Romney shouldn’t remind you of President Nixon.
Romney has a single victory to show for his entire decades old political career, he failed in that office and gave up running for reelection and left with 34% approval.
Navy Lt. Commander Richard Nixon came out of WWII and became a two term Congressman, sworn in one year after resigning his Navy commission.
Congressman Nixon later won office as a United States Senator, and then served as a two term Vice President of the United States as veep he ran for and lost that 1960 presidential election by only thousands of votes.
Mitt Romney is a true loser, with almost nothing to show for decades of campaigning, except that one lonely, less than 50% election win which ended in failure, his having to give up his plan for reelection, and losing the seat to democrats after his having been the 4th GOP governor in a row.
“If one looks back over the political history of this country, there is only one other man other than Richard Nixon who has been his party’s nominee for president or vice president five times. That is Franklin Roosevelt.”
But losing elections was exactly what I was referring to with the Nixon comparison.
Nixon was not a very good politician either, in terms of relating to the voter in a national election. His wins in Congress aside, I also mentioned that his stint as VP where he was second fiddle on a ticket, led him to his win as president. I do not believe to this day, that he could have won the office in any other way.
So yes, he (Romney) does remind me of Nixon in so far as their election personalities and as far as their politics, they are also similar. Both are/were moderate to liberal Republicans. Nixon appealed to and took advantage of his popularity among the “hawks”. Just as Romney appealed to the neo- conservative movement. (new version of the hawks IMO)
I also voted for Nixon in his second term. First national vote I cast. I did it because I wanted continuity during the Vietnam war. Not because I am a liberal republican.
I can compare that support of Nixon, with the abuse I received here for supporting Romney. In Romney's case I was reading the tea leaves and viewed the electorate as being far too disengaged and anti-conservative. Totally back pocket voters and largely led by liberal views and women's issues. Totally unrealistic, as I saw it, and I believed Romney could negotiate through that, but he was tarred and feathered by both conservatives and liberals alike.
Today's tea leaves are not much different, except that there may be a anti-Obama factor. But that factor should have been evident in his re-election and it was not.(although everyone on out side expected it to be relevant)
Taking all that into consideration for this election, I think it's more important to run a conservative with great leadership ability and potentially lose, then it would be to run a moderate, thinking that a moderate would be more palatable to a more liberal, self interested, ignorant voter base and lose the Conservatives and the election again.
So in short, I am at the end of my rope..There is no more slack in it and it's pulled tight. I have already written off the United States of America as it was handed to me by my predecessors. I believe it is lost. I am not going to moderate that position in the face of total destruction if it comes to that and this next presidential election is going to be the equivalent of the Fat Lady sings...
So I would rather go down fighting, and fighting mad..
No compromises this time, and I believe most of us feel the same way, although we may have come to that belief using different routes.