A Lukewarm Endorsement For the Mittster
It seems appropriate that I got “trapped” in the comments section at Captain’s Quarters and couldn’t get out after reading the 200-plus responses to Ed Morrissey’s decision to caucus for Mitt “Earpiece” Romney in the forthcoming Minnesota caucuses. Ed had said previously that he would make no call at all, but in the end explained it had come down to Romney and Rudy Giuliani.
While many commenters applauded The Captain’s about-face, there was the unmistakable feeling that both blogger and readers were trying to put a good face on what in my view is a weak Republican field.
I have an unabiding respect for The Captain although our political twains seldom meet, and it’s obvious that he’s got a whole lot of clout in the right-of-center party of the blogosphere so his endorsement is important. But Romney is such a transparent flip-flopper and latter-day conservative that Ed was left with little to praise him for other than his “executive experience.”
Don’t I recall another presidential candidate saying that he was the man because of his own “executive experience?”
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What the Republicans are going to have to realize is that the current crop of presidential candidates are probably unfit to be dog catcher let alone president. The Republicans would be better off dumping the current group of candidates and starting over instead of deciding who is the least pathetic candiate of the current crop. If the voters want better candidates, they have to stop voting for lousy candidates just because they are on the ballot.
Until the Republicans insist that their candidates have some level of crediblity on the issues that are important to conservatives, their party will continue to collapse.
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Captain Ed seems to have based his choice primarily on executive experience.
George Bush was a governor of Texas for two terms and I think he did a relatively miserable job of managing the Presidency.
I doubt Ed would agree.
Davebo,
Ed doesn't have to agree. It's established fact at this point.
Could we end the “There was this one (good/bad) candidate that is somewhat superficially similar to today's candidate” thing right here please?
I just don't understand where this respect for Captain's Quarters comes from. Whenever I've checked it out it seems like any other conservative Republican blog. Maybe not quite as whacked out as LGF or Powerlines but not that much different in its Bush worship, either. So far as I've seen, Romney is promising the base to be a good little Bush clone. Has he said anything to counter that view?