Palin says a Romney-Palin ticket “sounds pretty good”

After his straw poll win at the SRLC, Mitt Romney appears poised to take his shot at buying a much more important vote.

by Michael Naragon

The Boston Herald reported the possible merger in an article titled, “Mitt Romney-Sarah Palin in 2012?  You betcha!”  According to the story, Republican strategists were “licking their chops” at the prospect of such a telegenic duo running against Barack Obama.

Truly, the ticket would be intriguing to some GOP voters.

“They both have a lot they can offer a campaign,” said Douglas Lorenz, a California-based GOP consultant. “Romney has the experience as a governor and experience as a candidate for president, and when you combine that with Sarah Palin’s ability to get people motivated, that could definitely be a formidable ticket.”

Unfortunately, it is Romney’s experience as governor and his experience as a candidate that would make him a poor choice.  Romney’s signature achievement as governor of Massachusetts was to sign into law a health care reform bill for that state that has since been a complete fiscal disaster.  The costs have snowballed, the insurance companies–non-profit insurance companies–have had price controls imposed on them by the state, and care is suffering.

The former governor has tried to justify his support of the plan in much the same way that more moderate Democrats are now justifying their support of Obamacare: something had to be done.  And when Obamacare balloons in “unexpected” costs and the government adds and tweaks the plan to point us to a single-payer system, those moderates will undoubtedly use Romney’s excuses as well, such as, “The bill I voted for didn’t call for all this.  It was added on later…”

Now some Republicans seem to be moving their support to Romney, including Sarah Palin, who is also seen as a potential presidential candidate in 2012.  I find it difficult to believe that, after the travesty that has been the Obama presidency, conservatives–or voters in general–would go for the glitz and glamour of a Palin-Romney ticket.  The frustrations people have with Obama involve his lack of substance and push for socialistic programs.  Romney would be, likewise, style over substance, and his track record of conservatism is shaky, at best, which is why his handlers have artificially constructed such groups as Evangelicals for Mitt, designed to show Southern Christians that it’s ok to support him.

Voters in 2012 will be looking for substance… someone genuine who loves the country and who can solve problems without having an eye toward re-election.  That’s not Mitt Romney.