim ignorance of what your are doing.
Or the rabid attack dogs feverishly working to elect a pro Gay Marriage, pro Taxpayer funded Abortion on demand up to birth candidate like Romney, while attacking Conservative Christians and the TEA Party - just like their political savior did.
The fact remains - no matter who "Wins" in November - we will have a Leftist Government and a Leftist leader at the helm as the GOP has dragged the nation even more solidly to the Left.
More like:
It's the Republican Stupid Party
God is more interested in our souls than our political lives.
I’m not worried about not voting for the anti-Christian cult leader, Bishop Mitt Romney.
Your boring troll-like insult/attack posts, and this effort to tell Christians that they will go to hell for not voting for Bishop Romney, is mocking God and Christianity and personalizing your attacks in a very unchristian manner, when you really shouldn’t be making any personal attacks at all, of any kind.
You should make an effort to find some way of making your posts more relevant to individual threads, and to individual posts.
You can serve Romney, in a more calm, civilized manner.
I came to that conclusion 14 years ago. I am glad to see that more and more people are coming to the same conclusion. I just wonder if I will live long enough to see a new "Constitutionally Conservative" party emerge?
"Mitt old fellow, I like the cut of your jib, and I like the way you're running your campaign. But I daresay that I have one criticism. You have simply got to stop throwing out the read meat to these "social conservatives." Don't you realise what those people are like? You don't want somebody thinking you sound like one of them, now do you? What would your father say? If he were here today, and if my dear father were as well, George would be filiping dear old dad up one side and down the other about how dreadfully pedestrian his son has become while they rested between tees. Old bean, so simply must stop debasing yourself by trying to appeal to those people. After all, it's not like you need to. Where do you think they'll go?"
Mitt was quite taken by my arguments, though the weeks to come will show whether he codgered to what I was saying.
Nothing in life is ever 100% perfect. Screaming hysterically for GOP perfection is just a tool used by those “conservatives” who want to rationalize their political cowardice and laziness as “principal”.
My my my, really don’t like having the light of truth shined on your actions do you.
I say, old man, I really admire your dedication to the cause! If you like, I might see if I can swing a ride for you on Mr. Romley’s private jet. I’m sure he’s just dying to hear your ideas for improving his campaign!
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