Posted on 05/14/2012 10:53:24 AM PDT by xzins
Former Fifth District Congressman Virgil Goode blasted presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney as “the father of homosexual marriages” in a statement released to the news media on the eve of Romney’s visit to Liberty University this weekend.
Goode, now running for president on the Constitution Party ticket, referred to Romney’s move as Massachusetts governor to issue same-sex marriage licenses in the wake of a state-court ruling.
“Gov. Romney did not stand fast in favor of traditional marriage,” said Goode, who lost his Fifth District seat in 2008 to Democrat Tom Perriello.
Goode said he has been a “consistent supporter of defining marriage as being between one man and one woman.”
“At this point in our country’s history, we need a president who will stand firmly behind traditional marriage and the Federal Marriage Amendment. I am suspicious that Gov. Romney, if elected president, could waffle again,” Goode said.
The stakes, to Goode: “If homosexual marriages become normal across the country, the impact on states like Virginia, which prohibit gay marriage, will be huge. State taxpayers will have to pay for the expanded health insurance costs and State retirement costs. At the federal level, the impact on the Social Security Trust Fund and the Department of Defense will be significant when homosexual partners are granted the same monetary benefits that heterosexual married couples have under current Social Security law and provisions covering military spouses,” he said.
I myself am still unsure about Goode, but he is no Massachusetts Liberal masquerading in Conservative clothing.
Goode is surely not in the race. Get real: few outside of his treehouse have even heard of him. Is Romney a conservative? Of course not. Bachmann, Cain, and even Rick Perry could be called conservative but they are also called "unsuccessful candidates".
LLS
Neither DNC candidate Bamma or Albinobamma will get my vote either.
He's in the race enough to possibly throw Virginia to Obama. Losing Virginia would be fatal to Romney's campaign.
And never forget that nationally legal same-sex marriage would institutionalize same-sex couples on every rung of the society and government. From pre-schoolers being taught what the new definition of marriage is (marrying either your friend Billy or Janey, whichever one you love), to schools having to make both kinds of couples their prom king/queen, to every church and business having to treat same-sex couples the same. Whether this all would automatically come with a new marriage law, or would be “interpreted” as being part of the law by the courts, it all would happen. This would be a fundamental change in society with sweeping implications in every facet of life and ominous concerns about how the next generation of children would develop.
I am thinking Goode is good for me. Solid Constitutional Conservative credentials.
Romney is fatal to Romney’s campaign. I just can’t vote for someone who believes children should be raised by homosexuals, among a whole lotta other things.
I find Goode to be an acceptable compromise. Besides, he hasn’t endorsed gay adoption that I’m aware of.
The earliest date that Romney could flip again away from conservative positions would be on Jan 20 2017, IMO. With any luck by then he will have appointed two Federalist Society blessed strict constructionists to SCOTUS to replace at least one ACLU justice (Ginsberg). In contrast, failing to remove the ineligible Marxist Manchurian in a tight race by conservatives failing to vote FOR the GOP alternative could insure more ACLU justices, more abortions and total mainstreaming of the homosexualist agenda as tipping SCOTUS will permit activist leftist justices with a 5-4 majority to impose gay marriage and Roe nationwide in all states.
Failure to remove Barry ASAP will permit him to dismantle our offensive military force projection and defensive missile efforts and make our former allies drift further away from the USA setting us up for 1938 all over again...especially in the South China Sea.
>Reality sucks..
The Seminoles suck.
(sorry, had to get that in there)
Great post!
You suck...
Just to follow up on your excellent post, which I think the same about...
Histrionic, fear-driven posters are making this sound like the end of the world. That if each of us does not cast a vote for RINOmney, we are voting for Zero. This is as false as saying that each time we drink a 7up, we are actually drinking a coke. No sale.
In all likelihood, there only three options:
1. Zero wins in a landslide, like in ‘08. If so, your vote won’t count, no matter who you vote for.
2. RINOmney wins in a landslide, in which case, your vote won’t count.
3. It is a dead-heat tie - IN YOUR STATE - and only then will your vote decide your state.
Unfortunately, your vote will likely not decide the national election unless the Electoral count is a tie and you are the final state. My state has 6 million voters. The odds of my vote deciding the election are small, very small. My state likely won’t decide the Electoral College final count.
Sorry, I don’t buy the whole fear driven end times scenario. The problem isn’t Zero. The problem is that he is not opposed in Congress, scorned, sued, etc.
I am focused on electing conservatives in each office that has a conservative in the race.
Not true.
You know EV that in all fairness and full disclosure, when you post things like that, you should say, “I am Tom Hoefling, and I approved this message.”
You are Tom Hoefling, aren’t you?
Indeed. I live in a solidly red state that Maobama cannot possibly win. Whether Barack ‘Herod’ Obama wins re-election or not, I can safely vote for Goode since Romney will win the electoral votes from my state. We have 50 different presidential elections not one. Thank God for the electoral college.
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