By Ellie Velinska
Republican establishment is positioning successfully Mitt Romney to win the presidential nomination and is destroying the enthusiasm for the party in the process.
The low turnout at the republican Iowa caucuses is not an exception but apparent trend in the last few months. The defeat of Governor Kasich’s attempt to reform labor laws in Ohio was the major warning sign for the Republicans of disenchantment with their brand. Forcing people to buy health insurance was rejected by the voters in the same special election. The republican establishment favorite will have to defend the most hated measure in the ObamaCare law, because Mitt Romney was the one who started it all in Massachusetts
The independent folks who stood in the wave that in 2010 delivered the shellacking of the Democrats realized that the Republican Party is dysfunctional (judging by their erratic behavior in Congress) and unwilling to change (standing behind Mitt Romney, whose vision for the future is copy/pasted from the Bush policy books) .
The Romney presidential candidacy, pushed hard by the party elite, may be the wet blanket that will discourage the grass-roots to give their best in some swing states. The low turnout in Iowa yesterday, the losses in Ohio and North Carolina in the 2011 special elections predict trouble for the GOP and must worry the representatives fighting for re-election in Congress this year and the Wisconsin Governor Walker, who is facing recall efforts.
Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, is ‘blessed’ with Meg Whitman charisma and looks like defective Bush Sr. clone suffering permanent heartburn. He wants to be commander-in-chief and send other people’s kids to war, but he raised five sons and none of them served in the military.
The majority of voters in the republican primary understand that Mitt Romney is unelectable. He won the Iowa caucuses with the lowest percentage of votes in the recorded history. Unfortunately, the party also failed to produce electable conservative alternative. So the protest vote will go in three directions: some disappointed folks will stay home, some will join the Ron Paul Revolution, and some will cast protest votes for third party candidates.
Either way, the winner of the Iowa caucuses yesterday was… the current resident of the White House. The rebellious republican voter, who is uninspired by Mitt Romney or by anybody else in the GOP field, may prove to be the President Obama re-election best friend.
The primary battle Romney (the System) vs Paul (the Revolution) will make a great reality show to watch and a nice warm up for the grand finale: Romney (the System) vs Obama (the Failed Revolution) vs Third Candidate (the Ego).
Are you ready to rumble?
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The Moral Liberal Contributing Editor, Ellie Velinska, is the editor of the excellent blog: Big Bureacracy.com. A naturalized American citizen, she lives in North Carolina and is registered as a non-affiliated voter. Ellie attended and completed high school in the USSR and has Masters Degree in Psychology from Sofia University, Bulgaria. In 2000 Ellie and her husband moved to America after winning the Green Card Lottery. She says, the ‘New Media’ is a perfect challenge and quite convenient for her now that she is a mother of two boys.
