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Redstate
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By Erick Erickson
November 12th, 2012
For five years I have consistently maintained that Mitt Romney could
not be elected President of the United States. The only thing that
changed was Barack Obama’s terrible debate performance and I made the
unfortunate mistake of going with the herd toward “he can win now.” A
year ago — to be precise, November 8th of last year — I wrote that Mitt
Romney would be the nominee, conservatism would die, and Barack Obama
would win. Regrettably, I told you so.
As I wrote would happen, Mitt Romney tried to blur lines with Barack
Obama. He did not defend social conservatism, but let those attacks go
unanswered. He did not articulate strong fiscal conservatism and he
never repudiated Romneycare, thereby failing to make any credible
attacks on Obamacare.
Conservatives and conservative institutions who embraced him early on
are now scrambling to make excuses. They were so invested in a failure
they cannot bring themselves to admit Mitt Romney and his campaign were
failures. They were, to Republicans, what green energy is to Barack
Obama.
Because these conservatives cannot accept that they were wrong, they
must conclude that conservatism itself is somehow broken.
The darndest thing is I’m listening to all this handwringing and most
of it is coming from a lot of people who’ve never really been
conservative or supported conservatism. These people hated our ideas
and values when we were winning and now choose this opportunity to sell
us out the way they’ve always wanted. The conservative herd is headed
off a cliff led by a consultant class that would otherwise now be
swimming in pools full of dollar bills like Scrooge McDuck.
Read the rest of the article at Redstate
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