If you’re running for Governor in a liberal state, you have to very craftily hide your conservatism — a savvy political posture that includes, incidentally, a willingness to govern as a kind of moderate / progressive Republican who is able to collaborate successfully with Ted Kennedy on creating a system for state run health care — if only to make sure that no one in the state ever knows just what a rock-ribbed conservative you are until it’s time to run for the presidency.
And Mitt Romney made that sacrifice for the conservative cause.
If you had any political sense you’d recognize the genius of this, insofar as it means Romney will be in position to appeal to moderates and independents — and then, by carefully governing as a centrist President, he’ll carry forth the torch for conservatism by sneaking into a second term, at which point he’ll continue governing as a moderate so that the people he’s fooled never even know that they were duped into electing a hard-core conservative stalwart!
It’s genius, frankly. And if you Hobbits could only recognize that genius, you’d shut up and fall in line and get behind the last best hope for conservatism, who in the case of Mitt Romney is readily identified by a calculated desire on his part not to appear very conservative, and by an even more striking willingness not to govern conservatively, if only to complete the ruse!
Since we’re hobbits, I guess that makes Obama Sauron, and Romney, Saruman, right?
I’m thinking more like Sharkey and pimple-face m’self.
re: the video. Romney looks like the most douch-y when he’s describing his belief in man-made global warming. But the part where they cut to Obama talking about “dumping handguns into vulnerable communities” — lol that was funny. Because mexico isn’t a vulnerable community
@Ernst – heh, even better.
Freakin’ Bay-State Demopublican.
I’m pretty sure Soros called dibs on Sauron. And even that is assuming we live in a post-Morgoth environment.
Michael Moore is totally the Balrog. You know it’s true.
“You cannot pass — up this ginormous plate of Twinkies® smothered in hot fudge!”
Nah, Michael Moore is Shelob. Fat, smelly, and full of nasty poison.
Where’s Tom Bombadil when you need him?
Where’s Tom? Chillaxin’ near the Barrow Downs, shuckin’ off those yellow boots and puttin’ it to Goldberry, the hottest piece of trim in the Old Forest.
Good call, Darth. I can’t believe I blew that one so badly.
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