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?
This is a useles exercise. No Matter who is touted as a conservative, 10,000 people will show up to say that the person is not conservative. That would include viscious attacks against Palin, Walker, West and DeMint. I know that because I’ve seen the attacks against them right here on FR.
tick tock, tick tock
LOL!
Good point, Dave; It was a regular occurence here during the primaries.
We need to PO the GOP-e and have them just walk out ~ turn their backs on us
Not when in comparison with Mitt Romney.
Ask the question: "Who would you rather have, Scott Walker or Mitt Romney?"
I'll bet they don't reel off Walker's negatives. I bet they're more glad to get out from under the Romney Albatross.
What do you mean “if”...it certainly can but we have too many Romney lovers around. On Free Republic is it tragic to see all the Romney fans....Disgusting. We could replace Romney in a heartbeat if the conservatives would have a spine.
If Mr. Goode is on the ballot in Texas I will vote "for" him! If not I will vote down ticket.
At any rate Padre please take me off your ping list. I appreciate you and your service.
Greg Adams
Brownsville, TX
I like both Mom.
Newt gives me a headache sometimes, though. Should I take 2 aspirin?
Some folks think it’s enough that he put the toilet lid down
Good points FRiend, as for having a CinC with combat experience, we COULD have had Duncan Hunter in 2008, but he was run out of the primaries by the GOP-e and Fox News especially after he coined the phrase ‘The Kennedy wing of the Republican Party’, they hated him for that, and after Faux News sought to minimize him, I unsubscribed, told Faux that Rupert Murdoch could kiss my effin ass, and they are dead to me.
Duncan Hunter had 26 years on the House Armed Service Committee, many years as Chairman, U.S. Army Ranger with combat experience in Vietnam, one of the original Reagan Republicans who went to Washington in the Reagan landslide of 1980. I refer to him as the ‘greatest President since Reagan that America was too g*dammned stupid to elect’.
When General Chuck Yeager not only endorses but chooses to serve as campaign chairman for a patriot like Hunter, that speaks volumes.
With that single mission, he would. But he must be expressly forbidden to touch anything else.
Santorum needs to be part of the administration at the very least.
If I had to come up with an off the wall guy, it would be former Governor of Michigan John Engler.
Duncan Hunter was my choice in 2008, and we’ve not had any close to his quality since, and that includes Sarah Palin.
The Kennedy Wing of the Republican Party is classic, and it is Mitt Romney.
Walker states this of himself: “I am 100% pro-life”.
What people are refusing to see is the destruction of the conservative movement as a voice within the republican party.
They hate fubo sooooo much that they are willing to compromise their personal integrity and destroy an entire movement to get him out. Very short sighted.
mcromney needs to be defeated in a very big way. Period. That is the only way our movement survives.
conservative house and senate with some damn backbone can keep this guy in check for 4 years ( really only 1, because just like nixon, this guy will never finish a second term aka fast and furious )....
Time to shut down the emotions and deal with pure logic and tactics. If mcromney wins we lose....
Well, they largely did that in 2010 when Tea Party candidates defeated their fave RINOs.
But we were too busy fighting among ourselves in the 2012 GOP presidential primary to coalesce around one horse, which allowed Romney a path to the win.
And what have we learned from that? Apparently, bupkis. We're still fighting each other just as hard and just as counterproductively.
Thanks TxR,
I was hoping that he was.
And now we are forming two lines - facing each other. The GOP-E is thrilled.
Folks, an ABO FReeper is not the enemy. Nor is someone who has serious enough concerns about Romney to not vote for him.
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