According to an article linked at Business Insider and originally posted here,
In a surprise move today, the seven major Republican candidates for president (who are not named “Mitt Romney”) decided to merge their campaigns, and run as a single corporate “person” they are now calling “Anybody But Romney, Incorporated.”
Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, and Rick Santorum held a joint press conference to announce the formation of “ABR, Inc.” This move is unprecedented in the history of presidential campaigns, but all seven candidates spoke of it as the natural reaction by Republicans to avoid nominating Mitt Romney, who is just not trusted by roughly three-fourths of the Republican electorate. By joining forces, the field of non-Romney candidates said, they can assure Republican voters that Romney will not be their party’s standard-bearer next year.
A glance at the site where the article originated and at one of the author’s comments there suggests that it is an attempt at satire. Still, it might be a good idea.
And the media, including O’Reily, would still claim Romney is the front runner. Other then that I’m all in but they forgot the guy from New Mexico…what’s his name?
Satire or not, the real rule here is that comedy must contain an element of the Truth.
Mitt (That’s the House, I’m running for the Senate) Romney is front runner only in that he maintains a clear majority of the Establishment Support. All 25 % of them.
This is, of course, dimwitted and completely unfunny satire. But besides that, what fascinates me is the general hatred of Romney. It’s even more dimwitted than the satire because it leads to the reelection of Obama.
That’s the same tired thinking that gave us such stellar candidates as Bob Dole and John McCain. Yeah, let’s pick another ineffective moderate so all those “independents” can vote for a Republican. Another go-along-to-get-along business-as-usual establishment hack so we can slow down, just a little, our current downward slide into totalitarianism. A vote for Romney is a vote for the status quo. Obama will get us there quicker, but the destination remains the same.
I’d prefer a strong candidate who would make an effective leader. Like Gingrich.
With all due respect, Gingrich believed in global warming before he stopped believing in it (see ad with Nancy Pelosi). He was one of the authors (with the Heritage Foundation) of the “individual mandate” which brought us Romneycare and Obamacare. He went after President Clinton for having an affair with an intern at the very same time he was having an affair with a staffer.
Don’t misunderstand me, I don’t think any of these things disqualify him as a strong presidential contender. But I think it’s disingenuous to ignore them while criticising Romney as an ineffective moderate hack.
There’s no danger of anybody ignoring the past mistakes of Repub candidates, Carol. We can depend on folks like you to remind us of them on a daily basis. Thanks.
Meanwhile Obama, speaking from Hawaii mind you, said he was speaking from Asia. Guess Asia is now one of the 57 states.
The real slogan is Anybody But Obama, and to find out who Anybody will be we’ll have to wait for the primaries. The media and the polls aren’t trustworthy.
Mitt Romney is the front runner because he has the best chance of defeating Barry in 2012. While his views have “evolved,” presently he lines up in the conservative column on virtually all issues. I’m from Iowa and support Gov. Perry, but I’ve heard Romney speak in person, and he’s definitely impressive. He’s not as smart as Newt but will give B.Hussein Obama a run for his money in a debate.
People will always vote for something over nothing…and once Obama and his allies in the media expose all of Romney’s flip-flops on nearly every issue he has ever taken a position on, Romney will be the nothing candidate no one (not even the GOP base) can get fired up about.
In other words, Romney is a sure-fire loser. The media likes him now (because they know he’s no conservative), but they will turn on him the second he wins the nomination, just like they did to McCain.
And I, for one, have already decided I’ll vote third party if he is the nominee.
Think of other impressive in their speeches elected within the past half century: Obama, of course. His progenitors, JF Kennedy also elected out of Chicago. And the progenitor of the men elected on the basis of their resonant, impressive speeches, their promises for Hope and Change.
I refer of course to Adolf Hitler, who did bring hope and CHANGE to Germany and the entire world. Only after a genuinely Republican American President rather than Liberal/Progressive clone of JF Kennedy/WJ.Clinton etal effected the “tearing down” of the wall – as direct effect of that earlier great speech maker – that separated Germany into a western “free” and eastern prison state. Persons attempting escape over that wall from the prison state to freedom shot dead by border guards – all citizens of Greater Germany of once upon a time. ALL lawful, and even lauded actions at that time in that place.
And look on Romney as representative of Massachusetts that habitually elects members of that Kennedy family, including now the New Kennedy Obama, and John Kerry to Congress. Think again about Romney and his fine speech-making.
While I would support a syphilitic camel over Obama, I never thought that the GOP would take me up on the promise.
Sadly, it looks like Romney is the only option left at this point. Cain simply doesn’t have the depth to survive a campaign, Perry (whatever his virtues in governing, and I was impressed with him while I lived in TX) has melted down in public too often now for me to trust him with a campaign of this sort. A lefty columnist said it best of Gingrich (“his baggage has baggage”), and his zig-zags on Global Warming, Fannie/Freddie, NY-23, etc. leaves me with no confidence whatsoever that he can be trusted. As for the rest…they are…the rest, perhaps good men and women (I believe them to be), but certainly not serious candidates with a chance of winning.
Look, this election is important in a way that I believe we all understand. What BHO has done is bad, but it can be fixed. Given 4 more years (and likely 2 more SCOTUS appointments, as well as God knows how many other court appointments), it may not be possible to undo it. The GOP cannot play successful defense for 4 years, and we need to accept that unpleasant realities often require unpleasant choices.
Romney may not be the best candidate (he is far, far from it), but he can win, and he can govern. It isn’t a choice between Romney and some conservative dream, it is a choice between Romney and BHO….
So saddle up that syphilitic camel….
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The right will eventually have to sit down and get together with the middle in defeating our president. The middles like Romney and his ability to attract Reagan Democrats and independents. Political principles, worthy political principles, are worth fighting for but not committing suicide over. The overriding practical result of the ouster of our president is the ouster of his cabinet, the ouster of NLRB leadership and direction; the ouster of the EPA agenda, a blow to SIEU. The ouster of socialist apparatchiks running this government over the working, thinking, principled people of this country.
middles like Romney and his ability to attract Reagan Democrats and independents.
Reagan didn’t attract those Reagan Democrats by being a squishy moderate.