October 13, 2011 - 10:54 am
Major GOP fundraiser Georgette Mosbacher is raising money for him.
Laura Ingraham helps him smear a conservative.
Despite his poor record on illegal immigration, one National Review writer who is usually strong on immigration figures Romney is “pre-disastered.” Whatever that means.
And a National Review editor joins in the flagrant smearing of Perry. That fact-free post warrants an apology, by the way.
Politics is politics, but tearing down the most successful Republican governor currently serving is unwise, to say the least.
Hm. It certainly does look as if all the gray eminences and power brokers are lining up, as unobtrusively as possible, behind Romney.
If the GOP’s kingmakers succeed in imposing Romney on us, Obama will get another four years. Remember that you read it here first.
“the most successful Republican governor currently serving”. Very debatable; Daniels and McConnell are doing very well, for example. I really like the new Indiana vouchers program, and lots of new jobs are coming to Virginia. Perry is very acceptable to me, but your hyperbole doesn’t do any good.
First of all, his name is Bob McDonnell, not McConnell. And the jobs coming to Virginia are not his doing. Virginia is very heavily dependent on federal government spending and not just in the DC’ burbs. The Commonwealth will suffer if there’s a significant cutback in federal spending, especially defense spending, as there inevitably must be to put this country’s fiscal house in order. Virginia is a good place to do business, always has been, kinda like Texas, and Bob’s not done anything to screw that up, or anything to make it better. Indeed, he’s not achieved any signal accomplishments because the Virginia Senate, controlled by Democrats, has stymied his every initiative. If you want to point to governors with strong records Daniels is a very good example, but McDonnell is not.
Sorry ’bout the typo. I like having rest stops again, I like his pro-life stuff (yes, a lot of the credit goes to Cuccinelli), I think he’s doing okay getting jobs to other areas. I’d like to see the car tax go away, or the sales tax on food, but that has to come from the house of delegates.
Hmmm… The Tea Party movement may have something to say about all this. And I’m waiting for Sarah Palin to weigh in. I can’t see her endorsing Romney. =’[.]‘=
The GOP elite are just as bad as the Liberal Elite. Let us hope that the GOP elite can’t do voter fraud as well as the liberal elite. Otherwise we will have Mittens as the nominee. I haven’t counted Perry out yet, but if he is then I will be raising Cain!!! Regardless, OMG (obama must go).
The Democrats, RINOs, establishment Republicans, and country club Republicans (to the extent that there is a difference between them) are at war against the tea parties. If you want constitutionally limited government, lower taxes, significantly fewer regulations, and lower government spending, you should oppose them and Romney. I doubt that a president Romney and a Republican Congress would excise a single element of the Progressive government infrastructure of alphabet soup bureaucracies. It is conceivable that the next congress would pass a bill to disestablish the Department of Education and a president Romney would veto it. Someone should pose this hypothetical to all of the candidates.
Have you noticed how many Democrats say that they most fear Romney and actually want Perry or Palin as an opponent to Obama? This is because they are congenital liars when the subject is politics. They hate and fear Perry a little and Palin a lot.
We are now at stage three of Gandhi’s four step plan: “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” Hopefully, we will get to step four early next year in the Primaries and in the General on 6 November, 2012.
East Coast Republicans have a special VIP room, Conservatives not allowed.
And National Review? The Cult of Buckley’s Ghost endorsed Government Mandates; the WF is dead.
My wife and I have decided that we will stay home if the party’s nominee is Romney. We’ve had enough of holding our noses when we vote.
Hold my nose? I’d have to muscle past my gag reflex, but please, anyone but Obama. I have more than serious problems with Romney, & if he’s elected I’ll be after him like I have been after Obama (which shows how much I am opposed to Obama), & for good reason.
I still believe Perry is the best choice, by far. I’m not voting for a game-show emcee, I’m voting for competence, common sense, & experience, & Perry is the guy.
With Romney, you just don’t know who is going to show up, but it’s most likely to be Nelson Rockefeller.
You know, National Review was integral to my education as a conservative. I began subscribing to it when I was in college. I thought I could always rely on it as a source of conservative wisdom. Until 2008.
That was the year that J-Lo went all in for Romney. There was no amount of his social con shinola that she wouldn’t wolf down, and she pooped out encomium on top of paean followed by ode to him at NRO. But I knew in my bones then that Romney was a fake, a fraud, a phoney. I assumed this aberration was just a school girl crush.
Then McCain chose Palin and all hell broke loose at 215 Lexington Avenue. Rick Brookhiser’s blurted response on the corner: “You would have thought the base was energized by being in a war. If not, perhaps we need a new base.” David Frum, no surprise, and Jay Nordlinger had already piled on. (You can read the entire post at the link; it drips with condescension for the hoi polloi.)
I’ll never forget it, and I’ll never forgive it. This was an insult from an historian and conservative intellectual whose opinion I’d greatly respected. I was one of those fools who was excited about Palin’s ascension and whom he’d dismissed. As foolish as I was, I could at least see that our economy was coming apart at the seams. I’m not sure whether Rick or his confreres saw it. I knew we needed something in 2008 more than just grinding out the damned war. But Mr. Brookhiser obviously didn’t know it.
I realized then that crew was no smarter or more sensible or more educated than I was. Look, National Review still has many fine commentators and essayists. And I do frequently read NRO, but I don’t pay for the privilege anymore. You can get good content here and loads of other places.
– have any influence with Laura?
Put me in with the growing crowd that will not vote for Romney if he is the Republican candidate. I’m not holding my nose anymore like I’ve done in the past. McCain was the last time for me. I’m suspicious of why the debates have been held in venues that are known to be hostile to conservatives. I suspicious of all the moves to early primary dates. I’m smelling big hairy N.E. establishment rats.