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!!
So can the self-styled President Obama. With the right conservative leader in the Senate, Obama wouldn't have a SINGLE new judge on ANY court. They did it to Bush.
“Nugent slammed the Obama administration and singled out four members of the Supreme Court as not supporting the Constitution during his remarks at the National Rifle Association’s annual conference in St. Louis. Nugent, best known for his hit Cat Scratch Fever, is an NRA board member.
“If you want more of those kinds of evil anti-American people in the Supreme Court, then don’t get involved and let Obama take office again,” Nugent said Saturday. “Because I’ll tell you this right now: If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.”
Pay no mind to cva and his small-minded regional bigotry.
Usurp Boehner.
Lurker just think Supreme Court where we would have a fighting chance of a noble appointee rather than another Kagan or Sotomoyor..... ask yourself how you and your family could ever live under such rule for decades to come.....
My guess is that the ABO’s on Free Republic are women majority, and the no Romney no way’ers are men majority.
Just because we may cast a vote for Romney does not mean we cannot vocally and stridently oppose anything he does that is inconsistent with conservative values. Support him when he’s right on an issue, and fight against him when he’s wrong. I’d suggest that approach is perfectly consistent with both a clean conscience and sound policy.
Patting yourself on the back and insulting those that do not agree with you is not my concept of a truce.
I didn't realize all the states had voted in the primary and that the convention had occured. I thought THAT was supposed to be how the system works.
/johnny
“But our bigger problem, in my mind, is what is going on in the “educational” system. American Children are being taught a revised, biased, false story about western civilization and America. They are leaving schools with no knowledge of what America is, and how we evolved to become the world’s first and most successful democratic Republic. And so, they become ready tinder for minds like Obama’s.”
Just a thought....
What is needed is an integrated network of private schools that will again teach from the perspective that Western Civilization was (and is) superior, and teach with a true account of the facts of history (rather than the “rewritten history” of the post-1960’s).
Kind of like I remember receiving in public (yes, public!) schools in the 1950’s and early 1960’s before the lefties took it over.
Just as there are “Christian academies” that provide education based on a religious foundation for those parents who choose it for their kids, we need “Western Acadamies” that teach (for lack of a better phrase) “true history” from a Western perspective.
It may be impossible to reclaim the public schools from a Gramsican left that has become firmly entrenched. But that may not be necessary. What -is- necessary is to create a large-scale alternative to the public schools. Do the same thing with education that has been done [by conservatives and traditional-minded folks] with the mass-mainstream media — that is, ignore it, bypass it, do an end-run around it.
Just as conservatives now obtain their news and information from alternative sources, we must build a system to completely bypass the leftist indoctrination centers that are more commonly known as public schools.
The media are culpable in getting Romney nominated as well. They thought we would be less likely to support him, but I don’t see we have any choice. I’m just glad to know that God is still in control and I know how it will end eventually!
Like the GOP-E did in 2010 when many of their pet RINOs lost in the primaries?
children whine, cry, and stamp their feet when they don’t get their way.
Conservatives didn't set this precedent. The GOP-E has shown they would rather lose to the Dem than support the Tea party goals and candidates. Yet now that they have their RINO, through scorched-earth primary politics, we're just supposed to forget their long knives and fall in line all in the name of party loyalty.
Sorry, but the GOP-E trashed the GOP brand last decade. The Tea Party is the only thing that revived it. I'm not just going to blindly back their idiocy again.
Like the GOP-E did in 2010 when many of their pet RINOs lost in the primaries?
children whine, cry, and stamp their feet when they don’t get their way.
Conservatives didn't set this precedent. The GOP-E has shown they would rather lose to the Dem than support the Tea party goals and candidates. Yet now that they have their RINO, through scorched-earth primary politics, we're just supposed to forget their long knives and fall in line all in the name of party loyalty.
Sorry, but the GOP-E trashed the GOP brand last decade. The Tea Party is the only thing that revived it. I'm not just going to blindly back their idiocy again.
if the shoe fits..just saying.
BULL. This is a Constitutional Republic, and it is our right to question EVERYTHING when it comes to the government. My Lord did not give me a brain to follow statists like Romney and Obama into tyranny. I will fight it with my last breath, as did my sainted ancestors, alongside the Founders.
children whine, cry, and stamp their feet when they don’t get their way.
Funny you and the other sellouts have the same definition of working together and compromising that the Democrats do.
What is Romney giving up?
EXACTLY.....Excellent post
The "War of Northern Aggression", as you probably call it in your simple mind, has been over for 150 years. We won. Get over it.
I agree 100% with that.
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