What part of STFU confuses you, Romney?! Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney appeared to take a measure of pleasure on Sunday in criticizing his 2012 opponent, President Barack Obama, for failing to prevent the unfolding conflict in Crimea and Ukraine. blogs.wsj/washwire/2014/03/23/romney-i-was-right-about-russia/ Au contraire. The 2012 Republican presidential ticket failed because it was too moderate; too Democrat-like, if you will. And now that I think about it, moderate policies and politics have been the GOP national tickets downfall for quite some time, going all the way back to George H.W. Bush, who lost his bid for re-election to Bill Clinton, a card-carrying Democrat. H.W. showed his true stripes with his approval of Democrat tax increases (despite his read my lips pledge), and a decade later, the son, George W., showed the stuff he is made of by ignoring the howls of conservatives and supporting a Democrat-backed $700 billion stimulus (bailout) package that drove a stake into the heart of the economy. The moderate GOP trend continued in 2008 with presidential candidate John McCain (remember McCain-Feingold, where the senator joined with ultra-liberal Russ Feingold to curb First Amendment rights), and in 2012 with Mitt Romney, who was, in the GOP establishment view, somehow owed a shot at the big enchilada. Never mind that Mitt didnt have so much as a burning ember, let alone a fire, in his belly. (As it turns out, he was more combative with his GOP primary opponents than he was with President Obama.) And so it came to pass that in the final days of the 2012 campaign (yawn), Mitt overlooked President Obamas disasters, including the Benghazi attack that left four Americans, including our ambassador, dead, and allowed Obama to stroll back into the White House. https://theintermountain/page/content.detail/id/559476/GOP-must-embrace-tea-party-to-succeed.html?nav=5011
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:41:43 +0000
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