Santorum or Bachmann Should Be Romney Vice President Choice

America’s decline won’t be reversed until true conservatives get in the white house, ones that believe in heritage values and traditional morals and colorblindness.  The primacy of the Judeo-Christian faith must be a hallmark.  A Romney-style businessman might be better than an out-and-out socialist like Obama, but Romney isn’t a conservative.

     Sure, every candidate is a conservative around election time.  Even if you don’t stand for Christianity or other heritage values, you can at least claim that you won’t be irresponsible with money: the so-called “fiscal” conservative.  Trouble is, most candidates want to be all things to all people, and just the slightest of nods in the direction of  voters is enough.

      A president who can rise above skin color is needed today.  Obama will run again as a combination of white liberal and black man, as he did in 2008, immersing America once again in racial preoccupations.

      In choosing Obama in 2008, liberal Democrats never felt a need to cluster around the center so as to attract votes from different constituencies, thus diluting liberal purism.  They moved the party to the left–and won.  Like Romney, McCain was a lightweight liberal Republican, offering only a softer version of what Obama represented more forcefully.  Campaign rhetoric aside, of course.

        Now Romney, the heritage-free fiscal manager, appears to lack the courage and go-for-it gumption that Obama seems to exemplify.  Romney still doesn’t stand for much, other than a soulless “economy,” so choosing a conservative running mate like Rich Santorum or Michelle Bachmann would be a good symbolic gesture.  Obama chose the ultra-liberal Biden and won, didn’t he?

       Romney will again dissolve the force of the conservative vote if he tries to be merely expedient and “logical” in his choice–allowing skin color, ethnic identity, or gender to be the multicultural basis of his selection.  More “my career comes first” Republicans in the senate or congress won’t make a difference either, as they quickly lose sight of conservative values they should be upholding.

      Romney’s free-floating, managerial-style liberalism might do better than the same that McCain lost with, but America won’t be addressing its real identity problem and social decline.  Having Santorum or Bachmann on the ticket will help.