The alternative to Mitt Romney

Tea Party Nation ^ | August 12, 2012 | Judson Phillips

[2ndDivisionVet]

In some conservative quarters, the question is still being asked, “What is our alternative to Mitt Romney?”

Some people are suggesting voting for the Libertarian Candidate or even the guy from the Constitution Party who may only end up on the ballot in one or two states.

There is an alternative to Mitt Romney, if you are looking for one.

Who is it?

It is Barack Obama.

No, that is not a joke.

Absent some almost unprecedented or at least unpredictable event, next January in Washington, it is either going to be Barack Obama or Mitt Romney standing on the stage taking the Oath of Office.

It will not be Gary Johnson and it will not be that clown Virgil Goode from the Constitution Party.

Here are your choices. It is either A or B. It is American versus Marxist. It is Romney versus Obama. It is that simple.

If you decide Romney is not pure enough for you and you decide you want to vote for the candidate who believes the most pressing problem facing this country is the legalization of drugs, then you are voting for Barack Obama.

If you choose to vote for the Libertarian candidate this year, you are voting for four more years of the Party of Treason in the White House.

If you doubt me on this and think your vote does not matter, I refer you to Florida in 2000. Ralph Nader pulled 97,000 votes in Florida. Most of those people would have undoubtedly preferred Al Gore to George W. Bush. Gore lost Florida by 537 votes.

Yesterday, Mitt Romney pulled a stunner. His selection of Paul Ryan was a complete surprise to me. Prior to yesterday I was almost certain that his choice would be Rob Portman. The others I feared were in the running were Tim Pawlenty or Chris Christie. Had Christie been the choice, it would have been as bad a pick for Romney as McCain’s first choice in 08 of Joe Lieberman.

Some people, mostly Libertarians have been assailing Ryan as not really a conservative. Ryan voted for TARP in 2008 and he voted for Bush’s Medicare expansion.

No politician is going to have a perfect record. The American Conservative Union scores Ryan with a 92% lifetime record. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, if someone votes with me 92% of the time, I’m going to call him a 92% ally, not an 8% traitor.

Instead of tapping an establishment moderate, as most of us feared he would do, Romney made a surprisingly bold choice in Ryan. More importantly, he reached out to conservatives.

A few weeks ago, I said I would go into the voting booth on election day with a large and cold bottle of Pepto Bismol in one hand, a stomach distress bag in another and I would vote for Romney, praying I did not leave the rancid dregs of what was once my breakfast on the voting machine.

I lost count of the number of jury trials I did as a lawyer. In a jury trial, at the end, the jury is given instructions by the judge. There is one section of the jury instructions that I have always remembered. It said, “Do not hesitate to reexamine your own views and change your opinion if you believe it is not correct.”

That is sound advice.

I have reexamined my own views of this race and have changed my opinion because I believe my old opinion is no longer correct.

This is a battle for the soul and future of America. It is literally a battle between good and evil. It is a battle between those who revere America and the liberty and freedom it stands for and those who worship at the altar of socialism and the inevitable tyranny that follows with socialism.

I have been brutally critical of Mitt Romney over the last few months. I anticipate I will continue to be critical of him on certain issues. Mitt Romney is not the perfect candidate but we will never have the perfect candidate.

What we do have is a candidate who right now is our best hope for stopping the Obama, Pelosi, Reid axis of fiscal evil and helping to restore America.

I endorse Mitt Romney for President and Paul Ryan for Vice President. I encourage every Tea Party member and conservative to go out and support them, work for them and make sure that in January, we do to Barack Obama what he has done to so many other Americans.

We put him out of a job.

[jjotto]

You got it exactly.

Obama is a symptom, not a cause.

[Tex-Con-Man]

And I doubt you'll find any member of the Dem Party who thinks they are better off today because of what Ralph Nader did back then...they still hate his guts.

[pollywog]

Let me keep it simple. IF you vote for Romney, you still wind up in a pile of manure. That makes you a cowardly surrender monkey

Do you truly think that OBAMA and ROMNEY will be the same pile of manure?

I pray to God that you see this different before November 2012~

[bill1952]

Well Kent, your vote probably doesn’t amount to a hill of beans anyway since while being “trapped in liberal Seattle” your state will be electing Obama by a wide margin in 2012.

Here in Florida my vote just *might* make a difference and it will not be wasted by nonsense 3rd party nobodies who will not even be a speed bump on the liberal’s agenda - “Obama out” is our creed.

But I have to admit, you sure do have the funniest pictures, if not quite yet the most childish - please post more for our edification. LOL

[I see my hands]

"I for one will not be tyranized into chosing what is unacceptable. Both Obama and Romney are manure...it is that simple. I won’t be forced to chose between piles of manure"

You are wrong on a couple of points.

You are not being tyrannized, you are being presented with an awful dilemma. You have but a few options. Stomping your feet and and pretending A=Non A is perhaps the worst.

You are not being forced into choosing between two piles of manure. A choice between Zero and Pol Pot would be a such a choice. To use your poetry you are being forced to opt for either a bucket of urine or a pile of manure. The choice is clear.

[COBOL2Java]

Do you truly think that OBAMA and ROMNEY will be the same pile of manure?

Just different depths.

[bayliving]

Last time I looked, we are permitted to vote for whomever we want in this country.

Ummm, I am NO MITBOT jackass.

Where exactly did I say that you couldn't vote for whomever you wish? Do me a favor and PLEASE copy and paste my quote back to me so I may understand what in the HELL you are talking about. Honestly, I may have missed it. Feel free to show my my own words where I said you couldn't vote for whomever you wished.

I was using "grossly unintelligent" language because (from reading your posts) it appeared as if it is the only kind of logic you would understand. You know, "Keep it Simple."

I was simply stating that you would be throwing your vote away. Period.

But go ahead and call me names and attack me.

Hell, even point a gun in my face (threat?) I don't care. I'm still going to make the point that, unfortunately, voting for a third party candidate in THIS election would be taking a vote away from the Romny/Ryan ticket and could possibly keep our country in the hands of a wannabe dictator.

Last I checked, I am still entitled to MY opinion as well.

[Graewoulf]

” - - - I’m holding the opinion that Romney will not infest his administration with the lice and cockroaches we currently have and I believe Ryan’s pick is a clear signal backing my belief.”

I too am “holding the opinion”, but right now it is more hope than opinion for yours truly.

[Lakeshark]

That was no attack, it's just the truth. 2dv posted the truth, it's one or the other.

If it's not true, kindly explain why. Also kindly explain why anyone would want to leave the most destructive, most radically left, most anti-everything we love and stand for administration in office for another four years.

You want them to finish their job?

[COBOL2Java]

But I have to admit, you sure do have the funniest pictures, if not quite yet the most childish - please post more for our edification. LOL

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”
- Mahatma Gandhi

[COBOL2Java]

My my, touchy, aren’t we?

[Chainmail]

"That makes you a cowardly surrender monkey"

I would strongly suggest that you never say that to my face. You may have at one point been an officer in our armed forces but the evidence in front of us is that you weren't a very good one.

[Sivad]

“I’ve got a friend who is adamanent (sic) about voting
for Gary Johnson.”

Ask your friend if he/she has a secret agreement with
the Obama administration to vet the next two Supreme
Court nominees. If the answer is no then you can tell
your friend that he/she is probably a fool.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

Well Kent, your vote probably doesn’t amount to a hill of beans anyway since while being “trapped in liberal Seattle” your state will be electing Obama by a wide margin in 2012.

... and yet, the shrill online scolds of Bishop Mittens' Online Sister-Wife Squadron simply can't... quite... seem to grasp that simple, fundamental truth. Weird, huh?

Here in Florida my vote just *might* make a difference and it will not be wasted by nonsense 3rd party nobodies who will not even be a speed bump on the liberal’s agenda - “Obama out” is our creed.

That's the fundamental difference between us, really, tight there: I. DON'T. CARE. Who other FReepers are (or are not) voting for.

Folks who can actually read for comprehension "get" that; others... well... not so much.

You strike me as a "not so much" kind of guy, frankly.

[okie01]

Mine wasn't a confrontational question. It was an honest one. I neither desire, nor intend, to criticize anybody for their choice.

If you don't wish to reveal yours -- and I didn't address the question to you -- that's fine by me.

Capiche?

[bayliving]

My my, touchy, aren’t we?

I thought we were having a conversation, you then insult me and point a gun in my face and you then have the audacity to call me touchy?

Piss off. I'm done with you.

[aruanan]

2dv posted the truth, it's one or the other.

If it's not true, kindly explain why.

Here's why, as explained by Jesus in Matthew 11:16-17:

“To what can I compare this generation? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling out to others:

“‘We played the flute for you,
and you did not dance;
we sang a dirge,
and you did not mourn.’

Like liberal Democrats, they believe the reality in their heads exists in a one-to-one correspondence with reality out there. Like liberal Democrats, the failures that ensue after embarking on their plan are explained not in terms of the faultiness of their beliefs but by the failure of others to get with their program.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

- Mahatma Gandhi

Now COBOL2Java, on the other hand, DOES actually "get" it.

"Contrast," as they say, "and compare." ;)

[dirtboy]

Don't give into specious arguments that you must chose manure of any sort. Like I said, fight.

And what are you fighting? The fact that one of two men - Obama or Romney - will be president come January 20th, 2012, barring some very strange circumstances that would have nothing to do with conservative activism against Romney?

Don Quixote had a better shot against that windmill.