If something were to happen to Romney at this late date the GOP elites would just emerge from some smoke-filled room with a reasonable facsimile thereof.Ok, you know what, we all have to get over the fact that we, as conservatives, lost this thing. It wasn't "jammed down our throats". It didn't come from a "smoke-filled rooms". It didn't happen because of the "elites".
Do the elites support Romney? Sure they do.
But guess what? Before Rick Santorum dropped out, SIX MILLION VOTES WERE COUNTED AGAINST ROMNEY, and only five million for Romney.
Romney lost the vote count.
But he's going to win the nomination because those 6 million CONSERVATIVE VOTES were DIVIDED.
If we had stuck together, we would have beat Romney.
It wasn't the elites (though of course they are pleased).
And it wasn't the "smoke filled rooms".
It was us. It was ourselves. It was WE THE PEOPLE.
We didn't unite behind a single conservative and chose instead to bicker amongst ourselves (read FR from about Sep'11-Mar'12 to relive the sorry spectacle, if you can stomach it) and allow a MINORITY CANDIDATE (ie, Romney) to skate right in past us.
When the primary comes to NJ, if Newt is on the ballot I will vote for him.
I do not want Mitt Romney, and will do what I can, in the time remaining, to help stop him.
But I'm going to tell it like it is on the subject of how we got Mitt Romney. No one rammed him down our throats. WE did the ramming. All by ourselves.
Very well stated!
So sad....but so true. You have nailed it exactly right...we have no one to blame but ourselves...
I agree, and if we continue to focus only on the GOPe, we will learn the wrong lesson and repeat our mistakes in four years. until we poem up to our problem, we won’t change. WE DID NOT UNITE BEHIND A CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE IN 2011.
Was going to say the same thing. But you already did.
Dittos.
When those who oppose a candidate split their votes between two or more opponents, it pretty much guarantees the election of the guy they oppose.
That’s how Lincoln was elected as a minority president, example of a good result, and Wilson too. Example of a bad result.
Which those promoting a 3rd party run should consider.