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Jewish World Review
Feb 6, 2012/ 14 Shevat, 5772
The 5 Stages of Mitt
By
Bernard Goldberg
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
The last time I wrote in this space I concluded my column with this: The fat lady may not be singing, but she's warming up in the wings. I wrote that right after Mitt Romney won Florida — my way of saying, the GOP race is almost over. Since then he won Nevada. And he won both by big margins. So …
It's over. Fatso is singing. I don't care how many more races there are in how many more states. Romney, unofficial as it may still be, has won the GOP nomination.
I don't expect real conservatives to be happy with the news. Romney is not a reliable conservative, a point I have made in this space more than a few times. What bothers a lot of us about Romney isn't so much that he's moderate. It's that he doesn't seem to have any core values.
Deep down, I suspect, Mitt Romney is a fiscal conservative and a social moderate. So is Rudy Giullani. But Rudy didn't change his mind on abortion or gay rights four years ago just to win over social conservatives. This is who I am, he told primary voters. They didn't want that kind of Republican and Rudy said, I get it — but I'm not going to become somebody I'm not. Romney gives the impression that he'll become whomever he has to be in order to win.
So, of course, conservatives aren't going to be happy with the news that he will be the nominee of the party. And no, they won't be enthusiastic about his candidacy. But it's time for the anti-Romney Republicans to start to come to grips with reality. It's time for them to acknowledge the obvious: He's better than Barack Obama. And they have to acknowledge one more thing: if their lack of enthusiasm leads them to stay home on Election Day, they might as well cast a vote for Obama, and four more years of the kind of politics they claim to despise.
In 1969, a medical doctor named Elizabeth Kubler-Ross came up with what has come to be known as the five stages of grief — stages that we face when having to accept some kind of very bad news, like death. The first stage is "Denial" — a stage that many of you are in right now. "This race isn't over," you're telling yourself and anyone who will listen. Except, it is.
After "Denial" comes "Anger." This is the "It's not fair" stage. Get over it. Life's not fair. Move on to stage three.
This is the "Bargaining" stage. In instances when people know they're going to die, the "Bargaining" stage is about trying to figure out how to postpone death. The victim says something like, "I understand I will die, but if I could do something to buy more time …" In politics, the "Bargaining" stage goes something like this: "Okay, I know my guy isn't going to win this thing. But there's still hope. Mr. X, whom I like a lot, can still jump into the race and make everything right. Or maybe there can be a brokered convention — and everything will be OK." Bad news coming: There will be no Mr. X and no brokered convention.
This leads us to stage four: "Depression." This is the stage where we start to understand the certainty of things — in this case the certainty that Newt isn't going to get the nomination and neither is Santorum or Paul. I'm sorry you're depressed. When you're not, read what comes next about the final stage, stage five.
Stage five is "Acceptance." This is the part where we say, "I can't fight it. I have to accept it" — and this is the important part — "It's going to be OK."
The sooner the Anti-Romney Republicans get to stage five the better. Getting there won't be easy. But perhaps they can take comfort remembering how much harm they believe this president is doing to the country; how much they believe he is nothing more than an old school Chicago politician hiding behind a million dollar smile; how he talked about bringing the country together but has made a conscious decision to divide us just so he can win re-election; and how often they've said, Anybody would be better.
Anybody is here. His name is Mitt Romney. Accept it.
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JWR contributor Bernard Goldberg, the television news reporter and author of several bestselling books, among them, Bias, a New York Times number one bestseller about how the media distort the news. He is widely seen as one of the most original writers and thinkers in broadcast journalism. Mr. Goldberg covered stories all over the world for CBS News and has won 10 Emmy awards for excellence in journalism. He now reports for the widely acclaimed HBO broadcast Real Sports.
He is a graduate of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey and a member of the school's Hall of Distinguished Alumni and proprietor of BernardGoldberg.com.
Previously:
• 02/02/12: Florida Has Spoken; Cue the Fat Lady
• 01/30/12: The Other Global Warming Story
• 01/26/12: They See Racists Everywhere . . .
• 01/24/12: The Arrogant and Clueless Mainstream Media
• 01/23/12: Gingrich Wins SC --- Media Help Big Time
• 01/18/12: A New Entry for 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America
• 01/12/12: The Dream Ticket Could Be a Conservative Nightmare
• 01/11/12: Now 'Anybody But Romney' Has a Name
• 12/30/11: I Have a Confession to Make . . .
• 12/27/11: Know When to Hold 'em and Know When to Fold 'em
• 12/20/11: NBC News, the KKK and the State of Journalism
• 12/19/11: Mitt and Newt: Two Rich Guys Arguing Over Money
• 12/13/11: Donald Trump Is the Greatest; Just Ask Him
• 12/12/11: Rob Peter to Pay Paul: Bad Economics! Good Politics?
• 12/07/11: Yeah . . . and Fish Don't Know They're Wet, Either
• 12/06/11: Did the Media Play Fair with Herman Cain?
• 12/05/11: Obama to Blue-Collar America: Adios!
• 11/29/11: We Can Stop the Crazy Train Before It Gets to Greece
• 11/22/11: Who Can Beat Obama?
• 11/15/11: The Dumbest Media Question I've Ever Heard
• 11/09/11: What If Herman Cain Did It?
• 11/08/11: What If Herman Cain Were a Lib?
• 11/02/11: Who Can Beat Obama?
• 11/01/11: We're Approaching the Tipping Point
• 10/25/11: A Response to the Angry Purists
• 10/18/11: They're Waiting for Reagan to Hit the Campaign Trail
• 10/12/11: Read This!!! --- But Only If You Have Nothing Better To Do
• 10/04/11: Can Obama Win Re-Election?
• 09/27/11: It's NOT the Economy Stupid, It's Theology
• 09/20/11: Bad News on the Doorstep
• 09/09/11: Hypocrisy!
• 09/06/11: Back to the Future
• 08/24/11: Hillary vs. Obama in 2012? It'll Never Happen --- I Don't Think
• 08/22/11: Warning: Conservatives May Be Harmful to Your Mental Health
• 08/17/11: Warren Buffett, Coddled Billionaire
• 08/11/11: Too Much Balance in the Media?
• 08/04/11: All Aboard the Crazy Train
• 08/01/11: Liberal Hate Speech
• 07/25/11: With All Due Respect, Go Fly a Kite
• 07/20/11: Who Is A ‘Natural Born Citizen’?
• 07/18/11: Guess Who's Not Paying Their Fair Share
• 07/12/11: Against More Taxes? You May Be a Terrorist!
• 07/11/11: Casey Anthony: The TV Show
• 07/06/11: Standards and Double Standards at MSNBC
• 06/29/11: Is Jon Stewart A Racist?
• 06/21/11: Let's Play the Race Card --- Just for Fun Of Course
• 06/20/11: Sarah Palin and Weiner's Weiner
• 06/03/11: Memo to GOP: Turn Mr. Obama into Mr. Yesterday
• 05/20/11: I Get Letters From People Who Should Be Locked Up
• 05/09/11: Is ‘Torture’ Ever Justified?
• 05/02/11: The Promiscuous Use of the R Word
• 04/19/11: The Man Behind the Million Dollar Smile
• 04/12/11: What's the Difference Between Libs in Politics and Libs in the Media?
• 04/08/11: An Idea Whose Time Has Come — and Gone
• 03/28/11: The Pundits Are Driving Me Crazy --- And You Thought Qadaffi Is Nuts
• 03/14/11: No Liberal Bias at NPR — Just Ask NPR
• 03/10/11: The media's frustration
• 03/01/11: Progressives Lost in Time . . .
• 02/23/11: The Lamestreams Strike Again --- This Time in Madison
• 02/03/11: You MUST Own a Gun --- Or Else!
• 01/20/11: It Was Horrible, I tell you … HORRIBLE!
• 01/11/11: Here We Go Again . . .
• 01/06/11: You Go, Oprah
• 12/28/10: A Year-Ender --- The MSM and Obama's Fall from Grace
• 12/14/10: Thank Heaven for Rich People
• 12/02/10: The Phony Nobility of Wikileaks
© 2011, Bernard Goldberg
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