Where do we go from here?
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 James Vian on -
All my bold Patriotic fellow Americans; please don’t listen to their lies! Trial attorneys and advertising executives have learned that if you tell people what you want them to believe, even if it’s only half true, often enough using kind and respectful words, a large percentage will buy into what you say. Using that same tactic, the liberal left elite media power players and the establishment operative propaganda machine has convinced a lot of people that we all must coalesce and support Mitt if we want any chance of defeating Obama. That’s exactly what Obama’s team wants us to believe. And to listen to all the media punditry right now they must be feeling pretty good. No matter how much the RNC spends on a Romney campaign, Obama with his elite mainstream media propaganda machine knows he can take Mitt down!
Respectfully I say, please pay attention. We may only have one chance. After much painful deliberation, even if Newt decides to verbally suspend his campaign to focus on continuing his presentation of bold solutions across the land in every way he can, while working with the RNC to build a powerful constitutional conservative election campaign platform, that doesn’t mean we should go along and vote for Mitt in the upcoming primaries. Newt will still be on the remaining ballots and we can still place our mark beside his name. If all of us that still want a brokered convention will do that, Mitt may just not pick up the required 1144 delegates to win the nomination automatically.
Let’s do it! Get the word out! Spread the word across the land every way you can!
God bless you my fellow patriotic Americans, God bless Newt and Callista, and God bless America!
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Permalink Reply by SFWhite on -
Newt will definitely get my vote! Mitt's got around 860 delegates so far, not good enough to win unless we all give up.
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Permalink Reply by James Vian on
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We true conservatives can still win but, Correction! In an earlier post I proposed the wrong solution. This may sound strange, but this is the way primaries work. Since Santorum and Newt have both suspended their campaigns they can no longer be assigned any of the remaining delegates, but Ron Paul can. If all of us that would have voted for either Rick or Newt, and are sick of the way the establishment has crammed Mitt down our throats will vote for Paul in the remaining primaries, Mitt may still not pick up the required 1144 delegates to win the nomination automatically and we could still have a brokered convention in which a strong, bold true conservative could be nominated.
Let’s do it! Get the word out! Spread the word across the land every way you can!
God bless you all my fellow patriotic Americans, God bless Newt and Callista, and God bless America!
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Permalink Reply by Constance Strait on
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Isn't Gingrich asking that we look toward Scott Walker??
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Permalink Reply by Eric Pierson on -
romney has won nothing. Ron Paul is amassing delegates. A brokered convention means romney loses. Don't count your chickens before they're hatched. Besides, a romney presidency is nothing more than barry pt. 2. You would really vote for romney after railing on barry for so long?
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Permalink Reply by SFWhite on
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Why don't you try making your case against Paul in some way that's not totally vile and therefore accomplishes nothing more than to anger-bait.
I'm from Texas, too. Paul has some good points, but his bad ones overshadow his love of the Constitution... as he interprets it. I'm a Constitutional Conservative who's for getting government out of our lives and returning us to a time of personal freedom... along with personal responsibility. That's the message that draws people to Paul, and it's a compelling one.
If you mean by "racist" that Paul is not a friend of the Jews, I agree. He's made that all too clear. I've not heard of Paul's association with Soros.
Paul was never my choice because of his dislike of the Jews and his dumb position re the Muslims, especially Iran. To insist Iran (not to mention the other terrorist states) is not a threat to America is past naive' into the realm of fatal stupidity.
I think those facts alone make Paul a dangerous choice for POTUS, for both Israel and our own national security. As a supporter of Israel, I find his statement that he would withdraw America's support of Israel and let them handle their problems by themselves disturbing.
He needs to read the Koran and the hadiths, then rethink his position. Radical Muslims WORSHIP death. The motto of the Muslim Brotherhood states dying in the cause of Allah as being their highest calling, and their sacred books back that up as correct Islamic doctrine.
Further, Ahmadinejad and Iran's Supreme Leader, Khamenei, are both "Twelvers", a sect of Islam considered scary crazy even by other radical Muslims. If Iran gets the bomb, their leaders won't hesitate to use it, even knowing their country will be bombed out of existence as a result. They believe they must cause violence to precipitate the return of their Mahdi, the Twelfth Imam, their Messiah (whose correlation to the Christian Anti-Christ is startling). They also believe dying like that will guarantee them a place in Heaven.
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Permalink Reply by dean meason on
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If we have that heart which was present among the founding fathers, a heart of courage, a heart of faith, a heart of cheerfulness, a heart of wisdom and we acknowledge that we were so endowed by our creator, we shall succeed in saving our Republic.
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Permalink Reply by kimacomet on
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What about Rep Mark Foley? Or Senator Larry Craig? Neither one of these two are busy from what I hear. Surely they'd be better than Romney. Then they could run with Ted Nugent on the ticket and bring in the young voters.
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