Posted on 07/10/2012 4:32:51 AM PDT by scottfactor
Again it comes to this: voting for the “lesser of two evils.” This is assuming, of course, that Mitt “Stealth Leftist” Romney wins the Republican nomination for President. I had decided that I was through voting for the less evil candidate, but then I know that our elections may be heavily compromised at this point, as the Left gets its voter-fraud-voting-machine-hacking down to an Argonne National Laboratory science.
However, since the horrendous John “Quisling” Roberts Supreme Court decision to uphold the clearly unconstitutional “Obamacare” monster, I have decided to go ahead and vote for the Republican nominee, no matter who he is, even the liberal Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney keeps saying that on Day One in office, he will move to repeal Obamacare. He also adds what I do not want to hear—“replace.” “Repeal and replace.” I am sick of hearing that from “our side.” Do not tell me you are going to “replace” something that should never have been in the first place! Just kill it! Put it out of our misery!
Do I even believe Romney’s promise, as it is? This is not a brand new story, though it was new to me yesterday, so it may be new to others. The top aide to Romney’s transition team for the White House is a fellow Mormon, former Utah Governor, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency and Health and Human Services Secretary under President George W. Bush. While he is an amazingly accomplished man, and apparently very talented and driven, former Governor Mike Leavitt is also a supporter of the states implementing Obamacare “exchanges.” Yes, that’s right. And, the reason he supports it likely has everything to do with the fact that Leavitt owns Leavitt Partners, a health care consultancy firm based in Utah.
On June 3rd, the Politico’s Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns had a fairly glowing write-up about Leavitt (which should tell us something right there). The piece made it quite clear that Leavitt is a moderate, a pragmatist, and not necessarily as conservative as actual conservatives would like to see in the Romney administration, especially when it comes to his position on the wretched Obamacare legislation.
From the Politico piece,
Leavitt has said some relatively positive things about certain elements of Obama’s health reform law, suggesting earlier this year that “Obamacare” empowers the HHS secretary “to do certain things that are clearly aimed at trying to move us in the right direction.”
[Leavitt’s longtime chief aide, Rich] McKeown, who still works with Leavitt at his Utah-based health care consultancy, acknowledged that the former governor does not want to undo one key part of the controversial legislation.
“We believe that the exchanges are the solution to small business insurance market and that’s gotten us sideways with some conservatives,” he said.
The exchanges are not only a matter of principle for Leavitt — they’re also a cash cow.
The size of his firm, Leavitt Partners, doubled in the year after the bill was signed as they won contracts to help states set up the exchanges funded by the legislation.
“There is a group [of states] that feels as though they don’t want to be associated with the Affordable Care Act,” Leavitt told POLITICO in 2011. “Privately, though, it’s clear that several of those are planning behind the scenes, because they don’t want to have a federal exchange.” The law is written so that those states that don’t create their own exchanges by 2014 may be pushed into a federal exchange.
This angers the right, however.
“These Exchanges … are the government bureaucracies that will make health insurance more expensive, induce employers to drop coverage, entrench Obamacare, and dole out hundreds billions of debt-financed government subsidies to insurance companies,” fumed the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute.
So, Leavitt, who stands to make a great deal more money from the implementation of Obamacare than from its repeal, is the one guy Romney chooses to set up a Romney administration, if Romney wins the White House. Could there be more of a conflict of interests than this—that is—if Romney is serious about repealing the hellish, anti-American, anti-freedom Obamacare dictate?
When this story broke, there was some conservative backlash which led to the Romney campaign issuing a statement that was reported by the Daily Caller,
… Team Romney was quick to dismiss those worries. Reached for comment, Romney spokesman Lenny Alcivar said: “Unlike President Obama, voters can rest assured that a Romney Administration will put America back on track. That starts with repealing Obamacare, starting Day One. Make no mistake, the only person who will make policy decisions under a Romney Administration is Mitt Romney.”
Oh, well that makes me feel all better! This man, Leavitt, could end up being Romney’s chief of staff (according to rumors), and we are supposed to believe his money-powered desire to have the states implement Obamacare exchanges will in no way affect Romney’s stated desire to repeal that detestable law? I am in full support of Mike Leavitt making a successful living, but the thought that someone with such a potent interest in keeping Obamacare alive could end up in one of the highest positions in a Romney administration is quite disturbing.
“Mr. RomneyCARE is not even the GOP candidate yet,”
I didn’t say Romney I said Republican nominee.... and it really doesn’t matter.....
read my lips:
ANYONE BUT OBAMA
Romney: DARE TO BE DECAF!
Maybe you should start wondering if there's something more to ABO than what you've analyzed so far, because your suspicion that the very nearly 200 FReepers including the owner/founder of Free Republic who refuse to vote for Romney, are DU plants, is nuts. If you want the truth, you're going to have to change gears and start thinking in another direction as to WHY there are so many of us who reject Romney the same way, and for the same reasons, that we reject Obama.
We are real Americans, many of us, like me, who have been voting for more than three decades and who have NEVER ONCE declined a Republican on any ballot, but who understand that Romney is a bridge too far.
The motto is: ANYONE BUT OBAMA.
It's not a motto, it's a strategy -- a strategy based solely in fear. "ABO" means "voting for government tyranny in order to avoid confronting Obama." PERIOD.
Honestly, it isn't that hard.
Who said anything about staying home? Source that please.
Obama is a criminal and an enemy of the state. His reelection will insure he is brought up on charges. Have you forgotten about Watergate? Nixon’s landslide victory emboldened his enemies to bring him down. How much worse is Obama? How much more deserving to be exposed?
With Romney we will not simply have a quisling as POTUS. We will be saddled with a man who will only escalate his dismissive approach to convservatives.
The presidency is out of control. Romney will not set limits on his own authority. Nor will the SCOTUS. A conservative majority in Congress is our only hope to restore balance in government. Obama will enrage the Congress to act. Willard will not.
a pro Romney analyst on FOX shrugged and said the south will vote for Romney no matter what he doesWell, among the universe of possible reasons are:
-OR-
- Folks in the south know how presidential elections work and they see no indication anything is changing (yet). They know that the chance to vote their conscience is in the primaries (we in GA overwhelmingly voted for Newt). They know that for most of the past century, the overwhelming odds are that GOP -or- DEM candidate is elected in the GENERAL election. They know that a vote for any distant "also-ran" candidate in the GENERAL election is akin to self disenfranchisment. And in this particular contest between the GOP and Obama, they know full well where Obama wants to take the country and their only hope, *however slim*, is to vote for whoever else has the best odds of defeating Obama. Right now, that is the presumptive GOP candidate (Romney); however, if another candidate takes the lead from Romney prior to Nov 6th, I'm fairly certain the south (and the nation) will switch to that other "best odds" candidate because it's a horse-race at this point and the lead horse gets the most votes. Not saying it's desirable; I'm saying it is what it is. And you and I both know it will take some form of divine intervention to supplant Romney at this point. Though it's within the realm of possibilities, I'll only believe it when I see it.
To further the Romney analyst's point: It's not just the south. It is veritably the entire voting constituency on the right across the nation, as well as some right-leaning and/or disappointed DEMS. Not just self-identified conservatives, but all the other political-right demographics (indies, rinos, moderates, centrists, libertarianse, constitutionalists, etc, etc, etc). Conservatives alone lack the headcount to turn the tide, because if they did, Romney wouldn't be in the lead and we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Just my thoughts. Opinions will vary.
Hmmm, that number would give him approx. 10 divisions in his personal civilian defense force...............
“Mitt “Stealth Leftist” Romney”
I think there is alot in the article that makes Romney look like Obama-lite. The phrase above doesn’t do that ? And there are lots of them.
And I’m not taking shots you as much as the comments that these types articles seem to fuel. It seems some conservatives still rather have Obama than a Republican nominee, and I’m not sure they are “conservatives”.
C'mon, Gina, aren't you tired of the old game that when election season shows up that you have to lie about the blemishes on your candidate, pretend you don't see them, claim that he won every debate, blah, blah, blah?
You know darned well that the sentiment that you've gotta support one GOP-E guy because another GOP-E guy messed you over is illogical.
Saying what you see is freeing. In many ways, that is freedom.
I see a lifelong liberal supported by a left-leaning party that's perfectly content to use conservatives in their quest to one-up the other left party. The truth is that there's only one party...with 2 heads.
I'm in favor of "off with the heads" on all of them.
But, back to the original comment, there's no way I believe you don't see what was being said. In fact, I think you feel it in your gut. Break free! Join us. Rebellion is brewing!
BEHOLD THE GOP’s CHAMPION = MR.ROMNEYCARE
INCREDIBLY HAPPY IMPOSING THE GOP's SIGNATURE ACHIEVEMENT
WHICH IS: GOPe Romney-DEATHPANELS.
Oh please “Real Americans”, and yeah I’ve been voting for over 30 years as well.
Get off your high horse and do the right thing... work to vote Obama out of office. Listen Romney wasn’t my first choice but boohoo I don’t get to pick the nominee, and neither do you.
We either rally around the guy chosen to be the standard bearer and work within the system we love to move the system in our direction, or you decide that Obama is ok and you sit home. If by some miracle Romney is not the nominee and a more conservative candidate arises we will support him/her.
I don’t think Obama is “ok”, so ABO works for me. It doesn’t take that much “analysis”.
Romney is a bridge to far compared to Obama ? Pick up a newspaper.... Obama’s policies are killing us.
So if Al Gore or Barney Frank ran as and won the Republican primary, we're still supposed to support the party with our vote???
The Republican party doesn't represent me or my Country any more than the Democrat party does...
We have a Mormon and a Muzlim to choose between while neither one gives a flip about my Country as a Sovereign Nation, a Free Republic...
I encourage people to vote for the most pro-America candidate that is running, in any party...Vote for Mitt and lose the Country??? I don't think so...
Nice pics and your point is ?
Let me guess because Romney signed a law in a liberal STATE we should keep Obama for another four years....
is that correct ?
oh good, another conservative who wants four more years of Obama....
You have two choices, one is Obama. If you do not vote against him by voting the Republican nominee you have been essentially been disenfranchised - congrats go to the Obama team, the media elite, and all their little minions.
“His reelection will insure he is brought up on charges”
Yep, you ARE clueless!
The press hated Nixon, they love Obama.
Or hadn’t you noticed?
Your ability to anticipate Romney’s actions in office are clouded by hate, not informed by reality.
Try reading this for perspective:
>http://townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/2012/07/06/what_romney_needs_to_say_about_romneycare<
And Romney's policies will do the same. Perhaps we need another 4 years of Obama to drive Americans to the realization that we need a citizen uprising in this nation to overthrow the Demo/Rino establishment.
Honestly Mike, can you give any of us one good reason why we should vote FOR Romney (other than that fact that he isn't Obama)?
I can't think of one. He has no policy direction other than left. He never has had any other direction. He lied about his claim to be a conservative and now that he thinks he has the nomination wrapped up, he has turned hard left endorsing gay adoption and hiring people who think Obamacare just needs a little tweaking and he will "Repeal AND REPLACE" Obama care with his own (as of yet unpublished 2800 page) version of Romneycare.
We need a rebellion in this nation. Nothing short of mutiny within this party will bring about a change of direction of the ship of state. You many number me and I suspect the people I have pinged among the mutineers.
I will not support Romney. He is going to have to win this election with votes from his friends on the left. Frankly I think he will get enough left wingers to vote for him since obviously they crossed over to vote for him in the Open Primaries (which we need to eliminate).
We need a rebellion at the convention. We need to demand that Romney withdraw his name from the nomination. Rebellion is brewing. Are you on the side of the Tories who continue to rob us of our liberty or on the side of the Rebels and the Mutineers?
You get of YOUR high horse and resist government tyranny instead of voting FOR it.
Dope.
Please add me to your list of mutineers.
Bububububububububuh don't you understand???? OUR socialist is better than THEIR socialist!!!!
Okay, I'll vote for Virgil Goode then.
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