The 2008 GOP Field Need Not Apply in 2012
Posted by KingShamus on December 31, 2010
My blog-homie Annoy The Left returns from hiatus with a warning:
Dear Republican Party,
If you nominate Mike Huckabee or Mitt Romney in 2012 I will officially disown you. I will disregard all warnings against supporting a third party. I will throw all the weight I have behind the most conservative, probably Libertarian, candidate that I can find and I’ll drag as many voters with me as I can muster. I can assure you that I won’t be the only one to do this.
Nailed it.
In fact, none of the GOP candidates who ran in 2008 need to even bother. They all suck.
Fred Thompson: Right on the issues, wrong on nap-time.
Ron Paul: Has intelligent ideas about fiscal policy, but can the GOP expect to win with a dude over three quarters of a century old against the relatively youthful Obama?
Duncan Hunter: Cool dude. Not bad on any big domestic or foreign issue. The trouble is that the guy has absolutely no pizzazz. That a smart, reasonable and competent man like Hunter is too boring to get elected says something pretty bad about the American electorate, but that’s the reality of the situation.
Rudy Giuliani: Oh Lord. Pro-abortion, anti-Second Amendment and during the campaign he couldn’t get out of his own way. The ‘Wait till Florida to compete’ primary strategy will go down as one of the spectacularly bone-headed political moves in the history of politics.
John McCain: The GOP base can barely stand the guy being a Senator in Arizona. The Republican rank-n-file sat on their hands when he ran the ‘Let’s Be Nice To Barack’ campaign in 2008. They’ll do the same in 2012. Oh yeah, he was BFF’s with John the Baptist and had a doe-eyed crush on Catherine The Great when they both had 5th period chemistry in high school.
Mitt Romney: ObamaCare is basically RomneyCare writ large. America shouldn’t have to choose between a Republican liberal and Donkey-Puncher liberal. Also, Romney is a bloodless technocrat who has a very iffy relationship to the pro-life cause. He’d be the perfect CEO of an advertising firm in 1960.
Mike Huckabee: He’s a clever fellow who’s quick with a joke. He’s also the second coming of compassionate conservatism. Go to the back of the short bus, sit down and shut the hell up.
So I’ll go one better than Annoy The Left. If the GOP nominates any of those 2008 clowns, I’m tapping the fuck out on the Republican Party. Not only that, I’ll use this rinky-dink blog to convince anybody and everybody I can to vote for an independent in 2012.
I really don’t want Barack Obama to be president anymore. He makes Jimmy Carter seem like a genius. Unfortunately we have to wait till 2012 to unelect the Teleprompter-Reader In Chief. None of last election’s GOP candidates have a Detroit Lions’ prayer of beating the President. That means I refuse to be part of any dumb-shit quixotic campaign that’s doomed to fail. Just because the homeboy running against Obamster happens to have an ‘R’ behind his name doesn’t mean I have to jump on board a ship with more holes in it than the golf course at Pebble Beach.
Conservatives on Fire said
You’ll get no argument from me. Our candidate must have at least these two qualifications: 1. Must be a true conservative and “. Must be electable not only to conservatives but to many moderates as well.
Matt said
I’m with you on that. If the GOP establishment gives us a RINO, we’ll have to look elsewhere, as sad as it is. We’ll have to make a big impact on the ground in 2012.
bunkerville said
Hmm.This is where the rubber meets the road… and the Candidate is…?????? This is our freakin problem. Looking, looking…..
Infidel de Manahatta said
If the Republicans are stupid enough to nominate any of these people then perhaps it’s time for the Republicans to go the way of the Whig party.
Karen Howes said
I’m with you (and ATL) when you say that we can’t– MUSTN’t– settle for Republicrats.
If the Republicans cannot take care of bidness, then it’s time to form another one. That’s how we got rid of slavery back in the 1860′s– we formed the Republican Party and nominated Lincoln.
The Republicans are the new Whigs.
John Carey said
I agree. I’m tired of all these RINOs that the establishment and media pretty much pick for us to choose from. We need a strong conservative period. I’m not sure who that is yet. But I’m with you, I’ll vote libertarian if the republicans don’t offer me a strong conservative choice.
annoytheleft said
You do me a great honor, sir.
Too few, though none among your readership I’m sure, will fully appreciate the depth of the insult in the phrase “makes Jimmy Carter seem like a genius.” But I do, my friend. I do.
Trestin Meacham said
I could go for Ron Paul maybe a couple other, but for the most part the GOP fields looks lame.
KingShamus said
CoF: It’s amazing how often the GOP puts rule 2 before rule 1.
Matt: Exactly. We need an Operation Chaos–a big mobilization of our side–for the GOP in 2012.
Bunkerville: I know what you’re saying. We’re sorta waiting for Superman here.
Infidel: I am utterly wedded to conservative principles. I’m totally cool with divorcing the GOP and not paying child support for their sorry asses if they fuck up 2012.
Karen: Agreed on every point.
John: Yeah, I dunno who the best GOP nominee will be. I do know what I don’t want, and that’s a useless douchedrinking RINO.
ATL: You do me a great honor by writing a strong post that I had to steal.
Trestin: See if Ron Paul were 20 years younger and a little better on foreign policy stuff, I could easily vote for him. But unfortunately his age pretty much disqualifies him in my mind.
MK said
How about John Bolton for president?
KingShamus said
MK: Now that might be a very interesting nominee. I love the guy’s foreign political positions, especially the fact that he recognizes just how retarded the UN really is.