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Posted on 01/17/2012 8:22:06 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan
Though I have yet to read anything on the Internet that caused me literally to bash my laptop computer into the nearest available hard surface, comments like this, in the comments section of a popular conservative website, come pretty close:
Oh no we won't. The GOP has been forcing us to choose their candidates. No thank you.
As most of you reading this probably have already guessed, the "oh no he won't" the commenter is vowing is that he won't unite behind Mitt Romney should the ex-gov of Mass win the GOP nomination.
Well, let me be the first to break the news to Mr. Oh-No-I-Wouldn't: Oh, yes, you will. You may say you won't, you may even think it. But when the bell tolls midnight on November 5 and the Ghost of America in Decline Future forces you to confront the prospect of four more years of Barack Obama, the nanosecond dawn breaks on the 6th, you will propel yourself from your bed like the proverbial bat out of hell and pull the "R" lever - yes - even if the label next to it says "Romney."
Or maybe I'm wrong and this commenter really, truly will never vote for Mitt Romney, no way, no how. In which case, he's definitely in the right political party. "The Stupid Party" is not an appellation they just give to a political party; it must be earned.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Would make a good commercial Obama ghost of socialist past, present, and future.
Your thoughts about Romney vs Obama seem to be rooted in the false premise that there's a substantial, or meaningful ideological difference between them.
Despite the conservative rhetoric emanating from Romney's flip-flopping lips, his governing record bears a striking resemblance to any liberal Democrat's. Even worse for the doomsday scenario you're projecting, Romney is the acknowledged father of ObamaCare, and his record of appointing judges to the bench is as liberal as it gets.
We sheepish conservatives will let ourselves be shepherded to the pols as we did for statist Bush, statist McCain and vote for statist Romney. But no one else will vote for him because he is an incompetent politician and creepy to boot.>>
Watching Romney standing there at the debates last night was like watching manbearpig (al gore) all over again. No thanks.
Dear Gene Schwimmer
You don’t know me. Not only will I not vote for Romney, but I will instead work against him.
My objective will be to win my precinct, at a minimum, with the hopes of winning my county, for the conservative 3rd party candidate running against the two liberals, ObamNey and his other brother, ObamNey.
I’m hoping that Ohio will again be an important state in the election. I suspect its swing state reputation is well-earned.
While such an act would serve notice, in some small way, that conservatives are disenchanted with Romney, it will, more importantly, strengthen a 3rd party to someday displace the GOP.
They should care; they can all go to where their heart lies, the democratic party.
We are fed up with the Doles, McCain's and now Romney being shoved down our throats!
You say "we" can change it. "We" have tried...the "Powers that Be"....you would think, would run better candidates than those three!! None of them are Conservative, really. They are RINOS....
Maybe you have it backwards....American is more Conservative than you and the GOP elite think...and will not support anymore DoleMcCainRomney's.
“Maybe you have it backwards....American is more Conservative than you and the GOP elite think...and will not support anymore DoleMcCainRomney’s.”
Ok, if America is that conservative, then how does Romney win Iowa, and likely South Carolina?
All politics is local.
If conservatives infiltrate from the bottom up, you get conservatives. Look at how just a handful of conservatives in the House can disrupt business as usual.
It doesn’t happen over night, but the power is in our hands.
Or, we can simply complain.
"All politics is local"...I hear that a lot. Most local yokels I know...couldn't tell you who their Mayor/Congressman or Senators were. And I'm talking pretty Conservative folks too!!
They are totally uninformed sheep....And believe it or not MANY are very Conservative in their everyday lives..but that doesn't translate to how they vote.
And...not to be last...the MEDIA is a big, big player in how people think.
No one is whistling past any grave yard in the least.
I believe a Tea Party oriented House and Senate, which we also MUST have in any case to turn this thing around, will indeed hold his feet to the fire and not be like the GOP majority that Bush had. There were far too many RINOs in that crowd and we are working to fix that problem too...as we got a good start at in 2010.
We have to have enough fire in our belly to continue making that happen in any case.
George W. Bush never had that...we need to make sure, that should our conservative candidates not coalese the vote around a single candidate and win the nomination, that such a House and Senate is there.
Bush did not come in on any promises to overturn an Obamacare...it did not exist. He did not come in promising to secure the borders in dramatic fashion, to get a balanced budget amendment going, to cap spending or to slash several federal government agencies outright. Romney is saying all of those things and I believe if elected he will try and do them precisely because he is a politician and does not want to be defeated in 2016.
Time will tell...our first attempt should be to encourage and vote so that only one of the Newt, Perry, Santorum threesome comes out of South Carolina so we do not even have to deal with this issue. That is my hope and what I am working for. But, if we fail, Romney would not be anywhere near as dire as the marxist Obama.
If you do not agree, we’ll just have to respectfully disagree on that...and hope we do not have to contend with Obama should Romney be the noiminee. I will do all in my power to defeat Obama in the end.
“They are totally uninformed sheep....”
And there is the problem. Conservative or not, being an uninformed sheep is not taking care of the Republic.
We, the collective “we”, get the government we deserve.
Good advice.
I believe we must ensure that there is a Tea Party oriented House and Senate in place. We have to do that in any case to turn around this fisaco.
With that in place, they will hold Romney to his pledges and promises. I believe that.
Our first course of action must be to avoid this altogether which is still very possible.
We simply have to encourage and vote such that after SC only one conservative candidate is left standing. That will be enough, IMHO, to defeat Romney.
Right now I believe that should be Newt...but anyone who places a strong second (or, hopefully even wins) in SC should be that person and we need to pull out the stops to get the other candidates (outside of Paul who will not stop in any case) to line up behind him.
BUMP!
"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear." -- George Orwell
No. Romney. Ever.
Too many voters don’t get it!
I hope Newt repeats it during Thursday’s debate!
BUMP!
GO NEWT!
Americans do not deserve what is happening now. Just as Americans never deserved much of what has happened in the past.
So much is out of their control. No matter if they "know" what's happening........
Our leaders have and have had a fiduciary responsibility to do the "right" thing for the people. It's not been done.
IOW's....ensuring our kids were taught to understand how our country was formed, and how it works. IOW's continuing to teach the people about the Constitution. The Bill of Rights. Continuing to teach the younger American's what this country was founded on, and uplifting people, not coddling them!!
Ensuring that the true facts are being reported.
Of course we know...that's not been done..and not being done.
Americans have been being duped...for years.
Robbed for years.
Stolen from for years.
Raped for years.
Lied to for years.
Personally I don't think we deserved that.
The GOP is screwing us.....slowly. The Democrats are screwing us a bit faster.
I don't deserve it...and neither do you.
You’re right on target. There are more conservatives than moderates or liberals in this country, but the old divide and conquer is coming into play. If you want someone besides Romney, get behind Newt. If this was a head to head with Romney and Gingrich, there would be no contest.
It's a devastatingly simple point, but it will need to be repeated over and over, to sink in broadly.
Here and there, some will make the comparison to Reagan, who lost to the moderate Gerald Ford in the 1976 primary, then came back to beat the liberal Dem incumbent in 1980, but there's a huge difference between what happened then, and what's happening now.
That is, Romney is NOT a bold contrast to the Commie in the White House, as Reagan was to the liberal Carter. If anything, he's that pale pastel Reagan talked about. He can't give the nation what they're so badly looking for, which is an antidote to the uber liberalism of the current occupant. His record as Governor of Massachusetts is nearly a blueprint for the Obama agenda.
I'm only hoping that Republican voters figure out what Romney is, in time to stop him from weaseling his way into the nomination. They need to push the boldest, clearest contrast to Obama to the top, and that is Newt Gingrich.
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