Posted on 04/06/2012 11:21:33 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
Some influential conservative thinkers have concluded that Mitt Romney’s struggle to ignite voter enthusiasm reflects a more serious problem for Republicans in setting unrealistic expectations for their presidential nominee. Calling their alliance Project Liberty, the newly formed group says the former Massachusetts governor cannot beat President Obama unless tea party members and the GOP’s activists — including conservatives on the Republican National Committee — adjust their mindset about insisting on a fully formed, ideologically reliable candidate as their standard-bearer.... Project Liberty backers have concluded that Mr. Romney will not win the White House on the basis of something he is not — a 21st century American philosopher-king. Nor will he win the presidency unless the right’s various interest groups, from tea party activists to RNC conservatives, unite. The right’s unrealistic search for the knight in shining armor helps explain the rise and fall of a string of challengers to Mr. Romney in the nomination merry-go-round this year. Project Liberty’s founders also say that longing explains why tea partyers split their vote about evenly between Mr. Romney and Rick Santorum in the Illinois primary, late in the primary season.
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Not voting for Romney. All he will do is destroy what little reputation remains of the Republican Party as being conservative.
The party also has a number of factions. It's up to the factions to focus on the ideological purity and the preparedness of their candidates.
We usually get screwed up when the party apparatchiks, who should be non-judgmental when it comes to internal factions, decide they know better who to run. That's when you get candidates who can't beat Democrats.
Time for the professionals to take a back seat to the factions and let this battle play out on the Convention floor, or their boy, Romney, can back out now.
We tried reforming.
Now it’s time to try replacing.
When the RINO wins over a RINO, conservatives are expected to unite behind him. When a conservative wins, the RINOs will unite to destroy him or her (eg, Murkowski vs Miller in Alaska; Christine O’Donnell in Delaware)
If you want a liberal like romney go join the Dems. Get out of the repubs as all you do is turn people away with your liberal talk. Screw you Rino’s.
From the article:
“Hoover Institution scholar Jeremy Carl, another Project Liberty founder, said the problem is that GOP activists are, more than ever, searching for the impossible: a single political savior capable of leading America back to its founding principles of limited government and unlimited opportunity.”
No Messrs. Hallow and Carl, you are wrong. I’m merely searching for a consistent conservative to be my Candidate. That is certainly not a Sissyphean task. I will not compromise my consistent principles for a candidate that the establishment has become comfortable regarding his morally casual and flexible attitude towards his principles.
Compromise yours. I will not compromise mine.
Voting for Obama, I see.
It's the second article about Romney trying to reduce expectations of conservatives that we'll get a conservative candidate. It now appears clear that Romney — or at least some people in his campaign — are trying to float trial balloons about “moving to the center” in the fall election.
It looks like this earlier “Liberated from the Tea Party” article wasn't just a one-time incident.
That earlier article was here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2867161/posts
This trial balloon needs to get shot down — **NOW.**
Some of us on Free Republic are willing to put up with Romney as the nominee because they think he'll govern as a conservative. These articles are pointing to the opposite, namely, that he seems to be exploring the possibility of following Bob Dole's model of campaigning in the primary one way and then torpedoing his base in the general election.
Time is running very short to stop Romney. It may already be too late. But these articles indicate that at least some people in the Romney campaign are planning to move toward Obama to try to win the election as a moderate, and if that happens, we've got a tremendously worse problem on our hands than we have now.
The GOP doesn't want tea party activists or RNC conservatives. That is abundantly clear. I would rather field a Tea Party candidate for president than unite with the Romney led Republican party. I would rather see Obama win than "unite" with the moderate scum of the GOP. EF THEM!
Voting for Obama, I see.
Please don’t explain the difference, because I don’t see it!
RINO’s should form their own party, but the intent is to destroy any real opposition to leftism.
The GOP HATES conservatives, and works with the Dems AGAINST us, in elections and on legislation....why vote for those who hate us, marginalize us in the press, lie about us in the press...why??????
NIce try. A vote for Romney is also a vote for the SAME liberalism that is Obama.
ither way, you get what we have had for the last 3 1/2 years. Just this time, it would have an R instead of a D, but idealogically, it is the SAME Animal
Really? I thought it was Romney's scorched-earth tactics and lavishly funded lies and bought-and-paid-for endorsements . . .
I have voted against democrats, in every election since 1971, by voting for republicans. The only two times I actually voted FOR, meaning supported them with more than a simple vote, R. Reagan and S. Palin.
The corrupt LBJ and George Parr, the duke of Duvall county, Texas established my voting preference early in life.
F Yue
Read my tagline. Paraphrased from Bishop Willard himself.
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