Jim, LL, all -- I think we regular-folks limited-government conservatives should prepare to switch gears. We're conditioned to think in conventional terms of Republican and Democrat in very flawed state primaries, and that system is broken. Broken enough to have given us McCain in '08.
We're not going to change the primary system, so in order to save this election and give it to THE PEOPLE (the real voters, not the manufactured minions of Democrats), we must go outside the rails, break convention. I don't know how or which way, only that we must.
Because either of these two in the White House, Romney or Obama WILL BE A DEATH KNELL for America. America will be a nation where the government parasite is growing so strong that it's in the process of killing its host.
Many -- we might even say most -- good Americans remain ignorant of Romney's utter deceitfulness. The method is squarely by two factors: Money (Romney's bottomless pockets) and the MSM including most conservative news media, the news outlets, the top-of-the-news reporting even on the conservative stations that air Rush and Levin and Elder, etc.
Folks say, "Anybody but Obama."
For me, it's "Anybody but Romney."
Obama wins, general folks and congress turn right regardless because Obama's support and popularity is PRETEND. People are wising up. Just because the MSM doesn't report it (and they assiduously avoid it) doesn't mean it isn't happening. It is. If Obama wins, at least we have a chance.
Romney wins, the people who voted Republican -- and many will be doing it for the first time -- in order to get away from all the power and control and government tyranny of Democrats will very soon come to hate the Republican party with a passion because it is such a lying fraud and they didn't vote for that!
(No, they didn't pay attention to what they were voting for, only what they wanted to vote against. STUPID WAY TO VOTE.)
Romney wins, Congress turns left while the people become more cynical than ever. Romney wins, EVERYBODY loses.
Romney is only a false reprieve. That's all. The Democrat who comes after him will have more power, and be more leftist, than ever. They get worse every cycle -- Clinton, then God forbid a possible Hillary ... no, anybody but Hillary! and we got our wish -- we got OBAMA! The Democrat who'd follow a "Republican" reign such as Romney's would make Obama look like John Birch.
Both Romney and Obama are sure-bet losers for America.
We need somehow to do an end-run on the system with this next presidential election in order to save this country, and a major part of that end-run play has to be TAKING DOWN ROMNEY.
The other day I heard Rush say, "Going negative works."
In regular retail and service commercial advertising, going negative only ever works in that it turns people off to the product being sold, so good product/service advertising, effective advertising, stays scrupulously positive. Those who run negative ads create negative imagery even if that negative imagery is presented in contrast to what they're trying to sell.
And paradoxically, this is why negative advertising works so well in politics -- when I go negative on Romney when I talk about him to people, I'm not trying to sell them anything, I'm not trying to contrast him to "my guy," whoever that might be. I'm only trying to tell them, "Stay the hell away from Romney." The negative stays focused on Romney.
He is a vampire!!! Didn't a lot of us see this coming back in 2008? That lying, duplicitous bastard is trying to suck the blood out of the Republican party and leave a bloodless corpse. Mitt Romney needs a stake driven through his political heart.
Now do you want me to tell you how I really feel? ;^)
I’m hoping, if Mitt locks it up by March, that a genuine alternative will develop.
My analysis is that the only way the 40% conservative plurality can prevail is in a three way race.