As I read about Mitt Romney’s comments yesterday agreeing with leftists who promote the thoroughly discredited myth that the planet is undergoing man-made global warming, I could not help but reflect on how the national Republican Party excels at never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
In 2008, the GOP allowed Barack Obama, the most inexperienced and unqualified major-party candidate for president in American history, to run virtually unopposed. The GOP candidate, John McCain, was so far removed from the mainstream conservative values of the Republican Party that he never enjoyed – or deserved – support from his own party, let alone the general electorate. The result was that we elected the most extreme leftist president in history, a president who has imposed such radical and expensive policies on the country that the resulting debt is taking the country toward an utter and irreparable economic collapse.
Given the disastrous and indefensible record of the current president, one would think that the GOP would nominate a well-qualified principled conservative candidate to challenge him. Alas, at this point, the nominal frontrunner is Mitt Romney, a man whose socialized medicine scheme in Massachusetts was the blueprint for the ObamaCare scheme that Americans across-the-board demand be repealed. He’s a man who, as discussed above, buys into the leftists’ man-made global warming nonsense. (In fact, the Earth has cooled every year for the past 13 years.) He’s a man who has changed his position on numerous issues to adapt from a liberal Massachusetts electorate to a right-of-center national electorate. In other words, he is always who he must be to win any given election and therefore is no one at his core.
The Republicans already tried running an unprincipled self-promoting opportunist in 2008 and got the result that it deserved. To paraphrase Albert Einstein, it would be the definition of insanity to nominate the same kind of candidate in 2012 and expect a different result. The key to Republican victory and to repairing the damage done by Obama is not to nominate McCain redux.
