Well actually this is probably not really news, as I (and
many others) have noted Mr. Romney was a structurally weak candidate from the
beginning, in fact, in both Romney and Obama you have candidates that are
historically unelectable; Romney for being unlikable and Obama for the state of
the economy under his watch, specifically the unemployment rate.
When Governor Romney loses to Barak Obama in November the Republican
Party is really going to have to think hard about the control that the wacked
out right wing of its party is exerting.
This socially conservative fringe does not hurt in state elections where
the right wing candidate IS representative of the electorate (i.e. they are
both wacked out) but is clearly killing the party in this presidential race. As I have said since the beginning of this
sorry campaign, Mr. Romney is the Republican Party’s John Kerry. Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, opined
recently that if the Republican Party cannot defeat Barak Obama they need to “shut
down the party.” GEE, this sounds hauntingly
familiar to what many Democrats said about the John Kerry, George W. Bush
contest!
The issue here is NOT conservatism per say, it is the weird Christian
right morality agenda centered on abortion, sex, immigration, school prayer, gun
laws, etc. You have such nauseating charades
as the Republican debate when the candidates debated the role of sex in and out
of marriage! You had Mr. Santorum
stating that even in marriage you only have sex with your spouse for purposes
of procreation. ANY party that even considers
such a candidate seriously must desire failure in a nationwide general election;
this shit is just too frightening to normal people.
When Mr. Romney’s advisor Eric Fehrnstrom, made the infamous
“etch-a-sketch” analogy about the pivot to the general election, he missed the
fact that said candidate has an opponent that is going to beat you to a pulp
replaying all the stupid shit you said when you were busy kissing the ass of social
conservatives.
The Republican Party needs to figure out that this right
wing Christian conservative social agenda is NOT actually/necessarily
conservative. The parties nominees have
NO business opining on their view of sex whether in or out of marriage, these issues
are largely none of governments business.
The social conservative agenda is out of step with many Americans feel on
a number of issues. I have noted a
number of times when young Ron Paul supporters are asked by interviewers who
they are gong to vote for in the general election now that their candidate is
not running they invariably say Obama. The
reason these libertarian voters end up in the seemingly unlikely Obama camp is
the scary and intrusive social conservative agenda of the current Republican
Party.
Until the Republican Party can embrace a truer conservative/libertarian
agenda, and focus on economic conservatism and drop some of the unnecessary social
issues (or kick them down to the state level) they are not going to win a
national election.
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