I didn't defend Romney as "not a RINO". On the contrary, on some issues he likely is.
What I'm addressing is the belief that not voting at all is somehow righteous because Obama and Romney are the same. Cheney, Cantor, DeMint, Rubio, Backmann, Nugent, Ryan, etc. are thankfully not of this mindset...they know that Obama is the far greater danger and so will take appropriate action to ensure that he and First Wookie don't get power again to control our lives.
Care to name one issue that Romney hasn’t been a complete liberal on?
Please stop trying to turn Free Republican into a Republican cheerleader site.
Free Republic is a conservative site.
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Romney is a liberal.
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Pretty simple math
Just because many of you are willing to abandon your principles doesn’t mean you should ask the rest of us to do it. Let Free Republic be that ONE place on the internet where conservative principles REIGN over schilling for a party or a candidate.
Thank you.
Like I said, vote how you like. Stop trying to accuse us of supporting Obama because we disagree. That just makes you a stupid jerk.
And Obama was a danger in 2008. McCain was the hero? And Bill Clinton was a danger in 1992, a reason to go hold hog on Bush 41 after four years of being played? Frankly, I’d take Clinton now with a true conservative GOP Congress as we had in 1995.
Bush 43 was the least conservative candidate in 2000 so I have to accept that fact because Gore was worse? And Bush barely won being a “compassionate conservative” so you are arguing the margins.
Kerry was such a caricature it shouldn’t have been close either but it was. Again, enjoy living on the margins that make the GOP cave to Dem ideas as Bush (both of them) did. W couldn’t even get a tax rate cut through Congress because of the RINO’s you now say to support like McCain and others that demanded, with the Dems, a deadline on those rates. Then Obama gets to hammer the new GOP House majority, in a lame duck session, over the head and win the day on preserving those rates but demanded concesssions.
How again are your RINO’s helping us go forward? Seems to me it’s like begging to tread water. Sooner or later the tide will take you.
Oh, I forgot. This time Romney supposedly comes with a guarantee that conservatives, like those you listed, are going to “hold his feet to the fire”. Yeah, right. The only victories with Bush were Harriet Myers and shoving amnesty back down their throats but only after being called, by your RINO buddies, all kinds of names. Especially from McCain and Graham.
Oh, but I’m supposed to just jump right back in line and shut the hell up. Your list are politicians and party elected party members so I understand their stance. Nugent, I don’t understand. I would have thought he would have been stronger.
That being said, I don’t know if he supported any other candidate in the primary. But now that Romney is going to get the nomination he wants to jump on the wagon. I don’t.