Mitt Romney made a bold prediction yesterday, which is one year to the day that the 2012 election will be held.
"Mitt is It," he predicts the headlines will read.
“You turn on your TV about a year from now and instead of seeing the Obama camp celebrating, you’ll see something on your TV that says, ‘Mitt Is It,’” Romney said to laughter and applause from more than 150 supporters inside a sheet metal manufacturing in this eastern Iowa city.
Conservative columnist Erick Erickson and a respected voice in the conservative community says not so fast Mitt. Erickson believes that Romney will be the nominee. Next he believes that Romney cannot defeat President Obama.
Erickson goes through the list of Republican candidates and explains why it won't be Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, or Herman Cain. He forcefully argues that it will be Romney and he doesn't like it one bit. Erickson acknowledges the difficulty of defeating an incumbent. And that Romney is not the one to do it because of his flip-floppiness, the lack of principles and lack of passion for anything. The usual Romney criticism. The most compelling thing is that despite what Mitt says, "Mitt is not it."
Mitt Romney, on the other hand, is a man devoid of any principles other than getting himself elected. As much as the American public does not like Barack Obama, they loath a man so fueled with ambition that he will say or do anything to get himself elected. Mitt Romney is that man.
I’ve been reading the 200 pages of single spaced opposition research from the John McCain campaign on Mitt Romney. There is no issue I can find on which Mitt Romney has not taken both sides. He is neither liberal nor conservative. He is simply unprincipled. The man has no core beliefs other than in himself. You want him to be tough? He’ll be tough. You want him to be sensitive? He’ll be sensitive. You want him to be for killing the unborn? He’ll go all in on abortion rights until he wants to run for an office where it is not in his advantage.
Along the way, he’ll drop lots of coin to grease the skids for himself. Mitt Romney is the silly putty of politicians — press on him real hard and he’ll take on whatever image you press into him until the next group starts pressing.
Erickson argues that Jon Huntsman deserves another look.
I’m starting to think I need to walk it back on my rejection of Jon Huntsman. Because I’m starting to think even he would be more faithful in his conservative convictions than Mitt Romney.
I actually agree with Erickson that of all the candidates in the Republican field, Jon Huntsman is probably the most palatable candidate to me. He is well-spoken, has good ideas, he is not scary, great family man. A good candidate who would make a fine President. Huntsman, in my view, stands heads above the field, it is just that most Republicans can't see it.
The Republicans deserve Mitt Romney and they deserve to lose another election to President Barack Obama. But Erick, it is a great thought.
But not this time Erick. I am still with and will remain with President Barack Obama. I agree with you that it will be Mitt Romney and that President Obama will run away with it: again.
Send John Presta an email and your story ideas or suggestions, johnpresta@att.net. John is the author of an award-winning book, the 2010 Winner of the USA National Best Book award for African-American studies, published by The Elevator Group Mr. and Mrs. Grassroots: How Barack Obama, Two Bookstore Owners, and 300 Volunteers did it. Also available an eBook on Amazon. John is also a member of the Society of Midland Authors and is a book reviewer of political books for the New York Journal of Books
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