By Kevin Foley
It's called buyer's remorse; that sick feeling in the pit of your stomach when you realize you bought a lemon you can't return.
That's what many conservatives felt about this time back in 2008 and what they're feeling today, a little more than a month away from the presidential election.
They know they chose the wrong candidate and they're stuck with him.
Republicans are watching the White House slip through their fingers as Mitt Romney reels from one shocking gaffe to the next, revealing his true inner self along the way – a man with no convictions, no core, no message.
Romney fails to even mention the troops fighting in Afghanistan or their families at home in his acceptance speech, then he tells us he doesn't care about "those people" who don't pay income taxes, which includes the working poor, senior citizens, students, disabled people and, yes, men and women in uniform.
Media attack dogs like Michelle Malkin are lashing out at establishment conservatives like Bill Kristol who had the temerity to admit, “The Obama team has turned (the economy) around pretty well. The Clinton speech at the convention was very important in that way. How horrible was it four years ago?”
Conservative columnist Peggy Noonan was even blunter: “It’s time to admit the Romney campaign is an incompetent one,” she recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
Former GOP U.S. representative and host of MSNBC's Morning Joe Scarborough blasted the Romney campaign on this morning's show.
Desperate for any edge, other conservatives are grasping at straws in an effort to smear Obama in the run up to the election.
When he’s not the food stamp president, Obama is appeasing Muslim terrorists. When he's not running guns to the Mexican drug cartels, he’s responsible for eight percent unemployment because the GOP-led House hasn't passed his jobs bill.
They keep throwing any garbage they can dream up at the president and, guess what? None of it is sticking, at least where it matters in the key swing states.
A new Quinnipiac poll has Obama up 50 percent in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida. No Republican presidential nominee has ever won without capturing Ohio. Romney is currently down by 10 points in the Buckeye State.
But the real evidence hysteria has seized the GOP appeared Monday in the form of half-term Alaska Governor and professional media celebrity Sarah Palin, who advised the governor to “go rogue” because America needs a “come to Jesus” moment.
Yeah, that worked well last time. Go for it, Mitt!
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Kevin
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