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The Dangerous Self-Delusion of Some Conservatives
markamerica.com ^ | June 30. 2012 | Mark America

Posted on 06/30/2012 10:23:54 AM PDT by EternalVigilance

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To: rogue yam
None of this is conservative Maybe, it is maybe it isn't, one thing we do know for sure Romney is not a conservative and he never has been.
361 posted on 07/01/2012 5:21:01 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: Windflier
Windflier, you outdid yourself with this one. Dead on target:

We've been doing it your way for over half a century, and it's done nothing but encourage and sanction the Republican party's leftward evolution....

Where do you ever see [the Democrats] compromising their principles to vote for center-right Democrat candidates? You don't. They'd rather lose by a landslide than back up a single inch on their ideological beliefs, and they demand candidates who are unbending in their allegiance to their shared ideals.

But on our side, we're told that we have to compromise to 'win'. If you continue to promote or agree with that computation, eventually you wind up voting for the other side's agenda. Whether you realize it or not - and that is exactly what is happening in this race.

BUMP TO THE TOP.

362 posted on 07/01/2012 5:24:59 PM PDT by Finny (A deal with the devil is ALWAYS a losing proposition. Voting for Romney to avoid Obama is just that.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Somehow I doubt you’ll even be here a month from now.


Is that a threat?


363 posted on 07/01/2012 5:26:00 PM PDT by unkus
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To: rogue yam

You apparently believe Romney is a conservative, ok.
Most people who have been keeping up know he is not, many are still voting for him because they suffer from BHOhysteria.
What is find extremely amusing is that your support of Romney means nothing because you live in California.


364 posted on 07/01/2012 5:28:37 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: svcw

If Obama is re elected, there is a zero percent chance of repealing obamacare. If romney gets elected, there is a greater than zero chance of Obamacare getting repealed. Good enough for me.


365 posted on 07/01/2012 5:31:35 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: Windflier
I'm sure you admire yourself for ducking straightforward questions and for returning fire with what you believe to be marvelous wit, but I assure you, you're one of the few around here who does. In actuality, you've cemented your reputation as a duplicitous shill for a documented fraud who shares nothing in common with conservatives and patriots.

WF,

I have to hand it to you, you are one smart dude!
366 posted on 07/01/2012 5:56:00 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency.)
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To: unkus

How could it be? This isn’t my website.

But when you see Romney folks blatantly insulting their host, and those who agree with him, it’s not hard to imagine them riding the lightning, is it?


367 posted on 07/01/2012 6:01:33 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (A Choice, not an Etch-A-Sketch. TomHoefling.com)
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To: what's up

But that’s not enough to override a veto, as I’m sure someone else has said farther along in the thread.


368 posted on 07/01/2012 6:12:40 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: Finny
..you outdid yourself with this one. Dead on target

Thanks, Finny. It all sort of rushed out at once over coffee this morning.

After the assault that Chief Justice Roberts laid on us this last week, I've been forced to look at the immensity of what he's taken from all Americans. Confronting the horror of Roberts' decision has made me far less forgiving of anything resembling a quisling viewpoint.

369 posted on 07/01/2012 6:22:38 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Thank you, Pubster.


370 posted on 07/01/2012 6:24:17 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: EternalVigilance

The website is paid for by donations.


371 posted on 07/01/2012 6:32:15 PM PDT by unkus
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To: BlackElk; rogue yam

Sheesh, can you ever write! It can’t be easy for those of us living in a world that isn’t, to have to hear from those of us who are not.

The contribution the Republican Party has made to the now socialist state we find ourselves living in has been clarion for decades, but the final blow to the Republic is putting up Mitt Romney, the chief cornerstone and pattern designer for Obama’s socialist America.

What an exclamation mark to the blunt message the party has sent us!

Romney is no contrast to Obama, but for rhetorical phrases, so what of consequence does he have to offer anyone beyond that?

He is empty on the issues, you can’t beat an agenda out of him on anything, he has every intention of triangulating and outsourcing to congress every controversy, so he can duck risk and triangulating himself into a second term.

With the socialist GOPE proving their impotence on religious liberty, immigration, border security, the environment, on foreign military adventures and defending Israel, there is nothing left in the hope and change box from either the party nor their nominee.

Enabling all this with our vote rather than extracting a price from this mob ascends to the pinnacle of stupidity, or worse.


372 posted on 07/01/2012 6:36:41 PM PDT by RitaOK (NO ROMNEY, NO COMPROMISE. NO WAY. NO HOW. NOT NOW. NOT EVER.)
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To: what's up; gzzimlich
Primary process is over. Time to vote ABO.

On the contrary, FRiend, time to ponder the warning gzzimlich posted way back in April:

I live in a country (the UK) where the “conservative” choice supports gay marriage, socialised healthcare and the “right” of unions to make domestic labour almost prohibitively costly to employers.

I emphasize that this is the “conservative” candidate (David Cameron.)

Romney might seem like a decent option when compared with Obama, but my country - a surveillance state in which the use of “reasonable force” in defending your life and property was only made official policy a couple of years ago - is a prime example of what happens when you compromise your principles and start rationalising voting for the lesser of two evils.

I'm voting for a plurality. I'm voting third party and pray that everybody who's disgusted with both Obama and Romney do the same so whichever evil gets the White House, is facing four years of it being ON RECORD that the large majority of American voters wanted him to get lost. It's the only advantage my presidential vote can give to conservative Repblicans in Congress. Obama is loathed though the MSM spins otherwise; if he wins on a plurality where nearly two in three voted against him, he would be humiliated and a mockery. Republicans chastened by how Romney was rejected, would move right. Obama would be a scarecrow trying to advance his agenda.

Time to stop hyperventilating "ABO!" and START THINKING.

373 posted on 07/01/2012 6:56:25 PM PDT by Finny (A deal with the devil is ALWAYS a losing proposition. Voting for Romney to avoid Obama is just that.)
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To: RIghtwardHo
Ppl think the Roberts flip to Liberalism was bad, it would be NOTHING compared to what Romney will do. ... I can fight Obama, I can’t (and neither can we) fight a President Romney. He will never, ever get my voite

Amen Brother FReeper. And worse, ABO is risking a landslide mandate for this lemon.

I'm voting for a plurality: I'm voting official on-the-ballot third party, and I urge folks to join me.

374 posted on 07/01/2012 7:23:04 PM PDT by Finny (A deal with the devil is ALWAYS a losing proposition. Voting for Romney to avoid Obama is just that.)
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To: unkus

If you kick in a few bucks do you think that gives you a right to call the owner, and principled conservatives who agree with him about Romney, slanderous, lying names?


375 posted on 07/01/2012 7:45:52 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (A Choice, not an Etch-A-Sketch. TomHoefling.com)
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To: EternalVigilance

If you kick in a few bucks do you think that gives you a right to call the owner, and principled conservatives who agree with him about Romney, slanderous, lying names?


I’ve seen it go both ways.


376 posted on 07/01/2012 8:03:57 PM PDT by unkus
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To: rogue yam

Over the last couple of months this site has become characterized by those who are actively seeking Obama’s re-election and now, the ratification of Obamacare.
***Dude, that’s some really good weed you’ve been smoking.


377 posted on 07/02/2012 1:02:46 AM PDT by Kevmo ( FRINAGOPWIASS: Free Republic Is Not A GOP Website. It's A Socon Site.)
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To: SoConPubbie

OK, you win. You are the worst.
***Congratulations. It appears to be a badge of honor that you’ve won.


378 posted on 07/02/2012 1:11:30 AM PDT by Kevmo ( FRINAGOPWIASS: Free Republic Is Not A GOP Website. It's A Socon Site.)
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To: greyfoxx39

My question is why are the accusatory posts against conservatives allowed to stand? If those of us so accused hit “abuse” are WE in danger of a time out?
***hmmm... crickets ... I find that disturbing. If Jimrob doesn’t like the flamewars that erupt from his posts regarding Romney The Amazing Libtard, he should just put both sides on notice that certain accusations (like the one you’ve pointed out) will earn you a time out.


379 posted on 07/02/2012 1:18:16 AM PDT by Kevmo ( FRINAGOPWIASS: Free Republic Is Not A GOP Website. It's A Socon Site.)
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To: Gene Eric

I’m confused about the benefits of continuing Obama’s tyranny. Do you know something I don’t know?


Good question. I don’t think you’ll receive a logical answer.


380 posted on 07/02/2012 1:26:54 AM PDT by unkus
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