Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Milton Wolf comments on the Lugar defeat


Here's what I wrote in my last Washington Times column, Romney Revolution:
Democrats didn’t understand the Tea Party movement in 2010, and they don’t understand it now. That’s fine. They suffered historic losses because of their blissful ignorance, and they will do so again. The more interesting question is whether the Republicans understand.
I (presciently? brilliantly? fortuitously?) continued...
The Tea Party, it’s important to realize, will not simply get in line with Republicans. Its members are prepared to be Mitt Romney’s best friend, or his worst enemy. Just ask former Utah Sen. Robert Bennett or former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, Republicans whose careers ended abruptly at the hands of the Tea Party. There is, as author and blogger Glenn Reynolds said in the title of his book, “An Army of Davids” who yearn to breathe free and simply have run out of patience with politicians of either party who think otherwise.

Gone are the days of the blank check. Republicans, before the Tea Party, gave President George W. Bush a blank check, and he gave us “no bureaucrat left behind” and the largest expansion of Medicare in the history of the program. Mr. Bush’s blank check also gave us Mr. Obama, then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and with them the rise of the government-centered society that puts us on the path to becoming a second-rate, European-style social welfare state.

Tea Party members will pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to restoring our republic, but they will not give President Mitt Romney a blank check
Add Richard Lugar to that list.

6 comments:

  1. When Romney's elected (I believe he will be) we shall have to go after him hammer and tong in a probable in vain effort to stave off catastrophe.

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  2. " He understands this, and it is for this reason that the Romney Revolution is poised to restore America to greatness."

    There is no Romney Revolution, and Romneybama and his coterie are not poised to restore anything. They are socialists, just like Obama. Trojan Horse, anyone? Remember Shrub and his campaign of 'no foreign intervention, limited government, no "nation building", and all that jazz'?

    I would rather vote for Obama than Romney. At least that way, we can get it over with quick.

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  3. we shall have to go after him hammer and tong in a probable in vain effort to stave off catastrophe.

    At least he may listen to reason, not so our avowed Marxist.

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    1. That's part of the problem. Just because conservatives want a return to founding principles doesn't mean we have to be reasonable about it. Reasonableness is very much a subjective quality, I'm sure #OccupyResoluteDesk believes he's reasonable and we are not, from his flawed perspective he's absolutely correct.

      http://randomthoughtsandguns.blogspot.com/2012/04/freedom-unreasonable-freedom.html

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  4. A good blogger. Has one out on condition 3 carry today.

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