It is hard, at least for Catholics, to persist in a spirit of conviviality when we have a choice between two major party candidates BOTH of whom have a demonstrated track record of persecuting at least the Roman Catholic Church to which we belong. What each of them would do to us as Catholics, each of them would gladly do to any resisting Southern Baptists, Missouri Synod or Wisconsin Evangelical Synod Lutherans, Evangelicals, Pentecostals, Eastern Orthodox, Chassidic and other Orthodox Jews and others whose faith and morality requires resistance to the schemes of the likes of Romney as well as of Obozo.
Romney established persecution of Catholics as Massachusetts public policy as governor of Massachusetts AFTER he supposedly became pro-life (in 2005) when in 2006 he established Romneycare and its mandates that require Catholic bishops, priests and administrators (anyone signing checks for health insurance as a Catholic in Catholic institutions including schools, hospitals, etc.) to subsidize birth control and abortion pills and sterilizations through said "insurance schemes." He or she who is Catholic and signs the checks must choose between fines or prison for violating the laws of Caesar (Romney) or living a life of mortal sin qualifying in Catholic doctrine for eternity in hell for disobedience to God. Under Obozocare and the Sebelius regulations, it is the same. The disposition of my immortal soul DOES NOT BELONG TO CAESAR and I will not render it to him, even if CAESAR has bought the GOP nomination for POTUS.
I don't, in light of that little problem, really give a sh*t whether the Mittwit is posing as a fiscal conservative on any given day, claiming to support "conservative fiscal ideals" or not but in any event with his fingers crossed behind his back as always they are. He is a stone serial liar so what he "supports" means absolutely nothing except to folks who like to be lied to.
Again, Romney MANDATED abortion subsidy in Taxachusetts. He MANDATED that Town Clerks issue "gay marriage" licenses in the aftermath of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision on perversion posing as "marriage" being some sort of "right" under John Adams' constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He famously instituted Romneycare and then sent HIS experts to check in with Obama to craft Obozocare.
When the wind attempts to pass in through my left ear and then out my right ear, it meets resistance that prevents that passage. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING trustworthy about Romney any more than about Obozo. We may be Republicans but we have no obligation whatsoever to be (literally) damned fools.
I have respected you, Charles, too much for too many years to imagine that you do not understand and agree with that. The potential nomination of the Massachusetts trashbag is not a Rodney King moment for Republicans or conservatives. If I should wind up the very last member of the anti-Romney resistance here, so be it. I suspect that I shall actually have plenty of company in voting against both of these sorry POS candidates in November.
Lindsay Lohan and Brittany Spears are not in danger of being named as tea-totalling drug free second stage virgins of the year and Willard Mitt Romney is in no danger of being perceived as a born-again conservative by anyone familiar with his decades long habits of serial self-serving political dishonesty. He has no beliefs, no principles and no political morality whatsoever. He should be a confessed Demonrat but Obozo already held that ground along with Barney Frank, Gloria Allred, Richard Blumenthal, Barbara Boxer, and so many others who are indistinguishable from Romney and Obozo.
No honeymoon. No feel good moments. No compromises. No sell outs. RULE OR RUIN. Now and forever.
Romney used his corrupt Wall Street buddies of limitless wealth to BUY the GOP nomination by carpet bombing the airwaves in primary state after primary state with a relentless campaign of lies, slanders, calumnies and libels against each and every decent GOP candidate of actual conservative principle. He spent not one nickel laying out any vision, much less a credible vision of what Romney seeks to accomplish as POTUS. What would he DO about the babies, guns, marriages, specific standards for choosing SCOTUS and other judges, Obozocare, envirowhackoism, global "climate change" or whatever this week's delusional Demoncraft term may be, cap and trade, military policy, war on terror, public sector pensions, Social Security, Medicare (for the elderly), Israel, Islamofascism, SPECIFICS as to rebuilding the American economy, American jobs policy, international globaloney including trade almighty and GATT and WTO and NAFTA and all those other sovereignty-sapping schemes, just to name a few unaddressed issues? It was all: Vote for Romney because he is not Santorum, Gingrich, Cain, Perry, Bachmann, etc., while bashing each conservative opponent for minor peccadilloes and diverting any and all attention of superficial voters from the major political crimes which are, and always have been, the hallmark of the two-faced career of Willard Mitt Romney.
And now, we are supposed to just shut up, play make believe and fall in line for this sorry SOB as though he were the second coming of Ronaldus Maximus????? I don't think so! We would like to tell ourselves that our lives have meaning and that we have a real choice in November. Our lives DO have meaning but we have NO meaningful major party choice this November. Vote for Mitt because, well, just because he is not Obozo just is NOT enough reason. If we put up with Willard as though he were acceptable, we will NEVER get another GOP POTUS candidate worth voting for. We shall have defined ourselves as gullible suckers, inveterate fools and hopeless pollyannas. That's not how I define myself. How about the rest of you who have read this post????
No, that will be me. As much as you abhor him, for me, it is infinitely more. I would consider it a point of honor to have on my tombstone, "He stopped THAT man from becoming President." That's how I see it, and I don't particularly give a damn if it bothers anyone else. It's sad that some don't quite grasp exactly what the phrase, "ANYONE But Obama" means. That one word is asking for a profound amount of trouble, and to those of that single-mindedness, they shall receive.
Such an office of power cannot be trusted to an "anyone", but to a specific someone. For those that think I don't detest Zero, they're very much in error. I'm just not going to be stupid enough to mindlessly put someone who has been raised as his life's mission, to obliterate the Conservative cause using the GOP as a vehicle.
I know who and what Willard is. He is not only morally and ethically unfit for office, he is mentally unfit, as his pathological lying, sociopathic and megalomaniacal behavior demonstrate (similar traits observed of his slightly tanner brother in the WH). It is absolutely unimaginable an affirmative vote for EITHER of those two could be construed as preferable or tolerable if one considers themself to be a pro-Constitutional Conservative. We have no obligation to follow that disordered & demented route of marching off a cliff because Republican leaders and enforcers demand it of us. We do have a moral obligation to say "no" to this abomination. My marching orders come from the Lord. Not from Karl Rove or anyone else.
I am not voting for Romney for the reason he is nor BHO. I will not vote for a man who promotes abortion or the homosexual agenda or man made global warming or gun grabs or givenmem mandates or ...... all the same things BHO promotes.
Truth. Right between the eyes. Good on you.
We've been allowing ourselves to be talked out of our principles by our betters in the GOP machine for far too long. They've gently coerced principled conservatives to support their gradual leftward shift of the party for decades now, by continually running the very best Americans out of the game, and elevating yes men, sell-outs, and other cretins to the head of the pack.
What infuriates me more than anything, is that this unholy cabal is foisting the most fraudulent Republican we've seen in our lifetimes upon us, during one of the most critical, pivotal moments in our history. If there were ever a time for the GOP to send forth their most worthy champion to defeat a treasonous menace on the left, this is it. Instead, the party establishment has become the very evil they were supposed to resist, and has anointed a soulless, empty liberal, without a single trace of a conservative record, to be their challenger.
The party is obviously in Treason to the solemn covenants that made us a nation. They very much would like for every one of us to likewise dishonor ourselves. I, for one, refuse to be goaded, bullied, or shamed into voting against everything I (and my fathers) believe in. If the nation is to be sold to the global Communist elites, and every last vestige of our time honored American ideals to be tossed in the dust bin, it will happen without my help or agreement.
I refuse to be suckered into choosing between two faces of the same evil. I choose to resist in whatever ways I can.
However, you are definitely thinning the ranks. Another excellent post (diatribe?).