Posted on 05/04/2012 6:31:27 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
My FRiends, we might as well face the reality that we the combined pro-life conservative movement and tea party coalition have lost this round (the presidential election) in the larger battle to reclaim our constitution and our inalienable rights. Rove, Romney and the GOP-e have successfully destroyed and driven off each and every pro-life conservative tea party candidate from the race and all have surrendered to the Romney camp. It is no secret that Romney is not one of us. There is absolutely no doubt that he has never accomplished a single conservative thing in his entire political career (one term as liberal governor of liberal Massachusetts and six years campaigning for president). In Massachusetts, he undeniably championed abortion, gay rights, global warming, gun control, big government statist mandated/socialized health care programs, liberal judges, TARP, bailouts, stimulus spending, debt limit increases, etc, and even though he's recently claimed a complete reversal in political beliefs and no longer despises pro-life conservatives or the time of Reagan-Bush, I still don't trust him. He still stubbornly holds on to some of his statist beliefs, like global warming, gays in the military, RomneyCare, stimulus spending, etc, so there is no way I can vote for him or join Cain, Perry, Bachmann, Newt or any others who are endorsing him. But I will not act on my prior promises that I would actively campaign against him if he wins the nomination. Our combined movement is already torn and splintered and is going to have to be mended if we're going to have any impact whatsoever against the liberal/progressives and statists after the election. To that end I propose a TRUCE among our conservative forces during the remainder of this election cycle.
We conservatives have already lost the presidency to either the Dems or the GOP-e, and if we tear the tea party apart, if we tear the pro-life movement apart, if we tear FR apart then we lose it all. It's far more important that we re-unite and live to fight another day. Even if we can't vote for a true conservative for the presidency, it's doubly important that we all turn out on election day or sooner and drag our friends, neighbors, relatives, co-workers, etc, to the polls to vote straight conservative for every slot on our ballots. The only way we can win our freedom back is to vote out the liberal progressives and vote in as many liberty loving conservatives as is humanly possible into every elected office at every level of government all across this great land. To prevent a total loss to the dems or GOP-e, we must continue the tea party rebellion into November and beyond. Whatever else you may do, you must turn out and vote straight tea party conservative down ticket!!
We must continue expanding our inroads into the state houses and into every elective office in the land. We must continue building on our majority in the house and we must retake the senate!! We must help the conservative governors and state legislatures to fully restore the ninth and tenth amendments and reclaim the real political power away from the federal usurpers and return it to the states and the people per the constitution!! This way, regardless of who wins the presidency, we can cut his unconstitutional expansionist movements off at the knees. And if any executive, civil officer or judge dares commit impeachable offenses, we must hold the majorities so we can impeach and remove them from office!!
And we must salvage and rebuild and continue strengthening our conservative pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-borders, pro-constitution, pro-small government, pro-defense, pro-liberty movements and our tea party coalition. And we must stop ripping each other apart!!
Therefore I hereby propose a general truce among our conservative forces!!
The Republic we save may be our own!!
As far as FR's finances go, we're in the same boat as the rest of the economy and will have to make do with what we can raise. Fortunately, the big debts we ran up a couple years ago have been paid off. We borrowed approx $20,000 a few years ago from two FReepers to fund our national convention, plus we ran up another $20,000 in legal fees during the last couple of years fighting off Righthaven. But those are now behind us and paid off. We also did quite a bit of traveling each year for the last three years on cross country tea party tours, but I think we can now cut that back and remove it from our budget requirements. If we're fortunate enough to not incur any additional legal costs or equipment costs (other than what we've already planned), and cut the travel and a few other areas, we should be able to tighten our belts enough to weather the storm even if we fail to reach our short term fundraising goals.
Whatever the outcome of the elections, we are prepared to roar into 2013 with the tea party chewing up liberal/progressives and RINOs and raising hell in our never ending fight for liberty!!
We are the resistance!!
Let's take the enemy head-on instead of fighting each other!!
Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!!
A brokered convention will only happen if, every non-Romney supporter, votes for a single candidate, who isn't Romney, doesn't matter which one, in the remaining primaries. Doesn't need to be the same one in each state, just within a state. This to take delegates away from Romney.
But if that extremely unlikely event should occur, I don't think any of the contenders would be a good choice. Has to be someone else that hasn't been tarred by other Republicans. He/she will get tarred enough by the media.
But, if Romney is the candidate, and loses, the Republican party will likely go the way of the Whigs. But it might not matter, since a long dark age will likely descend on the Republic.. and the world.
They have, they also won in the House races in '10.
As to your second statement, I suppose it depends on what you mean by "doctrinaire", but you're beginning to sound like the GOP-e types.
That might work. But maybe, we need to just do away with single party primaries. Have a free for all, with the top two or three vote getters going on to the General Election. Somewhat analogous to the Constitution's provisions for the case where no one gets a majority of the electoral vote.
The parties have entirely too much control over the entire process. The Constitution doesn't anticipate parties, maybe our elections under it, and the rules for Congressional operations shouldn't either.
Parties exist to elect candidates and then "share the wealth". Well, we are rapidly running out of wealth to share.
I'm well aware of the downsides to that approach, but keeping on doing what isn't working, and is actually hurting, doesn't seem an indication of intelligence either.
Texas was supposed to vote on Super Tuesday.. but a federal court intervened, and as of now we are supposed to vote on May 29, 2012, with any necessary runoffs to be held on July 31st.
Wonder if the situation would be different if the Texas primary, which contributes lots of delegates, had been held on Super Tuesday?
“We need to pool all our resources toward defeating Obama and then, after the election, we need to put all our effort into changing the RNC and getting conservatives ahead of the RINOS around the country.”
Exactly!
We need to clean house, and get rid of these limp wristed, knee knocking, effeminate, panty wetting, closet communists in the RNC.
No more pandering to the wishy washy “moderates” either..... I don’t care if hurts their feelings. Tough crap, this ain’t Burger King, and they sure as hell don’t deserve to have it “their way”.
The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office... or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues ...'on their merits.”
― Winston S. Churchill-
How about on every ballot we include "None of the above"........ what that is is 'a vote of no confidence in your government'.... I'm willing to bet that in this election between Romney and Obama, 'None of the Above' would win.
“Fractured conservative voteing is what gave us McCain, it gave us Romney. I don’t see any way to a different outcome 4 years from now.”
Don’t forget those open primaries where democrats crossed over to vote for weak candidates such as Juan McLame.
I am sorry I have just gotten around to weighing in on this thread...
Thank you, Jim, for this stand you now take. It is very reasonable and gracious.
Many who plan to “hold their nose” point out how they fear what Obama will do with four more years.
My vote will reflect my fear of God. I fear God much more than I fear Obama. Just the other day, I was referred to a video that asked Catholics to be values voters. I am not Catholic, but I do belong to the body of Christ, and if a person fears God, they know automatically how to vote.
I honestly believe that any **informed** person who would vote for Romney or Obama does not fear God. I believe they honestly think that playing the politics game of “who can win” is more important than honoring, respecting, and fearing God.
That may sound harsh, but the truth is, throughout the course of history, nations who fear God remain, and nations who refuse to fear God fall. We are going to fall because people who claim to be Christians are not 100% in the game.
What really amazes me, beyond the refusal to put God first, is the constant underestimation of God. As if God could not do anything with this tiny little world in the grand scope of eternal existence where the Great I Am is the single dweller?
What might actually happen if every person who CLAIMS to be a Christian, decided to actually BE A CHRISTIAN and refuse to vote for someone who supports abortion, homosexuality, polygamy, and greatest grievance of all— refusal to accept the deity of God?
What would happen is that God would take care of those people.
Who are we in America? Are we Christians or aren’t we. If we are, we vote that way, if we are not, we vote that way. There is really no gray area in the kingdom of God. There is right and wrong, good and evil, yes and no. Being on the fence is making a choice to stand with the devil. God knows that, whether the fence sitter recognizes it or not.
I love my Dear Father so greatly that I cannot stomach or comprehend ever casting a vote for a person who does not respect the Godhead and know the value of a nation led by that Godhead.
I implore all CHRISTIANS who are preparing to “hold their noses” and vote for Romney to prayerfully consider this passage and DARE to put their faith in God and not in politics.
II Kings 6:15-18.
How bout Cheney 2016? He’s got a new heart after all.
I want him to look at Obama the same way he did in 2009. Only from the other side of the platform.
“Are you running for President in 2016?”
If I had the money, I’d give it a try.
I’d break up government unions, because government employees do not deserve better benefits than the people they work for, especially when they for the most part do less work.
Abolish about 80% of the government agencies and the various commissions. Those that remain would be realigned and streamlined.
I’d simplify the tax code, and cut the corporate tax rates to 10% thus allowing people to keep more of their hard earned money and keeping jobs here.
I’d do away with all of these absurd government regulations especially those that hurt the job creators.
I’d push to have the committee on un-American activities reinstated, and go after groups such as code pink, and individuals such as george soros, karl rove, and bill ayers.
I’d push to impliment term limits. Even if I have to go to the people to have referendums in every state.
Ron Paul has to many enemies to win the Republican Nomination at an Open Convention in Tampa.
However, Ron Paul is one of the two keys, (Santorum being the other), to forcing an Open Convention in Tampa.
Ron Paul already has won 4 State Primaries, and needs to win just one more to qualify as a Nominee Candidate at the Tampa Convention.
This would greatly upset the GOP-E, but probably not Romney as he has always been clueless about how many voters really dislike him.
Although Ron Paul cannot win the Nomination in Tampa, he can along with our help create the proper environment for an OPEN CONVENTION in Tampa.
Then the Open Convention delegates can draft a REAL Republican.
Sort of a round-about way of bypassing the Romney/Obamalite/GOP-E sinking ship, but here is how I see it:
1.) Vote in large turnout numbers in the remaining Primaries, for Ron Paul as an ABR vote, (Anybody But Romney), especially if you vote in the May 29 Primary in Texas.
2.) Work and Lobby for an Open Convention.
3.) Draft a REAL Republican as the Republican Nominee.
An Open Convention will upset the Liberal Agenda Media, and their political consultants who already (in their minds) have Obama re-elected.
We need to draft a REAL Republican in 2012 and avoid the sorry Romney years if Romney beats Obama.
IMHO, Romney will loose by a hair to Obama which will require that Obama be immediately IMPEACHED in order to save our Republic.
Obama or Obamalite, the US Federal Government will not have it’s, and therefore our, financial house in order by 2016.
Thus, political resolution of the main problem: OVERSPENDING BY THE US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, may not be achievable in 2016.
Hence, it is IMPERATIVE that we have an OPEN Convention in Tampa so that a REAL Republican can be drafted, albeit kicking and screaming, to be the Republican Party Nominee for the Office of the President of the United States of America.
I have outlined above how voting for Ron Paul as a Primary wedge against Romney could lead to an Open Convention in Tampa.
Since Ron Paul cannot win the Nomination, he would serve as our last active best wedge hope of defeating Romney AND the GOP-E in an Open Convention.
Primary Candidate Ron Paul is the last active non-Romney Candidate left standing between the GOP-E’s Romney, (= probable loss to Obama in November), and an Open Convention of a Republican that can soundly defeat Obama.
A “win” over Obama is not enough, Obama MUST lose in a LANDSLIDE!!!!!!
NONE of the Primary Candidates have shown that they have that potential.
It is time for an Open Convention to choose the best Presidential Candidate.
It is time for us Conservatives to turn out in massive numbers in the remaining primaries, especially in the big electoral delegate states such as Texas, and vote for ANYBODY BUT ROMNEY!
Ron Paul needs only to win one more State Primary to qualify as a Nominee Candidate, and therefore is our best chance for an Open Convention to select a GREAT Nominee, such as Senator Jim DeMint.
I think a Real Republican would be our best choice, but first we must work to have an Open Convention in Tampa.
What say all of you?
In many cases the other, now dropped out, contenders are still on the primary ballots. Because they dropped out too late to be removed. A vote for them is as good a vote for Paul... if everyone in a given state votes for the same one. Doesn't have to be the same one in each state. It's just necessary to take the delegates away from Romney. But voting for Paul puts in Paul delegates, likely of similar mind. Remember the convention nominally writes the party platform. Normally it's a platform approved by the nominee... but that might not be so much the case if it was a brokered convention.
Thank you, JIm. I appreciate your wisdom and the direction that you give to FR and tea party activities
Why don't you call me a racist while you're at it?
"Doctrinaire conservative" means you're a conservative and you know why you're a conservative. There are not too many of that type about, even at this forum.
Bumping your post. Thank you, so much...
Thank you for that GREAT post.
Noted.
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