Romney was simply the candidate that was chose by the Republican Party establishment.
I’m sure that Romeny is a fine man good father, good businessman, and good citizen, he was simply too vulnerable for the creation of RomenyCare and many of the very socialist things he did as governor of the People’s Republic of Massachusetts.
Rove, as an adviser to the Romeny campaign and master of moving the middle, had in fact swung many of the those in the middle to our side. Rove has always taken the stance that it is better to pander to the “undecideds” than to secure the base, thinking that the base has nowhere else to go.
Rove was able to move the middle in 2000 and 2004 and get Bush elected. Those of us on the right knew that Bush was a fine man, but had his shortcomings. Most notable was Michael Savage’s Compassionate Conservativeism. We accepted these and voted for him twice.
Bush was the right man for 2001 and when the attacks came in September, showed his metal.
However, it was a mistake to go into Afghanistan. We should have paid the Russians to clear out Afghanistan with a complete gloves off do what needs to be done approach with whatever tactical support necessary to complete the mission and bring us bin Laden, Mullah Omar, Zawahiri, etc. heads on a pikes.
Once that was completed we needed to enlist the Russians again to clean up their own Islamic problems before we went into Iraq. Between the Russians in Afghanistan and the US in Iraq together we could have crushed Iran like a walnut.
Back to the topic at hand, Romeny is a fine man, just not the right man at this time. He was far to patrician in his approach to the campaign. He didn’t want to get down and dirty, and he needed to be like Gingrich in a bloody knuckles street brawl with the gangbanger campaign of the DemocRATS.
That was his true weakness. His niceness. And there is no doubt in my mind that Mitt Romney is probably the nicest man you could ever meet. We all know the saying.... nice guys finish last.
And so it goes, we have let the Patricians decide the candidate, and then proceed by Marquis of Queensbury boxing rules in a street rumble.
Limbaugh let himself get sucked in by a political activist who literally was targeting him for destruction. The ensuing mess was the whole point of Ms. Fluke’s comments....it’s not that she was kvetching about the availability of Birth Control Pills or even the price. The target was Limbaugh. He was targeted and played by his own passions for propriety. They tried to economically assassinate him and almost succeeded.
So the question is...when will we play the game the way the democRATS play it? Because if we don’t we are DOOMED. And it may already be too late.
Apparently Chris Chrispie's bear hug "swung many in the middle" to the wrong side, which really shows how unreliable and propaganda prone the middle and undecided are.
They are idiots, they are easily spooked and they are easily fooled. They can't be won over in the current propaganda filled environment.
Better to appeal to the base and appeal to the millions of conservative (a.k.a common sense)voters who sit elections out because they are turned off by the long line of moderates, and doofuses that we nominate.
If you think Romney is a “nice” man unable to fight, there is a bridge in NY with your name on it. It’s a little storm weathered but I can get it for you real cheap.
Funny, all the early talk here was about it being a good thing Romney could go after conservatives because it was a sign that he was a real fighter. Now you think he’s too nice. LOL!
Here in Florida, one of the problems we had was that Romney tore Newt Gingrich to shreds. He told every lie he could throw, every nasty rumor he could dig up. But when it came down to running against Obama, who is a liberal like himself, he could not do it. People here could not believe it. His Obama is just a nice guy in over his head campaign did not play here. Conservatives could not imagine Obama as being a nice, cool guy while Newt Gingrich and any other conservative was portrayed as minion of Satan.
Romney is not nice. He acts nice to liberals. He attacks conservatives with the same vehemence as the liberals do. Don’t forget that when the GOP-e tries to force him on us again.