Thursday, January 19, 2012

Elite Selecting Nominee

Does anybody else find it strange that forty delegates have been delegated to all of the Republican candidates, yet, Romney has all but secured the nomination?  Two of the smallest states in the United States have cast their ballots and nominated a candidate without the rest of the country even having a say. This is ridiculous that the American populace has such a small say in the nomination process. Maybe, this is why we always get stuck with candidates that nobody wants to vote for. Most Republicans just have to grit their teeth when they go to the voting booth, accepting a nominee that they normally would never support, nor agree with most of the candidates views on important issues. 2012 presidential election will not be any different than 2008 was when Republicans had a closet Democrat as their candidate. Romney does not agree with the conservative ideology but the majority of those who will elect him in November are self-identified conservatives. So that means that those who elect him will disagree with him almost as much as they disagreed with Obama. For once I want to be excited when I vote. I want to believe that the candidate that I vote for understands and identifies with my political philosophy. However, I am conservative and the media, and the nation's elite tell me and all those that believe as I do that our candidate wouldn't appeal to a national audience. Instead, they believe that one who identifies with Independents is the way the party should move. Yet, each election the American people tell them the exact opposite. Independents are people who refuse to stand on core beliefs and instead decide to be the guy in the middle who instead of a yes or no answer, says maybe instead. Is this what we want the Republican party to become? A party of people who don't even know what they stand for. Just don't expect a two term president. Come 2016 Romney will be thrown out of office because he never had a core base to begin with and we will have to endure another Democrat who will be just as far left as Obama was. All because the Republican party decides the majority don't count and the minority should have all the power because of an outdated caucus that shouldn't even still exist and a state that can't even be found on a map of the United States.  

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