Posted on 09/07/2012 6:30:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“Truth is the new hate speech.”—“Creeping Sharia”
“We [the people] own this country.”—Clint Eastwood
I feel like I ought to start out each of my articles anymore with a disclaimer, or caveat saying something along the lines of “WARNING: The contents of this article are to be considered null and void in the event of a “Reichstag Fire,” false flag event, and/or an invasion by Russian Spetsnaz in collusion with Northcom,“or words to that effect.
My intent is not to make light of such concerns, as God knows we have reason enough to be more than a bit edgy these days—what with the Patriot Act, NDAA, the torrent of Obama EOs (Executive Orders), various government agencies stockpiling millions of rounds of ammo, and other such things.
Personally, I am what you might call a cynical optimist—I hope for the best, but plan for the worst. I keep myself open to the idea that the US can peacefully pull itself out of the colossal mess that it is currently mired in—but I have enough guns, ammo, freeze dried food and whatnot to open a small survivalist store.
Be that as it may—the main topic that I wish to address in this article is my decision to back the Romney/Ryan ticket, and the fallout from that. Contrary to what some of you may think, I have not rushed off and enlisted in the “Dark Side.” I am as opposed to the Big Bank/ Big Corporation/Big Government/Big War cabal as ever...
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“But how many lost jobs, homes, savings, etc. are you willing to sacrifice on your altar of purism?”
But let’s ask the converse question: how many unborn children are you willing to sacrifice on your altar of expediency and capitulation?
Let’s not just talk in the theoretical sense. Let’s put a hard number to it. One million? Two million?
There is a long term human cost to your decision as well.
“Really can’t fathom the mind of an Abr”
And I can’t fathom the mind of an ASBo (Any Socialist But obama). And I’ve read plenty of alinsky and Machiavelli over time. Maybe I’m reading the wrong books? Unfortunately I’m not aware of any books written by benedict arnold or vikun quisling.
“I’ll blame you and your ilk if Zero is re-elected.”
Oooh! Will you blame me too? Please? Pretty please? You’re known not just by the friends you keep, but by the enemies as well.
———It’s just moral relativism writ very large.-——
No, that is a delusional rationalization.You have forgotten where you are.
You overlook one preeminent point. We or at least most of us, are Americans.
We have a political system in America wherein we have two political parties that encompass all the various coalitions. For the presidential slot, the various coalitions put forward candidates and the number is winnowed down to one per party. The various coalitions have their day. If they have strength, they win. If they lack strength they lose.
Some losers have decided that it is more important to exercise their own conservative vanity than it is to join American’s in having a presidential election
“It is true that if there are 3 million conservatives like him who don’t vote for Romney Obama will win. But if 3 million conservatives find they can’t in good conscience vote for Romney I blame the people who shoved Romney down our throats. And I blame Romney for not being able to convince them.”
But to the willardite the problem is never with willard, it’s with those who refuse to bow low before him.
In this situation we had a minority insurgency (that entity we call the GOP-e) who put forward yet another one of their groomed candidates who is not technically acceptable to SEVERAL of the larger coalition members ~ actually, the majority of the voting base of the Republican party.
Now that doesn't mean he can't win ~ almost anyone could beat Obama this year ~ but he will never have a settled time in office. The other coalition partners will make sure he has a quite miserable time ~ opposition to his every proposal will be automatic. I doubt you will ever see him at any large gatherings outside of the inaugural day festivities ~ which will see a record low turnout.
Both the Democrats and Republicans have some serious structural problems that will require serious reaffirmation of party label and the ejection of troublesome minorities.
-—— actually, the majority of the voting base of the Republican party.——
There is one small problem with that statement. Leaving out Paul, and maybe he can actually be included, the majority of the primary voting base voted for Romney. That is, the combined votes for all the other significant candidates was not adequate to win.
(2) In the later primaries where nobody but Romney had the funds to run, the Romney supporters and Democrats voted for Romney anyway ~
We had a well financed minority insurgency capture the nomination without actually demonstrating they were able to represent the interests of the coalition partners.
In European politics, where the coalition politics takes place after the elections, not before them (as in America), what that would mean is a short-lived "Government" (or ruling clique) with a good chance of falling due to a lack of confidence over some quite mundane issues!
You people worked yourself into a quite unstable situation which will allow the most unpopular President of the last two centuries to win another term ~ your fault ~ not mine ~ no way this can be rectified either!
I see you missed the deliberate irony.
This doesn't surprise me.
If Romney is anything, it would be the judgment of God upon America.
Let's face it - we have two major party candidates who are against godliness and righteousness. Both of them are instruments for God's judgment, regardless of which one gets elected, since both of them are, at their root, opposed to God and His plan on earth.
Sure, the Assyrians might have been God's instrument of judgment on Israel, but that doesn't mean the Israelites had to vote for them.
Ultimately, folks like you are putting your faith in man and government, not in God - and this is true no matter how much highminded talk about "prayer" and "who can be influenced by God" you might want to make. The heart of the king is in the hand of the Lord. if God wanted, He could put Obama back into office, and then turn his heart completely 180 degrees around. I doubt that this will happen, but who knows. Ultimately, the matter is in God's hands, and it's up to me to simply vote my conscience, not vote "pragmatically" for somebody with bad charactre whose future actions I do not know.
It should be telling that in these later primaries, Romney still lost a significant share of the vote to competitors whose names were still on the ballot, even though they had formally dropped out weeks before. Here in North Carolina, Romney only got ~70%, despite being the only candidate left in the race at this point.
But yeah, this is the guy who's going to "unite" the Republican Party.
“This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them all.
Amen. In the eastern Church our prayer just prior to Communion ends with “O Lord forgive me for I have sinned without number.”
“Which makes all this brow-beating by Romney operatives to intimidate anyone not supporting Romney as a ‘traitor’ deserving of death more than ridiculous considering what their political savior has already done to Conservatives.”
The willardites are engaging it just a little bit of projection don’t you think?
;-)
“With Romney or some other RINO we can at least influence him and will have some voices on our side in his cabinet & NSC.”
I respectfully disagree. Keep in mind that willard is calling the shots. Once willard wins, he will act to consolidate his power and conservatives need not apply.
Paul Ryan is an interesting case, but let’s recognize what the VP does under our system: he casts a vote in the Senate when and if there is a tie. That happens maybe 2 or 3 times a decade. I think a lot of this kerfuffle over Todd Akin is illustrative. willard jumped out and affirmed his support for abortion in some circumstances. Paul Ryan who has a stellar record on this issue was...where?
The silence was deafening.
That’s a sneak preview of what you can expect from a willard administration.
As for hussein, he has pretty much been outed.
Sorry, you gots' ta' deliver an awful lot more than prayer and counseling.
His peeps screwed up the primary so much here in Virginia the state committee has decided to hold a CONVENTION next year to pick the Gubernatorial candidate!
"The Cooch" will probably win.
Except, I think, for the Foat Wuth Startlegram and the Lubbock Avalanche-Express, the Texas press is now fairly well locked up in the yellowy claws of a cabal of J-school Leftists, the kind of people that lecture us to be tolerant of homosexuals who like to snatch kids' underwear and bugger junior-varsity boys in the showers.
Texas big-city papers are a sour, sorry joke any more, and they uniformly counsel Texans to despair of our remedies and lie down for notorious Communists like Obama.
Think about being in that situation ~ even the Eisenhower campaign didn't have this problem although the Taft Republicans were still riding high at the time ~ they could accept IKE as Supreme Allied Commander and as President.
You have a failed candidate who has no one he allows to be around him who knows how to win this race.
The solution is to expel the dishonest minority (the GOP-e) from the party and move on. You people are less than 15% of our voting base, and I am sure that when your faithless leaders are shed, you will see the patriotic wisdom in that movement and step quickly into line lest you, too, be outed!
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