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To: sirchtruth
>>Courage if not a virtue, but the point at which any virtue is tested -- CS Lewis paraphrase
>
>I truly do appreciate this paraphrase, but would you elaborate on the point you are making - I'm trying to fully understand this.

The point is that to show courage in this situation would be to hold to the oath you swore to yourself and not vote for any RINO, meaning Romney.

My friend, let me tell you that the hardest person to forgive is yourself, and you would be right to hate yourself for betraying yourself after having given your word to yourself. Or, most simply put: you should not put yourself in a position where your conscience will eat you alive.

Don't vote for Romney; vote for someone of whom your conscience will approve. Understanding that Romney is not opposed to Obama on this issue; he is a socialist and his own Romneycare was the forefather of Obamacare. You are left with a Morton's Fork: where both choices lead to the same [bad] outcome -- keeping that in mind, breaking your word sounds like it will bring you only harm, being self-inflicted, yet meaningless, pain.

229 posted on 06/28/2012 10:49:29 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark
The point is that to show courage in this situation would be to hold to the oath you swore to yourself and not vote for any RINO, meaning Romney.

Why would it be courageous to allow my FREEDOM to be lost? Fighting for my country and the American Ideal is what this is all about! It trumps rinoism at this point. You can sit there all you want and say Romney is the same as Obama, but what just happened today in America is the exact antithesis of what is America. Romney, no matter how much of a rino he is, is not anti-American.

If you can't see YOUR freedom being eviscerated today you are blind. There is only ONE WAY now to get it back, vote that scumbag socialist lying prick Obama and his ilk out of office and try to replace it with people who do not at the very least HATE capitalism, freedom and the American way of life!

The only way to vote AGAINST Obama and this FREEDOM killing law is a vote for Romney, who promised today he would repeal this DAY ONE! I can live with a rino who will do this.

243 posted on 06/28/2012 12:03:57 PM PDT by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free.)
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To: OneWingedShark
The point is that to show courage in this situation would be to hold to the oath you swore to yourself and not vote for any RINO, meaning Romney.

Why would it be courageous to allow my FREEDOM to be lost? Fighting for my country and the American Ideal is what this is all about! It trumps rinoism at this point. You can sit there all you want and say Romney is the same as Obama, but what just happened today in America is the exact antithesis of what the IDEA represents. Romney, no matter how much of a rino he is, is not anti-American.

If you can't see YOUR freedom being eviscerated today you are blind. There is only ONE WAY now to get it back, vote that scumbag socialist lying prick Obama and his ilk out of office and try to replace it with people who do not at the very least HATE capitalism, freedom and the American way of life!

The only way to vote AGAINST Obama and this FREEDOM killing law is a vote for Romney, who promised today he would repeal this DAY ONE! I can live with a rino who will do this.

244 posted on 06/28/2012 12:07:23 PM PDT by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free.)
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