Mitt Romney: Jihadism Is Not Part of Islam

Romney's exceptionalism was evident to me after doing my own due diligence on our entire Republican field early last primary. I advocated to friends and family; I volunteered; I donated; I voted; we lost.

The coterie of cohorts from McCain to Huckabee to Gov. Crist combined to take him out most crucially in WV and FL. For those actions, I decided I could only support nominee McCain under the lone condition he select Romney as Vice President, presuming Romney's acceptance would override my distaste. When McCain proved to us once again that he was both a grudge-holding, petty politician (by not picking Romney, the overwhelming Republican favorite for VP) and stuntsman (by picking Palin for her novelty, despite she being the only candidate who had less experience than Obama, undermining the entire basis of McCain's camapaign against him), I was freed from having to vote for him.

Firstly, McCain/Palin had no shot at victory, and it likely would've been difficult for any Republican to have won the general election in 2008. Secondly, even if McCain were to have pulled off an impossible victory, it was my conclusion that he would align Republicanism even closer to the Democrats' rasion d'etre than those areas in which Bush adopted a traditionally liberal, more bureaucratic approach to governing philosophy and practice. In other words, McCain would make Republicans look more like Democrat Lites than they already were, and congressional republicans would have no voice to dissent from the President b/c of their party loyalty.

Clearly, Obama has is overreaching in so many ways that the principle reason to vote for McCain turned out truly to be only to deny Obama. Sadly McCain's nomination was largely accidental where it was not contrived by the anti-Romney figures within the dominant, established circle of the primary. Rudy's moderate appeal was choked off through either his own stupidity to wait till Florida to run, or his deference to John McCain's own candidacy, who obviously competes for the same segment of the party. On the Right, culture voters were persauded by Huckabee and Fred Thompson, segments that would've gone 4:1 to Romney over McCain head to head.

Then there was Romney, the true outsider. 5 years as Governor was his political experience. McCain and Rudy each were effectively lifelong government employees. Fred's history of political involvement goes back to the early 70s. Huckabee's record as Gov. of Arkansas was more liberal than Bill Clinton's, and so all his questioning of anyone else's conservatism should've been discarded alongside his candidacy itself. Mitt Romney has the broadest appeal to the spectrum of Republicans, and he received by far most of the attacks from all competitors. He got far more attacks from the DNC as well.

We've hit bottom since 2006. Sometimes that has to happen before recovery can take place. Mitt's ideal for the task of rebuilding the GOP, and the USA once Obama wrecks us.

iBrock of FL 9:39AM June 04, 2009