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.
"Clown"? Stopped reading right there, not worth my time.
Yes, this is the same “Romney or else” sophistry I have seen repeatedly posted on Free Republic by the ABO crowd. “2ndDivisionVet” if I wasn't familiar with your “good” posting record, I would be convinced you had gone crazy.
I am going to use the same analogy about manure that I have been using elsewhere. You are a reasonable person, maybe you will understand. I can at least hope:
What has developed in this election is like someone showing me a pile of Horse Manure (Romney) and one of Pig Manure (Obama) and telling me I MUST chose between those two piles of which I want my face shoved into. Now there are those that pleadingly argue that Horse Manure (Romney) isn't nearly as smelly and Pig Manure (Obama). In fact, a daisy (Ryan) has been stuck in the Horse Manure (Romney) pile to make it more attractive, since we all love daisies. However, those so arguing for the Horse Manure (Romney) just can't seem to understand that they are still asking me to stick my face in a pile of Horse Manure!
Well, I'm going to take a third option, regardless of those folks that say I cannot. I refuse to stick my face in the Horse Manure (Romney) or the Pig Manure (Obama). No one can force me to accept that choice. But oh, there are those folks that argue that if I don't go with the Horse Manure (Romney) that I WILL be forced to stick my face in the Pig Manure (Obama). However, once again I say NO ONE CAN FORCE EITHER ON ME! The mere act of so forcing is TYRANNY, and that tyranny is coming from both the people that produced the Pig Manure (Obama) and Horse Manure (Romney)(oh I forgot the pretty daisy Ryan). I DO NOT BOW TO ANY FORM OF TYRANNY, REGARDLESS OF ITS SOURCE! I am made of sterner stuff. IF I do momentarily bow, it is only to develop a rapid way to strike a bow against the tyrants.
I am actually incredulous that otherwise intelligent people, like FR posters, are so quick to be tyrannized by a “primary process” or a “GOP establishment” to have to be “forced” to buy into Horse Manure(Romney) in the face (oops forgot the daisy - Ryan) by tyrants, and then have them have the AUDACITY to tell me that by default that if I don't pick the Horse Manure (Romney) with daisy (Ryan) that I WILL be picking the Pig Manure (Obama). That is nonsense. I cannot be forced into Pig Manure by tyrants anymore than Horse Manure. I WILL fight TYRANTS OF EITHER SIDE that force their Manure on me!
What is needed this day, are men an women with brave hearts and strong backs that refuse to chose between piles of manure! Fight men and women, fight the system and tyranny (from the left and right) that is attempting to force you to chose from piles of manure which is best! Fight, never stop fighting, never stop resisting. Don't give into specious arguments that you must chose manure of any sort. Like I said, fight. Use your brains and hearts, there are other things to do than picking a pile of manure. Even a pile with a daisy in it. IF the intelligent people here on FR would grow a spine and brain, and then use them, we could come up together with creative ways to resist either pile of manure. Help...stop being part of the party by being a “surrender monkey” and being forced to stick your face in a pile of manure.
It is only that simple if your individual vote will determine the election. Even if your individual vote detemined the state in which you are voting, your choice would only matter if the electoral college were close enough for the state to make the difference.
In point of fact, if it is that close, lawyeres will determine the outcome, not the individual votes.
None of the above does send a message. Is there a risk in sending this message? Perhaps a slight one.
I am inclined to vote for Ryan but not Romney—writing in someone else for the top of the ticket. It is enough to give the lawyers something to fight over if it does come down to a tie except for my vote (arguably I am voting for Ryan’s electors) but does drive home the point that I am not happy with Romney.
In past elections, though I voted Republican, I considered the idea that a Democrat victory might lead to a disastrous term giving rise to a true reform candidate next time around. Carter helped give us Reagan, was my reasoning.
I don't think that's an option now. Obama is spending $400,000,000 an hour that we don't have. Once the Obamacare goodies start rolling in, it will be impossible to repeal. Two social engineering Supreme Court justices that would tip the balance for decades might be nominated.
With a second Obama term, in four years we will be Greece and it will be impossible to turn back from that fate.
There is no choice. Vote Republican!
The bad news: There is no alternative. Obama or Romney, check one. Or you can take your ball, go home and drink Scotch. I'm starting to think I'll drink to that last one, if not for little things like the future, the fate of America, four more years of statist hell, a perpetually link-bound chief executive & a shameless First Lady grifter, living servitude to leviathan, endless wars of muslim liberation--jihad paid with the blood of young Americans, skyrocketing debt/endless spending/huge grants to third world countries/presses printing cash 24/7, a police state, lawless executive, feckless legislative and rudderless judicial branches, slowly slouching towards serfdom, bailing on that whole `first and best hope'/American exceptionalism stuff, et cetera and so forth and on and on and on. Other than those things, what's there to think about? Yeah, I don't like him either. Let's all take our sign, go home and get pie-eyed. 
Well, I see I didn’t get on the thread until the usual FRatricide started.
Not thrilled about Romney. I like Ryan, and have since I saw him school Obama back in 2010. My main hope this November will be that Barack Obama will not have another four years to further his agenda, which I believe is the destruction of America.
And for what it’s worth, I don’t give a rat’s ear what religion Romney practices. I would probably vote for Anton LaVey if he was the Republican candidate running to unseat Obama.
I wonder how many electoral votes Virgil Goode wll end up with?
"I, _____, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."
I’d like to see this picture photoshopped into that “Obey” poster.
Fact is, we are going to elect a president this November whether or not you decide to participate. Nobody who sits out or wastes their vote on some joke candidate is going to be hailed as a hero when this election is over. I made that mistake in 1992 when I stupidly voted for Ross Perot over George Bush and ended up with Bill Clinton. I can still remember that election night, when Clinton and Gore were dancing like schoolgirls to Fleetwood Mac and doing the "Macarena". Did I feel like a principled voter that night? No. I felt like a jackass.
The following paragraph from the above article says it all...
...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.
At this point, the only alternative to Romney is Obama. Welcome to Realville.
“upstanding members of the Spam Dog Pack (SDP).”
I love that name. And we all know who they are.
“upstanding members of the Spam Dog Pack (SDP).”
I love that name. And we all know who they are.
Um if it is not Romney sworn in in January 2013, and it’s not Obama sworn in january of 2013, whom did you see being sworn in?
Enjoy voting for Obama!
And there you have it.
There’s a group of ABReOO here. It stands for Anybody But Romney even Obama’s Okay.
Enjoy kissing this!
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