Thank you for reposting my words since I do not know how to do that.
mylife:
As the author of the original words of this thread, which Windflier has kindly re-posted for me since I am an aging computer illiterate resistant to learning all these new-fangled technological tricks, I will respond.
IF and when Sarah endorses Romney, her endorsement will not affect my vote and I will make every effort to shed no more than one tear, ignore such a fault and continue to view her quite positively as the conservative and religious heroine that she is, since unlike Romney she has earned the respect of every actual conservative and every person of faith. I will remember that ours is a fallen world. I will depend on Jesus Christ and upon the Catholic Church to which I belong and which Romney persecuted in Massachusetts by the same sort of regulations that Sebelius has signed off on under Romneycare and which Romney has not repudiated to this day in any way. I would not vote for Caligula or Diocletian or for Nero or for the twentieth century's Hitler (Godwin may go to hell), Stalin, Lenin or Mao, and I won't vote for Romney.
Romney is a baby-killer, a supporter of rump-ranging posing as "marriage," a gun grabber, a tax hiker on folks of ordinary means to comfort his fat cat pals and trust fund babies. I don't care if Ronaldus Maximus returns to life and endorses Romney or runs as his running mate. Romney is a serial liar about every issue that matters. He has done nothing to earn my vote or that of any actual conservative.
No rant I have ever posted against him has had to do with the mere fact that he is a member of what I consider to be the quite respectable Mormon church (however much I may disagree with its scriptural teachings from the Book of Mormon just as I disagree with other Christian churches not my own and they with me) but it is more than fair to say that he is a poor excuse for a Mormon, committed as he is to abortion and "gay marriage" among other things which the Mormons rightly reject. If he were a better Mormon, he would be, at least to me, a better man and a better candidate.
Finally, I will watch this farce unfold, while I vote my conscience and my principles for our own fellow FReeper Tom Hoefling (known here as Eternal Vigilance) who will never leave me feeling a need for an immediate red hot shower as I would if I ever voted for Romney. I will respect others who vote for Virgil Goode on the Constitution Party while disagreeing with its Paulistinian isolationist foreign policy.
I will sleep the sleep of the just and not the wary and uneasy sleep of the compromiser or of the sell-out. I will have plenty to account for when I meet my Maker but voting for trash like Romney will not be among my sins.
Thank you for joining the thread, Black Elk. I about wore my fingers out last night, replying to others’ opinions about your fine editorial.
Thank you for a thoughtful and powerful post. Excellent.
From a merely strategic point-of-view, a 3rd party POTUS candidate would be a great service in places like ILL and CT ... by dragging the right out to support local conservatives further down the ballot who are in tough races.
SUch a candidate would only run into vicious opposition in the so-called swing-states. So, yep, we concede CT to Obambi, very happily.
So I take it that, if & when Sarah endorses Romnay, in your mind she will become the sellout. Is that correct? She couldn't be saying okay folks, we didn't get the candidate we all would ahve preferred, but even with all his warts this man is still better for America than another 4 years of Obama.
The old adage, penny wise and pound foolish, comes to mind.
I am definitely going to repost this :)