Posted on 05/07/2011 11:03:19 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
Watch the video clip from this week's debate.
I do understand, and you’re right, he didn’t have to pick any of them. Perhaps that would have been preferable to a lot of folks. It certainly would have been for you. That’s one thing....but.....it does not make me a RINO to point out the following:
And that is, you still cannot equate that to Cain being “pro Romney” per se. And it certainly does not mean he is pro Ronmey care of likes how Romney governed in Massachusetts. He simply chose a name from a list where you would have said none of the above.
Of course, I will point out this: one of those men WAS going to be President, and that includes YOUR President too. Reality sucks sometimes, but it still is what it is.
I hope that someday you’ll understand that it’s your old, tired, failed way of thinking that is making sure that’s the only kind of “choices” that are presented.
You would blush if you knew how off base you are.
My old tire way of thinking? NO, maybe one day you’ll figure out that not everybody who disagrees with you is part of some cabal of all pwerful folks meeting with Karl Rove behind closed doors in an express attempt to keep you from getting the country you want.
I work hard to change reality — and do so not hiding behind some pseudo name. But at some point in every cycle, reality is what it is. Refusing to understand that is delusional. At some point, the President was going to be McCain, Romney or Obama — PERIOD. And that was the result of the VOTERS of this country, not a few folks in a secret Washington society.
You have every right to say NONE OF THE ABOVE. But you and every other anonymous poster on all the conservative websites in the country could not alter a single congressional district. Cain simply knew that Obama would beat McCain and that McCain would be awful.
I’ve been on FR for more than ten years, and have never hidden behind a screen name. Most long time FReepers know exactly who I am, and those who don’t are just lazy, since it’s on my homepage. So, once again, you miss the mark.
The rest of that stuff is all invention on your part. Nothing but straw men. Are you sure you’re not a fiction writer?
How's that go?
You would blush if you knew how off base you are.
The point is, luxuriating in the relatively anonymous and relatively small world of the web is one thing — having to actually win elections and change policy is another. The purity demanded by so many and the paranoia that anyone who disagrees must be some inside the beltway connected RINO is just plain foolish.
Cain probably disagrees with Romney for the same reasons you do. That he chose to act on those disagreements differently than you did is just that — a disagreement on how to form a more Perfect Union.
Maybe you should examine that phrase...MORE perfect union. The Founders knew that a PERFECT union was not possible — thus “MORE perfect, as in closer to perfect than we are now.
Too many prevent any chance of a more perfect union by trying to find perfect people.
As for the personal insults, I will over look those and submit that all of that will be answered in due time.
I’m overawed.
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“Does it ever occur to anyone around here that maybe choosing Romney over McCain is not exctly “pro Romney?”
What “exactly” is it then?
That would be “anti McCain” - not pro Romney.
Was it that hard?
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This is an article by someone who clearly has missed the boat. I can't support anyone who holds these views.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
In my opinion, TARP was in many ways the template for Obamanomics.
1 - "It's a CRISIS! No time for consideration, no time for debate. Gotta pass the bill TODAY!!
2 - Promises of transparency which are followed by a reality of obscurity.
3 - Massive dollar flows from taxpayers (or from borrowing) to the politically well-connected.
4 - Years later, no evidence that anything of worth was accomplished.
5 - No attempt to solve the underlying root causes of the original problem. Instead, there is an ongoing policy of papering them over.
Yet there are Freepers who are continually taken by surprise when election results reveal that fact.
With the exception of the TARP issue where we clearly disagree, your other comments on this thread are spot on.
Do you really mean this?
More liberal than any Democrat?
Name me another Governor of any party who:
1. Instituted gay marriage.
2. Banned guns.
3. Homosexualized state government and the public schools.
4. Pushed through socialized medicine complete with $50 co-pay taxpayer-funded abortions.
Thanks, and let me clarify my feeling on TARP. I do not like it and I do not like it for most of the reasons in your list. I would add that much of your list happened AFTER it was passed. Yes, some of it was predictable.
However, I do think there was a real threat of a panic and run on banks and a total economic shutdown. For that reason I supported it even though I hated it. And most of the original loans have been repaid, and yes, TARP was a loan program not a gift program.
Now as for the foreign banks and the Goldman BS and the Fannie and Freddie and GMAC crap, which will never be recovered — those were things no conservative ever supported and those were snuck in their by Paulson, who as a Bushie, was NO conservative.
All of which speaks to my main point, which is that it should not be the litmus in the way Cap and Trade, Stimulus, Obama CAre, etc are. It’s just not that cut and dried. i wish it were.
““Does it ever occur to anyone around here that maybe choosing Romney over McCain is not exctly “pro Romney?
That would be “anti McCain” - not pro Romney.”
If Romney was the only other option you might have cause.
I will get back to you on governors more liberal than Mitt. I am sure there are a few.
I voted for Romney in the GOP primary, too. I would not do so today. I’m not gonna bash Cain for doing it back then, as he made the same mistake I made!
I’m actually pretty interested in Cain. I like what he says and how he says it. I’ll have to look carefully at his positions, though, before I commit.
Does anyone know his position on pro-life issues? I haven’t found much from reliable sources. But then, I haven’t had much time yet to look very hard.
Hi TA! First time on here in a LONG time. I couldn’t remember my password or your screen name! Just thought I’d stop by and say hi to you on a post for ol’ times sake! Ha. See you on FB!
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