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!).
I go with Vattel, as did the Founders. Obama was born a British subject. I’m elated that the RNC has finally drawn the líne regarding the presidential debates.
Because it's your thread, you hopeless dope.
I merely ask that she tailor her reply to the meaning of the comment. She showed that she doesn’t know that the word erstwhile pertains to the past tense. Shouldn’t adults be capable of learning, correction, correction, self-examination?
....”I hate the fact that I constantly have to explain”.....
No you don’t...you can stop any time of your choosing.
BlackElk, don't you know IChing is gracing us with his presence? He's the smartest one in the room---why, he's darn near brilliant. Not only that, he rode in the aisle on Air Force One with somebody, or....shoot, I can't remember. Who cares.
Shouldn’t a freeper allow us to know his freeper names, so that we can see why he gets banned so much for trolling?
...”Who cares”....
Doesn’t look like most here do but they’re having fun batting the mouse around.
They should. Learn this:
You're a puffed-up, pompous, self-impressed, arrogant little jerk. Take steps to remedy your behavior lest you continue to embarrass and shame yourself.
It IS fun, LOL. He’s too easy.
Uh, yeah. When someone shows lack of reading comprehension when attacking me, I should be most gracious, perhaps even not rebut them at all, much less try to nudge them toward finding their own error.
Center-right??????? Do you have ANY clue as to Romney's absolutely despicable leftist track record in public life???? Or his daddy's or his mommy's????? I follow politics enough to have been a Reagan state chairman. How about you? Mittens: Kill babies as enthusiastically as possible (a relative of his or actually two died of a botched abortion in about 1962), ruin marriage, grab guns, no foreign policy chops, no military experience or sympathy, etc., etc., etc., ad infinitum ad nauseam. He even made ill gotten gains investing in dead baby disposal operations at abortion mills. Puhleeeeeeze! Just what is YOUR definition of "center right?"
Did you apply the same logic and think it a good idea to re-nominate POS mushball Gerald Ford for a second loss to Jimmuh Peanut or did you go for the "far right firebrand" Ronaldus Maximus????
How much is Mittens paying you?
The guy obviously, is not all there.
LOL, when attacking you. I’ve never seen Linda Frances attack anyone. she’s a conservative lady in the best sense of the word.
She was putting you in your place while trying to educate you. But the hotshot author’s ego isn’t accustomed to that kind of thing, is it? Your hackles really got up...and they’re still up.
Too bad. You need some good healthy criticism to smack you in the face and wake you up to the fact that you’re an ass...and a not too bright one, at that.
His ego has crowded out his brain.
Or when they accuse another freeper of saying something they didn’t, because they failed to comprehend. She accused someone of wanting Romney from the outset, merely because that person said they’d vote for him if he wound up getting the nomination.
I see. So glad you told me off! Bravo!
Your posted evidence is beyond any doubt! Good thing you helped Obama to reelection instead!
Glad to help. Good night.
The GOP ruling class gave you Obozo by nominating Romney. They will try to give us the Arkansas Medusa by nominating Romney or some equivalent POS for POTUS. The day that such a candidate is nominated by the GOP-E you can say MJ\s. President to Hillary or Elizabeth Warren. Doubt me? Try it.
I was a Reagan State Chairman and I'll bet you weren't. There is a BIG difference between getting 80% of what you want and getting .0000008% (if that) from POS Romney and only if you care about Muffie's trust fund. Romney is our enemy on virtually everything just as much as Hillary and Obozo. The R after his name means absolutely NOTHING! Nominate some POS whether Romney or anything like him and be prepared for another Demonrat regime and record tax hikes. You will deserve it if that's what you nominate.
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