Romney is like government -- not part of the solution, but part of the problem.
He's not pro-business any more than Soros or Geffen or Gates or Buffet or Richard Branson or any other wealthy businessman. Hell, it's his businessman's principles that make him so disgustingly dangerous -- taxpayers are employees.
No principled businessman could perceive Romney as on his side or the side of free markets and personal responsibility. An unprincipled or shallow-thinking one, yes, but a business person based in conservative principle, not for a second.
The GOP and Republicans need to start choosing their candidates not on appeal to groups, but to INDIVIDUAL AMERICANS. Screw the "pro business vote lobby" and the Gay lobby and the Hispanic lobby and the Women's Vote and the Asian and all the rest of it. Stop appealing to groups and start appealing to Americans who just want the government the hell off their necks and back in the servants' quarters.
FRiend, I share your sentiments more than you can know, but the math has to work.
The Electoral College is not a restaurant menu. You need 270 to win the Presidency. To get them you need to herd together enough voters to win states = 270 electoral votes.
You don’t win without compromising something. That is reality.
The other part of the equation which is actually more important is getting control over Congress, particularly the House, but I’ll take both over the Presidency any day.
Look what happened to Clinton’s agenda after the Republicans took over.
We’re naive to think we’ll reset the clock in one election. We need to win and keep on winning year after year to get where we want to go. To do that it will take RINOs.
Not my preference, but the extant political reality.
“The GOP and Republicans need to start choosing their candidates not on appeal to groups, but to INDIVIDUAL AMERICANS. Screw the “pro business vote lobby” and the Gay lobby and the Hispanic lobby and the Women’s Vote and the Asian and all the rest of it. Stop appealing to groups and start appealing to Americans who just want the government the hell off their necks and back in the servants’ quarters.”
DING DING DING
We have a winner!
Well done, Finny.