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...."Wisconsinites have spoken!" Rep. Paul Ryan said as he introduced primary winner Mitt Romney at a victory party in Milwaukee Tuesday night. "Republicans are unifying!"....
RRD:The polls do tend to indicate that Wisconsin Republicans are unifying,but contrary to the delusions of Ryan there are a few races that remain before we have a nominee,much less "unify" behind such a nominee.For a example of the kind of wild enthusiasm Romney invokes among Conservatives I thought I would repost the following by Judson Phillips: A letter to the Republican Establishment - Tea Party Nation
http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topic/show?id=3355873%3ATopic%3A1947168&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic
....” You proved you could get Mitt Romney nominated without conservatives. Of course you guys are the one’s who drove the Republican Party to the brink of political extinction in 2006 and 2008. Why should you pay attention to the Tea Party, the group that single handedly saved the Republican Party in 2010? At this point, you need to buy a clue. You cannot win the White House without us. In surveys we have done, 25% of conservatives surveyed said they would not vote for Mitt Romney in the General Election. Barack Obama and the Democrats are going to set records, not only for the amount of money they raise, both legally and illegally, they are also going to set records for the number of dead people voting as well as people voting early and often. After all, it is the Chicago way. If 25% of the Republican base is checking out, you are not going to win the White House. So how do you get the conservatives you made a point of ignoring in the primary back into the fold? First, someone better tell Romney to choose a conservative VP. Chris Christie isn’t a conservative.Neither is Tim Pawlenty. If you want a conservative, think Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Marco Rubio or Rand Paul.
If you give us another “moderate” or a liberal as the Vice President nominee, we will not be there. ”.....
RRD:I sympathize with Mr.Phillips,but think that he is naive if he expects Romney to care.I am also not sure what surveys he is referring to,my own ad hoc count,based on comments I've seen on Facebook and other sites,would be closer to 10-15% who will not vote for Romney in the general election,myself included.
Of those most will not vote for any presidential candidate and about a third are already setting up Gary Johnson 2012 signs on their lawns and placing Gary Johnson bumper stickers on their cars.I know of at least two bloggers(other than myself)who will not support Romney,and a number who will do so,but who will do so bitterly. But back to why I believe Romney does not care:he lives in a alternate reality.
In Romneyland the way to get independent voters is to make "the conservative case for the Individual Mandate",a position that puts him to the left of the Independent Voters he is courting.
In Romneyland Romneycare is a asset,not a liability(fn1)
In Romneyland everything that we have heard thus far,about Obamacare,Global Warming etc is simply something to be forgotten about,erased & ignored,once the general election starts.You see it's like ”an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again ”.(fn2)
In Romneyland elections are not about beliefs and principles,they are about "electability".(fn3)
It's true that some believe that Romney will have no choice but to pick a Conservative,but that view is based on two assumptions,neither of which may be true:
1.That a conservative will accept the "honor". 2.That Romney doesn't take the base for granted.I believe that Romney's view is much closer to that of the Republican strategist who once advised him;Mike Murphy.
This is Murphy's view of both the Republican base & the Democratic base: To go forward, GOP must snap out of its Sarah Palin spell Mike Murphy - NY Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/gop-snap-sarah-palin-spell-article-1.428766
.....”Look at the crowds she can draw, I was told. She "excites the base." Phooey. Every presidential election year brings forth some new nugget of conventional wisdom from the media elite that totally misses the real picture. Last year, the big wrong idea was this notion that base voters have somehow become the new swing voters. We are now told the party base - those voters who will vote for a bag of cement if it has an R or D attached to it - must be carefully appealed to, romanced and appeased. Under that funhouse reasoning, Palin was an inspired pick.”.... And if Mr.Murphy is correct,(and this is the mindset of many of those advising Romney),if the base will vote for "a bag of cement if it has an R....attached to it" then why shouldn't Romney follow the advice Murphy offered John Mccain:pick someone like Tom Ridge to show how "independent" you are.
Indeed,Jonah "try a little Pinochet(fn4)" Goldberg,(perhaps competing for the "most unprincipled and short-sighted conservative columnist award”) ,recently offered this gem of a column,in which he explains that Romney's hypocrisy is irrelevant,since Obama is also a hypocrite,and that Romneycare will actually help Romney with some nano-segment of the population who mindlessly accept whatever the Today Show tells them about everything except for Obamacare and Romney:
Obamacare Will Be Romney's Savior - Jonah Goldberg - Townhall Conservative Columnist http://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2012/04/04/obamacare_will_be_romneys_savior/page/full/ ....” Indeed, throughout the debate season,Santorum and others constantly insisted that Romney can't attack Obamacare. The funny thing is: Even as they were saying he can't attack Obamacare, Romney was -- you guessed it -- attacking Obamacare. Romney has been attacking Obamacare since its inception. "I'll stop it in its tracks on day one!" he promises constantly on the stump. ... Yes, Romney might be inconsistent to attack Obamacare, at least on the mandate, but there's no basis in reality to say he "can't" attack it nonetheless. Obama opposed the mandate vociferously when running against Hillary Rodham Clinton, but that didn't stop him from fighting to make it the law of the land.”.....
RRD:Santorum made his best statement when he said: .....“The debate right now is fundamental and there’s one candidate in this race who can actually make the contrast that is necessary to take the Republican position, conservative position,” Santorum said outside the Supreme Court on Monday. “There is one candidate who is disqualified to make the case.”....(fn5)
And no I am not endorsing him(fn6)
But Goldberg is equivocating when he says that Romney's critics are wrong to say that he can't attack Obamacare,what they clearly mean is that Romney cannot make a fundamental,political-moral argument against it without being hypocritical or rejecting his previous position.
And as to the claim that Romney's
hypocrisy is irrelevant since Obama is also a hypocrite;so the GOP should seek to emulate a hypocritical Democrat,with the main distinction that Obama will have a overwhelming advantage in having the press point out Romney's hypocrisy while ignoring Obama's?
Goldberg: ...."Moreover, the broader bipartisan assumption that Romney will be hurt by Romneycare in the general election is deeply flawed. First of all, Obamacare is unpopular (a fact a lot of political coverage conveniently overlooks). That's why Democrats don't talk about it on the stump, and neither did Obama for a very long time -- until the Supreme Court forced him to re-acquire political ownership. If the court upholds the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obama is not going to want to remind voters of his responsibility for an unpopular piece of legislation. If the court throws it out, Obama is not going to want to remind voters that his signature accomplishment -- which distracted him from a bad economy and cost the Democrats the House -- was so flawed that the court had to reject it. Either way, Obama will not be racing to talk about health care. But Romney will." RRD:To paraphrase Goldberg ”the funny thing is: Even as Goldberg is saying Obama won't trumpet Obamacare, Obama
is--you guessed it trumpeting Obamacare”.Indeed,if Goldberg emerged from his pragmatist cave long enough to look at the world he would see that Obama has beamed with pride when speaking of something,which he does,in fact,regard as his "signature accomplishment",and yes he has been doing so since before the case came up before the Court.The most notable recent case was in a 60 Minutes interview in which he boasted that he had achieved more in his first two years than any President had with the ”possible exceptions” of LBJ,FDR and Lincoln.
(fn7)
Obama is neither a pragmatist nor a fool.He will not make the election a referendum on Obamacare,but he will confidently defend it.Indeed,I would not rule out the possibility that if the law is thrown out,Obama would declare his intention to pass it again!Goldberg like many who have helped give "the stupid party" its name,does not seem to grasp that while he and others are focused on "beating Obama" Obama is quite serious when he says that he would rather be a "successful" one term president,than a "unsuccessful" two-term president.While the Republicans are dutifully playing their role of inspecting a centimeter of the bark of a particular tree,the left is laying multi-decade plans for cutting down the forest. ...."It's often said that Obama will respond to Romney's attacks by saying the mandate was based on Romneycare. Romney will respond, "Well, you did it wrong" and promise to repeal and replace the law. "
RRD:Did what wrong?Force people to buy health insurance the wrong way?What is the right way to destroy liberty?On a state by state level?Did Obama institute Socialized Medicine the wrong way?What is the right way?
Will Romney explain to Obama the correct,conservative way to institute socialized medicine?
"Besides, Romney will have plenty of other lines of attack: the raid on Medicare, the rationing board, the tax hikes, the religious liberty issues, the creation of a vast new entitlement when the existing ones are crushing us with debt, etc." RRD:So Romney will argue that Medicare should not be cut when the existing entitlement programs are crushing us with debt?He will defend ”religious liberty” & defend the state government's right to force people to buy health insurance & the state government's right to force Catholic Hospitals to provide the Morning After Pill?
You didn't know about that last?
Here:
FLASHBACK: Romney Does Flip-Flop and Forces Catholic Hospitals to Distribute Morning-After-Pill | LifeSiteNews.com
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/1951/20/5120905
...."Meanwhile, the independents and moderates who dislike Obamacare, but who are not libertarians, will most likely see Romneycare as evidence that Romney is not one of the right-wing crazies the "Today" show keeps warning them about.".... RRD:Mr.Goldberg who are these "independents and moderates who dislike Obamacare,but who are not libertarians"?I have heard of this exotic species,indeed Romney's staff speaks of them to Politico(fn8),but I have yet to encounter them.Why do they dislike Obamacare,and is their dislike sufficient to vote for a man whom the Today Show will tell them day in and day out,is a heartless,ruthless,sociopath,who destroyed jobs for profit at Bain Capital,and who wants to kill them and drag them into a unneccessary war with Iran,while the children of the poor die from lack of health care?
I would submit to Mr.Goldberg that one cannot simultaneously be the kind of person who forms their opinions based on what the Today Show tells them,& yet oppose Obamacare & vote for Romney.
"This will kill that"
What's more,given the reality(which does not seem to have sunk in with ideological con men like Goldberg and Fehrnstrom),that a politicians statements live on forever,and that the only issue is whether they will get wide coverage,they are just as likely to beleive that Romney is a deceitful hypocrite. I will conclude by noting that many decades ago,Ayn Rand correctly identified many of the problems in the Conservative Movement in a article entitled "Conservatism:A Obituary”:
“Conservatives” — Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/conservatives.html .....”If the “conservatives” do not stand for capitalism, they stand for and are nothing; they have no goal, no direction, no political principles, no social ideals, no intellectual values, no leadership to offer anyone. Yet capitalism is what the “conservatives” dare not advocate or defend. They are paralyzed by the profound conflict between capitalism and the moral code which dominates our culture: the morality of altruism . . . Capitalism and altruism are incompatible”....
.....”What is the moral stature of those who are afraid to proclaim that they are the champions of freedom? What is the integrity of those who outdo their enemies in smearing, misrepresenting, spitting at, and apologizing for their own ideal? What is the rationality of those who expect to trick people into freedom, cheat them into justice, fool them into progress, con them into preserving their rights, and, while indoctrinating them with statism, put one over on them and let them wake up in a perfect capitalist society some morning? These are the “conservatives”—or most of their intellectual spokesmen”.....
Footnotes: fn1 Mitt Romney or not, GOP is coming for ‘Obamacare’ - Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74629_Page2.html
.....“The debate right now is fundamental and there’s one candidate in this race who can actually make the contrast that is necessary to take the Republican position, conservative position,” Santorum said outside the Supreme Court on Monday. “There is one candidate who is disqualified to make the case.” ....”Romney and his aides view things differently: Since the outset of his 2012 run, they have privately predicted that “Romneycare” would be an asset in the general election that could help cast Romney as a kinder, gentler kind of Republican that swing voters can embrace. More recently, Romney has sought to reassure conservatives by vowing to scrap the federal law “root and branch,” though he has also pointed to the Massachusetts law as an example of his compassion as a governor.”
fn2. ...”Host: Is there a concern that Santorum and Gingrich might force the governor to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election?
Fehrnstrom: Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.”.... Mitt Romney: The Consummate Etch A Sketch | RedState
http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/03/21/mitt-romney-the-consummate-etch-a-sketch/
fn3. Not a parody:Romney Surrogate: Electability Should Trump 'Beliefs & Principles' #aynrand #2012 - fightingstatism http://fightingstatism.posterous.com/not-a-parodyromney-surrogate-electability-sho fn4.
Try a little Pinochet - Sun Sentinel
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2006-12-22/news/0612210779_1_low-infant-mortality-civil-society-civil-liberties fn5 see Mitt Romney or not, GOP is coming for ‘Obamacare’ - Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74629_Page2.html fn6.
Why Santorum Must Be Defeated - fightingstatism
http://fightingstatism.posterous.com/why-santorum-must-be-defeated fn7
Obama: I'll put my record up against any president
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/12/obama-ill-put-my-record-up-against-any-president/1
”PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, we're not done yet. I've got five more years of stuff to do. But not only saving this country from a great depression. Not only saving the auto industry. But putting in place a system in which we're gonna start lowering health care costs and you're never gonna go bankrupt because you get sick or somebody in your family gets sick. Making sure that we have reformed the financial system, so we never again have taxpayer-funded bailouts, and the system is more stable and secure. Making sure that we've got millions of kids out here who are able to go to college because we've expanded student loans and made college more affordable. Ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Decimating al Qaeda, including Bin Laden being taken off the field. Restoring America's respect around the world. The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president -- with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln -- just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.”..... fn8 Mitt Romney or not, GOP is coming for ‘Obamacare’ - Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74629_Page2.html
...."Wisconsinites have spoken!" Rep. Paul Ryan said as he introduced primary winner Mitt Romney at a victory party in Milwaukee Tuesday night. "Republicans are unifying!"....
RRD:The polls do tend to indicate that Wisconsin Republicans are unifying,but contrary to the delusions of Ryan there are a few races that remain before we have a nominee,much less "unify" behind such a nominee.For a example of the kind of wild enthusiasm Romney invokes among Conservatives I thought I would repost the following by Judson Phillips: A letter to the Republican Establishment - Tea Party Nation
http://www.teapartynation.com/forum/topic/show?id=3355873%3ATopic%3A1947168&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_topic
....” You proved you could get Mitt Romney nominated without conservatives. Of course you guys are the one’s who drove the Republican Party to the brink of political extinction in 2006 and 2008. Why should you pay attention to the Tea Party, the group that single handedly saved the Republican Party in 2010? At this point, you need to buy a clue. You cannot win the White House without us. In surveys we have done, 25% of conservatives surveyed said they would not vote for Mitt Romney in the General Election. Barack Obama and the Democrats are going to set records, not only for the amount of money they raise, both legally and illegally, they are also going to set records for the number of dead people voting as well as people voting early and often. After all, it is the Chicago way. If 25% of the Republican base is checking out, you are not going to win the White House. So how do you get the conservatives you made a point of ignoring in the primary back into the fold? First, someone better tell Romney to choose a conservative VP. Chris Christie isn’t a conservative.Neither is Tim Pawlenty. If you want a conservative, think Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann, Marco Rubio or Rand Paul.
If you give us another “moderate” or a liberal as the Vice President nominee, we will not be there. ”.....
RRD:I sympathize with Mr.Phillips,but think that he is naive if he expects Romney to care.I am also not sure what surveys he is referring to,my own ad hoc count,based on comments I've seen on Facebook and other sites,would be closer to 10-15% who will not vote for Romney in the general election,myself included.
Of those most will not vote for any presidential candidate and about a third are already setting up Gary Johnson 2012 signs on their lawns and placing Gary Johnson bumper stickers on their cars.I know of at least two bloggers(other than myself)who will not support Romney,and a number who will do so,but who will do so bitterly. But back to why I believe Romney does not care:he lives in a alternate reality.
In Romneyland the way to get independent voters is to make "the conservative case for the Individual Mandate",a position that puts him to the left of the Independent Voters he is courting.
In Romneyland Romneycare is a asset,not a liability(fn1)
In Romneyland everything that we have heard thus far,about Obamacare,Global Warming etc is simply something to be forgotten about,erased & ignored,once the general election starts.You see it's like ”an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again ”.(fn2)
In Romneyland elections are not about beliefs and principles,they are about "electability".(fn3)
It's true that some believe that Romney will have no choice but to pick a Conservative,but that view is based on two assumptions,neither of which may be true:
1.That a conservative will accept the "honor". 2.That Romney doesn't take the base for granted.I believe that Romney's view is much closer to that of the Republican strategist who once advised him;Mike Murphy.
This is Murphy's view of both the Republican base & the Democratic base: To go forward, GOP must snap out of its Sarah Palin spell Mike Murphy - NY Daily News
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/gop-snap-sarah-palin-spell-article-1.428766
.....”Look at the crowds she can draw, I was told. She "excites the base." Phooey. Every presidential election year brings forth some new nugget of conventional wisdom from the media elite that totally misses the real picture. Last year, the big wrong idea was this notion that base voters have somehow become the new swing voters. We are now told the party base - those voters who will vote for a bag of cement if it has an R or D attached to it - must be carefully appealed to, romanced and appeased. Under that funhouse reasoning, Palin was an inspired pick.”.... And if Mr.Murphy is correct,(and this is the mindset of many of those advising Romney),if the base will vote for "a bag of cement if it has an R....attached to it" then why shouldn't Romney follow the advice Murphy offered John Mccain:pick someone like Tom Ridge to show how "independent" you are.
Indeed,Jonah "try a little Pinochet(fn4)" Goldberg,(perhaps competing for the "most unprincipled and short-sighted conservative columnist award”) ,recently offered this gem of a column,in which he explains that Romney's hypocrisy is irrelevant,since Obama is also a hypocrite,and that Romneycare will actually help Romney with some nano-segment of the population who mindlessly accept whatever the Today Show tells them about everything except for Obamacare and Romney:
Obamacare Will Be Romney's Savior - Jonah Goldberg - Townhall Conservative Columnist http://townhall.com/columnists/jonahgoldberg/2012/04/04/obamacare_will_be_romneys_savior/page/full/ ....” Indeed, throughout the debate season,Santorum and others constantly insisted that Romney can't attack Obamacare. The funny thing is: Even as they were saying he can't attack Obamacare, Romney was -- you guessed it -- attacking Obamacare. Romney has been attacking Obamacare since its inception. "I'll stop it in its tracks on day one!" he promises constantly on the stump. ... Yes, Romney might be inconsistent to attack Obamacare, at least on the mandate, but there's no basis in reality to say he "can't" attack it nonetheless. Obama opposed the mandate vociferously when running against Hillary Rodham Clinton, but that didn't stop him from fighting to make it the law of the land.”.....
RRD:Santorum made his best statement when he said: .....“The debate right now is fundamental and there’s one candidate in this race who can actually make the contrast that is necessary to take the Republican position, conservative position,” Santorum said outside the Supreme Court on Monday. “There is one candidate who is disqualified to make the case.”....(fn5)
And no I am not endorsing him(fn6)
But Goldberg is equivocating when he says that Romney's critics are wrong to say that he can't attack Obamacare,what they clearly mean is that Romney cannot make a fundamental,political-moral argument against it without being hypocritical or rejecting his previous position.
And as to the claim that Romney's
hypocrisy is irrelevant since Obama is also a hypocrite;so the GOP should seek to emulate a hypocritical Democrat,with the main distinction that Obama will have a overwhelming advantage in having the press point out Romney's hypocrisy while ignoring Obama's?
Goldberg: ...."Moreover, the broader bipartisan assumption that Romney will be hurt by Romneycare in the general election is deeply flawed. First of all, Obamacare is unpopular (a fact a lot of political coverage conveniently overlooks). That's why Democrats don't talk about it on the stump, and neither did Obama for a very long time -- until the Supreme Court forced him to re-acquire political ownership. If the court upholds the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Obama is not going to want to remind voters of his responsibility for an unpopular piece of legislation. If the court throws it out, Obama is not going to want to remind voters that his signature accomplishment -- which distracted him from a bad economy and cost the Democrats the House -- was so flawed that the court had to reject it. Either way, Obama will not be racing to talk about health care. But Romney will." RRD:To paraphrase Goldberg ”the funny thing is: Even as Goldberg is saying Obama won't trumpet Obamacare, Obama
is--you guessed it trumpeting Obamacare”.Indeed,if Goldberg emerged from his pragmatist cave long enough to look at the world he would see that Obama has beamed with pride when speaking of something,which he does,in fact,regard as his "signature accomplishment",and yes he has been doing so since before the case came up before the Court.The most notable recent case was in a 60 Minutes interview in which he boasted that he had achieved more in his first two years than any President had with the ”possible exceptions” of LBJ,FDR and Lincoln.
(fn7)
Obama is neither a pragmatist nor a fool.He will not make the election a referendum on Obamacare,but he will confidently defend it.Indeed,I would not rule out the possibility that if the law is thrown out,Obama would declare his intention to pass it again!Goldberg like many who have helped give "the stupid party" its name,does not seem to grasp that while he and others are focused on "beating Obama" Obama is quite serious when he says that he would rather be a "successful" one term president,than a "unsuccessful" two-term president.While the Republicans are dutifully playing their role of inspecting a centimeter of the bark of a particular tree,the left is laying multi-decade plans for cutting down the forest. ...."It's often said that Obama will respond to Romney's attacks by saying the mandate was based on Romneycare. Romney will respond, "Well, you did it wrong" and promise to repeal and replace the law. "
RRD:Did what wrong?Force people to buy health insurance the wrong way?What is the right way to destroy liberty?On a state by state level?Did Obama institute Socialized Medicine the wrong way?What is the right way?
Will Romney explain to Obama the correct,conservative way to institute socialized medicine?
"Besides, Romney will have plenty of other lines of attack: the raid on Medicare, the rationing board, the tax hikes, the religious liberty issues, the creation of a vast new entitlement when the existing ones are crushing us with debt, etc." RRD:So Romney will argue that Medicare should not be cut when the existing entitlement programs are crushing us with debt?He will defend ”religious liberty” & defend the state government's right to force people to buy health insurance & the state government's right to force Catholic Hospitals to provide the Morning After Pill?
You didn't know about that last?
Here:
FLASHBACK: Romney Does Flip-Flop and Forces Catholic Hospitals to Distribute Morning-After-Pill | LifeSiteNews.com
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/1951/20/5120905
...."Meanwhile, the independents and moderates who dislike Obamacare, but who are not libertarians, will most likely see Romneycare as evidence that Romney is not one of the right-wing crazies the "Today" show keeps warning them about.".... RRD:Mr.Goldberg who are these "independents and moderates who dislike Obamacare,but who are not libertarians"?I have heard of this exotic species,indeed Romney's staff speaks of them to Politico(fn8),but I have yet to encounter them.Why do they dislike Obamacare,and is their dislike sufficient to vote for a man whom the Today Show will tell them day in and day out,is a heartless,ruthless,sociopath,who destroyed jobs for profit at Bain Capital,and who wants to kill them and drag them into a unneccessary war with Iran,while the children of the poor die from lack of health care?
I would submit to Mr.Goldberg that one cannot simultaneously be the kind of person who forms their opinions based on what the Today Show tells them,& yet oppose Obamacare & vote for Romney.
"This will kill that"
What's more,given the reality(which does not seem to have sunk in with ideological con men like Goldberg and Fehrnstrom),that a politicians statements live on forever,and that the only issue is whether they will get wide coverage,they are just as likely to beleive that Romney is a deceitful hypocrite. I will conclude by noting that many decades ago,Ayn Rand correctly identified many of the problems in the Conservative Movement in a article entitled "Conservatism:A Obituary”:
“Conservatives” — Ayn Rand Lexicon http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/conservatives.html .....”If the “conservatives” do not stand for capitalism, they stand for and are nothing; they have no goal, no direction, no political principles, no social ideals, no intellectual values, no leadership to offer anyone. Yet capitalism is what the “conservatives” dare not advocate or defend. They are paralyzed by the profound conflict between capitalism and the moral code which dominates our culture: the morality of altruism . . . Capitalism and altruism are incompatible”....
.....”What is the moral stature of those who are afraid to proclaim that they are the champions of freedom? What is the integrity of those who outdo their enemies in smearing, misrepresenting, spitting at, and apologizing for their own ideal? What is the rationality of those who expect to trick people into freedom, cheat them into justice, fool them into progress, con them into preserving their rights, and, while indoctrinating them with statism, put one over on them and let them wake up in a perfect capitalist society some morning? These are the “conservatives”—or most of their intellectual spokesmen”.....
Footnotes: fn1 Mitt Romney or not, GOP is coming for ‘Obamacare’ - Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74629_Page2.html
.....“The debate right now is fundamental and there’s one candidate in this race who can actually make the contrast that is necessary to take the Republican position, conservative position,” Santorum said outside the Supreme Court on Monday. “There is one candidate who is disqualified to make the case.” ....”Romney and his aides view things differently: Since the outset of his 2012 run, they have privately predicted that “Romneycare” would be an asset in the general election that could help cast Romney as a kinder, gentler kind of Republican that swing voters can embrace. More recently, Romney has sought to reassure conservatives by vowing to scrap the federal law “root and branch,” though he has also pointed to the Massachusetts law as an example of his compassion as a governor.”
fn2. ...”Host: Is there a concern that Santorum and Gingrich might force the governor to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election?
Fehrnstrom: Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again.”.... Mitt Romney: The Consummate Etch A Sketch | RedState
http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/03/21/mitt-romney-the-consummate-etch-a-sketch/
fn3. Not a parody:Romney Surrogate: Electability Should Trump 'Beliefs & Principles' #aynrand #2012 - fightingstatism http://fightingstatism.posterous.com/not-a-parodyromney-surrogate-electability-sho fn4.
Try a little Pinochet - Sun Sentinel
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2006-12-22/news/0612210779_1_low-infant-mortality-civil-society-civil-liberties fn5 see Mitt Romney or not, GOP is coming for ‘Obamacare’ - Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74629_Page2.html fn6.
Why Santorum Must Be Defeated - fightingstatism
http://fightingstatism.posterous.com/why-santorum-must-be-defeated fn7
Obama: I'll put my record up against any president
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/12/obama-ill-put-my-record-up-against-any-president/1
”PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, we're not done yet. I've got five more years of stuff to do. But not only saving this country from a great depression. Not only saving the auto industry. But putting in place a system in which we're gonna start lowering health care costs and you're never gonna go bankrupt because you get sick or somebody in your family gets sick. Making sure that we have reformed the financial system, so we never again have taxpayer-funded bailouts, and the system is more stable and secure. Making sure that we've got millions of kids out here who are able to go to college because we've expanded student loans and made college more affordable. Ending Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Decimating al Qaeda, including Bin Laden being taken off the field. Restoring America's respect around the world. The issue here is not gonna be a list of accomplishments. As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president -- with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln -- just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it.”..... fn8 Mitt Romney or not, GOP is coming for ‘Obamacare’ - Alexander Burns - POLITICO.com http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74629_Page2.html
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