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In Case You Don't Like Romney... A Challenge To Every FReeper
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Posted on 06/13/2012 2:03:43 PM PDT by MindBender26

In Case You Don't Like Romney...

Columnist Andrew McCarthy gives us what probably is the most important question regarding the upcoming presidential election …

“If Romney wins the nomination, as seems very likely, I will enthusiastically support his candidacy. For my friends who may have hesitation on that score, I’d just ask you to keep four things in mind:

1.. Justice Scalia just turned 78

2.. Justice Kennedy will turn 78 later this year

3.. Justice Breyer will be 76 in August

4.. Justice Ginsburg turned 81 about a week ago and has had cancer twice.

Whoever we elect as president in November is almost certainly going to choose at least one and maybe more new members of the Supreme Court — in addition to hundreds of other life-tenured federal judges, all of whom will be making momentous decisions about our lives for decades to come.

If you don’t think it matters whether the guy making those calls is Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, I think you’re smokin’ something funky….”

So for anybody who is thinking of not voting because your favorite didn’t get nominated, or writing in a candidate who can't win ... just imagine this possibility:

'SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ERIC HOLDER'

Did that get your attention!


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To: altura; greyfoxx39

I don’t hate Romney and furthermore, I don’t know anybody on this forum who does. By all means add me to your list if I’m not already on it because I hate everything he stands for, including but not limited to, his mormonism and his liberalism. I’m also an original member of the “Inmans”. That alone should qualify me for your asinine list.


401 posted on 06/14/2012 9:33:16 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (Obama versus Romney? Cyanide versus arsenic.)
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To: greyfoxx39

I started the list out of my own curiosity and fervent hope that these posters represented only a fraction of FR members.

Jim Robinson has neither approved my list nor suggested I not do it.

As you know, Jim declared amnesty and, although he doesn’t like Romney, he gave posters here the freedom to post their convictions. that’s all I’m doing.

As far as obsession goes, I’ll defend my obsession against that of some here any day in the week.

I’ve said before and I say again.

If I didn’t love Free Republic, I’d leave and not bother with all this. I just want Free Republic to redeem its sanity and position in the political world.


402 posted on 06/14/2012 9:33:35 AM PDT by altura
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To: altura

Ok, so now that you have increased to stocking up to 50 FRs, please send the list, I need to increase the rib and beer order.
Please keep me apprised as the number grows, don’t want anyone to go hungry.


403 posted on 06/14/2012 9:34:56 AM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: altura

Will you do this before or after you go over to truebluewhiners and dog FreeRepublic and Jim again?


404 posted on 06/14/2012 9:35:50 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: svcw

Buy more beef. I’ve found 46.

But make your own list. It’s for my personal info only.


405 posted on 06/14/2012 9:36:27 AM PDT by altura
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To: altura
"using His name to support political views."

I'm literally encouraging people to "put loyalty to God over loyalty to party" and you accuse me of this ?

I am not kidding you, you mock God with a vote for babylonian mystery cult leader Romney at your own peril.

I leave this conversation exactly the same way I will leave the voting booth in November after writing in George Washington, having done my duty to God, and not having participated in evil.

406 posted on 06/14/2012 9:37:39 AM PDT by SENTINEL (Romney is to Conservatism what Mormonism is to Christianity.)
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To: MindBender26

If you don’t think it matters whether the guy making those calls is Mitt Romney or Barack Obama, I think you’re smokin’ something funky….”
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If you think its going to make a hill of beans then you could be the one smokin that funny stuff...


407 posted on 06/14/2012 9:38:18 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana (Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
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To: altura

No way pork ribs baby.
Thanks, I need to know the number as it increases.
Make sure I am on that list.


408 posted on 06/14/2012 9:38:39 AM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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To: altura

The previous post paid for by Mitt Romney for President


409 posted on 06/14/2012 9:40:45 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: altura

Did you seriously not get the memo - Heaven above is in full support of keeping the Black Liberation Theological clown in charge - clue-in!!!


410 posted on 06/14/2012 9:43:21 AM PDT by Hegewisch Dupa
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To: altura; svcw

Having not posted yet, pretty confident my name is not on your list, add me I could use a good picnic and ribs.

Liberals are not people I vote for.


411 posted on 06/14/2012 9:44:33 AM PDT by roylene (Salvation the great Gift of Grace.)
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To: altura

Please include me on you paranoid enemies list- all the cool kids are on it!


412 posted on 06/14/2012 9:44:37 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ("I'm comfortable with a Romney win." - Pres. Jimmy Carter)
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To: Jim Robinson

My position has not and will not change. I won’t be voting for or supporting an abortionist/homosexualist statist for the presidency. No Romney vote here.
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Nor here Jim...


413 posted on 06/14/2012 9:44:38 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana (Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
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To: altura
I just want Free Republic to redeem its sanity and position in the political world.

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Making an enemies list is certainly a bang-up way of accomplishing that.

414 posted on 06/14/2012 9:46:17 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: altura
I salute your ALTURAisitic motives to save our beloved FreeRepublic.

You cause is noble I'm sure...

We should bow to our betters and be happy you take time out from bitching about FreeRepublic over at TrueBlueandZotted to guide and counsel us lunatics...

415 posted on 06/14/2012 9:47:50 AM PDT by ejonesie22 (8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
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To: altura; greyfoxx39

Please add my name to your list. :)

And those 30 or so of us who are outspoken in our opposition to Mormonism, are ...well...the only folks who have the guts and the conviction to call it as we see it.

The rest of you either don’t know enough about Mormonism, don’t care enough about Christ, or are Mormons in disguise.

But that is just my opinion.


416 posted on 06/14/2012 9:52:26 AM PDT by colorcountry (The gospel will transform our politics, not vice versa (Romans 12:1,2))
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To: altura

I better be on your list...

Or you dont have list of people who matter...

I accept invitations to only the best places...

Like svcw’s BBQ...


417 posted on 06/14/2012 9:52:33 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana (Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
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To: xzins; Alamo-Girl; thouworm; Agamemnon; Matchett-PI; Yashcheritsiy; Jemian; SoConPubbie; ...
It is not possible to vote for Romney and be voting for conservative principles or Christian principles.

Here we have an application of the Law of the Excluded Middle, in spades — a system of two-value logic, in which the only possible answers to any question are "yes/no," or "true/false." You stipulate, in consequence of this type of reasoning, that a conservative or Christian cannot vote for Romney without betraying his or her core principles.

While the Law of the Excluded Middle comes in handy in situations requiring the determination of simple fact (where that Law is appropriate), it is far too crude a tool to engage the far more complex problems of human experience and judgment; for the Law requires that all answers must be given in terms of "true/false." Thus it works best in discrete situations involving either (1) direct observation; or (2) digital (machine) "thinking."

But for the vastly more complex problems of human experience and judgment, a three-value logical system is necessary. In three-value logic, there are three possible answers to any question: "true," "false," and "undecidable" (given any particular fact situation). The question must be undecidable unless we know all the relevant factors involved, which in human situations is rarely the case; and such relevant factors wouldn't be "direct observables" in principle anyway.

To employ the language of "Gagdad Bob" (a/k/a Dr. Robert Godwin, forensic psychologist), a two-value logical system moves along the horizontal time extension (like Newtonian mechanics). A three-value logical system has a third projection along the vertical time extension, which approaches the timeless....

Existentially, man lives "in-between" time and timelessness....

Which observation is probably as clear as mud to folks who don't worry themselves over epistemic problems. So let me put it another way: We have to say a question is undecidable unless we are in full possession of all the relevant factors bearing on the question. And arguably, you — and we — are not in possession of all the relevant factors. Indeed, no human being ever is. But — you evidently think you are, or you wouldn't speak the way you do.

But it seems to me that there are some relevant factors that you rule out in advance, preferring your own "true-and-false" notions, and closing your mind to all other factors that do not fit the criteria that you are attempting to impose on the question.

And then, rather gratuitously it seems to me, you wrote:

I would call that classic situationism for those who had formerly guided themselves by their Christian or conservative principles.

Which to me is a breathtaking statement. Here you suggest that "conservatives and Christians" who don't see the problem exactly as you see it (and vote for Virgil Goode) are neither conservative or Christian.

Talk about the misapplication of the Law of the Excluded Middle!

Not to mention that your entire position suggests that people who don't agree with you are judged (by you) to have fallen away from God and His order....

Jeepers, dear brother in Christ — I just find that sort of thing totally appalling. Where is your Christian charity, your Christian humility?

Did not God say to us, "Judge not, lest ye be judged?"

Ultimately, God will judge me. For you to do that strikes me as being "way above your pay grade."

May the Grace of God be with you.

418 posted on 06/14/2012 9:53:07 AM PDT by betty boop (We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through the eye. — William Blake)
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To: altura; Jim Robinson
Sighhh...I see you are again commenting on Jim Robinson and bashing FR without pinging JR. Do I have to do it for you EVERY time?

This comment: "If I didn’t love Free Republic, I’d leave and not bother with all this. I just want Free Republic to redeem its sanity and position in the political world". is hypocritical to say the least.

Kinda funny that professing "love for FR" expresses itself in membership on a website that has an entire forum dedicated to trashing FR and taking part in that bashing.

Also, while you're whining about the numbers on your "snitch" list, take a look at my tagline. Your defense of mormonism is a defense of the trashing of Christianity that is done every single day by mormon missionaries.

419 posted on 06/14/2012 9:53:40 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (Until the 52K LDS missionaries claiming Christian faith is bogus quit, I will post LDS truth.)
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To: altura
I have posited my theory that there are only 30 people on Free Republic who have a rabid hatred of Romney to the point that it has destroyed all reason.

While there are 50,000 +/- on the streets of America who have a demonic LOVE of MORMONism, who have no reasoning abilities at all.

420 posted on 06/14/2012 9:57:01 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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