(Hint: A demagogue who has already changed history)GUEST COLUMN BY GREGG JACKSON + JOHN HASKINS RFFM.org
When Ann Coulter endorsed Mitt Romney she called the former Massachusetts governor “manifestly our best candidate” — though the paper for which she is “chief legal correspondent,” Human Events, ranked Romney the #8 RINO (Republican In Name Only) in the nation in 2005.
GOP establishment pom pom girl Laura Ingraham and water boy Sean Hannity evangelize Romney on their radio shows as the second coming of Ronald Reagan.
Curiouser and curiouser!
Romney the wallflower bats his eyelashes and coyly pretends not to notice the increasing speculation of a McCain-Romney ticket–even as he criss-crosses the country campaigning and fundraising for McCain–the same John McCain who Romney said during the primaries was “almost indistinguishable” from Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
But perhaps Romney intended that as a compliment, since Romney was a virtual GOP clone of Barack Obama, until he repackaged himself to seduce conservatives.
As a Boston talk radio host and writer-researcher (respectively), who both initially supported Romney (author Gregg Jackson lived out of state in 2002 and co-author John Haskins voted for him in 2002), we have followed Romney closely and know the truth about his record as very few people in America do. The truth is that many of the leading “conservative” lawyers, radio pundits and pro-family leaders whom we trusted for years have ruthlessly distorted and suppressed the truth about Romney’s hideous record as governor — even after all his “conversions.”
It took one hundred million dollars of Romney’s personal fortune to waterboard Americans with Orwellian propaganda from “conservative” talk radio, Fox News and “pro-family” lawyers and religious mercenaries. Their consensus is they’ve rewritten enough history enough to fool enough of the people enough of the time.
Many pundits and political prognosticators are now calling Romney the odds-on favorite to be chosen as MCain’s running mate–making it more urgent than ever conservatives–the field slaves of the Republican Party–know the true record of this man.
After reading the truth about this soulless demagogue, whom most of the GOP elites have airbrushed into a quasi-conservative, ask yourself if Mitt Romney is somebody, who as Dr. James Dobson of “Focus on the Family” stated, “is a man pro-family voters could support?”
1. Romney illegally imposed homosexual marriage as he had secretly promised “Log Cabin Republicans” a homosexual activist group he would, given the pretext of a legally meaningless court opinion. He publicly admitted that the four outlaw judges who belched forth the Goodridge opinion (urging the legislature to make sodomy-based “marriage” legal) had violated the state Constitution and their oaths of office. But bizarrely, he flatly contradicted the state constitution he had sworn to uphold by pretending he was bound by this opinion. He also opposed a citizen-led effort to remove the four judges!
He then authorized illegal changes to, and issuance of, still legally null and void marriage licenses to homosexuals in violation of the marriage laws which the state constitution explicitly says only the legislature can change (the same court has admitted this). But Romney and his hired “conservatives” falsely claimed that “everybody (knew) that the (judges) legalized same-sex ‘marriage’.”
My Latest on Townhall.com out today in response to Fred Barnes’ recent piece in the Weekly Standard.
McCain Must Resist Increasingly Surreal Hubris of GOP Elites
By Gregg Jackson
Wednesday, March 19, 2008This week Fred Barnes wrote an article in which he suggests that McCain’s best VP choice is Mitt Romney.
Wow!
Mr. Barnes is correct that McCain’s VP selection is vital because of McCain’s age (71) and because McCain needs to select an authentic conservative with widespread appeal to the GOP base-Evangelical and Catholic Christians, millions of whom have started to gag on the regularly scheduled forced doses of the GOP’s shut-up-and-do-as-you’re-told concoctions.
Mr. Barnes believes Mitt Romney is exactly the man to get them to swallow yet another bitter dose.
Such a claim could only issue forth from the increasingly bizarre, even surreal, consensus in which the “conservative” elites — pundits, consultants, lawyers and self-styled “pro-family” power brokers — swim.
First, Mr. Barnes writes that McCain’s VP should be acceptable to conservatives-especially social conservatives. Perhaps Mr. Barnes does not quite understand how right he is on this. It has long been apparent that among the conservative elites “pro-life” is merely a uniform that one puts on like a free agent ballplayer joining a team in search of a championship.
“You’re now ‘pro-life,’ Mr. Romney? Why should we believe that?”
“Because I said so, and that ought to be proof enough. And only a fool would turn away a convert to the pro-life cause.”
“Maybe so, Slick, and maybe not. But the question remains, why should we believe that?”
“Well, after my conversion to the pro-life side, with every bill that came across my desk I came down on the side of life.”
“Hmmm. Well, does that include your massive government health care plan with which you delighted Ted Kennedy by establishing taxpayer-funded abortion on demand at fifty dollars a pop?”
“I thought Jay Sekulow, James Bopp, Gary Bauer, Tony Perkins, Tom Minnery, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham and the kids running the National Review had taken care of all that for me.”
Mr. Barnes, like most of the chattering “conservative elites,” has missed the glaring lesson of a Republican presidential primary in which millions of social conservative and constitutionalist voters just said no to all the RINOs the party nomenklatura stubbornly forced on them, preferring to pick from among the diverse options of Mike Huckabee, Ron Paul, Tom Tancredo, and Duncan Hunter. Does Barnes not grasp how much intellectual credibility and moral gravitas the “conservative” mandarins have squandered — outside the beltway and away from the studio lights of Fox News?
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A few weeks back I had the distinct honor of addressing 80 of the nation’s top conservative young minds from all around the country at the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara Califonia on the current state of conservatism in America.
Here is the transcript of the speech:
Exclusive: Conservatives: The Right Thing To Do: Transcript of speech by radio host + author Gregg Jackson at Reagan Ranch
Editor’s Note: Gregg Jackson gave a speech to The Young America’s Foundation in Santa Barbara, California. The topic was our obligation as Americans. The transcript is an exclusive to RFFM.org and it is a must read.Transcript of speech by popular radio host and author Gregg Jackson at the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, California:
I am going to engage in an act of subversion this morning.
I have been given the privilege of addressing intelligent young minds in a formative stage- the best and brightest of the next generation of conservative thinkers.
At the risk of betraying the trust that has been placed in me today, I am going to engage in an act of disloyalty to the conservative establishment of which I am, arguably, a dues-paying member in good standing.
I’m going to tell you that your loyalty must not be to conservatism – merely a 12-letter word. Your commitment, your passion, and your loyalty must not now and not ever be to a party, an alliance, or a “big tent”. It must be to the underlying principles that inspired our heroes through the centuries, most of whom never used the word “conservative” to describe themselves.
Most — including the Founding Fathers and two millennia of historic Christian thinkers and leaders — would recoil at our use of their names and their legacies to dignify that word. They would detest that we so smugly and so blithely claim that our hodge-podge of issues, positions and realistic compromises is somehow a “pragmatic” fulfillment, development or refinement of their efforts.
Pragmatism which is defined as what works, after all, is about winning, right? Republicans do pretty well at winning elections. What we almost always lose is the three years between elections. We have retreated from our culture war. Our state and federal constitutions now bear almost no relevance to how we govern or how we are willing to be governed. And on the fiscal side, is there anything conservative about the last eight years of aggressive Republican expansion of the federal government?
Now this act of subversion may seem perfectly harmless and reasonable to you, at your age of relative innocence and idealism. Reasonable, it is indeed.
Harmless, however, it is not. Because our “conservative” movement has gone far astray. And there are not many powerful and influential conservatives who have the guts to report it to a group of young folks like you. Heaven knows they do their best to ostracize any peers who lean “too far right.”
