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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: Lakeshark
Your position helps reelect the most destructive, evil administration ever. Why should I respect it?

My previously-stated position is that I'm voting for someone other than Romney or Obama. You cannot respect that?

Most of the posters here know I respect them and vice versa, you might notice we're not calling each other names.

What are you talking about? What names have I called you?
961 posted on 06/15/2012 12:08:44 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: trisham

It’s the greatest feeling. To upset the masses simply by your presence on a thread is the height of human accomplishment. There’s no feeling as great as when a child looks at you and says “Dad” when I grow up I want everyone to hate me!” well... it just chokes you up.

Some people strive for greatness in the arts and sciences. BAh! True greatness only comes through the hatred by others!

And yes, I’m kidding ;)


962 posted on 06/15/2012 12:10:22 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: Lakeshark
I'm not a Mitt fan and you know it,

Maybe some people aren't yet convinced of that. What people see is you enthusiastically campaigning for Romney. Maybe if you could tell folks the specific things you dislike about Mitt Romney.

The degree of destructive capacity between the two is a gulf so large it cannot be crossed.

Actually, I think Obama and Romney have taken similar positions in the past in many areas - the homosexual agenda, abortion, contraceptives, health care, mandates, etc. Tell folks, if you can, the specific differences that create the "gulf so large it cannot be crossed.".

963 posted on 06/15/2012 12:11:47 PM PDT by Tau Food (Tom Hoefling for President - 2012)
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To: Norm Lenhart

:)


964 posted on 06/15/2012 12:15:20 PM 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: South40

Why is she still here then?


965 posted on 06/15/2012 12:33:12 PM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian "I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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THX 1138


966 posted on 06/15/2012 12:38:21 PM 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: trisham; MHGinTN
I was reluctant to post the items she said also. Then at post 896 she essentially inferred that a fine poster (MHGinTN) was lying about her and asked for someone to prove it.

So I did!

967 posted on 06/15/2012 12:40:47 PM PDT by CharacterCounts (A vote for the lesser of two evils only insures the triumph of evil.)
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To: Norm Lenhart; Lakeshark
L-Shark, I admire you for the good, civil, thoughtful tone of that post.

I like Rush, too, and 10 years of my posts prove it. But I recall that in Rush's "Realville," Newt calling Romney out on the crappy ethics of his work at Bane (as Rush knows, something can be perfectly legal within the framework of capitalism and still be vile, like ticket scalping or loan sharking) was, somehow, the equivalent of being "anti-capitalist." In Rush's "Realville," Palin's momentous announcement that she wasn't going to run for 2012, didn't even merit one single mention on his show the next day. (Which made me realize that his show didn't merit all the time I'd been spending listening to it.)

Rush's "Realville" is just as bent and distorted as anyone else's. Rush is fallible, and that is a FACT. Over the past year, I've lost that lovin' feelin' for him because those two items really heaped some mud on his feet. He'll have to do a lot to redeem himself in my eyes, and he probably will someday, because he IS the Great Maha Rushie. But Rush's "Realville" is his interpretation of it, and that is all.

You want a more likely Realville? Re-read Norm's truth:

The whole problem of dealing with Obama is an easy one to solve. Congress has 8 million ways of stopping each and every one of his programs cold.... So if [Republicans in Congres] won’t stop Obama, what makes you think [they'd] fight Romney when the lib judge nominations begin? Because [Romney's] history is one of appointing them. Or his gay marriage crap? Same there. Or his Global Warming crap? Same there. Or any of a thousand other 100% liberal actions.

In MY "Realville," it is happy horsecrap to bust ass electing and promoting limited government Tea Party conservatives to Congress on the assumption that they cannot possibly stop Omnipotent Obama, but that they woudldn't roll over for Romney.

It defies all common sense. As does voting for Romney.

968 posted on 06/15/2012 12:42:19 PM PDT by Finny (A deal with the devil is ALWAYS a losing proposition. Voting for Romney to avoid Obama is just that.)
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To: Springfield Reformer
"For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought. After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing, and drew away much people after him: he also perished; and all, [even] as many as obeyed him, were dispersed. And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God. And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten [them], they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go. And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name. -- Acts 5:36-41
969 posted on 06/15/2012 12:47:46 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Conservatism is not a matter of convenience.)
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To: CharacterCounts; MHGinTN

I hear you. At least a few fine FReepers have been maligned on this thread.


970 posted on 06/15/2012 12:47:46 PM 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: reaganaut
Because she's playing both sides. She chimes in with her fellow TBL liberals in denigrating FR and JR and that's her right. I suppose if you want to slam FR another forum is the best place to do it. But she is lying to them and they are too stupid to see it. She slams FR in their presence but takes care while here to NOT get banned. She is also a liar. This is what she recently wrote as 'ms snarky', her current user name in that dump. All one need do is search her name there and you will find all altura posts under the name ms snarky. They are one and the same. http://i46.tinypic.com/fzb3eq.jpg
971 posted on 06/15/2012 12:49:47 PM PDT by South40
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To: altura; CharacterCounts
I contributed in the last pledge drive and will do so in the next one

That's not what you told your fellow FR haters.

"I have held off contributing for fear of the zot and I think many have."

You lied to your fellow FR haters. And they're just stupid enough to buy it.

972 posted on 06/15/2012 12:55:06 PM PDT by South40
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To: Finny
It defies all common sense. As does voting for Romney.

For me, the "common sense" to voting for Romney is this ...

Romney Picks Pro-Life Conservatives [Bork and Glendon] as Top Judicial Advisors

The Romney judicial team, according to a Boston Herald report, has 63 members who have signed a pledge to ensure that they will help Romney nominate federal judges “who faithfully adhere to the Constitution’s text, structure, and history and he will carry out the duties of president as a zealous defender of the Constitution.”

Andrew McCarthy on SCOTUS appointments

Sure, you can argue that it is foolish to trust Romney on this. But we know for sure that 0bama's SCOTUS nominees are in the mold of Sotomayor and Kagan.

Common sense says that at least with Romney there is a chance he'll listen to his select group advisors on this.

973 posted on 06/15/2012 1:02:48 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Lakeshark

The ‘undead’ thread?


974 posted on 06/15/2012 1:06:45 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: bramps
Bramps, I'm sorry, but ABO has reduced you to posting such craziness as: Cyanide has been used as a form of legal execution and is relatively humane compared to arsenic. Any sane person, if faced with such a decision, has an easy decision to make if these are his only two options. The same could be said about this election. ....let me fill in the cute punch line for you. “Either way you’re still dead”.

And now this new hypothetical of which island would you point the lifeboat with children toward, Obama's or Romney's. My answer: flip a coin and pray that before arrival, our course would be intercepted by a warship manned by freedom fighters who planned on routing the leaders of BOTH islands.

I've done you the courtesy of answering your hypothetical question, now you do me the courtesy of answering mine. I will be awaiting your answer to the following:

What would you do if you knew both islands were populated with cannibals, one whose people, if they caught you, would boil you alive in a big kettle, and the other whose people, if they caught you, would skin you alive before chowing down? Which island would you steer your lifeboat toward? Bramps, exactly, which island would you opt for?

Of course my hypothetica question is a ridiculous, silly, stupid, emotion-generated "argument." It is a spoof of your own hypotheticals, all of which rather serve to illustrate the folly and/or cowardice of ABO.

And I'll tell you what I think what would be the better risk, an option you have not perceived, in the much more realistic scenario of being faced with two cannibal-populated islands: I'd do what thousands of British sailors adrift at sea did in the same situation: tough it out, collect the rain for fresh water, stay on the lifeboat, and NAVIGATE TO A SAFE HARBOR even it was another 1,000 miles.

But bramps, what would YOU do?

975 posted on 06/15/2012 1:12:10 PM PDT by Finny (A deal with the devil is ALWAYS a losing proposition. Voting for Romney to avoid Obama is just that.)
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To: South40

That is why I love FR so much, a whole forum of researchers!

Good call!


976 posted on 06/15/2012 1:12:39 PM PDT by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, now Christian "I once was lost, but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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To: Finny; bramps

HEY! No cutting in line! He still hasn’t answered my hypothetical on whether or not he stopped beating his wife yet! ;)


977 posted on 06/15/2012 1:15:22 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: reaganaut
It pays to know who your enemies are. And if they are an enemy of FR, they are an enemy of conservatism and they are an enemy of mine.

There could be no better example of that than the duplicitous poster who goes to an anti-FR site to slam this forum. She might as well post at DU where her anti-FR posts would be welcomed.

978 posted on 06/15/2012 1:19:34 PM PDT by South40
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and the march of defense of Romney, liberalism and/or mormonism continues place marker
979 posted on 06/15/2012 1:20:31 PM PDT by svcw (If one living cell on another planet is life, why isn't it life in the womb?)
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980 posted on 06/15/2012 2:56:07 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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