The Republicans are on the verge of nominating their most Progressive candidate since Teddy Roosevelt. This massive leftward shift in the GOP is making many Reagan/Goldwater Conservatives no longer feel welcomed. Should Romney lose, there will be a full scale civil war in the GOP as Economic/Fiscal Conservatives take on the GOP establishment and various Progressive factions. Should Romney win, the GOP will lose credibility since he will govern as a Leftist. A new Party will emerge and the Democrats will dominate for a decade. Romney is a poison pill.
Mitt Romney, by his actions in Massachusetts both campaigning for the U.S. Senate and as Governor, has shown himself to be more than willing to compromise with the Left and the Democrats. He has proposed and passed the socialist RomneyCare policy, pro-abortion regulations, and gun control, and raised numerous taxes and fees while increasing spending dramatically. During the current campaign he refuses to call Barack Obama what he is; instead Romney refers to him as just “being over his head.”
If ever a candidate mirrored the mindset and approach of George H.W. Bush, it is Mitt Romney.
This is the last hurrah of the Republican establishment. The conservatives and libertarians will vote for Romney in November, but only because he is not Barack Obama. There will be no enthusiasm, which will hurt the down ballot contests for the U.S. Senate, the House and state governorships. Despite the factors weighing against Obama in this upcoming election, it will be a much closer contest that it should be; perhaps a razor thin victory for Romney.
If Romney were to lose the election, there will be a grass-roots revolt against the Republican Party which will spell its demise. If he wins and the nation, through the mis-directed policies of Romney and the Republicans in the Congress, continues on its current path of compromising and nibbling around the edges of the nation’s problems, then Romney will be the last Republican president and the specter of the Democrats re-assuming power will be a reality.
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Not quite. Nixon gave us the EPA, OSHA and wage and price controls. When Agnew quit, with a solid Dem Senate majority, the leadership of the Senate went to the White House, went to Nixon and said Gerald Ford was the only nomination they would pass. Because Gerald Ford wasn’t much of conservative. W. expanded Medicare.
Now, not saying Romney isn’t the least conservative of the remaining candidates, that he ran for office in Massachusetts as a centrist, and his Romneycare takes attacks on ObamaCare off the table. I’m still hoping Santorum or Perry regain momentum, but I’m not counting on it, and a centrist who loves his country beats an American hating treasonous POS in my book, so if I have to vote for Romney, well, he is better than the alternative.
@ Ed Mahmoud:
maybe so, but he will take this nation in a ditch. Romney will make Nixon look like a Conservative. he’s no Centrist, he’s a leftist.
Romney will be the last Republican President.
BTW, if the Glenn Beck jihad against every Republican candidate continues past the point of when th nomination gets sewn up, I shall start to get annoyed. Daily Kos was trumpeting his proclamations that Romney is just like Obama…
@ Ed Mahmoud:
They are both Leftists. One supposedly likes their country (Romney), the other is a 3rd World Liberation loon (Obama). They are both Progressive Leftists.
Romney may just have no principles, and portrayed himself center-left in Massholechusetts for votes, and may even be right of center. We can survive a squishy candidate like Romney, especially if we can get rid of some of the Beltway squishes like McConnell and Weepy McBoehner, who don’t mind business as usual. I am all about supporting conservatives in the primaries.
BTW, because a panel of 3 lib judges threw out Texas’ redistricting plan, and gerrymandered it so the Dems will gain 5 US House seats in this years election, and Texas is taking it to SCOTUS, the earliest our primary will be is May, so it is academic anyway. I was sending money to Cain, now its Santorum. Neither perfect, both better than Romney.
But I will feel no shame voting for Romney in November if it means voting against Obama.
Glenn Beck misses the forest for the trees if he thinks a moderate and a Communist are the same thing.
@ Ed Mahmoud:
His (and his cohorts) hatred of Newt Gingrich is pathological.
Like saing a bad cold and lung cancer are the same thing…
Ed Mahmoud wrote:
If Romney defeats Obama, will you be one of those trying to silence Romney’s critics on the Right. Will you defend Romney no matter what?
Romney is not a Conservative and after the election, Economic Cons will break away.
Beck also criticized Newt, saying anyone who liked Newt and disliked Obama were racists, because both were ‘progressive’.
Romney doesn’t hate Gingrich, negative ads is what Super PACs do. Gingrich’s affiliated PAC is going all #OWS/1%-er on Romney at Bain. Its politics.
Ed Mahmoud wrote:
Romney is no Moderate. He’s a Progressive and yes, Progressives are not a far leap from Communists.
Romney = Socialist.
Obama = Marxist.
Both Leftwing scumbags.
Rodan wrote:
Gawd…
OK, out.
Romney will be the next Nixon. Nixon was one of the most progressive Republicans since Teddy Roosevelt. Nixon’s remembered for Watergate — The left hated Nixon even though Nixon governed as a pure leftist. Nixon gave us OSHA, the EPA, wage and price controls which almost destroyed the economy and it took years to undo the damage.
Compare/contrast Romney command and control style with Newt’s performance last night. Newt took on Juan William’s whiny liberal attack about kids doing janitorial work and turned it around. Note the crowd going wild with a standing ovation at the end:
Ed Mahmoud wrote:
I’ll feel sadness about it, but I will do it. Romney would be better than Obama, but Rodan’s criticisms of him are relevant. Romney could surprise us and govern as a Conservative, especially if we elect more conservatives to the House and Senate, but I expect him to be the MAssachuttes Liberal he has always been. That probably means he’d be a one-termer if elected. I don’t really expect that to happen. Romney’s so-called “electibility” is a myth. HE will be John McCain II, and I don’t expect him to do any better than McCain this time around.
@ Iron Fist:
I say Obama wins 50%-48% with between 275-310 electoral votes.
@ Fritz Katz:
Gingrich is the last stand of Reagan Conservatism. After this, we might have to go our won way.
I see the meme these days in the blogosphere is : If you don’t support Romney, you’re being a “purist.”
@ Rodan:
That sounds abou tright to me. I don’t like it, but that is where we stand. I’ll be glad when it is over, though, one way or the other. I hope we win the Senate. I worry that Romney will depress the conservative vote. We must get out and vote, even if we dislike the top of the ticket. We need to be active at every level, right down to local school board elections.
@ Bumr50:
Mark me as a “purist”. The pro-Romneyites are corruptists, then…
Bumr50 wrote:
Beck’s problem is a Mormon vs Catholic one
@ Iron Fist:
I say vote in Conservatives at the local level. Then when Romney throws Conservatives under the bus, which he will it can give us a pretext to destroy his Presidency. Then in 2016, we pressure and support Allen West, Marco Rubio or whoever to primary Obama. If that doesn’t happen, then if the Democrats run a sensible candidate, we vote for the Democrat to remove Romney.
We need to view Romney as a hostile and go after him like we go after Obama. The sad part is that too many Conservatives will fall in line and make excuses for Romney. That’s my worry.
@ Rodan:
I’m 100% on board with you there.
There’s a good amount of NDS (Newt Derangement Syndrome) running amok on the right.
Best exemplified by Beck and Michelle Malkin, many seem personally offended by Gingrich’s very existence, and most especially towards those that support him.
My best educated guess is that they’ve spent so much time in the past ridiculing and “exposing” Gingrich that they feel somehow violated.
While I agree with all of their previous criticisms, the current political situation MUST be taken into account when evaluating these candidates.
Do I think that that Newt has a tendency towards creative “Big Government solutions” at times? Yes. But he’s shown during this campaign that he intends to govern more conservatively than almost any other candidate on stage, with the possible exception of Rick Perry who for all intents and purposes is dead in the water.
I view him as a sort of “conservative mercenary.” As almost all of his critics point out, he’s all about himself. In this race, I view that as a good thing as he’ll govern in a way that will endear him to the hardcore conservatives that he’s been trying to bring into his fold.
He also seems to have a better grasp of the peril we’re in than most others, and he’s articulated that well IMHO.
if romney is elected, IF, i will be more than happy to laud him when he does a conservative thing and do the normal criticisms when he governs like a taxachussets liberal, same with newt, same with santorum. i am done being a party loyalist. and it will take great will power and prodigious amounts of vodka for me to vote for romney; might be the last act before i pass out. this will be the last time for holding my nose, if i can manage it. i will never do it again.