GOP Rep: I Think Romney ‘Will Be The Next President Of The United States’

washington.cbslocal.com ^ | 07-08-14 | Staff

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Really a lot of the longtime DEMs jumped off their party in about 1994 and brought their Liberalism with them. BY 1996 The Liberals owned it with a coup and full takeover of every GOP convention since 1996.

That is upside-down history. In the Clinton years a lot of Wall Street people who might otherwise have been Republicans moved over to the Democrats and took their money with them. That's one reason why Democratic presidential candidates have been outspending Republicans lately.

And on the Republican side? Have you actually looked at who was in Congress for the GOP during the Reagan years? Arlen Spector, John Chaffee, James Jeffords, Chris Shays, Amory Houghton, Olympia Snowe. If anything the party has gotten more conservative, more Main Street and less Wall Street or country club over the last 20 years.

Those Prescott Bush-era Connecticut/Wall Street Republicans are mostly dead or Democrats now. When people complain about GOP elite or establishment today, they're talking about guys from Goldwater's and Thurmond's states, not Rockefeller's. And the people who voted for McCain or Graham over their primary opponents weren't all that different from the people who voted for the opponents. They can't all have been country-clubbers or plutocrats. Maybe they just expected less from politics and either figured things wouldn't change much or didn't want things to change.

If you want to know why a conservative hasn't been nominated for President look at the candidates: Hunter, Tancredo, Cain, Keyes, Santorum, Bachman. Sorry, but those guys weren't going anywhere. They split the vote, but even if only one of them were in the race, he or she wouldn't have a wide enough appeal to get the nomination. None of them had enough stature to attract a large enough core of supporters. Also, anybody who's been a successful governor of a large enough state (as Reagan was) for long enough is bound to have made enough compromises down through the years to disqualify as a true conservative (as Reagan would have if he didn't already have immunity).