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!).
But the fools here who believed (and advertised) that MEDIOCRE was the same as the face of evil we have in the bamster, the fools that actually believed a RINO squish was actually the same as an American hating Marxist, the most destructive, inane, immoral, crony filled, incompetent, anti free enterprise, pro abort, pro spend, anti everything we claim to stand for preezie ever.
They've all got blood on their hands for staying home. And they preen around here like they've done something great as the country circles the toilet.
Despicable.
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Well said!
It's the only way we get a conservative nominee, and NO, I never wanted Romney, but the alternative (as used to be my tag line in 2012) was unthinkable.
LOL! You've been here what? Less than a year and you're calling me a troll, newbie? Maybe you should try looking back at the post I was responding to.
You've been rather snarky on this thread. You're the one who's been evidencing the classic troll behavior, not me, kemosabe.
How you figure it’s the only way we get a conservative nominee?
I just resent the notion that we rejected Romney because we were “purists.”
And FWIW, I did vote for Romney, although I had a gas mask in the voting booth.
In 2012 ? Scott Walker. I was here trumpeting recruiting him into the race over the sideshow of proven losers.
I DO resent those here who represent the 2% or more who stayed home and could have ended this farce and tragedy. They DO preen around here way too much as if they did something good. They were fools with blood on their hands, just read FR every day since the election, every single fricking day we read the horrors of leaving this so called man in office.
Anynone who thought they could leave this despicable group in office needs their head examined.
No, the GOP fails because of people like you, always fighting to move it left, in this case to a radical anti-Reagan liberal.
You even glossed over the fact that Mitt was a draft evader, and that NO man in his direct line has EVER served America as a soldier, in the family’s entire 170 year history, no draft, no war, no patriotism, no anything has ever gotten Mitt’s male line into serving us, in fact they have been so anti-American that they left the United States, only returning because of violence in the nation they moved to.
“”Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I’m not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.””
“”I’m not a partisan politician. My hope is that, after this election, it will be the moderates of both parties who will control the Senate, not the Jesse Helmses.””
Then maybe the Party shouldn't have driven us away.
McQueeg was bad enough as Ringer #1. Willard was the last straw. I’d not have voted for that fraud and liar at gunpoint.
(BTW, in hindsight knowing how long McQueeg has lasted, I’d have taken back my vote in 2008)
Indeed.
When the republicans run conservatives I vote for them. When they run socialists/liberals or use voter fraud or character assassination against conservatives as in Mississippi, I don’t vote for republicans. Romney as the republican candidate sat at home and refused to compete against the democrats. He thinks like them and would rather help democrats than conservatives. That was obvious in his Obama is just “in a little over his head” statements. No criticism, no opposing statements, no hardball, just patty cake.
The candidate you love and are so foolishly slavering over right now refused to go after anything Obama did as wrong. If you support Romney as a candidate, you help Obama and every other democrat win because he would rather help every other democrat win. He fooled you into believing he was a viable candidate and you let Romney snooker you. Most people recognize when they have been taken and refuse to be fooled again. You, on the other hand, are going to be taken multiple times.
Compared to Obama who most Democrats are running away from, Romney looks good by comparison (emphasis last two words.)
Good grief, get a life. I didn't want Romney anymore than you did. He won. it was Mitt or the Marxist in the end. The party didn't mandate him or stuff the boxes. Anyone who didn't show up to vote the monster out has blood on their hands.
I don’t criticize anyone who votes their conscience. Romney lost because of Romney.
No, Romney is in high demand from the left wing of the GOP for the same reason that he has been in demand from them for 22 years, to advance their side against the Reagan wing.
His purpose in the primaries and in everything he does, is to defeat the right.
Wrong. He won because there was no viable conservative running, no good candidate as alternative. He got the votes. If you stayed home AFTER that, you’ve got blood on your hands. No one in the GOPE appointed him, he simply won.
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