Posted on 02/03/2012 3:38:32 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The Case for Romney - A president who owes you is better than one who owns you.
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Let me try to offer some solace. Even if Romney is a Potemkin conservative (a claim I think has merit but is also exaggerated), 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.
A President Romney would be on a very short leash. A President Gingrich would probably chew through his leash in the first ten minutes of his presidency and wander off into trouble. 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. Moreover, Romney is not a man of vision. He is a man of duty and purpose. He was told to “fix” health care in ways Massachusetts would like. He was told to fix the 2002 Olympics. He was told to create Bain Capital. He did it all. The man does his assignments.
In this light, voting for Romney isn’t a betrayal, it’s a transaction. No, that’s not very exciting or reassuring for those who’d sooner see monkeys fly out their nethers than compromise again. But such a bargain may just be necessary before judgment day comes.
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Yup, they were the ones who bought into the fallacious ‘personal responsibility’ argument made for the individual mandate. Didn’t have the common sense to see the obvious socialism in the thing. They’re always trying to make socialism acceptable to Conservatives. That’s basically the Romney shtick. Explains why there’s so many Bots over there.
I think the argument has merit.
Doesn’t make me happier, but it does have merit.
One of my concerns all along about how quickly and thoroughly some conservatives went all-in for Gingrich was the message it sends an unreliable pol such as himself. As I have said, I’m quite sure he’s had moments when he’s thought to himself, “Gawd these people are easy.”
OTOH, making the candidates work and work hard for the nomination will, in fact, tend to put them on notice that they owe us, big-time. How that notice is responded to once a man is actually President is really a function of personality and ego.
Perhaps Jonah wants to lay it on the line. But my question is, who will put up the first ad -- Axelrod or Gingrich?
"Jonah Goldberg says Mitt Romney has no core values -- Americans should ask, who is set to give Mitt his marching orders?"
Nothing Romney says on the stump means anything -- to paraphrase Nancy Pelosi, "You'll know what Mitt Romney is after you put him in the White House and he reads the selected script."
A President Romney would be on a very short leash
Who’s going to hold back a RINO President? The GOP Congress that is itself run by a “moderate” majority? Will this short lease force him to push forward conservative policies? We need to elect a President that will put the liberals on defense. As long as conservatives are merely trying to hold back socialism, we will continue to lose ground. A vote for anyone less than a complete conservative is a vote for socialism.
Do you honestly think that this same "interference" would not need to be run on Gingrich's behalf if he became the nominee?
Wowzer.
No matter who we nominate, we are going to have to be out there defending him on the basis of "what he meant to say." That's just the way it is.
Gingrich's new ad is required watching!
Just off the top of my head, I can think of a couple of ways: The United States Supreme Court.
Perhaps Mr. Goldberg needs to make the case for Newt Gingrich..... and if not we should ask, why not?
“Mitt is mean to dogs and he is not worried about poor people.”
And he speaks French, too.
And why Donald Trump endorsed him.....he took the measure of the man and found that he could play him.
What is the evidence you see that Gingrich will feel beholden to the conservative base and that that will keep him on a short leash rather than going down every rabbit hole that enters his mind?
Or do you just trust Gingrich implicitly?
Sincere questions.
Why is Mitt Romney running? If you don't have core beliefs or a program, why do you run for the presidency? Power? Prestige? You were told to? You want to avenge your father? Be better than your father? Make your church mainstream? What!?
Because you cannot make a case for a junkyard dog when the American people have clearly voiced their preference for a lapdog.
If republicans wanted a pit bull at the bully pulpit, we’d have one. Instead, they like the spokesrats speaking on behalf of the Bichon Frise.
I can’t vote for Obama, but I probably can’t vote for mitt either (remember his religion wants to rule America-and is blasphemous).
Don’t know what to do-much prayer to Jesus is required!
Crass. Unprincipled. Foolish.
In other words, Goldberg is the personification of what the formerly grand old party has become.
That puts Gingrich ahead in this "game" as he does NOT want to "manage the decline" but wants to build on and renew the truth of American exceptionalism.
Newt does not want to "fix the safety net," preferring instead to bring back the "trampoline."
Newt wants to unleash people who dream, not "nurture" those who sit in dark rooms and rot.
I do not trust anyone implicitly but I sure as hell do want to know something about them. So.... I look at their record. Between Mitt and Newt — it’s Newt, hands down.
Here in the real world, in November 2012 America is going to elect one of these 3 men as President: barack obama, Mitt Romney, or Newt Gingrich.
(Except that it probably isn’t going to be Newt).
So....that’s where we are.
Do you honestly think Gingrich is as vapid and gaffe bound as Biden is? Given fair audience by the press (which won't happen), Gingrich is more likely to provide rational explanation than Romney is.
“Because you cannot make a case for a junkyard dog when the American people have clearly voiced their preference for a lapdog.
If republicans wanted a pit bull at the bully pulpit, we’d have one. Instead, they like the spokesrats speaking on behalf of the Bichon Frise.”
Priceless!
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