Posted on 01/20/2012 7:15:24 PM PST by RobinMasters
With America’s future at stake in November, I decided to support Mitt Romney for three reasons: his Reaganaut philosophy, executive experience and general-election campaign strengths…
Mr. Obama’s manifold failings underscore the final issue: electability. Competitors and politicos are already endlessly analyzing this question, so I’ll make only three brief points.
First, there is an infinitesimally small chance that Mr. Romney will self-destruct in September or October. “No-drama Obama,” meet your match. Second, Mr. Romney has the overwhelming lead in endorsements from Republican senators and representatives—the most aware, self-interested community, bar none, regarding our nominee’s electability. No propensity there to grandiosity or suicide. Third, Mr. Romney shares one of Reagan’s most important and attractive characteristics: being critical without being angry or scornful.
The late Bill Buckley bequeathed us the right test: Pick the most conservative candidate capable of winning. That is clearly Mitt Romney.
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Shut up John Bolton. Go back to talking about foreign policy, where you belong.
Mr. Bolton..I like and respect you...but I question your opinion in this matter,
I think John is a great thinker and a tremendous foreign policy wonk, but he has apparently lost focus on things other then his area of expertise.
Mitt is such a waffly fog, that maybe Bolton (and other Mitt cheerers-on) think Obama will find fighting him like trying to fight a will-o-the-wisp.
And so many people here wanted Bolton to run.
The phrase “Romney is the only conservative ...” is an oxymoron.
I think that pretty well sums it up.
He’s great at foreign relations, but he’s off base here.
He’s still a great asset.
Romney, Romney, Romney, Romney, Romney, Romney!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
/sarcasm.
What in the “H” is a Conservative if Romney is one?
Bolton’s messed up.
Except that he’s right. Yah, I’d love to see Newt as President, but he’s not going to make it on the national stage. Too many negatives in his baggage to get that last few percent it takes to win. Romney will have wider appeal than Gingrich. That’s just the truth of it. I don’t have to like it, but we’re fools to ignore it.
The liberal fascists have been satisfied with incremental change... And they’ve been kicking our asses because of it. We want it all at once or nothing. So... We’ve been getting a lot of nothing. Me... I’m assuming that Obama will win re-election and am planning accordingly. We’re going to screw this one up too.
Romney may be the Republican that can beat 0bama, but he’s no conservative.
I’d still like to see Bolton as Sec. of State, regardless of his politics.
B/S!
That is an agricultural term for you to consider....
Are you posting this to promote RINOmney?
WTF is going on with our conservative warriors? The stupid ... it hurts.
Let's face it...
Romney has more baggage than a Pullman car can hold....
Maybe Romney promised Bolton the Secretary of State post. Bolton is smart enough to know who our enemies are. But calling Romney a conservative? Bolton is way off.
“Bolton’s messed up”.
Is he messed up or was he promised something for the endorsement? I’m beginning to wonder just how “intelligent” bolton truly is...
No one in politics have disappointed me as much as Bolton. He COULD have save the US in 2008, but refused to run for president - even though his own staff wanted him to run, as well as people like Jim Quinn.
Too busy making money to save the country.
Bolton would never win as a Presidential candidate. Too bad... Since he’s so awesome. I would love to see him as SecState, though.
To the current population, that word has too many definitions.
It just doesn’t seem logical for the Highest Office of the country to be given to a man who actually believes in a Prophet Joseph Smith, who supposedly saw gold plates that he under great inspiration could translate. No one ever saw these plates but 8 people, from the same family. Moroni the angel never let us compare these manuscripts and it’s authenticity, and that the candidate would descend from this prophet with 29 wives, and that the grandfather would prefer living in Mexico so he could practice polygamy. THIS is not an American tradition. He hasn’t distanced himself from this...now has he John Bolton. Suck it up, we don’t want anyone delusional in the highest office of authority of the land.
It just doesn’t seem logical for the Highest Office of the country to be given to a man who actually believes in a Prophet Joseph Smith, who supposedly saw gold plates that he under great inspiration could translate. No one ever saw these plates but 8 people, from the same family. Moroni the angel never let us compare these manuscripts and it’s authenticity, and that the candidate would descend from this prophet with 29 wives, and that the grandfather would prefer living in Mexico so he could practice polygamy. THIS is not an American tradition. He hasn’t distanced himself from this...now has he John Bolton. Suck it up, we don’t want anyone delusional in the highest office of authority of the land.
It just doesn’t seem logical for the Highest Office of the country to be given to a man who actually believes in a Prophet Joseph Smith, who supposedly saw gold plates that he under great inspiration could translate. No one ever saw these plates but 8 people, from the same family. Moroni the angel never let us compare these manuscripts and it’s authenticity, and that the candidate would descend from this prophet with 29 wives, and that the grandfather would prefer living in Mexico so he could practice polygamy. THIS is not an American tradition. He hasn’t distanced himself from this...now has he John Bolton. Suck it up, we don’t want anyone delusional in the highest office of authority of the land.
It just doesn’t seem logical for the Highest Office of the country to be given to a man who actually believes in a Prophet Joseph Smith, who supposedly saw gold plates that he under great inspiration could translate. No one ever saw these plates but 8 people, from the same family. Moroni the angel never let us compare these manuscripts and it’s authenticity, and that the candidate would descend from this prophet with 29 wives, and that the grandfather would prefer living in Mexico so he could practice polygamy. THIS is not an American tradition. He hasn’t distanced himself from this...now has he John Bolton. Suck it up, we don’t want anyone delusional in the highest office of authority of the land.
It just doesn’t seem logical for the Highest Office of the country to be given to a man who actually believes in a Prophet Joseph Smith, who supposedly saw gold plates that he under great inspiration could translate. No one ever saw these plates but 8 people, from the same family. Moroni the angel never let us compare these manuscripts and it’s authenticity, and that the candidate would descend from this prophet with 29 wives, and that the grandfather would prefer living in Mexico so he could practice polygamy. THIS is not an American tradition. He hasn’t distanced himself from this...now has he John Bolton. Suck it up, we don’t want anyone delusional in the highest office of authority of the land.
It just doesn’t seem logical for the Highest Office of the country to be given to a man who actually believes in a Prophet Joseph Smith, who supposedly saw gold plates that he under great inspiration could translate. No one ever saw these plates but 8 people, from the same family. Moroni the angel never let us compare these manuscripts and it’s authenticity, and that the candidate would descend from this prophet with 29 wives, and that the grandfather would prefer living in Mexico so he could practice polygamy. THIS is not an American tradition. He hasn’t distanced himself from this...now has he John Bolton. Suck it up, we don’t want anyone delusional in the highest office of authority of the land.
Bolton starts off with a lie. By no stretch of the imagination is Romney a Conservative.
Romney probably promised him SOS is what I’ve been thinking.
FWIW I’ve been saying for awhile now that Romney has made the promises, money has exchanged hands, he has bought, and paid for this nomination, and the GOP RINO leadership is going to make sure he gets it one way or the other.
It’ll be interesting to see what they do to eliminate Newt.
The GOP RINO leadership is going to pull every dirty trick in the book (It’ll look like Democrats at work) to get Romney as their nominee.
Newt’s fighting not only Romney, but the RINO GOP leadership, the DemoRATS, and the FR single issue “Conservatives” as well.
Well, I don’t think Mitt has that wide of an appeal.
So if we go down (I do agree we probably will) why not go down swinging...instead of a McCain redux.
Romney is a conservative of the Uber Faux variety and is the least likely Republican to be able to beat the kenyan.
We should have known you can’t trust a guy with a mustache like that.
After reading your comments over and over again. From whence do you get the idea I support Romney ... catch my tag line. My comment was about Bolton.
Please justify your rampage and its association with my comment. I would love to hear your response.
“It’ll be interesting to see what they do to eliminate Newt”.
IMHO, I think this election is going to be the dirtiest, nastiest, most vile one in our history. That is just my gut feeling. There won’t be anything above consideration either. I hope I am wrong.
You may be right. America may have moved too far to the leftist side to accept a true conservative (with or without baggage). However, I would much rather have a person whom I believe has conservative politics like Newt to run, then have mr. Waffly run as a “conservative” that we know he isn’t.
If Mitt wins the GOP primary, I will NOT vote for him for president. I will write in Palin’s name or something, but I am DONE voting for pretend conservatives. If that means Obama is what the majority of voters want, then America is dead to me and let the wars begin.
That's because the Cloward-Piven crowd is literally only one national election away from bringing to fruition their decades-long ambition -- total collapse of our currency, economy, and society.
Guaranteed you are not wrong.
Have you noticed he’s dyed his hair almost every other month.
Just gone a charcoal gray this week. He may have some esteem issues.
Probably was promised a cabinet position.
Oh well.
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Bolton is bolting out the gate before the race has started.
The WFB rule for choosing winning candidates gave the nation Joseph Lieberman among others.
It's a flawed premise for two reasons: 1) it's not that easy to know who is "capable of winning" before votes are counted; and 2) the degree of conservativism exhibited by candidates running for office may not persist once they are elected and begin to hold the reins of power.
A candidate's previous conduct in office, his voting record and his personal traits are much more reliable indicators than the perceived "conservatism" he might exude on the campaign trail.
As everyone here should be aware by now, Mitt Romney is a very slick salesman. He says what he has been told will bring the most Republicans to his side, and it works . . so far.
It will not work if by some quirk of fate he becomes the Republican nominee and has to "moderate" his views to get the independent segment of the vote.
Bolton did to Conservatives what Gov. Richardson did to Hillary. Sorry John, Romney isn’t a conservative—I don’t know if Mitt even knows how to define a conservative properly.
John, I fear you have sold out your friends to join the Mitt Bandwagon. You took a risk but being a traitor never pays. Look what happened to Richardson—he sold out his friends the Clinton’s hoping to get something from Obama—he got noting but a lot of legal problems. He betrayed the trust of Bill and Hillary-— a traitor stinks, left or right. The Tea Party will remember John Bolton for this “endorsement” and he will pay a price.
We also loved Powell until we got to know him. Live and learn...
Remember when McCain was our only chance, for many of the same reasons?
Your freakin' RINOs fail!
Mitt must have already offered Bolton Sec of State signed in blood. Its going to be awkward crawling back to Newt if he wins the nomination.
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