Posted on 11/29/2012 7:55:36 AM PST by Resettozero
The GOP establishment and some conservative pundits, such as Ann Coulter, are in full defense mode, claiming that Romney is not responsible for losing to an incumbent responsible for perhaps the most damaging fiscal crises in our nation’s history. Don’t believe it. Romney IS responsible for wasting a billion dollars to carry out an issue-free campaign full of simple-minded platitudes. Indeed, Coulter is leading the charge with her recent column titled, Don’t Blame Romney. It’s sweet to watch Coulter defend her darling Romney, but let’s get real.
The reality is that Romney was one of the worst GOP presidential candidates in modern times. He was not the first choice of most conservative voters but he managed to rise through the ranks in the primary due to conservatives being split 4-5 ways, but also due to a slew of endorsements from conservative leaders and groups that had no business endorsing him – such as Ann Coulter. Repeatedly, Coulter assured conservatives that Romney was one of us and that he would be the “best possible candidate” to face Obama. But as any conservative from Massachusetts knew, Romney was a liberal at heart who, as Governor, led the nation in passing three of the left’s most sacred issues: Same sex marriage, Cap and Trade, and government control of health care.
But the Romney forces were clever. Beginning in 2004, they created a half dozen PACs to give money to conservative and GOP entities all over the country. I’ve reviewed these disclosures and hundreds of GOP and conservative entities benefitted from Romney’s largess. In other words, he bought the support of many “conservative leaders” and used that support to give himself “cred” among conservative voters. It was a phony image though and it’s shameful that so many conservative leaders went along with this ruse.
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MORE LIBERAL SPEAK!!
I am getting bored with people who won't get past it.
YOU ARE the MOVEON.ORG type. Who are easily bored with truth because you have NO defense!
If you want to ignore the facts
You have NO facts - just propaganda!
“As long as people keep lining up behind candidates like Romney (and McCain, Dole, GWB, etc) the GOP will keep nominating them.”
GWB is not in the same cut as the other three.
And he won twice.
GWB is and ran more conservative than Dole, McCain or Romney.
I hear ya. But what I’d like to know is how do we stop the IRS from forwarding ANY money at all to the D or R Party. Not giving permission on Forms 1040 et al doesn’t seem to keep the money from flowing anyway.
Romney talked about the economy/money because that is where his interest is as well as his BIG donors. IT was not about America - one reason Benghazi,etc. was never brought up, IMO. Romney was NOT a well-rounded candidate to appeal to the masses. They painted him as a 1% and he lived up to it!
NEWT has America running through his veins and they/GOP/ROMNEY didn’t want him. He campaigned about AMERICA and not just money.
believe what you want to your peril.
of course we need to run a strong conservative next time.. and they will trot out some gal like Clinton, or Obama’s wife, or some such thing, and that person will win.
it’s going to take a long time to educate this country.. it’s lost it’s way and you can believe that we have a shot at this, but I do NOT think we do.
you can believe it’s because Romney was weak or not conservative enough or ran a bad campaign..
that’s all poppycock in my opinion.
this country is fat and lazy, and addicted to crap TV and iPHONES... it’s going to take a big fat old crisis to wake American’s up from this laziness.
so we’ll continue to run our guys who talk about liberty, and less government and less freedom and a strong defense. and that’s good. we have to keep offering that alternative.
and they’ll trot out their person who talk about freebies and help from the gub’ment...
and they will WIN !!
until things fall apart... THEN WE HAVE A CHANCE.
And I’ll continue vote for our conservative, and do my best to champion them.. whether they are completely in tune with every single conservative platform or not. because they are better than the alternative, and WF Buckley was right about that, as well.
Santy Claus has come to town and my guess is that he is going to stay more that 4 more years. count on it...
in the long run... and I’m talking 50 to 100 years out, I’m hoping this country wakes up. We’ll be long gone.
I hear ya. But what IS the meaning of life?
ping
I could not agree more. Warts and all, Newt was the only person in this cycle who could have articulated the real difference between Obama's agenda and that of the rest of America (not to mention the founders). Unfortunately his baggage did him in.
I haven't read the replies yet so this may be redundant but you may post up to 300 words from a site that is "excerpt only", also it is considered a no no to post 300 words of a 301 word article. If you try to post more than 300 words from an excerpt only source, FReeRepublic will auto stop you.
It is also forbidden and I see this a lot from people who should know better, Posting an excerpt then posting the rest of the article in comment #1.
I will start with one in the conservative radio media: Hugh Hewitt.
As long as we are "naming names" Let's prominently display one mentioned in the article, Ann Coulter.
I bought every book she wrote, in duplicate, until she went hard left for Romney. Never again.
I don't agree with that but that's what this forum is all about, isn't it?
Of all the primary candidates in the field, I always believed there were only 3 that would not beat Obama and Romney was right at the top of that list of 3. The others were Huntsman and Paul.
Just my opinion.
Romney was only derivatively the problem. The Problem is the Republican Party that would prefer to lose an election with one of it’s closetful of bobdoles than win with an enthusiastic conservative. And bobdoles are mostly uninterested in actually being President. They feel they deserve the honor of the Republican Nomination but the Presidency is a hassle. they don’t want it and they run that way. The Party exists to promote the bobdoles to the pinnacle i.e. the Nomination, and no farther.
Unity for unity's sake will never happen. Unity to defeat the boogey man won't either. What is unifying is principle. Standing upon what you believe in. Like-minded folks will join with you. That is why defending principle is the core of Conservatism, and that is why 'pragmatism' and appeasement does great and incalculable harm.
When I say these things in the heat of an election, I am shouted down as a purist or a 1%er. But it is the truth.
This Rah-rah Republican-ism just has to stop. Stand firm or die. There it is.
His baggage isn't as bad as it's made to believe. The ruling class was scared to death of him. SC women did not care about his past wives -they wanted solutions and they have liberal women there too. Coulter started that crap for the insiders (hag!) Rush said of all of the candidates the GOP feared the most could win was Newt. Newt could not be told what to do by the Bushes as far as legislatively. We made a big mistake flaws and all. It was time for the 2 parties to collide. We need that collison. It has to come--now or later.
"Evil" and "anti Christian" is part of it but pure ignorance is a big factor. I know people who don't even know what "liberal" or "conservative" means when talking about politics, they don't know that democrat is the party of abortion and many other issues. Hard to believe in this day and age but such ignorance is out there in abundance.
When I enlisted many years ago, I learned that I was not a Jr. Not because my name wasn't the same as my father's, it was but because there was no Jr. on my birth certificate.
Following that logic, G.W.B. is a Jr. if it's on his birth certificate, same with the Gores.
In common speech I believe most people use, "Bush Sr. and Bush Jr." to differentiate between the elder and the younger.
Nope. Jeb Bush is absolutely unelectable. He won't win. Mark my words, because they will come true as inevitably as the same words I proclaimed for Romney, McCain, Dole, and GHWBII.
Even moreso, because I do believe there will be a 3rd party alternative by then. The GOP is on life support, and they don't even know it, not to mention knowing why.
You may well be right...and I would have picked either over Mitt.
I felt like the problems Newt had with women in the primary would have translated to a bigger gap in the fall. With Santorum, they would have just used past statements on social issues to use the war on women meme just as effectively. Your argument may well be that either could better differentiate their positions with Obama and better argue conservative ideas. I am 100% with you that conservatism wins most every time it is tried. I just see how these presidential elections have become like a circus side show, and the entire focus is on optics, caricatures of the GOP candidate, etc. It takes a very likable and charismatic GOP candidate to overcome the situation, and I am not sure either could. I would have rather seen us try it, though...that’s for sure.
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