Posted on 02/24/2012 9:06:41 AM PST by Resettozero
Mitt Romney cannot win the Republican presidential nomination. He is a man who seemingly entered the race because, after a long and successful working life, he could think of nothing more impressive to top it all off than being President of the United States. From last spring to this very moment, much of the Republican Establishment has been solidly, viciously, in his corner. And yet he cannot win. Most people, when their candidate looks hopeless, turn to another available candidate who might be satisfactory. The Republican Establishment, which is not like most people, is beginning to murmur about a brokered convention. They are determined to get what they want, by hook or by crook, by Drudge or by Fox.
What is it that they want, exactly? To get a hint of an answer, one must look at the man they have supported thus far.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Thanks for confirming my initial impression. A second reading is even more edifying! The author isn’t as good-looking as you or I but he sure has our smarts. Plus a few.
I’ve read this article a second time and, even though it’s Friday evening here, I think others FReeper would benefit from reading this. This kind of well-thought-out and complete article doesn’t come out every day, or every week.
But Michael Medved says there is no “establisment” republicans. He says its a myth. Hey, he said it, not me.
Smart guy, actually.
The current candidates rail endlessly against a mythical “out-of-touch GOP establishment.” But the only establishment that really means anything is the establishment of currently empowered officeholders, led by congressmen and senators and governors who are actually far more in touch with the opinions of the constituents who regularly re-elect them than are presidential candidates who have been years away from meaningful electoral accountability. While the White House contenders focus exclusively on appealing to the small minority of Republicans who actually bother voting in party primaries (where turnout has declined decisively and disastrously), governors and members of Congress need to worry about the additional opinions of independents and even wavering Democrats who will help to fire or re-hire them in an impending election. Those same independents and dubious Dems will make the final decision on either renewing or terminating Barack Obama’s contract in November.
He's also right about this: GOP Presidential Contenders Are All Out of Office and as a Result Out of Touch.
Romney can and will do nothing to awaken people from the profound moral desuetude that is bringing the abyss closer every day. And, strange as it may seem, that’s just why the Republican Establishment chose him. It must not be forgotten that, at the very beginning of the primary process, back at the 2011 CPAC Conference, the Establishment-manufactured man of the moment was Mitch Daniels. “Mitch Who?” asked those genuine conservatives who smelled a rat. It was understood, and made explicit by prominent Establishment voices, that he was the man precisely because he spoke like a reasonable fiscal manager—while simultaneously speaking out strongly against allowing the so-called “social conservative” agenda to play a role in the 2012 election.
Awake! Awake! Awake from your profound moral desuetude that is bringing the abyss closer every day!
No presidential candidate is going to be able to do that. At least none of the candidates running now (and probably nobody who uses the word "desuetude").
For all this talk about McCain and Dole and the establishment, this year looks like Dole all over again, with Gingrich, say, constantly lecturing voters about their morality. Gingrich or Santorum may take it further than Dole, who had his own skeletons in the closet, but it won't work this time any better than it did in 1996.
We may be headed towards the abyss, but voters don't pick candidates who keep telling us that. And do you really think any of the current candidates really could effect the kind of changes in the public mind that Jonescu assumes a President can?
The cheap shot at Daniels is undeserved. He may not have been an ideal candidate, but he knew that himself. To look for a candidate who's actually in office, who's actually had to balance budgets and meet payrolls is only common sense.
Run down everybody who actually has administrative experience in favor of speechmakers who don't know how to do anything in the real world and you get -- well, you get what we've got now. Ronald Reagan, who had to balance budgets and meet payrolls wouldn't have gone in for cheap shots like this.
Perhaps he is. But I stopped reading his movie reviews a long time ago because I disagreed with his assessments.
Well, if there isn’t a GOPe establishment, who are those guys that are acting like they’re the GOPe establishment?
Medved’s wrong.
By destroying President Bush the media destroyed the ‘Republican Establishment’ for now.
Without a leader the ‘Republican Establishment’ consists of it’s campaign funders, not the ‘currently empowered officeholders’.
As for your followup post, don’t agree with much of it either.
I didn’t write the article but you act as if I did. Please consider the possibility you are wrong on your sweeping judgements. Thanks. Recognizing the familiar tone of your posts, I don’t want to argue further with you.
I don't think his goal is the presidency. He "deserves" the nomination. I don't think he has any illusions about beating the kenyan as someone who can implement communist policies more efficiently than the incumbent. He is like Dole and McCain. Neither actually wanted to be president. They both felt they deserved the honor of being Nominated but didn't really want to hold the office.
“Taking over” the GOP is probably not possible.The GOP should be replaced and probably will be after the 2012 Debacle. Think Whigs.
John McCain did it to himself. He was part of the effort to undermine the opposition to the NWO or whatever the scheme for total control is called. Every time I heard Candidate McCain speak he left me wondering just who he wanted to win the election.
DOWN with the antidisestablishmentarians!
Repo Men (Wall St. bankers and D.C. ruling class, “more than a few of them belong in prison.”)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2826109/posts
Excellent NRO article substantiating this article and thread.
There’s bound to be more to it than just that. I would really like to know why the Republican nominees seem to evade doing what it takes to win the Presidency. Cannot seem to find a good-enough answer.
From that article:
“So there you have it: hedge-fund titans, i-bankers, congressional nabobs, committee chairmen, senators, swindlers, run-of-the-mill politicos, and a few outright thieves (these categories are not necessarily exclusive) all feeding at the same trough, and most of them betting that Mitt Romney won’t do anything more to stop it than Barack Obama did. If anything, the fact that Romney is having the least luck with the firm that knows him best speaks better of him than does the enthusiasm he apparently inspires in Goldman Sachs et al.”
No. Down with antidisestablishmentarism. Love the antidisestablishmentarians. (That doesn’t look right.)
Thanks for re-posting. Missed it the first time around.
It’s a disturbing must-read.
Elected officials who want to keep their jobs, plus conservative movement types in Washington who spend most of their time talking to each other. What they're doing may be the wrong thing, but it's not like the old Rockefeller Republican establishment is still around.
I didn’t write the article but you act as if I did.
Some people do post articles they wrote themselves here. But in any case, if you want people to respond to your posts, a lot of the comments are going to relate directly to what's written. If you don't want such comments, why post the article?
Please consider the possibility you are wrong on your sweeping judgements.
Of course I could be wrong, and often am. It's just my opinions. Are they really any more sweeping than anyone else's?
Thanks. Recognizing the familiar tone of your posts, I don’t want to argue further with you.
And a good day to you, too.
bump, reset
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