Better a term in the gulags than an eternity in hell. I don’t see Romney as a savior for the country anyway. Government mandated/forced leftist programs (like RomneyCare, for example) are not exactly my idea of free-market capitalism. Or of freedom. Government mandated (forced) RomneyCare is every bit as anti-liberty and anti-American as ObamaCare. Abortion, homo-marriage, homos in the military, etc, likewise. Romney is no conservative, never has been, never will be. Has no concept of “free-markets” or freedom. Claims RomneyCare is free-market. If it’s free-market why does it require government to force it on the people and fines (or tax penalties) against the formerly free citizens who don’t go along with his tyranny? And he’s still pushing this nonsense. Very little difference between his leftist mandated programs and his progressive abortionist/homosexualist/statist positions and Obama’s.
And it’s already started. I see Republicans now softening their positions on these issues already and he’s not even elected yet. Some are now trying to justify mandated socialist programs like RomneyCare as not so bad. Pam Bondi, for example, now claims RomneyCare is good healthcare and it would be a good thing for most states to adopt similar programs. And she proudly boasts that will be serving on Romney’s new National Healthcare Task Force. And some are trying to justify his positions on homosexuals adopting children, serving in the military, marrying, etc. Won’t be long until they’re clamoring to drop the pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun planks from the platform. After all, “Reagan was for abortion.” Right. Constitutionally limited government is already gone (thanks to “conservatives” like Chief Justice Roberts).
The camel’s head is in the tent. His ass ain’t far behind.
10 seconds until the Romney pushers start claiming I’m an O-bot.
C’mon, Jim. You’re just a Romney-hater (translation “Mormon-hater”). It’s the new race card.
Voting for Romney won’t send anyone to hell (only rejecting Christ can do that), but that’s a different conversation for a different forum.
We are agreed on one thing: I don’t see Romney as a “savior” either. No government official merits that title because government cannot save anyone. That’s a fundamental of conservative thought as well as a spiritual truth.
Having said that, electing a Repub. — even someone like Romney — WILL slow the slide to becoming the old USSR (and no, for the record, I don’t like him and would never have chosen him as a candidate and was very upset he has come out - apparently - as the officially endorsed Republican candidate). I haven’t softened my conservative stance on anything, but I recognize — as I would hope and pray every thinking conservative would do — that the current inhabitant of the White House MUST be removed from office — come hell or high water. The Tea Party is simply not powerful enough (yet!) to elect and push a different candidate on the national election with any degree of success. For Congress and Senate state elections during primaries, yes — but not on a national election. For that reason, most of us will do what we must to keep a second term from the Zero. I would rather have ANYONE than that creature for the simple reason that ANYONE would be far better than that despot!