Column of the Day: Gregg Jackson on Conservative Talkers’ and Punditeers’ Failures

The rest of the world will probably never understand that Mitt Romney’s candidacy was ended by a merry band from Massachusetts and a small cadre of like-minded others who broke through the clutter sufficiently to get the truth out about Objectively Unfit Mitt Romney when it mattered, and where it mattered. That doesn’t change the fact that it is why it went down as it went down.

Gregg Jackson was among the like-minded others.

Though I disagree with him on Mike Huckabee as a presidential candidate (if someone can successfully defend this, I would consider changing my mind), there really is no disagreeing with him about how conservative talk radio, too many allegedly conservative pundits, and way too many allegedly conservative bloggers let down their audiences, and the country, during the 2008 GOP presidential primary season by mindlessly gravitating to Romney.

Jackson’s Tuesday column should be a mandatory hard-drive saver (I have done so) that will become necessary reference material should Mitt Romney consider a future presidential run. It’s also an unpleasant reminder that several conservative talkers, pundits, and bloggers have lost their presumptive aura of credibility:

….. I for one am getting a little sick and tired of listening to the relentless screeds and caterwauling of these conservative elites who are in many regards totally disconnected from the conservative base — especially the evangelical Christian field slaves who bring in the harvest. Why are the spoiled elites complaining about McCain like a bunch of petulant children when the reality is that, collectively, they share considerable blame for the fact that McCain is our likely nominee?

You see for months these conservative elites have been whitewashing by far the most left wing GOP presidential candidate in American history, Mitt Romney.

Most left wing GOP candidate you say, Gregg? But all the conservative talkers told me he was the most able to unite the Reagan Coalition. I thought he was the most conservative candidate we had?

Gregg then does a great job listing why Romney was the most LIBERAL candidate in the GOP field. He has a couple of items over and above what I noted during the past three months that should be understood, so go there.

Continuing:

….. Had these talkers, pundits, and conservative “leaders” told the truth about Romney’s $50 subsidized abortions, failing government run healthcare plan, $700 million in tax increases, increased funding for homosexual indoctrination starting in kindergarten, illegal institution of same sex marriage by misrepresenting the Goodridge court opinion and lying about the Massachusetts Constitution, support for homosexual Scout Masters etc… voters interested in supporting a true conservative would have likely gravitated toward Governor Huckabee far sooner and in huge numbers. But that couldn’t be allowed to happen. The social conservative voters are the field slaves in this party, not the decision-makers.

….. The truth was that their boy Mitt Romney is the GOP’s closest counterpart to the Democrats’ soulless Rorschach test, Barak Obama, a truly dangerous demagogue.

So, please, enough with the McCain-bashing, Rush, Sean, Laura, and Ann….. Do you think thinking conservatives are any more happy than you are with McCain as the Republican nominee? Not on your life. But the difference between you and us is, this is your fault.

Ding-ding-ding, Gregg has nailed it. Mark Levin also deserves a dishonorable mention.

I’ll also add this: The explosive fury of the talkers et al can be largely explained by the fact that they thought that they had McCain dead and buried last summer, and that they could keep him dead and buried. Oops.

Years from now, especially if he wins the presidency, when historians calmly look back on what has happened, they will probably rate McCain’s comeback as one of the most remarkable in American political history, second perhaps only to Richard Nixon’s in 1968.

As I have stated previously, I have serious differences with McCain that I sincerely hope he works on in the coming months. But there’s no denying the impressiveness of what he has accomplished electorally thus far.

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UPDATE: A whiny Townhall commenter named Jim wrote —

Give it up, Gregg
Your anti-Romney screeds are boringly predictable. And we should trust you more than Rush, Laura, Mark, etc.? I don’t get your very personal vendetta against Romney. You and (Mass Resistance head Brian) Cameneker make quite a pair.

That they do, Jim. They’re a pair of heroes.