Posted on 05/16/2012 2:51:31 PM PDT by xzins
Romney will continue many of the same policies as Obama.
That said, if people are intent on voting for Romney, I say more power to them because we need all the votes we can get in the down ticket races. I don’t see Romney winning the white house but his voters combined with write in and 3rd party voters can carry the down ticket races where it really counts.
Really except for a few standouts like Reagan as far as POTUS goes it's been either Moderate or Liberals of the Ike, Ford, Nixon, Bush caliber. Sad to say that has also happened with out leadership in both houses.
People tend to forget it was SML Dr Bill Frist-RINO-TN who penned Medicare reform which has lead us down the road to Obamacare along with Liberals like Romney and even Lamar Alexander has a history of supporting such when Medicaid reform hit Tennessee. Frist simply copied a program put into place earlier by a Liberal Tennessee DEM governor and all the party loyals said how brilliant he was.
The time has come for Conservatives too refocus, regroup, and find a new political party home. It can be done and it must be done if our nation is too ever have a course correction from the destructive one it is on today guided by both parties.
Right now the only choice my conscience allows me to support for POTUS is Virgil Goode.
While Goode may have been a DEM is was a part of the Democratic Party that was far more conservative than that which the GOP Post-Reagan years have produced.
I also look at the founding and founder of The Constitution Party. Howard Phillips is the founder of the Constitution Party was a co-founder of The Moral Majority along with Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell. Like the Moral Majority or hate them this group of men united a good segment of clergy and churches into joining a grassroots movement to bring social conservatism issues back into our government. This crossed party lines as well.
Mitt Romney because of his hard core Liberal record on issues is as unacceptable to me as Obama is. We will never see real changes until we stop being enablers. That decision to say "NO MORE" from both parties starts with an individuals vote.
Other than from 1980-1988, it never has been a Conservative Party. The Rockefeller Republicans and Country Clubbers have been in firm control outside of that range.
Did you forget the sarcasm tag? It is because I have no idea who Romney is that I will not vote for him. Obama and Romney are both ciphers.
I would vote for a gay, Harri-Krishna, Twilight fan to get rid of Obama.
Wiki is your friend in this case. There is a plethora of information. We don’t even know your friends name for god sake.
what the hell is it with some of you people here who cannot seem to disagree WITHOUT COMING OFF LIKE AN SNARKY SARCASTIC ASS HOLE
Yes, say to me, "I affirm with all my integrity that Romney is a conservative."
He is? Yep many persons in history have said the right things at the right time to gain power. They then became what history showed them to be. You can not and you must not ignore what their record and history says they are.
He deserves our support.....
No he doesn't unless your a liberal that is. He's wrong. He is as wrong as Clinton, Obama, LBJ, Reid, Nancy, and many others. The -R doesn't magically make him right. I'd think after what has happened in the GOP since 1989 it would start soaking into peoples heads what is going on within the GOP but it doesn't.
To tell you the truth I don’t like either of them. I definitely do not want Obama to win. I can’t pull the lever for Romney but I think most freepers will, even if they aren’t happy about it.
With Obama we at least have an opposition party running the House of Representatives, but with Romney we are more likely to see “our” party leaders supporting anything Romney wants.
That is what so many conservatives are upset about, Romney does not represent our views- we all know he is only pretending and mouthing the right words. Some think we can pressure him and keep him mostly on the right side, but how do you have any pressure left after you have already proven you’ll vote for the fraud anyway?
argh.
So, yes, I guess a narrow win by flaky, fraud, flip-flopper Romney and a solid GOP controlled House and some GOP pickups in the Senate is probably what we should see in November.
You call that opposition with Boner as Speaker?
Thanks for posting this. Hopefully the blind will have their eyes opened before it is too late.
We might as well as Joe Straus as Speaker like we do in Austin. lol. He is the punter on the Congressional football team right?
Nothing snarky or sarcastic about that. That is the stone cold facts. People complain and complain about the GOPe, yet somehow trust the Congress and Senate Republicans, who are full of and run by the GOPe, to somehow do the right thing in the next breath.
Very true indeed. The GOP started out as the Liberal party of the day. But they even forced upon Reagan his "Insider" running mate. I don't think Poppy was even on his top ten choices of whom he would have liked too have picked.
My limit is Barack Hussein 0bama, Amateur Occupier_WH. So I am truly ABO. Including Milt Romney, who is quite obviously to the right of the marxist community organizer. Big Time.
Am I happy about that? No, but it is what it is. And I'm forced to be pragmatic.
I think everyone would agree that we are in a war. To me the debate is only over strategy. Strategery. I vote incremental gain which means Willard for now. I won't attack a conservative who chooses not to vote in this 'no win scenario' (and they shouldn't attack me for my pragmatic vote) but I sure as h*ll would disagree with a conservative who suggests voting for 0. There may not be a USA after another 4 years of him.
You are welcome. The GOP is a lost cause. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the GOP-e.
BUMP. BIG TIME.
Pure Truth, So_Real! Awesome reply.
They can't handle the truth.
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