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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!).
“Genius”
“Pay attention”
“Troll” (LOL!)
“Not very literate, are you?”
I’ve found that Romney fans often behave like snot-nosed little jerks. You fit the bill perfectly.
Like I said, keep digging. It’s fun to watch.
Ted Cruz. But I cannot convince myself that he overcomes the foreign birth and sweaty upper lip, not to mention wide perception that he is a neanderthal. They will do to him what they did to Palin.
The media always loves a RINO loser. Why do you think they’re so interested in nominating Willard for the GOP ?
BTW, who are you supporting in 2016 ? I’ve asked repeatedly and you haven’t answered.
Well, he’s already overcome the birther nonsense. “Sweaty upper lip” is a new one. “Wide perception he is a Neanderthal” is also a new one. Will these be the talking points for the establishment so they can anoint Willard the lying loser ringer again ?
The media and establishment will always crucify non-leftists. Go ahead and do your worst, guys. We’re supporting Ted Cruz.
Romney isn’t being touted again, you rinos are merely doing what you keep doing that costs us elections, doing whatever you can to move the party left.
Romney has 22 years of campaigning and has invested tens of millions of his personal wealth into it, so far the almost 70 year old man has won a single election, and that with less than 50%.
Romney took that office and failed in it, he had to give up plans for reelection due to his own polling of his chances, he left that office with 34% approval and turned the seat over to the democrat.
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You folks might want to get in here and voice your opinions if you haven’t already. You can see the Willardbot apologists and flunkies are out in farce.
So your speculation is that the most realistic path to the White House is to support the republican candidate who supports the democrats?
Given your speculation, it could be said that the truly realistic path must be to support the candidates who support the democrats the most. And everyone knows the democrat candidates support the democrats the most. Need I finish? Taking your ridiculous speculation of a so-called "realistic path" to its logical conclusion -- people should vote for the democrat.
Yes, I just wonder if it’s another futile fantasy. Rick Santorum was on fire in the primaries for awhile, remember? How many other times have we seen conservative candidates fall off the edge of the bed?
LOL, wow, it is fascinating to see how you guys can fight so hard for Romney, and at the same time so subtly cut Cruz and Palin even while using them as beards.
There were no first-tier serious Conservative candidates running. The establishment saw to that.
Notice they bring up “negatives” made up about Cruz but cite not a single ACTUAL negative about Willard ? Note they don’t mention the widespread perception Willard is a flipflopping liar (and out-of-touch rich elitist).
Hmmmm, let’s see, I was first introduced to FR in the late 90s by jacquej, then joined in 2004 or so. The mods have not always been friendly to me because apparently I’m a RACIST.
Regarding a possible Cruz candidacy, do you think the GOP establishment will go nuclear on Cruz if he’s the nominee the way they did with Goldwater, and do you think it can be overcome?
Lately we’ve learned the reason why so many conservatives candidates fall off. Their own party members are sabotaging them. Any true conservative will have to fight both party establishment/elite and democrats if they want to win. And the GOPe will do whatever they have to do to make sure the conservative loses. See Mississippi senate race for reference.
While it would be very generous of the Democrats to nominate him, I think that’s asking too much considering how poor the perception of Rombamacare has become.
You have no idea how long I’ve been here.
So you are a retread troll?
Lol
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