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!
Norm!!!!
They’re waiting for you at Cheers. Wish you would go there and stop posting stupidity.
Listen, please.
There are two candidates.
Romney and Obama.
Neither is perfect, but one is evil and bent on the destruction of America.
Every day he does something more to undermine our country while showing total disregard for the congress and the constitution.
I want to stop him. I’m not sure what you want.
From your disjointed posts, I can only infer that you want a perfect candidate; someone who agrees with you on everything and perhaps walks on water.
I can’t imagine who you think that would be.
And I fully support your right to do so. But do not try saying its a conservative position. You are voting for a man with a liberal record and an open dislike for conservative ideals. That’s your choice.
betty boop: "Are people necessarily "godless and/or unprincipled" just because they do not agree with you?"
I wouldn't take it personally, as it's not really a reflection on you. :)
There may be a lot going on beneath the surface when people make such outlandish, over-the-top statements over and over again.
I’m sorry, that makes little sense to say you voted for Palin, when McCain was the one your ballot supported for president. I too voted for the McCain/Palin ticket, but I will confess I then hoped McCain would not finish his first term in office, so that Sarah could be president and We The People have a real Godfearing conservative who would ask and listen to God as our leader. And I will sadly admit that for three years I’ve been asking God to remove barry before he succeeds in doing what he is obviously trying to accomplish.
Ducky, can’t you answer a simple question? I know that doing so honestly would hurt like hell, but I have faith in you.
Stop the gradeschool ‘STUPID!!’ crap and debate like an adult or don’t debate at all.
Killing their kids for their gods was the offense, MHG. And the gods of this age are "ism's": humanism, "me"ism, state-ism, etc.
There is no difference. Nor can anyone claim that killing their babies in that era would have been fine if they had claimed they were doing it for the God of Israel. He would have rejected that, too. (As He did, incidentally, with Abraham sacrificing Isaac.)
So, it is the killing of babies that is abhorent.
So far as Jacob and which of the candidates would be more like Jacob, I would simply point out the meaning of the name Jacob. Jacob means "deceiver". Jacob didn't become acceptable to God because Jacob pulled himself up by his own bootstraps. He became acceptable because God chose him and changed him. God can do that with anyone, to include Obama. So, to ask which sinner is more acceptable to God is a non-sequitur.
Finally, the last thing I believe is possible on FR is for me to squelch anyone's posts. I simply don't have that power. If you get in a squabble with JR, then he owns the place and can zot any of us. I ain't JR. You can post whatever you want.
Sorry, but GWBush was a bonafide pro-life candidate, even to the point of rejecting embryonic stem cells. His wife wasn't, but he isn't Laura.
McCain was pro-life.
Romney has consistently governed anti-life and has the decisions on record to prove it. His changes are all cosmetic for political campaign purposes.
And the gay issue? Romney is a wasteland. He approves of gay couples, of gay adoption, of gays in the military. He's a full-blown advocate of the gay agenda.
Okay, show me where I’ve said it’s a conservative position to vote for the one I deem more likely to be turnable through the prayers of the people.
Nor can I *BEAT OBAMA*
Please. You and I voted for McCain/Palin for the same reason and you know it. Semantics does not change that.
I will vote for Goode and not for either of the two radical liberals, Obama and Romney.
Shut up, traitor. Your insult to my FRiend Norm is not acceptable and your insessant drone of insults to freepers is getting tedious. You take every opportunity to insult Freerepublic and freepers at ‘that other site’, then come over here and show yourself a quisling fool. JUst shut up already, or some of us will plead with the mods to zot your smelly self from the forum. Your insulting posts are beginning to look like a sort of reverse psych effort to suppress conservative turnout. Just shut up, drone.
Shut up, traitor. Your insult to my FRiend Norm is not acceptable and your incessant drone of insults to freepers is getting tedious. You take every opportunity to insult Freerepublic and freepers at ‘that other site’, then come over here and show yourself a quisling fool. JUst shut up already, or some of us will plead with the mods to zot your smelly self from the forum. Your insulting posts are beginning to look like a sort of reverse psych effort to suppress conservative turnout. Just shut up, drone.
There are two candidates.
Romney and Obama.
Neither is perfect, but one is evil and bent on the destruction of America.
Every day he does something more to undermine our country while showing total disregard for the congress and the constitution.
I want to stop him. I’m not sure what you want.
From your disjointed posts, I can only infer that you want a perfect candidate; someone who agrees with you on everything and perhaps walks on water.
I can’t imagine who you think that would be.
What you’ve said is you’ll vote Romney, correct?
Again, nothing conservative about voting for a lib. That’s the subject. Why dance around it? Look, I know I’m not going to change your mind. I don’t particularly want to. But you ABO types need to be honest about why you’re voting for Romney. If not in public, then to yourselves.
And that honesty leads to one place. A conservative cannot vote for a liberal without abandoning the conservative ideals he/she claims to believe in. That’s just reality. Now, armed with that unasailable logic, you go do what your conscience tells you to do.
Here’s a hint. It ain’t Rick Perry.
traitor?
drone?
smelly?
I have not insulted your buddy, Norm. he’s insulted me and I’ve responded sensibly.
Perhaps I use the word ‘stupid’ too much, but it is so applicable.
I don’t believe you have the authority to zot me, but if the time ever comes when someone like you has that authority, I wouldn’t want to be here.
BTW, I’ve never insulted Free Republic. I may have insulted a few posters here but never the site itself.
You might try to prove that before you assert it.
Thanks for the backup ;) We may disagree strongly on this issue, but I know we’ve been on the same team many times before. And are sure to be again.
Bur yea, her incessant whining, dodging etc is a carryover from her hate of Freepers who pointed out her former Idol’s shortcomings. She just can’t let it go and continues it on threads across the forum.
“So, to ask which sinner is more acceptable to God is a non-sequitur.” I did not ask that and it is revealing that you try to mischaracterize what I did ask. Youperhaps without realizing it addressed the reason I asked which would be more of a Jacob, because I was in effect asking which of the two twisters (and the Hebrew translates Jacob as more tiwster than deceiver, but we’ll get nowhere arguing Herbew translation) would be more a Jacob BECAUSE God could turn the heart of Jacob and he became a different man following the ‘wrestling match’. Do you think a lying drug addled marxist sexual degenerate woulf wrestle with God and ask that God bless him? A man who claims to be a Christian and godfearing might be more inclined to ‘wrestle with an Angel of God’ and ask for a blessing than a man who believes a lesser moon goddess has turned into Allah.
No, I pouinted out your magical thinking as I have on so many threads before. You take issue with not being allowed to spew your crap.
Oh well. Life is hard. Moreso when your vendetta is so ongoing.
There is plenty in Romney’s political record to cause conservatives not to vote for him.
There is plenty recently.
Within the last 2 months he has come out in favor of gay couples, in favor of those gay couples at state level adopting children.
At the turn of the year he came out in favor of gays in the military.
He’s a full-blown advocate of the gay agenda.
Aside from that, I simply refer you to the huge number of articles in the RomneyTruthFile which detail years of radical liberalism on his part.
Much of that he has tried to sidestep in a cosmetic, etch-a-sketch for purposes of trying to campaign as a conservative during the republican primaries.
This, btw Matchett, is not an attack on you. It’s simply a disagreement, as is my contention that America is well served by a remnant who abide strictly by Christian principles rather than side with a known radical liberal.
As for those who also oppose Romney due to his mormonism, I’d suggest you be far more understanding of those who formerly were themselves mormon. There is a reason for that, and they have a story to tell that should be heard. It is a difficult thing to leave the faith of one’s childhood. They become the canaries in the mines warning as opportunity arises.
Like it or not, they are the ones who have first hand knowledge of what is really a little-known religion.
My opposition to Romney doesn’t need a religious component, but others have one, and many for what their experience says are rock solid reasons.
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