JOIN THE ESTABLISHMENT COLLECTIVE! RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!
Posted on 04/29/2012 9:56:21 PM PDT by Innovative
Mitt Romney and the Republican Party's sizable bloc of evangelical voters are about to engage in a marriage of political convenience.
The presumptive GOP presidential nominee's march to the nomination proceeded largely without strong backing from the conservative Christian community.
But with Romney now the only hope that conservatives have to beat President Barack Obama in November, a partnership has begun to jell.
Gary Rose, the chairman of the politics and government department at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., agreed. "Santorum was their guy, but more important is their agenda of dislodging Obama," he said. "I don't believe they'll stay home."
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““I, svcw, want to give Obama a second term, rather than elect Romney”. Simple”
That’s the bottom line everyone. A second term of Obama and we’re done for.
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That is not the bottom line. Fearmongering is merely the best you’ve got, and it is not enough.
Obama is not as powerful as the fearmongers portray, and if Obama that powerful was a vapid shell of a man like Romney would simply ask permission to be his secretary.
America is not as weak as fearmongers present either, although the present United States might be. As to that, America was prosperous and vigorous before the Washington government existed, and will emerge strong and vigorous when it passes, as all internally corrupted and bankrupt entities do.
You say Romney loves the United States. Perhaps he does, in the same way that many love cows. Steaks are delicious. I see no record of patriotic service in his life, or in his lineage. I see a hollow man and a brazen opportunist. No hollow man is a patriot.
The good news for the evangelicals who are soul-searching to make this decision that next time they are asked to sell out it won’t be nearly as hard. If Mitt Romney doesn’t constitute someone “too far” then the idea of “too far” has no meaning, whatsoever. If you really, really try, you might find 3-4 Republicans less conservative than Romney but I doubt it.
I didn’t say Romney loves the United States. I said I don’t believe he HATES it like Obama! Big difference!
I’m no Romneybot but I’ll vote for him before Obama. Btw,
isn’t Ooooga Boooga negrospeak? So that explains it, you must be an Obama supporter. I bet you’re you’re half white too!
Clever. How are things in High School? You taking driver’s ed yet?
Should not be a surprise that MittWitt supporters and Obama drones sound alike.
After all, so do their candidates.
I’ll acknowledge the re-election of Obama. I still will not vote for Mitt Romney. I’d rather a democrat screw things up than a Republican.
Once upon a time we could use our VOTE to take back our party. Now it seems the only way is to WITHOLD IT until they put up a serious conservative candidate.
I won’t tolerate this slide to the left; not from my party.
The GOP is welcome to try again with my vote in 2016.
If you made a ven diagram of MittWitts and ObammieCommies, the fudgepacking intersection could be represented by one perfectly overlapping circle.
Sorry everybody, didn’t mean to spam that post...
but seriously... don’t vote for Romney.
...your weapon is firing uncontrolled bursts ...
Yep, that is my point, and if he wins with Social Conservatives publicly sitting it out, it will marginalize Socons for a generation. All of the work that Reagan put in will be washed away. I not old enough to remember the 1968 primaries, but Reagan won the pop vote and got stabbed in the back by the Gop at the convention. He didn’t take his ball and go home, instead he continued to fight within the party to take it where he wanted it. That is our only option now, we should learn my history, not ignore it.
Well, if some staunch Conservative ala Reagan slugs it out with the Ruling Class and can get the nomination in 2016 despite the backstabbing, I will vote for the Conservative.
Romney doesn’t get my vote, or anyone else I can convince to vote Conservative this year.
I won’t buy into the lame attempt at riddling us with guilt. You can stop trying, it won’t work. As Reagan famously said, “I didn’t leave the party, the party left me”. And such is true with the GOP as it was with the Dems for Ronnie.
I’m done with the party. I vote Conservative, PERIOD and I promote Conservatives, PERIOD.
I am not trying to “riddle you with guilt”, how you vote is your business, I am still not sure how I am going to vote, that is why it is called a campaign, someone has to convince someone else that they are the better choice, and so far, noone in this campaign has done that for me. I live in Oregon, and Romney is the type of Republican that could actually compete here, so for the first time in a long time my vote might actually matter. But I don’t vote against someone, I’m not a democrat. Romney has to give me and others a reason to vote for him, and he has 6 months to do it. But I will never do anything to help the American hating turd in the White House to win reelection either.
Right. I recall that he was knocked for his divorce too.
Looks like the Borg really has taken over. :>)
Apparently, you're unaware of how evil Romney. Pretending you're doing what God wants by voting for the father of gay marriage and a man that did everything he could to promote abortion in Massachusetts is truly delusional.
If Hugo Chavez was eligible to run and he was the Republican nominee and making the same promises Romney is, would you vote for him, too? Or is there every a line you're draw and not support the lesser of two evils?
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