Daily Archives: April 6, 2012

It’s time to invoke Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment

 Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

Okay, so I’m not a Republican but the candidate I will be voting for is. Someone replied to a comment I wrote on brietbart.com which simply said, “ABO” (anyone but Obama). I replied back with the following:

No more anyone’s Butts please. I want people in all elected offices who swear an oath to the U.S. Constitution and the laws of the land to know what they are swearing to and act upon the oath taken.

I’m looking for candidates who have completed and passed their U.S. Constitution and Civics 101 government service prerequisite course work.

Everyone’s butts aside, I will be voting for Romney and no I will not be scrubbing all of the mean things I said about him on my blog nor will I remove my hundreds of comments online questioning whether he is or isn’t a CRINO.

I wanted Newt but I can’t have him; so I’ll back Romney and hope I was wrong about him…horribly wrong. When I look back at my scribblings in 3-4 years — to see just how wrong I was — my face will be adorned with a huge smile while this thought pops in my head; “Dude, we [royal we] are sooo happy your were completely wrong about Romney and his Care.”

Alright, just go with me here for a moment. I’m trying to construct a new political and personal paradigm before November 6, 2012. If it doesn’t work out for me or you then we’ll still have December 21, 2012 to fall back on or off.

Now let’s get back to this reality.

It is time for Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum to fold up their tents and call it a day.

Independents, Conservatives, Republicans, CINOs (Conservatives in name only), CRINOs (Conservative Republicans in name only) and RINOs (Republicans in name only) all need to rally behind Mitt Romney now if they are serious about ousting Barrack Obama from office.

The time has come to end the primary process. The tasks at hand are picking a Vice Presidential candidate, start building the Romney Administration staff and the recruitment of department heads.

There are also Executive Orders to write and departments to eliminate. Time and timing are all important in any campaign. Let us not waste time or miss opportunities by being bogged down in a phase of the process which has already been decided.

We have completed the initial interview process and now it is time for the Republican Party to put its candidate through the final interview process before we the people make the decision to hire Mitt — who’s a proven profit-making executive — or retain our country’s current fiscally challenged executive who keeps betting the people’s monies on failed future technologies.

If I was a venture capitalist — and apparently we all are at this point — I would invest in a proven company with proven technologies administered by a proven management team.

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As the Republican Primary winds down Romney looks for a running mate.

Last November Romney offered up one name as a possible running mate but she was sitting right next to him at the time and she had announced her endorsement of Romney just days before so he may have been under the influence of that afterglow.

“There are probably 15 names of people, including (New Hampshire Sen.) Kelly Ayotte,” Romney said in an interview on Fox News. “I mean, there are terrific Republicans in the Senate, in the House, in governors’ offices.”

Sen. Ayotte is a relative unknown and she hails from a state with only four electoral votes, but with her on his ticket there is a potential for more women to vote for him. For some reason Romney isn’t resonating with women voters. I find that a bit odd because an MIT study shows when a guapo candidate is running for office they usually beat the less guapo candidate.

So, Romney needs a woman who resonates with both men and women or a male running mate who inspires women voters to cast their ballots for the Romney/? ticket.

Other possible female running mates are:

  • Governor South Carolina Nikki Haley — Gov. Haley is currently fighting for her political life in South Carolina.  Republicans and Democrats in S.C. concede they are whispering about the possibility of  her impeachment. Whether anything comes from the actions underway or not Governor Haley’s current situation would weigh too heavily on Romney’s Presidential campaign for him to include her on his ticket. Haley has already said that she isn’t interested in becoming Vice President.
  • Former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin — no word from the former Alaskan Governor but if she decided not to run for the Republican Presidential nomination then why would she accept the VP spot?
  • New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez — the first term governor would probably help Romney attract more Hispanic voters he so desperately needs but her ability to attract the other bloc of voters Romney seems weakest in (women voters) remains unknown.

Other possible running mates being mentioned are:

  • Florida Sen. Marco Rubio says, “I’m not going to be the vice president.”
  • New Jersey Governor Chris Christie — Based on his poll numbers from Monmouth 2/7, Quinnipiac 2/29 and FDU 3/13 polls Christie will not be able to deliver his own state in the general election. If he can’t even deliver his own state then he probably won’t help Romney win the election.
  • Freshman Congressman Allen West (R-Fla.) — Veteran of Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom. Rep. West is a favorite of the Tea Party movement and Republican conservatives.
  • Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) — I like Ryan but he may do more good for the country in his current position as Chairman of the Budget Committee.
  • Ohio Senator Rob Portman — The GOP strategists are pointing to him as the most likely candidate to emerge as Romney’s running mate.
  • Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal — Some are painting Gov. Jindal as less than charismatic but I find that those politicians who speak honestly about problems and who offer up solutions based in reality are very charismatic.  Jindal has been asked to run before and has respectfully declined opting instead to focus on finishing the job he was hired to do in Louisianan.

The most attractive potential running mates (West, Rubio, Martinez, Christie and Haley) suffer from the same disturbing deficiency — they are too early in their head-of-state or national leadership roles for us to properly gauge their abilities to lead our nation.

We have all seen what happens when we elect an inexperienced fast-tracked candidate to our country’s highest office. We made a bad hire in 2008. Most of us don’t want to repeat that experience when we hire our next executive temp worker.