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NEWS AND VIEWS THAT IMPACT LIMITED CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT

"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Just say no to Romney in 2016


 
Romney should stay in retirement




By Gary;

The "moderate" Big Government loving GOP establishment has been beating the election drum lately for Mitt Romney to make another try in 2016.

This makes it harder and harder for me to keep down my lunch.

Romney is a nice guy blah, blah etc.  But he has always been a second rate candidate.

Romney lost his 1994 U.S. Senate race in a huge 17 point landslide.  In his one claim to fame Romney won his race for governor of Massachusetts with 49% of the vote.  He refused to run for re-election knowing he would be defeated.

Spring forward to 2008.  Romney was "anointed" (not by me) as the Conservative candidate against John McCain.  He couldn't even beat McCain.

In 2012 Romney had a great deal of trouble with GOP voters in primary after primary.  He went on to be crushed by the Obama machine in a November election in which he could not carry his own home state.

Sorry Mitt.  Go back to your garage with elevators and enjoy retirement.

Governor Scott Walker
How about a Walker-Rubio ticket?

The GOP Needs New Blood

Romney will be nearly 70 years old in 2016.  It is time for a new generation of younger Conservatives to have their shot at the White House.

And we need badly to get control of the White House.  Another Democrat win will see the Federal courts flooded with Leftist appointees and mountains of new socialistic regulations.

The field of GOP candidates is wide, but none of them have fired the imagination of the public.  The "leaders" in a recent poll show Chris Christie and Jeb Bush tied at 13% each with the rest of the pack sucking wind in the single digits.  GOP voters are not excited about anyone at this stage.

Personally I am looking hard at Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin.  He has done good work in his state and has proven he has the balls needed to stand firm against attacks from the Left.

To win in the electoral college the GOP needs to carry states in either New England or in the Great Lakes region.  Romney failed in New England.  That leaves the Great Lakes as the GOP target and Scott Walker as an obvious consideration.

But please, no more talk of Romney.

Bottom Line: Romney was a Failure.
Could of, should of does not count.  The bottom line is Mitt Romney brought nothing to the Electoral College table.  He lost the key states of Florida, Ohio, Iowa and Virginia.  But worse Romney lost the 11 electoral college votes of his home state of Massachusetts in a 23 point Obama landslide.
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What is the point of nominating the governor of a state who cannot even carry his own home state for President?  Also why select a candidate from New England who failed to bring a single New England state into the GOP column?


The Log Cabin Campaign
The average American voter at best is suspicious of wealthy candidates.  Class warfare does exist so since the 1820s American parties have presented their candidates as an average Joe to appeal for votes.  But no amount of PR spinning can make a wealthy Mitt Romney into an average American. 
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The log cabin has been a symbol of humble origins in US politics since the early 19th century. Seven U. S. Presidents were born in log cabins, including Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, and James Buchanan.
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Although William Henry Harrison was not one of them, he and the Whigs during the 1840 presidential election were the first to use a log cabin as a symbol to show Americans that he was a man of the people. Other candidates followed Harrison's example, making the idea of a log cabin—and, more generally, a non-wealthy background—a recurring theme in campaign biographies.
The Log Cabin Campaign of 1840.

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