If you'll remember, earlier this year Bryan Fischer all but forced Mitt Romney to push out his national security adviser because--horrors!--he was openly gay. Now the American Family Association's policy chief is apparently trying to levy blackmail on him again. In his latest post in Rightly Concerned, Fischer claims that the winger fringe needs to push Romney further to the right.
Some conservatives complain when conservative voices such as mine register complaints about Gov. Romney’s agenda. They don’t want his feet held to the fire until after he defeats President Obama. That will be the time, they say, after he’s been elected, to put the pressure on.
But surely this is misguided. If we don’t hold his feet to the fire now, how will it be possible to do it then? If he gets elected while ignoring legitimate conservative concerns, because conservatives haven’t even voiced them, what possible reason do conservatives have to think he’ll pay attention to conservative concerns while in office?
The truth is that conservatives who complain loudly and longly now, in the hopes that the governor can be persuaded to at least sound like a conservative, are doing him the biggest favor of all.
Hmmm ... so Mitt wanting wingnuts like Steve King as his "partner" isn't enough for you, Bryan? Apparently not. Fischer is particularly upset that Romney wants to preserve the "good parts" of the health care bill, and even claims that deep down, Romney wants--oh, the humanity!--single-payer health care.
For those who roll their eyes at calls for Romney to abandon the traditional general-election approach of trying to win over independents, you have to remember that Fischer and other wingnuts think that the Republicans got the House back in 2010 by putting more Kings, Bachmanns, Foxxes and McHenrys in their ranks.