Posted on 09/11/2012 11:19:55 AM PDT by morethanright
By Mr. Curmudgeon:
Republican talk radio is not happy with GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's performance. In particular, Laura Ingraham. And like most Republican Party boosters, she chalks it up to Romney's campaign advisers.
"If you can't beat Barack Obama with this record, then shut down the party. Shut it down. Start new with new people, because this is a gimme election, or at least it should be.
"I keep going back to the millions and millions of dollars that are paid to these political consultants. Election after election, we hire people who've lost previous campaigns, who've run campaigns that have failed, who have message campaigns where the message fell flat, and they keep getting re-hired.
"If you're Mitt Romney, with all of your expertise, and all of your knowledge about how the economy works, and you're in this, and you have one shot ... Man, this is going to be the first line of your obituary - you won or you lost. It's all on the line for the country and it's all on the line for you."
Ingraham is too kind. It's easy to blame the help. It's a lot harder to blame the candidate. Back in the day, "message campaigns" emanated from candidates and not consultants. Lincoln hated slavery; Reagan hated the despotism of Marxism. Both of these ideas were unpopular with a number of Americans in their day.
Meanwhile, radio host Mark Levin is equally frustrated. "I should not have to play clips of Milton Friedman for Mitt Romney to explain his problem with his position on minimum wage. I should not have to argue with Mitt Romney's appointed hacks to explain the problem with RomneyCare. I shouldn't have to explain to Mitt Romney why he shouldn't feel guilty about his wealth and that he can explain to the American people more broadly why we want wealth creation in this country.
"Because only that way can we lower unemployment. Only that way can we save the housing market. Only that way, through capitalism, wealth creation, productivity, can the American dream be returned.
"Now if I can explain this in literally 3 minutes, why can't he?"
Reacting to MSNBC host Chris Matthew's claim that an Obama win this November means the end of conservatism, radio host Rush Limbaugh said, "Nope, if Obama wins, it's the end of the Republican Party. There's going to be a third party that's going to be orientated towards conservatism - or Rand Paul thinks libertarianism.
"If Obama wins, the Republican Party will try to maneuver things so conservatives get blamed. The only problem is right now, Romney is not running a conservative campaign."
The Democratic Party once had its conservative, moderate and liberal wings. That's all over. Obama's Saul Alinsky influence has transformed it into a leftist, authoritarian movement. The collectivist rants televised from their convention stage last week proved the point.
The Republican National Convention was equally disappointing. Speaker after speaker insisted that the Republican Party does not exist to bury Progressivism but to save it.
America's major political parties are two wings, left and center, of the same political ideology - Progressivism. It's a misnomer, therefore, to say the rise of a constitutional, small-government party represents a third player. In reality, it would restore America's traditional two-party system.
That means the Tea Party has two paths standing before it: If Romney wins, it must re-double its efforts to change the GOP by unseating Progressive-leaning Republicans in the House and Senate. These two bodies are where GOP candidates for president hail from. Second, if Romney loses, rendering the Republican Party irrelevant, networking with libertarian and other liberty-centered groups should begin in earnest, with an eye toward the establishment of a small-government political party.
It's time Republican talk-radio hosts stop blaming political consultants. If Republican candidates are devoid of conservative ideas, it's because the party hierarchy discourages them. The problem IS the Republican Party.
Change it or dump it.
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I am done talking politics on FR until after November 7. Its a shame seeing FR take each other apart.
SEE YA! GO ROMNEY!! (our only choice).
Just because this world is broken and full of sin, does not mean we compromise our faith and principles to get along with the sin and brokenness. And that's what you and your pals are demanding we do:
"Life's not perfect so support our guy - even though he has a record of promoting and supporting abominations and sin as government policy!"
It's not gonna happen. You've given us the impetus to work harder to reach biblical Christians about standing on their faith, convictions and foundational principles, regardless of what this world demands they do.
Spending all your time whining about your supposed political allies not being flawless enough for you does nothing to help win elections and advance your political agenda.
The GOP-e cannot win elections and all they advance is Liberalism.
You and your Ruling Class Establishment drones can blame stalwart Christian Conservatives for Romney's loss to Obama to your heart's content. You're gonna do it anyway - heck, you already are! Romney made it clear - especially Tuesday night at the RNC - that grassroots TEA Party Conservatives are now politically irrelevant in the GOP.
It is past time for “conservatives” to get off their asses and get in the political game rather then sitting around whining for some never to be realized “perfect” party to be handed to them
We are. We're voting for someone other than the GOP-e establishment choice - and possibly vote third party and or create a new party. That Romney and the Ruling Class in the GOP do not want Christian Conservatives is manifest. So we will vote and go elsewhere.
All your empty threats about us handing the victory to Obama, we laugh at. The Ruling Class handed Obama the victory the moment they thrust Romney as their choice and worked so hard to destroy every Conservative in the game.
This world isn't perfect. But Jesus said for us to BE perfect (Matthew 5:48), and that means we do not compromise by supporting someone who supports abominations and sin and choose him to be our ruler and represent us.
Romney does not represent us and by all appearances of evil, will not represent us after he was elected. So we will not vote for him.
Don’t look at me, ansel, I’m still trying to figure out where this “page and a half of text” that he believes he sent to me is at...
I just do not get all the hemming and hawing. Romeny is the candidate we thought he was before, during and after the primary. He is a slick politician who is unable to articulate a conservative message. But he is our slick politician who is unable to atriculate a conservative message and we have to do what we can to throw him over the line. And throw him over the finish line we can as the opponent in this election is such a failure that even a blank canvas RINO like Mitt could beat him.
I am bothered by all these clowns who forced this guy on us (and I am not talking about Rush or Levin) and are now eager to abandon him the second that the race ends up being close or it looks like some (gulp) work might be involved. News flash to the intelligencia in the Republican E and their supporters, every time you run a blank canvas, believe in nothing RINO who wants to run a “competent manager” campaign that tries to appeal to “moderates” and apologive for conservatism you will ALWAYS end up with either an eek out victory (see Florida 2000) or a smashing defeat (see McLame 2008). But, you run a campaign on ideas where you just do not give a damn what the MSM prints about you and you end up in Scott Walker land blowing the MSM to dust and putting liberals into apopletic land.
On another note, isn’t it funny how Paul Ryan has dissapeared from this race? I do not mean that the Romney campaign is hiding him but rather that the MSM is trying their best to. Why? Because Ryan is about ideas and talking about issues. The MSM knows full well that it is easier to paint whatever picture they need to on blank slate Romney in order for Obama to win. Issues are the enemy of the Obama campaign.
As for the idea of a third party, I am not sure it needs to go that far. Why not have a pre-primary so that we conservatives can pick one candidate to line up behind. In my opinion this last primary season allowed the Republican E to divide and conquer the conservatives in the race. On another note, am I the only one developing a hatred for Karl Rove?
That is a great suggestion - but as long as the GOP allows open primaries, and Democrats can choose our nominee for national office - then there’s no possibility for Conservatism to have a voice in the Republican party.
But then that is what Tuesday night at the RNC convention established as permanent policy: the political irrelevance of Conservatism in the GOP.
Romney and the GOP-e have already done more damage to Conservatives and the Conservative ideology than anything Obama has done in his entire time in office.
One step at a time: First get rid of the Obama administration this November - THEN deal with the too-liberal Republican party. First things first.
If we don’t vote Hussein out this November we are sunk, and we won’t vote him out of office sitting at home or bickering about positions left or right in the Republican party!
United we stand.
I’m not worried about not voting for the anti-Christian cult leader, Bishop Mitt Romney.
i dare say, theres only ONE question that'll matter when i am allowed to face the Lord...and it aint going to involve mittens or lowly presidential politics...
in that moment I can simply proclaim my King, Lord Jesus...
as a matter of fact, i think I'll just go ahead and write-in His name come november, being as though we seem to be voting for king these days...
pure what ??? progressive statist, sure i can agree to that...
we havent had a candidate anywhere close to even 50% in my voting life...
Look, I know many of you are scared to death of Obama - but why is electing a politician to the top spot, the first (and sometimes only) solution to the threat of where we have arrived as a former Republic?
When exactly (as Gilbo_3 alluded) did we accept monarchy as our form of government? Why is the mentality of so many become "We must replace their evil king with our guy!" as the first step to saving our nation?
Obama is a reflection of where our culture has arrived. He is the sum of where we have let the nation's culture fall into. Slowing down or even stopping where we are now at should not rest in the hope of electing a man with a nearly-identical record to Obama, (or any man for that matter) to the top spot.
If we spent half the energy used to attack others because they refuse to violate their faith and principles, and put that towards shaming the culture into seeing a need for repentance and putting God first - Our Lord might give the leaders we need, instead of the ones we deserve.
God has given us over to evil, and a reprobate mind as a culture - and the mindset of so many looking to Romney as some kind of salvation - makes the warning of scripture that even God's Elect could be deceived... prescient and even more troubling.
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