Posted on 06/29/2011 12:54:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan
I’ve mentioned before Mitt Romney’s weird tone-deaf penchant for conventional wisdom way past its sell-by date. So here’s today’s Los Angeles Times:
Gee, I know that’s what I’m looking for in a Republican candidate these days.
Last time round, Mitt spend a ton of money and got nowhere. This time, he seems determined not to learn from last time’s fiasco. So today he’s going around “touting his record of working with Democrats”. Er, we already have a president whose record of “working with Democrats” is pretty impressive.
Look, it’s not very difficult. Nixon had it all figured out: You tack to your party’s base during the primaries and then to the center during the general. If you’re already reaching across the aisle come primary season, it’s not a good sign, and even less so when you’re boasting about your ability to work with Ted Kennedy:
Are you sure Ted was joking?
According to the photo caption, Mitt “faced questions from voters that reflected frustration with the gridlock in Washington”. The correct answer to that isn’t to boast about getting rolled by Ted Kennedy but to explain politely to the voter that, say what one will about Washington, any government that runs up multi-trillion-dollar annual budgets, half of which is borrowed out of thin air, and then carelessly tosses ObamaCare and a ton of “stimulus” into the great sucking maw as a bonus, isn’t suffering from any kind of “gridlock”.
Hopefully, conservatives will learn something this time around. RINOs do not win general elections.
@&@$^$@&* right! Gridlock didn’t cause the current problems, it’s trying to stop them from getting any worse. This country has been ‘rolled’ by a Democratic majority since 2006. And I am sick of it. Time to roll it back. And I want people in there that WILL fight tooth and nail to do so. I want someone to take on the Pelosi/Shumer/Rangel/Waters/Reid, etc. and shut them down. Mitt isn’t it.
If it comes to a choice between electing someone who says they will work with Democrats, and electing a hard-core Democrat, I am going to write in a vote and allow the hard-core Democrat to win.
I would rather things go down in flames faster and more painfully rather than numbly and incrementally. As long as the end result is going to be the same, I would rather take the fast knife in the chest by an enemy rather than a slow one in my back by an “ally”.
Tough thing to say, but there it is.
I will go a bit farther than Mark Steyn and say that not only can Mitt Romney work with Democrats, he has a record of working with them, He worked them right into Romneycare.
The last thing we need in the White house is a Republican who is working for the Democrats.
Great analogy...although I prefer “choosing between an icepick through the eyeball or a sledgehammer to the teeth”!
You are right on...the msm is propping Romney up as the ‘go to’ Republican candidate only to chop him off at the knees next summer as one of those dangerously weird Mormons!
My thoughts exactly.
“Working with DIMocRATS” is equivalent to taking a thug robber’s gun from him and shooting yourself in the head.
Maybe its a code: “Mushy Moderates and Cross-over Democrats - VOTE FOR ME!”
The question is can Mitt Rino work with Repubs?
Pray for America
To quote another great American:
“There he goes again”.
I agree.
That is excellent reasoning, and I am keeping those words to use later when I am told that I have to vote for the Republican nominee even if he’s Myth.
It’s not a code at all. Romney KNOWS he’ll never get the conservative/Tea Party vote. He’s tacking to the center in hopes of building a sufficient base in open-primary New Hampshire to win there by a blow-out and then on to South Carolina where he hopes to be competitive or maybe even win. Thereby gaining momentum as the “inevitable” candidate as lesser runs begin to drop out.
It’s his strategery. Once he wraps up the nomination, he’ll throw a bone to the right by tabbing a Tea Party candidate as his veep in the hopes that (like Sarah Palin) they will attract the conservative vote to his ticket in sufficient numbers that he can take down a weakened Obama. It’s really his best chance if you think about it.
It will fail though. McCain scorched the landscape with this tactic in `08. It’s no longer fertile. Especially for Romney who salted that earth by flaming Palin as the McCain campaign was losing. Romney looks to crass and calculated in taking this path.But’s it’s all he has open to himself because of his flip-flops, embrace of mandates and Romneycare.
Nailed it!
At least with McCain we had the hope that he’d be incapacitated and that Sarah Palin could take over...
The only "voters" that experience this frustration are democrats and/or the media.
Exactly my thoughts. Why die the death of a thousand cuts as we have been doing under RINOs? Let’s get ‘er done.
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