Patrick Ruffini has a poll up asking the Fredheads which candidate will we support if Fred drops out of the race and since he didn’t list Fred Thompson, I chose Romney 🙂 Romney is currently winning the poll by a wide margin. He has 73%!
I choose Romney because even though he is a serial flip-flopper and Clinton, Kerry and Gore all rolled up into one candidate, Huckabee has his own set of problems including flip-flopping. I believe that we can’t afford another “compassionate conservative” in the White House. The conservative movement has lost it’s way and we don’t need to have it be further co-oped by those who don’t understand that conservatism is already compassionate at it’s core. Promoting class warfare creates strife and resentment and what we need is a message of unity and hope. And no I don’t think Romney will be the candidate who will unite this party behind our core principles but I know that Huckabee won’t. But at least Romney isn’t bringing division to the party the way the Huckabee is and he isn’t offering a new brand of conservatism and his campaign manager (or whatever position Ed Rollins holds) isn’t out to destroy the Reagan coalition.
OK, so do we really want a candidate who pits the poor and middle class against the rich and their boss (“do you to elect the guy that fired you…”) and who excludes everyone who “doesn’t speak the language of Zion” from his campaign running as our party’s spokesman in November. Does this really sound like the conservative message?
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