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The Spectacle Blog
Paul Ryan’s endorsement of Mitt Romney has the potential to be important. Some Republicans have started throwing their weight behind Romney as part of an establishment push to expedite the end of the primary process. Others are backing Romney now to enter the vice presidential sweepstakes. While both of those could be factors here, the Ryan endorsement could go beyond that.
Ryan has been critical of aspects of Romney’s record, particularly Romneycare, in the past. But he’s noticeably warmed to Romney in recent months and it’s worth noting his argument that voting for Romney isn’t “settling”: “I was not a fan of Bob Dole being our nominee in ‘96, I didn’t support John McCain throughout the primary, I supported other people last time.This is not the same kind of candidate.”
Crucial here is that Ryan has calculated that Romney represents the best chance to get his fiscal blueprint, in the former of the budget that passed the House yesterday, signed into law. Romney has been supportive of the Ryan plan, including the broad outlines of what the House Budget Committee chairman would like to do to restructure Medicare. The current version of the Medicare plan in the House budget more closely resembles what Romney has specifically endorsed than last year’s budget.
Ryan could tie Romney to a comprehensive conservative agenda on entitlements and government spending, thus giving conservatives a stake in his election, in a way that the candidate has never been able to do himself. One factor that could mitigate that is that there has been more conservative criticism this time around, both in terms of wanting a budget that cuts spending faster and some of his Bush-era votes on issues like TARP. But some conservatives will be more inclined to vote for Romney if they believe he will play Ronald Reagan to Ryan’s Jack Kemp.
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Bill| 3.30.12 @ 2:03PM
Romney is unstoppable.
Al Adab| 3.30.12 @ 2:53PM
"Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." T. Jefferson
I weep.
Clint| 3.31.12 @ 11:11AM
Romney Is The Stupid Party's McCain Redux.
We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.
These Are The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.
Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail.....
The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To An Open Convention.
gearjammer| 3.31.12 @ 12:38PM
Why don't you head to must win states like Ohio and VA. and work your magic there.
Clint| 3.31.12 @ 1:06PM
Why Don't You Eat Your Prunes.
Romney Is The Stupid Party's McCain Redux.
We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.
These Are The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.
Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail.....
The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To An Open Convention.
Floyd Looney | 3.30.12 @ 2:20PM
Romney should have run as a Democrat, that is where his views are. I am sick and tired of hoping for something better from Republicans.
Pete| 3.31.12 @ 1:49PM
They do it every election (except Reagan). Its always the lesser of two evils meme. I haven't bought into it before and I won't this time either.
Les| 3.30.12 @ 2:38PM
Santorum is going to have a real bad Tuesday.
Pete| 3.31.12 @ 1:50PM
Even if he wins, because you guys will spin it as a loss and demand he drops out of the race.
Dai Alanye | 3.30.12 @ 2:41PM
It's a shame to see all these people falling for the Romney myth, but should Mitt succeed we true conservatives will have the last laugh, just as we've laughed at Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, Christopher Buckley and the other putative conservatives who fell for Obama in their horror at the candidacy of Sarah Palin.
Al Adab| 3.30.12 @ 2:51PM
Correct you are. Too many of the pundits, even ours, simply are too incestuous and talk only to one another. The "Pa;in is dumb" mantra is a case in point. The campaign tried to keep her "controlled" for what about three weeks, during which time the election was lost.
Even our analyists seem to think The Left retains a semblance of legitimacy and is only an alternative way to govern rather than seeing them as the threat to the American philosophy that they are.
Vern Crisler| 3.30.12 @ 3:56PM
Right, this is a ridiculous primary where Republicans whore away their principles in the dwindling hope that they've got someone who can beat Obama. When Obama is reelected I will join with you in laughing at all these sunshine-conservatives.
aware| 3.30.12 @ 8:02PM
I'm afraid there may not be much laughing in the coming years.
gearjammer| 3.31.12 @ 12:48PM
Name me one of these principles so ingrained in the
GOP that was whored away ? What are you talking about-unless you mean some litte wish list you and a few others crave in an attempt to force your version of Utopia on America. What in the world are you talking abouMcCain-Fgold ? Actually since then I have never seen or heard more free speech in my life. What are you talking about ?
Clint| 3.31.12 @ 1:19PM
Duuuuhhhhh !
Do Your Homework.
The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA, McCain–Feingold Act,
" In June 2007 the U.S. Supreme Court held, in Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc., that BCRA's limitations on corporate and labor union funding of broadcast ads mentioning a candidate within 30 days of a primary or caucus or 60 days of a general election are unconstitutional as applied to ads susceptible of a reasonable interpretation other than as an appeal to vote for or against a specific candidate. "
"In June 2008, the section of the act known as the "millionaire's amendment" was overturned by the Supreme Court in Davis v. Federal Election Commission."
" In January 2010, the Supreme Court struck sections of McCain–Feingold down which limited activity of corporations, saying, "If the First Amendment has any force, it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech.”
The American Hitman| 3.30.12 @ 2:46PM
"Ryan could tie Romney to a comprehensive conservative agenda"
Smoking dope is very bad for the health. Haven't you heard? Sober up, and you will see that Romney is tying Ryan to a big government agenda.
Windy City Commentary| 3.30.12 @ 3:35PM
Paul Ryan is over-rated anyway. He always sounds so conservative while voting as Boehner prefers.
darcy| 3.31.12 @ 4:04AM
Paul Ryan: He’s an establishment neo-con and is awful on immigration; he gets an F from NumbersUSA and has co-sponsored five amnesty bills, most notably the one by Kennedy/McCain.
JP| 3.30.12 @ 3:45PM
I may vote for Mitt (a negative vote against Barry), but I will do it holding my nose. No need to create the fiction that Mitt is a conservative.
mrd| 3.30.12 @ 4:02PM
At the end of the day a large part of the opposition to Romney is captured by the idea that there are problems in the country that are not fixed by reducing the budget deficit by 2040 alone. This is simply a victory for those who wish to marginalize social conservatives in the Republican party. Message recieved. The real question is whether this is a winning strategy. We will see, the experiment is about to be done, but there are several states ( Virginia, Ohio, North Carolina, Missouri, Florida, ) where evangelicals make up a high percentage of the Republican electorate. It is hard to imagine a Republican winning while at the same time being deeply unacceptable to these voters. True Obama is even worse, but will that get people to come out to the polls, or will they mostly say... why bother. Notice there is not a single social conservative voice that, that is a republican figure known for his/her social conservatism that has endorsed Romney. This is especially true because of the manner in which Romney beat Santorum, his allies in the press basically labled him as unacceptable because of his pro-life views which were caricatured . Indeed the pundits supporting Romney are pretty much those who think the social conservative views need to be jetisoned . I think this represents a fundamental change. Well message recieved. I think Obama is the worst president in history so I will "settle " ( Ryan not withstanding) I know many people who got the message that the Republicans have said "the hell with you" I am sure some Republicans are pleased with this outcome. We will see how well it works. It may be that given Obama's radicalism Romney will win, but a Democrat with a lighter touch, even if very liberal ( a Hiliary Clinton for example) Will be very tough to beat in the future. Whether Obama wins or loses the long run outlook for the left has been made very favorable.
RJ| 3.30.12 @ 4:24PM
Santorum is my third choice and Romney is my last choice, but I am not glum. As you say, Obama is the worst candidate on the ballot, by far, and I feel pretty good that he will lose.
With Romney as the nominee, it makes it all that more important to support legitimate conservatives to the House and Senate as we will need to keep the pressure on for conservative policies. Perhaps Romney's flip-flopping will yield results in our favor. While I very much wanted a real conservative, it doesn't look like we are going to get one, so we must take the best alternative available and continue the struggle.
Al Adab| 3.30.12 @ 4:38PM
The electoral count was 365 to 173. FL, NC, VA, and Ohio have 75. Can anyone find the others? Sadly that is what it comes down too. The large states, those with big cities dependant classes and govt. employees, will stay true to their trough.
RJ| 3.30.12 @ 6:56PM
Hi Al,
Yes, the electoral map is the real test. As I recall, Obama won 9 states which Bush carried in 2004 which are the bulk of the swing states. My notes from election night are: Virginia (52-47); North Carolina (56-43); Florida (51-48); Ohio (51-47); Indiana (50-49); Iowa (54-45); Colorado (53-46); New Mexico (57-42) and Nevada (55-43). Of course, we have gone through reapportionment, but my initial count is that the states Obama won still total 365, so no change there. The GOP needs to get 97 more than it did in 2008 to win.
Starting with the 75 electoral votes of FL, NC, VA and Ohio, which you mention, I would add Indiana, 11, which gets us to 86, eleven short. Here are some states which I am sure will be heavily fought over: Iowa, 7; Colorado, 9; Nevada, 5; and New Mexico, 5. I think we can add New Hampshire, 4 to the mix of swing states and may be able to get an electoral vote from Maine which decides by Congressional district. If things break right we could get Wisconsin, 10, Minnesota, 10, Pennsylvania, 21 and Oregon 7.
Right now, I think the GOP is at its weakest because the candidates have been tearing into each other. I expect unity will come and the message against Obama will focus once the nominee is determined. Hard to see how it would be anyone other than Romney.
Obama has made a bad situation worse and his supporters have lost much of their enthusiasm. I doubt than many major events between now and election day will help him. It is more likely that it would hurt him.
Obama's biggest advantage is, of course, the media and it certainly looks like his team wants the doors open for voter fraud. Romney, the GOP and the Pacs need a strong ground game to be sure that the election is not stolen.
WL| 3.30.12 @ 4:13PM
I sure wanted anyone on our side to get the nomination...however, fellow conservatives, we don't have anyone to blame but ourselves. Not each of us individually, but the conservative movement as a whole. After the moderate disaster left to us by the regime of Republicans that earned us Barack Obama, we STILL failed to keep the establishment from picking our candidate, who is extremely weak, and will do nothing but stave off doom by a few seconds even if he manages to get elected. We, the American Conservatives failed to make our case, and the American People failed to listen...that's just the way it is.
That being said, I think we are at the time where the primary is done and ol' Willard is gonna carry the flag for the right. As much as I hate it...I have never ever imagined an American president would dismantle the country's strengths the way Obama has and continues to do...He is like a devious menace that is dividing and causing confusion everywhere he goes and with everything he does or says.
We simply have to elect somebody else to the Presidency...regardless of who that is.
Go MITT!
WL| 3.30.12 @ 4:14PM
Should have read like this above: "I sure wanted anyone on our side to get the nomination EXCEPT MITT"
WL| 3.30.12 @ 4:19PM
Maybe by next election, some better candidates will step forward...but this time they didn't. Let's remember...Reagan decided to run and challenge the Repub. Estabilishment. We had NO ONE anywhere near that caliber in this primary to challenge Romney...it's just as much the fault of the possibly great leaders for NOT running, as much as it is the Establishment's for doing their best to keep em out.
RJ| 3.31.12 @ 3:16AM
Absolutely true and I never understood those who hoped a new candidate would emerge from a contested convention. The first requirement for a candidate is to run. If you don't do that, you should not get the nomination. It reminds me of Carolyn Kennedy when she said she wanted to be a Senator, but would need to be appointed because she not run for job.
Connection, Not Compromise| 3.30.12 @ 4:44PM
So, why don't we as Conservatives coalesce around one of the three "Not Mitt" candidates? Having a divided vote is not helping our cause.
Do we really want Mitt to govern us as he governed Massachusetts? As Gingrich, Paul, and Santorum supporters, we share more convictions that connect us (domestically) than divide us.
WL| 3.30.12 @ 6:28PM
I see your point, but it is just too far gone for that now... We have to find a way to get that done before they split each others vote all the way to the convention.
The democrats and the Est. Republican ALWAYS have one candidate that they are all with during the respective contests...but we never do. The combination of candidates who never ever drop out in time to take one for the team and the always present Ron Paul 15% discount that keeps our side divided, we are always kept at a disadvantage. I don't know if there IS an answer...because all the way down to us individuals...our side seems hell bent on splitting itself...so that's what we get.
I agree with your principle though about all of us sharing enough convictions to win...but that sort of alliance has to come from the those guys themselves....but they never seem to. It makes it hard not to believe that at least 2 of the 3 are just decoys and vote diluters...I just don't know which ones.
The American Hitman| 3.31.12 @ 9:45AM
Yes,
Go AWAY MITT
Calvin| 3.30.12 @ 4:27PM
I wish Romney was endorsing Ryan.
Bill| 3.30.12 @ 6:40PM
Ryan's endorsement sealed the deal for Romney. Romney will win WI, MD, DC, NY, ..........even PA.
C Bowen | 3.30.12 @ 7:24PM
Paul TARP Ryan's budget plan to balance by 2040 is the joke--Romney may actually be to Ryan's right.
One thing Paul TARP Ryan and Romney agree on is the mandate--well actually, Romney is to Ryan's right on that. Ryancare calls for the mandate, and Romney says (of course he could flip flop) he is against a national mandate.
Get Paul Ryan off the stage, already.
John - TMF| 3.30.12 @ 7:25PM
First, Ryan was always going to endorse Romney. This was arranged in 2008. This entire process has been a complete sham since the beginning.
All of the viable first rate Conservative candidates were bought off just as the election of 2010 was completed and the TEA Party failed. Yes, it failed. Delaware, Alaska, and Nevada Senate races were used as the "national" markers for the success and sustainability of the TEA Party as a political force. Since December 2010, the Establishment has systematically deconstructed the TEA Party movement, and it is now a pale shadow of itself.
Romney was to be the 2012 nominee, and that was guaranteed in June/July of 2008 when he basically stepped aside for McCain to run to his right on a National Defense Iraqi surge ticket. Hands were shaken, quiet backroom deals were cut, and organizations built.
The first mission was to prevent anyone acceptable to the Conservative base from running. Ryan was just one of the big potential folks who were co-opted. I don't want to catalog the list, but basically all of the first tier real conservatives were talked into staying out, or bought off.
So, the strategy of the Romney team? Take advantage of the extreme hatred for Obama, and the ABO ticket. Conservatives are usually suckers, and the Establishment knew that enough suckers would vote for Nixon. Just like they always do.
Romney's strategy was to lose his way to the nomination, and frankly he's probably going to lose in November. Even if he does, he's Nixon II - Liberal, paranoid, and abusive of his own people.
He ends up being enough people's last choice to filch a minority nomination from the manure pile.
Well, I quit the sucker wagon.
The Pledge:
Willard Milton Romney is a Limousine Liberal Democrat masquerading as a Republican; therfore I WILL NOT vote for him, EVER!
If Romney is so great... then he and his establishment patrons won't need my family's or my votes. He'll cruise to victory on an ABO vote, and my dignity, personal honor, and principles will remain intact.
-John - The Mighty Fahvaag
DavidH| 3.31.12 @ 8:19AM
Should change your name to John - TMD (the mightily delusional).
"Romney's strategy was to lose his way to the nomination"
Really? Which is why he's won the most states and the most votes so far by far?
"All of the viable first rate Conservative candidates were bought off"
Bought off with what? Nutty conspiracy theories reign supreme.
The so-called Tea Party is killing itself because it embraces candidates who hate compromise, whose sole virtue is their willingness to embrace Tea Party mantras, and who are plainly not competent to govern. The idea that these candidates can command an electoral majority in anywhere but the "reddest" states is absurd. The idea that these people could govern competently if elected is even more ridiculous.
You elect the candidate that's most competent, conservative, and best able to actually be elected. That's always been Romney this time around. And if you don't like it, you have only those who did not run to blame.
Anthony M| 3.31.12 @ 12:14PM
Nixon may have been the greatest American politician in the short history of our great nation. He overcame a hostile national media, effette elitists and a violent left wing as well as the anti-caucasian racists who now run our country. He was not as right wing as MacArthur, but he was solid for his time and he won. He won, and I think that's what should be important to Republicans right now. Winning.
Bill| 3.30.12 @ 10:57PM
President: Romney
VP: Mitch Daniel
Treasury: Paul Ryan
I'm loving it!
Nick| 4.1.12 @ 10:40PM
"That nigger lover President Clinton had the pen and vetoed so many good bills passed by the Gingrich-led Congress."
- Written by Bill the Bigot, in the Time for Newt to Do the Honorable Thing thread:
http://spectator.org/archives/.....ent_749403
You're a moron and a racist, Bigot Bill.
GO AWAY!
Tom| 3.31.12 @ 1:55AM
And the total capitulation of the so-called "conservative movement" to the liberal Republican establishment continues.
Connection, Not Compromise| 3.31.12 @ 3:14AM
So, why are we waiting for our Conservative candidates to form alliances? Let's unite at the grassroots level. That's what the Tea Party Movement was all about!
As I stated earlier:
As Gingrich, Paul, and Santorum supporters, we share more convictions that connect us (domestically) than divide us, chief of all a love for our Constitution and our freedoms. Do we really want Mitt to govern us as he governed Massachusetts?
There are still more primary states to come. Mitt hasn't clinched the golden 1144 yet. The race is over only if we give up now and allow the "powers that be" to define the winner for us. Conservatives unite!
Oldefarte| 3.31.12 @ 2:23PM
IMHO, he's a worthless labor union beholden POS for breaking Reagan's 11th commandment to satisfy his own self-centered purposes. The little runt can't proclaim his own policy ideas but instead has to seek to destroy the Republicans chance of defeating Obama in November. What a worthless little nothing from Pa:
'.....Santorum:ObamaWill ‘Destroy’RomneyOverRomneycare Saturday, March 31, 2012 11:50 AMRick Santorum insists that if Mitt Romney wins the GOP nomination, that his support of the individual mandate – the centerpiece of Obamacare – will lead to a crushing Republican defeat this fall by Barack Obama.With Republican primaries set for Tuesday in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia, Santorum told CNN’s John King that Romney created the “blueprint” for
Obamacare. Santorum told King: “... We have seen in the last week, the centerpiece issue in this election is Obamacare and the enormous burden it is on our economy, what it's doing to drive up unemployment, what it's doing to explode the federal budget, as well as to explode the deficit, and, of course, the impingement upon liberty, both economic liberty and our religious liberties.
“This is a colossal issue. And it's the issue that Governor Romney is the least qualified to make because he was the author of the blueprint of Obamacare. ...“This is a major problem when the huge Achilles' heel of this president, where three-quarters of the American public disagree with this mandate, and that yet Governor Romney started the ball rolling in Massachusetts and then advocated for this mandate at the federal level.”Santorum said Romney’s strong support for Romneycare makes him easily defeatable come November. “Frankly, I think he will be destroyed by President Obama on this issue come the fall,” Santorum said.“And it should be the biggest issue that helps us win this election. It will be turned into a negative under Mitt Romney.”Santorum noted that the Republican establishment in Washington and New York typically pushes for a moderate like Romney to lead the party, and they typically lose.“ ... if we don't have a conservative, we will end up with the same situation we have had over the past 100 years. There's been over 100 years now. There's only one Republican that's ever defeated a sitting Democratic incumbent president, one.
“And it's the one time we ran a strong conviction conservative, in the face of the party saying no, no, no, we need a moderate. We need to win. We need to win. They always say that. And we always lose. And the one time we didn't listen to the establishment, the Washington insiders, we had Ronald Reagan. And not only did we win. We changed the country.”King asked Santorum about efforts by Romney to paint him as a “big labor” Republican.“The head of the AFL-CIO in Pennsylvania said calling Rick Santorum a friend of big labor is like calling Mitt Romney a conservative. Neither are true.”....'
Oldefarte| 3.31.12 @ 2:26PM
Hell, I'd vote for Ron Paul before I'd support this little labor union prostitute.....at least Paul doesn't do excrement like the above!!!!
Tom| 4.1.12 @ 10:23AM
Another public display of the Stupid Old Fool's idiocy.
martin j smith| 4.1.12 @ 9:05AM
While I have no faith the Republican Establishment and none in Romney I will vote for who ever is the Republican nominee --Ron Paul I would NEVER EVER vote for. Got it ? !!!!!!!!!!!! EVER!!!!!!!!!!!
aware| 4.1.12 @ 12:50PM
Then just keep being a good little conformist voting for those approved by your rulers. When the blind lead the blind.......
Clint| 4.1.12 @ 12:19PM
That's Because You're An Israel Firster Smear Bund BibiBot, Smith.
The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To An Open Convention.
martin j smith| 4.1.12 @ 12:44PM
No Clint its because you are an idiot.
U, I decided to go off on a little tangent. Actually I think that Santorum's continuing to run is to make sure that Romney is either forced to the right or at least more exposed than McCain was . Great at demonizing fellow Republicans but incompetent or simply throwing away an election as McCain did. So, that is a good thing.
Clint| 4.1.12 @ 7:57PM
No Israel Firster Smear Bund BibiBot, Smith.
You're Tryin' To Give Us Your McCain Redux.
We Are Being Set Up By The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges For The Ruling Elites' Frontman Mittens Romney.
These Are The RINO-CINO Flunkie Stooges Who Gave Us The Serial Traitor To Conservatism, John McCain Of McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy,McCain-Lieberman,Gang Of 14, Opposing Bush Tax Cuts Of 2001 & 2003,TARP.
Now They Are Trying To Give Us RomneyCare,TARP, Cynical Flip-Flops On Abortion, Gays, Refuses to Sign Pro-Life Pledge, Illegal Immigrants, "Little Chain Saw Al" At Bain, Crony Capitalism Campaign Money Trail....
The Tea Party Rebellion Heads To An Open Convention.