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!).
I’ve said repeatedly that I’m not interested in fantasy. I’m trying to vet political reality. I pray that we are spared another Romney nomination, and I crave credible arguments as to how a Cruz or a Gowdy can be realistic candidacies. Got any? Winning the nomination and general race requires broad appeal. I invite honest discussion.
No, the rest of you are hiding behind Freeper handles; my real name and bio are there for all to see. Lemme guess—I have to explain it to you?
You live in a dishonest fantasy, that is why we don’t know your posting history.
We don’t care who you are outside of your trolling here, it is your freeper history that interests us, and it is your freeper history that you are hiding.
So....why wasn’t Pat Buchanan elected? Why was Allen West defeated after one term? Why did Sarah get torn to pieces? We know why. The question is, why cut off our noses to spite our faces when our party goes with someone we aren’t crazy about?
Umm... how do I say this?
NO.
I’m writing in Cruz/West no matter what.
That is all.
Precisely.
Each of those attacks, and against Sen. Thompson,
were directed, paid for, and carried out by
Bishop Romney and his vicious backstabbing surrogates.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!! Please -- yer killin' me! "Be honest" !!!
{^)
You, who practice such intense deception, whether on yourself or for someone else, is not clear, but deceit and falsehood are very much your game, so it's laughable to see you chastising, "Be honest!"
AS ALWAYS, as for the past decade, the incredibly obtuse enthusiasm of Romney fans speaks volumes about Romney.
According to IChing, Cruz has the perception of a sweaty upper lip to overcome. Obviously, that will doom his chances for good against the unstoppable Slick Willard.
If Romney is chosen to run...I will not be voting for him and will simply further evidence our votes in Pres. elections mean nothing.
We all watched him slither through , and be positioned according to the dictates of the GOP leadership...who had already set his name in stone and regardless that there were other candidates for more superior to him.
No...I won’t be voting for him.
... and by voting for the republican candidate, you helped leftism win.
America told your guy Romney to get off when it stood back and let Obama stay, IChing. Let leftists elect leftists. Non-leftist Americans wanted no part of it and stayed home.
LOL, Why is Romney the eternal loser with a single win in his 22 years of campaigning, and they booted him with 34% approval and went democrat.
In presidential politics he spent 50 million of his own money and had a massive organization in 2008 and lost to two losers with no money and no people, then for 2012 running against nobodies with no money, people desperately sought to avoid Romney, and then he lost the general election that he couldn’t lose.
Romney is the ultimate loser, and a radical pro-abortion, pro-gay, anti-gun, pro-romneycare, anti-Reagan, liberal.
I think you're a chump.
I’m hiding nothing, I was VigilantAmerican here. Got banned under some other handle after that, for posting a link to an article on American Renaissance. The war on whites is very real, and our side has some of the worst offenders. John Derbyshire got fired by National Review for writing elsewhere about protecting his children from the knockout game and other modern perils. What’s important to you?
Post #262 for more of self-declared Cruz supporter (*snort*) IChing’s “take” on the Senator.
I won't sue you. Why bother? I just won't vote for that POS Romney or ANY other privileged overfunded by the usual gang of ubercorrupt Wall Street and K Street criminal greedocrats in GOP drag. Not in my lifetime. Not in God's lifetime. Nominate candidates WORTH voting for or LOSE. That's it!
What is it that you people with the nerve to post on a CONSERVATIVE website just don't get about the fact that Mitt POS and his fellow business obsessive trash are gun grabbers, babykillers, marriage destroyers via blessing perversion posing as "marriage, government expanding, medical care destroying (granddaddy of Obozocare), Hamilton/Clay/Lincoln government worshiping to line the pockets of themselves and their cronies at everyone else's expense?
There is NO MEANINGFUL difference between Obozo, Romney and Hillary on any issue that matters. Since the renomination of Romney would guarantee once again that he and whoever is the Demonrat nominee would produce AT LEAST four more years of absolute garbage in the White House, no possibility of nominating constitutionalist judges and (eventually our collective luck must run out of time) the final destruction of this republic, I'll pass along with an ever increasing number of conservatives.
Nominate a slate (both of them) worth electing or lose again. If our nation simply MUST be destroyed, let the Demonrats do the destroying. Romney is NOT ON OUR SIDE and NEVER has been or will be. A victory by Romney (which will NEVER happen) is no victory for conservatives or for this nation. We might as well elect a hybrid of Stalin, Sanger, the late James Brady, Tiny Tim and Hugo Chavez.
Nominate Hillary instead. She's about as conservative---NOT! She's a guaranteed WIN! according to your lack of standards and principles.
Good gosh, that is at least three different names here.
How many accounts have you had?
I’m eager to read arguments as to how Ted Cruz wins. I’m dead serious. The LIV carry the day, none of us can change that. You disagree?
BE RESPONSIBLE for what you advocate. You advocated for turning the Republican party hard left. PERIOD.
You refuse to accept responsibility for your actions now, and you would be doing the same thing if that bastard Romney had won and was in the White House right now enacting all of the left's social, medical, statist, government tyranny on the Republican dime. The name "Obama" would be a million miles away from anyone's thoughts, it would be all and only about Romney's leftism, and you would be here wailing and gnashing your teeth failing to take responsibility for what you voted for.
You are deaf as a post, dear. Romney lost because people were wise enough to reject him. We're not talking LIVs who've only voted for a decade or two. We're talking informed active Republicans who had voted straight Republican for decades, but for whom full-bore leftist Romney was a line in the sand. We're talking people who take responsibility for what they vote for.
You only take responsibility for what you vote "against." You are a particular kind of LIV chump.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.