Newt Gingrich is leaving the Presidential race. This is not a great shock. For a few weeks it has not been a question of if but when.
Now that Newt is gone, that leaves Romney. The more important question is, where do we conservatives go from here?
Even though Romney has now won the nomination for all practical purposes, he is still a liberal. Just a few days ago, he reaffirmed his support of a progressive income tax.
The bad news for conservatives is he is the nominee. We will go to the polls and vote for him. We may be violently ill while we do it but at least he is not Barack Obama and at least he has the chance to do better than we expect.
We conservatives are not going to support Romney in the sense he wants us to. We are not enthusiastic about him. He did not reach out to us and in fact, he made it a point to win this nomination without us. Most of us will not be out there with signs. Most of us will not be manning phone banks for him or rushing to his campaign headquarters to volunteer.
So what do we do?
The good news for conservatives is that Romney is no leader. He is a manager, not a leader.
There is a silver lining here if we conservatives will exploit it.
We must put conservatives in Congress.
With conservatives in congress, we can control the agenda.
If you understand Romney, you understand how this is possible. Romney is a product of the Harvard Business School. As one friend of mine says, they teach a “paint by numbers” methodology.
That is Romney.
Decisions are not motivated by passion. His decisions are the equivalent of solving for x. Every problem has a solution. It is clinical and detached.
In Romney’s world, patriotism does not factor into a decision. It is not that Romney does not love this nation. He does, but not in the passionate way most conservatives do.
We conservatives must work to get more conservatives into Congress. We have enough RINOs and moderates as it is.
Last year, the House under John Boehner spent 3% more than it did when Nancy Pelosi was the Speaker.
Much of the Republican leadership did not even notice this nor did it even bother them. For them it was business as usual.
We cannot take business as usual. That is why we must throw ourselves even more into the Senate and House races.
For Newt Gingrich, we cannot simply allow him to ride off into the sunset. He has too many good ideas. Even when Gingrich’s campaign was sliding down to the single digits, it was his ideas, not Romney’s ideas that Obama attacked.
Gingrich has led a conservative revolution before. He did it in 1994. Even though he will not be the nominee, we still need his leadership skills.
Where do we conservatives go now that Romney is the all but certain nominee?
We go back and we fight!
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Permalink Reply by Darrell Russell on This whole Romney issue was set up by the media and was followed through with.I hat to say that even Fox News is guilty. The elite of this nation are always on the same wave length. The average American is not smart enough to think for them selves so we need to take that burden off their shoulders. I say BS I have dealt with average every day people through out my life. From the time I started to school until know I have dealt with almost every kind of people from every walk of life. The one think that I found is the they put their pants on one leg at a time just as you or I.
We will have to be vigilant and see that we get the true conservatives into congress because this is going to be the defining time in this nation weather we stay a republic or become an dictatorial democracy.
Any vote for a consertive is a vote aginst Obama
Permalink Reply by Dennis Donner on I'm in
Permalink Reply by James Vian on MR. SPEAKER – IF YOU DROP OUT WE LOSE IT ALL!
I’ve posted this before but no one is listening! If we don’t listen now, Obama with Pelosi and Reid will have another four years to completely rip The America We Love from the face of the earth! There are so many that have been deceived by the powerful media propaganda machine to believe otherwise and there will be those that spurn this post, but you, Mr. Speaker are our only hope! So take the time to read and listen or not, ignore or agree; this is it! If you don’t answer the call, it’s all over!
With the principalities and powers in high places that you have courageously encountered, this is not a vilification of your integrity. I respect your position of not wanting to do anything to create a crippling divide, and I trust that your desire to work in any way you can to coalesce the conservative voice of our land is sincere. But with the RNC establishment choosing and backing Romney as our GOP nominee, there’s nothing anyone can do to make that work. And here’s why.
As governor of the state of Massachusetts which is strongly liberally Democratic, Mitt Romney is historically known as a progressive moderate who on many occasions has compromised on core conservative social issues, because to him the end justified the means. He knew if he didn’t align his position on those issues with those on the left he would never succeed as Governor, and it was more important to retain his position of power than to stand up for our core values. So in a debate with Obama over anything having to with conservative social issues, Romney will say whatever he feels is necessary to appease the pro-choice, gay rights and atheistic minorities and will never strictly defend any of our constitutional moral or social principles being attacked by the liberal secular elite. He will assume any position and say anything he feels necessary to gain support, irrespective of what compromises he feels are necessary, just as he has always done throughout his political career. Debating Obama with that etch-a-sketch political history, Obama will chew him up and spit him out, because Obama’s better at it! Of course this is what our establishment coronated moderate candidates have always done and that’s why we’ve always lost. With Romney the result will be the same!
The only chance we have of defeating Obama with Romney will be with an overwhelming “anyone but Obama” electorate outcry, but not a “for Romney” vote. That of course is what the establishment is counting on; that way the “same way it’s always been” establishment moderates will be able to retain their seats of power, and there will be no rebuilding of the America we love. But take this word of warning, the fact is, that’s not going to happen with Romney, no matter how much money we pour into the campaign because that outcry will only happen if some major economic shift doesn’t occur to beneficially affect our overall cost of living and job market.
Obama has a couple of cards up his sleeve! One of Obama’s propaganda machine tactics will be to make it appear that the GOP doesn’t want that to change because of how it would affect public opinion in his favor. But the ace up his sleeve is even more imposing. At just the right time, Obama will sign his approval to build the Keystone pipe line to open a vast new supply of crude to our refineries in Texas! Of course he will only claim that the delay was the result of his careful attention to environmental concerns which had to be cleared. Overnight the cost of energy will come down as speculators realize that the price of crude will drop and thousands of new jobs will be created! The lower cost of energy will have a ripple effect across the entire spectrum of our economy and suddenly everybody will feel relief! Obama will win, America will lose!
Only you Mr. Speaker have the “belly of the beast” experience to counter Obama on this and every other issue! You have been prepared for such a time as this. If you answer the call, the ways and the means will come, if you don’t, all is lost!
Permalink Reply by Eric Pierson on I continually find it disturbing that so called conservatives always ignore the one candidate who poses a real challenge to the RINO romney. Romney is not the nominee, he does not have the delegates, he won't in August and we will have a brokered convention. The one candidate that will work to restore America is the one that never gets mentioned in the MSM, yet he continues to amass delegates. He just picked up 122 in Missouri. That candidate is Ron Paul. If you consider yourself a conservative, you do have an alternative to big government, big spending, higher taxing and pro-FED romney. Ron Paul. If Americans keep voting for the establishment puppets, we're going to keep getting what we always got, until we have nothing left. So, I'll say it again: Ron Paul for President.
I'm glad that at least Romney is far more conservative than the last GOP nominee that I had to vote for. That's not to suggest that Romney is conservative. It's just that compared to McCain, Romney "looks" like a paragon of conservatism.
If anyone knows of someone highly placed in the Romney campaign, I would like to send Romney a copy of my book. Everyone who reads it tells me that it presents the most persuasive case for the FairTax that they have ever heard or read. It might help get Romney off top dead center on the progressive income tax. I just want to make sure that it gets to someone close to Romney.
Permalink Reply by Jack Roth on John Gaver, Thanks for the great idea of giving Romney a copy of your book on the Fair Tax. I myself don't have any contacts, but if someone did it would be helpful to all Conservatives. I, for one, appreciate your taking a positive attitude on the inevitable. Perhaps if some of the other posters would consider taking a more positive attitude, we could make lemonade out of these lemons instead of pissing and moaning because their favorite candidate couldn't cut it.
Permalink Reply by SFWhite on If you look at it as just a petty matter that a "favorite candidate couldn't cut it," then you're asleep. Wake up! Soros... (you know, the guy who wants to destroy the USA)... actually said he'd prefer Romney to Obama. And, if that isn't bad enough, Carter said he wouldn't mind a Romney presidency. Those two facts alone should scare you witless.
Permalink Reply by Jack Roth on What scares me even more is another four years of Obama. Romney was not my first choice , actually Newt was. But realistically Newt screwed up. So we take the next best way of getting Obama out of the White House. We stand a better chance of keeping Romney's feet to the fire with the loss of our support in 2016 then we do with an Obama in office. So when I hear people saying they will not vote for Romney because their choice of candidate didn't win, it's a no brainer...that's giving a vote to the enemy. If you read some of the comments on this thread, you will find people that have basically said, "my choice didn't work our so I'm taking my marbles and going home." Frankly I don't care what Soros or Carter say, do you really think they speak the truth or is it a political maneuver?
Permalink Reply by Agi Yaeger on Excuse me, but could you enlighten me as to how Newt screw up? Is it because we didn't provide enough money for him to use the same kind of attack dogs the Romney/Obama camps unleashed?
Sorry, but I don't buy your story, Jack. If a person really supports a candidate, they don't put him down in the same breath.
The truth is that Romney, as much as you profess, will not beat Obama, because his heart is not in it to strongly go up against him. That has been the worry by many of us. Deep down he has the same ideology, without BHO's hatred.
Permalink Reply by Jack Roth on I and many others believe that Romney can beat Obama. As I said, you can either pick up your marbles and go home or stay in the fight to defeat Obama. That's up to you. If you don't know how Newt screwed up, you obviously didn't follow the debates. I felt that continuing to support Newt was a road to nowhere, so I will support the one I think can take back the White House. As the man said "you got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em."
Permalink Reply by Agi Yaeger on I'm sure Christie, Ryan and now Perry, who are all eyeing a 2016 run, all believe Romney's victory, too. Try to connect the dots. There's a line of candidates licking their chops already. I think they are more aware of the insider straw polls than we are.
Please be specific, at what debate did Newt screw up? Was it when he repremanded the media, gave his visionary solutions, where would that be, since I watched every single debate? Oh I know where,.... when he was ignored by the MSM, that must be it.
Only the pundits and the uninformed screwed up when they called him the man with the baggage. Yes Newt's vice was that he knew the real deal in the-do-nothing-congress which he tried to clean up. And the thanks for that was.... bringing him up on trumped up charges, that were dismissed. Oops, I forgot about his dalliances, the same that many past presidents are also guilty of. I see it clearly now!!
My point is, if you want your candidate to win, let him win on his own merits, without bringing the others down in the gutter. Gee, sounds very much like what the Libs. do.
Permalink Reply by SFWhite on I agree! What brought Newt down was nothing Newt did or said. It was Mitt's multimillion dollar smear campaign in Florida. He used the same tactics against Santorum, after he'd killed Newt. Gee... what a great guy Mitt is, huh? Real President material there. Trading one lying, dirty-player for another... how is that a step up?
How can any thinking Conservative trust a person who uses vicious half-truths and lies to achieve his ends before he's POTUS?
Saying all that, I will vote Republican in November. But, as far as I'm concerned, the only way it will achieve any Conservative ends will be to get that Muslim-loving, America-hating (and destroying) Obama, his Marxist czars and that horror-story Holder out of office. If Obama wins again, we could very well be looking at a Supreme Court Justice Holder... what a terrifying thought!!
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