Open The Flood Gates!

After Mitt Romney lost the Florida primary last Tuesday, I was pretty depressed. Months of telling everyone I know what a great president I think Romney would make was not working, as conservatives never flocked to him (I still don't know why). But something strange happened that same day. Notable conservatives all around the country suddenly woke up to the realization that John McCain was poised to take the Republican nomination for president, and the only guy in his way, Mitt Romney, was getting no help from hardly anyone.

That changed, and now long lists of conservatives have endorsed Romney; some will be campaigning for him. Every conservative talk show host, except for one, is backing him and talking up a storm in a frantic effort to get conservatives to stop McCain and get Romney in for the nomination.

The question is, is it too little too late? Romney told bloggers in a conference call this morning that he was in it for the long haul, but if he doesn't do really well on Super Tuesday, it's hard for me to see how this plays out well for him at all. And then what? Now that McCain is the official front-runner, the conservatives on the air and in the blogosphere are pulling out all the old clips, many of which I had forgotten about, demonstrating how McCain is really a Democrat in Republican clothing.

The most devastating of these, it seems to me, and one that Romney's campaign has already started using in an advertisement, is that McCain's people approached John Kerry back in 2004 about switching party affiliation and running with him as V.P. candidate. He's denying this, of course, but that raises another big issue for me: He seems to lie regularly. I have seen him do it a number of times just in this one campaign. Besides his lying about this Kerry debacle, he lied about Romney supposedly supporting a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, which may have helped him win the Florida vote. Also, when asked by a moderator during a debate a few weeks ago, about a comment he made in an interview that he was not well-versed on the economy, he said, "I don't know where you got that," and denied ever saying it, thus dodging the question. He's also lying when he is attacked for his position of voting against President Bush's tax cuts several years ago (one of only 2 Republicans to vote against it. The other, Lincoln Chafee, a RINO if ever there was one, was defeated in the next election, thank Goodness). He now says he voted against them because there were no spending cuts to go along with the tax cuts. But at the time, he said that the reason he rejected them was because the cuts supposedly benefited "the rich" and not the poor. This is textbook liberal class warfare, characteristic of Democrats. But again, the big problem I have is, he's lying about his position, and only liberals should do this.

Can he be stopped? It doesn't look good, but I'm saying a lot of prayers...