Posted under Election 2012 & Mitt Romney & Ron Paul
The fecklessness of the Romney campaign is really starting to irritate and concern conservatives and Tea Partiers. This would be a grand opportunity to score points on Romney and broaden our support with those concerned Romney is just another McCain/Bush/Dole.
But the “officials” of the Ron Paul campaign for President capitulated because they thought Romney Victory Special Train was leaving the station and wanted to get on board. Now what? Do they want to jump off? Not with Rand and Trgvye (no need to mention Olson’s sock puppet) still riding the caboose.
That’s why Ron isn’t doing any more big rallies or really, not much of anything for pretty much two months until the RNC in Tampa despite sitting on a three million plus war chest. It’s too bad really because there were many areas to highlight differences with Romney which may have made at least some conservatives see Paul’s delegates as a potential use of leverage against Romney, perhaps reopen the whole nomination process instead preparing to go down with the ship again. Even if they didn’t like him he was there to shake up the process if needed.
Now it seems like everyone is off marching to a certain doom, perhaps wanting to do something else but not brave enough or wise enough to do it all in the name of “party unity”. Hopefully RP’s delegates and supporters in Tampa won’t be quite as sheep-like as Jesse Benton would like them to be.
C Bowen on 05 Jul 2012 at 12:56 am #
All good points, though I would note that Murdoch and Welch are getting press as the leading Romney critics–saying he is too hard on immigration or something like that–not liberal enough.
Feltan on 05 Jul 2012 at 5:26 pm #
I wouldn’t consider Murdoch and Welch standard bearers — except for their own interests. While they might fall under the larger conservative umbrella, and they do need to be courted due to their money and influence, I suspect Romney will politely listen and then ignore them.
Patroon mentions that Romney is disappointing the Tea Party, but the referenced article is limited to some / maybe / a little upset on the part of Murdoch with Romney’s advisors.
What bothers me is that all this noise is missing the point. Romney is a big government liberal. His track record is very clear, and I place more credence in that record rather than his new-found conservative talking points.
Murdoch’s complaint is just guilding the lily of complaints about Romney’s campaign. His advisors might be giving him poor advice, but the candidate himself is no representative of constitutional conservative ideals.
Regards,
Feltan
exPaul on 05 Jul 2012 at 7:54 pm #
Sorry to say I no longer trust Ron Paul.
And hopefully the next liberty candidate can avoid the nepotism thing.
Benton sux
C Bowen on 07 Jul 2012 at 12:22 am #
Felton;
You are answering a point not raised. The masses of GOP voters are very frustrated post-Roberts ruling, and their blankie is saying how awful Romney is, but offering bad advice, they are lible to imbibe on, to capitulate on.
We are trying to keep the troops forward thinking, but also thinking today–Impeach Roberts and nullify. Welch and Murdoch are offering inside baseball distractions to misdirect from the work at hand. (Yes, Impeach and nullify are just memes, but they are necessary to inject into the polis bloodstream.) For what is worth, nullification is underway here–may fail, certainly to fail, right? but the act keeps the troops doing something productive rather than thinking about a November election.