The presidency of 2012 is lost, Barak Obama is going to win. Naturally, we can stand behind Mitt Romney, but the fact is that the Obamabots are going to come out in force to put him back in office. As conservatives, we have to understand that the “game over” icon appeared when Herman Cain was forced out of the race. It had nothing to do with his color of skin, it had everything to do with content of his message and his articulation of that message. Herman Cain could have beaten Obama and “team Obama” knew it and that is why they and their media cohorts considered Cain enemy number one and torpedoed his chances of running with vapors and innuendo.
What was left of the Republican field was a joke. Michele Bachmann? Really? Newt Gingrich? Are you kidding me? Now, don’t get me wrong. I like Mitt Romney but he is unelectable. Obama and his campaign will use two major themes to defeat him and those are class warfare and Romney’s religion. Mitt is wealthy and that is all that matters to Obamabots who think no one under any circumstance should be wealthy unless they themselves are given a share of that wealth. They are also, without giving any thought to what Obama’s religious practices are (and aside from the “Rev.” Wright, no one really knows what religion the President practices), already branding Romney as member of a cult. I have family and several friends who belong to the LDS church and have myself attended services as a visitor and can attest there is nothing “cultish” about that faith. No, they do not practice polygamy, but you can bet the mainstream media will remind you that in the 19th century they did. People in the 19th century also believed bloodletting was a cure for ailments.
The point here is that we as conservatives must wrap our heads around the fact that Obama is likely going to be elected for a second term. Therefore, our best hope is to get behind congressional and senatorial candidates and give “team Obama” a Republican Congress that will stand against his tyrannical policies. We must remember that the “bailout” of General Motors was a government takeover and not a “bailout.” We must acknowledge the fact that Obama flung billions of dollars at “green energy” while stymying every effort to drill for oil on our own continent and territorial waters. Meanwhile, the Chinese and Mexicans are reaping the benefits of oil just off our shores and nearly every last one of those “green energy” companies took money from the government and then filed for bankruptcy.
A Republican majority in Congress will create four years of gridlock. We can expect four more years of economic misery because hardly anything will get done to fix the mess we are mired in now. However, it would give us conservatives time to regroup, groom candidates that have a clear message and vision, and a Republican Congress can render Obama’s plans for this country null and void.
We also must pray daily for the health and welfare of the conservative members of the Supreme Court and pray they remain at their posts until the day Obama takes that final flight on Air Force One and returns to life as a citizen with multi-million dollar speaking engagements and retires as a former President of this country.
In the meantime, please, my friends, look up the 17th Amendment and then read the Federalist Papers and learn why the Senate was constructed in the manner that it was originally and join me in the fight to overturn the Amendment that got us where we are today. Obama is going to win this election, but we the People can restore this republic back to what is was designed to be and it must start with supporting conservative congressional candidates.
God bless Mitt Romney, I intend to vote for him. But, my friends, I am telling you that he is not going to win this election.
There is a Republican still in the race who can beat Obama, but you’re not supposed to mention him. So you didn’t. You included Gingrich and Bachmann in your analysis, but not the unmentionable one.
Gingrich went into the campaign with a $250,000 jewelry store tab. He came out with a $4 million campaign debt. He was the daring of Southern talk radio. We fiscal conservatives never considered the man. We stand vindicated.
The only candidate talking about the crucial issues was Buddy Roemer.
Scott is correct that Romney won’t win. It matters not. There will be a revolution due to the financial collapse. No system this permeated with fraud from A to Z will stand. We have collectively torn apart the threads that are necessary for a functioning society and civilization.
First of all, Mr. Hudson, you can leave off the “Obamabot” insults. It’s not appreciated, accurate, and quite frankly, it’s childish.
I’m really disappointed in you. You’re a fairly intelligent person, yet you choose to parrot gop stalewart talking points.
Do yourself a favor and check out a book called The New Victorians: Poverty, Politics, and Propaganda in Two Gilded Ages by Stephen Pimpare.
That’s all I have to say. I hope you take the time to educate yourself.
Mike, I will check out that book, and while you may believe I am parroting gop talking points, I am actually parroting what “Aryken” calls the unmentionable one. I believe that anyone who votes for a socialist candidate to continue to receive socialist benefits on the back of my labor is an Obamabot, they are voting to continue to get a check, only the bank account is running dry. Second, I am favoring a repeal of the 17th Amendment and urging conservatives to vote in a conservative Congress.Those are not gop talking points, they are mine….but thanks again, I will check out that book you recommend.
Those who have borrowed from the socialist toolkit, the act of doing so did not make them socialists—any more than Ron Paul’s openness to Marijuana law reform made him a liberal Democrat or Obama’s catering to those who want to gut Medicare makes him a Barry Goldwater Republican.
Obama rejected “socialized medicine” in favor of a healthcare reform plan that requires uninsured Americans to buy policies from for-profit insurance companies. He refused to get tough on Wall Street and the big banks, allowing “too big to fail” private institutions to threaten the US economy. He didn’t respond to the unemployment crisis with the sort of jobs programs that Franklin Delano Roosevelt implemented during the New Deal era, and that Hubert Humphrey made central to his advocacy as a senator and presidential candidate in the 1960s and 1970s. Trust me, Obama is not a socialist.
I have always thought that rejecting whole ideologies, whether it’s conservatism, liberalism, libertarianism or socialism—is dangerous. There is no one single ideology that can apply to a nation as diverse as the United States of America.
Trying to force a single ideology into a cookie cutter notion reinforces the nonsense peddled by corrupt politicians that it is all that we have available to us.
Socialism is not a foreign concept, and has been a part of the American discourse and policy making for the better part of two centuries. It still continues today, despite the current GOP’s adamant denial and insistence that socialism is a dirty word.
We have a public school system paid for with tax dollars. Everyone can use the system. We have fire departments and police departments, paid for with taxes, who provide their services to all. Our streets, roads and highways are paid for with tax dollars and everyone one can drive one them. These are social programs, but that does not make the United States of America a socialist country. Problems within the system does not mean the ideology is flawed, it means that something needs to be fixed within the system. E.g. If the plumbing is flawed in your home, you don’t tear down the house, you fix the pipes.
The history of the Republican party itself is steeped in socialism. It was founded by followers of the French utopian socialist Charles Fourier and radical land reformers who proudly promoted the ideal of redistribution of the common wealth. Horace Greeley employed Karl Marx as the European correspondent for the great newspaper of the Republican movement, the New York Tribune. Abraham Lincoln employed Marx’s editor and friend Charles Dana as a presidential assistant.
In 1966, Dr.Martin Luther King (whom I’m sure you are aware was also a Republican) made a statement to his staff:
“You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with captains of industry…. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism. There must be a better distribution of wealth and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism.”
Excuse the long post, but I hope you’ll take a double look at your own beliefs. Personally, I think our current president is a sorry excuse who has this inane need to appease the people in the very party who hates him while they refuse to negotiate on any terms. I would be ecstatic to let Mitt Romney take the reins and drive the current GOP party to obvlivion with tried and true methods of self destruction. But I love this country too much to send it to hell, as Romney surely will. Obama’s a dud, and he’s only hair better than Romney. But at least he finally had the b*lls to came out in support of gay marriage and equal rights, even if he only did it for political posturing.
Buddy Roemer isn’t the unmentionable one. Sorry Arrowflinger.