Posted on 03/06/2012 6:00:39 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
What an embarrassing piece. Et tu, Major Garrett?
Romney voters aren’t “rational”; they’re delusional - delusional to think he is anything other than a MA liberal temporarily sash-shaying around in conservative drag.
Here:
Mitt Romney: The Unconvincing Convert
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2855252/posts
And don’t heed the Santorum siren call, the diversion, for that’s just what it is.
Newt is the best we have.
Vote NEWT!
“Let Them Go Their Way
Governor Ronald Reagan (R-CA)
Conservative Political Action Conference
Washington, DC
March 1, 1975
Since our last meeting we have been through a disastrous election. It is easy for us to be discouraged, as pundits hail that election as a repudiation of our philosophy and even as a mandate of some kind or other. But the significance of the election was not registered by those who voted, but by those who stayed home. If there was anything like a mandate it will be found among almost two-thirds of the citizens who refused to participate.
Bitter as it is to accept the results of the November election, we should have reason for some optimism. For many years now we have preached “the gospel,” in opposition to the philosophy of so-called liberalism which was, in truth, a call to collectivism.
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We did not seek world leadership; it was thrust upon us. It has been our destiny almost from the first moment this land was settled. If we fail to keep our rendezvous with destiny or, as John Winthrop said in 1630, “Deal falsely with our God,” we shall be made “a story and byword throughout the world.”
Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness.
I don ‘t know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, “We must broaden the base of our party”—when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.
It was a feeling that there was not a sufficient difference now between the parties that kept a majority of the voters away from the polls. When have we ever advocated a closed-door policy? Who has ever been barred from participating?
Our people look for a cause to believe in. Is it a third party we need, or is it a new and revitalized second party, raising a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors which make it unmistakably clear where we stand on all of the issues troubling the people?
Let us show that we stand for fiscal integrity and sound money and above all for an end to deficit spending, with ultimate retirement of the national debt.
Let us also include a permanent limit on the percentage of the people’s earnings government can take without their consent.
Let our banner proclaim a genuine tax reform that will begin by simplifying the income tax so that workers can compute their obligation without having to employ legal help.
And let it provide indexing—adjusting the brackets to the cost of living—so that an increase in salary merely to keep pace with inflation does not move the taxpayer into a surtax bracket. Failure to provide this means an increase in government’s share and would make the worker worse off than he was before he got the raise.
Let our banner proclaim our belief in a free market as the greatest provider for the people.
Let us also call for an end to the nit-picking, the harassment and over-regulation of business and industry which restricts expansion and our ability to compete in world markets.
Let us explore ways to ward off socialism, not by increasing government’s coercive power, but by increasing participation by the people in the ownership of our industrial machine.
Our banner must recognize the responsibility of government to protect the law-abiding, holding those who commit misdeeds personally accountable.
And we must make it plain to international adventurers that our love of peace stops short of “peace at any price.”
We will maintain whatever level of strength is necessary to preserve our free way of life.
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.”
LLS
Go Newt!
With romney we get Obama-lite. That's just not good enough. If he gets the nomination, then that will be the best we can get. But until then, go for broke, to win or lose it all.
Thank you LLS.
I will send this your way.
“Ronald Reagan - Why We Must Fight”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpH5L8zCtSk&feature=player_embedded
Here’s one for you. They never mention how he carpet bombs the other GOP field.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/292675/acceptable-man-robert-costa
“The Acceptable Man - Mitt Romney doesn’t stir passion, but perhaps he doesn’t need to.”
Thank you CW! So many wish to ignore History.
LLS
Given Bar Bush’s comment that the Republican campaign is “too ugly”, and she’s “worried about it”, while at the same time expressing total support of her and GHWB for Mitt Romney, your reminder of the campaign HE has run is most appropriate.
These people do not get it.
The part they don’t get is that we, here at this level, who vote, are not going to defer to their “better judgement”, when we can clearly see how they and their ilk have helped, or stood idly by during, the destruction of our beloved country.
I like her.
But she’s dead wrong.
Mitt Romney has run the most cynical, sleazy, dirty campaign I’ve ever seen. Wonder what Bar would say about?
Mitt Romney has run the most cynical, sleazy, dirty campaign I’ve ever seen. Wonder what Bar would say about?
She called into a tv show and on the one hand complained about the ugly campaign, and in the same breath expressed her wholehearted support for Mitt Romney. She either doesn’t know, which shows her cluelessness, or she knows and doesn’t care.
You might like to go here...
A Super tight Tennessee Tuesday - Polls show Santorum, Romney, Gingrich in 3-way battle
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2855342/posts
Check out my comment #5, if you have time.
It was in response to a point made there that James Dobson has endorsed Santorum in TN and is running constant radio ads for him.
The thread is posted by Santorum supporters.
“And, in the minds of many, appearing “presidential” equates to the best looking candidate.”
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Yep, we need a “Mystery Challenger” who looks like this guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMfiuHHXwIw
This morning on local talk radio a radio host being interviewed from Tennessee said Perry made a robo call for Gingrich.
“Mitt Romney has run the most cynical, sleazy, dirty campaign I’ve ever seen.”
And, ironically, he will be clean jean against Obama. Tells you who the ruling class regards as the real enemy. Once it’s down to Romney/Obama, then it’s just ruling class factions fighting over money and power.
How I wish the spectre of Reagan would inhabit the souls of those in the GOP...then this election would be a GRAND SLAM for us, GUARANTEED.
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