Why I Will Vote for Romney-Ryan in November

I've been on FR since 2003. Hard to believe next March will be my 10th year here, assuming I don't get zotted for one reason or another, lol

To that handful of detractors who would LIKE to think this is my opus, guess again suckers - I would never give you the satisfaction of it. Now that we have that out of the way, why this vanity?

First of all, I'm posting this in News/Activism not because this is sourced from a network, newspaper, etc., but because I've noticed that nobody else worries about posting their vanities in the 'Personal/Blogger' section, so WTH should I?

Now for the purpose of my writing today: after a great deal of soul searching and I might add, a goodly amount of prayer, I have come to the conclusion that my vote in November must and will be cast for the GOP ticket of Romney and Ryan. I did not reach this decision easily. Even a casual review of my past posts will reveal that I have reviled, ridiculed, lambasted and sneered at Mitt Romney with the best of them. I've posted my own home brewed graphics to the laughs of my fellow FReepers, I have been steadfast in saying 'no damn way' would I ever even consider voting for that liberal Republican from Massachuetts, no way would I reward the GOP elites with my vote after they've pissed on conservatives from sea to shining sea. The Party of Reagan is no more, let no one deceive you. We as conservatives are more at home in the Tea Party, and yet what was for a short while the natural home for conservatives, i.e. the Republican Party is an unfamiliar neighborhood, a place that sometimes looks like the place we remember, but upon a second glance, we realize that everything is different now, everything has changed.

Now there are good and Godly conservatives who in a perfect world, WOULD be viable candidates for the Presidency, there is no need to list them all here, we all have our favorites and we all know who we would prefer to be voting for. Our own Tom Hoefling would be a better President than the miserable Kenyan sonuvabitch that is stinking up the White House right now, hell *I* would be a better President than that despicable usurper and liar, and so would most of you, my fellow FReepers.

Now I can recite (and in the past, I have) endless reasons as to why I could not and would not vote for Mitt Romney. In many ways it galls me no end to have reached the conclusion that my own Constitutional duty is to vote for a guy that I had sworn never to vote for. It really REALLY starches my shorts however I have had to question my own perspectives, my own views and ask myself the question, "can I honestly justify another four years of what one of my heroes Senator Joe McCarthy would certainly have labeled a 'Communist regime'?

I cannot do that. I do not like the presumptive GOP nominee, I do not agree with many of his past positions. However I cannot deny that one and only one of the two major party candidates for President is going to be sworn in next January. It will either be that treasonous little bastard 0bama, or it will be Mitt Romney. Anyone, and I mean ANYBODY, who thinks that Tom Hoefling, Virgil Goode, or any other non-'Rat/non-GOP candidate is going to be sworn in as our 45th President next year, I will personally bet $100,000 against that happening at any odds they wish, because that is how likely it is that NEITHER 0bama or Romney will end up being elected in November. I won't lose one dime on that sort of wager.

So how do I justify voting for the GOP and Romney this time around? Well, some things I do NOT believe about Romney is that he hates America, that he hates our capitalist system, that he wants to weaken our national defense, sell out our allies and reward our enemies. I don't agree with nor support his religious faith. But his belief in the tenets of Mormonism is quite frankly between him and God. Now while it is easy to find all sorts of things about the Mormon faith that fly in the face of basic traditional Christianity, if the choice is between a closet-crypto Muslim in the White House, and a church going, charitable, prayerful Mormon who doesn't cheat on his wife, doesn't smoke dope, doesn't even drink (is that true? I'm not sure but I think Mitt is a tee-totaler), I'm pulling the lever for that Mormon guy.

Picture all of America on a gigantic airliner, streaking through the sky, when word comes back from the cockpit that Captain 0bama has never even flown a plane of this size or any size, he's been reading the instruction manual from a hidden teleprompter on top of the instrument panel, we're headed for a bad patch of CAT (Clear Air Turbulence) and the illustrious fake pilot is going to try and fake his way through that turbulence, and it is a foregone conclusion that "we're all gonna die!" - but up in first class (of course, lol) Mitt Romney stands up and informs everyone that he IS a licensed pilot, and that he can get our airliner away from the turbulence, down to a safer altitude, get us back on the proper heading, and land safely at our destination. He offers to take the controls. SOME passengers question him "have you ever flown a plane like this?" and he answers honestly "no, not quite this size, but I AM a pilot, I HAVE flown in difficult circumstances before, and I've got more skills than that fake pilot up in the cockpit that we are about to crash with". Who the Hell is going to argue against that logic? No other pilots on board. No parachutes. And indeed, a fool and an oaf at the controls of the cockpit. WTF do we have to lose?

And another analogy that I've already posted recently, which is that conservatives need to do what the Western allies did in World War II, they did not particularly like Joe Stalin, in fact they knew him to be a rotten communist sonvuabitch but the "enemy of our enemy was our friend" (or at least a convenient ally) and the GREATER enemy was in Berlin, in the form of Hitler and we needed Stalin and his troops to attack the Nazis from the East, and that is why we sent them tons of lend-lease assistance to help them accomplish that. And what kind of fools would have urged a different course in that war? A course of telling Stalin and Soviet Russia that they were "on their own" and they would receive no assistance from us? Can you imagine for just a moment if Nazi Germany had prevailed on the Eurasian continent, the Swastika flying all the way from London to Vladivostok?

Now having painted that sort of grim picture of alternate history, I think we can agree that for all of Mitt Romney's faults, he is not a Joe Stalin, he may be a liberal but he is no Communist.

Can we say the same for 0bama and his crew of America-hating scumbags?

Now a powerful factor in my decision to support the GOP ticket was in fact, the selection of Paul Ryan as Romney's VP running mate. Now Paul Ryan is nobody's fool. If there was anybody I wanted to have the ear of 'President Romney' it would be Vice President Paul Ryan. Everyone keeps saying "if Romney would just move to the right", well I believe Paul Ryan is the best person to accomplish that task. They seem to have a good chemistry and that bodes well for the success of their ticket. The polls show Romney-Ryan up, and 0bama and the 'Rats freaking and shrieking as their numbers decline.

Now I have myself made the argument in the past that the only difference between Romney and 0bama is that 0bama is driving us to the edge of the cliff at 100 mph, and Romney is going to reduce our speed to a thrifty 55 mph. And even IF that were to be proven true, I'm not in any hurry to reach the edge of that cliff.

Now in closing, I ask the following question: how many of us would clench our teeth and pull the lever for Gerald Ford, or Bob Dole, or any other establishment RINO if it meant the end of 0bama? To get that filthy Communist out of the White House, I would (to paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill) 'consider writing in the name of the devil himself', and so for that reason my friends and FRiends, I will support and vote for the GOP ticket of Romney & Ryan in November, not because everything about it excites and pleases me, but because I cannot be a party to another 4 years of the Kenyan traitor staining and besmirching the Office once held by the greatest President of all history, Ronald Wilson Reagan. I submit that Reagan would vote for Romney. We can be assured that Sarah Palin is going to vote for Romney. So will Newt Gingrich. So will Rick Santorum. So IF I am making a mistake by casting my vote for the GOP this year, I will be in good company.

Thanks for your kind consideration.

Mark Jessup

RE :”In summary, with Romney, we have a chance to survive. With Obama, we have NO chance...”

Well the above states the problem. “a chance” could mean 10%, it could be 1% or it could be the same as a lottery chances. It is not much to go on and I don't usually place bets on such odds.

If Romney were running on a platform of honesty : as a super rich liberal light who will do similar things as Obama but not as bad as him, bigger on supporting big business, a little less on supporting welfare, then it would be easier to rationalize those arguments I get every-day. Look at who comes out for him on the shows : Sununu and Guilani. GAG

But unfortunately he ran as a Republican and that meant he had to run as a uber-conservative free-market freedom guy, when clearly that is who he is not. Now he must navigate through the general election trying to slip away from some of those positions he took, and eventually he if he is elected will be much like GWB was, probably a bit lighter on abortion and such.

Because of that and because GWB played the make believe thing too and it ended so badly, another disaster under Romney after GWB will be the end of any hope of a future. How can Republicans(ie those who call themselves conservatives) all line up behind another one, then all run away, then do it both again and ever be taken seriously? They will proved twice that Republicans=Disaster. It will be a message to future generations for a decade : Don't trust this party (or anyone who says they are a free market conservative) with anything.

I would have felt better if Romney picked one of his liberal friends (Sununu , Guilani, Mccain, Grahamnesty ) as VP and run honestly. The make-believe thing will be a disaster either way.

Like I said, too bad we don't live in the simple black and white world of the Hannity shows. Things would be so simple.

” Well the above states the problem. “a chance” could mean 10%, it could be 1% or it could be the same as a lottery chances. It is not much to go on and I don’t usually place bets on such odds.”

I put our survival chances(without a 1930’s type depression) at about 30-35%, not 1 to 10%. With Obama, ZERO percent, as that is his goal, and because he is black, none of the GOPe will stand up to him, so he will succeed.

” But unfortunately he ran as a Republican and that meant he had to run as a uber-conservative free-market freedom guy, when clearly that is who he is not. Now he must navigate through the general election trying to slip away from some of those positions he took, and eventually he if he is elected will be much like GWB was, probably a bit lighter on abortion and such.”

Romney is a capitalist, and Obama is a combo Communist/Fascist. Not much of a choice. As for the GOP, we have to rebuild it, or it will be relegated to the ash heap of history, anyway. It will probably take civil unrest by the Tea Party just to fix the GOP, and that is if Romney wins.

Is that a fact?
***Yes that is a fact. Now that JimRob says he’s going to pull the lever for a lying, baby-killing, gun-grabbing statist does not change that fact.

Sure, go ahead and tell us that Romney is as bad or worse than 0bama is.
***CINOs do more damage to conservatism than democrats do. I lived in Santa Barbara a few years back. Our conservative congressman did a pretty good job. Along came this republican dude with lots of money, named Huffington. he spent more on this congressional primary race than any other in history. He unseated the congressman. When the time came to vote, I could not pull the lever for this POS and wrote in the former congressman. Straight Republican ticket. Years later, Huffington admitted to being gay, his wife divorced him and started Huffington Post, and do-nothing congressman Huffington basically did more damage to conservatism than any democrat ever could. The seat has been firmly in the hands of a librul ever since. Writing in the conservative republican over that POS was the honorable and conservative thing to do.

Your writing here is verbatim how I feel about the whole situation. Let me add this. I am looking at this election as if the very survival of the United States is at stake, because in all likelihood, it is. If Obama is elected, the only thing that might save us is a civil war, or at the very least, the majority of American states refuse to recognize Obama as POTUS, and blow him off. Obama intends to destroy our entire economy, and save for a few question marks, I know how he intends to do it. No Boehner, or McConnell flunky will stop him, as they have already proven that they are cowards.

Obama intends to destroy our military. ( I had breakfast with a high ranking Air Force friend yesterday, and he not only believes Obama will destroy our military, he said it has been profoundly damaged already).

Look, I am a right wing conservative, and proud of it. I did not vote for W the second time, and I did not vote for scumbag, traitorous McCain either. This time, (very) sad to say, I don’t have that luxury. I could post here for an hour about all the damage Obama has already done,(and intends to do in the future) and I would barely scratch the surface. In summary, with Romney, we have a chance to survive. With Obama, we have NO chance, save for some form of civil war.

In a nutshell, this is basically what other Republicans have been saying, some honest reasoned Conservatives among them.

My position has been that I cannot vote for anyone who is going to do this nation harm.

Just this morning I was listening to Romney and Ryan explain how they would reduce spending over time, so that they could eventually start paying down the national debt. Okay, what does that mean? What it means to me is that we are now expected to support a plan that will see our national debt grow from $16 trillion dollars, to $25, $35, perhaps $50 trillion before we start having budget surplusses again. Am I supposed to sign on to that plan? Not gonna do it.

I have stated that I will not be voting for Romney on November 6th. The Ryan addition did bring more energy to the ticket, and I think it makes it much more likely that Obama will be defeated. It still doesn't bring me to the place where I can support the team. The budget is supposed to be the most shining example of why we should vote for these two. And then you find out that their budget plans also extend way out into the future before they expect us to start paying down the debt. No! We need to get our house in order today. Neither of these guys has grasped the Wisconson truth.

You explain what pain there will be, and you implement the plan that rights your charge immediately. You cannot get away with promising something that will happen two or three administrations on down the road. We have bought off on that until our nation is practically destroyed. NO. I'm not sitting still for that any longer. It's a big fat lie, and everyones knows it, or should know it.

Some points that Romney made this morning were sound. Increasing jobs and getting the economy back on track is job one. And balancing the budget does happen quicker with that plan implemented. We still can't continue to hand out money we don't have to people who won't lift a finger to pay their own way. That must end! NOW!!

Another point Romey sought to make was, that we need to develop new trade agreeements that see our goods sold more broadly abroad. This has been the same language that has been used in the past to bolster unfair unbalanced and even insane policies, that saw our manufacturing base gutted, while other nations benefited from the marvels of a robust manufacturing base, and we saw the irrefutable marvels of what happens when our manufacturing base is crippled. Sorry Mitt, I'm not going to vote for another Free Traitor.

At any rate, I am much more comfortable with explaining why Obama is not presidential, one way or another, without voting for two men that still plan on deficit spending way out into the future. I will stop criticizing Romney and Ryan after the convention. I will continue to trash Obama, and hope that Romney/Ryan win. They won't be doing it with my vote.

I will not be voting for Romey/Ryan on November 6th. That will drive some of you crazy. It will leave me perfectly content, knowing I didn't contribute to Romney/Ryan dismatling more of what is good about our nation.

Adding more debt? No
Legalizing the illegals? No
Striking down Obamacare so we can implement our own government based plan? No
Striking more deals that see more of our jobs go overseas? Let me think about that... ah NO!
Strike more deals that allow foreign nationals to work here? Surely you jest...
Supporting someone who couldn't see a problem with voting for a budget plan that might cause automatic severe cuts to our national defense? No

I mean seriously folks, this team agrees with far too much of what Obama's beliefs are, for me to sign on. Not gonna do it.

In too many ways, this Republican team will merly allow our nation to slip, waiting for the next Democrat team to start off right where Obama left off.

In 2016, we may get a sound nominee. If we do, I will be voting for him. If we get another "It's really okay if we do a lot of what Obama has been doing, but it will be a Republican administration doing it..." crew, I'll just sit it out again.

Unfortunately, jobs are only the tip of the iceberg folks. In Three Card Monty, the card you're supposed to identify, is sometimes removed from the table in a crooked game. It's my take that the Conservative card won't be left on the table after this election. In some ways it will, but not enough to make the big difference our nation must have.

We are still going to be putting off the tough choices. We should know better than that. If we don't, who will?

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