While you are busy whirling around the dance floor with your imagined trophy and pimping for Romney as though there were any meaningful difference on any issue of importance between him and Obozo, let the grownups intrude with the bad news.
Myth Romney using ultra-shadowy Wall Street anonymous megamoney sources who have been promised God and Lucifer only know what, has purchased the GOP nomination that sooooo eluded his slightly less leftist father. The money was spent in the most shameless campaign of lies, slanders and libels in the history of the GOP or probably in the history of American politics. The only victims were the more modestly funded actually conservative candidates.
Now, of course, like any human with two living brain cells to rub together, you solemnly assure us that Myth was hardly your first choice but we are stuck with him now. Exactly the smug line of RINOs since at least the time of Herbert Hoover, Alf Landon, Wendell Willke, Tom Dewey, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller, George Romney, William Scranton, George H. W. Bush (Bush the Elder), Bob Dole, and John McCain and (on social issues) Barry Goldwater. That is: "Once I am nominated, those right-wing nuts have no place else to go! Ho, ho, ho!" They assume that Democrat is a four-letter word just like at their polo clubs and Junior League meetings and brokerage board rooms and that Reagan was not elected with the crucial difference made by largely private sector union and also Southern "Reagan Democrats" who have notoriously no use for the RINO airheads.
As to the game of "what if?": what if Ronaldus Maximus were still alive, did not have Alzheimer's, and was fully possessed of his mental faculties and still, in spite of it all, vigorous physically? What would HE be doing now that Romney will be the nominee? If somehow this had occurred under the circumstances presented, he would have been on autovomit. But seriously, folks, he would have been working to prevent such disasters by his words, his actions and his senior leadership of the conservative movement. Anyone seeking the GOP POTUS nomination would have made the pilgrimage to Malibu or Rancho Cielo to touch the hem of his political garment. Myth Romney would be firmly ensconced in the Demonrat Party where he and his father always belonged. Obozo would be "organizing" in Sickago. Too many years have passed since the onset of Reagan's disability to predict who would be the specific GOP candidate now.
We do know that Reagan did not bother lifting a finger to help Ford's effort to be elected and Romney is, if anything, worse than Ford.
Meanwhile, your political slip is showing. Try not to trip over it while you dance that imaginary trophy around the old polo club.
I respectfully disagree that Reagan did nothing to help Ford. I attended a Reagan-Dole event at the New Haven Park Plaza in ‘76, and while Reagan mostly attacked Carter, he also told us to vote fir the Eepublican ticket. The net effect was an assist to Ford.
So, by your logic then, the only acceptable conservative president since Cal Coolidge has been Reagan. Yes, I know you didn’t include George W. Bush on your little list there, but I’m going to assume you agree with the gentleman who keeps referring to the “Rove/Rockerfeller” wing of the GOP...and last I checked, Rove and W. are pretty tight, so not sure how we keep W off that list. We heard all the same “polo club, daddy got him the job” crapola in his election....so he’s got to be on your list too! So, whats a conservative to do? Either we keep waiting for some mythical third party to emerge, sit on our hands and let the Dems wreck the country, or we vote GOP (and before you tell me how Romney will wreck it too, that is speculation. Obama is wrecking it right now. I’ll take might wreck it over is wrecking it any day).
I’ll also point out that if most conservatives hadn’t gone along with the GOP candidate, however flawed, we would have had the likes of President McGovern, President Dukakis, President Kerry. Which of these elections should the conservatives put their foot down for? Which of these boobs should we have let run the country for 4 years to make the point clear to the establishment. Its really easy to snipe the weak GOP candidates....its really hard to live with the jackals that would win if you dont vote for them.
And you can say I’m “pimping for Romney”, and I guess you are right...damn right....when the opposition is a marxist. Thats the part of the equation that you guys never seem to want to discuss. One of these guys is going to be President. Once again, you’ve done a grrrreat job there of telling us all how bad Romney is. I get it. In your book Romney eats babies and puppies. And though you make fun of me for it, I’ll say it again...I’m not nuts about the guy either. But with regards to the alternative, specifically what we could do at this point that would A)not result in 4 more years of Obama but B) also vanquish the hated, smoke room dealing, evil big money Romney....crickets. Because there isn’t another answer now. During the primaries yeah. But now....no. Its going to be Romney or Obama. With that choice, I’ll take Romney, given that “neither” is a choice equivilent of saying “I’ll take Santa Claus”.