Posted on 08/10/2014 8:06:44 AM PDT by IChing
I was in a spiritually-oriented meeting a week ago, and there were about fifty people in the room. Halfway through, a guy in the center of the room chimed in and announced that he was going to open his speaking time by sharing with us his personal, painful example of the worst kind of betrayal. We all leaned a bit closer to listen as he described, with tongue secretly hidden in cheek, a time when he bit into what he’d thought was a chocolate chip cookie–only to realize with shock and dismay that it was actually a raisin cookie.
He was making a wry point, of course; about expectations, and about accepting and appreciating reality. Later in the meeting, another speaker picked up on the thread, and proceeded to wax allegorically on the relative merits of raisin cookies.
Some of my friends are going to skin me alive for writing this.
As much as I’d like to see someone as fierce and as fundamentally righteous as Texas Senator Ted Cruz, or South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, to be the Republican nominee for president in 2016 and subsequently the winner of the general election, I have to accept the reality that (for various reasons understood by those who understand these things) nobody of their bright, bold stripe is likely to be the one. Of course, I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but I think we’d better adjust ourselves to seeing someone like Cruz as the elusive chocolate chip conservative cookie.
Enter the humble raisin cookie, familiar to all, and perfectly palatable in its own right. Not exactly what you were dreaming of, but still very good with a few gulps of cold milk.
Mitt Romney’s star has suddenly reappeared in recent weeks, and it is rising again. Barack Obama has shown himself, to the overwhelming majority of people in our country, to be a total disaster as president, and the buyer’s remorse is palpable. A CNN/ORC poll from late last month had Romney beating Obama in the popular vote 53% to 44%, if the 2012 election were held again today.
Romney’s foreign policy proscriptions and prognostications during the 2012 presidential campaign, once widely mocked and ridiculed by Obama supporters (and most of all by Obama himself, in the debate in which Romney made them), are now looking like pure prophecy, in light of the horrific developments in the Middle East and Ukraine.
The world is hurtling violently into the flaming, bloody abyss on Obama’s non-watch, and American families are hurting from year after year of the democrat neo-socialist Keynesian quagmire and the far-left police state his heavy handed regime has enacted. We are sick and tired of this crap.
Mitt Romney, by comparison, can realistically be seen by the larger body politic as not only a relative breath of fresh air, but the guy we should have listened to all along–someone to whom we, as a country (not necessarily as only us conservatives, mind you), perhaps now owe at least a term in the driver’s seat.
Sure, we’ve seen the prequels, but this would be a whole new movie, with a different villain and, we pray, a better ending.
Romney’s flaws are well-known–all the more reason to get over them already. They are certainly nowhere near as deal-breaking as those of Hillary, or of Wampum Warren.
Most of all, Mitt’s widespread recognition and public familiarity make for an easier time with the endlessly sought-after swing voters, I think. Plus, it sure doesn’t hurt that he has been so thoroughly vindicated in so much of what he laid out, both very forcefully and sometimes rather ineffectively, in the 2012 debates against Obama.
It just occurred to me, after typing all the above–the guy I mentioned in the meeting from last week, the one who was talking metaphorically about personal betrayal and biting into a raisin cookie–maybe his example would actually be closer to an Obama voter who realizes that what he got after the election was not what he thought it was….? Oh, cripes.
Too late, I’ve already baked the batch, and I’m not about to throw them out. Don’t forget what I said earlier about cold milk (go ahead and draw all the Sarah Palin analogies you like; she was right on the money about foreign policy, too, by the way!).
HELLO???? It isn't how he "comes across," it's WHAT HE STANDS FOR, you dolt! Are you ignorant of Romney's actual record? Informed folks turned away from Romney on sound, solid rightness. Listen, for the first time in 35-plus years of straight-party-ticket voting for me, and in nearly 60 years of the same for my staunch and active Republican mom, we both of us declined Romney in 2012, and I am ready to do the same in 2016, and expect my ol' ma would too.
You insult us, jocon, in your idea that it's just that Rommey came across wrong to us. The truth, understood by voters a lot more savvy than they get credit for being: Romney WAS and IS wrong, period. Wrong morally, and wrong politically. Thus he LOST, thank God.
It’s the Candidate, Stupid.
Most of all, Mitt’s widespread recognition and public familiarity make for an easier time with the endlessly sought-after swing voters, I think. Plus, it sure doesn’t hurt that he has been so thoroughly vindicated in so much of what he laid out, both very forcefully and sometimes rather ineffectively, in the 2012 debates against Obama.
Yeah, we were going to fight against ObamaCare with the guy who practically INVENTED IT.
Your concern is noted.
Atavistic freak...interesting description there. I'll just refer you to history, and to the results (read: losses) that occur every time the GOP runs moderates. Romney is the worst of those, with his record of abortion support and his love for queers.
Running another moderate will cause the base to stay home in droves, more so than last time. We need a solid conservative in 2016...one who can articulate the principles of conservatism to those who need to learn; one who can reverse the disastrous leftwing policies inflicted on the country; and one who has the guts and stones to take on the left like a pit bull. Cruz fits the bill.
As for the foreign-born thing...there's no need to overcome a problem that doesn't exist in the first place:
He can barely contain himself, LOL.
“GOP. Who, really, on our side “
A liberal like Mittens is NOT on my side. He is on their side. So, to you, to “win” we must lose by nominating one of their guys? Just what kind of stupid logic is that??
Bump.
I like that! Got myself a new tagline. Thanks!
Assuming that's true (and your statement has alot of merit) why would anyone in their right mind want to be President after Obama?
Especially after the economic/socio-economic and foreign policy DISASTERS that Obama so gleefully has foisted upon the country? Then there's the DOUBLING of the National Debt and his wrecking of our medical system to name a few more.
I mean really, who in their right (bleeping) mind wants to be President after Obama and clean-up the mess he's made both at home and on the world stage?
The same was said about Jimmy Carter in 1979/1980 and along came Ronald Reagan.
Problem is, we don't have another Ronald Reagan.
This country is so screwed.
And you will be voting to turn the GOP and America hard left.
Period.
“However, I see The Tea Party as having a decent chance at succeeding where Perot failed.”
The Parot still has a HARD-ON for the Bushes. He was and still is a DICK.
The Bushes, unfortunately for us are BIG G’MENT zealots who like the Communist MEAN WELL
You said it, Bro Freeper!!!
The Bushes and Clintons are a cartel, meant to hedge the bets of the NWO.
I am not a big Romney fan, but despite how you feel about him I wish he was president right now.
Dude, that is really funny. I almost spilled me good beer
Please answer my question. How was voting for Romney NOT voting to turn the GOP left? Please answer this question: How was voting for Romney NOT voting to turn the GOP left?
Please...no to RINOs. Love Free America...not Socialist America.
No I can’t read. I’m clairvoyant and channeling you across the internet. I don’t answer dumb questions.
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