{"id":10085,"date":"2007-03-02T11:15:28","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T16:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/10085.html"},"modified":"2007-03-02T11:15:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T16:15:28","slug":"rudy-mcromney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/rudy-mcromney\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Rudy McRomney’"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the presidential campaign process unfolds, let’s not lose sight of the capacity of Republicans to tear each other apart<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Leading conservatives yesterday attacked the Republican party as big-government, free-spending coddlers of illegal immigrants and said the country’s conservatives should withhold support from the GOP’s current slate of presidential nominees to force them to the right.<\/p>\n

“I feel very angry and betrayed” by the GOP, some of whose elected officials have backed a “guest worker” immigration plan, abortion rights, and tax increases, said Richard Viguerie , chairman of Conservative-HQ.com . “We should withhold support from all major Republican [presidential] candidates today. Not one of them deserves our support today,” he told a ballroom full of activists at the Conservative Political Action Conference’s annual meeting yesterday. […]<\/p>\n

At least one conference participant sported a sticker that featured a circle with a line drawn through the words “Rudy McRomney” — broadcasting the wearer’s opposition to the early leaders in polls for the GOP nomination, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani , Senator John McCain of Arizona, and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The “Rudy McRomney” tag is apparently becoming the new buzz phrase<\/a> among conservatives looking for a far-right candidate. There’s something “wrong” with all of them — Giuliani has embraced liberal social policies, McCain sponsored campaign-finance reform legislation, Romney disagreed with the right on everything up until a few minutes ago, Huckabee raised taxes in Arkansas, and Brownback supports “amnesty” for undocumented immigrants.<\/p>\n

But, where’s the proverbial bomb-thrower who’s prepared to burn the house down? I think we’re starting to get a hint.
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\nThe conservative Washington Times reports today<\/a> that former Virginia Gov. James Gilmore (R) doesn’t mind being the one to break the party’s 11th Commandment and will unveil a video he’s debuting tomorrow on his campaign website, YouTube, and in an email to GOP activists in Iowa.<\/p>\n

“The three leading challengers for our party’s nomination may be good men, but they simply do not share our conservative values,” Mr. Gilmore says in the ad….<\/p>\n

“John McCain has fought conservatives time after time, even invoking the rhetoric of class warfare to oppose the Bush tax cuts,” he says in the ad.<\/p>\n

“Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney both repeatedly opposed core conservative values to win elections in New York and Massachusetts,” says Mr. Gilmore, who was nominated by President Bush to be the Republican National Committee chairman after the 2000 elections.<\/p>\n

“It’s for these reasons that I intend to pursue our party’s nomination for president [and] I will represent the Republican wing of the Republican Party,” says Mr. Gilmore, considered a philosophical conservative who believes in limited government, individual liberties and non-intervention abroad except when directly threatened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s also worth noting that Bob Novak reported<\/a> this week that Gilmore has been push-polling in Iowa and found that far-right activists are likely to turn on “Rudy McRomney” when they learn more about their backgrounds.<\/p>\n

Now, Gilmore is the longest of long-shots, and is trying to run on an abysmal gubernatorial record<\/a>. But he has nothing to lose by spending his time attacking the top three and trying to level the playing field, which he seems anxious to do.<\/p>\n

How nasty will Gilmore get? I don’t know, but it might be entertaining to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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