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!!
/johnny
Clinton was a narcissist. The 43% plurality that he received by those who rejected both him AND HW Bush, made for the Republican Revolution. And Clinton wasn't loathed and despised, which -- regardless of what the MSM tries to deflect and spin -- IS what the majority of Americans feel about about Obama. He is a stinker to most Americans. His narcissim has him convinced of his invincibility. And you're buying it.
Thank you very much, MindBender26!! We will fight on!!
That's as dispassionately accurate an assessment as I've seen. Exactly correct.
Other than that, it's over, in some people's minds.
/johnny
Thanks, Jim.
I was never an Anybody But Obama voter, and swore that I would never vote for Romney.
But I CANNOT and WILL NOT, under any circumstances, let my vote be FOR BHO. So if Romney is the nominee, I will hold my nose and throw up.
I am still hoping and praying that some miracle will come by the Hand of Providence and Romney will somehow NOT be the nominee.
Thank you very much, CatherineofAragon!!
SENIORITY LIST - HOUSE - November 29, 2010
28 Terms: John Dingell, MI
23 Terms: John Conyers Jr., MI
21 Terms: David Obey, WI
20 Terms: Charles B. Rangel, NY and C. W. “Bill” Young, FL
19 Terms: Fortney “Pete” Stark, CA and Don Young, AK
http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/111_seniority.pdf
For once I have to agree with you, gunner. Doing a write-in is off the table for me in terms of using my vote to its best effect.
Election Day this November will be the one real opportunity for all Americans to privately, and without fear of repercussions, express their like or dislike of Obama.
I think Americans hate the guy more than any President since Carter in 1980, and probably even more than that.
People always talk about how pompous and arrogant and unlikeable Newt Gingrich is. Obama is the same way plus he hates God, America, and white people. Americas hate that about him.
Obama is going to get shelled in November.
Thank you very much, tomkat!!
We are the resistance!!
Well said..
Thank you very much, ZULU!!
I agree!!!
Can you “lease” the website concept you have developed? You keep the patent and rights, but allow it to be “used”..the format is incredibly THE best!!
I have gone to other sites on occasion to check out something or other and they are all awful to slog through!
Roger that, Sir.
I quit posting on campaign threads once I noticed that even people I chat with here were at each others’ throats.
Jim the convention is not until the last week in August. I have still not voted in the primary and neither have you. Anything could happen between now and the end of August and I am not going to sit by and surrender while there is still a snowball's chance in Hell that ANYBODY BUT ROMNEY might still get the nomination. There could be a scandal or Romney could decide not to run or he might pick some left wing liberal as a running mate.
I am not going to give in to any truce until there is no fight left in me. By his own admission the only tie Romney has to the Republican Party is that both Republican and Romney begin with an "R". We need to realize that if Romney gets the nomination and wins, then the first opportunity we will have to actually get a conservative president (one who will pick conservative constitutional judges and actually live by the constitution) will be in 2020.
Sorry Jim, but you and I part company on this one. I will continue the good fight. I WILL NOT SURRENDER!
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