Posted on 10/02/2012 11:43:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
..............Incredible as it may seem to most outside observers, Mitt Romney is actually what currently passes for a moderate in today’s Republican Party.....
Romney was sold – in the teeth of opposition from a significant section of the Republican grass roots – as the pragmatic choice, the compromise they had to make with ideology to secure victory. And when he loses, those activists are going to go as vengefully crazy as Cain’s Rhode Island Reds.
Anyone who doubts the reaction of the GOP stalwarts to Romney’s impending defeat should bear in mind this single, if chilling, fact. Most of them still think he’s going to win. They genuinely believe the polls are fixed. They seriously think the surge in support for Obama is nothing more than an "MSM" conspiracy. Some of them clearly even believe the good Lord himself will appear in the spin room at the University of Denver next Wednesday.
And when non of these things turn out to be true, the reaction will be truly terrible to behold. It will be like what happens inside one of those doomsday cults the morning after they all wake up and realise the world hasn’t ended after all. First the shock, then the denial, then finally the anger and retribution.
The pinko, Marxist, Obama-loving side of me can’t wait for the fireworks to begin. But there’s another part of me that’s quite disheartened at the thought of the last few moderate elements of a once great political party vanishing beneath a tidal wave of post-election Tea Party hysteria. The majesty of Lincoln, boundless optimism of Reagan, dignity of McCain – swept from the pages of history by a bunch of moon-colonising, carnivorous chicken-touting, hurricane-summoning fruit loops....
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You do realize that you are comparing Obama with a man who also has pushed abortion, homosexuality, and secular society? Does this make Romney evil, evil with a refined message, or converted evil who keeps backsliding?
If Romney loses we are Argentina.
“if Obama should win, and the economy collapses, the MSM might just turn on him,”
It will not happen. They are going down with the ship.
Nice pipe dream. Obama will bail out the MSM.
GOP is complicit in the end of America. But there is not much choice left on election day. Virgil Goode did nothing to get on at least 50% of the states in the country so he will only be on 17 to 20 states. What good is that. Chuck Baldwin made it to 38 states. I say that he did not have a good ground game. So why should I throw my vote away on a guy with no chance. I would at least be happier if he made my states ballot. I’m voting Romney because he is the best choice of the people on the ballot I’ll get and Obama sucks.
Oh, man, time for Danny boy to turn in his crystal ball and go back on the dole. Or at least butt out of American politics. His analytical skills stink! Very bad writer, too.
This is what happens in socialist societies; mediocrity rises to the top and meritocracy goes right out the window. Thank God Americans want no part of that stupidity.
Like clockwork.
If Obama wins all the things you care so passionately about will be legislated. As Roe V Wade should of taught you once a thing become law repealing it gets geometrically harder.
If Obama wins the courts will be so packed with Judicial Radicals anything conservatives did manage to legislate will simply be undone by judicial fiat.
If Obama wins we will be so far over the fiscal cliff there will be no climbing back in 2014 or 2016 Romney is your last shot to reverse this. He at least sees the chart below as a problem. Obama THINKS WE HAVE NOT SPENT ENOUGH.
FY 2007 was last Bush/GOP Congress. FY 2011 was last Obama/Dem Congress.
Jeez, this guy should change his name to Captain Lefty McLeftpants.
Sad, but true.
I think he was just first in line when they were handing out beatings with the fugly stick.
Sounds like another leftist fantasy. They’ve been trying to destroy the Republican Party for years.
I don’t think Romney will loose.
If he does, the only thing which dies is the GOP. I will burn my GOP membership card and work hard for a third party.
If he wins, we have to DUMP McConnell and Boehner. They HAVE to go. They are towering mediocraties.
This is deja vu all over again.
You gotta be kidding me!
I can't believe that someone who's been around FR as long as you doesn't remember all the "Rats are toast" claims made on this forum after the '04 election.
Don't you apparatchiks EVER learn?
By contrast the 2012 GOP platform is the most Conservative one in their history.
No matter how much you hate Romney, only a person completely brain dead would refuse to see the stark difference between Romney and Obama on social issues.
With Romney Social Conservatives have a seat at the table, with Obama you will actively promote everything you are against.
By 2016 everything you Soc Cons claim to be so passionate about will be legislated. As Roe V Wade should of taught you, once something is legislated it become almost impossible to undo.
Once 2016 rolls around the Judiciary will be so packed with Obamabots anything you DID manage to legislate would simply be undone by Judicial Fiat.
We HAVE NO MORE TIME for this “whaa my candidate of choice did not win so I am going to sabotage the GOP nominee to show them I was right” mindset some of you are so desperate to cling to.
I agree. This "writer" is trying to depress and splinter the Tea Party movement. The movement that is going to make sure Romney (and a GOP Senate) is elected Nov 6, 2012.
A winning Tea Party in 2012 will not help this writer's socialist friends in the UK, UN and EU. It will embolden conservatives globally.
No Barf alert?
Problem was Conservatives went back to sleep after 1994 and 2000 elections
Nov 2012 is merely 1st aid. We got to stop the hemorrhaging. Once that happens we will have years of work to do to heal the damage.
Why is a self-described “pinko, Marxist, Obama-lov[er]” writing for the Telegraph? Wouldn’t he be better suited to writing for the Guardian or the Independent?
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