Posted by
Zorro on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:36:11 PM
I, like many of you, would like to have a true conservative in the White House. But I'd rather have a slightly liberal conservatie than an all-out liberal liberal. The central problem with Gingrich is that he has an unshakeable image as a partisan conservative. The very reason we like him is the very reason he would lose a general election. While I don't think we have as much reason to be gloomy as the MSM is saying we do in this coming presidential election, it will be a tough, tough fight. This, quite frankly, is the problem with any other of the people we like so much, like Brownback, Huckabee, Tancredo, and possibly Thompson. Perhaps George Will is right, and if we keep insisting on an obvious and committed conservative, we'll end up with Hillary or Obama in the Whitehouse.
I am cautiously thinking Romney should be it. He's either a moderate conservative (likely), a committed conservative (unlikely), or liberal pretending to be conservative (highly unlikely). The question isn't whether he flip-flops. Wise men flip flop according to their interests. The question is whether he's lying to us outright. I doubt it.