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Republican Candidates Are Electable-January 11,2012
The Republican primaries are in full swing. This should be a time when the party is excited about who is going to challenge President Obama this November. Unfortunately, we do not hear the Republican establishment or many conservative pundits discussing the advantages that all of our candidates have over the President. Instead, we simply hear why this guy or that guy can’t win. Supposedly, there is only one candidate that has a chance to defeat the President. If your last name is not Romney, we are told you don’t have a chance.
What we should be hearing is that any of the candidates currently in the race would be better than President Obama. Does each of them have flaws? Of course. They are human. They have made mistakes. They have come to wrong conclusions on various issues. They are not perfect. It is time that we stopped looking for perfection in a candidate. Sure, there will be one that more closely aligns with our view than others do. The important fact is they are all better than Obama.
So why are none of them, other than Romney, considered electable? Newt Gingrich, we are told, is a lifelong politician that has made too many enemies, he took money from Freddie Mac, and he was only a member of the House of Representatives. That last reason was actually put forth by a very popular conservative pundit, who shall remain nameless. It makes me wonder, if your only experience in politics is being a member of the House of Representatives does not qualify you to be President, then why does the Constitution place the Speaker of the House directly behind the Vice-President in the line of succession to the White House? As for Rick Perry, we are told that he is too reminiscent of George W. Bush. Rick Santorum, well, he is way too socially conservative for the precious independents. Ron Paul is simply an idiot (there is no other way to describe a person that thinks Iran having a nuclear weapon is acceptable). Then there is the other guy-who is it? He was a governor and at one time worked for Obama. Oh yeah, Huntsman. As I said, he worked for Obama.
So, yes, our candidates all have flaws. Even Romney, the only one that can supposedly beat Obama, has issues (Romneycare, flip-flopping, self-proclaimed moderate saying he is a conservative).
But let’s look at the remaining candidate in the race. This person brings a four-trillion dollar debt that he has placed on the American people. This person decided that when we lost a spy drone to the Iranians, we should politely ask if they would return it. This person thinks that a government bureaucrat can make better choices about your healthcare than you and you doctor can. This person believes that America does not deserve her superpower status and we have somehow wronged the world be achieving that status. This is just a short list of this candidate’s views and policies. Do you see anything here that can’t be beat by any of the Republicans?
Of course, the above mentioned candidate is the sitting President of the United States. He was the guy that couldn’t beat Hillary, but he did. He couldn’t win because there is no way that America would elect a person that travelled the world apologizing for our greatness, that started his political career in the home of a domestic terrorist, and was only two years removed from being a state senator when he began his run for the presidency. A guy like that couldn’t win, but he did.
So, establishment and pundits, stop telling me why nobody can beat Obama. Tell me why each one can. Let the candidates do their job and tell us why they are a better choice than the others in the field. There has never been a team told all season that they can’t win and then been told right before the big game, “Now go win”, and been able to pull it off. That is the scenario you are creating. If Romney is not the nominee, then we will be told to support a candidate that we’ve been told all along can’t win. And the people telling us to support him will be the same ones that told us the guy couldn’t win in the first place. Our guys can win. That is the message that needs to be trumpeted from the rooftops.