Bob Green a breath of fresh air

A breath of fresh air has arrived on the scene in Bloomington, MN, politics. Bob Green, the GOP-endorsed candidate, has decided to take on Ann Lenczewski, the DFL incumbant for the Minnesota House District 40B seat this November, and unlike many Republicans in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, he’s an actual conservative.

Green is hoping to point out Lenczewski tax-increasing shortcomings in the upcoming contest, and certainly her record, which includes voting with her party to raise the state fuel tax in the middle of one of the largest oil price spikes in the last three decades, speaks for itself.

While WonderfulPessimist.com has been hesitent to embrace McCain for president, Pawlenty for governor or Coleman for US Senate, due to their liberal Republican tendancies, we have no such hesitation with Bob Green: if you’re tired of a career politician like Ann Lenczewski sitting in their home theater chairs and voting constantly to keep Minnesota one of the highest-taxed states in the nation, Bob Green is the guy to support this November in House District 40B!

Mitt drops out

It was the wrong decision, for all the right reasons.

Mitt Romney is a conservative who cares about the present and the future of his party. He doesn’t want to see the GOP resort to a nasty nomination brawl and, after the campaign dirty tricks that helped rob him of West Virginia and possibly other states, Romney took a move out of the Ronald Reagan playbook and decided to drop out early, recognizing Sen. John McCain’s bulldog-like lead in the delegate race, and all the computer memory in the world won’t make it make sense; at least, not this year.

Romney could have had a chance had California fallen his way, but such was not the case. Like Reagan, he recognized the inevitability and that this was not his time. Just as Reagan bowed out early in 1976, allowing Gerald Ford to face off with Jimmy Carter, so too did Romney bow out to Sen. John McCain, who will have to face a difficult opponent in the fall in the person of either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

What this guarantees are a few certainties.

1. Whoever wins the White House will be a former U.S. Senator, not a former governor. This is troublesome, since executive experience at a state level usually makes for a far better presidency.

2. Whoever wins the White House, it will be a victory for liberalism … which may be the perfect antidote to America’s flirtation with the left. It worked well in 1994; after only two years of Democrats controlling everything, America rebelled, scared primarily by the shadow of HillaryCare, and put the GOP back in control of both houses of Congress, primarily thanks to Newt Gingrich’s vision and leadership. Whether it’s President Obama, President Rodham or President McCain, the libs will be in charge in 2009, unless voters overturn the Dem advantage in one or both houses of Congress.

3. Conservatives have no horse in this race, at the presidential level. However, instead of staying home, they should take this time to get involved at the grassroots level, unseat the liberal country-club Republicans who control the party, and lay the groundwork to take back the GOP for conservatives. (Real ones, not RINOs like McCain.)

Whether 2012 is about defeating President Rodham, President Obama, or even replacing President McCain in 2016, if conservatives don’t withdraw but lay grassroots groundwork for the future, the next GOP primary won’t have to be determined by crossover Democrats out to screw us over, let alone “Democrat in disguise” independents who regularly caucus with the GOP but ultimately vote Democratic.

By demonstrating party loyalty, Reagan withdrew from the 1976 race only to come back four years later and ride a conservative tidal wave, not only to his party’s nomination but into the White House and ultimately into history. Whether the conservative future is with him or another conservative, it’s clear Romney’s hope is that 2012 or 2016 will mark the beginning of a similar era; it may even ultimately be referred to as the Romney Revolution.

Romney takes Bloomington … and Minnesota!

Let it never be said that WonderfulPessimist.com is all blog and no action. I’m not just a bunch of fiber optic cables and high-speed Internet.

Yours truly is now the precinct chair of the GOP in my little neck of the woods in Minnesota. It’s a two-year chair term and I’ll do what I can to help conservatives be successful here. And I’ll be doing my part to help win the battle against the leftward drift of the party, typified by presidential candidate John McCain.

Already, there are encouraging signs that the precinct will see things the WonderfulPessimist.com way; Mitt Romney won our precinct straw poll over McCain, 37-20. No one else was close. I think Hucka-bust had 17. While Romney isn’t the ideal candidate, he’s the best chance the GOP has to avoid liberal drift within the party, and despite being a precinct chair, you can bet WonderfulPessimist.com will remain a Reagan conservative first and foremost, a Republican second, as far as politics goes.

That said, signs are not yet as encouraging as one might hope on the national front for Mitt; hopefully California will turn in his favor by the time all the votes are counted. In the meantime, remember the difference between this conservative blogger and the cloud of others; WonderfulPessimist.com actually gets involved and tries to make a difference!