Face it fellow Right Blogistanis. Mitt Romney could be the GOP nominee, making him our only hope for making Barack Obama a one term president.
Chris Christie?
No way. True Believers on the right would be screaming "RINO!" within hours of his announcement. He's a tax raiser, expenditure increaser, cap and trader, and he has refused to join other states in the Obamacare lawsuit. And if you dislike Rick Perry's take on illegal immigration, you will absolutely hate Christie's.
Rick Perry: The GOP's Lyndon Johnson
Rick Perry raises more questions than answers, and he's giving being plain-spoken a bad name, coming off as dismissive, insulting and vulgar rather than folksy and honest. He's the GOP's own Lyndon Johnson.
I love Ron Paul's constitutionalism, but his foreign policy is naive. The good doctor takes a good thing, nonintervention, and turns it into a bedrock absolute, refusing to pull the trigger on a sworn enemy such as Bin Laden unless it is a completely righteous shoot. When two libertarian foreign policy tablets would do, Dr. Paul makes us take the whole bottle.
Congratulations to Herman Cain!
I am heartened at Herman Cain's Florida straw poll victory. Anything that disrupts the press's dictation. I would like to see him and Rick Santorum (an intelligent and articulate man whose expertise runs far beyond social issues) crack the top tier.
Meanwhile, Romney presses on. The man is like a battleship that won't go down. He's been campaigning for almost four years now and it shows. If he were any more polished we'd need welder's goggles to look at him.
Here's some "out of the box" thinking. Please stick with me. I welcome return fire...
While I encourage my fellow conservatives to continue discussing and debating the merits of the various candidates, I also ask everyone to contemplate a Romney nomination win. We could do worse. He's an experienced businessman who understands economics and knows how the world works, and he's run a state, so he knows how to lead and make decisions. He's a clean-living family man with no scandals in his past.
His flip-flopping could actually end up as an advantage (Stick with me!)
He's malleable. Yes, I could see him jumping in with Democrats if they ran the house and senate, but the odds of that are very unlikely. It's looking ugly for the dems in 2012; the GOP should hold the house and gain control of the senate. Given a torch and pitchfork tea party mob and some stand-up small government types in a GOP-controlled house and senate, I could see Romney affably presiding over a party of mad slashers. His job would be to put a friendly, responsible face on the gang that dismantles progressivism.
What If...
Think about what you would do if your favored candidate lost the nomination. Think what you would do if he or she lost it to your least favorite candidate. You're thinkin' third-party, right?
Now, imagine a victorious Obama smiling and waving on the evening of November 6th, 2012. Imagine him thanking the American people for affirming his socialist agenda by giving him four more years to finish off America as we know it.
Who am I for? Anybody. But. Obama.
