Posted on 05/02/2012 2:24:25 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
National Review Online has confirmed that Michele Bachmann will endorse Mitt Romney tomorrow at a campaign event in Virginia.
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Darn missed post 41. It was nuked.
It's not because the American people who care about its future are going to stop the COMMUNIST in the WH from winning another four years. It's not over yet, because we can still do something about it, and we WILL in November.
Do you honestly think Romney's going to stop this trajectory? and how.
Do you honestly think Romney is a Communist who will do the same thing with the EPA that Obama is doing? Will appoint SC Justices like Kagan and Sotomayor? Will have criminals, Communists, Maoists, truthers and overt racists in his Cabinet? Will continue spending us into oblivion with no sense of responsibility? Will he support infanticide?
Do you honestly think that Romney will bow to our enemies? Bargain with the Taliban? Abandon and handcuff our troops? Alienate our allies? Abandon Israel?
C'mon people! We don't have to 'support' Romney (no conservative does) to understand that he's a stop gap to save the country, and that Obama has to GO.
(btw, I'm 'informed' about Glenn Beck, and I don't agree with him about a lot. But when it comes to getting rid of Obama, I'm with him 100%......aren't you??)
The only reason Santorum hasn’t endorsed Romney is the delegates he holds has value. Once he gets what he wants he’ll endorse.
The same when he stepped out of the race just before Pa. To loose there would have surely ruined his political career path.
Santorum’s in play in the very same way he always has been. Whatever advances his path....He’s holding out because the GOP would have it so until they are ready to play Rick’s hand.
Actually, when you try and sacntimouniously instruct me on what this site, FR, is all about, it does matter. Fourteen years of continously involvement with FR is clear indication that someone knows what the site is about...without your puffed up manner of trying to tell me.
As to the Primary, I provided you a link where I have tracked it meticuously since day one. I know exactly what has happened. Voters pulled the lever for Romney and he is winning in vote count and in delegate count You can whine about it all you want...lies, money, blah, blah, blah, is just your way of saying somehow that it is "unfair." Sort of like the libs make excuses.
But he has those votes and he has those delegates as a result of individual people making a decision. I do not believe GOP voters are as easily led around by the nose as you imagine...and will not inslut them like the drones who vote for the DNC because of all the entitlements and welffare they are receiving.
If your asseertion were true, there would never have been a Tea PArty to influence the GOP like it did in 2010, and there would never have been a 2020 victory.
Politics, , as they all have indicated, is a rough game. The vetting has made them all better...and despite your rediculous assertion to the contrary, Romney has been vetted, four years ago and now. We know exactly what he is, what he did before, what he says he represents now.
Your answer to that is, "He'll stab us in the back."
More whining. We do not know that. He is a pol, and clearly one who has shifted with the elections he is running in. He wants to win and stay in office. He will not lightly turn on the commitments that got him into office. He did a lot of what he did in Mass precisly because he was true to what he ran on...things that we did not like or agree woith...though he did issue over 300 vetoes against the even more liberal legislature there, most of which were shot down. Studying those vetoes will also tell you a lot about the man. I would sincerely suggest ypou take a look at them if you are interested in knowing even more about the man.
Pragmatic reality is what we have to face, and then cooly make a decision based on it...not based on the emotion of the moment and how angry we are that things have gone this way...though that anger and emotion is understandable.
Cain, Perry, Bachman, Newt, Sarah, Santorum and all the rest will be pragmatic in the end. They will endorse and support him should he go ahead and win the nomination...and they will do so in a fashion and at a time that will allow them the most leverage possible to influence things for the better. That is all good.
And this does not make them the enemy. It does not make them traitors. It makes them politicians who see the lay of the land and who, within their principles, are going to try to make the best of it for America as they see it and for themselves.
That's the reality of the situation. its the way it is. Tantrums, anger, outburst, attacking otheres, emotions, etc. will not change that.
Newt said it very well yesterday:
"This will not be a race between Romney and Reagon."
I wish to God it were...but the reality is, it is not.
"This is a race between Romney and the most destructive, leftists, President in US History," He sadi.
And that is the essential truth of this situation.
Despite the fact that I was for all of the others...and despite the fact that I too will wait until he has all of the delegates necessary in the hopes thetre may still be a brokered convention...should he be the nominee, I will support him against the marxist Obama.
That's my personal decision. I have stated it clearly. It does not require and is not deserving of the derision you immediately heap on it. You have your own decision to make. I can understand it...though I may not agree with because of how dangerous I feel Obama is.
Otherwise I would happily vote for a Virgil Goode as the Constitution Party platform is much closer to my own beliefs. I have and will continue to support their candidates down ticket wherever they have a chance to win and unseat a RINO or a Dem. But, IMHO, pragmatically, they are not ready to do that at the top of the ticket yet...and the truth is, would only throw the election to Obama whom I can in no way be responsible for his election either by my action or inaction.
That's all. I know you support the same conservative values (probably at least 95%) that I do. That makes us allies, not enemies...even if we approach this different. it will take all we can do to get the right House and Senate in there and to change things at the state and local levels. We certainly can be united in that effort, irrespective of the top of the ticket.
Only one of them hates America, and will continue to destroy everything conservatives stand for if he gets another four years.
I agree that we need a plan, as conservatives, and that Romney can only be a stopgap, but to consider the damage he will do equal to the complete and possibly permanent destruction that Obama will absolutely do is to absurd.
I'm not willing to throw America into the incinerator, so that there is NOTHING left for my children and grandchildren.
All I can hope for is that those saying that they ARE willing to let Obama destroy the country for four more years in the anonymity of FR, have the brains to not follow through with this absurdity when November rolls around....
Most true conservatives will be voting for Romney.
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Fail. True conservatives would never sell their political souls and vote for a lying, socialist, gun grabbing, homosexualist, pro-abortion RINO.
True conservatives stand for principles over party and stand their ground.
That makes US true conservatives, and you...well...not.
I sand by JR - FUMR! Or do you think that JR isn’ a ‘true conservative’ either?
I am leaving, but I will check back later and try to catch up on this thread.
Good man, JH - well-worded post that clearly shows you're head is on right.
hey also don’t give a hoot about anyone else’s grandchildren either, they’re too busy promoting abortion for everyone.
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You mean like ROMNEY?!?!
Sorry, I will not sell my soul for political expediency.
Great post, Jeff. THANKS!
Romney is so much more conservative than Marxist zer0bama...more of a difference between the 2 than between Carter and Reagan.
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That is the most stupid statement I have read in awhile.
What the Hell have you been smoking?
Romney is NO Conservative and sure as hell no Reagan. He is a ‘white and delightsome’ Obama.
Romneys history tells it all....
It’s fruitless trying to discuss Romney with you folks who are desperately trying to justify your vote “FOR” Romney and his platform... They are both bad for this country...the bottom line. Conservatives don’t vote for Socialists. Both of them are.
You are “supporting” Romney but in your twisted thinking you can’t bring yourself to say so. Pretty rich coming from a mindset of folks who’ve declared they’d vote for an orange juice can before they’d vote for Obama. Voting for Romney would be AS STUPID as voting for an orange juice can.
Romney actively campaigned in Obama strongholds while ignoring the base. His goal was purely to collect delegates in the most concentrated areas he could get them.
In Michigan, Santorum won 57 of our 83 counties (7 of 14 districts) The districts Romney won, were all concentrated around Detroit. Now he needs to forego most of those districts and win All of the ones he lost.
I agree and am in shock with the support Obama's getting here these days.
But I disagree with two things you said. They will NOT get their wish because Obama will LOSE.
And they will not be happy, because leftists and the angry right (who meld right in with the left) are never happy.
Proof of that is how angry the left still was between 2008 and 2010 when they had complete control and got their way about everything.
The left cannot be 'happy' because their souls are dead.
I was a Cain supporter, and then Santorum. Never Romney, so don't lie about me, caww.
It's a sign of desperation that you've resorted to complete falsehoods, especially when you know exactly what you're doing.
You may feel safe here in your anonymity, but you've just gone off the deep end, and you'd better be careful because you're not really anonymous.
Are you?
Just about the time I feel this site has no further value or reason for me to click to it’s pages, you go and post something with basis and foundation.
“It’s not how long you were here , so please don’t throw up the sign in date -it means NOTHING!”
Take it as a compliment. Comparing sign-in dates is FR-ese for “I am losing the argument”.
It still is. It's Romney who isn't.
Listen again, JLA: Romney is not now nor has he ever been a conservative. That means it is beyond fair for conservatives to conclude: He WILL NOT be.
And then to oppose him.
Do I care whether uber-liberal A or uber-liberal B has the White House?
Not really. My goal is to see both of them defeated.
Vote GOODE not Evil (the lesser of 2 evils is still evil!)
Actually, if you read the entire string of posts between us, this individual very condescendingly and presumptiously tried to tell me what the site, FR, is all about. I simply let him know that I have been here 14 years and understand pretty well what the site is about...which would be obvious to anyone who took a moment to look.
He did not, so I let him know. Nothing wrong or losing in that.
He then threw another tantrum when I pointed it out. Rather than saying, “Oh, excuse me, I see you have been on here a long time and probably know what FR is about...we just disagree on this particular issue,” which I would have been fine with and would have allowed us a better position to rationally and reasonably discuss the other difference.
Instead he took the other course, which I responded to in such a way that he would be aware of experience here...which has no bearing on the other issue. No conceeding defeat or giving in in that, just a straight forward post about the particular issue of understanding what FR is about.
Read the whole exchange if you are inclined. Or not.
She also endorsed Thomas Dewey.
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