Posted on 03/02/2012 6:28:27 AM PST by KansasGirl
Columnist George Will says the 2012 presidential looks like it might be a lost cause for Republicans and believes that the primary goal of conservatives should be to retain control of the House and win the Senate so Congress can restrain President Barack Obama while the GOP grooms its talent for 2016.
“Romney and Rick Santorum… are conservatives, although of strikingly different stripes. Neither, however, seems likely to be elected… If either is nominated, conservatives should vote for him,” Will writes in his upcoming Sunday column, obtained in advance by POLITICO.
However, Will argues, that control of both house of Congress is more attainable and more important.
“[T]here would come a point when… conservatives turn their energies to a goal much more attainable than… electing Romney or Santorum president. It is the goal of retaining control of the House and winning control of the Senate.. [C]onservatives this year should have as their primary goal making sure Republicans wield all the gavels in Congress in 2013,” writes Will.
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There is a point to be made that it just never works out well for the USA when one Party has all the enchiladas. Politicians need to face checks and balances.
Obama will merely bypass congress and they will let him. He needs to be defeated now.
Agreed, I would never leave the slot blank but I sure as hell won’t be voting for Romney. After all, a vote for Romney is hardly better than voting for Obama outright.
In fact, maybe we should get started now on encouraging people to write in Gingrich and Santorum if Romney is the nominee. They won’t win but maybe the voice will be loud enough to rattle the GOPe
we really need to do both, take the congress and the white house.
Obummer has already demonstrated he can and will circumvent the congress to achieve his goals.
Someone is going to take the oath of office next January, and it sure as hell can't be Obama. Sitting out or going 3rd party places Obama in there. Any one on our side will be light years better. Of the one's left standing, we have to vote for the best one. Four years of Obama means Kagan will be one of the moderates on the court and more endless executive branch trampling of the constitution with no recourse for four more years.
We have elected some great House members and conservative Senators and we'll need to keep the pressure on them to fight for the people that put them there, and not crack to the pressure of the party poo-bahs. There work is meaningless with a marxist megalomaniac in the White House.
With the POS still in the WH, all will remain ops normal. Obama will still get his nominees onto the courts and his legislation will still move forward... and forget any hope of Obamacare repeal. The GOP is simply too timid to face him head-on.
I won’t vote for Romney either - I’m with you. The country needs Gingrich right now. Pray for a miracle.
Who knows? He's a columnist, and has to write opinions for a living. He predicted last year that either Pawlenty or Daniels would be the nominee. In my view, if any of these people were that accurate they could have made lots of money betting on the outcomes. I highly doubt any of them would bet significant money on their predictions.
Too much is being placed on the impact of gas prices. Obama's already pushing for higher taxation on the oil companies. With the mood of the country morphing into class envy, he'll exploit it into an "us-vs.-them" mindset vs. "Big Oil." Also, a well-timed, albeit token, drilling approval, along with an SPR release will drop those prices significantly enough to fool the sheep.
Remember... American voters as a whole are not critical thinkers. They act based on what they see at face value.
Just yesterday it was reported that EMPLOYMENT among Youth was at 54%.
That's where we win.
That's Greece levels of unemployment in this country for a major demographic. That's Obama kicking his former supporters in the teeth.
They will never forgive him!
Just yesterday it was reported that EMPLOYMENT among Youth was at 54%.
That's where we win.
That's Greece levels of unemployment in this country for a major demographic. That's Obama kicking his former supporters in the teeth.
They will never forgive him!
I'm going to burn it in front of a certain couple of people, who have both drunk the kool-aid.
Analogy not applicable. German General Staff is not analogous to American Congress.
This is not rocket science we are talking about. He will order it shut down by Executive Order and order tanks around Capitol Hill, arresting any Congressman who cannot go into hiding and assuming all legislative activities under his administrative branches of the Executive.
George Will. Yeah. Real smart cookie that Will feller.
Will, take a long hike on a short pier!
You and your fellow faux beltway conservatives have lost it with the rest of us.
Will, you have sunk so low, you are doing OPeds with Politico!
If conservatives were to control Congress, why would they sit by doing nothing about controlling czars and agencies previous liberal Congresses created?
I had posted previously about seeing this same attitude among the FOX commentators a month or two ago. The ones who predicted that Romney would win the nomination also, when pressed, predicted that Obama would win the White House. The urban elite class thinks that liberalism sells, plain and simple. That’s why they have been pushing Romney as the “electable” candidate. Yet when forced to take the next logical step, they have to admit that if liberalism is what sells, people are going to vote for Obama over Romney. Even they realize that Liberal Lite doesn’t beat the real thing.
The urban elites don’t understand the lesson of Reagan, that conservatism when it’s articulated in a way that people can understand is what REALLY sells to the majority of the country. Because at heart, the majority of the country is conservative. That’s why Thomas Sowell is absolutely right that Newt Gingrich is the most electable candidate of the bunch. That’s why liberals don’t try to beat conservatives on ideas, but resort to lies, smears, fearmongering, personal attacks, etc.
What you said! It is beyond stupid that the worst President ever, with the economy in the toilet, is somehow invincible.
As far as the Republican RINOs, Beltway bandits, lobbyists, Bureaucratic Mandarins, spin doctors and consultants are concerned, they would much prefer a liberal Democrat to a conservative Republican.
While the Republicans will almost certainly keep the House and gain the Senate, when it is time for a brokered convention, they will strongly have the upper hand, and the eventual nominee will almost certainly be more conservative than the current bunch.
And a conservative nominee has a good chance to become POTUS. So even before the convention, there are some standards that need to be set for this nominee, as vital to the country.
1) There is a general consensus that Obamacare must be destroyed. But the nominee has got to have vigorous ideas as to how this collapse is to be managed so as not to turn into a major disaster.
2) Likewise, there are going to have to be immense spending cuts and reductions in the size and power of the federal government. This has to be done like surgery to remove a massive tumor. To remove the tumor must be done, but the patient must not be killed in the process.
3) A big part of this, and this will be personally hard for whoever is POTUS, is to agree, with the help of congress and the courts, to *reduce* the power of the POTUS, legally ending the most unconstitutional abuses of the “imperial presidency” by law. This means no more “presidential signing statements”, “Czars”, strict limits on recess appointments, and the restoration of both a strict War Powers Act, and the doctrine of Posse Comitatus.
4) Much of the internal security apparatus of the US must be consolidated. Currently there are 100+ federal police agencies, and police powers have been given to non-police agencies. There needs to be perhaps a dozen such agencies, and all national policing must be done through these.
The TSA needs to be reduced to a fraction of its current size, and their active security role should be privatized.
5) Much federal power needs to return to the states. Most federal lands taken from the states should be returned to them for their own use.
6) Vast amounts of federal regulations must be undone. The slogan of the new administration should be, “If there is no clear constitutional authority for the federal government to do this, it will be discontinued.”
I’m done with voting for the “lesser of two evils”.
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