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!).
Sue me. Bear in mind that millions of erstwhile Obama voters would vote GOP. Who, really, on our side would have a better chance of winning? Be honest. I really want to be wrong.
Play to win? If "our" guy Romney had won, Obama would be long forgotten right now. Instead, we'd be looking at a Republican administration taking authorship of nationalized health care, gay marriage, the whole environmental "carbon tax" hoax, tax-funded abortion, and you who tell yourselves, "Romney would never do that!" are ignorant dupes. LOOK AT HIS RECORD.
In other words, if our guy had won ... we'd be here wailing because we didn't intend to vote for that!!!
But that is exactly what we voted to "win." And you blame Romney for not "playing to win" ??
It was the voters who understood that a "win" with Romney was a loss.
So if he ran this time the same or different idiots would tell him to do the same with a woman opponent. The outcome would be the same.
Ironic that you said what you said about my name, since I got it by being adopted at the age of 4. Also, you didn’t have to spin into so many meaningless words the simple fact that you helped Obama win.
After he lost the election, Romney came out with some ‘positions’ on things that I said right then and there....I’ll NEVERV trust that man again. He is full of contradictions. He is NOT pro-life, regardless of how you spin it. He talks out of both sides of his mouth on a majority of issues. I rallied behind him on 2012 because I felt that this was the nominee God had given us. Then we watched as he did not put up a fight on ANYTHING. He sat as a ‘gentleman’ and let Obama tell lies. Sorry, but he would do no better against Hillary or Elisabeth Warren. He is NO MATCH for either of them. PERIOD!
Don’t let the establishment do this to us again! We can’t be that stupid, can we?
You could just answer the question.
Because he was set up to run and lose by the establishment. His speeches were rushed which tells me that it was all an act.
We'd just have to watch Ann kicking Mitt's butt from one end of the country to the other, screaming, "Get out there and fight, you wimp!"
Ann would be a better candidate, but they are afraid of humiliating Mitt.
Mitt Romney’s job in 2012 was simply to block other Republican candidates from winning the nomination....That’s the only reason he ran in the first place.
I love people who speak the truth and are always consistent. We’ve been in lots of conservative foxholes Finny, when the RomneyRNC trolls invaded FR. I say we outflank them before the battle.
I WILL vote for Sarah, again.
I said it two years ago and if called upon I’ll say it again in two years. There are no circumstances under which I will vote for a socialist, I don’t care what the letter after his name is. He isn’t on our side.
Ted Cruz is my choice.
That’s what really ticks them off. That they did in fact support 0bama and they refuse to acknowledge it.
A dream for sure—except how does he overcome being foreign born, and being perceived as an atavistic freak by the media and his own party’s kingmakers?
If somehow Romney were to win in 2016, it would be like a third term for Obama, except he’d have the support of the GOP in the Congress.
2nd time around? He’s already had 2 bites of the apple.
He needs to eat the mushrooms. ...
Mitt has already run twice....
Yup.
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