What Diogenesis doesn’t understand is that when she goes out of her way to be so cruel to Romney it just causes more division and makes it more likely that whoever people like her decide to back, there will be a fight. You live by the sword you die by the sword. There will be no coronation of any candidate, in fact, expect a blood bath because there has been too much bad blood. You reap what you sow.
Very telling that you equate posting facts with being "cruel." You are so emotionally vested in Romney that when the truth hurts, you call it cruelty.
You and Romney are both part of the problem. Please come home to limited government conservatism and start being part of the solution. Romney is a loser -- time for Romney adorers to move on if you want to save this nation.
EXACTLY!
I love Rush Limbaugh.
But the one thing he says with which I strongly disagree is that "conservatism works every time its tried."
Now, I know what he means (most moderates are wimp ass dorks and lousy candidates) but there are MANY examples where conservatives have lost.
The biggest recent example is US Sen. Rick Santorum's loss to liberal empty suit Bobbie Casey Jr. (D) here in Pennsylvania.
And just look at the other conservative Republicans who lost in 2006 and 2008.
If "conservatism" was the only criteria to winning, then Duncan Hunter would have won the 2008 GOP primary, and the general election by a landslide because Hunter was by far the most conservate, followed by Fred Thompson, who also could not get support.
The the simple truth is that personality, charisma, politics, AND the ability to promote CONSERVATIVE VALUES are essential to having a winning candidate.
Simply being a conservative is far from enough.
Again, McCain was such an awful candidate because he was a boring, Washington insider who not only is a Democrat-loving liberal... but he PHYSICALLY turns people off due to his age, his frumpy looks, his 'out of touch' personna, and a dozen other reasons.
Romney supporters like myself were not so much ga-ga over Romney, but the truth is that HE was the only candidate with personality and style that could articulate the conservative message.
Republicans seem to forget that personality and style (think Reagan) plays a HUGE difference in getting the support of enough mainstream voters necessary to win.
Dole and McCain might have been great war hero's, but they were downright AWFUL candidates -- and thus got demolished.
The Freepers who incessantly bash Romney offer no alternative viable candidates. They simply live to bash.
And like you said, THAT simply divides the Republican Party.
Good posts, rodeo-mamma and TAdams. What you have here in the Romney bashers are a group of anti-Mormons and/or disgruntled Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee supporters.
Their tactics, as during the primaries, are to divert from any intelligent discussion via personalization, smears and outright lies. They’re also given to drama queen hysteria, as in accusing TAdams of going ballistic, when she is one of the few on this thread who has NOT gone ballistic, and in fact it is their ranks doing so.
One must wonder why so much energy is put forth opposing Mitt Romney rather than opposing the incoming socialist Politburo of Ack-Ack Barack, which is the most present and clearest danger to our country from the conservative point of view.
Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee ran in the primaries solely to keep Romney from the nomination. Therefore, we got McCain. Sweet, huh?