Posted on 08/10/2014 8:06:44 AM PDT by IChing
I was in a spiritually-oriented meeting a week ago, and there were about fifty people in the room. Halfway through, a guy in the center of the room chimed in and announced that he was going to open his speaking time by sharing with us his personal, painful example of the worst kind of betrayal. We all leaned a bit closer to listen as he described, with tongue secretly hidden in cheek, a time when he bit into what he’d thought was a chocolate chip cookie–only to realize with shock and dismay that it was actually a raisin cookie.
He was making a wry point, of course; about expectations, and about accepting and appreciating reality. Later in the meeting, another speaker picked up on the thread, and proceeded to wax allegorically on the relative merits of raisin cookies.
Some of my friends are going to skin me alive for writing this.
As much as I’d like to see someone as fierce and as fundamentally righteous as Texas Senator Ted Cruz, or South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, to be the Republican nominee for president in 2016 and subsequently the winner of the general election, I have to accept the reality that (for various reasons understood by those who understand these things) nobody of their bright, bold stripe is likely to be the one. Of course, I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but I think we’d better adjust ourselves to seeing someone like Cruz as the elusive chocolate chip conservative cookie.
Enter the humble raisin cookie, familiar to all, and perfectly palatable in its own right. Not exactly what you were dreaming of, but still very good with a few gulps of cold milk.
Mitt Romney’s star has suddenly reappeared in recent weeks, and it is rising again. Barack Obama has shown himself, to the overwhelming majority of people in our country, to be a total disaster as president, and the buyer’s remorse is palpable. A CNN/ORC poll from late last month had Romney beating Obama in the popular vote 53% to 44%, if the 2012 election were held again today.
Romney’s foreign policy proscriptions and prognostications during the 2012 presidential campaign, once widely mocked and ridiculed by Obama supporters (and most of all by Obama himself, in the debate in which Romney made them), are now looking like pure prophecy, in light of the horrific developments in the Middle East and Ukraine.
The world is hurtling violently into the flaming, bloody abyss on Obama’s non-watch, and American families are hurting from year after year of the democrat neo-socialist Keynesian quagmire and the far-left police state his heavy handed regime has enacted. We are sick and tired of this crap.
Mitt Romney, by comparison, can realistically be seen by the larger body politic as not only a relative breath of fresh air, but the guy we should have listened to all along–someone to whom we, as a country (not necessarily as only us conservatives, mind you), perhaps now owe at least a term in the driver’s seat.
Sure, we’ve seen the prequels, but this would be a whole new movie, with a different villain and, we pray, a better ending.
Romney’s flaws are well-known–all the more reason to get over them already. They are certainly nowhere near as deal-breaking as those of Hillary, or of Wampum Warren.
Most of all, Mitt’s widespread recognition and public familiarity make for an easier time with the endlessly sought-after swing voters, I think. Plus, it sure doesn’t hurt that he has been so thoroughly vindicated in so much of what he laid out, both very forcefully and sometimes rather ineffectively, in the 2012 debates against Obama.
It just occurred to me, after typing all the above–the guy I mentioned in the meeting from last week, the one who was talking metaphorically about personal betrayal and biting into a raisin cookie–maybe his example would actually be closer to an Obama voter who realizes that what he got after the election was not what he thought it was….? Oh, cripes.
Too late, I’ve already baked the batch, and I’m not about to throw them out. Don’t forget what I said earlier about cold milk (go ahead and draw all the Sarah Palin analogies you like; she was right on the money about foreign policy, too, by the way!).
Mitt Romney’s job in 2012 was simply to block other Republican candidates from winning the nomination....That’s the only reason he ran in the first place.
That is why conservatives MUST come together on one nominee or getting The Conservative Party in every state.
What!? Really??!
You first. Romney backer or Being paid by the RNC.
Anyone would have a better chance of winning! If you haven’t noticed, Romney didn’t bother to show up to the election the last time. What on earth makes you think that a second non-run would be any better?
Bottom line, many have written extensively on Ronald Reagan’s own “socialist” aspects and defaults, as a governor of California and even as president. Seems like too many in our party crush a raisin cookie under their heel because it isn’t chocolate chip, then wind up dining for 8 years on a steady diet of steaming communist Obama dog scat.
I asked first.
It’s an insult to even suggest Romney is anything close to Reagan.
Besides, you can read, can’t you?
That's what people said about Romney at about this time in 2011.
Ponder now the deja vu in 2016 of 2012, because there's a pretty good chance it's headed our way. When we're looking at it in 2016, anyone who expresses surprise is ... irritating at best.
Prepare now to be looking at a "choice" between Romney and the Democrat nightmare, because that is very probably what it is going to be. I know how and why I will vote, and it will be again for a different party. The Republican party is the diet decaf version of the Democrat party. That is what makes it "conservative." And I say, to hell with that. I know in my bones that there are a whole lot of Americans -- most, in fact -- who essentially think the same way I do about it.
It isn't the candidate, it's the agenda. Republicans and Democrats have an agenda to grow government. My vote will go elsewhere.
How easily we forget.
Bump.
You do know that he only appoints liberals to the courts.
Really? So why not just call Cruz a caveman with paleolithic under pinnings and well, irrelevant?
Please, tell us what Romney stands for...what he really stands for?
He had zero new ideas and argues not for change but, a “realistic management” of what exists.
Management of what exists? There are plenty of managers around.
We want a leader.
Yep.
LOL!!!
Oh damn. Just damn.
I had plenty of crazy thoughts about your posit.
I’d ride lightning for sure if I said em....
Kinda like sleeping with a really obese girl:
“You just don’t know”.
LOL!
Romney whipped socialized medicine on Massachusetts. Then helped Obama change it to socialized medicine for the whole country. Best case scenario Romney is nothing more than a competent version of Obama. I ain’t voting for him.
The person who helped Obama win was Romney by deciding he did not have to run against him. Romney stayed home, so Romney lost.
Blaming people for Romney’s failing is ridiculous. Imagining doing the exact same thing again and getting a different result is insane. If Romney runs again, he will lose again.
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