Mitt Romney: A Severe Conservative Who Just Won’t Go Away

redstate.com ^ | 5/9/14 | Daniel Horowitz

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When conservative candidates lose their bid for elected office, they tend to fade away from public life and are never heard from again. But for Rockefeller Republicans, losing an election is evidently a resume enhancer for them to continue advising and interfering with Republican politics and policy.

Mitt Romney ran as a “severely” conservative Republican in the primary. He pulverized his opponents with an expensive negative ad campaign and won the nomination. Then, as is the case with most moderate Republicans, his truculent attitude in the primary transformed into one of ineptitude and submissiveness in the face of an aggressive Democrat opponent.

Not only did he lose the election to Obama, his status as the grandfather of government-run healthcare completely took the issue of Obamacare off the table for two years – until Senator Ted Cruz and other conservatives were able to bring the issue back to the forefront of political discourse.

Many of us thought Romney would recede back into private life and enjoy his affluent retirement lifestyle and his close-knit family. Instead, he has slowly crawled his way back into public life and is trying to become the kingmaker of the Republican Party. A one-term governor of a liberal state with a moderate record, Romney has never fought and bled for the conservative cause. He has never accomplished anything to earn him the right to play the role of elder statesman in the party.

He has endorsed one liberal candidate after another, most appallingly, in ads for Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID) misleading primary voters about his record.

Now he is venturing into policy positions as well. As Democrats face impending disaster this November, and for once, Republicans actually remained united against Obama’s effort to demagogue with minimum wage mandates, Romney is calling on Republicans to support Obama:

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RINO Republicans: like dead raccoons hidden deeply under the porch, they continue to stink long after they have made a mess of things.

[Psalm 144]

Mitt wants to run again in 2016. Don’t be shocked if he tries it.

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I think the only question is whether or not they first run Bush 2.5, a/k/a ‘Jeb’
(”Jeb” is so warm and fuzzy; like “Homeland Security”).

If Bush 2.5 can’t generate enough steam for a credible loss to Hillary Bin’ghazi, the nomenklatura will run Willard.

That is my take anyway. Willard -wants- to for sure. We’ll see.

[Psalm 144]

I remember it well. That is pretty much when I quit listening to any of these puppet show barkers.

[broken_arrow1]

I totally missed that there was second, more severely-conservative candidate with the same name as Mitt Romney...who else can he be talking about?

[mosesdapoet]

States Calling For Secession Was A Protest Tactic That Has Nothing to do with “race” Gets Blown Off

The leadership of the so called political opposition (Republican) will wonder why as they lose a crucial election because of their inability to stand on principles.Let alone demonstrate they are politically dysfunctional, unwilling to work with or even recognize legitimate concerns from what they call the tea party but in reality are the Reagan voters of 2014 and unable to congeal into a unified working political unit. They did not learn from 2012 and continue to blow off 2014. (snip)

from http://www.theusmat.com/

[Georgia Girl 2]

Yes they say if Jeb does not run Mitt likely will.