Sitting on the floor of the Arizona Republican convention, we have a sick feeling in our stomachs. Everyone in this room wants to defeat Barack Obama, but divisions are deep, and much work needs to be done to heal the wounds.
Early in the day, we heard a series of speeches from Arizona and GOP luminaries. Despite being united in purpose, the catcalls, boos, and jeers are easily heard over the tepid applause.
Mitt Romney’s third son, Josh, took the podium and offered inevitability. He said, “my Dad realized he would be the next president the Rick Santorum called him to say he was suspending his campaign.” He acknowledged the other candidates, and when he offered kind words about Ron Paul, the room erupted in cheers.
Next up, the Ron Paul campaign appointed a local GOP leader named Sydney Hay to speak. She talked about the US Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. She seemed to understand Paul’s underdog status, but the Paul supporters cheered her wildly.
The Romney supporters were much more polite; they didn’t jeer the way the Paul crowd jeered Romney supporters.
Listening to the cheers and jeers, the energy in this hall is with Paul, but the majority of delegates are clearly with Romney.
So why is there less energy for the front-runner and presumptive nominee, Mitt Romney?
We decided to ask some of the delegates why. Here is what we heard from the respective campaigns’ delegates:
“Ron Paul wants to follow the US Constitution; Mitt Romney supports the unconstitutional bailouts of the banks.”
“Mitt Romney is the most qualified, he has run businesses, he has run the the Olympics, and he can run the government.”
“Ron Paul is against NDAA, the bill which allows for the arrest and imprisonment of Americans without trial, and Mitt Romney supports the NDAA.”
“Mitt Romney will enforce our immigration laws; Ron Paul will let people cross the border.”
“Ron Paul is a Christian, and Mitt Romney isn’t.”
“Mitt Romney can win, and we will appoint conservatives to the Supreme Court.”
Romney garnered 47 percent of the votes in Arizona’s primary, and Ron Paul only received 8 percent, but because of this enthusiasm gap, the Paul supporters are making the delegate campaigns a close race.
Our own belief is that if Romney wants to run away with this race, he should not be moving to the middle so quickly.
When Barack Obama endorsed homosexual marriage this week, Romney responded by affirming traditional marriage, but then he undercut his own message by endorsing homosexual adoption. This type of “splitting the baby” approach to issues is alienating the conservative GOP base he needs to work hard for his campaign.
Romney will never get the homosexual vote, so why try to placate them by endorsing adoption into untraditional families?
Mitt Romney needs to sound a clear message and not fear the media. He needs to stand on conservative principle.
In this regard, he could learn much from Ron Paul. He would do well to choose Senator Rand Paul, Ron’s son, as his running mate this fall. It would show that he hears the voices of those yearning for a candidate that stands firmly by the US Constitution, and it just might bring some enthusiasm to his campaign.
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He is our best alternative. An Honest person
If you want the “lesser of two evils”, “unite” under romney.
If you want somebody who is not just like obama, vote for Ron Paul!
Between Obama and Romney we have only the choice between OBAMA and OBAMA Lite! They’re both controlled by the PTB (powers-that-be / establishment) as is our media both claimed liberal and conservative. With the “news heads” it’s not only what they say but what they don’t say. Ron Paul has far more support than reported. The “establishment” Republicans are headed into meltdown with their improper actions such as their willful violation of RNC Rule 11 in North Carolina which forbids support any one candidate in a contested race before the conclusion of the primary election. That willful violation of Rule 11 would also prevent Romney from being the NC GOP nominee if they actually abide by their OW
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If you want to restore our Republic and our freedom then Ron Paul is the only MAN to do it. With Romney it’s just another giant step further down the road to the New World Order.
Sadly Romney is no Ronald Reagan. I don’t trust him; I don’t think most of us do. He is not as bad as McCain. He is not the principled individual that Reagan was; he is not the untrustworthy turncoat that McCain is, a real RINO. Bottom line is we must get the foreign-born unAmerican antiAmerican communist muslim queer freak named obongo out of our government, and maybe even out of our country.
Romney is just a long time member of the Bush cabal and so is just another a minion of the New World Order. ALL of the candidates who entered the race and then dropped out are also connected to the PTB (powers-that-be) as is Romney. The exception, and who is STILL IN THE RACE, … is RON PAUL!.
The CHOICE: OBAMA or OBAMA-Lite and NWO totalitarianism or RON PAUL and the restoration of our Republic and our freedoms.
I agree that Romney’s endorsement of homosexual adoption is an attempt to placate his comments regarding homosexual marriage. Romney is also on record as saying he will not overturn the serving of open homosexuality in the Armed Forces. We probably have the worse or the worse to run against obama, and if obama wasn’t so unpopular Romney would not stand a chance. A vote for Romney is really a vote against obama and not for Romney. It is more important than ever that conservatives gain firm control of the Senate and the House.
I agree that the choice that the PTB (powers-that-be) are “trying to give us” is the choice between OBAMA and OBAMA Lite …. but we actually DO have another choice: That CHOICE is RON PAUL! … the ONLY REAL choice for America and her people!
There is no reason w voting person HAS to vote for the lessor of 2 evils. A person ahe the right to write in Ron Paul for President. Myself I have to vote for the man I think is best for the job Ron Paul has always been and can be proved to be honest. You can look into Ron’s past and see more good he has done. Romney cannot hold a candle tp Paul when it comes to integrity and honesty. Prove me wrong!
I my above comment my fingers were not cooperating with my brain. lol
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Vote against Obama, simply.
Calling Romney a conservative is to insult conservatives throughout the nation. His Mass. record says it all, beginning with his eager embrace of the state’s assault weapons ban, something he worked very hard to implement. The guy is a pure-bred phony. It’s just another case of Republicans settling for something preferable to the reigning Democrat.
And THAT of course gave us Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Arlen Specter, Juan McCain, Richard Lugar—the list is endless.