Accurate piece.
Sadly, Romney was another Bob Dole...
Dole is a pretty good comparison. I never hated Dole, I just knew he was a poor candidate. McCain...I probably wouldn’t push him out of the way of an oncoming bus...he’s a turd. Romney is an accomplished guy...and probably would have been the best candidate for us in 2008, but this time around, he was an awful choice. Unfortunately, there was not a decent alternative. Newt and Santorum would have gotten beat, too...and Perry sunk himself with a terrible performance.
Only difference was no one knows if Willkie ever bothered registering as a Republican ~ even after the nomination.
FDR had a good chuckle over that candidacy.
Harry Truman said about another Republican who wasn't as bad as Willkie or Romney, that Democrat voters when given a choice between a fake Democrat and a real Democrat will chose the real Democrat every time.
Join me in one of my really early criticisms of Romney:
"To: Eagle Forgotten....... Isn't Romney much more like Willie Horton than Dukakis? Think of it this way. Horton became a political problem when the state of Massachusetts cut him loose for a weekend visit and he decided he needed to do a home invasion in Maryland where he beat the occupants and raped the wife...... Here we have the state of Massachusetts once again cutting loose a guy who'd earlier been housed and fed by the state government at public expense, and he's taken the opportunity to break into the Republican party where he's terrorizing the occupants (with a large wad of campaign cash), and for all we know may be joining Joe Biden in upping the rape rate....... I think we need to send Willard and Willy (if he's lose again) back home where they belong!........ Oh, yeah, they offer FREE MEDICAL CARE for illegal aliens and there's going to be a hard winter this year. Mass is the place to be fur shur. ..... 4 posted on October 23, 2011 11:36:26 PM EDT by muawiyah [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse] "
I think that was about the time Coulter and some of the others came out FOR Romney, or at least used that term "More Electable" ~ and there I was comparing this loser to Dukakis and Willie Horton ~ in a commentary on a George Will commentary about Dukakis ~ another Mass technocrat.
Willie was a much better example I think.
The Rinocrat party has not given us a decent candidate since President Reagan. Even Bush was not close to the Gipper. Not even close.
Mitt Romney knew it was his turn, and gosh darn it all to stitches, he DESERVED the chance.
In that he resembled Bob Dole, running what turned out to be a hopeless campaign, staying on just one narrow message, and never, ever, calling out Bronco Bama directly for the many misjudgments and blatant failures over the prior three and a half years.
Fast and Furious, Benghazi (while mentioned in passing, not hammered on NEARLY enough), Keystone pipeline, shutting down ALL extraction and exploration in the Gulf after one spectacular blowout (which wasn’t even the biggest oil spill ever) and putting the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” into law with ZERO input from Republicans. Of course, we should not let the dance on Osama bin Ladin’s execution go unremarked here, including the “spike” that resonated so badly among the now reconstituted Al Qaeda network.
And in this we should include the other target of opportunity that Mitt Romney did not even touch upon, Harry Reid, who never failed to direct the most scurrilous attacks continuously at Mitt himself.
Of course, the mutual admiration society of Bronco Bama and Chris Christie, following Superstorm Sandy, gave Bronco Bama just that little boost he needed to go over the top, when voter fraud might not have been enough by itself.
But all this is Monday-morning quarterbacking, and spin all the fantasies we want, we shall never overturn the outcome of November 6, 2012.
We can, however, make that “victory” sound pretty hollow, by a little “civil disobedience” and turning the Saul Alinsky tactics back on the now entrenched executive and legislative obstacles to exerting the principles of the American Ideal.
Remember that exchange between Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as they were cornered on the edge of a cliff overhanging a river, and the proposal was offered that they should jump - the objection from Sundance Kid was “I can’t swim.”
To which Butch Cassidy replies, “Are you crazy? The fall will probably kill ya!”
History does not record whether either one or both managed to come out of the water downstream. But legends live on....