Posted on 05/15/2011 7:42:32 AM PDT by Brookhaven
I'm not prone to conspiracy theories, but it seems as though we seeing the beginnings of a concerted effort by the GOP establishment to eliminate Mitt Romney from the GOP field?
The Wall Street Journal published a scathing piece about Romney titled Obama's Running Mate and followed it up with and article called Romney's Daredevil Act. Scathing is an understatement. By any measure, these were full, frontal assaults on Mitt Romney with only one purpose: derail his 2012 candidacy before it gets started.
National Review Online (which endorsed Romney last time around) published an article by the Editors titled Power Point Failure that was every bit as damning to Romney as the WSJ articles. They have also been an outlet for a number of anti-Romney editorials, including the recent op-ed by Mark Steyn titled Romney's Fix.
The Wall Street Journal and The National Review tend to be GOP “insider” publications. Meaning they have better access to the party's power brokers, and be friendly to the ideas and positions coming from inside the GOP establishment. By any measure Mitt Romney—the presumptive favorite of the GOP establishment and power brokers—should have publications like the WSJ and NRO in his corner, and we should be seeing articles that are somewhat friendly towards Romney. But we're not.
Instead, we're seeing these publications attack Romney with a force that is unprecedented (for a GOP candidate anyway). This implies a larger question: has the GOP party establishment (the national office holders and party insiders) made a decision about Romney—that they can't win with him in 2012 (not just the presidency, but the down-ticket races as well), and they need to get him out of the way now? It's certainly starting to look that way.
Mitt is a political whore who would take any position to further advance Mitt Romney. No back bone, no true stances on any subject.
Mitt is a RINO piece of garbage. Were he not rich he’d just be a handsome dumbass.
If only. Really though, does it matter? Whoever the GOP establishment backs is going to be a RINO. God forbid they ever support a real conservative.
Amen brother.
No more RINO presidential candidates:
“Is there a website we can join at?”
Hold muh beer while I register.
Why vote for someone whose biggest policy initiative, namely, government controlled healthcare, is already in place in the federal government? Why replace Obama with an Obama twin? It would be like holding an non-election.
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