Responding to the article - both excerpted portions and those found only the link...
First, I disagree with ignoring the issue of election FRAUD.
That should be job one, not an afterthought and most certainly not ignored.
Second, it’s easy to attack Romney. The one easier thing is to attack Obama and the Dems...
However, ANY of our announced candidates would’ve (and DID in primaries) suffer from various debilitating problems. My own view is that Mitt was better than I thought he would be, and that he gave it all he had as did Paul Ryan. And that they gave America the option of return to “traditional Americanism” vs what O and the Dems offered...remember Condi Rice’s theme in her convention speech...it was all about her life story and traditional American values of hard work, personal achievement, zero class warfare, saying no to dependency, etc.
The campaign stressed opportunity and achievement in the American tradition. And had all kinds of people representing it in their lives, not just “old white guys”.
But it lost. Not by a lot, but in the key swing states it lost out by enough to swing them all to O and run the electoral college table...
And here I mention again the issue of...election FRAUD. Going forward it’s terrible to have “leaders” who ignore it or pooh-pooh it. That’s just plain WRONG.
George W Bush did his best on military and defense policy. Those shots at him by the writer are cheap, in my view. Bush’s presidency began with a terrorist attack that turned airplanes into WMDs on our own soil. His subsequent actions including Iraq grew out from that. Was he perfect? No.
Domestic policy was more problematic for sure. But let’s face it, Democrats have had their way on entitlements and other assorted spending for a long time. They have not been seriously blocked (that is how we got here) - not by Republican presidents nor congresses.
The writer’s prescriptions for ways to present issues going forward is mostly pretty good. But how do you like it that he says, “the gay marriage issue is lost”. For example. For me this is a values issue that mirrors the social selfishness of the “free stuff” people. Even “gays” used to respect the larger society while they were different. NOW, they demand that the larger society conform to them, and that is enormously bad for society.
To say leave it to states is convenient, but just remember the gay agenda was unimagined by our Founders and is in no way what this NATION, as one UNITED under God, was founded on. Our Constitution in no way builds in that agenda unlike the issue of ending slavery was built in.
Mark Levin’s constitutional/founding viewpoint for everything does provide a better roadmap than this writer’s libertarianism.
But overall this article is a good read and a good framework for discussion...
Final word on the blame game, however...the ELECTORATE that voted Obama back in is to blame. More than Romney and more than Obama combined. The only competition in that blame game is, how much of the winning margin was by election FRAUD.
Recall that Rush said, as bad as Obama is, the only thing worse is the kind of people who vote for Obama (and THAT grows from the CULTURE, not from politics)...
When we elect people to office it would be nice if they would not ease into a political life on the Hill where they forget who put them there and why.
Deals are made. Fortunes are made. “Vote for my bill and I’ll vote for yours” deals are made. In the meantime our country is going down the toilet.
All that you point out is true. Now we need to run someone who is leadership material and doesn’t flinch at all the incoming attacks from the opposition. Someone we can get behind because we know they are cut from something different than what has been pushed on us.
And it would be nice to have Drudge stay out of it next time.