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Obama or Romney: The republic fails either way (Santorum is out)
WND Commentary ^ | March 29, 2012 | Alan Keyes

Posted on 04/11/2012 5:21:42 PM PDT by koinonia

Alan Keyes wrote: As I anticipated, “the elitist machinations of the sham party system are predictably moving America toward another false choice between an avowed socialist Democrat and a prevaricating socialist Republican.” Marco Rubio’s endorsement of Mitt Romney kicks off an orchestrated wavelet of “influential” endorsements, signaling an end to the sham competition that culminated in a not very credible “dramatic face-off” between Romney and one of his 2008 cheerleaders, Rick Santorum...

The “lesser evil” approach guarantees the triumph of wrong. So in choosing between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama we are like the cornered target of the hit man who says, “We can do this the easy way or the hard way.” The fatal outcome is inevitable in either case. Obama’s way takes us to domineering socialism along a path that moves more openly and harshly against right, conscience and property. Romney’s way takes us to domineering socialism along a path that reserves the harsher methods, preferring to use deception and prevarication so that we go more gently into the night...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; gingrich; gope; lesserof2bastards; obama; paul; rinos; romney; santorum
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IMHO we need to form a third party ticket NOW. Romney will not will anyway. But more importantly, it is a matter of principle. I stand before God, my family and my country when I vote, and if the 2 party candidates are but a moving the country closer to the precipice (one in 5th gear, the other in 3rd gear), then there is an obligation not to go with the flow. A third party vote is not a wasted vote - voting for Obama or Romney is.

I think of Judas Machabees (in the Septuagint 2 Machabees 3:58-59) when it became clear that defeat was imminent. He said, "Gird yourselves, and be valiant men, and be ready against the morning, that you may fight with these nations that are assembled against us to destroy us and our sanctuary. For it is better for us to die in battle, than to see the evils of our nation, and of the holies."

It is better to battle for God, family and our country then cave in. Is anyone out there able to get this message clear to the Tea Party? We cannot endorse compromise without compromising.

1 posted on 04/11/2012 5:21:53 PM PDT by koinonia
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To: koinonia
“the elitist machinations of the sham party system are predictably moving America toward another false choice between an avowed socialist Democrat and a prevaricating socialist Republican.”

Truth like that will never get him elected.
2 posted on 04/11/2012 5:28:38 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: koinonia

In response to your comment, I have read on many other sites that people of conscience, being pro-life, will not vote for Romney because of his record. I blogged those comments twice today in different sites so people would understand that there is no way Romney can win if pro-life voter stays home, or don’t vote for the president, only Congressional seats. I commented several weeks ago that we should have organized a true tea party when we had the momentum in 2010. To trust it to the republican party was a mistake.


3 posted on 04/11/2012 5:30:38 PM PDT by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: FReepers

4 posted on 04/11/2012 5:32:15 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: koinonia

In response to your comment, I have read on many other sites that people of conscience, being pro-life, will not vote for Romney because of his record. I blogged those comments twice today in different sites so people would understand that there is no way Romney can win if pro-life voter stays home, or don’t vote for the president, only Congressional seats. I commented several weeks ago that we should have organized a true tea party when we had the momentum in 2010. To trust it to the republican party was a mistake.


5 posted on 04/11/2012 5:32:23 PM PDT by Shery (in APO Land)
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To: koinonia

Sorry, but it’s too late to form a third parry, find a candidate and raise adequate funds to get his or her name out. There just isn’t enough time.


6 posted on 04/11/2012 5:32:43 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: koinonia

It IS a matter of principle. I’m voting Republican in my primary in order to voice my vote for both Newt and my referred Senate candidate. After that, I’m switching to Independent until a REAl party emerges that is for and by WE the People.


7 posted on 04/11/2012 5:34:42 PM PDT by SueRae (Tale of 2 Towers - First, Isengaard (GOP-e), then, the Tower of Sauron on 11.06.2012)
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To: cripplecreek

The truth hurts but what are we to do, stay home and let Obama get re-elected? I’m not looking forward to a total police state where we have to think about moving to BC or going out in the street with a weapon. In the end we will have to vote for Mitt. BHO has got to go. And soon.


8 posted on 04/11/2012 5:46:50 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: SueRae

It appears, right now, that Saruman is about to win at Helm’s Deep.


9 posted on 04/11/2012 5:47:16 PM PDT by Ingtar
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Maybe if we all “Believe”, Romney will win.


10 posted on 04/11/2012 5:50:15 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: koinonia

Alan Keyes is the ultimate election loser. The man is a near permanent political candidate and couldn’t get elected dog catcher - even if his opponent were a baby eating serial killer. You quite literally couldn’t find a more terrible person to get political advice from.


11 posted on 04/11/2012 5:52:59 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: Ingtar

I know. I’m going to have to modify my tagline. We already ost the first round.....


12 posted on 04/11/2012 5:53:31 PM PDT by SueRae (Tale of 2 Towers - First, Isengaard (GOP-e), then, the Tower of Sauron on 11.06.2012)
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To: koinonia

Bump


13 posted on 04/11/2012 5:53:31 PM PDT by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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To: koinonia

Keyes sure did a lot to stop Obama when he carpet bagged himself into the candidate against Obama’s pre-pre-Presidential campaign. Keyes actually made the previous choice of the Ill™ GOP - the Borg rejected name sake of their latest caught crook governor - look good by comparison. He should be treated as a fatal merger of Sgt. Schultz’s brains with Col. Klink’s ego.


14 posted on 04/11/2012 6:09:05 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change!)
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To: cripplecreek

Personally I am still wishing something will happen and Newt gets back in it but thats a dream. We can probably get through 4 years of Willard but not four more of Obama. He will declare himself President for life and take over. What does anybody think The House and Senate would do about it?


15 posted on 04/11/2012 6:16:44 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: koinonia

FUMR!


16 posted on 04/11/2012 6:17:26 PM PDT by Caipirabob (I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
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To: JohnBovenmyer
He should be treated as a fatal merger of Sgt. Schultz’s brains with Col. Klink’s ego.

If you wanted to find someone to run for office in an effort to intentionally turn voters against your own party and ideology, Alan Keyes would be that guy. Keyes really is one of the single worst political candidates I've ever seen in my life - and I've lived all over the world and seen LOTS of really bad candidates.

17 posted on 04/11/2012 6:38:08 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: koinonia

I don’t think the republic falls no matter which is elected. That is hyperbole.

The country can take Obama - assuming the Republican party and others with standing begin to fiercely fight back.
The party will be decimated by Romney.

Fear leads people to act in histrionic ways.


18 posted on 04/11/2012 6:41:11 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (I wouldnÂ’t vote for Romney for dog catcher if he was in a three way race against Lenin and Marx!)
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To: koinonia; American Constitutionalist; Lazlo in PA; Guenevere; onyx; Sun; parksstp; cripplecreek; ...

Thank you, koinonia.

You gave me another idea on how to respond to those who are horrified when I tell them I am not going to vote for Romney,.It’s about principle and core values but also: “I stand before God, family and country” And I cannot in good conscience cast my vote for a man who ran a dishonorable, underhanded, unprincipled and cruel race in an attempt to destroy and besmirch the reputations of his opponents, who all happened to be good people..

Just like the GOP-E that endorses him, Romney believed that he could take away my electoral privilege to choose..which as stated clearly in the Constition is an “inalienable right”.
He will not succeed.
I am a Conservative activist first and foremost.
The Republican Party of my youth, the one that my Dad loved and that Ronald Reagan represented...is not recognizalble to me anymore.
It is comprised of a bunch of good ol’boy elitists.The RNC is the worst. I’ve met many of them in my grassroots campaign efforts since 2000 and with a few exceptions, they are not an admirable group.

For the most part, they are self centered and arrogant.
And they could care less about Conservatives. May I remind them that the Tea Party, not them, was responsible for the political successes of 2010.

There is no gratitude, no acknowledgments and unfortunately, the current Tea Party seems to have lost it’s structure, if there ever was any.

Some Tea Party “leaders/members have said that they do not like Romney but they are voting for him anyway...the standard cop out of a coward.
Mittens will throw the Tea Party patriots under the bus before the national convention is over.

So if we are to succeed, koninonia, after this election, it will be up to us.
Organizations cannot be relied upon.
The country will have to hit bottom and then we will have to figure out a way to come together to try to scratch and crawl our way back up toward the restoration of our Republic to the values that made it great.
And adhering to Constitutional principles is the only way to do that.

The question is whether or not there are enough of us to be able to do what is needed.
Luckily, the founding fathers have given us a manual for success.
The rest will be up to We The People...and God.


19 posted on 04/11/2012 7:01:58 PM PDT by Mountain Mary ("This is OUR country and WE will decide"... Mark Levin)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

” The country can take Obama - assuming the Republican party and others with standing begin to fiercely fight back.”

You must be joking. Since Jan 2009..

Obama 160

Republicans 0

The Republicans have done NOTHING

The Republicans are currently doing NOTHING

The Republicans WILL do nothing.


20 posted on 04/11/2012 7:10:24 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (God, family, country, mom, apple pie, the girl next door and a Ford F250 to pull my boat.)
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