Posted on 08/12/2012 1:40:22 PM PDT by 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.
You go to the ballot box with the candidate you have, not the one you wish you had. Stop whining. Work on strengthening his coattails to pull along good house and senate members.
Yep, treat them like stray cats. Stop feeding them and they won’t come back.
About as well as can be expected. Eating lots of beans and franks (not many of them are Kobe beef, LOL).
Also, I *am* certain that Obama is treasonous slime. At his worst Romney is simply wrong.
You made the point and choice very clear. Good post and thank you Tea Party!!
“It is how he operates. Bullshiite on top of bullshiite, then pings JR every third reply for cover......I am surprised JR doesn’t figuratively slap him upside the head for bothering him 100’s of times daily to wha wha wha.”
I ping JR because I want him to see what you “long time posters” keep putting on HIS website that contradict the rules he has laid down and attack HIS views on Romney.
I voted for Palin. You, I assume failed to vote for McCain.
How’s that working out for you? Four more years of Bambi and our country is toast. French toast for you I imagine.
Feel free to re-post your ragged ass pic. ;-)
It’s easy to call someone a coward when you are protected by anonymity and not facing that person.
It is also obviously a violation of the rules on Free Republic.
It doesn’t take a genious to see that Romney will be the Republican candidate, It also doesn’t take a genious to see that if we do not support Romney we will get Obama. Now if that is what you and Jim Robinson want then it isn’t hard to assume that you and Jim want Obama to be President for another 4 years.
In other words you would cut off your nose to spite your face. Not a smart move.Not for you or for Jim Robinson.
It is his site,he can do what he wnats with it,but I haven’t heard Jim offer a viable alternative to Romney, just as you don’t have one. The only thing you offer is tantamount to America’s suicide.
No.
Sola Veritas would cut off his nose to spite your face.
You on the other hand are nothing to me, well except in providing entertainment.
But, don't quit your day job, because you are less than steller in this one.
Now, perhaps you should ping him and snivel some more.
Or perhaps send me a prive mail threat, which is more your speed.
In either case, toodles.
Actually, you are wrong. Every single one of Ralph Nader's votes came at the expense of Al Gore - and those 97,4880 wasted votes cost Gore the presidency. My $100 donation to Nader 2000 helped to dupe enough green socialists into abandoning the only candidate that had a chance of advancing their goals - Al Gore. Now many Conservatives are falling for the same trick by the Democrats.
I, too, have questions about Romney. Two things I am certain of, however, is that a.) the economy will respond positively to his election and b.) Romney plus a GOP Congress will enact legislation that will reinvigorate the economy and regain the path to mass prosperity.
If we don't turn around the economy, we are surely doomed to a socialist demise.
Everything else, we can argue about...
“It’s easy to call someone a coward when you are protected by anonymity and not facing that person.....It is also obviously a violation of the rules on Free Republic.”
It is also an offense to threaten someone with violence...which was what I was threatened with. However, the wuss that offered it is....as I said....a cowardly surrender monkey, with no ability to judge character, he is nothing to me.
Right on! Romney is our only hope to stop Obama. And our only chance to stop Obamacare. I’ll work hard for Romney because it’s all on the line, our jobs, our unsurpassed healthcare system, and most important our freedom.
Even "None of the Above" is a vote for Obama.
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