FReepathon day 40.
Two percent a day keeps the 404 away.
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!).
NO WAY... Remember how he backed down on the debates???
Sorry but I will not vote for any RINO.
A vote for a RINO IS a vote for the Democrats.
If the Republican party wants to become the Whig party all they have to do is run Mitt Romney again.
Fk mutt wrongney.
I gave that mangy mutt my money and wasted my time voting for him. I only did so after two people convinced me of the alternative, at the last minute.
I will not be dissuaded again.
Mitt’s a dog with fleas, mange, dementia and missing a leg.
In other Words “That dog just won’t hunt”.
He never had a great idea, ever. The only time he sounded right was in his concession speech of 2008.
he sounded conservative and had fire in his delivery.
it was an act.
He demonstrated again, in 2012, he is lukewarm vinegar and I guess while the rest of hang on a cross, he wanted to swallow in thirst.
I’d rather die than see his candidacy ever again.
DING!! DING!! DING!! We have a Winner!
The so called Republican Leadership is 100% Compromised.
It seems to me they cannot be replaced. I mean they have been in charge for a long time now, and look at the disaster they has been done.
It is now time for the Tea Party to officially organize. I’m done with the Republican Party with the exception of the few good stand outs.
He had his chance in 2013???
Guess he was late...
Albinobamma? LOL!!!
Waiting on Mrs. Palin to drop the (R). I’ll be right after!
Been thinking about it since mclame. But waiting on the great one first (SP).
“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.”
Sure, sure, I even agree with this. Romney’s not a corrupt person like Hillary and he’s not a liar and an idiot like Warren.
But, he wasn’t those things last time.
Obama’s flaws were manifest at the last election. But, he still got re-elected.
Sorry, Romney would have made a much, much better President than Obama. I think perhaps he had potential to be a great president, even.
But he comes across as a rich, out-of-touch guy and he just couldn’t over come that.
The fact that he let Candy Crowley run interference for Obama over Benghazi is really what doomed him.
He should have been banging on the podium and asking again, and again: Why did you lie to the American people about the murder of our Ambassador, your own good friend? Why did you lie about it?
That would have been the sound bit of the election, but no, instead we got “binders of women”.
We need someone who is willing to take the fight to the left, all of the left, esp. the media. Someone who will not hesitate to rip their lungs out on national tv.
Why does anyone think Mitt will grow a pair the second time around?
He was blood thirsty in the primaries and a complete pussy in the general.
Nixon came back because he was *hungry*, had the fire in his belly.
Remember what Mitt’s family said after the loss? They said that during campaign he realized he didn’t really want to be President.
It would be Mitt Romney as the Democrat candidate for president. Maybe against Cruz for the Republicans.
Mitt Romney has been out campaigning this year to position himself for a run in 2016.
He is perceived as a man of “integrity” and “morality” and so on by some. Others even call him “conservative”.
Romney could win on Obama’s demise, but will America win.
Canadians elected their own Mitt Romney of sorts named Brian Mulroney of the “Progressive Conservative Party” in the 1980’s after a big move to the Left under previous Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
No reversal of the leftward drift, no reveral of higher taxes and spending etc.
By the 1990’s many disgruntled conservative Canadians started a Reform Party and the old PC Party was reduced to two seats out of around 300 in the House of Commons.
The Reformers got about 50 seats but of course the Liberals were enabled to have a go at it for ten years or so messing things up to set up the emergence of a new “Conservative Party of Canada” led by the current PM Stephen Harper.
ROMNEY MAY FOOL PEOPLE AND WIN AN ELECTION, BUT HE WON’T REVERSE OBAMA’S POLICIES WHICH IS WHAT GRASSROOTS CONSERVATIVES WANT...
No?
Chihuahua Romney - the One and the Only "Magic RINO(TM)":
Mitt Romney and Lil' Ricky Santorum celebrate Political Assassination of 2012 Conservative GOP Presidential Candidates (Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Michelle Bachman ...)
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Having Romney run a 2nd time would work out about as well as Star Wars - Episode I worked in that film franchise. Romney is the Jar-Jar Binks of politicians.
Those aren’t raisins in your raisin cookie. I’ll take a slice of Apple Pie instead.
We need to put this vehicle on Cruz control.
America is burning to the ground, you don't hire an arsonist to put it out just because that arsonist is slightly less enthusiastic about starting fires and does so at a slower pace.
No...dammit....NO
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