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!).
Yeah, just like last time. The truth is that Mitt appeals to very few people.
He ran and lost. He would lose again. I will not support him and most of my friends won’t. I will not support Jeb, either. Facebook friends/relatives have talked about this.
Mitt has been on both sides of most issues and he still isn’t a Christian. NO!
Yeah, I get money requests all the time. I write back and say no way. I am fed up with them.
Nailed it. The Republican leadership is the power behind the Obama throne. They are the true despots controlling the state.
“Mitt Romney, by comparison, can realistically be seen by the larger body politic as not only a relative breath of fresh air”
If Willard Romney the open socialist is a breath of fresh air, then the empty suits in the media have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams in hoodwinking the public.
Take one Kenyan Marxist, make him white, wealthier, and born in the USA, and voila! Willard Romney.
Interesting take by the author of this article - Donald Joy
I agree with the author’s take that Obama voters will be happy to vote for Romney.
I approve of Romney coming out as a Democrap. After all this is what he has always been.
“Only one reason comes to mind. Sabotage, the RNC higher ups purposely try to lose an election, because that is their objective. They may be moles or being blackmailed. Their performance since 2005 is dismal. In 2010 the tea party won the election, not the RNC.”
I think the GOP is willingly going along with its role to act as a decoy so that people have the illusion of choice. Remember when Bush had majorities in the House and Senate and nothing happened? When the decoys have the stage, they dance and around do nothing.
Its party platform is to do nothing. Its goal is to do nothing. As long as no real progress against Marxism is happening, the GOP is doing its job. After all, if you’ve got to have an “alternative,” it might as well be one that doesn’t take the country in the opposite direction.
because his dipsh8t pollsters were afraid of offending the blacks they told him to soft pedal everything instead of hitting out at the socialist crapola obama was peddling
Rick Perry.
Let’s leave Millard Fillmore out of this.
Romney is a much stronger candidate now than two years ago and could probably cut his margin of defeat in half.
What type of person is part of any Romney base?
You think it’s bad now? Wait until the Supreme Court swings lopsided left. I’ll be voting Romney if he is the nominee.
If you don’t mind, could you give a straight answer? I’m sure one of the better current republican governors, perhaps...
If Romney can not beat a known failed president like Obama, why would he be given a second chance?
Only one reason comes to mind. Sabotage, the RNC higher ups purposely try to lose an election, because that is their objective. They may be moles or being blackmailed. Their performance since 2005 is dismal. In 2010 the tea party won the election, not the RNC.
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That’s why we need a third party. The Conservative Party. Even rinos call themselves conservative, so it apparently has curb appeal. If the Conservative Party laid out a simple platform ,I bet many people who think they are democrats will agree. No donkey or elephant. How about a a lion and a lamb or an Eagle.
I believe such a party already exists in name. They get a teensy tiny bit of support from a few stragglers.
However, I see The Tea Party as having a decent chance at succeeding where Perot failed.
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