Posted on 06/09/2012 11:40:10 AM PDT by Innovative
Conservatives at the core of the Republican Party are coalescing behind likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney faster than expected...
"I'm going (to support him) because it's my responsibility and, frankly, almost anything is going to be better than Obama," said Steve Troxel, chairman of the Lynchburg Republican Party in swing-state Virginia.
"The emerging consensus among conservatives is that the Republican House will lead the conservative charge and Romney will be in the White House to sign bills, rather than advance his own agenda," said Republican consultant Matt Mackowiak, who supported Texas Gov. Rick Perry in the primary. "Conservatives don't universally claim Romney as one of their own, but they appear to have united behind him, perhaps reluctantly, but without question."
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Mark me down as one united w/ those wanting to oust obomo and begin reclaiming our Republic.
Never mind answer, I looked through your posting history and have learned why you are supporting Romney.
The reason is really junior high school, it’s what thirteen year old kids do.
I said before that the trajectory of recent American history required the election of a strong conservative at this juncture of space and time. The stars were perfectly aligned for it, yet the GOP in it's infinite stupidity did everything in its power to prevent that from happening.
A small, distant elite have decided amongst themselves that the vast majority of the American people don't really know what's best for them, and that they can't be trusted to choose that person who best represents their beliefs and values.
No - much better to play it safe, and push forth a candidate who is acceptable to their elite brethren on the other side of the feeding trough. After all, they all know which way the country is really headed, because Soros told them so.
The serfs just need to shut up with all that patriotic, constitutionalist, small government, conservative nonsense, and do as they're told. Just pay the damn bills and let the professionals handle the complicated stuff.
Palin (on Hannity): “I’ll do whatever I can, of course, to get ABO elected in the WH”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2886480/posts
Choose NOT to choose evil.
Both parties have been giving us only bad and worse options, manipulating us to move in the direction we know we should not go.
I want to live with myself and will choose persecution, derision and disdain over the acceptance of evil.
With HIS Guidance, MY choice. Get over it.
Try again Romneyite.
Yeah, they're "GOP-E first" lackeys trying to whip up support for their man though Alinskyite bullying and ridicule. It ain't working.
Heck, I just saw one of them engage in some wishful thinking the other night that JimRob would start purging well-respected long standing Constitutional Conservatives here at the behest of the neo-Romneyites just to bury the truth about this loser.
It's amazing (and pathetic) to behold.
Including the owner of this site?
"I will never vote for an abortionist/homosexualist statist like Romney for the presidency."
No matter how much you deny it, Romney is a liberal.
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Well, that illustrates the problem I have always had with Romney - what he says changes for whatever office he is seeking. He tried to run to the left of Ted the Swimmer on abortion when he ran for Senate. So which Mitt would inhabit the Oval Office? Unfortunately, Mitt is what we are now stuck with.
I agree.
It is too bad that some conservatives have transformed Reagan’s “Morning in America” into “Mourning in America.”
Did I see right? Rational conservative? On this thread? LOL
I still think 99% of freepers will vote for Romney. That 99% includes all conservative readers, not just recent posters. Among recent posters as many as 10% might vote third party, write in or leave it blank. Unless all of them live in swing states there's no chance they'll throw the election to Obama, so I wouldn't worry about it.
On the general question of why we're stuck with a less than conservative nominee, there's a myth on FR that the people are conservative, that the country is moving right. It's not that simple. On taxes and spending Republicans are moving right and have been since 2005 or so. Democrats are moving left on taxes but so far they're being blocked by Republicans. On abortion the country is moving slightly to the right. On gay rights we're losing badly. On defense spending things are moving slightly left. On the war on terror the country has turned hard left, which IMHO is why we're stuck with Obama. He was elected to end the war in Iraq.
A conservative who satisfied the social, fiscal and defense conservatives on FR would lose in a landslide.
But I don't have to argue this point with a lot of polling, it's obvious from the most meaningful polls, elections.
If the country is moving to the right why did the country elect a Democratic congress in 2006, and the most liberal Democrat president ever in 2008?
For that matter if the country is moving to the right why did Republican primary voters choose moderates McCain and Romney in 2008 and 2012?
Please note, the essential point is that we work to move public perceptions, as well as the candidate, in the right direction, with patient & polite persistence. The methodology can only improve what is otherwise a very bleak prospect.
Romney & American Conservatism.
William Flax
If the country is moving to the right why did the country elect a Democratic congress in 2006, and the most liberal Democrat president ever in 2008?
The answer is that the Conservative position went largely unstated by the Republican leadership--or when stated, without a proper or effective development of the argument. This is not hindsight, real Conservatives were constantly very very upset with the way that those whom they had elected, performed.
We simply need to stop trusting the office seekers to define the issues, and do a much better job offering reasoned, rather than emotional, arguments to our fellow citizens.
A good place to start is by getting away from simply shouting insults at those one disagrees with, and learn to carefully explain why the position you believe in, really is the valid approach to any particular subject.
There are enough intelligent Conservatives right here, at Free Republic, to turn America around, if we simply use our intelligence, rather than our anger.
In all the decades of being out there, in the ideological fight, I have yet to encounter any one on the Left, who can actually answer a reasoned argument on any of the basic issues. The problem is that most Conservative spokesmen simply refuse to discipline themselves to argue, step by step--from basic premises to conclusion--rather than simply fall into the idiotic approach that is implicit in the 30 Second Sound Bite.
We have arguments for which no Leftist has a good answer. We need to go at this thing with better discipline & a clearer understanding or how people have been misled--including many office holders.
No, we will not reach every one we target--far from it. But we can do a lot better job.
William Flax [Truth Based Logic]
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