I encourage you to read the entire article by Bret Budowsky at:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Conservative-Crack-Up-by-Br...

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…In the conservative crack-up of 2012 most of their new conservative governors are highly unpopular. They are accused of waging a war against women, abandoned by huge numbers of Hispanics and reduced to hoping America fails economically because they can't handle their nightmare of a successful America under a Democratic president named Obama or Clinton.

No, this is not about race. This is about the thirst for power by the Republican establishment and the angry rage of the conservative right. They hated or held in contempt John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Edward Kennedy. They despised Hillary Clinton. They tried to impeach Bill Clinton in an attempted constitutional coup d'etat. They loathe and despise Al Gore. They attacked the heroism of a war hero, John Kerry, demeaned the heroism of an amputee, Max Cleland, and ridiculed the heroic service of Republican John McCain, whom I publicly defended as aggressively as I defended Kerry and Cleland.

This is Politics 101. Reagan was a large figure who could transcend this. Romney is a small figure who is learning he cannot simultaneously pander to the disparate electorate of a diverse nation, has no vision or values to unite the nation and looks (and is) phony in his constant shape-shifting that has defined his entire career.

George Romney stood up to the beast in his party; Mitt Romney panders to it today, and will betray it tomorrow, while pursuing a Nixonian strategy for the general election that will not work.

What do conservatives stand for today? Read their commentaries and they are dripping with personal invective, derision, anger, rage and at times hatred directed against the president.

They wave the Bible while suggesting that the jobless want to be jobless and the poor want to be poor. They wave the flag while mocking the true American notion of civic respect and tolerance. They wave their angers and their fears like badges of honor. They are surprised when Mitt Romney employs savage Nixonian attacks against fellow Republicans in primaries, that voters think less of all of them. They are bewildered when they oppose pay equity for women, and are accused of waging war against women whose programs they attack and whose fair pay they refuse to champion.

What are conservatives left with, after their crack-up of 2012? They are left with how much they despise the president, and how they will turn back the clock to the good old days of Bush and Cheney.

Ronald Reagan has left the arena; the great conservative voices are gone; the new Nixon will not be enough.




http://www.opednews.com/articles/Conservative-Crack-Up-by-Br...