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Excellent piece in the Boston Herald of all places on why Mitt Romney needs to go. I still cannot understand why anyone would vote for Romney. A vote for him is a vote for four more years of Obama policies whether Obama wins or loses. Do people really not see that? The fact that so many attack pieces are coming out at Newt says a lot about how much support Romney is getting from the MSM. Face it, Romeny is the MSM's annointed candidate because he is Obama light and if they can't fool enough people into voting for Obama they will take the next best thing.
It sure seems the GOP establishment wants 4 more years of Obama. Any real Conservative is attacked by the Republicans.
The Republicans sure do seem to be busy eating their own tail right now don't they? It starts to make me wonder if Donnie isn't right about some of that NWO stuff or if the establishment GOP is is just so wedded to its perks that they don't want someone to come along and upset the apple cart on them. I just do not understand the dynamics of this primary campaign unless the goal is to avoid anybody that is actually going to accomplish something.
Is no-one willing to tell me I am wrong about this race and why? come on???The Republican primaries this year are a joke, anybody who is even remotely away from the party-line is getting sandbagged, Bachmann, Cain, Santorum, Perry, and now Gingrich. Gingrich should be the ultimate insider given his past but they are turning on him like Piranhas in favor of Romney, or as like to call him, Obama-Lite. Get ready for at least four more years of misery if either Romney or Obama is elected this fall. I feel like I am in the last chapter, the part right before the year of Four Emperors/Presidents, of a new Gibbon's book called The rise and Fall of the American Empire.
While I do feel like there is an element of the establishment getting behind Romney, I don't think it would be anything like what we have under Obama. Even minor things that get swept under the run with Obama. About a week ago Obama made some HHS mandate which stated something like in a year's time, all healthcare providers – even religious ones – will need to pay for services even if they go against the tenets of those religions, such as abortion. To me, this is an egregious assault on many people who oppose that which the Obama Admin wants to do. Even if one opposed Romney and supported Gingrich, this type of mandate made by Obama is something we would never see under Romney's watch. For me, there is still a big difference between Romney and Obama, and I would far rather see the former in office than the latter.
How is Romney on green policies? Didn't he bash coal plants a few years back? What's his stance now (as of 01/30/12, 11:02 EST) on drilling our own oil?
Even if one opposed Romney and supported Gingrich, this type of mandate made by Obama is something we would never see under Romney's watch. For me, there is still a big difference between Romney and Obama, and I would far rather see the former in office than the latter.
Did I just read somebody say never about a politician? Do you honestly want me to believe that somebody who was a governor of one of the most liberal states in the nation and signed the first universal health care bill in America into law is a conservative? Excuse me for a minute while I foll on the floor and laugh. If Romney gets the nod it will be because Est. Republicans like Dole and McCain and the media have annointed him so and are doing there level best to destroy anyone who gets in the way. How is what is happening to Gingrich now any different from what they did to Cain and Perry? I will be damned if Romney will get my vote, unless I hear and see something significant from him that did not come out of a focus group. Romney is a Republican Clinton, he does not say or do anything unless his handlers tell him to and I have the impression that he is just as much an empty suit as Obama is.
Did I just read somebody say never about a politician? Do you honestly want me to believe that somebody who was a governor of one of the most liberal states in the nation and signed the first universal health care bill in America into law is a conservative? Excuse me for a minute while I foll on the floor and laugh. If Romney gets the nod it will be because Est. Republicans like Dole and McCain and the media have annointed him so and are doing there level best to destroy anyone who gets in the way. How is what is happening to Gingrich now any different from what they did to Cain and Perry? I will be damned if Romney will get my vote, unless I hear and see something significant from him that did not come out of a focus group. Romney is a Republican Clinton, he does not say or do anything unless his handlers tell him to and I have the impression that he is just as much an empty suit as Obama is.
I'm not claiming that Romney is a "conservative". The jury is still out on his degree of "conservativeness". All I am saying is that he would certainly be different from Obama - and in a better way, that is.
If I recall, Romney was Gov when Mass passed gay marriage. Even Obama hasn't gone that far (yet)
I hadn't heard that, but it is something to check out. I would also have to check out the extent of his involvement in pushing it.Ann Coulter - while I don't know exactly what her gripe is with Gingrich - said something which I thought was good. She said that abortion is an issue where you would want people to be "flip floppers" on (if they come to the right side, that is). You can make the same case about other issues as well. While I can see the danger in a politician who changes positions for sake of political convenience, we should probably welcome politicians who truly become conservative after seeing the light.
I'm not claiming that Romney is a "conservative". The jury is still out on his degree of "conservativeness". All I am saying is that he would certainly be different from Obama - and in a better way, that is.
How "better" different except for maybe not pushing liberal policies so blatantly? That actually worries me, I think he would do more behind the scenes stuff with little to no accountability and Obama does enough of that already. A Romney presidency scares me more than four more years of Obama. I don'y necessarily want him to be conservative, though that would be great; I want him to be open and honest, which he is not. Based on his record, I still say know. That and he just has te feel of a Dole or McCain time-server about him, like it is his turn now or something.
Ann Coulter - while I don't know exactly what her gripe is with Gingrich - said something which I thought was good. She said that abortion is an issue where you would want people to be "flip floppers" on (if they come to the right side, that is). You can make the same case about other issues as well. While I can see the danger in a politician who changes positions for sake of political convenience, we should probably welcome politicians who truly become conservative after seeing the light.
Ann Coulter is turning into a Harpy that I don't pay attention to anymore, right up there with Michael Savage. As to "seeing the light" and becoming conservative, how do you prove that? Isn't that kind of like trying to prove that farts have a color?I have yet to see or hear anything concrete that convinces me Romney is the guy I want for President. In fact, the more I learn about him and see him on TV, the more skeptical I become. I hear a lot of platitudes and suppositions but nothing really material and what material does exist does not enhance my opinion of him.
The only reason I'd vote for Romney is because 4 years of an Obama not worryied about getting reelected terrifies me. All the extremist stuff he's held back from doing now, he'll just do it. The
brain damagedliberal base will love it. At least with a Romney, he'll be reigned in a little so he can prepare for 2016.I can't wait to see the early returns from Florida when I get up in the morning. My fingers are crossed that the polling is wrong and Gingrich is going to win.
Well it looks like the Romney won in Florida. What a mistake the idiots their made. Here is an excellent piece by Steve Mcann on the American Thinker about why Romney is a miserable choice to be the nominee and exposing the ways challenger have been slandered and then marginalized. The Republican Establishment's Strategic BlunderThe best quote from the article is at the end:
The Establishment could not have made a more strategic blunder. They will, in all likelihood, succeed in securing the nomination for Mitt Romney, but the damage they have inflicted upon themselves is approaching irreversible. The public now sees the length to which the Establishment will go to make certain their hand-picked candidate is chosen regardless of the dire circumstances facing the nation.
I may not particularly like Gingrich but his record says he will try to do in office what he promises on the campaign trail, I do not have that confidence with Romney. We (conservatives) are throwing away our chances for change if we select Romney just as surely as the Democrats/Liberals did when they elected Obama.
Romney and Paul. What's this all about?Romney, Ron Paul Forging Unlikely Alliance
The electable Odd Couple? Perhaps Romney is weighing inviting Paul as his running mate hoping that having Paul on the ticket will help Tea Partiers resign themselves to having a blow-dried maybe conservative on the top of he ticket. A possibility at least. Of course, Paul attracts the Tinfoil-Hat Brigade and not the Te Party but I don't really expect that anybody inside the Romney camp takes the Tea Party seriously anyway.On the other hand maybe Romney will make removing flouride from the water a part of the Republican plank if he gets the nomination and selects Paul as a running mate.
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