Michael Medved nails Mitt Romney’s challenges in 2012, as well as the GOP’s.
From The Daily Beast:
On no significant issue has Romney moved to the left or to the center over the last four years; his platform of 2012 offers a program of conservative reform far bolder and more substantive than any ideas he put forward in 2008.Michael Medved
Mitt’s precise problem came into focus for me with an e-mail from an angry listener to my radio show who upbraided me for my open support of Romney as the most electable candidate against Obama. “We remember what you did to us last time, and we won’t let you get away with it again!” she wrote. “This time you’re trying to ram the RINO, Romney, down our throats and last time it was McCain. It was because of people like you that we got stuck with McCain, when we could have had a real conservative who would have beaten Obama!”
And who would have been that “real conservative” back in the distant days of 2008?
None other than … Mitt Romney, the “conservative’s conservative ” eagerly endorsed by Senator Jim DeMint and nearly all of my talk radio colleagues, including Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Laura Ingraham, Michael Savage and many more.
That Romney no longer counts as a “real conservative” doesn’t reflect any ideological shifts on his part, but it does suggest a significant movement of the entire GOP toward the enraged and indignant right. The far lower turnouts in Florida, Nevada, Minnesota, Colorado and Missouri all indicate that this tectonic movement hardly counts as a positive development for the Republican Party.
“The enraged and indignant right.” – Sound familiar?
We have seen many such sentiments expressed here, on other sites and in a daily diatribe on most truth twisting Talk Radio shows. This “I’d rather be RIGHT than win” mantra will prove to be a major stumbling block on the road to successfully ousting President Obama.
Just as Talk Radio and misguided fringer conservatives mucked up the 2010 mid-term elections, where the goal was to TAKE CONTROL of the Senate as well as the House (while disposing of Harry Reid in the process) they seem hell-bent on using the same tactics in the 2012 cycle. The GOP could have deposed Reid in Nevada with a popular mainstream conservative, but were overrun by the “blood in their eyes” right-wing activists who offered us an ill-prepared and unsuitable candidate.
In Delaware, rather than keep a safe, solid seat in the GOP aisle and make the incumbent tow the line AFTER control was won, we had to suffer through the debacle of a psuedo-witch leading us to defeat, while Talk Radio extolled her conservative purity.
Why?
“Because we’re as mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore.”
In our personal lives, very seldom is it wise or successful to make serious decisions while in a highly emotional and angry state of mind. Unfortunately, this logic doesn’t seem to be followed in certain political circles.
It’s sad to see the same storm clouds gathering again on the political horizon. Hopefully we can wake up, seek shelter from the storm and ride the sensible, pragmatic and MAINSTREAM CONSERVATIVE course to victory.
Cross-posted at Right Speak
I listen to Michael Medved daily. (960 AM in Phoenix) He is one of the FEW logical voices out there speaking truth and common sense about the presidential race this time around. Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager are the other two. Thanks Medved!
Very, very true…… What is to be done to bring reason back to the party? Talk about cutting off one’s nose despite their face.
Michael Medved has finally said what I have been saying to almost ALL of my GOP friends – Why Romney? I’ve ALWAYS been for GOV Mitt Romney! Four years ago, I was a loyal TEAM MITT member in VA, as was one of my mow best GOP/Tea Party friends-only we weren’t friends then? We are now looked upon as pariahs by our Tea Party friends, because of our loyalty to Mitt and we are disgusted with Rush and Mark Levin for their nasty comments about Mitt. Apparently, some people have very short memories and that is their problem, but unfortunately it is also Mitt’s problem? I blame that on Obama and Obamacare – 2,782 pages; which is NOTHING like “Romneycare” – 77 pages. Mitt has a record to be proud of and I know how improved it was in MA under his leadership, because my now 90 year-old Mom always told me about it. I recognized that myself from my multiple trips to Cape Cod and Boston for family vacations and weddings, etc. over the past 40+ years. My Mom is waiting to VOTE for Mitt again in the MA Primary and the Presidential Election!
I am really tired of this “Anyone But Romney” drivel and it is being driven by the Lame Stream Media and the Minions for the other side for Obama!
God Bless Mitt & Ann for loving America so much, that they are willing to take ALL of this on. I PRAY for them daily, as I do for the USA!
I’m a Bostonian by birth, but I moved all over the states: CA, NJ, GA, MI, MD, VA, PA, FRG- Germany, PA, KS, VA again ~ thanks to my Dad, an executive with Shell Oil Company; and my Husband [estranged] a retired Army COL/now Government Contractor.
I was always a Conservative Republican and Mitt certainly was “the most Conservative” back in 2008, endorsed back then by many of his opponents from this campaign season. Mitt had an organized Team back then in 2007-8 and I kept in touch with those people in Richmond, VA! Mitt continued to support Conservatives and “Tea Party candidates” during the interim period through his Free and Strong America PAC and that is why we have an orgaized Nationwide team of loyal Romney supporters ~ We are READY!!!!