by Conservative First
Check out this recent headline from CNN’s political ticker blog: “Mitt Romney: Rainmaker”.
Or how about this one from Newsmax: “Mitt Romney Has Winning Record in Picking Primary Candidates.”
Apparently, Mitt Romney is king du jour of this election cycle.
The article from Newsmax says this:
Losing Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney is a big winner when it comes to backing candidates in GOP primary races in 2014.
He has a 100 percent success record in his picks, while the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is also perfect with its endorsements. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, on the other hand, has backed the losing candidate two out every three times, according to The Daily Beast.
Romney has been batting 1000 so far with his six endorsements, including Senate hopefuls Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Dr. Monica Wehby of Oregon, as well as with Idaho Rep. Mike Simpson and Pennsylvania Rep. Bill Shuster.
His failed attempt to defeat President Obama in a very winnable race means nothing to the people who offer this praise upon him. They just look to the more moderate and more entrenched establishment candidates he endorses as proof that he is effective.
Mitt Romney is a very fine man. All of us here at Conservative First voted for him because this country could not afford four more years of President Obama’s failed policies. However, we are now seeing the consequences of nominating a Northeast moderate to take on President Obama and losing: Obamacare, economic malaise, feckless foreign policy, border chaos, ISIS, etc.
But herein lies the fundamental problem of politics in our country today: elections need to stop being about one side being in the majority over the other.
As noted in a previous blog we wrote, the Republican Party is just as guilty of being a big profligate spender as the Democrat Party is. Majority rule means nothing if the colors are pale pastels. One side wants total government control of our lives. The other side? Well, just less big government.
Such choices!
But back to Romney.
The problem with anointing him a “rainmaker” or bragging that he is “batting 1000” is that this view of majority rule is so prevalent with the establishment crowd.
“We need the majority. We need more Republicans. Elect more Republicans.” As if the answer to our republic’s problems is that there aren’t enough members of the GOP in elected office.
They miss the point entirely. The Republican establishment IS the problem.
For sake of argument, lets say Romney’s candidates win and are sworn into Congress. The GOP wins the 6 seats needed to win the Senate back. Mitch McConnell becomes Majority Leader and the Senate now votes for amnesty to pay back the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for its support. The conservative base rejects this and the GOP nominee (Jeb? Christie?) in 2016 and Hillary Clinton is now elected president to serve the fourth term of Jimmy Carter. Is that progress?
No, but the GOP establishment doesn’t care. They want control of the purse strings for a few more years and when they get tired of the base holding them accountable, they gladly (internally) hand back the reigns of power to the Democrats.
Wonderful world inside the beltway don’t you think?
The problem with people like Bob Dole, George H.W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney giving out advice and stumping for certain candidates is that they are the reason we will have had 16 years of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama in the first place. The Doles, McCains, and Romneys were rejected by the people in general, but more importantly by the base (conservatives) of the GOP because these men were never principled in core conservatism. They also either rejected Ronald Reagan the man, his principles, or both.
Here’s an idea that will work and win elections next time: lets hear from the winners; the people who helped President Reagan win two massive landslide elections, or from constitutional conservatives currently serving or have served in elected office who revere his presidency and understand how his core conservatism solves problems.
Ronald Reagan has many loyal defenders who served in his administration who can tell us exactly how elections are won and won big. But these patriots are constantly trashed by the establishment, the corporatists, the pseudo conservatives, and neo-statists in the media and elsewhere.
Why?
The answer is simple: Reagan conservatism trumpeted by the grassroots is a threat to their existence and they know it.
The establishment can’t let the likes of Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee and others interfere with their grasp on power and access to the big donor cash.
We need true conservatives to lead us in restoring our republic and bringing our country back to its founding as the framers intended.
With more constitutional Reagan conservatives in the Senate, Ted Cruz becomes the Majority Leader, not the man who wants to punch the grassroots in the nose.
Someone who is dedicated to restoring our republic is a rainmaker, not the man who lost a winnable presidential election and then it was later revealed he never really wanted to be president.
As Sarah Palin proclaims, “The Status Quo Must Go!”
Win or lose, we will take her picks over Mitt Romney’s every single time.
