Posted on 11/03/2012 6:08:36 PM PDT by adingdangdoo
A story about my attendance at today’s Romney rally in Englewood, Colorado.
Standing in line with Tanya, we strike up a conversation with a woman and her two kids behind us. Her youngest boy was very upset that we would not get in. Turns out they had been turned away from last week’s Red Rocks rally just as they were within sight of the security gates.
We go through security and get separated
from the woman and her kids. As we walk down the steps, we see all the closest sections are reserved with orange surveyor tape. Tanya asks an official “Who are those seats reserved for?” For people turned away from last week’s Red Rocks rally!
I ran back and found the woman trying to find a seat in the cheap seats. I told her she can go all the way to the front. The kids scream! It was funny because their scream carried all the way back down to where Tanya was explaining to the official the family’s circumstances.
So, they get to sit up front. On our way out, we see them collecting things and walk down to say hello. Both kids got to meet Romney and shake his hand!
These newspapers are insiders. My sense is that their endorsement is utilitarian. If Obama were ahead, they’d be endorsing him.
I wonder if their insider position gives them access to internal polling? If so, this kind of endorsement says that Romney is ahead.
I just mailed in my ballot today in Washington State - Obama is up here by 12% the last time I looked. I sadly left no marks in the box with the President/Vice President.
Watching Romney’s speech from Colorado just now (repeat), I had a twinge (sp?) of regret for not voting for him. But then recalled why I didn’t vote for him. And for me it was just conscience (my vote wouldn’t have mattered anyway).
There was a decent article a few days ago on FR about how Romney might just be the right guy with the right credentials at the right time for America. I hope that it is true.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2954618/posts
Of course I have also thought that hey - “If Romney is good enough for Palin, he’s good enough for me.”
Well, Romney was not my primary candidate choice, either. I think I’m supposed to have faith he means what he says when he’s reversed himself.
That ‘people can change.’
This ‘change’ is political, I know. . .
Met he and Mrs. Romney briefly maybe 3 years ago. He was stumping for a local candidate here in Ventura County, CA.
I can say he is no different now than he was back then - personable, friendly, and willing to work. He waited until the last person got a chance to meet him - I was next to last!
Dare I say this - ?
I have been concerned his stature as president of the USA will possibly give high credibility to Mormonism - - but guess it won’t kill me!
And I would not vote against him because of this. But almost!
And you’re right. He’s not an America hater, or Muslim sympathizer - funny I’m not aware anyone asked him that question: ‘What’s your stand on the Muslim ‘situation?’
Did I miss it?!
Like lots of other Republicans, I also wonder where one of our better possibilites for a presidential candidate is hiding out.
Good luck with your local candidates winning.
Excellent story :)
Newsday has been SO historically left wing, for so long, that this is like a 1983 Pravda endorsing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn over Yuri Andropov. Stunning. Is the NYT next???
I heard this on the local news and almost fell off my coach.
And now the NY Daily News endorses Romney. This continues a trend that just might be disturbing to Dems.
I have always had issues with Romney but like I told my son and others a while ago. I would rather vote for the Mormon than the anti-Christ.
We can’t take a chance. If this is as close as people think there has to be an overwhelming popular vote for him. Our vote is never thrown away. In the big picture if it is a squeaker in the Electoral College, there has to be a defined popular vote to show a mandate. 3rd party candidates take that away by pulling votes away from our side.
Just because Romney/Ryan wins doesn’t mean our job is over. We have to stay on top of all of them in the house and senate to do what needs to be done. It is never easy for us in NY and that alone is very frustrating.
Actually, since the House is where legislation is supposed to start, it’s the House and Senate races that are more important in terms of what happens in this country.
The president is almost a figurehead, except for the Supreme Court.
If we have a House with the guts, it can slap him down pretty hard.
I’m going to be struggling with actually casting a vote for him, but absolutely will not be disappointed with obama losing to him.
What else is she going to do?
However, I am thrilled with Ryan, just as I was with Palin last time.
I think we often forget that one of the things you’d get with Romney would be an entirely different group of people at the top, many of whom you would agree with entirely or almost entirely (such as Ryan!). There is not one single person in Obama’s administration who does not subscribe to his evil agenda, and they are going to be even more extreme if he gets reelected.
When you’re voting for a president, you’re not voting just for that one person and his opinions, but for a political party platform and the other people who subscribe to it and to ideas in that spectrum, and who will be the ones surrounding the president and appointed by him to positions of power.
To me, it’s unthinkable to risk letting Obama and his cabinet of evil extend their power.
The Richmond Times Dispatch(Slimes Pisspatch), the most left wing paper in the South, possibly the country, endorsed Romney. I was floored.
I call these papers endorsing Romney as inocculating themselves. They will begin viciously attacking Romney about a week after his inauguration, and when people call them on it, they will say “But we endorsed him”.
But did you read the endorsements? They like Romney because Obama has “squandered” his mandate and exacerbated the partisan divide to the point that he won’t be able to accomplish anything. They like Romney because he has a proven record of turning things around and working with Democrats.
These papers think that Romney will control the conservative Republicans by ignoring them.
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