If you had watched an interview he did on foreign policy the other day, you would realize that John Bolton has been tutoring him and he seemed quite knowledgeable.
Also, until the debt is pared down his skills ARE the most needed. That issues isn’t going away by magic.
I am not going to trash any of the candidates, because they all have their pluses and minuses. We are going to have to unify when we finally do have a candidate.
I think you guys forget that insulting Romney supporters isn’t going to get you lots of donations and support from that quarter for Newt (or Santorum) come the general.
Common Tator always said that politics is about winning converts. When you repeatedly club your opposition over the head, it will take longer to make them allies.
This is an interesting link to a video that documents the attempts made since 2003 to subvert the NBC statue and how finally by granting McCain NBC status a bill that was totally unnecessary KEY DEMS IN CONGRESS SQUEEZED IN WORDING THAT OBAMA LAWYERS NOW SKATE ON TRYING TO legitimize his non nbc standing.truly amazing what the dems will do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3aCfR8rmrw
Mitt has no pluses. And no, I will not "unify" and vote for Mitt. I will not vote for the "equal of evils."
I am confident that the fraud that is Mitt will be on his way out by the end of March.
Glad to see you did not leave us! Always look forward to your comments.
Yes, I hope if Romney is the nominee that we unify in voting for neither Romney nor Obama for president while voting for conservatives in Congress. The best strategy going forward in that scenario would be to put in as much gridlock as possible, or even enough of a Republican congress to push Obama the way Newt pushed Clinton in the '90s. In this scenario, we are also likely to put more Republicans in Congress in 2014. Then we will get another chance to nominate a conservative for President in 2016.
The damage that someone as liberal as Romney would do to the party is enormous. His economic policies inparticular are EXTREMELY liberal and those are ones that he hasn't flip-flopped on at all. He likes Romneycare, his tax policy is said by the WSJ to be similar to Obama's, I'm pretty sure part of that is him letting the Bush tax cuts expire for those making $200,000 or more, he believes in the status quo for the safety net/welfare state, he believes in class warfare (although unlike Obama he dislikes the poor as much as he does the rich), he likes increases in the minimum wage, he wouldn't back up Kasich on the anti-union vote, etc. Couple that with the fact that he's probably just lying about his positions on the social issues and will put in liberal Supreme Court justices.
How exactly does having this guy in office with an "R" next to his name help conservatives AT ALL? If he's popular, the party and the public will continue to push more and more RINO candidates on us, having the proof that they get votes. Which means our party will be taken over from within by liberals. If he's unpopular, then he gets voted out of office in 2016 and we get another far-left Democrat who will bring with him his own version of the 1994 Contract with America revolution except in liberal Democrat form. Romney as President is absolute POISON for the conservative agenda either in the short-term and the long-term. If he's the nominee the ONLY sensible option for conservatives is to vote in gridlock and try again for a better candidate in 2016.
I believe this site should stick around if Romney is the nominee and that the site should endorse the idea of voting anybody but Obamney (either of the two) for President while backing Republican House and Senate candidates. Note that I understand the need for RINOs in congress sometimes, because half a loaf is better than nothing in those very liberal districts, but having a RINO as president is a completely different story. The presidency is too important in both his power and as the defining figure in our party to put someone like Romney who doesn't come close to representing our party's values in the role.