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Romney’s Secret Plan

By: brand (Diary)  |  March 31st, 2012 at 11:02 AM  | 

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I have been very anti-Romney since Iowa. I absolutely loathed/hated/abhorred what he and his PAC stand-ins did to Newt in Florida. South Carolina proved that Newt was a contender and I still feel that the Establishment Right is forcing Romney down our throats.

Having said that – if the SCOTUS shuts down Obamacare, then Romney has a legitimate shot at winning the election.

Two other things happened this week. DeMint and Rubio. Well, and Rush’s comments and finally, Stephen F. Hayes’ article posted here. (I encourage you to read it; it helped change my mind, every so slightly, in regards to Romney…)

 

Here’s the deal. I don’t trust all that many politicians. I cannot STAND the nastiness of Romney’s team. However, I DO think he’s been burned, and burned badly by the media. I get this feeling that Romney has gone behind the scenes to the likes of DeMint and Rubio and said, “Hey guys, look. I can’t say what I’m going to do, because the Media is going to eat my lunch with it.  They did it in Massachusetts, and you know how nasty they are about my Mormonism as it is. But, whatever conservative bills you push across my desk as President, I will sign them. And I will nominate conservative Justices.”

I also think Rubio truly was impacted by Obama’s carelessness this week. Remember, this is a guy (Rubio) who has been more prominently impacted by Communism than anyone in the chamber, except McCain. Flippantly tossing out our extremely expensive missile defense matters.

So, what’s Romney’s plan? Duh. He was ring-side seated when it came to seeing how Obama was elected in this new modern age. Don’t tell the electorate what you really want to do. Line up the players ahead of time, and lay it all out after the voters have put you into office.

We just have to trust hope the people who are on the inside are right on their instincts.

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  • deVere

    nt

  • conservativecurmudgeon

    …and, I also think it is wishful thinking: “Hey, guys, I gotta lie to get elected. I am afraid of the media, too. So, don’t put too much stock in what I say. I’m REALLY one of you!

    I find it absolutely fascinating, by the way, that we can have the most radical leftist EVER, and nobody in the media, the pop entertainments, the cultural establishment –whomever– doesn’t find HIM in the least “extreme”– and yet, we are supposed to go all underground with our “extreme” conservatism, because conservatism, you see, is so unacceptable.

    Despite the clear plurality of Americans self-identifying as “conservative”.

    No, we can’t have a passionate, articulate defender of the constitution, our traditions and norms: Uh-uh, that “turns people off”. But, the Leftists can give us the most profound, hard-boiled radical EVER, and he’s, somehow, a “moderate” in the “mainstream” of political thought in America. It’s bizarre.

    To hell with that. Romney is a squish, has always been a squish, from a family of (very kind, nice, professional, faithful) squishes. That’s it. Sorry. And, it does him no good to defend him as some sort of conniving, electoral fraud.

  • brand

    I can appreciate your position, and don’t think for a moment that I’m happy that Romney’s going to be our nominee.

    I’m just pointing out his strategy, and, it doesn’t make him a fraud. A fraud would be for him to campaign on Conservativism and then govern as a liberal or a squish or whatever. We can’t really know he’s a fraud until he gets in office.

    Having said that, the reason we can’t “run on Conservative values” et al, is because the MSM is working for the other side. The MSM is Obama’s Propaganda machine, where they work to control the message in his favor. Want a recent example? How about NBC’s hit job, inciting people to anger by editing the tape recording of Zimmerman’s 911 call.

    In any case, my point is that I’m slowly coming around to accepting Romney as a nominee instead of staying home in November, as I’d intended to. I can accept a strategy where you don’t show all your cards (to use a poker analogy) since doing so gives away your game. It’s unfortunate that the Left owns the Media, but they do. We didn’t write the rules to this game, and though I don’t like Romney’s strategy, I can’t argue against its success.

    Yet.

    It’s not the way I would have liked to have seen our nominee take the prize, being a rather circular firing squad and all, but we can’t have an Alinski Radical in the White House.. UNFETTERED, no less, for another four years.

  • Scope

    everywhere it seems. What a tortured type of reasoning you have displayed.

    I’ve already read that if the Justices overturn Obamacare, there are some in Mass that will attempt to get Romneycare overturned. I don’t know if they have much chance, as Mass. is liberalville, but I’ve no doubt someone will try. I suspect they would face some 10th amendment issues to face. Whatever happens with Obamacare, Romney will still have to answer for being the “grandfather” of Obamacare whether it stands or falls.

    • lastgopinillinois

      to slander his opponents all thru the primary and buy the nomination.
      Of course, there is another option…..VOTE CONSERVATIVE !

    • brand

      Believe you me, I am not defending Romney’s position on Romneycare. However, he DOES have the defense, that even Perry would use, that the States are the testing ground, and at least Massachusetts WANTED the stupid law. If it also goes against the Mass. constitution, then sobeit if it gets overturned. It was tried, failed, and we got the t-shirt to prove it.

      In any case, this is my “diary entry” – and I’m just relating my own, slow, or even tortured (*grin*) conversion to at least toss a vote in Romney’s direction come election day. Until this week, that hasn’t been the case.

  • morrigan

    >”I absolutely loathed/hated/abhorred what he and his PAC stand-ins did to Newt in Florida.”

    Can you elaborate on this?

    >”I get this feeling that Romney has gone behind the scenes to the likes of DeMint and Rubio and said,

    • brand

      What did Romney and company do to Newt in Florida?

      I believe he outspent Newt like 14 to 1 or something, 96% or so were negative. I have a post up about it in my diary, I believe. He also only got 30% of the Conservative vote in Florida and finally, his campaign was outright lying about Newt’s record as a Speaker (saying he was ignobly ousted, etc, which just plain wasn’t true).

      As for what Romney’s saying behind the scenes? He must be saying something convincing. Either we’re REALLY hosed, and even the DeMints, Toomeys and Rubios of the world are also either easily duped, fake conservatives or just giving up. I refuse to believe that. Obviously, I can’t prove it, it’s conjecture, and frankly, I’m just hoping against hope that the people I believe actually ARE conservative, know what the heck they’re doing backing Romney.

      “I

      • Lynn Otting

        has faith in that good ole boy establishment in Washington. Hopefully, they can convince me of this some day, but I doubt backing Romney will be what convinces me.

        • brand

          I thought I made that plain in my OP. It’s the fact that the non-Establishment Republicans are starting to line up behind Romney – Rubio, DeMint, Toomey, Mike Lee, even Rush in a back-handed way.

          I’m not usually impacted by endorsements, though they sometimes give me a clue as to what other politicians believe. When Newt was backed by Perry and Palin, it left me encouraged. Even when some politicians stay on the side lines, I’m okay with that.

          When Christie backed Romney, I wasn’t surprised, as he’s partial conservative at best. I’m basically saying, somewhere along the line, you need to trust someone in government, since the other way lies madness.

      • rabun1016

        Newt gave up because he would not be reelected speaker. That part was correct, unless all the Congressmen interviewed about the matter are revising history. The part about the “fine” versus penalty for the cost of investigation was incorrect, and overstated by the PAC.
        Unfortunately, Newt thought he was losing due to negative press when he was losing support of those who had known him the longest and who concluded he lacked Pres character.

  • Xasteius

    I’ve been getting stories on Facebook about how Paul is hijacking the non-binding primary delegates despite not winning in the polls.

    • Dave_A

      Didn’t help him any….

    • http://www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com ColdWarrior

      bad things can happen.

      I know of one county caucus in MN where 9 of the 13 delegates elected to represent the county at the state convention were Paulites even though he had come in third or fourth place in the primary.

      The Paulites learned the rules and applied them. They showed up when it mattered. Conservatives did not.

      Conservatives need to get involved in Party politics where the live, learn the rules, and assert themselves. The Paulites are doing it.

      Unite and organize locally inside our respective local Party committees; win nationally.

      Thank you.

      CW

    • brand

      On both points – I’m a Newt supporter, too – and have donated to his campaign, as I did to Perry’s. And I also believe Ron Paul is a snake, though I can’t blame him for snagging delegates. If he’s playing by the rules, he’s playing by the rules. It’s not like he’s out there lying about other candidates.

      (Hint to Romney’s PAC!)

      I think he’s a snake b/c for whatever reason, he never attacks Romney, ever. Why? Even the MSM says that Romney is the more moderate candidate. I don’t want to do more conjecturing than I have to, but why doesn’t Paul take on Romney?

  • brand

    If nothing else, the message percolated around RedState has taught me that in this election, though it took me two and a half decades being involved in the voting process to realize it.

    Conservatives have to get involved. More than just showing up and voting on election day.

    I think most conservatives are out there busy, raising a family, working, going to church, et al – and though they hold core beliefs, they don’t have the time afforded to Union types and college drop outs to put on their faux rage and stamp their petulant feet in a nonsensical “occupy” movement.

    Having said that, I think the work being done at the Precinct Project’s blog is fantastic and the word needs to spread – at least to conservatives. A few hours a month to save our country? Yeah, I think we can do that.

  • Lynn Otting

    to travel in convincing middle income voters that he will represent them as President. Obviously, he has problems in the convincing department and somehow I don’t see how this is going to change.

    • brand

      Heck, I’m still not convinced (at all) that he can beat Obama. I don’t put much stock in the polls, whether Obama is up or down against any of the candidates, since there’s no real way of knowing, and Repubs are ALWAYS understated by about 5 points by everyone except Rasmussen.

      Even so, yes, he’s made a lot of gaffs, and with or without them, he was never going to be an easy sell to middle income Americans. Having said that, I’m not all that sure that class envy works all that great when the rubber meets the road, so who knows.

  • Lynn Otting

    called Economic Freedom that describes why I think the establishment picked Romney, but then, I guess everyone has their own opinion on this topic.

    • brand

      Though, yes, I agree, everyone does have an opinion. The disconnect I don’t get – the guy never really had that great of a record on Conservative votes/policies, and even his backers say that he’s more conservative NOW than he was 4 years ago. Yet, all we have to go on is platitudes.

      And, yet, the Establishment picked him. My one hope is that he has the cajones to treat Obama like he treated the rest of the field.

  • brand

    I agree.. he’s been an absolute slime to other conservatives. I HATE that about him and his campaign.

    Problem is, the best anyone can hope for, besides Romney at this point, is a contested convention. And at that point, it’s STILL just between Santorum, Gingrich or Romney, and that’s assuming Gingrinch pulls out three more states from somewhere.