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Romney and GOP Conservatives Struggle to Find a Comfort Zone

Zen. Wrote: Apr 12, 2012 9:14 AM
A More Serious Division: The GOP has a more serious “us versus them” conflict within the party. It is a divide between a severely conservative base and the RINO Romney. It is a base so severely conservative, it is out of touch with facts, reality, and reason. All throughout the GOP primaries, the base has been looking for a conservative alternative to Romney. On the other hand, the GOP establishment wants someone who does not make weird, strange, wacky statements as Cain, Bachmann, Santorum, Gingrich, and Paul were making. Romney himself may not be one of the crazies, but he has to pander to the delusions and fantasies of the base while reassuring moderates and independents he is not totally out of it. Without pandering what else ...
wmou Wrote: Apr 12, 2012 7:10 PM
A small unintrusive federal govt that abides by the constitution seems like a fantasy.
Dreadnaught011 Wrote: Apr 12, 2012 1:48 PM


You're just nuts. Who is "severely conservative"--? What are these "delusions and fantasies" you think are weird, strange, wacky?

Spend some time THINKING, Zen. Don't vote until you've done more thinking by yourself. Don't rely on what Jon Stewart or Bob Beckel tell you.



Barbara1247 Wrote: Apr 12, 2012 11:51 AM
So you think we need someone who will NOT shake up the status quo? Everything in this country is just hunky-dory? We should just go back to politics as usual?
Zen. Wrote: Apr 12, 2012 9:15 AM
....does he have? He cannot run on his public record since Obamacare is his proposal under a different name. He cannot run on his business record since he is a jobs ‘cremator’ not a jobs creator. How did the GOP establishment lose control of the base? For years the GOP has won elections by appealing to social and racial divides i.e. getting voters to vote their prejudices. But when Right-Wing politicians come to power they vote against the economic interests of their constituencies. Giving tax breaks to the wealthy is their only and serious purpose. It is a con game of bait and switch. The GOP establishment will not deliver the social agenda the hard-core base has come to truly believe in. The base, in turn, has no control over the .....
Zen. Wrote: Apr 12, 2012 9:16 AM
.....over the establishment. The establishment will not allow any representative from the base to write the GOP platform. Just watch and see. Now that is a deal the Romney team will turn down. If it does not, it will lose the elections. --Zen

Considering Rick Santorum's sudden departure from the race, it's time to quit dancing around and bluntly state what the problem is for the man likely to become the Republican nominee for president.

Republicans and others who consider themselves part of the "conservative wing" of the party, with some exceptions, stiff-armed Romney early on based on the belief that he was not one of them and could be defeated. But now, as the nomination looks increasingly his, the Romney camp is stiff-arming that same wing of the party. The question is, can money alone buy one the presidency?

There is true irony...

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