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« Christmas Reading | Main | McCain gets victory » December 14, 2005Make Room for Mitt?Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney announced today that he will not be seeking a second term in office. Speculation immediately followed that the 58-year old son of former Michigan Governor George Romney will be making a run at the White House in 2008, but Romney said the decision on running for president was "down the road" and "a lifetime away." If Romney decides in favor of a White House run, how will his Mormonism play in Peoria (or, more accurately, Birmingham)? Can a Mormon be the standard-bearer for the Christian Right and the conservative movement against the party's moderate wing led by John McCain and Rudy Giuliani? My instinct says yes. The political arm of the evangelical movement is more concerned with its candidates having the "right" positions on abortion, gay marriage, public education, and the separation of church and state than they are on whether a person's personal or theological house is in order. Call me cynical, but I think that explains the movement's loyalty to some of its morally compromised characters over the years. With Cheney, Rice, and neither Bush brother running in 2008, the position of standard-bearer for the conservative movement stands vacant. One lucky Republican will capture this crown sometime in the next two years. That lucky Republican may in fact be Mitt Romney. Posted by David Darlington at December 14, 2005 10:55 PM CommentsIsn't that supposed to be 'having the "right" positions on...the merger of church and state..."? I think that Brownback has a better shot at being their standard bearer anyway. Posted by: Jim S at December 14, 2005 11:44 PM | permalink Posted by: Joshua Claybourn at December 15, 2005 12:33 AM | permalink Posted by: David Darlington at December 15, 2005 09:25 AM | permalink I guess I'm just baffled by the notion that George W. Bush is considered the current "standard bearer of the conservative movement". That can only be true if one has quite a creative definition of "conservative". He's overseen an enormous increase in Federal funding and control of education (something all good conservatives would be entirely opposed to), presided over a vast growth of government in virtually every phrase, including the largest new entitlement program in 40 years, signed the very campaign finance reform bill that he himself had declared unconstitutional only months earlier, and much more. If this is the standard bearer of conservatism, then conservatism is in a world of trouble. Posted by: Ed Brayton at December 15, 2005 12:19 PM | permalink John McCain of the the party's moderate wing? He is a staunch Reaganite. Or has the party just gone completely over the edge... Posted by: JohnS at December 16, 2005 01:17 PM | permalink Post a comment |
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