Fredheads, It's Time to Support Mitt

The Jawa Report ^ | January 22, 2008 05:18 PM | Dr. Rusty Shackleford

[Checkers]

Dear fellow Fredheads,

It's time to support Mitt Romney. Can Mitt win in a general election? I don't know. Certainly he has always had a better chance than Fred. And if the opposition is Hillary Clinton, then maybe.

McCain can beat Hillary. But McCain is, well, McCain.

To be honest, I'm not as down on McCain as most of my fellow Jawas and you, the readers. But that's just because I've been a one-issue guy since right around, oh, let me see, I think the date was 9/11/2001.

But still, McCain doesn't get that the border is tied in with our national security.

Mitt does. And he seems to get the war on political Islam.

Sure, Rudy also seems to get both, but it's probably too little too late for him.

I'm hearing some oddball theory that a lot of Fredheads are natural Huckabee supporters. That's insane. Like, certifiably insane.

It's built on the presumption that the evangelical supporters of Thompson are in the same boat as the evangelical supporters of Huckabee. I got news for Tom Edsell: they aint the same animal. Sure, they may have the same funny accent, and so I'm guessing that to an outsider like Edsell the presumption is that they must be the same species. But they're not.

[hiredhand]

he believes in individual RKBA and knows it is more than about hunting:

More than about hunting? Come again? Do you realize what you just wrote? You don't! Do you?! How can it be "more" than about hunting, when it has NOTHING to do with hunting?

Great! Flyers from 1994! Why don't you pull some up from the 60's about his dad! Will that make him more credible? You're facing a big problem here. It's called NO CONFIDENCE.

After this last "hopeful" CINC that we helped place into the Executive Office, all we have to go by is actions and records. Romney has flipped and flopped on simply too many issues during his campaign. Even if he really does walk on water and all that "stuff", he does NOT have our CONFIDENCE and he's not likely to garner it before the election.

I'll let you in on some insider information. Maybe you've heard this before, and just didn't think about it this way.

We're weary of politicians who want to "buy" our vote. For example, Mitt Romney might think, or know that I've got a veritable small arsenal of finely made weapons stored in various closets around my house. Now bear in mind that the truth of the matter is that he effectively has ZERO experience with small arms and less knowledge of the very Constitution which we hold sacred just short of God's Word. So the man goes and buys himself an NRA membership, and tells us all how he grew up "hunting". But in effect, he just displayed his absolute ignorance of the entire Constitutional basis for the right to keep and bear arms. ...and if we're having to deal with that, then what other deficiencies are there? But according to your logic, I'm supposed to feel good about this? ...and simply because Hillary is lying to her supporters too? WHERE is the logic in that? Pandering EQUALS lying and it shows a lack of character!...no matter WHO does it!

We simply want a leader who doesn't try to "buy" us. We want a leader who is willing to uphold the Constitution and the laws of this land. Mitt Romney didn't pass the "smell test" with us.

My issues/desires? They're a moot point. It's not going to matter because as I explained previously, my group and the Paulites are going to throw the election. You and yours could prevent it if you want to, but I doubt that will happen.

To many people will pencil in "Ron Paul" and "Thompson/Hunter" unless something very unusual happens.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“Health care in Mass is with private insurers.”

How does one opt out of the Masshole system?

Oh right - it’s mandatory.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

All of the remaining GOP Presidential candidates are truly in the same boat: NOT ELECTABLE!

[dirtboy]

Health care in Mass is with private insurers.

My car insurance in PA is with a private insurer.

But it is still mandated by the state.

But I don't expect a hard-core spinner like you to grasp the similarity.

[Checkers]

It’s a sin to bear false witness. But then, you knew that.

[County Agent Hank Kimball]

Look, I’m pretty much sold that Romney’s next best. His supporters heaping contempt on Thompson (my first choice) doesn’t make me very enthusiastic about it, though.

Hank

[hiredhand]

What would be in your watning?

Er...typo?

My write-in?

Thompson/Hunter 08.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“I explained previously, my group and the Paulites are going to throw the election. You and yours could prevent it if you want to, but I doubt that will happen.”

Amen.

If Rudy McHuckainomney is the candidate - the GOP deserves to lose - and lose big.

We need to purge the party leadership in a big way.

I pray Paul changes his mind and runs 3rd party.

[Checkers]

Romney must be doing something right.

Have you noticed all the lies and disinformation spread about him?

[adopt4Christ]

I know too much about Mormonism. It’s problematic for me, but not for the reason you might assume (as a Bible-believing Christian). It’s a wacky religion. It’s irrational. There are “tenants” of their “faith” that boggle the imagination, that makes me nervous that someone who is worthy of being elected POTUS could actually believe them — believe their own “addition” to the Bible, God’s true Word to us — and also raise his children to believe the same things.

Mormons might be “moral” people — but what they believe is scary for me— makes me nervous about him being in power — the leader of the Free World. I cannot BELIEVE I would purposefully not vote this year — especially since I homeschool four, and they love going to the polls with me — but I think it will be a first.

Who could I vote for, with a clear conscience? Do I vote for the most handsome? The one who’s lost the most weight? The one who was a POW in the war? The one who has never been faithful to one wife YET, and whose kids hate him? Who then? No one. There’s no one. I can’t vote for someone who makes me have to swallow my vomit before I punch the card.

[TheLion]

You haven’t read many of my posts. So the state is already in your life....how amazing. I didn’t think that happened anymore.

Romney may have saved us from the kind of real socialized medicine that Mass wanted. It would have set a dangerous precedent, had they passed a single payer plan, as was their wish.

Now 27 states are looking at some form of private insurance. It saves a fortune, creates responsibility and keeps people from becoming wards of the state, which drives insurance costs through the roof.

Mass premiums dropped almost in half because of the large pool of people. I would love to have this option.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“Look, I’m pretty much sold that Romney’s next best. His supporters heaping contempt on Thompson (my first choice) doesn’t make me very enthusiastic about it, though.”

I will never vote for a gun grabber, like Mitt.

That is my line in the sand.

I will never vote for someone who disrespects the first amendment, like McCain.

That is my line in the sand.

I will never vote for a pro-abortion candidate, like Rudy.

That is my line in the sand.

I will never vote for a nanny-state-populist like Huckabee.

That is my line in the sand!

[Schwaeky]

Rush is going to have a Hillary or Obama Presidency on his conscience...

This is one year that an endorsement by him would have made a positive difference, and it would have been McLame or Crossdresser, not Fred, dropping out...

vote for him anyway.. dilute the remaining candidates, drag it out to a brokered convention and draft FDT’s a$$.....

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“Have you noticed all the lies and disinformation spread about him?”

No - I only notice his supporters lying about his record, or else diminishing it’s importance.

[WOSG]

“Mitt has no core values”

You are spinning and/or have simply decided to ignore the real Romney life story and record. Go to #313. 80% of whats on that 1994 campaign agenda is aligned with what he is running on today. The only real difference is abortion. He has a core fiscal conservative and law-and-order conservative philosophy and is a genuine pro-family traditional values guy. He’s a mainstream Republican who ran squishy on abortion and gay rights to survive in a blue state, and has had to live down that. But he was consistently against gay marriage. He admittedly is not perfect on guns, but he did get a B from the NRA in 2002 and signed proguns bills as governor, and btw neither was GWB perfect, they both favor the AWB.

That’s it. A prety solid mainstream Republican who will be solid on taxes, spending, judges, marriage, and the GWOT and wont be a RINO like McCain on key issues such as immigration and environment.

Yet you overstate and exaggerate the issues Mitt Romney has. He’s not a panderer any more than the other candidates like McCain and Huckabee and Rudy are. He’s flipflopped less than Huckabee and McCain has done at least as much as Romney.

So let’s just say back at ya: Why don’t you quit the bullcrap?

Let’s talk about the real Mitt Romney, based on the real facts and his real record, not slap-dash off-hand dismissal s of his character based on the anti-Mitt distortions that are floating around. He’s not a 100% conservative, but he’s not bad at all and is a darned sight better than McCain or Huck, and will be a smart, articulate formidable candidate to take on the Hildabeast.

So let’s support him.

[Checkers]

“I have so many folks now pi**ing on my leg and telling me that it’s raining...”

No one’s pis**ng on you.

You wet yourself.

[CyberAnt]

Well .. in 2002, that was how Mitt voted - however, when he researched stem cell research .. he made a slight discovery .. THE FETUS WAS A BABY!! So .. according to his testimony, he changed his mind about Roe v. Wade.

Will he ever lead a cause to change it .. I don’t know.

However - I do know this .. McCain is a lunatic and Huckabee is a manipulater. Neither one is presidential material.

Psssst! Nobody has to agree with me .. I don’t give a rip whether you do or not.

[TheLion]

“Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.”

Einstein

[Salvation]

Yes typo............hate them, don’t you?

What would be in your warning?

[WOSG]

“It took a Carter to get a Reagan.....

Hillary 08..”

Which is BS. Reagan was Reagan before Carter was elected.
He might well have been elected even if Ford beat Carter.

It took a Carter to set us back miserably on many levels, including letting Iran happen, which led to the terrorism problems we face today.

We elected a Clinton in 1992, what did we get? 8 years of it.