The entire Republican Presidential race is — and has been for a year — a race to stop Mitt Romney and a stolid, tired, old, constipated, GOP establishment from jamming a boring, non-conservative candidate down our collective throats for the second consecutive presidential race.
Back in 2007-2008 no one inside the GOP liked John McCain — and yet we were saddled with him. He was a lousy political candidate. He was — and still is — a prickly, unlikeable man.
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Now — in — the same GOP establishment is foisting on us another man that no one likes: Mitt Romney.
A man who has to repeatedly tell us how “severely conservative” he is.
A simple rule: if you have to proclaim your conservatism, then you are probably not a conservative.
Mitt Romney grew up in Michigan in the 1950s when the Republican Party was the party of moderation. Conservatives were a distinct minority; moderates the majority.
His father was a classic moderate. So, too, was his mother when she ran in 1970 for the U.S. Senate.
In 1968 Mitt’s father, Gov. George Romney, ran for president and was a poor candidate on the stump. That is not to say he was a bad person; in fact, he was a good man and a smart man in business.
But he had poor political candidate skills.
