I remember posting on FR about this time in 2008 that a McCain yard sign would never cast its shadow on my front lawn. I wasn’t going to sit out in November, but I certainly wasn’t going to lift a finger for him or show my support in any way. That changed with one helluva fantastic VP pick. Being a big fan of Palin long before he chose her, I was doing cartwheels when he picked her. I was immediately trying to find where I could get McCain/Palin signs, buttons and bumper stickers. And I was donating that very night.
Who I wonder could be Romney’s Palin? He better start giving that some deep thought.
If Romney is the GOP nominee, I hope that his running-mate will be a conservative who has been a congressman and a governor, since four of the last five republican VP’s were congressmen. Those four VP’s were Dick Cheney, Dan Quayle, George H.W. Bush, and Gerald Ford. The exception is Nelson Rockefeller. Bobby Jindal and Butch Otter would be good choices.
From my POV, until and unless Romney became as mentally/physically unstable as McCain, he could have no Palin. My thought was that if McCain won, there was a very good chance he'd go Captain Queeg before his four years were up ("Ah! But the strawberries -- that's where I had them!") or he would suffer some medical debilitation due to the mental stress of office. Therefore the person we were really electing, was his VP. So I gladly voted for Palin.
In my heart, after some consideration and review, I believe Romney presents a strain of evil that is more potent than Obama's. Obama has an excuse -- morally, he truly doesn't know any better, nor do his followers. He truly is a void when it comes to perceiving the moral evil of abortion, the moral evil of forcing people to embrace open homosexuality, the moral evil of Death Panels, no matter how benignly created by Government. He is void, and to be pitied as much as soundly rejected for presenting such a void for evil.
As a Repubilcan, as a "conservative," as he would be called regardless, Romney supposedly would represent me, and you, and much of American goodness. We would be the ones to have voted for him. Romney's hand put pen to paper and signed, consciously, legislation to make on-demand abortion cost less, via government subsidy, than a minor cosmetic procedure. His fingers that grasped and moved the pen that condoned and promoted celebration and declaration of open homosexuality among school kids via "Gay Youth Pride." There was a conscious mind and brain that made that hand sign that piece of paper.
Could you, NavyCanDo, or YOU, any reader, move your hand such if the paper was placed in front of you?
Romney is outside of pitiful. Romney is focused, quiet, sweet, even. To all the world, as President, he would define "Repubican" and for many more, "conservative." It is why certainly the next Democrat president to follow would make Obama look like Eisenhower.
Evil begets evil. Vote for Romney with your eyes wide open and answer to God for it.