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!).
Somebody’s nuts. And *this* time- it ain’t me.
(Actually, I’ve already seen the Mittbots pushing in at least one comment section, somewhere. Two years out & they’re already starting.)
Respectfully, IChing. The author of this piece is dead wrong. The Romneys would make a great sitcom. President, not so much.
Go AWAY, Mitt. You’re not “mighty”. You’re certainly the very opposite of strong.
You are, however, hilarious. Focus on your asset.
Right now -- I am edgy for a name, Cruz or Palin are the best that come to mind right now, to run as an Independent in the Presidential, basically a "third" party, but in reality a second party, because Republicans and Democrats are one government-advancing party by two names.
I know Americans are ticked off and tired of the uniparty charade, and that a true limited government candidate that transcended both Republican and Democrat bad crappy branding, would win or at least so deprive the Uniparty left candidates of votes that any win would be by minority, a weak plurality, making the left weak in both parties.
HELL NO-and these feelers by the Romney camp are really starting to get old!~
That’s right, we wouldn’t have illegals if Romney were president. They’d all have been legalized by now. No sovereignty for us, open borders would be the law of the land!
That's always a bad path, IChng.
You said it true.
It is why I am glad he lost. Obama and Democrat leftists we can fight and conquer. Romney and Republican leftists would advance leftism with our sanction and people like you would be hear whiling, "b-b-b-b-b-but I didn't vote for that!"
Yes, you DID.
Romney lost because enough voters had enough sense to refuse to vote for chains. You are off the hook because of them.
Then we need to narrow our vote down to one candidate. We know the rinos put up 10 candidates to water down our vote. I know, how do we do that without interference from trolls, rinos.....we better find a way. The fight McDaniel fought, paved the way, God bless him.
We have to have someone who will fight the left and the media (one in the same). Our kids and grand kids can't afford to have a loser rino in office. With Isis on the march we need a fearless person who knows what evil looks like and isn't afraid to enter the burning house.
Amen. Though I am more inclined to think in terms of figuring out how to FOIL Romney, because I think that organized official GOP party protocol for primary elections is such that Romney is set to get the nomination no matter what we do.
Yep, it's good to remember McDaniel!
Not at all. I really wish Cruz could win the broader support necessary. How realistic is that wish?
I’m there with you. Cruz/???? Sarah would be great at running the dept of energy. Allen west dept of defense. ....make McCain head of UN then pull out. We need a thread for this.
“Romney lost because enough voters had enough sense to refuse to vote for chains.”
I wish I could think that was accurate. I think Romney lost, not because of any honest assessment of his failings, but because the LIVs were still buying the Obama koolade.
And I sure don’t feel “off the hook”, in fact, speaking as a fish I am flopping on the dock gasping for air!
Romney stands for what is anathema to us—center-right moderation. Obama posed as a moderate, winning because most people do not follow politics enough to have seen through him until it was too late. Obama is far left, but Romney is a true center-right moderate. Americans in the will elect a moderate, or who they think is a moderate. Will they elect a far right firebrand who is our favorite? Be honest.
Why vote for Rat-Lite when you can vote for the real thing?
B.s., by not voting for the republican candidate, you helped Obama win.
Although Mitt would be a trillion times better than Obama, my cat’s poo would also be a trillion times better than Obama!
Please give us a TED CRUZ, or an ALLEN WEST.
No more Ford, Dole, McCain, Romney!!!!!!!!!!!
PLEASE!
You simply cannot get the people to come out and vote for losers.
I mostly agree, but Cruz, like Palin, despite being our fantasy, is still a rabid right winger’s fantasy. This echo chamber decides neither the primary nor the general election.
Not true.
Look at Romney's history. He has always been a supporter of abortion and of homosexual "rights."
I'll never forget his May 2012 interview in which he said that two people of the same sex who "love each other" should be able to adopt children.
No one with such views can be considered center-right, or even center. He's a liberal through and through. I refuse to vote for another liberal, no matter what letter happens to follow his name.
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