The Mitt That Fits
I still wear my Fred Thompson sweatshirt. (hey I got my liberal Wellstone loving niece to get it for me for Christmas, and it is super comfy, so I just can’t throw it away) I still wear my Fred 08 hat. (see previous, plus it keeps the fuzzy head warm) And I also still have a Fred 08 bumper sticker on my truck. He was the best candidate for conservatives, but he is no longer in the race. I was with Fred from the beginning, but he gave up his run, so I have to find someone else who I can support……
Mitt Romney is the best and last hope for conservatives in the Republican Presidential race in 2008. John McCain would be a devastating choice for the Republican candidate. But more importantly he would be a disaster for both America and the conservative movement.
The socialist left is on a mission to take over America. They have been on it for decades, and only with a few strong principled conservative leaders fighting back against the socialist advancements has its advancement been halted. Reagan, Newt, (to some extent) Bush have all fought back the socialist Democrat’s agenda.
John McCain has been in the United States Congress since 1982. He’s just another one of them Washington insiders who believes only they know what has to be done, and are smart enough to do it. He’s spewing forth the statements on how he was in the Reagan revolution, but the proof is not in the legislation that bears his name.
Now Mitt Romney is not the perfect storm for Republicans in 2008. Hugh Hewitt be damned, we could have done better. But at the end of the day, when given a choice between 2 men for the Republican nomination for President, we have to make a decision based on the facts of their record.
What has John McCain done for the conservative movement lately? He’s stood in the way of many issues that conservatives were trying to get done. He has worked on liberal policies and legislation as a Republican US Senator. He has stood with Democrats on legislation that has torn sections and amendments of the Constitution out of relevancy as a US Senator. And all the while on the 2008 POTUS trail, he is telling us we should trust him, or worse that we were wrong in sticking to our conservative principles. Well sorry, but I don’t trust John McCain.
American society is on a leftward drift, thanks to Democrats, moderate Republicans, and McCain’s pals in the media. These Liberals are trying to turn this country into a socialist utopia. Absolute conservatism is all that can keep us from being a collectivist and socialist state. Simply putting a (R)epublican in the White House is not going to stop them. We need that (R)epublican to understand and embrace conservatism.
Mitt Romney may not have an impeccable conservative record as Massachusetts Governor or his US Senate campaign against Teddy Kennedy. He may not be perfect in all areas of conservatism, but at least he understands them now. He isn’t trying to redefine conservatism to fit his record, like McCain and Huckabee. He can and has admitted he was wrong on some conservative issues. Unlike McCain who takes pleasure in fighting against conservative causes and individuals, Romney is actually fighting for our cause in this race.
The only way to save America from within the White House is to keep enemies of conservatism out of the Oval Office. We need someone who understands what it is like to live in the real America, to run a business in the real America. John McCain’s military record is flawless, but doesn’t in any way qualify him for the Presidency. Nope sorry, our Constitution requires a civilian commander in Chief for a reason. We need someone who hasn’t called DC home for the last 25 years if we are going to truly change anything in Washington.
Romney is the one candidate this year who is even speaking about conservatism in ways that we too envision them. A better America where the future can be brighter because the Government isn’t bigger. A future where our economy isn’t crippled and hampered compared to the developing nations by ludicrous liberal environmental and energy policies the left and wayward Republicans like Pawlenty and McCain have been pushing.
What Washington needs is a true outsider with a record of accomplishment and executive leadership. It needs a conservative who does more than lecture the true base of the Republican party. It needs someone who will fight for conservative values, not against them.
The choice is clear. On the one hand you have John McCain. A man who has been in Washington since 1982. He has been in Washington all the while liberalism was taking root. If he truly is the “Chief” when it comes to pork barrel spending, why in the world has pork barrel spending and earmarks flourished right under McCain’s nose.
As a member of Congress, McCain couldn’t stop the pork, but he found ways to railroad judges, rail against Bush’s tax cuts using class warfare rhetoric right out of Kerry, Clinton, and Kennedy’s mouths. John McCain’s record as a US Senator is what disqualifies him from the conservative Republican candidate for President. And let’s not forget about how he has yet to lash out against a Democrat with all the same disrespect, smugness, and anger that he has against Romney.
Do you remember the last debate when McCain kept trying to lie about what Romney really said about the Surge? Over and over and over, McCain tried to put words in Romney’s mouth, and change the context of what he said, McCain was relentless in trying to slash and burn Romney, and he had a smile on his face the whole time. He enjoyed lying about his fellow Republican. It exposed his temper and a side of him that is something not well suited for executive position. You can’t take more satisfaction is scoring cheap political points or stroking your own ego, when you are a true leader.
I can’t imagine a Republican Party that rewards and nominates John McCain with the honor to lead it into a Presidential election. I can’t imagine having a man who has single-handedly stopped major advancements by conservatism be anointed as a conservative. He’s an enemy to the conservative cause.
I do not believe in endorsing candidates. I supported Fred Thompson, but now I am supporting Mitt Romney. He is the best of those left for the conservative cause. I trust him when he speaks like a conservative. He isn’t playing word games about reintroducing Amnesty. He is speaking against it. He isn’t making his case by lashing out at individuals, like Rumsfeld. Romney is talking about real change. The right kind of change.
I know I have written a lot about Romney in the past, very little of it favorable. He is not my first choice, but he is the best of those left. You do not become as successful a man as Romney by saying one thing and doing another. He does have an impressive resume. And more importantly, right now, he is the best representative of a true conservative. His stated agenda and policies are the most in line with my vision of conservatism. And unlike the others in the race, I trust him at his word.
We can’t expect anything to change in Washington by sending the same people back time and time again, but just in different chairs. We need new blood and new ideas in Washington.
We need Mitt Romney in the White House.
You take Mitt at his word?
Make sure you parse those words carefully (because as you admit, his actions are not conservative from life, to gun rights, to health care, to taxes).
He reminds me of Bill Clinton.
I don’t raise taxes – those were fees.
Or this moment where he is caught lying (sorry Parsing his words).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GiC27w1KAE
The great moments is he is caught, has the argument of the meaning of the words, and then goes making the same statement as if the fact he is not being honest doesn’t matter.
Bill would be proud.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GiC27w1KAE
There is nothing evil about lobbyists, no matter how much people try to paint them that way.
Watching that Youtube clip is almost enough to make me want to vote for Romney in the straw poll on Tuesday. I find it lame that anyone should have a problem with a candidate working with lobbyists.
Andy, the one thing I admire most about you is you put principles over party. Now that all the radio hosts and bloggers are behind Mitt, don’t then follow them in the next week and tell us why we all have to get behind McVain. I will never vote for the man.
Also, why give Hugh shit for seeing what everyone else failed too see. Romney is our best chance to rally the base, keep many seats and keep the presidency. I read Hughs book 12 months ago and saw it too. But guess what it’s now too late.
Norm act’s like Pawlenty, Pawlenty acts like McCain, Gwad this party is fucked.
Bmetzler – I also have no problem with lobbyist.
Mitt however apparently think people do, so the whole point of his stop and speech was to talk about the evil lobbyist and how he doesn’t have any in his campaign. Which of course was a lie.
That’s the problem with Mitt, he says what he thinks people want to hear – having no grounding in his actions or reality. As I said, reminds me of Bill.
And TitanTrader – Just keep repeating – Michelle and John – MN is not all lost.
This Summer go to CD6 and work you a** off for Michelle.
She has a target on her the size of a light rail budget.
And we all better see Andy Truck full of Bachmann signs – he owes the State after the Pawlenty trucking he did. I think two Michelle parades for every Pawlenty parade should be penance enough.
Mitt however apparently think people do, so the whole point of his stop and speech was to talk about the evil lobbyist and how he doesn’t have any in his campaign. Which of course was a lie.
Of course, I’d never have known that was the purpose of his stop and speech, because that’s not the part the Youtube clip included. If Mitt Romney is saying that lobbyists are evil, well, that might be a problem, but that’s not what the clip is about, nor have I seen any evidence ever that Romney does believe that.
Then again, I don’t think that there is one Republican or Democrat who believes that lobbyists are bad. It’s just a fashionable lately to attack lobbyists.
Bmeltzer -
I can post the whole trip – but you can search just as easy.
Here is one that starts earlier http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8cHiEGLEls
Mitt walks in the Staples, buy some tape and the starts his standard Washington outsider stump speech.
The theme was “I’m the Washington Outsider, no lobbyist around me”
He even repeat the statement during the last debate when asked about Regan
[Stuff about Regan ..]And like Ronald Reagan, I’d go to Washington as an outsider — not owing favors, not lobbyists on every elbow. I would be able to be the independent outsider that Ronald Reagan was, and he brought change to Washington
That’s the Bill Clinton moment.
He thinks people hate lobbyist so he says, first I don’t have lobbyist running my campaign – Which he parses his words, as is in the clip.
Now he is using the line, no lobbyist around me – which is an even bigger fib.
I guess he figures why bother with semantics, just lie – it’s much quicker.
Again, I don’t care if he has lobbyist or not (They actually serve a good function and that whole petition the government thing in the constitution)
What I do have issues is that Mitt is the dream candidate, not because of his record, which is by all admission liberal, but because he now says he has found the way, trust him he says so.
But if he can’t even tell the truth on something like this, because he thinks this is what people want to hear – doesn’t it give you pause that maybe lots of other things he is just saying what he thinks people want to hear.
Watch the news tonight or talk to someone at the event – His speech will be about being an outsider and he will use the lobbyist line again.
There you go again! Here we’re faced with the possibility of the tyrannical Queen Hillabeast the First, and you guys are arguing about whether the not-perfect candidate is better than the better-than-nothing candidate. You are down already to the time of binary choices. You’ll either take Romney or McCain, and then you will take that winner or Hillary. Them’s your choices, choose well.