{"id":33332,"date":"2012-01-27T08:26:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T15:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=33332"},"modified":"2012-01-27T08:26:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T15:26:36","slug":"so-for-all-you-who-tell-me-its-my-duty-to-vote-for-mitt-romney-should-he-win-the-gop-nomination-if-only-to-unseat-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=33332","title":{"rendered":"So. For all you who tell me it’s my duty to vote for Mitt Romney, should he win the GOP nomination, if only to unseat Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"

— I’m curious why you’d expect me to reward a candidate who, in every election cycle, uses his money and his surrogates and sycophants to level insidious attacks against his opponents — not on the substance of their ideas, but rather in an attempt to smear them personally and, frankly, to ruin them. (The tell came last evening when Romney suggested to Wolf Blitzer that, in fact, Gingrich had indeed used a certain phrase, making his attack valid even if the phrase was taken completely out of context, and he knew it to be out of context<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

Watching the “pragmatic” center-right electability-jackals go after Newt Gingrich the last couple days — in a concentrated, concerted, and organized way — suggests to me that the establishment sector of “our” movement has adopted the worst tactics of the left, which it will use, amazingly, only against those to their right<\/i>.<\/p>\n

That is, these “pragmatists” are willing to smear and demonize conservatives (while pretending to define contemporary conservatism, in that way moving it leftward), and yet they make it their mission to woo the moderates and independents with pleasing panders and populist pablum.<\/p>\n

And for this they deserve my vote? <\/p>\n

Sorry, but that’s how Obama made his political bones. And I’ll be damned if I’m going to support that kind of behavior just because those reveling in it wear flag lapel pins and check R on their voter registration forms.<\/p>\n

In fact, I hope they fail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— I’m curious why you’d expect me to reward a candidate who, in every election cycle, uses his money and his surrogates and sycophants to level insidious attacks against his opponents — not on the substance of their ideas, but rather in an attempt to smear them personally and, frankly, to ruin them. (The tell came last evening when Romney suggested to Wolf Blitzer that, in fact, Gingrich had indeed<\/p>\n

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