Posted by
flagwaver on Friday, January 20, 2012 5:27:24 AM
What are we conservatives to do in this election? It seems that barring some unlikely occurrence, like a Bobby Jindal jumping into the race, or a dramatic victory…or close second…by Rick Santorum in South Carolina Saturday night, we are going to be left with a choice between two unpalatable choices for the GOP nomination. Either Mitt Romney, scion of the Romney Clan, or Newt Gingrich, president of the He-Man-Ego Trippin’-SuperFreak club (membership of 1) will end up as standard bearer against Team Obamanation in the fall election. And that spells one thing for conservatives in the coming election.
Political doom.
Conservatives can cite chapter and verse about why the oh, so moderate Romney does not turn their political ignition switch. He has that record of doing whatever he can to win office in Massachusetts, even going so far as to try to get to the left of the deceased “Liberal Lion” Ted Kennedy. I mean, when you have stated that out in the open, it’s kinda hard to come back a few years later trying to convince conservatives that you’re one of them! Add into that the fact that you were all for an individual health care mandate, and refuse to back away from it even as you castigate President Obama for doing basically the same thing at the nation level, and conservatives are not exactly going to flock to your side (Ann Coulter notwithstanding).
As for Newt… Great God what can I say about Newt? Everyone knows he has an ego as big as all outside; I mean who but an egotist tells a guy that has finished above him on the two instances that actual voters had a chance to choose (Santorum) to step aside!?! And who besides an egotist asks his wife (allegedly) to allow him to continue his extramarital affair, with the attitude that the wife should willingly “share” her husband? And we don’t even have to get into his hair-brained political ideas like the aforementioned individual mandate, his embrace of AGW, and his recent idea that a President should just be able to ignore any SCOTUS ruling that doesn’t suit his political tastes or agendas. What, pray tell, is conservative about any of those positions? And this is the man who today is running around the Palmetto State declaring himself the conservative choice in the race.
Where are all the Tea Partiers at? Where they at? Because now is the time to make a stand toward taking the country back from Obama, and keeping it from falling into the hands of a plastic presidential action figure or a portly egomaniac. Rising up in 2010 only goes so far if you lie back down in 2012.
And if things don’t change in a hurry, were going to see something worse than even a President Romney would be; a return engagement by a lame duck radical President Obama.