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!).
Our last 3 failed nominees
2012 Romney, would have been the 4th oldest President, 1 day older than James Buchanan when he took office
2008, McCain, would have been the oldest
1996, Dole, would have been the oldest.
In 2017 Romney would be the 2nd oldest, a month or so younger than Reagan, he’s 7-8 months older than the ancient Hillary Clinton, the idea that rats could nominate Hillary and she’d be the younger candidate is just ridiculous.
Romney would also be following the path of Tom Dewey, 1940, lost the nomination, 1944, lost the GE, ran again in 1948, lost the GE again.
Romney should be put out to pasture, or possibly sent to the glue factory.
See how many issues you can hallucinate POS Romney as being meaningfully different from or better than Obozo or Hillary. Romney was in the tank and he is thinking about getting in the tank again. If the RNC and GOP ruling class think that conservatives will panic into making the spoiled little rich brats wealthier by giving them OUR government, think again. Two Demonrat regimes and counting. How many before you guys surrender. And DON'T tell me how you you would prefer a better candidate. Vote for Romney and you get Obozo. Vote for another GOP candidate but determine to vote Romney when he is nominated and you get Obozo or Hillary or Fauxcahontas. It makes NO DIFFERENCE.
There’s time for a worthy dark horse to emerge and gain speed. But we have to stop being nattering nabobs of negativism, and play the hand we’re dealt.
I refuse to participate in your “Psycho-drama.”
Do you remember how the polls had Romney winning in 2012? What happened? So now your argument is based on Romney leading in polls in a contest that is constitutionally prohibited and you are challenging the intelligence of conservatives like Ansel12 on a conservative website where you obviously do not fit in your spineless militant moderation or worse?
You’re saying that your point is that conservatives should sit down, shut up and surrender to the GOPe minions who want to force Romney down our throats?
You’ve gone from one bit of pretzel logic to another. You really are sounding like a hired hand/rent boy.
No, I keep soliciting input as to what strategy and tactics would move a Cruz candidacy from the realm of fantasy into that of reality and winning, but all I continually get is mockery and flippancy here. Major publications and pundits are weighing in with analysis of the Romney rebound, but noticeably absent is anything like it arguing as to how Cruz or someone of his chatacter could gain the broad support to win. What’s wrong with assessing political reality?
This is the most wide open GOP race since 1940, which was also the last time a dark horse won the nomination, Wilkie.
That alone is slightly encouraging. And if a democrat can reinvent himself to become Ronald Reagan, we musn’t sink into the abyss of calcified, belligerent negativity about ANYONE—that is a form of corruption in itself.
Glad to see you are happy with Obama.
As I said on another thread — you might as well make a bumper sticker “ Conservatives for Hillary”.
When the GOP chooses POS Romney, it chooses to lose and it did. Very simple, really.
Too many freepers are hostile to deliberative truth. Here’s something I wrote last year, in support of Ted Cruz: http://clashdaily.com/2013/11/ahem-obama-cure/#LjClI7wC2qO4PVwa.99
Here’s another of my pro-Cruz columns: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3017147/posts
I’m not surprised you have been repeatedly zotted. How long before next time?
Ahhh, you and IChing going to the prom together and each keeping room on your dance cards for Mittens. How sweet! NOT.
Any predictions on Hillary's nominees?
"...there is genuine curiosity in the body politic [among the RINOs and establishment/elite] about his prospects, given how right he is being shown to have been [given they found the one single thing Romney disagreed with Obama on that turns out correct. Never mind that Palin was right in her prediction about Russia and the Ukraine and correctly disagreed with Obama about everything else including Obamacare which understandably, Mitt would never touch. We've got to manipulate this fortuitous occurrence into something that will allow us to ram Romney down conservative throats again], and recent polling [given Obama's poor polling numbers].
"One writer [One of Mitt's bought and paid for rent a writers] observed that Americans do love a comeback story [came up with this great attempt at manipulation -- America loves a story about the underdog hard worker who just misses out but tries again and makes it based on hard work, dedication and integrity. We know Mitt didn't even try to work at getting elected last time, says his wife is the only one who wanted him to run, and has no integrity whatsoever to speak of, but we'll just keep pretending this story fits and will repeatedly tell everyone that is the case. Maybe they'll forget the truth and believe us.]
any on here ever get a payoff on politics ?
He reminds me of the drunken blowhard you find at a cocktail party. The pompous idiot who’s got all the answers and won’t shut up.
We've already figured out what you are. You’re a troll retread, and since you refuse to divulge your multiple previous Freeper handles, you're a coward.
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