Mitt & Newt: A Plan to Win This Year

As the dust begins to quickly settle from the hotly contested Republican primary and Mitt Romney assumes the title of presumptive nominee, it’s important to recognize the role Newt Gingrich has played and will continue to play in helping the Republicans win the White House and Senate this fall.

The former House speaker recently told Newsmax in an interview that he remains in the race, not as a spoiler, but to play a key role promoting a conservative agenda at the Republican convention in Tampa in August. It’s a worthy goal – and I have no doubt that Newt will soon be officially supporting Mitt Romney to pursue that agenda.

Michael Reagan pointed out in a recent appearance on Fox News that Republicans must now unite behind Romney to defeat Obama and his liberal agenda. Considering the uphill battle we face, I couldn’t agree more.

And supporters of Gingrich and Santorum should keep in mind that the key goal now is to roll back the Obama agenda. We can only do that with a united front.

At the same time, Gov. Romney needs to realize that his nomination win came after a hard-fought battle, a war of attrition that saw one leading contender after another fall by the wayside until he was the last man standing. With superior funding and organization, Romney ultimately prevailed.

Though Newt failed to wrest the nomination, I believe he offered a very strong message that Mitt should tap into – a message that may have resonated even more strongly in the general election.

Today, Newt remains the great communicator of the Ronald Reagan vision of small government, strong national defense, low taxes, and individual freedom.

He also has a track record of accomplishment, acting as the key conservative figure behind the Contract with America...

To be motivationally convincing to conservatives, my proposal essentially calls upon Romney to put his proposed cabinet nominees where his rhetoric is, and to task each of them to campaign directly against Obama's currently sitting cabinet appointments.

Listen, I applaud your hopefull solution to the problem and your willingness to hope for something so impropable to happen.

I understand the emotion behind it. I understand the almost irrational fear of Obama behind it.

Your problem is that there is no way in hell, given Romney's demonstratable lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal record that this will ever happen.

It's the same irrational hope that went into the supporters of Obama's "Hope and Change" routine, and as the supporters of Obama soon found out, Romney's supporters would find out if he, God Forbid, became President, that he is what his record says he is, a lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal.

Sorry, but Romney would have to be little more than a figure-head and his cabinent would have to make all the decisions for your plan to work and that is not how our constitutional Republic works.

The guy at the top is not forced to listen to his cabinent by law or established practice, in fact, it's the other way around. Our Presidents ALWAYS make their own decisions, they look to their cabinent for advice, but it's their own established principles, at the end of the day, that provide the foundation for their decisions.

Romney's established principles are evident only in his record as Governor, those are the only actions/choices that we have to judge the man because he lies constantly:

Barring an unforseen miracle, Romney will be the GOP candidate.

When you consider the alternative of him or Obama sitting in the Oval for the next four years, its a no-brainer. On every level of government, this racist, anti-colonist, pro-Muslim, Socialist demagogue Barack HUSSEIN has been a total catastrophe. If he doesn’t go, America will not survive another four years.

What we need to do along with voting against Obama, is to get as many conservatives elected to Congress as possible to make it difficult for Romney to act out in a liberal fashion on any issue.

Beyond that, the conservatives and Tea Party people MUST put aside their reluctance to get involved personally and on a long time basis with the political process and start taking over the GOP from the bottom up by seizing local committee positions in every municipality and county in the Union.

This should not be as difficult as it seems. Despite winning state primaries, the voting indicates:

a) The MAJORITY of Republicans in every state still are unhappy with a moderate Republican like Romney. He has failed to get a numerical majority in nearly every state race.

b) MANY of those Republicans who have voted for him ARE conservatives and have done so reluctantly, feeling he is the most salable of the candidates, not the BEST candidate.

We must work towards three legislative goals:

Initiative and Referendum

Recall

Term Limits.

ANd why do you think I differ from Jim in this current discussion of ours?

I didn't say you differed. I said you didn't read what he wrote carefully enough. You have allowed your emotionalism in this discussion to cloud your perspective.

That is what this discussion is about.

Actually the title of the article and thread is "Mitt & Newt: A Plan to Win This Year." This is a strategic discussion, not an emotional discussion.

My plan is strategic and it is a formula for moving conservatism forward, even while using what are in many cases imperfect tools to get these tasks accomplished.

Politics is often times a series of "forced plays." A ground swell of conservatism from the grass roots passing straight up and through to actual proposed personalities for high office is not merely a "dream." It is in part a "forced play." If he makes the appointments I have proposed, he has made a very committed step that affirms conservatism's larger interests, and he'd be hard pressed to turn his back on these appointments. He'd have a coup on his hands if he did. See how the game is played? It's a "forced play" in a conservative direction.

I don't have to like him, I don't have to like where he came from, all I need to know and be made assured of is that the conservative outcome I want gets fulfilled. The whole of the US does not resemble Massachusetts. Romney is running now in a way that would never get him elected in Massachusetts. I don't think he much cares whether he even wins the state in the general.

Politicians are tools and they play to the crowd that is electing them. I am not a champion of Romney, but you and I have to face the fact that he's the one on stage, and barring any miracles he will be the nominee.

Think "Nugent-ly," as in Ted Nugent: if he's the guitar soloist and he's going to keep us in the listening audience, he'll have to play our tune. Without us, he'll have no audience and the show will close after opening night. Just ask Ted: a band can make or break the soloist's performance. I have just proposed the members of the "back-up band" to make Romney's performance of our tune, and that one he's playing for us right now, one that causes us to applaud enthusiastically at the end of the show. It also attracts a larger audience to our show, and in the "battle of the bands," we win, as we attract more listeners. More listeners translates to more voters.

Ted has expressed a figurative idea recently for taking out the opposition this election season. It is somewhat Nixonian in tactic and Clintonian in execution. We can learn from each of them as much as we can learn from the likes of Sun Tsu -- in fact, we don't have to admire any of these battle hardened tacticians personally, but we can learn from them. I believe Ted's phrase went something like, "we cut their heads off."

If the primaries have shown us anything it is that Romney's team has the "kneecappers" and the funding to get that part of the task accomplished. I don't have to like Romney, I don't have to like his team, but I can recognize their capabilities in this election cycle. Given our opposition, we'll need every hard-ball strategist we can find to take them down. That's all part of the ground game. The cabinet selection idea is the "vision" part of the game.

Romney needs a motivated conservative base to the White House. He hasn't closed the deal with those from whom he must draw support to be successful. I proposed the plan to close the deal and give voice to the "vision".

If he truly is a strategic thinker, he will do what it takes to coalesce his team. Romney needs us. We don't necessarily need him. He doesn't make it to the Presidency without us, but he has to run more convincingly and have some current evidence of his intent to match his current words. The more he tacks to our line the easier it will be for him to survive politically, because we have his political future in our hands.

Instead of just digging your heels in and insisting on the "never happen" line, why don't you instead train your efforts on trying to make what I have proposed actually happen. Recognize that Romney, the politician, will have to do what it takes to survive and win convincingly. I have just proposed a way to make that happen, not because I like Romney (I don't). I'd be casting my vote for his VP (Allen West, if I had my way) and his proposed cabinet.

Politicians are political animals. They are our tools to facilitating conservatism's continuing ascendancy. It is up to us to force Romney's plays in our direction. Do this in part by keeping Newt in the race to the convention, but not relying just on Newt exclusively to get this part of the task done. He's a politician. He's a tool just like Romney. He's part of the plan for conservative advancement.

In the end (if not sometime before) stand on the stage at the RNC Convention with your VP running mate, and your proposed cabinet standing up there right behind you. If it's who I proposed, the victory for our side will be resounding this November.

FReegards!

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