Richard Viguerie’s Conservative HQ is one of the voices of conservatism that attempts to deal with all sides of issues confronting conservatives.
Mitt Romney is definitely one of the touchiest issues ever to confront conservatism.
So who’s Romney going to pick to be his token conservative?
Listening to Levin on the radio is interesting. He was a Romneyite all along and now he is getting frustrated at what I see as a repeat of Bush I’s re-election “campaign.”
I kept waiting for Bush I to unload with the big guns- I knew that he was just waiting for the right time to fire and clinch it all. That moment never came. Like Ford and Dole and McCain he did not actually run a campaign. He sort of stated his case and went to the club to wait for the election. “Mainline” Republicans don’t seem to want to be president but they mightily crave the recognition of receiving the Republican Party nomination. As nomination winners but election losers they don’t have to bear the burden of the presidency and they get invited to all the fashionable parties that they would be forever frozen out of if they won the election.
I am not going to vote for the man in any event but it is interesting that Republicans can’t do any different, except for Reagan of course. Reagan did what is necessary to get the nomination- he put out his markers and campaigned and made all the right moves for 12 years before he got the nomination. No other conservative Republicans have done that but the Rockefeller guys do it. For them it is like working to be on the rowing team and then captain of it. Palin did a shortened version of it and could have won but chose not to follow through. If she is waiting for next time around in 4 or 8 years then she is not so sharp as I had thought. There probably isn’t going to be anything worth running for in 4 years, maybe not even a contest or an elective office.
He doesn’t walk with the Lord, who died yesterday along with Kitty Wells!
A Mitt Romney administration is the equivalent of building a billion-dollar airport and spending $1.98 on the control tower.
I have a lot of respect for Viguerie but what he needs to understand is that the base doesn’t want a candidate simply surrounded by conservatives. The base (even ABOs) wants a conservative candidate. And Romney ain’t it.
Just like all those Obama lovers who are still looking for that hope and change, it ain't gonna happen.
That's a big honkin' IF.
Reports indicate the Romney camp doesn't want Palin speaking at the convention, one simple yet effective step they could take towards reconciliation with the right.
And if FR is any indication, Romney's presumptive nomination has rifted the right wing beyone the wildest dreams of the GOP-E.
Now, the GOP-E has their pet RINO. They have the right wing in disarray. And they have such a weak, enfeebled and unpopular opponent in Obama that they might just be able to win in November without the unified backing of the base, which would entrench their idea that the right wing is an anchor on the party goals and they are not needed except in the occasional close local race.
Which must have them in utter ecstasy.