It looks like 2012 is shaping up to be a shocking political year.
Our nation is in dire straits and the GOP is simply throwing in the towel. The conservative talking heads have also shown their true colors. They are buying in to the left wing media message about Romney and they’re shoving it down our throats. They aren’t patriots – they’re ego driven salesmen with no consideration for what damage they’ve been doing this election cycle. I used to love talk radio – I thought it was “stimulating.” Now I see I’ve been pawned and taken advantage of. I’ll be heading to the library to check out books on tape from now on. No more talk radio for me. I prefer not to be brainwashed with vitriolic garbage.
The Romney campaign needs to release an ad directed at the right-wing talkers, Santorum, and Gingrich and it should be titled, “Et tu Brute?”
I’m all for the GOP holding to (and even moving toward) its more conservative principles – particularly fiscally speaking. But I don’t see why Romney isn’t the guy to do that. No one has made a coherent argument as to why Romney can’t do that. All I hear is the false flip-flopping charges, and the “he’s not passionate enough” claims. In fact he’s the best guy to champion our conservative values! (Just ask Santorum in ’08 and Gingrich in ’10). And yet the ubber-conservatives want to glom onto what? The candidate who’s supposedly MORE anti-abortion than Romney but can’t win the general? Or the guy who’s supposedly MORE Reagan-esque than Romney but will be raked over the coals by his Democrat buddies come November? Ridiculous.
The funny thing is that I truly sympathize with the Tea Party, and other like-minded groups, yet there is this streak of extremism that I can honestly say makes me quite uncomfortable. Seriously, how else can you explain that in 2008 Romney was the “Conservative Alternative” and won in rural areas all over the country and now in 2012 he’s all of the sudden “not conservative enough”?
I mean really! You’ve got to be kidding me! He’s the same bloody person he was four years ago! And now that the Country is tanking, the primary voters (acting at the whim of conservative talkers and other extremists) are going to abandon our best hope of defeating the most socialist President since Woodrow Wilson?! How can this be rationally explained? It can’t, and that’s why I’m so irrationally upset.
In 2008, Romney had more delegates in his pocket than Santorum does at this point of the race and yet he stepped down on February 7th in order for the party to unite and focus on the General election. In 2012 the remaining candidates are going to do irreparable harm to Romney. They will stay in the race for whatever delusional or arrogate reason and they will suck the GOP funding dry and the GOP will get slaughtered in November!
In the General election, the nominee will go up against the democratic machine already bloodied, bruised and out of money. In a year when the GOP should have been able to trounce the current “occupier” in the White house they are self destructing. The candidates in particular are selling the GOP’s inheritance for a mess of pottage.
Go ahead everyone – take us to a brokered convention! We’ll see how that turns out after the GOP has been milked for every penny and slandered to the ends of the earth. And then we’ll nominate Palin at the convention to go up against Obama and we’ll really see what an ass-kicking feels like! And all for what? Because Romney (though plenty conservative in ’08) wasn’t conservative enough in ’12? Whatever! This election cycle is going to drive me to drink!
