the question for me is what is statist romney’s strategy. what follows is pure opinion:
he must be counting on the squishy, feel good, moderate republicans, independents, anti-social conservative libertarians and even some democrats to win the general.
how does he get to the general?
he has to count on the moderate, uninformed republican voter who is in panicked stampede to get rid of obama, i.e., the anyone but obama voter as his base. that should get him about 1/3 of the primary vote.
he has to believe he can out last us with his “quid pro quo,” party first, republican collective backers and their money. he also wants the party machinery to speed up the process (remember obama and the middle of the night). everything is a crisis. has to be decided quickly. alinsky at its best and romney is a proficent alinskite.
by his comments and positions (i.e., pro abort, pro gov’t run healthcare = slavery, pro good democrats, pro obama (his heart is in the right place), he knows that most conservatives will not work for him and millions of us simply cannot vote for him out of conscience (i.e., commit a sin, my belief in God dictates that the ends (getting rid of obama) can never justify the means (voting for romney or any other proabort enslaver.))
besides romney *is* obamalite. even if he does become president the difference will be like getting hit with obama the commie freight train vs. getting hit by romney the socialist, big government semi-truck. yeah, there’s a difference but your still dead as a doornail.
the other reason not to work for romney is that he will most likely lose. there is a reason that obama wants romney. i don’t blame anyone for voting for romney, eventhough i can’t. but it most likely will (as with mccain) make no difference. i can’t even begin to imagine the colossal series of mistakes obama the sitting president would have to make to lose to liberal romney. they’re almost two peas in a pod.
if romney is the nominee, i’m going to spend my time on local and congressional races sporting real conservatives around the country. that way. if obama or romney the statist is in the WH, we’ll have a congress and state governments in place to oppose either one.
how will i as an individual combat his strategy. help build a 5th column of conservatives in government.
1 give money to the top two or three conservatives to keep them in the race against romney to the end.
2 support the tea party and “stop romney” to educate the ignorant third of republican voters.
3 support local, state and congressional true conservatives.
4 unfortunately, i don’t know how (not being a republican) to slow down the republican party collective. i hope someone out there has some ideas. we need to delay the choice. the longer we keep romney from clinching the nomination, the better our chances.
at a minimum, if we get a liberal statist president. we will need to continue to grid lock his policies in the congress or at the state levels.
oh well, this is over long for a comment. i’ll close there.
Pretty decent commentary; thanks for posting.