Will the GOP Blow It? (It will again if Mitt Romney is the chosen candidate)

National Review ^ | 11/15/2011 | Thomas Sowell

[katiedidit1]

I am starting to get an uneasy feeling. Would not surprise me if Romney gets it:(

[VanDeKoik]

Didn’t these guys endorse Romney in 08?

[Safrguns]

Do not put it past the demoncrats to use their voter fraud tactics to pick the GOP candidate for us.

[Jukeman]

Hail the new POTUS - the same as the old POTUS.

[RIghtwardHo]

Of COURSE they will! (I refuse to call myself a GOPer as I am a Conservative).

They will nominate Romney come Hell or high water. Romney will get slaughtered in the General which will hurt us in all the other races.

It is NOW time for a Third Party. It is time to stop being the useful idiots and saying “well if you vote Third Party, blah, blah, blah” It’s what they want. It’s what they always get.

Ive been voting since Goldwater - Johnson and I have never been so upset about the state of the GOP.

[ken21]

fdr was elected to a 4th term.

[CSI007]

Romney, Perry, Newt...all from the same establishment mold will blow it for the GOP.

Third party will be needed and the GOP will have to be seen from here on out as a hostile political party.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Didn’t these guys endorse Romney in 08?

But Thomas Sowell (author of this article ) is a SYNDICATED Columnist, not part of the Editorial Board of NRO.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: fdr was elected to a 4th term

That was before TERM LIMITS were put in place.

[MNJohnnie]

The question now is whether the conservative Republican candidates who have enjoyed their successive and short-lived boomlets — Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain — are prepared to stay in the primary race to the bitter end, or whether their conservative principles will move them to withdraw and throw their support to another conservative candidate

So Cain, who has the strongest campaign finance and poll position in the early states is supposed to drop out in favor of the some times conservative Newt Gingrich?

I see Dr Sowell's standard isn't who is the best Conservative in the race but who is the most reliably part of the GOP Establishment who can fake it for Conservatives.

Dr Sowell lost a whole lot of stature with this one.

[Mountain Mary]

I’m with you RI...but a third Party? Is this going to help defeat Hussein? Our two party system and yes, the flawed GOP is still our best hope.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Everyone needs to rally around Cain.

[bgill]

Mitt was a major failure last time. Nothing has changed.

[Antoninus]

I am starting to get an uneasy feeling. Would not surprise me if Romney gets it:(

If you're scared, get a dog. In the mean time, there are things we can do to prevent a Robomney nightmare.

Ensuring Romney's Defeat

My advice: Stop whining, go out and do it.

[upchuck]

Now the smart money inside the Beltway is saying that Mitt Romney, who is nothing if not versatile in his positions, is the Republicans’ best hope for replacing Obama.

Dr. Sowell, you are a master of subtlety.

[indianrightwinger]

People like you is precisely why Romney will be the nominee and that will be the end of conservatism in this country for a long time.

Cain has ZERO chance. Get real and get over it.

[indianrightwinger]

Yeah...and lose in a landslide to Obama. Great idea!!

[teenyelliott]

the flawed GOP is still our best hope.

Then there is NO hope. We will simply continue our slow, pathetic death as a nation, just as we have been doing for over 50 years.

The machine is pleased that sheeple continue to think that our "best hope" is to operate within their system.

[MNJohnnie]

Cain has no chance? With 10 time the money and the better poll position in the early states then any of the other non Romney candidates?

Most people might listen to you Cain critics if you didn’t all sound like 12 year olds fighting on a playground.

It is this habitual posting of childish ad homine attacks at Cain, and his supporters, that make thinking people dismiss the Cain critic’s arguments as silly nonsense.