I'm on board with what you're saying, WJ. As long as Romney continues to run as something of a fiscal/social conservative (against Obamacare, abortion, and same-sex marriage), if he can reassure us of that, he will have my vote. Even though I don't fully trust him, I expect him to be much better than Obama.
And I have not been happy to see so many longtime conservative FReepers get run off or leave, when they were clearly not DU-type disruptor trolls. In most cases it was a difference in strategy, not philosophy, that led to the departure. The FRiendly atmosphere here has deteriorated over the past months. I'm glad there's a truce now, and I hope some of our old FRiends can be welcomed back.
Thank you Charles... you are one of the people I have read here for wisdom, because I KNOW that I don’t have it all myself.
I’m well-versed in things. I spent some time in DC. My father worked for the Reagan Administration. I spent time as a teen overseas when my dad was working for the Reagan administration. I’ve always had an idea of politics and geopolitics.
It’s because I know geo-politics that I am most scared of this administration. Reagan had balls of steel. Obama had his balls stolen by some white chick when he was in college and she confronted him about black anger.
And if FREEPERS want to jump me ... again.. go to the donor’s wall.
I gave $20. (there was no $25 box to check)
And it’s lean times for me.
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????