2008 Redux or Shaking the Romney Jitters

Published on September 11, 2012

The feeling is unmistakable, the sinking sense in the pit of my conservative stomach that keeps saying, “this feels like 2008, Obama is going to win, we have another McCain on our hands.” It is like the last thirty-eight seconds of the fourth quarter in a close football game. Our team is down, inches matter and a long-shot just might deliver the goods. The seconds may also pass by leaving us to deal with a crushing defeat.

Can we win this election? I am not so sure. Do I trust the media? Hell no. I do trust my gut and like many conservatives it is telling me things don’t feel so good right now.

Romney is making conservatives jittery. He wasn’t our choice, many largely don’t know how we got here, yet we all know that right now, we will take any win we can get. The Massachusetts governor isn’t the best vessel to carry our conservative ideology. It is, what it is.

Many will write in the coming days about what he needs to do to win. I don’t have a suggestion because I don’t know. We have a president who is a failure, an economy heading for a fiscal cliff and a lack of leadership on defense. Yet the opposition hasn’t really been much of an opposition so why would people jump ship now?

There is the old saying, don’t change horses in mid stream. I have a rebuttal, if the horse you rode in in drowned a long time ago, consider a new horse, any horse will do.

I don’t know what Mitt should do, I only know he should do something. He is the quarterback and the clock is ticking. Like football, these final weeks may be a game of inches but it doesn’t matter if we are miles behind.

We need something, anything, before this all slips away. Something to calm the jitters and give us hope that the last four years of fighting, of tea parties and mid-term organizing wasn’t done to bring another loser to the stage.

RaDena Zeredy

What to say??? You feel like I do. I’m utterly terrified at the thought of another four years of Obama! Just think what he can do in another four years! Will there be anything remotely resembling America left?
overandone

Again the president gives Mitt a well deserved a public spanking. Romney shows himself as a pretender not a contender, and has not been taken seriously by thinking voters from day one,
Much of what a president does is react, to lies, to natural disasters, to geopolitical events with often catastrophic repercussions, to political traps engineered to offer a no win choice. How a president reacts to these situations that occur often hourly requires a deep understanding of the ramifications of his decision, and the limits on what he/she can control.
The president has shown himself up to the task from when candidate Obama aided the Bush administration in applying a tourniquet to an economy bleeding out, As president to the assist auto industry, to the elimination of the 911 master minds and leadership of enemy factions, To exacting record compensations for victims of the BP disaster,to saving hostages off the coast of Somalia, to risk political ruin to what was right for Americans depending on safety net programs. On and on the list of leadership decisions Obama has made with a cool and steady and informed hand.
Romney on the other hand has boxed himself into a corner on everything form drawing first blood with lying political adds (if we talk about the economy we’ll loose) to getting in bed with birthers like trump, to declining to man up to Rush and company over Sandra Fluke slut comment, to allowing an American soldier to be booed at a GOP Debate, to his latest display of disregard for America by trying to one up and put down our president on a serious foreign policy issue, aligning himself as a protector of Terry Jones and a convict who denigrate the religion of nearly a quarter of the world, To trying to score points standing on the body of a fallen American diplomat.
Like in business he seeks to take advantage of any perceived weakness for his own gain, willing to twist the rules of even christian civility regardless of the consequences. His disrespect for the office he seeks alone disqualifies him in my estimation for the job.