In Case You Don't Like Romney... A Challenge To Every FReeper

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[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!

[bramps]

Humor me. Between Obama and Romney, who would you prefer as our next president?

[Resettozero]

Persistence can be a virtue, even when someone else is sincerely annoyed by it.

By the way, in my younger days, that opening line rarely worked for me: “Humor me”. I dropped it.

[trisham]

You’ve only found 46? Maybe on just this thread. But if you do it for a couple of days and look at many threads, you’d end up with ... well, as of this count, I’m at 93. And I haven’t even finished this thread.

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Apparently our numbers aren't so few after all.

[bramps]

I’m sure if you absolutely had to chose between arsenic and cyanide, you’d make some kind of informed decision as to which one you had to take.

Why not impress us with an actual answer as to who you would chose and why between Obama and Romney? Just humor us. I won’t tell anyone. You already owe me a buck. I’m giving you an easy chance to get even.

[dragonblustar]

I now feel it is my duty to go through these posts and see if I can add any new names to my list, which now numbers 27.

So, what are they going to do with the list? Report it to .....

Atttttaaaaaaaaackkkk Waaaaaaatttccchhh!!!!!

I think its a bit nutty to have such a list.

[trisham]

I’m sure if you absolutely had to chose between arsenic and cyanide

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It seems that you've answered your own question.

[Elsie]

2/3’s

[PoliticalArsonist]

Do you really believe that there will be any other outcome at the convention?

I want a contested convention. I just don’t see it happening. Romney was never one of my choices but one by one, everyone that I liked dropped out. If anyone else gets the nod, I will work to elect them.

What is your plan to unseat Obama in November?

[svcw]

bramps your premise is flawed.
There are more than two choices, well maybe not for you but for conservatives there are many.

[PoliticalArsonist]

Thank you for your reasonable response. I’ve been reading here for a while and that is indeed rare.

I did not take the time to read your posting history. I merely replied to your comments. I would bet that we agree 99% of the time on the issues. Like with my friend, I cannot proclaim that you are wrong, we just disagree on the best tactic to oust Obama.

BTW, that you for your efforts in Wisconsin. OUTSTANDING!

As the vote approaches, I think (without evidence, just an educated hunch) that people in your state and across the nation will see that despite the similarities in Romney and Obama, there is also a stark contrast and they will cast their vote for Obama.

One final point, is anyone claiming that Romney is a conservative? A republican, for sure, but I don’t think that Romney will destroy the conservative brand because he will be fought at every turn by conservatives. Perhaps by 2016 we will have established a true conservative party and the death of the GOP as it is presently constituted will not be a big loss for us.

[PoliticalArsonist]

Correction: As the vote approaches, I think (without evidence, just an educated hunch) that people in your state and across the nation will see that despite the similarities in Romney and Obama, there is also a stark contrast and they will cast their vote for Romney .

[Elsie]

5/6’s

[greyfoxx39]

So, what are they going to do with the list? Report it to .....
Atttttaaaaaaaaackkkk Waaaaaaatttccchhh!!!!!
I think its a bit nutty to have such a list

See my post #459

Great minds think alike.

[Resettozero]

Yes. Good catch. There’s the answer.

[Elsie]

This particular poster seemed to have a very antagonistic attitude right out of the gate, which is not typical of the average newbie.

I decided to check his first FR posting; but, alas...

 

 

Eerily familiar...

 

 

Party ownership of the print media
made it easy to manipulate public opinion,
and the film and radio carried the process further.

 

16. Ministry Of Truth

.......

The Ministry of Truth, Winston's place of work, contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.

The Ministry of Truth concerned itself with Lies. Party ownership of the print media made it easy to manipulate public opinion, and the film and radio carried the process further.

The primary job of the Ministry of Truth was to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels - with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment, from a statue to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a child's spelling-book to a Newspeak dictionary.

Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one. This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs - to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance.

When his day's work started, Winston pulled the speakwrite towards him, blew the dust from its mouthpiece, and put on his spectacles. He dialed 'back numbers' on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of The Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes' delay. The messages he had received referred to articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to rectify.

In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and on the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building.

As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of The Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. Then, with a movement which was as nearly as possible unconscious, he crumpled up the original message and any notes that he himself had made, and dropped them into the memory hole to be devoured by the flames.

What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. As soon as all the corrections which happened to be necessary in any particular number of The Times had been assembled and collated, that number would be reprinted, the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead.

In the cubicle next to him the little woman with sandy hair toiled day in day out, simply at tracking down and deleting from the Press the names of people who had been vaporized and were therefore considered never to have existed. And this hall, with its fifty workers or thereabouts, was only one-sub-section, a single cell, as it were, in the huge complexity of the Records Department. Beyond, above, below, were other swarms of workers engaged in an unimaginable multitude of jobs.

There were huge printing-shops and their sub editors, their typography experts, and their elaborately equipped studios for the faking of photographs. There was the tele-programmes section with its engineers, its producers and its teams of actors specially chosen for their skill in imitating voices; clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall; vast repositories where the corrected documents were stored; and the hidden furnaces where the original copies were destroyed.

And somewhere or other, quite anonymous, there were the directing brains who co-ordinated the whole effort and laid down the lines of policy which made it necessary that this fragment of the past should be preserved, that one falsified, and the other rubbed out of existence.

 

 

[mkjessup]

This whole "who would you prefer" crap is nothing but rhetorical garbage, the fact is (as I've stated many times), 0bama is pouring socialism down America's throat against our will, and if Romney pulls off a win, we will continue to have that swill forced on us, except that it will be served up in ornate, crystal goblets as befitting Romney's stature and upbringing, as opposed to 0bama's Chicago-thug gutter style.

The only charitable thing I can say about Romney is that he doesn't appear to have a visceral hatred of America as does the Kenyan Douchebag.

Is that enough to vote for him?

No.

[Elsie]

Do you really believe that there will be any other outcome at the convention?

I 'believe' that there COULD be.

[Elsie]

What is your plan to unseat Obama in November?

I have none.

Has this Nation has abandoned it's GOD?

WHY do you think we have the choices it appears we are going to get?

[trisham]

Let them vote as they will. We must all live with ourselves after November.

[Elsie]

What is your plan to unseat ROMNEY in November 2015?