You win the comedy thread of the night. Mittens has spent a big portion of his life doing what his old man couldn't. He ain't rolling over for anyone.
Posted on 12/01/2011 11:24:46 PM PST by Oscar in Batangas
Do It for America, Mr. Romney
Part of Senator Zell Miller’s (D-GA) stirring 2004 Republican Convention speech was:
…President Roosevelt in a speech that (1940) summer told America “All private plans, all private lives, have been in a sense repealed by an overriding public danger.”
In 1940, Wendell Willkie was the Republican nominee. And there is no better example of someone repealing their private plans than this good man. He gave Roosevelt the critical support he needed for a peacetime draft – an unpopular idea at the time. And he made it clear that he would rather lose the election than make national security a partisan campaign issue.
Shortly before Willkie died, he told a friend that if he could write his own epitaph, and had to choose between “Here Lies a President” or “Here Lies One Who Contributed to Saving Freedom” he would prefer the latter.
Where are such statesmen today?...
Too many conservatives have had to hold their noses too many times and vote for the establishment’s selection. This is the T.E.A. Party era now. People in that movement are not going to hop in the back seat and go meekly along for a ride anymore.
Al Gore lost the Presidency in 2000 because Ralph Nader had siphoned off something more than only 500 votes (Florida) in a country that had cast around 100,000,000 votes.
Even if you were to execute a hard right turn and run full throttle on that heading until November, 2012, I’m afraid that a lot of conservatives would not vote for you.
Can you beat Mr. Obama if one tenth of conservatives sits this one out or opts for some other minor party? …One fourth? …One third? …One half?
Mr. Romney, you may have the Republican nomination within reach. But is that all that you want?
Can America’s freedom survive the consequences if that is all that you get?
I will never fully comprehend how awful this suggestion is to you, but I believe that a general election campaign in which the Republican nominee is disfavored by many in his or her own party is a formula for American Freedom’s destruction.
Please, Mr. Romney, pick any conservative Republican candidate, be that person’s vice president candidate and spare America from four more years of Barack Hussein Obama.
We need you to be statesman, not nominee, this time.
Do it for America, Mr. Romney.
Somehow???
Any How???
You win the comedy thread of the night. Mittens has spent a big portion of his life doing what his old man couldn't. He ain't rolling over for anyone.
Romney and his sycophants actually believe that he can buy the presidency. Maybe he will bow out if he loses Iowa and New Hampshire, maybe not. In 2008, he lost both and kept spending away.
Is Romney a “statesman?”
I don’t think so.
I will not vote for Mittens
not for president
not for vice president
I will not vote for Mittens
or any Kittens who would choose as a running mate
any politician named Mittens
There is much assumption Romney is not part of Cloward-Piven...
The same people performing Cloward-Piven are promoting Myth Romney..
He must be their Plan “A”.. Newt being Plan “B”, and Perry Pan “C”.. Cain was a diversion..
The ONLY conservative is Michele Bachmann..
I know all of that too well. I really wanted to appeal to the little spark of patriotism that may be under all that makeup.
But if he wins, WE lose.
Enough voters on this forum may sit out to give us ‘4 more years’.
This may be the lesser of two evils.
I DON’T know, but VPOTUS Romney is far less awful to me than POTUS Obama all over.
Glenn Beck has a better shot at the nomination.
Romney is NOT going to be the nominee! Period! Sorry peeps but when you’re hitting your head on a +- 20% ceiling that you can’t break through it’s just NEVER going to happen. Newt has his issues, as does any man, but he is the only politician I have ever seen who is intriguing every time he speaks. Has he spoken out of his ass at times? Sure. But he doesn’t have an eternally repeating political “stump speech.” He actually answers questions with ideas! What a concept! He is forcing a DEBATE and THAT is why he is surging. We need an F’ing debate in this country! And Newt has started one. He is not bagging on his competitors, he’s speaking truth to power. He is a student of history and I trust he will model his presidency on that knowledge, regardless of the missteps he has made in the past. Newt is not only a fighter, but he’s a smart fighter and he will take the fight to the left in a way that no one else in this pack will.
I notice that 'ol scheming-with-Dad-to-take-over-the-world Mitt didn't join us.
In other words, he has always had the ambition to lead our country but fell just a tad short of risking his life for it. What did he do instead? Go on a mission for his church?
If Romney drops out,
and IF Romney does not backstab,
then America has chance.
But his ONLY goal is Romney/Obama/Soros.
If Romney is as bad as you say he will lose in the primaries. Nobody needs to be telling anyone who should be running and who shouldn’t. We have the Democratic process for that. I would also say that every candidate in the race has their problems, including the current frontrunner.
I will never vote for SnippyMcMittCare...NEVER!
***Nobody needs to be telling anyone who should be running and who shouldn’t.***
That is the beauty and the beast of our system. The people who announce their candidacies are to be commended for their boldness. Even if they have policies and principles we deplore - the public scrutiny is preferable to smoky back rooms (although some do have a whiff of smoke around them).
The public and media ‘vetting’ is merciless for Republicans and Conservatives. Perhaps that will change in the General Election. Our nominee should shove it to the media and BO -hard and often.
The boldness of a televangelist.
That ticket, would not get my vote.
Televangelists are worse than politicians.
TVs threaten hell and promise heaven - for money.
Politicians promise heaven and deliver hell - for votes.
Televangelists have to talk the suckers into sending money. Politicians use the force of government to take it from you--before you ever see it.
All televangelists can do is talk. Politicians weild real power. They are much worse. But the personalities that are drawn to the circus of politics are the same ones that are drawn to televangelism, and for the same reason--to take advantage of suckers.
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