freecounterpoint: The blame game

Saturday, December 24, 2011

The blame game

5 comments:

Tecumseh said...: Grassroots conservatives who are upset about this can complain about Mitt Romney’s alleged heterodoxies or the iron grip that the Beltway elite supposedly has over the system, but in the end they have only themselves to blame. Political parties, after all, are open institutions that anyone is free to join, and if the system is in disrepair it can only mean that Republican partisans—the grassroots—have failed to fix it. It is worth remembering as well that the current nomination system has been in place for nearly half a century, and despite a mountain of evidence from nearly a dozen presidential cycles that it is grossly inefficient, conservatives have spent no intellectual or political effort in reforming it. Apparently the chickens are coming home to roost.
Oh, my.; 12/24/2011 8:08 PM
Tecumseh said...: Piling on:

An Iowa voter could look at his choices and see: (1) a former Obama administration official whose top strategist called Republicans “cranks”; (2) a former senator who lost his last race by 18 points and who has run largely on social issues in this time of economic uncertainty; (3) an inexperienced congresswoman from Minnesota with a tendency to misstate facts and a staff with higher turnover than a fast-food restaurant’s; (4) a former speaker of the House who praised Hillary Clinton on health care, worked with Nancy Pelosi on global warming, made $1.6 million from Freddie Mac, wants mirrors in space, and has demagogued Medicare reform from the left; (5) a big-state governor who doesn’t know the details of his own tax plan, who doesn’t know what government agencies he’s promised to cut, who claimed that those who disagree with him on immigration have no heart, and is best known for his many painfully awkward moments in debates; (6) a moderate former governor whose health care plan served as a model for Obamacare, who once called himself a “progressive” Republican not in the tradition of Ronald Reagan, who flip-flopped even on the question of whether he is a flip-flopper, and who largely ignored Iowa until he decided a few weeks ago that he had a chance to win there.

Uncharitable? Yes. Untrue? No.

If this is how you view your choices, a protest vote—even for Ron Paul—isn’t really so irrational.

Andromeda, here I come.; 12/24/2011 8:12 PM
Mr roT said...: The W Stand goes through this exercise every week or so to argue that what no one really wants (Romney) is inevitable.; 12/24/2011 10:30 PM
Tecumseh said...: Sometimes I wonder whether you actually read any of the articles I link to, or whether you just press the "Romney is the source of all evil" button, and let it spit an answer...; 12/24/2011 11:07 PM
Mr roT said...: Why reread these articles that can be obtained from one another by swapping the words around?; 12/25/2011 4:54 AM

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