Posted on 08/11/2012 4:42:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Except for his unfortunate go along to get along support of TARP, bailouts, stimulus spending and the increased credit limit, etc, Ryan is a pretty good choice. Probably the best choice of the RINOS that were on Romney's short list. I support Ryan for the vice presidency. Wish he were at the top of the ticket, though.
But I still cannot and will not support the grand father of ObamaCare. Romney still loves and brags about his bastard brainchild, RomneyCare, even today when he knows what an anti-liberty socialist POS it is.
And the fact that he advocated that abortion should be safe and legal in America for over three decades of his adult lifetime and even advocated that Roe v Wade should be supported and sustained as settled law precludes any consideration whatsoever by this pro-life Christian for Myth Romney for the presidency.
And the fact that he boasted that he would be better for "gay rights" than Ted Kennedy, and proved it just increases my resistance.
That, and his penchant for gun control, his continuing support for global warming, gays in the scouts, gays in the military, and his record of appointing liberal judges makes it all but impossible for me to support him.
Lastly, we're having a bit of changeover on our moderator staff. At least two moderators resigned this afternoon after I flatly refused to rein in a so-called anti-Mormon "bigot" on FR. Well, if being in opposition to false prophets and false prophecy makes a Christian believer a bigot, then I guess I'm a bigot. I've posted before that I flat do not believe that the Book of Mormon is the true word of God. Nor do I believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. The Christian bible warns us to be weary of false prophets and that I am. Romney being the presumptive Republican nominee does not change that fact.
Bumbled attempt at a recovery. You said "I am almost as old as your Miss Desmond"; not "I am almost as old as Gloria Swanson." (A nonsensical gibber, in any event, as -- being long since deceased -- Ms. Swanson isn't ANY age, at present.) Massive, catastrophic FAIL.
You are truly just not smart.
I can keep my own age consistent from one posting to the next, Dorian Gray. At present, that makes precisely one of us.
You are a very kind person, but I do not need the apologies of anyone on this site.
For them to have truly hurt me, I would have to have some degree of sentiment invested in them and I assure you, there is none.
I told the story of my father to simply explain how I came to believe the things I do. I was taught.
I won’t share too many details about my past here, mainly because of the group of folks who seem obsessed with picking apart everything or everyone they disagree with. My mother escaped with me and my siblings to the United States where we lived with family and for years, did not know my father’s fate.
Raised to believe the United States was where we would be safe, I believe it to this day.
Don’t take their attacks on me or Jews too personally. They are limited by their lack of education, narrow-mindedness and hatred, whether they realize it or not.
Thank you again.
Yikes——I was s-o-o-o-o busy being “brilliant” that I did not define my point adequately (heh).
My point-—and I do have one-—is that “fluidity” by a candidate means the vote-crazed pol is “searching” for a way out-—just begging for a position.
Remember, pols are like whores-—they take the position
the client dictates in order to get the payoff.
My point is-—if MittPaul want to get elected-—they gotta do it “our way”....or they ain’t got a prayer.
Graybeard58, this is not directed at you or Politicalmom. But it’s a launch point for me to note that not all FReepers know by heart, or can remember, the personal histories and past posts of all the other FReepers. The frequent admonition of others posters to me has boiled down to “Go search my posts”, with the implication that I ought to remember everything about their thought processes. Not to say that the search feature isn’t valuable to me, but I and others here have to take people’s current posts at their face value and should not have to respond to one particular person’s posting history each time we respond to the actual words used in his current post.
Everyone here does not know every other poster as well as those who may consider themselves the real FReepers, the original crowd, who remember everything except what they don’t.
Much confusion and acrimony can be avoided on Free Republic if we regular posters dedicate themselves to saying exactly what we mean clearly in each post. I’ll quit using “/rhetorical” and others can eliminate the sarcasm which is not clearly indicated as such. That would be a start.
With everyone here who refuses to vote for a stinking liberal, blamed for his defeat.
Why, yes, 300,000 members listed at F.R., scattered out all over the world! Your's and my fault when the loser Mitt loses because we didn't vote for him. Yeah, that's the ticket.
Is it getting warm in here, or is it just me...? ;)
You are the guy who is obsessed with what you deem “drama queens”.
Are you gay?
OH SNAP!!!
I’m not telling you about what Protestants say. Pick up a bible and read it and you’ll get the gist of that. I’m telling you what other serious Catholics say.
***I gather your discussion here is only focused on what catholics would and should do in this situation. To point out the obvious, this turns a blind eye to what the remaining conservatives are presented with. Notably, you say to ‘pick up a bible and read it’, which is probably what everyone, including catholics, oughtta do.
They don’t believe God countenances the stupid situation where only the perfect
***Here you are arguing against an exaggeration of the situation, otherwise known as a straw argument. Perfection isn’t the issue. Holding onto one’s principles is the issue. Listening to that gnawing conscience is the issue. If the conscience whispers when you vote for a candidate with a speck of permissiveness towards abortion, then you should respect that many FReepers’ consciences at this point are screaming, not whispering.
may get a Christian’s secular nod, leading to the worse of two bad alternatives prevailing.
***God can deal with that. He wants our hearts, and He can use “the worse of two bad alternatives” to teach us His ways.
I all but herniated myself, cackling at that little mental marvel. ;)
I’m not going to answer any more of your drivel. To do so would be lowering myself to an “intellect” and “mindset” I find offensively unacceptable.
Haven't you aged into a pile of dust yet, for heaven's sake...?
Keep flailing. Dolt.
AMEN!
Mitt sure did a lousy job of that in Mass. Maybe he’s got better ideas this time around, I hope he does. I get the sense that Mitt isn’t taking Mormon theology in full seriousness in spite of his elevated position in the organization. He’d surely have stated an intention to name another Mormon as veep if he did take it that seriously.
***No matter how you slice it, that is not a ringing endorsement of mitt. It seems that the best any mittbots can say about him is that he isn’t a communist. The republican party simply needs to do better than that, and by their machinations they’ve put up this POS as candidate. The party needs a cleansing, and voting for this POS isn’t going to help one bit.
To quote my personal hero when faced with a “heckler”.....
“SHUT UP”
R. Reagan
Thank you.
Murrymom is a banned freeper, JimRob tolerated her blatantly far left rantings for years, ignoring calls for her banning. She was outrageously leftist in all her postings, she was left of anybody at D.U. J.R. left her here so long because of her laugh value and she was so easily debated and defeated.
I suppose he eventually tired of her antics and banned her.
My post was an answer to another person who referenced MurryMom, so I knew at least that that poster knew who MurryMom was. Not an “insider” or a member who is “in the know”, just answering someone who brought up the subject.
For a real hoot, look up her posting history and you’ll see what I mean.
“SHUT UP” (8:56:07)
Senility. What a p!sser, huh...?
Know when you're well and truly out of your appointed weight class, clod.
*snort*
[::ducks::] ;)
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