I don't call it that..I call it walking away with my choice and leaving them with theirs....
Posted on 05/04/2012 6:31:27 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
My FRiends, we might as well face the reality that we the combined pro-life conservative movement and tea party coalition have lost this round (the presidential election) in the larger battle to reclaim our constitution and our inalienable rights. Rove, Romney and the GOP-e have successfully destroyed and driven off each and every pro-life conservative tea party candidate from the race and all have surrendered to the Romney camp. It is no secret that Romney is not one of us. There is absolutely no doubt that he has never accomplished a single conservative thing in his entire political career (one term as liberal governor of liberal Massachusetts and six years campaigning for president). In Massachusetts, he undeniably championed abortion, gay rights, global warming, gun control, big government statist mandated/socialized health care programs, liberal judges, TARP, bailouts, stimulus spending, debt limit increases, etc, and even though he's recently claimed a complete reversal in political beliefs and no longer despises pro-life conservatives or the time of Reagan-Bush, I still don't trust him. He still stubbornly holds on to some of his statist beliefs, like global warming, gays in the military, RomneyCare, stimulus spending, etc, so there is no way I can vote for him or join Cain, Perry, Bachmann, Newt or any others who are endorsing him. But I will not act on my prior promises that I would actively campaign against him if he wins the nomination. Our combined movement is already torn and splintered and is going to have to be mended if we're going to have any impact whatsoever against the liberal/progressives and statists after the election. To that end I propose a TRUCE among our conservative forces during the remainder of this election cycle.
We conservatives have already lost the presidency to either the Dems or the GOP-e, and if we tear the tea party apart, if we tear the pro-life movement apart, if we tear FR apart then we lose it all. It's far more important that we re-unite and live to fight another day. Even if we can't vote for a true conservative for the presidency, it's doubly important that we all turn out on election day or sooner and drag our friends, neighbors, relatives, co-workers, etc, to the polls to vote straight conservative for every slot on our ballots. The only way we can win our freedom back is to vote out the liberal progressives and vote in as many liberty loving conservatives as is humanly possible into every elected office at every level of government all across this great land. To prevent a total loss to the dems or GOP-e, we must continue the tea party rebellion into November and beyond. Whatever else you may do, you must turn out and vote straight tea party conservative down ticket!!
We must continue expanding our inroads into the state houses and into every elective office in the land. We must continue building on our majority in the house and we must retake the senate!! We must help the conservative governors and state legislatures to fully restore the ninth and tenth amendments and reclaim the real political power away from the federal usurpers and return it to the states and the people per the constitution!! This way, regardless of who wins the presidency, we can cut his unconstitutional expansionist movements off at the knees. And if any executive, civil officer or judge dares commit impeachable offenses, we must hold the majorities so we can impeach and remove them from office!!
And we must salvage and rebuild and continue strengthening our conservative pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-borders, pro-constitution, pro-small government, pro-defense, pro-liberty movements and our tea party coalition. And we must stop ripping each other apart!!
Therefore I hereby propose a general truce among our conservative forces!!
The Republic we save may be our own!!
As far as FR's finances go, we're in the same boat as the rest of the economy and will have to make do with what we can raise. Fortunately, the big debts we ran up a couple years ago have been paid off. We borrowed approx $20,000 a few years ago from two FReepers to fund our national convention, plus we ran up another $20,000 in legal fees during the last couple of years fighting off Righthaven. But those are now behind us and paid off. We also did quite a bit of traveling each year for the last three years on cross country tea party tours, but I think we can now cut that back and remove it from our budget requirements. If we're fortunate enough to not incur any additional legal costs or equipment costs (other than what we've already planned), and cut the travel and a few other areas, we should be able to tighten our belts enough to weather the storm even if we fail to reach our short term fundraising goals.
Whatever the outcome of the elections, we are prepared to roar into 2013 with the tea party chewing up liberal/progressives and RINOs and raising hell in our never ending fight for liberty!!
We are the resistance!!
Let's take the enemy head-on instead of fighting each other!!
Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!!
You are ABSOLUTELY right!
I need the ability to donate with a visa debit as that is the only plastic I use.
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That’s all we use and I am a monthly donor. You just fill out the form as if it were a credit card.
All I can chime in and add is that this is the best true conservative site out there. It is the only site on the entire internet where I feel free to express my disdain for that sucker Romney and him “winning” the GOP nomination, so the emdia has crowned him, that is 100% conservative. The rest of the sites have become fearful of critics of the GOP plantation and are just aiming fire at Obama when they should be plotting what to do to stop Romney while there remains a slim chance. Fine, but it is not right to lie for and support Romney, in my opinion.
Not only that but this site supports or has supporters of the birther issue which I have come to agree with.
In my view, most of the so-called conservatives on certain sites are not really that conservative, but just republican. Otherwise, Romney would have been laughed off stage. Obama is bad, but Romney is as bad. So what am I to do if I dislike both with a passion. It is my right to vote third party, if I want, and I assure you that I’ll sleep better at night.
My beef with detractors of this site is how a portion of them just want a site to actively promote non-conservative candidates and issues that are not conservative and fail to understand that if they want that then they are not conservative and should go elsewhere because ther are bound to be sites open to debate and arguing or rino support and for moderates.
But this site, in my opinion, is just for conservatives. The ball game has changed and as it seems to me that a lot of people were divided on candidates this election cycle because it is so confusing. But, at the same time, we knew who was the moderate establishment candidate and that was Romney.
Conservative were betrayed by him and he is a man of no conviction. Therefore, we here have a right to go after him and have a right to not vote for him. None of us are re-electing Obama by voting third party or writing in a name instead we are standing on convictions. And those voting for Romney are selling their principals out, if they even were conservative at all. They help Obama win re-election by falling into Obama’s and the GOP establishment’s trap in the general.
So, in my opinion, there were a bunch of Obama people, as well as die hard Romney supporters, on this site at various times trying to demoralize the users and to promote Romney so Obama can win re-election. And looks like the 2012 election for president has become a night mare election.
I can do nothing about who gets banned, I’m just a user. But a lot of them were people who were actively breaking rules or who disagreed with this site, which happens, but they went a bit too far by promoting Rinos.
Look it has become a mess, but last thing this site would want and needs is Romneybots all over it who would be just as bad as any Obamabots. We don’t want long arguements on petty issues. At least I don’t. We are sick of the Romney Kool-aid and their promoters. Okay.
As I understand it Romney promoters are not wanted. Romney is not conservative. This is a conservative site.
*sigh* Okay, I give you that one, both sides of the argument have said some stupid things, on that we agree.
All I can chime in and add is that this is the best true conservative site out there. It is the only site on the entire internet where I feel free to express my disdain for that sucker Romney and him “winning” the GOP nomination, so the emdia has crowned him, that is 100% conservative. The rest of the sites have become fearful of critics of the GOP plantation and are just aiming fire at Obama when they should be plotting what to do to stop Romney while there remains a slim chance. Fine, but it is not right to lie for and support Romney, in my opinion.
Not only that but this site supports or has supporters of the birther issue which I have come to agree with.
In my view, most of the so-called conservatives on certain sites are not really that conservative, but just republican. Otherwise, Romney would have been laughed off stage. Obama is bad, but Romney is as bad. So what am I to do if I dislike both with a passion. It is my right to vote third party, if I want, and I assure you that I’ll sleep better at night.
My beef with detractors of this site is how a portion of them just want a site to actively promote non-conservative candidates and issues that are not conservative and fail to understand that if they want that then they are not conservative and should go elsewhere because ther are bound to be sites open to debate and arguing or rino support and for moderates.
But this site, in my opinion, is just for conservatives. The ball game has changed and as it seems to me that a lot of people were divided on candidates this election cycle because it is so confusing. But, at the same time, we knew who was the moderate establishment candidate and that was Romney.
Conservative were betrayed by him and he is a man of no conviction. Therefore, we here have a right to go after him and have a right to not vote for him. None of us are re-electing Obama by voting third party or writing in a name instead we are standing on convictions. And those voting for Romney are selling their principals out, if they even were conservative at all. They help Obama win re-election by falling into Obama’s and the GOP establishment’s trap in the general.
So, in my opinion, there were a bunch of Obama people, as well as die hard Romney supporters, on this site at various times trying to demoralize the users and to promote Romney so Obama can win re-election. And looks like the 2012 election for president has become a night mare election.
I can do nothing about who gets banned, I’m just a user. But a lot of them were people who were actively breaking rules or who disagreed with this site, which happens, but they went a bit too far by promoting Rinos.
Look it has become a mess, but last thing this site would want and needs is Romneybots all over it who would be just as bad as any Obamabots. We don’t want long arguements on petty issues. At least I don’t. We are sick of the Romney Kool-aid and their promoters. Okay.
As I understand it Romney promoters are not wanted. Romney is not conservative. This is a conservative site.
Nothing, and I mean nothing could be more painful then voting for John McCain, which I did. I cannot stand the man. I only sidlike Obama more. McCain handed the election to Obama on a silver platter, when he knew exactly who and what Obama was, an enemy of this state of America. Even though Romney is not my choice for POTUS, he is ten times better then “traitor” John McCain.
I would have loved Palin but the reality is the press would have torn her apart again. At least this go around. Everyone here would have been happy voting for her but she would have lost the general. I have no doubt she would be the nominee but the press would have been merciless. Hopefully she can build up her bona fides over the next 3 years
We just took over the local Repub. Central Committee and have OUR DELEGATES going to the National Convention.
We are working our way up. WE GOT RID OF A RINO STATE SENATOR AND PUT IN A TEA PARTY SENATOR. WE GOT RID OF THE BLUE DOG DEM. WHO SUCKED ON THE GOV'T TEAT FOR 20 YEARS. WE ARE PUSHING TO GET RID OF THE TRAITOR REPUB. WHO WE REPLACED THE BLUE DOG WITH.
We are winning slowly but surely.
Ladies and Gentleman we have 100 years of crap to remove.
School Boards, Boards of Aldermen, Sheriff, Make sure they all tow the line. We are force down here and the pols. know it.
I ask Mr.Robinson if you will perhaps urge other FReepers across this great land to perhaps follow or at least give thought to what I have posted.
I am a monthly but if you can hang on for about two weeks I will be sending more for the cause.
Keep up the great work. Our country needs men like you and all FReepers.
“I’ll vote Romney no matter what. Obama MUST lose.
I also will vote for the most conservative rep. in my district and continue the pressure on Romney in 2014 by getting rid of more GOP-e candidates”
This. I don’t like Romney but I have no doubt he is a FAR better choice than Obama. Get Obama out and then work on saddling Romney with a conservative Congress.
The truce is a good policy but it doesn’t go far enough.
Hey there. You know that your Governor was born in Philadelphia, PA? It took a Northerner to save your state from yourselves.
The blame (100% of it) goes to those that voted for the stupid bastard in the primaries.
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Exactly!
“But I will not act on my prior promises that I would actively campaign against him if he wins the nomination. Our combined movement is already torn and splintered and is going to have to be mended if we’re going to have any impact whatsoever against the liberal/progressives and statists after the election. To that end I propose a TRUCE among our conservative forces during the remainder of this election cycle.”
You greatly disappoint me. I WILL NOT SUPPORT ROMNEY EVER. IF you are going to back track on your promise to fight against Romney (hench the GOPe), then you are no better than Romney yourself. FR was the ONE place where PRINCIPLE was placed, by you, before pragmatism. Now you are abandoning this. I’m outta here. It isn’t worth staying around anymore. I won’t have a “truce” with persons that take the OBA attitude. A Romney administration will be no better than an Obama one. And, in fact, may be more dangerous in that GOP members will be obliged to back his play...no matter how stupid it may be.
Yes, we should elect conservative House and Senate members, but voting for Romney is a major mistake. I cannot back such nonsense.
You just drank cyanide in koolaid.
Im not sure who this truce is supposed to encompass? or why...
Respectfully... If this truce is meant to “save conservatism” then I think its a bit misguided. If we dont eliminate the “progressives” from within our camp, we will NEVER be able to effectively fight the “progressives” in the other camp and win the war.
If we cant fight the progressives in our party because we risk becoming ineffective... and... If we don’t fight we WILL be ineffective... I just gotta ask... WTF?
Lets just layout some primary objectives...
1. Purge GOP of “progressives” making it the safe haven for limited government type conservatives. This is the very first objective because there is no F’ing way that any other objective can be achieved until we do this.
2. Damage the socialists infrastructure by electing “Scott Walker” type folks to state governments. The states will be the point of the sword in killing socialism.
3. Elect folks to the FedGov that will keep the FedGov on a leash while the states assert the sovereignty they were always meant to have.
In essence, the states are going to be running the ball and the people we put in the fed gov are gonna be their offensive line. For this to work, you need everyone on the same F’ing playbook. Right now we have people from the other team in our huddles and sabotaging our strategy.
Offering a truce with the progressives in the democrat party or the republican party is suicide.
Wow, not only do we agree on something, we agree 100%. You said it better than I could have.
I stand (sit actually) corrected.
lolol.
I of course have never been to San Fran Freak Show. Or Berzerkeley either. But I know you’re right. I offer a retraction. And sympathies for you and your girlfirend on having to live where you do.
My thoughts about Romney are a bit different. I don't like him, trust him, or hope for a revolution from his administration, but it's important to suck it up and vote for him anyway because:
1. The alternative is simply horrible. Four more years of Bambi is unthinkable. They will destroy everything good we all care about and live for.
2. The down ticket races have to win, we have to get more conservatives in so that Romney can be pressured, and unfortunately if we work against Romney we hurt the chances of conservatives winning down ticket and ever being effective.
3. Romney is still an unknown in the following areas: Will he stick with his stated pro-life positions? Will he be a good steward of the free market because of his business experience? Will he restore sanity to our armed forces? Will he try to "reach across the aisle" with these traitors or will he try to unite a somewhat conservative coalition to govern? Lots of questions that we can only guess. We know what Bambi brings, total destruction of all that we love.
I had the pleasure of meeting and listening to Breitbart a few short weeks before he died. His statement to all of us (conservatives of all stripes: pro-Newt, pro-Santorum, pro-crazy uncle, etc) conservatives was to work like Hell for your candidate, but in the end, if you didn't unite around who won, you were simply caving to and allowing the most destructive and evil administration ever to win. I agreed then, and still do.
Same here. Just because Jim's declared a truce doesn't translate into FreeRepublic becoming a pro-Romney site.
I don't call it that..I call it walking away with my choice and leaving them with theirs....
I had not considered that aspect of this. Thanks, Grey.
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