I recently discovered how much I really enjoy reading the Say Anything blog. I'm growing a little disappointed now though because of all the Palin praising---and subsequent Romney bashing. In a post today, the blog attacks Romney and seems shocked to find that Romney got a great ovation at the CPAC conference today. Any conservative who listened to that speech would have been impressed with the poise and intellect that Mitt showed today. He offered a strong case for the role of the individual and the pioneering spirit that has defined what the conservative movement means. Yet Say Anything blog didn't find much to like. They continued the myth that Romney was nowhere to be found during the Scott Brown campaign. That's so blatantly false and the blog knows better. Heck, Scott Brown introduced Romney today at the convention and stopped just short of making a gold idol of the man. Brown knows that without Mitt Romney he would have lost that race in Massachusetts.
The blog goes on to say that Romney just doesn't represent the tea party movement that has supposedly been sweeping candidates into office lately. Yeah, it's not like Romney held major fund raisers for Bob McDonnel, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown....oh wait. Mark my words: when it comes time for the tea partiers to line up with Mitt or President Obama, they'll choose Mitt...even if they do hate his religion.
Lastly, Say Anything compares Romney to John McCain calling both of them "milquetoast" conservatives. What? What the hell is a milquetoast conservative? And to compare Romney to McCain is like comparing the tea party movement to an intellectual movement. It just doesn't work. So why do the tea partiers hate Romney? It's because he's rich, well-off, Mormon, and practical. He attacks Obama---but doesn't demand a birth certificate. He defends conservatism---yet understands you must govern as well. He talks a good policy game---yet knows solutions must be apparent. The attacks on Romney signal what the tea partiers are all about: hate for those better off, disgust for those who actually have to govern, and disdain for anyone practical enough to know they can't get everything. The tea partiers are like little kids throwing a temper tantrum on the school playground. Romney has looked past that and is now a good conservative alternative to the overly simplistic, nationalistic, tea party movement. Thank god for that.
Check out the closing part of Romney's address to CPAC this year and wonder how on earth conservatives can hate this guy:
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I think the Tea Partiers don't like Mitt because he was governor when Massachusetts started it's universal health care plan. Their hatred might be a akin to my own displeasure with Tim Pawlenty for introducing and supporting the NextGen Act in MN, which laid the ground work for a moratorium on coal-fired power plants in ND to sell to MN even if the plants were zero-emission. Sometimes these polticians try to appear more conservative than their policies portray them.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2010/02/ron-paul-wins-cpac-presidential-straw-poll/1
actually, it seems romney couldn't get a quarter of the people at cpac to like him, even when everyone polled is a republican. :)
did you watch pawlenty on meet the press yesterday? what a slime ball. i may prefer romney to pawlenty.
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