Mitt Romney now joins the long list of the kinds of presidential
candidates favored by the Republican establishment — nice,
moderate losers, people with no coherently articulated vision,
despite how many ad hoc talking points they may have.
The list of Republican presidential candidates like this goes
back at least as far as 1948, when Thomas E. Dewey ran against
President Harry Truman. Dewey spoke in lofty generalities while
Truman spoke in hard-hitting specifics. Since then, there have been
many re-runs of this same scenario, featuring losing Republican
presidential candidates John McCain, Bob Dole, Gerald Ford and,
when he ran for reelection, George H.W. Bush.
Bush 41 first succeeded when he ran for election as if he were
another Ronald Reagan (“Read my lips, no new taxes”), but then lost
when he ran for reelection as himself— “kinder and gentler,”
disdainful of “the vision thing” and looking at his watch during a
debate, when he should have been counter-attacking against the
foolish things being said.
This year, Barack Obama had the hard-hitting specifics — such
as ending “tax cuts for the rich” who should pay “their fair
share,” government “investing” in “the industries of the future”
and the like. He had a coherent vision, however warped.
Most of Obama’s arguments were rotten, if you bothered to put
them under scrutiny. But someone once said that it is amazing how
long the rotten can hold together, if you don’t handle it
roughly.
Any number of conservative commentators, both in the print media
and on talk radio, examined and exposed the fraudulence of Obama’s
“tax cuts for the rich” argument. But did you ever hear Mitt Romney
bother to explain the specifics which exposed the flaws in Obama’s
argument?
On election night, the rotten held together because Mitt Romney
had not handled it roughly with specifics. Romney was too nice to
handle Obama’s absurdities roughly. He definitely out-niced Obama
— as John McCain had out-niced Obama in 2008, and as Dewey
out-niced Truman back in 1948. And these Republicans all lost.
In this year’s first presidential debate, Obama out-niced
Romney. But, when he lost out doing that, he then reversed himself,
became the attacker, and ultimately the winner on election night,
despite a track record that should have buried him in a
landslide.
When you look at this as a horse race, there is no question that
the Republicans deserved to lose. But the stakes for this great
nation, at this crucial juncture in its history and in the history
of the world, are far too momentous to look at this election as
just a contest between two candidates or two political parties.
Quite aside from the immediate effects of particular policies,
Barack Obama has repeatedly circumvented the laws, including the
Constitution of the United States, in ways and on a scale that
pushes this nation in the direction of arbitrary one-man rule.
Now that Obama will be in a position to appoint Supreme Court
justices who can rubber stamp his evasions of the law and
usurpations of power, this country may be unrecognizable in a few
years as the America that once led the world in freedom, as well as
in many other things.
Barack Obama’s boast, on the eve of the election of 2008 — “We
are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United
States of America” — can now be carried out, without fear of ever
having to face the voters again.
This “transforming” project extends far beyond fundamental
internal institutions, or even the polarization and corruption of
the people themselves, with goodies handed out in exchange for
their surrendering their birthright of freedom.
Obama will now also have more “flexibility,” as he told Russian
President Medvedev, to transform the international order, where he
has long shown that he thinks America has too much power and
influence. A nuclear Iran can change that. Forever.
Have you noticed how many of our enemies in other countries have
been rooting for Obama? You or your children may yet have reason to
recall that as a bitter memory of a warning sign ignored on
election day in 2012.
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