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 hed thought was a chocolate chip cookieonly 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 Id 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 wed 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 Romneys 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 buyers 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.
Romneys 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 Obamas 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 alongsomeone to whom we, as a country (not necessarily as only us conservatives, mind you), perhaps now owe at least a term in the drivers seat.
Sure, weve seen the prequels, but this would be a whole new movie, with a different villain and, we pray, a better ending.
Romneys flaws are well-knownall 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, Mitts widespread recognition and public familiarity make for an easier time with the endlessly sought-after swing voters, I think. Plus, it sure doesnt 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 abovethe guy I mentioned in the meeting from last week, the one who was talking metaphorically about personal betrayal and biting into a raisin cookiemaybe 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, Ive already baked the batch, and Im not about to throw them out. Dont 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!).
I don’t love him as a candidate. I’m speculating on what may or may not be the most realistic path to the WH.
Have a nice evening.
Still promoting Romney with your tired attacks on reagan republicans and conservatives?
You and Romney managed to lose an election that the GOP couldn’t lose, you better start reevaluating your brilliance and how you pick your candidates.
The high demand is actually from the nationwide electorate who wish they’d voted him in last time. Pay attention.
You have no love for Willard, yet you criticize those who refused to die on the battlefield for the most deceitful fraud and backstabbing weasel ever put up by the Republican Party for the highest office in the land. That, sir, is disgusting.
Get it through your head, sir. I don’t vote for Socialist RINOs, liars, frauds, ringers, narcissists, backstabbers, con-artists or establishment-uber-alles toadies. If you have a problem with that, I have to question your conscience.
And just how did I do that?
Why you keep posting here, along with others, if it’s so boring? Over 225 replies so far....
Not a good candidate. A not good candidate makes mistakes. Romney stayed home. He didn’t criticize, or emphasize Obama’s Marxism. He didn’t think there was anything wrong with the Marxism. No pointing out any of the faults at all. It wasn’t a mistake. It was by design and completely intentional.
We saw him go after Gingrich. So he knows how to attack people who he believes oppose him. He does not believe Obama is his opposition. He likes Obama and the democrats. He just refuses to attack people he agrees with.
Any candidate who supports Marxist opposition is a traitor to the US.
High demand ? It’s typical leftist baiting media nonsense to try to lure that LOSER into running again in 2016 so Hillary (or Lieawatha) can beat him easily. Pay attention.
Hour was never my pick, genius. Try to comprehend what is written.
Who are you supporting in 2016 ? Name, please ?
No, nothing has changed for Romney, this is purely an anti-Obama thing, and based on the last name they remember running against him.
Romney didn’t lose an election that was impossible to lose, after running for it through two election cycles and 7 years, just as some sort of fluke, it is what he does.
We don’t even know why he is in politics, or why when he was trying to decide between running as a democrat or republican, he chose republican.
Because somebody's got to step up and respond to the Romneybots.
Yeah, she came across to me that way, too. Lashing out at someone because a simple word like erstwhile isn’t in her vocabulary, and she can’t be troubled to look it up....
Romneybots, the undying breed that never stop chanting, “but he isn’t Obama”, now they are on their THIRD election cycle push for Romney.
Well, in their trial baloons, they tried Christie, then Jeb, so now they’re hauling out old Myth. Who’s next in their RINO bag of tricks I wonder?
Willard was raised as a left-winger by daddy & mama. What better way to destroy the opposition than by infiltrating them from within ? Curiously, the GOP establishment loves these left-wingers and does nothing to drive them out. If we had similar people trying to infiltrate the Democrats to undermine their Stalinist agenda, they’re weeded out and shown the door in short order.
You mean TURD cycle.
I’ll explain how this is going to work.
The Clintons are going to point out that a D POTUS win is pretty much inevitable in 2016.
So you better vote for Hillary in the D primary or you get Lizzie Warren (aka Obama’s 3rd term).
Fully grasp the implications of your first sentence, and you will see why Romney is being touted again. Reality trumps wishful thinking in politics. In a marketing sense, Romney is already somewhat of an incumbent, with that advantage. The sheeple have the final say, not us zealots.
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