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!).
It’s Cute the way you guys blame everything on Reagan republicans.
“It’s Cute the way you guys blame everything on Reagan republicans.”
Why don’t you refresh your memory about Reagan’s stance:
Ronald Reagan on the importance of political compromise(in his own words)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/960104/posts
“”If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for, I say, you take it and fight for the rest later, and that’s what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.”
But of course! Don't you know? Every GOP loss is our fault! This poor Republican Freeper just found out that her liberal GOP candidate lost! What is the matter with her conservative friend! Doesn't he know that voting for her guy would have been the lesser of two evils?!
Reagan never compromised with evil. Stop throwing him in our faces.
Oh, wait...The talks collapsed at the last minute...Reagan never agreed to ditch SDI...I think it had something to do with him standing on his principles and not compromising with evil. Hmmm. Must be a lost quality these days.
Aw, but that's old hat! In today's "New" GOP, we can compromise with evil, right? We can compromise with backstabber Mitt! With Prince Reibus and his gang! After all, they're the lesser of two evils! C'mon, let's get on that slippery slope! It's fun!
The fact that you can’t figure it out speaks volumes as per my point. Maybe you should keep trying.
Excellent post. IMO there are only a handful of principled politicians. All the rest have sold out and are nothing more than high-powered whores.
At least whores offer an actual service.
Be careful here, regarding foreign policy. Romney has just been triumphantly vindicated after having previously staked out principled yet unpopular positions, and been mocked for them at the time.
In case you haven't been paying attention, Romney's in high demand this election cycle. Contrast that to Obama who Democrats up for re-election this year are running away from.
I guess like me you will be voting for Rick Perry.
Why are you using a Reagan quote on legislative battles with democrat legislatures, in an effort to promote a rino for President?
Here is the Reagan quote that applies to Mitt Romney, Romney’s father ran against Reagan for the presidency, and Mitt left the republican party because of Reagan, and didn’t vote for him and Bush, and in fact supported and fund raised, and voted democrat for a long period, before he rejoined the GOP in October of 1993, AFTER, Reagan/Bush were over, and Clinton was safely in the White House.
RONALD REAGAN—””We don’t intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all.””
Romney fights to move the party left.
The draft evading Mitt Romney, whose sons never served, and that no man in his direct line has ever served America in the military, during their entire 170 year history here, has no particular interest in foreign affairs and the military, he merely parrots what he is told, the only issues he is passionate on, or liberal issues, like Romneycare, defending abortion, gays in the military, anti-guns, gay Scout leaders, etc.
The lack of military service among all his sons and male lineage/self alone used to be a dealbreaker for me kn the primaries. All I’m saying is that hardcore conservatives always wind up having only a small voice on presidential elections. Let’s be honest. When the chips are down, we have been cutting off our nose to spite our face and ceding the whole shebang to democrats, all because of failed purity tests.
Who was talking about Romney?
Purity!?!?!?!?! Are you kidding me.....Even mediocre would do, and they can’t even get to that level.
Typical troll tactic. Change the subject of the post.
The subject was standing firmly on principle regarding foreign policy. Go away, troll.
How 'bout somebody who WASN'T a ringer, Hoss ?
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