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From unlikeable to detestable

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Dan says it about Romney, but for my money it applies almost as well to the Republican Statist Party itself:

For Romney to attack every conservative from the Right, when he is so obviously and so far to the Left of them, demonstrates a complete lack of character and integrity. But slash and burn is all he has, as he has no core conservative principles and can’t articulate them in an authentic manner. As much as I hate Obama’s politics, as an individual, I have more respect for him today, than I do Mitt Romney. And I am far from alone. If the GOP doesn’t realize what that will cost in soft support, or no support at all in the Fall, they are delusional.

With the advent of new media, too many people are seeing, talking and connecting today. The GOP in Washington is not the party of Reagan, it is a party on its way to the political wilderness for a decade or more without serious reform. The clearest sign of that is the support a Ron Paul pulls. It is 2 – 4 times what it should be and is a telling sign of just how many people have written, or are in the process of writing off the GOP establishment.

From RNC head, to primaries, now the primary, the GOP establishment consistently uses all its power to stomp down any conservative. Conservatives are fast approaching a breaking point. The GOP believes it will be fine because it will be all Obama come November. They are wrong. Mitt Romney has gone from unlikeable, to detestable and some of us are not going to forget it simply because the GOP thinks it can blow dog whistles around Obama.

When the GOP nominee formulated and implemented the model for ObamaCare, there’s not enough distance between those two dogs to fight for much of anything come the general election. If nothing else, at least we can then finally be rid of Mitt Romney, who has been little more than a blight upon GOP presidential politics for two election cycles, now. The media structure enabling him may remain, but that too will be increasingly undersiege by grassroots-based new media. What we lack in money, we make up for in numbers. And we have the GOP’s number thanks to the primary season, as well as several previous recent events.

Yesterday was a despicable day in American politics given the Romney/GOP garbage dump on former Speaker Newt Gingrich – and he wasn’t even my guy. That the GOP sycophants and Team Romney will demonstrate absolutely no shame over it makes it abundantly clear that a GOP with Mitt Romney at the helm is unfit to govern America.

The choice would now seem to be just about narrowed down to one between an unprincipled hack with no integrity at all–one who is willing to use any lie at all in service of his gargantuan ego and ambition; hides behind the surrogates he uses to do his dirty work for him while he presents a smiling, friendly facade to the public; and is propped up by the machinery of a corrupt party apparat promoting business as usual–versus…Barrack Obama.

The bright spot (and it ain’t much) is that, after the coming crushing defeat next fall, the GOP will no longer be able to promote the sham that it is anything like a conservative party, and those of us who still care about Constitutionally-limited government can start getting serious about putting something together to supplant it entirely.

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  1. Meiji_man says:

    1/30/2012 at 10:54 AM (UTC -5)

    I had the much the same thought this weekend. But I took it a step further. Better that Obama wins over Romney, then Romney squeaks by with a win. 4 years of Moderate/Compassionate/Conservatism will only reenforce the CINO Republicans and the party establishment.
    But Hey, I'm a libertarian, I just wish I had a competent party to vote for.

    OBTW, has anyone else noticed that Every Living Presidential Candidate to Lose to a Democrat has supported Romney? Just say'n

  2. Martin says:

    1/30/2012 at 11:41 AM (UTC -5)

    The GOP establishment doesn't understand the significance of the numbers Newt and Ron Paul are pulling. They think it's about Newt and Ron Paul, but it's not - it's all about Romney and the desperation with which Republican voters are seeking an alternative.

    At this point, Mittens is so unlikeable that a box of stale soda crackers would draw decent numbers if one declared its candidacy for the GOP nomination. And the GOP establishment, which resembles nothing so much as the band on the deck of the Titanic, seems content to play the same upbeat tune of "we're gonna win in '12!" even as the Good Ship Republican plunges into the icy deep.

    Democrats have never been so happy.

  3. ErikZ says:

    1/30/2012 at 12:03 PM (UTC -5)

    He won't push to have Obamacare repealed.

    What else needs to be said?

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