Posted on 05/15/2011 7:42:32 AM PDT by Brookhaven
My thoughts exactly.
Good.
With his recent speech on RomneyCare, Mitt had one last chance to prevent his slide into the abyss. In the end, it was impossible. Mitt's crowning achievement as governor of Massachusetts is the prototype of the monster that must be slain at the federal level.
Mitt can't run as 'the man who will destroy ObamaCare' without running from his own record. If he runs from his record, then what is he running on?
Forced to confront Scylla and Charybdis, Mitt tried to sail the good ship FlippyFlop right down the middle and split the difference. It was a valiant effort, but he failed. Nobody bought his convoluted argument, and his viability as a candidate entered free fall.
Mitt engineered many aspects of his own downfall, and fate, at long last, has finally caught up with him.
WSJ and NRO, seeing that the power brokers in the GOP are turning on Mitt, are following suit. Romney had his chance, and twisted like a Chinese gymnast to escape his own trap. Gladly, it seems that the party is moving on.
And this is a bad thing, because...???
Worth repeating. He wasn't liked by MA liberals I talked to in '08. They wanted Rudy!
Well, Muny, despite the question mark, you didn't ask a question but I'll answer one anyway. Yes, it certainly looks like folks, establishment and grassroots types, are working to push Romney under the bus early this campaign season.
The question to ask is: who benefits?
It's not Daniels whom Rush spent last week attacking. Huckabee is out. Barbour is out. It's not Ron Paul. Trump doesn't have political influence within the party.
That leaves Newt, T'Paw and maybe Huntsman as beneficiaries.
Political death by legislative suicide. RomneyCare did him in.
Daniels has been thrashed all week. There may be some Bush loyalists who are for him but I don't think he's the establishment's real pick particularly with his wife as a wild card.
I wouldn't be surprised if they're behind Newt or Pawlenty this cycle.
“I suppose you have some evidence to back that up?”
“Mitt Romney is the fastest-talking Presidential candidate I have ever seen. He dashes through his stump speech like a racehorse in full gallop — he even looks a bit equine — his feet barely touching the ground as he skims the surface of issues. He conveys a sense of power and fluency — and fun. He has a self-deprecating sense of humor and uses it to good effect. But his speed of delivery also has an element of sleight of hand. He moves so quickly, it’s often hard to notice that there’s not much nutrition being offered and much that is being avoided.”
—Joe Klein
Time Magazine
May 31, 2007
“Romney, on the other hand, is the closest thing the G.O.P. has to a front-runner, and he is even more hollow than Santorum. Indeed, his appearance at CPAC on the morning of Friday, Feb. 11, was entirely consistent with his public image as an otherworldly visitor from an Aqua Velva commercial circa 1985.”
—Frank Rich
NY Times
February 19, 2011
“Romney’s past is more a working class zero.”
—Josh Kosman
NY Post
February 20, 2011
Looks like even the GOP realizes Mitt is a wrong number. LOL!
Oh c'mon. You were here four years ago.
You should know that that idea leads nowhere.
You are absolutely correct about them pimping Daniels. He is the new Mitt. According to the party elites and country clubbers, it is “his” turn.
Mass. Health Care results are in. FAIL!
It is time to get rid of him and all the RINO’s + Trump (When ever he is).
First they came for Sarah. I wasn’t Sarah so I didn’t help
Then they came for Mitt . . . :)
They are clearing the field for Daniels or Pawlenty—both safe, controllable candidates who wouldn’t do anything radical like actually reduce the size of the federal government or put up more than a token stink on homosexual marriage and abortion. Wouldn’t it be funny if Cain knocked them off?
Not that Mitt isn’t safe for the establishment guys. He just can’t win with the Obamacare albatross around his neck.
As to Palin, I don’t know if they have successfully knocked her off for 2012. They have certainly tried their best and have run up her negatives so high that hers will be an uphill battle for both the nomination and election.
“Wonder wonder that would be?”
Well, if he could get some name recognition and electability, that would be Herman Cain. Articulate, conservative, pro-life, pro-family, and (gasp) black. Worse, he hasn’t been coopted by the DC establishment yet because he’s never served there.
The Wall Street Journal wants a Rino in but Mitt is too compromised. He “progressed” on Romneycare (just like Obammycare) with his friends across the aisle too quickly.
The Tea Party is often said to have come together to ‘cut spending.” That is a lie the libertarian wing of the GOP is telling themselves. The Tea Party came together to defeat Obamacare. That is why Republicans took over the House - to defund (halt) and hopefully, repeal Obamacare.
For this reason, no way the GOP stays in the game unless their candidate promises to repeal the whole leglislation that was tossed together in the name of Obamacare. A Rino offering to tweak that monster won’t carry the Tea Party.
It it hasn’t stopped since “romneycare”.
With his recent speech on RomneyCare, Mitt had one last chance to prevent his slide into the abyss. In the end, it was impossible. Mitt's crowning achievement as governor of Massachusetts is the prototype of the monster that must be slain at the federal level.
Mitt Romney and "romneycare" are both Obama's disastrous "mini-me's"...
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