Only One Man Alive Looks Worse In The Tank Than Jonah Goldberg... "Vote For Romney Because.."

Red State ^ | February 8, 2012 | Repair_Man_Jack

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Vote For Romney Because He’ll Owe Us?….Seriously?

Only One Man Alive Looks Worse In The Tank Than Jonah Goldberg

What Is It with Massachusettes Governors and Armored Vehicles?

There are actually some reasons to vote for Mitt Romney in this year’s GOP Primaries. I don’t personally find them compelling, and have endorsed one of Gov. Romney’s opponents. I admire the man’s ability to manage large projects and he does know how an executive office works. Voting for Mitt Romney may not be my personal predilection, but it isn’t quite as pointless as wearing a rally cap or tossing maidens down a well for good luck.

People have also offered sales pitches on Romney’s behalf that are about as believable as SpongeBob Squarepants discovering the Higgs Boson. One of the sadder aspects of Mitt Romney’s mild ride this year has been watching people I have deemed intellectually powerful perform about as well at ratiocination as my little boy’s favorite cartoon character would at advancing particle physics. When Jonah Goldberg of National Review Magazine wrote The Case For Romney about a week ago, I remembered what outstanding work he had done in the past, and therefore delayed this post until it could age a bit and marinate. I felt I owed him a better expression of my angst than “WTF?”..........

Goldberg states the hypothesis that Mitt Romney would make a great president for Conservatives because he would owe us. He states the following:

"…there is an instrumental case to be made for him: It is better to have a president who owes you than to have one who claims to own you…..If elected, Romney must follow through for conservatives and honor his vows to repeal Obamacare, implement Representative Paul Ryan’s agenda, and stay true to his pro-life commitments."

Oh my! Is that really so? When he was Governor of Massachusetts, how did he repay all the Republicans he owed up there? Romneycare? Was it the complete and utter destruction of the state’s GOP infrastructure and popularity in his wake? Martha Coakley has done far more to help Republicans win high office in Massachusetts than Mitt Romney.

Jonah Goldberg tries to explain why Mitt Romney doesn’t quite gel with Middle Class and Working Class Conservative voters. He makes Romney sound like the slightly nerdy white guy sitting around studying mathematics problems in Southside Richmond, VA. Romney doesn’t dislike these people as much as he doesn’t grok their folkways quite, and can’t make himself look authentic.

I think this dramatically understates Mitt Romney’s problems with Conservative voters. To Governor Romney, Southern and Mid-Western Social Conservatives are like Dustin Hoffman’s character in the great Western Little Big Man was to the Cheyenne Indians who rescued him from death. Mitt Romney doesn’t even subconsciously believe he comes from the same species. The word Cheyenne, when translated literally, means “human being.” Those who were not Cheyenne were considered something else.

Mitt Romney, I’ve come to sincerely believe, considers those not from his own rather isolated Cheyenne Village to be something else. It explains how he could even accidently articulate the fact that he doesn’t worry about the very poor. He’s willing to be nice to people like myself, but it’s not like he’ll any more use for me after Election Day than he would for a prophylactic after an act of sexual intercourse.

I couldn’t make Mitt Romney understand who I am and where I come from even if he was really bored one afternoon and decide to amuse himself by actually giving a rat’s anus. There simply isn’t any way on God’s Green Earth that Mitt Romney would ever afford me the status of someone he would actually owe something to. If I ever were presumptuous enough to suggest such a thing it would serve as a profound affront to his self-image and dignity.

Like Ann Coulter in the wake of her “THREE CHEERS FOR ROMNEYCARE” debacle and the Massachusetts GOP, anyone foolish enough to believe Mitt Romney owed them something in return for a vote would quickly discover the finite limits of Lord Willard’s sense of noblesse oblige. Some reasons actually exist to support to support Mitt Romney for President. One or two of them might even be worthwhile. However, any sense that he feels a bond of honor to movement Conservatism is simply delusional.

I look back at all the great, wise and hilarious things Jonah Goldberg has written for National Review Magazine. This body of superb political commentary gives me reason to hope this endorsement he penned of Mitt Romney was just the lower tail of his Bell Curve. Jonah, for the sake of your honor as a man of intellect; climb down from the Mitt Romney Tank.

[newheart]

...just the lower tail of his Bell Curve.

I am so going to use that line.

[WayneS]

I think the author should subject this piece to one more round of proof-reading/editing, but overall it’s pretty good stuff.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The GOP Primary certain has been a Rorschach test!

[TexasCajun]

A Photo-shop of Ann Coulter in the tank would be most appropriate.

[Leep]

A Photo-shop of Ann Coulter in the tank would be most appropriate.

I thought that was AC in the photo in the article? :o

[SatinDoll]

One of the reasons elites like Romney is becasue he is an Ivy leaguer, he has economic expertise, and he has money.

We don’t need another Ivy leaguer in the White House! They always end up listening to the wrong advise.

As for his business accumen, what economic expertise? I firmly believe Romney has no such economic skill.

It doesn’t take much expertise to slash jobs, close plants, move production overseas, leave shareholders with worthless paper and creditors holding an empty bag. Of course, Bain investors reaped enormous profit.

Romney doesn’t care about people, only money. His objective was always the bottom line return for investors regardless of jobs, local impact, environmental or other considerations, or in some cases even the long term health of the business.

Mostly, he has no vision on how real wealth is created. His “capitalism” is of the wrecking yard sort, not the entrepreneurial sort where wealth is created.

Now imagine this man as our President. Nope, sorry, I just can not tolerate the thought. Romney is no leader.

He is attmepting to buy his way into the Republican nomination with filthy lucre. Harry Truman used to say that working in politics was like being a piano player in a whore house. There is no doubt that politicians, like whores, can be bought.

I certainly believe we can do better than Gov.Romney.

[SaraJohnson]

I remember when Mass. Christians voted in libertarian Gov. Weld. Like Romney, he did all he could to stick his fingers in their eyes once he got their votes. He was as nasty and bigoted as any Marxist they could have put in office.

Mittens has been careful to distance himself from grassroots conserative rallies and conferences FOR A REASON! He does not want to be beholden to conservatives because he is already married to Golden Sacks.