“In choosing Paul Ryan as his Vice-Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney has opted to go for broke, and he has indicated that he is a serious man — less concerned with becoming President of the United States than with saving the country from the disaster in store for it if we not radically reverse course, willing to risk a loss for the sake of being able to win a mandate for reform.”
Ridiculous. If that was true, why does Mitt Romney lie about every aspect of his past, present and future? If that was true, why did Mitt Romney’s people sabotage Palin on the eve of the 2008 election? To think that this is anything more than pure political calculation is silly. There is no question about the kind of character Mitt Romney has. And it is provably Not Good.
To summarize the author: Mitt Romney sucks, he has always sucked and I said as much more than once and I still believe that but he didn’t suck as bad as the rest of our potential republican candidates (who were actually conservatives) and now, despite all that, I think he is going to somehow be transformed into the savior of conservatism and America so let’s all get behind the least suckiest least conservative candidate the GOP could ram down our throats and throw that negro out of the whitehouse. Together.
Look at this another way: liberalism only works because of access to an unlimited supply of other people's money (diversity coordinators in charge of sensitivity don't come cheap!)
And given that we are already OVER the financial cliff, there will have to be some DRASTIC cutbacks shortly.
And for the first time, millions of parasites in the "intellectual" classes are going to discover what it means to have to compete where you are judged on the quality of your results rather than the height of your eyebrows.
That will be the time to *STRIKE* to recover the hearts and minds of millions, for conservatism. It is self-sustaining; and so much more than self-sustaining that it has managed to carry along liberalism for decades.
But that time is ending.
Forth Eorlingas!
Cheers!
“Mitt Romney is declaring war.”
And if so, I second that declaration. Actually, I think we TEA Ps declared war a few years ago, so maybe he is seconding US...which makes him a tad smarter than I thought.
Mitt chose Ryan to appeal to the Midwest.
I hope they win. because Obama stinks on ice.
WOW How inspiring.
So exactly when does Romney start running on passing the Ryan plan?? More specifically when does Romney or Ryan start going on TV and commercials promising that the Ryan plan will be passed into law in his first four years as a priority?
Or are we supposed to just imagine this is true BECAUSE Dems say it is so?
Great article- Thanks for posting it.
I just posted this on twitter as @derised1: “I’m sorry to say but the GOP will lose the youth, women, minority & now senior votes (they hate #Ryan plan 4 Medicare). GOP = Whig Party?”
People I talk to in these groups (like teens) hate the GOP.
I don’t know how the GOP turns that around these days. Maybe get rid of the Karl Roves? - lol
I like Romney & Ryan but they don’t seem to have enough strong appeal or present much charisma to the masses. Just my opinion.
Amen. He nails it. And many Freepers will hate it and prefer to burn down the barn rather than save the horses.
“In choosing Paul Ryan as his Vice-Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney has opted to go for broke, and he has indicated that he is a serious man — less concerned with becoming President of the United States than with saving the country from the disaster in store for it if we not radically reverse course...”
No. This was as much a calculated political move as anything. Willard is a lot of things, but he’s not stupid. And he desperately wants to be President. Willard has what I term a Virginia Problem. He has a handful of states that he has to win to be elected. But the gop base in those states, Virginia in particular, is not at all enthusiastic about him or his candidacy.
In Virginia’s case we have the complication of a former Congressman from Virginia who is an actual conservative running on the Constitution Party ticket. It’s a classic spoiler situation. But more than than even Virginia, willard was really left with two choices: show that he is tacking right to appeal to his own base, who in many cases find him an unappealing choice, or lose the election.
He decided to take bold action to tack to the right by selecting Paul Ryan as his running mate. He is to be complimented for doing so. In my view he is still a poor candidate, but giving him his due, he did the right thing here.
Well, it sures give the public a clear choice. Forty years ago the voters had a chance to elect someone, George McGovern, who had just as radical a vision of changing America as did Barack Obama. Despite the still ongoing war in Vietnam, McGovern, a hero of WWII, was trounced by Nixon. Now we have a man in the White House who is McGovern on steroids. Or marijuana. Someone like Obama shouldn’t get thirty percent of the vote if the public was half sane. If the voters re-elect Obama after his disastrous four years, then it means we’ve turned a corner (for the worse) and it’s time to consider two separate countries. One for the producers and one for the takers.