Is Mitt Becoming More Conservative?

...Protecting the middle class might be the theme of Obama's campaign ads, but the defining movement of this campaign came when Obama belittled the efforts of Main Street America when he stated that "you didn't build that." Those sneering words about smart, hardworking people revealed the ugly side of Obama's redistributionalist ideology. As in 2008, most of the media accept all the carefully scripted images of Obama as Gospel truth while they busy themselves trying to either hide or spin away all those extemporaneous words and deeds that display Obama's true beliefs and character as being either out of context or aberrational....

This campaign is coming down to two competing views of America. As it plays out, I think something very profound may be happening to Mitt Romney. Romney reminds me of a good many smart businessmen I have known. They live their own lives by a set of solid small-c conservative rules, but they are too busy solving smaller daily problems to think much about political conservatism as a coherent system. Such people often pay lip service to the left-of-center conventional media wisdom about big government and public morality even as they rigorously practice all the bourgeois virtues of thrift, hard work, neighborliness, sobriety, and sexual continence in their personal affairs.

....this very smart, very competitive man is facing an opponent who is perhaps the most rigidly ideological man ever to become president. Romney doesn't like what he sees happening to the nation, nor does he much like the person he is running against. Confronted with the problem of beating not just the person, but also the ideology, and then fixing what is broken, Romney may be discovering for the very first time that he is actually far more ideological than he ever thought he was.

I think the "boogeyman" is the possibility that Obama plans on being the last President, or rather a tyrannical dictator. It would not amaze me at all if he and his ilk try to take our Country over hook, line and sinker. If you have followed his actions carefully, this is more than just a faint probability, but rather likely, if he isn't removed. One has to wonder if there will not be a Hitler styled "Reichstag Fire" type crises to be used to keep Obama in as President, or actually as dictator, if the idea of Romney becoming President becomes any more of a threat to them.

The point is that some of us are thinking about voting for Romney because the threat is not just the usual four more years of a damaging President, as many of your arguments against voting for Romney are based around, but the very real threat of a take over by a Satan inspired dictator. If the Obama people arrange for a massive emergency, the election would be discontinued, and Obama would become our dictator. If there actually is an election, it may our last realistic effort at removing a potential dictatorial tyrant, with massive death and destruction in his wake. Romney may be a corrupted, waffling politician, but he likely doesn't even measure on the meter of the evil Obama portends.

If Romney does get in, then in four more years, if we are wise and work hard, by the grace of God, we may be able to finally vote in a true Conservative again. But if Obama continues, we may see an end to our Republic, and become either dead, locked up, likely in labor camps, the fleeing enemies of his rule, or God forbid, compromisers, bowing down to him, even in worship. I don't think that the scenario I presented is out of the realm of possibility, given what those who carefully follow Obama closely know about him. Do you see this as a possibility at all, and if you do, do you still think that we should not vote for Romney, given the chance?

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