Some altered opinions and many still disabused as well.
We are an impatient bunch. Vigorously political and given to projection.
The man with the delegate count is not yet nominated and we have projected past that as to how he will fly or fall. All just so much opinion as to potential or tendency. The fellow must make himself real like any of these functionaries. Only time will tell if his first concrete actions will yield a “no child left behind” moment or a response like Bush rose to after 9/11.
We have only to look at his strong words of the last six years contrasted against his actions in the nineties to see in one person the twin opposed expectations we show on this forum.
We must hold firm as with all functionaries and act only upon his real actions and firm stances taken.
I hope to see our nation's path made clear. I see no reason to hope for failure, turmoil and revolutionary chaos that seems to be the solace of some. I wish we had a more suitable tool but our mistaken tendency to make him a villain gives him the power to fail. Making him, as much as we are able, a representative of our opinions will yield many frustrations but also a few successes I expect.
The important thing will be that those actual failures and successes will have been tempered by the broad input from conservatives of all stripe and he will feel our input daily as we hold his feet to the fire.
Yup!
Well said, KC. And I agree.
Romney is most likely going to be the tool the GOP is taking to the contest.
The absoultely over-riding chance in that case is that it will be either Obama or Romney as president in 2013. That’s pretty straight forward.
We get to decide what to do with that. To cast a protest vote. To cast a 100% ideological vote. To not vote. To vote for romeny. Or to vite for Obama.
Given what Obama is doing and what it is plain he will continue to do, I can take no action or inaction on my part that might see him get another four years to take an unfettered wrecking ball to this Republic. It has been relatively unfettered anyway...but in his second four years, I suspect we will learn the true menaing of that word.
Romney clearly has bad aspects in his record...but he has also committed to significant differences in the last five years, and has published those differences, and made commitments regarding those differences to very many very prominent people who are now endorseing him with money, with effort, and most importantly, with their reputation.
If you look at his positions on the issues, and what he says he plans to do...it is not a bad plan just on its face.
I believ he will have to be true to it...and I know there is a good chance he will. So, given my statment in the paragraphs above, and the fact that it is almost a certanity that it will either be Romney or Obama...my path is clear.
Everyone is free to analyze it as they will and make their own choice...but that is mine, and why I am doing it.
God’s speed to you, my FRiend. We live in very compelling, impatcful, dangerous, and yet interesting times.