Five Ways Conservatives Will Have to Sell Their Souls if Romney Wins

Townhall.com ^ | January 17, 2012 | John Hawkins

[crosshairs]

I won’t vote for Mitt, even if it means Hussein gets re-elected. We’re skrewd either way. Might as well just get it over with.

[D-fendr]

I’ll vote for anyone running against Obama.

If it’s Mitt, I’ll just work harder to elect a Congress that will oppose him until we can replace him in the next primary if he doesn’t sign their bills.

It’s too important to stop Obama now, and the executive isn’t the only branch of government.

[RipSawyer]

“Tell me the political difference between Obama and Romney.”
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Well, let’s see, Romney supports the Marxist cause more convincingly, needs less teleprompting, smiles much more, stutters and stumbles less, has much better hair and teeth etc., no facial moles, he is just better looking altogether. Come to think of it if the rats were smart they would ditch Obama and nominate Romney, he is even a natural born citizen.

[DJ MacWoW]

he is even a natural born citizen.

His father was born in Mexico.

[Kaslin]

Who says Romney will be the nominee, the pundits and the lame stream media?

Pfft to them, they can not tell me who to vote for

[Scotsman will be Free]

I’m with you. I will not vote for rumnuts.

[Kaslin]

My son and daughter were born in Germany as American citizens. Do you think George W. Romney could have run for president in 1966 if he had been a naturalized citizen?

[Scotsman will be Free]

Well said.

[peyton randolph]

“sad sack of Mitt”

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Best description of Romney I’ve seen.

[DJ MacWoW]

No. There were questions about McCain and he was born on an Army base.

Romney's family were living in Mexico because they were Mormons and they fled the US because of polygamy laws.

[Kaslin]

Yeah, but Mexico does not allow foreigners to become Mexican citizen, so they were always US citizens.

McCain was not born on an Army base but at Coco Solo US Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone, where his father was stationed as a Navy officer

[Ingtar]

My soul is not mine to sell. I will not compromise it if Rombama or McNewt win.

[Kaslin]

No, there was never any questions about McCain having been born in an Army base since there was no army base at Coco Solo but a Navy base

[DJ MacWoW]

Two responses to one post? I didn't answer faster because I'm sick and have been for a few days.

I know where McCain was born.

As to Romney, his birthplace, and the reason, didn't play well in 1966. I grew up in Toledo and everyone hated Michigan's Governor.

[bmwcyle]

Romney is Obama.

[CodeToad]

I will write in someone else before I will vote for a Marxist like Romney.

[transducer]

On the other hand, what some conservatives seem to be starting to lose sight of in their efforts to defend Mitt Romney is that not everything that creates a profit is moral, good, admirable, or even politically palatable. We'd never run a candidate who got rich running a chain of strip clubs, closing all his factories and sending his jobs of China, or by being the world's most effective spammer. We can all see the issues there.
Along similar lines, it's not particularly admirable to buy a company, load it up with debt, strip it of its assets, run it into the ground, and walk away with a tidy profit while the business goes under and thousands of poor and middle class Americans lose their jobs. Listening to conservatives talk about what a glorious thing it is when regular Americans get fired is more than a little bit disconcerting, particularly since when it was Bain's turn to face that same kind of "creative destruction," they had millions of dollars in debt forgiven by the FDIC in what could fairly be termed a bailout. The same goes Bain making more than 15 million dollars on GS Technologies when "a federal government insurance agency had to pony up $44 million to bail out the company’s underfunded pension plan." That's a prime example of the sort of "capitalism on the way up and socialism on the way down" that most Americans, including Tea Partiers, hated about TARP. Now, we're going to be asked to defend that as one of the wonders of the free enterprise system because Mitt Romney may be the nominee?

This is the most important point here. Attacking Mitt Romney's sleazy and unethical business practices is NOT attacking free-market capitalism. Someone should sit Rush Limbaugh down and make him write that sentence five hundred times.

[kevkrom]

The article is premised on the assumption that conservatives will vote for Romney and work for his election if he were the GOP nominee.

Well, THIS conservative will do neither, so no "soul selling" for me.

[B Knotts]

Well, there is a bit of difference, in that Obama is a bit more leftist than Romney, who is more of a status quo kind of guy.

They’re both statists and elitists. But, then again, most of the politicians in both parties are statists.

It is going to be amusing to see the contortions people are going to go through, here and elsewhere, to justify supporting Romney in the general election. Just watch.

[DJ MacWoW]

Free Republic will not support Mitt Romney. The owner has said that anyone who wants to support him will do so elsewhere.