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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Excellent advice for everyone.
LLS
That was my point, you don’t shine light, you don’t inform, you merely troll thread to thread, attacking people, angrily lashing out, throwing out insults, and name calling, and sometimes telling them they are going to hell for not supporting Bishop Romney.
You really should try not to post, unless you have something constructive to add or contribute.
Yes, we all wish Romney were
(a) more conservative,
and (b) better at articulating simple foundational, conservative ideas.
But I thought Laura was smarter than to fall for the obvious disinformation campaign spewed by the Democrat/MSM complex immediately after the disastrous Dem convention.
My BS-detector alarm went BOING BOING BOING WHOOP WHOOP WHOOP as soon as those absurdly skewed polls came out. And it really went crazy over the preposterous claims that Obama was now --suddenly-- out-fund-raising Romney.
Now that we're starting to get a little bit clarity on those biased poll numbers (and to pay attention to the one number that was HUGELY significant ... Romney's 17 point lead amongst independent voters), Laura should apologize for so eagerly seizing the role of Debbie Downer.
Spending all your time, as you do, screaming at your political allies for being only 85% pure instead of fighting the side that is 100% evil is NOT acting in a spirit of righteousness.
You can rationalize your active propagandizing for evil anyway you like, God knows the truth.
Translation: if you do not surrender and compromise your faith, and your principles and give into sin and those who promote sin - then you have no principles and are lazy.
Actually, thanks to you and your insult-prone lackeys for Romney - you've motivated us out of our so-called laziness, and now we're motivated to actually WORK TO REMIND CHRISTIANS and those of faith and Conservative principles of Romney's record and their duty to stand for Righteousness and not give into supporting someone who stands for what is anathema to their foundations.
Really? The last few weeks Romney has agreed with some of Obama programs. Give it a year and the only difference will be Romney support for Israel.
I think we can conclude that you have become one of those freepers who just give up on being rational or relevant, and merely show up to vent, to release emotional anger in post after post.
If you object to having the political stupidity of your actions pointed out to you, stop acting stupidly.
Yes, we know. You Romney lackeys keep lashing out with the insults to remind us that if we refuse to vote for Romney and praise the GOP-e - then we are stupid and every other epithet and insult you people can dig up from your schoolyard lunch pails.
But I have to thank you and your playground Romneybullies for the impetus to work harder to remind Christians where their first duty lies - and it’s not to your political savior.
If you cannot orginze enough people to take the GOP away from the “progressives” you are never going to do the much harder work of orginzing a viable “pure” 3rd party.
This article is a prime example of everything that is wrong in the modern “conservative” movement.
People want to sit on their asses and demand some mythical perfect ideological pure party be manufactured for them. They use this demand for an impossible level of “political purity” to rationalize their political cowardice and inaction
Its a mystery to me how/why the republicans would select the inventor of Romney-care to run against the inventor of Obama-care!!!..?..... The logic of this escapes me..
UNLESS most republicans are deep down democrats...
I say, old bean, a tad excitable aren’t you?
When you meet Mitt, please don’t bear hug. I would be terribly embarrassed, and it would be rather gauche besides.
If you think your relationship with God depends on you voting for a Mormon Bishop and helping Romney ascend to becoming a God himself, then you have more to tell us than you are sharing.
>Romney has agreed with some of Obama programs.
Like what?
I second that. Calling judgement of others, interesting to see her judgement day.
What I find fault with her about is that she thinks the campaign people hang on every word she says.
Last time, when the Romney people improved something(can’t remember now what it was) that coincidentally fit with her criticism, she said next day on her show, “Well at least someone is listening.”
Um Laura, I doubt that you have that much POWER.
I’ve met her..a nice person she is not.
I was on her show though during Chick-Fil-A week for buying lunches for troops over the phone. My five minutes.. but when I played it back was horrified at how geeky my voice sounded.
Mark Levin speaks for us Invar.
Hard truth. Nothing in life is perfect.
Spending all your time whining about your supposed political allies not being flawless enough for you does nothing to help win elections and advance your political agenda.
It is past time for “conservatives” to get off their asses and get in the political game rather then sitting around whining for some never to be realized “perfect” party to be handed to them
Well you keep rationalizing your political cowardice and in action as “principal”. God knows the truth.
Oh Geezzzz don’t get me started. May I remind you of the Meet the Press interview.
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