comMITTed to Romney!

It seems that every generation has a politician that young voters fall in love with. In the 1930’s and 40’s, it was Franklin Roosevelt. In the 1950’s it was Dwight Eisenhower. In the 1960’s it was John Kennedy. The 1970’s was the era of our withdrawal from Vietnam and the Watergate scandal that brought down Richard Nixon and so there was no politician to fall in love with in that decade. The 1980’s saw Ronald Reagan put together one of the broadest and most successful political coalitions this country has ever seen and people still remember Reagan fondly. To this day every Republican politician must pay his respects to Reagan’s legacy. The 1990’s, for the Democrats, saw a segment of the voting population fall in love with Bill Clinton, although he never went north of 50% in his two presidential elections. It seems that over half the country was immune to his charms. The first two national elections of the 21st century were very controversial and neither Bush nor Gore nor Kerry are the kind of politician that voters fall in love with.

Now comes the election year of 2008 and a new and inexperienced generation of voters have fallen in love with Obama. The old saying holds that “Love is blind” and it will be fascinating to see if Obama’s 20 year association with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, a past member of the Weather Underground and self confessed bomber who says that he only regrets that he “didn’t do more” during his days as a violent radical, will at some point splash some cold water into the faces of his supporters and cause them to come to their senses.

~~John Cronin~~

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0408/
Obama_Problem_is_older_voters.html

By: Ben Smith POLITICO.COM

Carrie Budoff Brown reports that Obama was asked about the exit polls at an avail (his second this week) in New Albany, IN.

“I have to say if you look at and I know my staff has talked about this: If you look at the numbers, in fact, our problem has less to do with white working class voters. In fact, the problem is that, to the extent there is a problem, is that the older voters are very loyal to Senator Clinton,” he said.

“And I think, you know, part of that is they’ve got a track record of voting for not just Senator Clinton but also her husband. And, you know, we want to make sure that they know that on issues that are of importance to them, like prescription drugs or pension and retirement security that I’ve got a strong track record on those issues and very specific plans to make sure they’re getting the kinds of help that they need. And, you know, if we do that effectively, which we have tried to do in all the states, then I think that we will end up doing very well here in Indiana.”
He was also asked about the criticism that he can’t close the deal.

“The way we are going to close the deal is by winning. And right now we are winning,” he said.
Also, a bit of bravado in response to suggestions that he’s not tough enough:

“I know that people like to talk tough and use a lot of rhetoric about fighting. I have always believed that if you are tough, you don’t have to talk about it,” he said.

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I admire Mitt Romney’s grit and determination and I agree that he should take the fight to the convention. The stakes are too high to do anything else.

In the event that we do not win there, then I believe Gov. Romney should follow the advise given in the article below.

~~John Cronin~~

ROMNEY SHOULD FOLLOW REAGAN EXAMPLE
boblonsberry.com ^ | 02/06/08 | Bob Lonsberry

Posted on 02/06/2008 5:32:18 AM PST by shortstop

Maybe it’s like 1976.

Maybe the Republican Party needs to go through a cleansing. Maybe it needs to be torn down so someday it can be built up again.

In 1976 the Republican bosses rejected Ronald Reagan. They mocked his conservatism and went with the liberal, Gerald Ford. We were coming out of the Nixon era, a time when about all anyone agreed on was that the Republican president had been a disappointment.

The party went with a liberal and a dynamic young guy out of Georgia – who campaigned on a platform of change – got the Democratic nod. It was a centrist establishment Republican against a Democrat outsider and the Republican candidacy went down in flames.

And America got Jimmy Carter, the most pointless president of the Twentieth Century.

Maybe this year is like 1976.

George W. Bush is Richard M. Nixon. Republicans can’t wait for him to go and Democrats absolutely loathe him. He is what people want to change, they just want to turn the page and move on to something better.

Either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton play the part of Jimmy Carter. Both have exciting candidacies that are very short on specifics. Both have the potential to be absolute failures as presidents. Like Carter, they have the potential to be one-term wonders. They have the potential to follow liberal priorities right into the swamp Jimmy Carter mired the nation in.

Somehow, Barack Obama chants things about hope in a way that gets more votes than when Jesse Jackson chanted things about hope. Somehow, people have decided to read into the Obama candidacy every unresolved political fantasy of their lives. Somehow, the media and the Democrats have decided – with a straight face – that Barack Obama is the second coming of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

Hillary Clinton has likewise taken on mythic proportions in the enthusiasm of her supporters.

But both Obama and Clinton will do well not to fall flat on their faces once in office.

And it’s quite likely one of them will be the next president of the United States.

Because of this year’s Gerald Ford – Senator John McCain.

He is the sort of soulless candidate who can inspire only through fear. He is a man without abiding political principle, a war hero whose war ended two generations ago. A man who in no way represents the philosophy or values of his party.

A man grassroots Republicans are going to turn their backs on.

This year is like 1976.

And Mitt Romney is Ronald Reagan.

This year, the Republican bosses are going to deny Mitt Romney the nomination. They are going to cynically play politics, they are going to go with the liberal they think can win, and they are going to value victory over principle. They are going to forget the fact that Republicans who abandon principle for success invariably end up with neither.

So it will be Jimmy Carter Take Two and Mitt Romney will go into the wilderness.

But if he is smart, he will follow the example of Ronald Reagan. Reagan used the years from 1976 to 1980 to continue his daily radio commentaries and to travel the country speaking to whomever would listen to him. He perfected his understanding of the Constitution. He spoke to group after group, preaching the simple straight-foward gospel of freedom, self-reliance, respect for life and the glory of being an American.

And at the end of four years he had not only his party’s nomination, he had one of the biggest general election margins in history.

He persisted and he prevailed and he became president of the United States.

That needs to be Mitt’s plan.

He got robbed this go ’round. His party abandoned not just him, but its own bedrock. Mitt needs to spend four years internalizing the gospel of conservatism and constitutionalism. He needs to get this stuff in his bones. And he needs to preach it across the country.

This year is like 1976.

We’ve nominated a liberal and we’ve rejected a potentially great leader.

The one will be gone soon, and – if he’s wise – the other will start preparing now for 2012.

This year is like 1976. And that one didn’t go very well for us.

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Eisenhower and Ford did not win us majorities in congress. They were both moderates. Newt and Reagan won us majorities. They were conservatives. We don’t win by agreeing with democrats. We win by having a smart guy who is capable of making great arguments. Think of Newt. Think of Reagan.

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