I listen to what Charles Krauthammer says on FoxNews, and I read his editorials. Mr. Krauthammer is a very smart man. He should be. He's got more degrees than a thermometer, plus other assorted titles, like... 'doctor'. His education was won at a time when being educated actually had value and meant something. Not like now, with phony degrees being 'sold' to phony students.
But I digress. In his December 1 column (you can go to 'THE DRUDGE REPORT" and scroll down to the contributor's links and click on his name) Krauthammer details the 'problems' that the Republican voters are being faced with while selecting "their" candidate, their 'gladiator', to fight Obama and what appears to be the rest of the world (opinion, though that's changing).
To sum up Krauthammer, we are being forced to choose one of two much flawed conservative candidates.
For me, the Krauthammer article was enlightening. I always defined myself as a Conservative, but do not consider myself a far right wing Conservative. Jokers like Carter and Obama have forced me further to the right due to their psychotic terms in office, but I feel more comfortable being between the 20 and 50' Conservative 'yard lines', so to speak.
Krauthammer's article nudged me closer to Romney, but I have to say: Somebody needs to grab that guy by the shirt collars and shake him up. Romney has to drop the arrogance of defending his past. It's simple. Since Romney CHOSE to run as a Republican, he has to loudly remove himself from his past. I won't even add "mistakes". Romney's past catered to centrist and liberal voters in a centrist/liberal part of the country. OK, we know that. Now we must hear that 'OOPS" directly from Romney. Hopefully we all change over time. Romney can take charge by putting his past on the table, showing how and why he 'changed' into a more conservative person, define his conservatism, maybe saying his conservative beliefs lie around the proverbial right wing '30 yard line'. He can act flustered about the constant assault on his past, but he must counter with his positive conservative solutions for our future. At the very least, he'd be diffusing all the political left-wing nut rhetoric against him.
Romney must begin sounding presidential. He's running out of time. When he snipes at journalists like Brett Baier, who is only trying to help Romney over this "past" hump, he looks more like Obama, arrogant to a fault, than a Conservative candidate for the United States presidency.
If Romney remains to arrogant or self-contained to get real with his conservative voting base, I'm for choosing Rick Santorum. He may look like a book-worm, but he's more gladiator inside that either Newt or Mitt.
God Bless America! God Save America! God...please wake up Europe...!
But I digress. In his December 1 column (you can go to 'THE DRUDGE REPORT" and scroll down to the contributor's links and click on his name) Krauthammer details the 'problems' that the Republican voters are being faced with while selecting "their" candidate, their 'gladiator', to fight Obama and what appears to be the rest of the world (opinion, though that's changing).
To sum up Krauthammer, we are being forced to choose one of two much flawed conservative candidates.
For me, the Krauthammer article was enlightening. I always defined myself as a Conservative, but do not consider myself a far right wing Conservative. Jokers like Carter and Obama have forced me further to the right due to their psychotic terms in office, but I feel more comfortable being between the 20 and 50' Conservative 'yard lines', so to speak.
Krauthammer's article nudged me closer to Romney, but I have to say: Somebody needs to grab that guy by the shirt collars and shake him up. Romney has to drop the arrogance of defending his past. It's simple. Since Romney CHOSE to run as a Republican, he has to loudly remove himself from his past. I won't even add "mistakes". Romney's past catered to centrist and liberal voters in a centrist/liberal part of the country. OK, we know that. Now we must hear that 'OOPS" directly from Romney. Hopefully we all change over time. Romney can take charge by putting his past on the table, showing how and why he 'changed' into a more conservative person, define his conservatism, maybe saying his conservative beliefs lie around the proverbial right wing '30 yard line'. He can act flustered about the constant assault on his past, but he must counter with his positive conservative solutions for our future. At the very least, he'd be diffusing all the political left-wing nut rhetoric against him.
Romney must begin sounding presidential. He's running out of time. When he snipes at journalists like Brett Baier, who is only trying to help Romney over this "past" hump, he looks more like Obama, arrogant to a fault, than a Conservative candidate for the United States presidency.
If Romney remains to arrogant or self-contained to get real with his conservative voting base, I'm for choosing Rick Santorum. He may look like a book-worm, but he's more gladiator inside that either Newt or Mitt.
God Bless America! God Save America! God...please wake up Europe...!
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