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!!
AMEN and Amen!
And this, FRiend, is why we love and respect you. Well said, JimRob.
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And in your post is the kernel of why I do not think there will be elections in 2016.
But I also do not think Obama will finish his term.
I believe that he is one of two things:
1. The amateur that he appears to be to many. In which case he will go down hard.
2. He really IS as smart, and deceitful as many believe. In which case he is probably the beast in Revelation and it will take God’s overt, direct involvement to clean up the mess.
We’ll know soon enough.
Nicely said, BUMP!
Amen
It’s time for us like-minded people to stop beating ourselves over the head over the fact that Romney has weaseled his way to the top.
Let’s start concentrating on what we CAN do instead of what we haven’t been able to do.
Good point. It might be 8 years of Romney. And after that, a democrat may well get elected. Hopefully, Romney will respond favorably to conservative pressing during his time in office.
I understand your point, its like keeping the bulls away from the heifers till they are out of season, but I find as I get older its better to just avoid fools.
Just call him a Yankee, it's easier and it encompasses all those things in your diatribe.
Yes sir!
I would almost bet that he will pick the anti-gun, pro-abortion, pro-queer agenda slob, Chris Christi.
That is what Rove and the GOPe want, and Mutt is too liberal and stupid to do anything else.
I will make all effort to stop bashing Romney and I hope that his supporters will likewise abide by the truce and refrain from bashing Conservatives, even if they are 3rd party.
Yes, you cannot call Romney that any more...
You have to replace “sack” with “bag”...
Then you may use the term...
My focus is on getting my small farm productive. The political stuff is but a side show for me. The parties are too similar no for me to care much who controls what.
The analogy I use over and over: It is like holding an election for the crew of the titanic after the water has consumed the C deck. I’m focused on finding nails to use to help me turn a few deck chairs into a life boat for me and my family. That’s what matters at this point.
Yes, you cannot call Romney that any more...
You have to replace “sack” with “bag”...
Then you may use the term...
Faites le plein de la brioche. Obama pourrait être réélu.
Jim - I used to be much more active here on FR, “back in the day”..in the Clinton years..late 90’s, etc. In recent years, though, I’ve been a lurker. I wanted to come out of “lurkerdom”, though, to respond to your post.
Well said!!! Your post stirred quite a bit of emotion in me, and truthfully, I teared up a bit. I love my country so much, and am so worried about the direction it is going. Especially now, since my husband and I have been blessed with our first grandchild - only 8 weeks old...I look at him and try to envision what the future holds for him.
Anyway - just wanted to chime in and thank you for the moving post you wrote.
God Bless you and thank you for ALL YOU HAVE DONE!!! May God Bless America.
Thank you! This has inspired me to send 100.00 donation today.
I think it means that I can post that I’m voting for Romney, against Obama without being banned!
Dear Mr. APatientMan:
I happen to be of-counsel to the American Association for the Advancement of Sacks of Monkey Sh!t (AAASMS).
It has come to our attention that you have compared politician Mitt Romney to my clients.
I must request that you cease and desist any further defamation of character—libel or slander-of my clients, or face: 1.) legal action, 2.) hearing from our political action committee: the Knights of Monkey Scat Who Say Ni, or 3. some lengthy `time-out’ in the Comfy Chair.
Menacingly Yours,
Poindexter Cadwallader-Smythe III
Chief Counsel, American Ass’n blah blah blah
That was an outstanding post, imho !
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