Posted on 07/17/2012 5:11:59 AM PDT by xzins
Without going to great lengths to establish that there is continuing dissatisfaction with Mitt Romney as the Republican nominee for the presidency, let us play the game of "What If". What if the convention were to somehow become open? Who would you want to be the Republican nominee?
If we were to point out that Romney did not win the support of two-thirds of the primary voters, the reply would be that the process is engineered that way. When there are more than two candidates, one shouldn't be surprised to see a candidate polling much more than a third. That is reasonable. However, it doesn't mitigate the fact that most were not Romney supporters.
We will balance this out in the game of "What If" by placing any of the candidates who ran against Mitt marginally off limits. Participants in the game should not pick Pawlenty, Bachman, Johnson, Huntsman, Paul, Gingrich, Cain, Perry, or Santorum. They have all already lost. We will leave the option open, though, because many believe Romney was aided by the GOP-E, by a complicit media in the tank for him, and by an enormous financial advantage. So, if you absolutely must write-in Bachman's name, then go ahead and do it. (We couldn't really stop you, anyway.)
My criteria for a candidate would be that they be a real conservative. This is the complaint most heard about Romney, that he is a lifelong liberal who governed as a liberal. There is good reason for seeing Romney in this light since just weeks ago he came out in favor of gay couples. Moreover, he announced that at the state level those gay couples should be allowed to adopt children. This is not ancient history. This is recent. Folks might say that Romney has changed here or there, that he's converted to this or that, but the gay couple and gay adoption thing is brand new.
It underscore for those of us who don't support the man that he truly is a radical liberal, and that it's liberalism that's in his bloodstream and not anything that is severely conservative.
So, who would you support if the convention were to open up? If you were a delegate and if Romney announced he was stepping down, to which leader would you turn?
For me, it would have to first be a pro-life candidate. Life is a right and not an issue. Life shouldn't be taken except by due process of law, and that only after one has committed a violation that warrants the death penalty. A pre-born child could never commit such a crime, so no due process could ever make it right to take the life of a pre-born child.
Other minimal requirements would be: pro-God, anti-homosexualism, pro-gun, pro-small government, and pro-American exceptionalism. I could add other qualifications to this list, but we'll just shorten it for the sake of this article.
Who?
Let's just offer a few names that have been brought up as possible Vice Presidential nominees (alphabetically): Tom Corbett, Mitch Daniels, Jim DeMint, Susana Martinez, Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, Rob Portman, Condi Rice, Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan, Rick Snyder, and Alan West. Some of these might or might not fit the requirements I've listed above, but they are a starting list. I'm sure there are others who should be considered. Feel free to add other names.
So, vote now. If the Republican Convention were to suddenly open up, if we suddenly found ourselves rid of Mitt, for whom would you vote to be the nominee of the Republican Party?
Nope. Not kidding at all.
100 percent agree.
West could shake things up.
Scott Walker. He’s seen Democrats at their ugliest and knows exactly what to expect from that crowd...and he wins.
West is impressive, yet he did back down on the natural born citizen issue that is fundamental to the Constitution and its role in safeguarding the rule of law for genuine U.S. Citizens.
You know... People with an ACTUAL record of support for Constitutional governance and upholding real freedom.
Herman Cain was a member of the Federal Reserve, an appointment beholding to the New World Order bankers intent upon destroying U.S. sovereignty and with it the self-determination of individual U.S. Citizens and their families.
West, Jindal, Palin, Walker
Romney doesn’t have liberal tendencies, he is a liberal. He governed that way his whole political life.
Romney does not tend towards liberalism, he embraces it.
Do you honestly beleive with the Republican leadership we in the house and none in the senate Romney’s feet would be held to the fire?
Romney despises conservatives, do you really think he will (even if both houses were conservative) work with them, or will he do what he always has done and work with liberal democrats.
I think people who beleive Romney would somehow be different than he has been before, just because some conservatives caved from fear or hysteria are well.......wrong.
Otherwise, they're both pretty much the same thing even down to the way they pick economic winners
Ya know, cripplecreek, I don’t want to agree with you, but I’m afraid you are 100% correct. They say they’ll hold him accountable, keep him in line, but they don’t.
Instead they spin for him. They pretend that he does no wrong. They treat those of us who speak aloud some of his weaknesses as if we’d just been convicted of patricide.
It truly make you wonder what the definition of “hold him accountable” is?
Now that he has a new ticker.....Dick Cheney.
We need to get rid of Priebus as well and that’s simply not likely with Walker around.
WEST
Sarah
Newt
That is why I respect Alan West. I would have loved being his battalion chaplain.
He understood the fine line between ethics and results. He walked on the line but he didn’t cross it.
The army crucified him for it, but now he tells them when to dance.
I would absolutely love for him to be the Cdr in Chief some day. It’s been a while since we’ve had a real soldier with real command experience at the head of the nation.
Sarah Palin
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