Accepted, graciuosly.
As to his Judge nominations, I have talkked with people who lived there during the Romney admin. The nomination and selection process is far different than at the federal level. There is a committe that oversees the whole thing that a Governor has to clear first, and then proceed to the Legislature.
Any even remotely conservative Judges Romney lined up were simply not approved. In the end, he had to get the best he could.
Do not get me wrong. I do not like his record, but I also reognize where he was and what constraints were upon him as Governor of that state and that a lot that is being attributed to him personally was not really him, but the poverall liberal nature of the state, its legislature and its laws that hobbled anything good he may have wanted to do.
Now, he is free of all of that, indicates that he has changed in some very specific areas, and has put together a platform on the issues for the last 5-6 years that he is running on which is, on its face, not that terribly bad.
My point is simple. That is a whole lot better than what we have from Obama and the only real two choices we have in terms of who the actual next President will be are these two.
One a very moderate Republican from Mass who says he has now seen the light on some issues and is running on a platform reflecting that, and the other a Kenyan Marxist who is intent on detroying the Republic and is alreayd well on his way in his 1st term to doing so.
For me, thought it is certainly not the choice I wanted, the choice between the two is still clear.
Ezekiel lived in the time of the exile to Babylon. The southern kingdom had fallen, Jerusalem had been destroyed, and the people had been carried off to a foreign land. This had come as a result of years and years of evil.
In warfare of the time, if the enemy breached the walls of a city, it was the utmost loyalty for a warrior to rush to the gap and sacrifice himself to preserve others.
There have been those in our era who have "stood in the gap" for the United States of America. There have also been many, though, who have sided with the enemy and have encouraged the growth of evil and oppression. 23 Again the word of the LORD came to me: 24 "Son of man, say to the land, 'You are a land that has had no rain or showers in the day of wrath.' 25 There is a conspiracy of her princes within her like a roaring lion tearing its prey; they devour people, take treasures and precious things and make many widows within her. 26 Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. 27 Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain. 28 Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says'--when the LORD has not spoken. 29 The people of the land practice extortion and commit robbery; they oppress the poor and needy and mistreat the alien, denying them justice. 30 "I looked for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand before me in the gap on behalf of the land so I would not have to destroy it, but I found none. 31 So I will pour out my wrath on them and consume them with my fiery anger, bringing down on their own heads all they have done, declares the Sovereign LORD."
Romney is just another in the line of systemite princes who endeavors to keep the system going. There is nothing in his record to commend him as a leader with the interests of God at heart. He has approved of gay adoptions by gay couples (all the evidence I need of gay marriage with him); he has not stood in the gap against $50 abortions, but instead he facilitated them; he has rewarded cronies and taxed beyond measure; and he has approved of governments forcing us to buy and sell as the oligarchs decree.
In these things, he did not stand fast. He did not stand in the gap and refuse to surrender. He did not cry, "Give me liberty or give me death."
Nor is he now standing in the gap. He is assaulting the walls with the enemy.
Even now he is turning to the left, to those who seek after strange flesh and to those who would further enslave the people.
Will each of us stand in the gap for the United States of America.
"Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you."