The editors of National Review, normally a sane and sober bunch, have jumped on the Mitt Romney bandwagon with an article titled Romney on the Right.
Here is the problem with Romney...
- He is a RINO, and worse reminds me of Clinton (Bill) with his winning smile, endearing personality and ability to change his heartfelt convictions at the drop of a hat. The editors wrote the following:
Conservatives should hope Romney’s campaign does not fizzle. For three decades, candidates who have moved to the right in Republican presidential primaries have been rewarded rather than punished. Conservative openness to converts has made it possible for moderate Republicans who found themselves moving rightward to prosper, and given ideologically malleable Republicans an incentive to adopt conservative positions. In both cases, the effect was to facilitate the country’s rightward move.
I guess my problem with that is this, do we want another guy in the White House who changes his positions whenever expedient? The problem with converts to Conservatism is that they rarely stay that way in office. NR points out that Bush moved to the Right in the primaries, but as almost any honest conservative will say, we are disappointed in his spending habits which more resemble a Democrat.
- The second issue is that he is a mormon, and that will alienate the more serious Christian voters and while we certainly won't vote for Hillary or Obama, we may just stay home in disgust or worse apathy. I hate to think of the turnout in the election that features a battle between a hard-core liberal and a limp-wristed Republican.
What we need is not to settle for a non-Christian, uncredentialed conservative that we HOPE will do the right things (no pun intended) in office, but a legitimate Christian conservative who doesn't have to change his positions in the primary to appeal to conservative voters, because he is already there. The problem is I don't know who that is yet.
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