I’ve watched with keen interest since Iowa as the so called “enlightened” in the Republican establishment have told us that Mitt Romney is “the most electable” in the general election to beat Obama.  So let us reflect for a moment at the times that the Republican establishment has been right about who’s electable and who’s not…

2008 John McCain – Uh no guess not, with all due respect to McCain’s service to our great country he is just not a leader that Republicans want.

2000 John McCain – See above.

1996 Bob Dole – Again another great man who has served his country well but is not viewed as a conservative.

1992 George HW Bush – Yes I include Bush 41 on this list and the reason being is that in 1988 he ran and was elected largely on Reagan’s coat tails and then spent the next four years as a moderate on domestic issues and was ousted for it in 1992 when he had to run on his own record.

1976 Gerald Ford – Its interesting to note that Ford never won even a statewide election in his political career.  He was elected to the House of Representatives thirteen times but passed up chances to run for the Senate or run for Governor in his native Michigan.  Interesting to note that the Republican establishment chose Ford over Reagan in 1976 leading to its doom and four years of Jimmy Carter.

Not exactly a track record to run on…

Why the history lesson you ask?  Well this year the mainstream media and the unions need to do more work than usual to get Obama re-elected.  Obama’s record is so bad it almost makes the Carter years look like the golden age, in addition to that you have clear and blatant corruption that makes Clinton and Nixon look honest.  Obama doesn’t have a single issue he can successfully run on so when that happens you have to marginalize your competition.  Obama needs to run against Mitt Romney because he knows that conservatives won’t support a Northeast Liberal like Romney, Romney is nothing more than the modern day Bob Dole or the 2012 version of John McCain.

Obama’s greatest fear is that he has to run against a conservative that is a solid debater and someone that can communicate effectively.  Insert Newt Gingrich, now we are aware of Newt’s baggage but you have to admit that he is a solid communicator that makes debates interesting and he would eat Obama for lunch in a debate.  This strikes fear in two groups of people, first the left.  Obama, the media, and the unions can’t afford to have a solid conservative running against Obama in November.  The second group is the blue blood republicans.  Those people that are supposedly the pillars of republican wisdom who don’t want the Reagan conservatives thinking they control this party. 

So while the establishment tries to ram Romney down our throats I remember something I learned from Rush Limbaugh a long time ago.  Conservatism works every time its tried…

It is truly amazing how far we have come in terms of leadership in this country.  With this oil spill now going on 50+ days its interesting to compare how our two most recent presidents have handled crisis.  While Obama wanders aimlessly around the gulf looking for someone’s ass to kick in his own backyard George W. Bush was kicking the Taliban’s ass up one side of Afghanistan and down the other within 50 days of September 11, 2001.

Obama runs around looking for a BP executive to lynch and while there is certainly enough blame to go around, including officials within the Department of the Interior, that’s not fixing the problem.  Where has all this government regulation landed us?  Our tax dollars are funding departments like the Interior and we still get oil washing up on beaches?  This isn’t supposed to happen with all the government oversight, this isn’t supposed to happen while Obama is president.  He cares, remember?  These things are supposed to magically go away I thought.

Smelling blood in the water Mitt Romney goes around telling the media we need a leader not a politician.  We couldn’t agree more, but we also need a leader and not an ambulance chasing opportunist like Romney.