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Voting for Romney? Where is your line in the sand? (Vanity)

Posted on 04/26/2012 9:18:03 AM PDT by Student0165

I want to ask those who consider themselves conservatives, and are going to vote for Romney because he happens to have an (R) instead of a (D) behind his name on the ballot sheet, where do you draw your personal line in the sand and say "No more"? For stupid people reading this (liberals and DHS type workers), I don't mean violence - I mean not voting for "the lesser of two evils".


TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: no2backstabbers; no2flipfloppers; no2moretaxes; no2romney; no2romneycare; no2saboteurs; no2tarp; no2whiningposers
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To: Resettozero
It’s really easy to understand but hard for many FReepers to accept: The Republican Party no longer automatically receives all the Conservatives’ votes for the offices of President/Vice President.

Straw man argument.

201 posted on 04/26/2012 11:24:07 AM PDT by rogue yam
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To: TruthHound

DU’ers jerk off to these kinds of threads.

Terrorists crouch on carpets praising Allah for your success at dividing Republicans.

How soon before I see the Drudge headline that the once-great conservative website Free Republic is now flat-out PRO-OBAMA?

Shame on you.


So sorry you see it that way. You are entitled to your opinion. GOP-e delights in voters such as you. Nothing changes if nothing changes. Shame on you.


202 posted on 04/26/2012 11:24:22 AM PDT by Student0165 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Resettozero

Because the only consistant trait she has displayed is to know where her bread is buttered.


203 posted on 04/26/2012 11:26:38 AM PDT by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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To: D-fendr

Thanks for your reply: “At this point, to be a true conservative. “

Was there anyone in the primary that met your standard?


Was there anyone in the primary who met my standard? Once Palin decided not to run, I could have held my nose and voted for Gingrich. I cannot hold my nose and vote for Romney. I just cannot sink that low.


204 posted on 04/26/2012 11:27:24 AM PDT by Student0165 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: TruthHound; Student0165; Gilbo_3; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; DoughtyOne; Impy
RE :”It’s time for everyone on this site to get 100% behind the only man who can remove the most destructive regime America has ever seen.
FREEPERS!!! Support Mitt Romney as though the fate of a FREE United States depended on it. That is the reality!”

DA-Da-Da, America-America...flags waving, crowds cheering...or....


205 posted on 04/26/2012 11:28:33 AM PDT by sickoflibs (Romney is a liberal. Just watch him closely screw you.)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy
Under normal circumstances, where the grievances between the parties are often small and do not contain a broad based appeal to the voters, such thinking is correct. However, we now face a different position; one where the third party could contrast with both party's candidates on almost every major issue.

Indeed (and thank you!). Also, I haven't seen voters as generally unenthusiastic, and even downright angry, as they are since 1992.

206 posted on 04/26/2012 11:30:04 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Anybody but Obama and Romney)
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To: Student0165

It seems as though you let your slip show on another thread...”Let the kenyan keep it another 4 years.”


207 posted on 04/26/2012 11:30:29 AM PDT by wtc911 (Amigo - you've been had.)
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To: Deb

And you serve what purpose? (I mean besides pretending to be a “student”.) Let me guess...Third Party?

Won’t work this time. Obama and his march to Marxism is over. And there’s nothing you can do about it.


Well, “Deb” - aside from being a REAL student - I serve a purpose of being a Christian, a conservative, a wife, a dog rescuer, a hospice volunteer, and driving 100 miles every day to a major university for classes and back. Um, what exact purpose to YOU serve dear? Oh, and bless your heart.


208 posted on 04/26/2012 11:30:50 AM PDT by Student0165 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: D-fendr
If you/we do the same work...within the GOP, there would be no need for a third party.

Naive, at best.

GOP elite holds off the tea partiers

April 22, 2012

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The Republican Party establishment has withstood the tea-party revolution.

The tricorne-hat wearing, Gadsden-flag waving insurgents were nowhere near the Republican National Committee’s annual meeting of state chairman, which wrapped up at a posh resort here Saturday afternoon.

*excerpt*

Many Republicans here said that tea-party activists now understand that things will run more smoothly if those with experience are in charge rather than those who put a premium on ideology over process.

*end excerpt*

209 posted on 04/26/2012 11:33:37 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (Romney Republicanism. Even Jimmy Carter can be comfortable with it.)
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To: wtc911

It seems as though you let your slip show on another thread...”Let the kenyan keep it another 4 years.”


Yep, I did say that. That is the voice of a frustrated conservative (not “Republican”). Too bad you didn’t post all of it. That is what trolls do.

All I did was ask a question. It is so telling to see the fear and hatred come out of the Romneybots. Interesting.


210 posted on 04/26/2012 11:34:05 AM PDT by Student0165 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: TruthHound

I find your post doubly-ironic, considering your tagline.


211 posted on 04/26/2012 11:36:47 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Anybody but Obama and Romney)
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To: Yashcheritsiy

BTW: Everything you talk about doing to create this third party could be done within the GOP easier and quicker.

If you can’t exercise the same skills and success within the party, I don’t believe you can do it outside. It’s been done before, it can be done again.

The problem this primary was a weak field and disunity - no organizing behind a single candidate opposed to Romney.


212 posted on 04/26/2012 11:37:10 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: rogue yam

No, you have misapplied the term “straw man argument”. Does not fit in response to my personal statement, which is provable. Nothing about my statement was a construction to be demolished.


213 posted on 04/26/2012 11:38:14 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Brookhaven

“...if the only way to get rid of Obama is to cast a vote for Romney then that’s what I’ll have to do (even it if means walking outside and throwing up afterwards).”

I’ve already scheduled an appointment with my doctor to have my tongue stitched back together after I pull the lever for RINO-Romney.

Whatever it takes to be get the zer0 out!


214 posted on 04/26/2012 11:39:56 AM PDT by panaxanax (0bama >>WORST PRESIDENT EVER.)
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To: BlatherNaut
Remember Ross Perot? Third parties don't win.

You mean the guy who was polling 40+% consistently throughout June of 1992? The guy who only lost because he more or less self-destructed like a crazy man?

Not actually a very good example to make your case. A non-crazy conservative could mount a winning campaign.

Like it or not, politics is a numbers game, and the majority of the electorate is not conservative.

Sure they are - they just need to be made to understand this fact.

215 posted on 04/26/2012 11:41:26 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Anybody but Obama and Romney)
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To: wtc911

Harsh judgment. Oh well, that is the presstitutes’ line they’ve spread about her. For those willing to dig into the subject, it is possible to discover what you wrote is not quite the truth.


216 posted on 04/26/2012 11:42:06 AM PDT by Resettozero
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To: rogue yam

How do you NOT know this?


217 posted on 04/26/2012 11:44:32 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Anybody but Obama and Romney)
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To: rogue yam

———In four years we will have other candidates———

The rest of the lesson is very plainly visible here on Free Republic. There is no such thing as a “Conservative”. There is an extremely wide variation of views with specifics among individuals quite variable. There was no consensus enabling one candidate to be thrust the forefront. It seemed that what was good didn’t matter. It was that which caused one to be against that prevailed.The result was smaller coalitions of those who could accept that which others, other conservatives disdained.

Then there is poor ol’ pissant. He got so riled and vociferous, he got zotted.

My solution is a CONSERVATIVE SECONDARY. A method must be developed to weigh and measure qualifications, develop consensus, and result in one or at most two conservative candidates in the Republican Primary.

We do not need a third party. We need a strong Conservative Coalition residing under the Republican tent. It might be a Tea Party Coalition but with several competing Tea Parties it may never come to pass. Bravado and “By God I won’t ever vote RINO” must be softened by developing real strength in a coalition.

Until such a coalition is existing and functioning, the probability for prevailing at a national level is slim.

I think it should be Newt’s job and legacy to begin just such an effort


218 posted on 04/26/2012 11:44:50 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: EternalVigilance
I'll let Sam Adams deal with that one:

I'd love to see how the Founding Fathers would contend with today's massive and corrupt government beaurocracy and dumbed-down, left-leaning electorate.

219 posted on 04/26/2012 11:45:42 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: EternalVigilance

Not naive. Those state chairman you blame, can be replaced. They very often are.

If you can’t organize and replace those positions in the GOP, you can’t do the same thing in a third party - it’s the same work and skills.

Further, if you have a third-party, you’ll have the identical task of filling those slots with those folks you want - and the same arguments and fights.

The only difference is you have a ton of extra work for a new party that you don’t have organizing and changing an existing party.


220 posted on 04/26/2012 11:46:14 AM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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