Idle Speculation in Idle Times
Things are always slow between Christmas and New Years – but this year with the holidays on the weekend is extraordinary. This leaves reporters and pundits with nothing to talk about and nature abhors a vacuum, so speculation fills the air and Internet. Most of it is extraordinarily silly.
The Washington Post’s “Post Politics” blogs gives their rankings of the Republican field. Not bad considering the Post would not understand Republican thinking if it was explained to them. Jonah Goldberg sorts them out pretty well, but I still think Palin is a wild card. Clark Judge, via Hugh Hewitt, does not name names, but does do the actual serious kind of analysis called for.
In all of that and more, Romney remains the proclaimed “frontrunner.” It does look increasingly like he is prepping to run – even with some tough polls and the left continuing to take health care shots. Consider this quote from the later link:
And yet, for all the line drawing and needle threading with respect to federalist versus national approaches, the fact remains that when Romney had a chance to write the health care script, he chose an individual mandate.
That, dear friends, in a nutshell is what is wrong with the left. For them the constitution is a mere technicality – just needle threading. They cannot let anything like LAW stand in the way of what they want. *SIGH*
But in the world of speculation, nothing could be more speculative than K-Lo saying in her 2011 predictions:
Mitt Romney will seriously consider not running for president.
This drew all sorts of idle speculation. I think it is the safest prediction possible. Yes Mitt Romney is sending out all sorts of signals that he is likely to run. But he also understands the seriousness of the undertaking – better than almost anyone else being considered. No reasonable person would make a commitment like this without considering all sides of it.
One of the things I find most annoying about the entire process is that we tend to view people in public life as somehow less human than the rest of us. True, many in the entertainment business act that way, but very few in political life do – they are people trying to do a job in service to their nation – which is us. They have personal lives, families and foibles just like all of us. The stresses politics at the POTUS level put on all of that is extreme.
One of the things most admirable about Mitt Romney is the sobriety with which he approaches such things. That means he would instinctively consider not running. But the flip side of that is that if he decides to run, you know it will be a full commitment to do a good job as candidate and president – it will not be a lark or a grab for attention, but a real decision about serious things.
This season is also idle because serous people are making very serious decisions that should be made away from the glare of the public. Rather than speculate idly, I recommend lifting the Romney’s and all the other possibles on both sides of the aisle, up in prayer. Believe me – they need it.
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JLF9999 on 30 Dec 2010 at 4:30 pm #
Evil continues to stalk us in the world. We see George Soros succeeding on many fronts and millions of people getting sucked into the ranks of his of minions. Our Constitution is under attack from the Progressives and soon it will no longer resemble what God put into our hands. We have been unable or unwilling to turn back to Him and I fear we and our families will suffer because of it. We are too content, even in these times. We have been blinded and lied to by the very people we trusted. We allowed it. We rely on traditions such as a two party political system to righteously govern us and a free press to warn us. However, both of these previously trustworthy institutes have been corrupted and are increasingly useless. The death knell of our country is beginning to be rung. I fear we too will sink into the ranks of all the other great nations which were destroyed from within. The enemy is among us. He is at every turn. He delights in our suffering. He claims evil is good and good is evil and many if not most of us agree.
The Communists didn’t go away. They just changed their names. They are now Progressives. They used to threaten us with war. Now they threaten us by attacking our Constitution, corrupting our public officials and institutions. They teach our children evil in the schools and deny them the true history of how we become great and what kept us great. They teach our children there is no God and that believers in Him are corrupt. They deny God set this country aside as the true laboratory of Democracy but that Socialism is the true way to unlocking all human potential. Socialism, they even deny the name. They call it Progressivism. But, in the end as in all previous Socialist states, freedom died and was replaced with a cabal of a powerful few. That is the way we are going. George Soros and his fellow travelers are working over time to see that it comes about. Evil is all around us and I fear the stench of death will soon be in the air. It will come from the rotting corpse of what used to be our nation.
JLF9999 on 02 Jan 2011 at 5:05 pm #
OK. Maybe I was a bit apocalyptic in what I said above. It happens when I go off my meds. But George Soros seems to be evil incarnate and I wonder if even good people like Mitt Romney or anyone else can hold off what seems to be inevitable. If ever there was a need for God to do something, now is the time. Anyway, back to my meds. I think I will take one yellow one and two white ones.