Mitt Romney Is Gerald Ford II
by
Christopher Manion
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The Mitt
Romney nomination reminds me of the 1976 convention that nominated
Gerald Ford. Back then, FordÂ’s fixers (Dick Cheney and James
Baker III) did everything
they could to eviscerate Governor ReaganÂ’s supporters
at the 1976 RNC – and then tried to “reunite” the
GOP and try to recoup the Reagan supporters they had alienated,
all to no avail.
It failed
because it was sheer pretense, disingenuous on its face. Baker
and his sidekick, David Gergen, hated conservatives as much as
Ford hated Reagan. They hated especially the millions of “blue
collar” Democrats who came to provide the backbone of the
“social conservatives” that supplied Reagan’s winning
margins in 1980 and 1984.
Ford was
adamant and unrepentant about his loyalty to the Rockefeller-Bush
establishment. He bragged in the 1990s that his proudest accomplishment
was the appointment of Supreme Court Justice Stevens, who quickly
became a left-wing stalwart on the court, to be joined there by
George H.W. Bush appointee David Souter in 1990. Time after time,
the GOP Hot-Tubbers have lied to traditional conservatives, gotten
their votes, and then betrayed
them.
I donÂ’t
blame Ron Paul for demurring when asked to endorse Romney. Old-time
Goldwater conservatives like me who support the good doctor have
been betrayed all too many times by the GOP establishmentÂ’s
lip service. The “Cloud” doesnÂ’t have enough storage
space to hold all the lies, and I admire the Ron Paul delegates
for not believing them.
Romney has
hired virtually all of George W. BushÂ’s disaster-ridden foreign
policy cadre. They hate Ron Paul, and they hate us, for exposing
their failures, for drawing back the curtain on their murderous
plunder, and for puncturing their pious patriotic palaver to reveal
its mordant mendacity. With them in charge, are we to believe
that a President Romney would be a man of peace and freedom? Remember,
they always lie, and they never, ever apologize.
August
31, 2012
Christopher
Manion [send him mail]
is a columnist for The
Wanderer, America’s oldest independent Catholic newspaper,
founded in 1868. He is president of Manion
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