Posted on 04/20/2012 8:09:50 AM PDT by xzins
Might as well vote for Obama.
So, you are telling me you are a Romney supporter.
Good, now look us conservative FReepers in the eye and say to us that Romney is a conservative.
Follow that by saying, “Romney is NOT a liberal.”
I agree. Their is little difference between the dem establishment and the gop establishment.
Just look at what Romney has supported. The other day, Rove sent a media message to Romney that it’s time to soften up on illegal amnesty.
You know...the Romney who gave honest candidates like Gingrich and Perry heck over their efforts to offer their solution.
Romney is a loser...he won’t win anyway. He’s not going to have his money advantage against Obama that he had against Perry, Gingrich, et al. Nor will he have major news, hollywood, newspapers, etc., all pushing his case. They were just make sure they got a liberal to run against a liberal....a win/win for them.
A liberal win in the republican party will turn that party totally against social conservatism for good. It will put the US back in the hands of “republicans” who thought Dick Nixon’s wage and price controls were just fine and dandy.
It will make cronyism (whether crony corporatism or friendship nepotism) the “socialism” practiced by republicans. It will be the type of government control of resources and production done via connections, understandings, and deals.
A vote for Romney or Obama is a vote for the end of American freedom.
If we checked the record, we’d find that Mussolini operated largely in the spirit of corporatism/elitism.
Excellent post, Doughty. There is no doubt that decades of “lesser of 2 evils” voting has driven this nation to the brink of socialism and into the pit of immorality.
You're like an obese person who argues that he's going to lose weight by cutting back from eight pieces of cake a day to seven and gets spitting angry when the fallacy of his strategy is pointed out to him.
So, you’re saying that my feeling of self worth and the way my wife and dog feel about me is dependent on who the Pubbies put up for president?
Wow...
Obama is the devil.
I'm really sorry you can't see that.
I have to ask this question. Why do you not despise Obama and see how evil he is? As for Romney, I happen to think he will govern pretty much according to the polls if he is elected, which isn’t good but is much better than what we have now or will have if Obama wins.
“I see two things dominant in your posts: wishful thinking contradicted by the evidence as to what Romney won’t do, and extremely emotional clouding of perception on all things anti-liberal, anti-Obama, and anti-Democrat. You’re like an obese person who argues that he’s going to lose weight by cutting back from eight pieces of cake a day to seven and gets spitting angry when the fallacy of his strategy is pointed out to him.”
PLUS, just as FR is likewise divided today, a republican congress will be divided between the “support a repub prez at any cost” crowd and those who will not compromise our conservative values, and conservative representation for the next four years will be essentially, neutered.
Dems will chortle about the “do nothing” republicans, give the people-pleasing Mormon Bishop a sniff of cooperation, lead donkey Romney with a carrot stick of connections and influence, and face little hindrance in their continued downgrade of the country, and introduce their next Messiah with the preamble that whatever cannot be blamed on Bush, is now Romney’s responsibility, and Obama was a misunderstood genius whose ideas were never permitted to bear fruit due to republican obstruction. At that point people will be so sickened by anything that comes from a flip flopping republucan party, that the Dems could get Charles Manson paroled and elect him.
Our only shot is to be a conservative party, because the former definitions of Republicanism are now meaningless. Whether or not a President is a true conservative during this uphill battle, is as vital a question as whether a lump on your wife’s breast, is benign or cancerous.
People are afraid...they’re facing hard times,
and rightly so, when a clear and present danger to the security of the United States is presently resting his Italian leather shoes atop the executive desk in the Oval Office. Those that are comforted by anyone Caucasian and Republican in office must hink a Republican nightlight will keep the boogeyman away for four years.
They fail to realizethis is no longer an uncompromised electoral process, what America is truly facing is not a conflict over what our country should be, this is a cold war intended to destroy what America is.
We cannot contemplate being led by closet Nazis onto our present-day Omaha beach, nor can a man hailing Emperor Hirohito retake our Phillippines, it is suicidally asinine to employ liberals in a war against socialism...such a betrayal spits in the face of every American family that has suffered during this long retreat.
We face a long road ahead. The Tea Party secured a beachhead, conservatives have dug in. It’s time to start battling for every inch of ground and cut off our enemy at the knees. Do you choose leaders who will frustrate the enemy’s every design, or those who will acquiesce at every opportunity?
Which flag will you follow?
Hell yes I support Romney but you go ahead and vote for Obama.
Yep. The Free Republic stopped being fully conservative around the TEA party time. You heard the calls for the TEA parties to abandon their calls to cut spending and to end their push for small-government in favor of abortion and gay marriage.
And it’s snowballed since.
At best, this place is just a traditional values and religion site, now.
No, I'm not saying that at all. What I'm saying, is that I will not vote for a man who has been a willing participant in the violation of every patriotic/conservative principle that I hold.
Doing such would be compromising my personal honor and integrity to a degree that would shame me for life. I could never again look another conservative in the eye, and tell them that I can be trusted to stand firm on our mutually held core values. I'd be a liar, if I did.
Once a person has lost their personal integrity, they've lost everything. It's all downhill from there.
Now, having said all that, if you can't see any other choice but to violate your personal integrity in this election by abandoning your principles, then I'm sorry for you. I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.
Liberals quite clearly want the Democrats to win the election, because they know if they win they get more of what they want.
While a protest vote, stay at home, etc might give a very temporary bite of protest satisfaction, the reality is that you will then have less of what you want, and you will get a more liberal candidate in future elections.
More Obama means more Kagan and Sotomayors on the SC. More Obama means more Solyndras and less Keystone pipeline. More Obama means Eric Holder can continue to safely race bait with his AG title. More Obama means Cap and Trade, Buffett Rule, and in general more taxes, less civil liberties, less fossil fuel and less employment.
Not voting for Romney is like saying you won’t buy the car because it is green instead of blue, and instead you’ll get Obama who will give you a walking stick instead of a car.
I think our difference is that I view Romney as a mushy moderate rather than a full-blown liberal.
Follow the context of the previous posts and get back to me.
I see a lot of "I" in there...so you weren't talking about me, merely projecting.
Now, having said all that, if you can't see any other choice but to violate your personal integrity in this election by abandoning your principles, then I'm sorry for you. I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.
With Obama in for another 4 years, you just might. I can't predict the future.
Voting against Obama will not hurt my personal integrity at all. If he loses, I will be dancing in the streets and high fiving everybody who voted likewise and laughing in my lib friends' and relatives' faces.
If, after 3 years, you don't see the evil that is the Obama regime, nothing I can say will change your mind. Not that I really care if you do or not.
I'm not here to convince you one way or the other. The evidence of the last 3 years speaks for itself.
I suspect it would poll 19%, just like when HRP ran in 92.
Baraq wins with a Clintonian plurality.
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