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.
“I served in the US Army so that you could vote, or not vote, for whomever you choose and I stand by that. I was never released from my oath to this country.
‘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 took the same enlisted oath forty years ago and also served honorably. A decade later on took the Officer’s oath and faithfully served in that capacity. Don’t attempt to wrap yourself in a flag, you aren’t the only veteren here.
Bottom line is you need to stop peddling “surrender monkey sophistry” that is attempting to tyranize me or others into accepting Horse Manure (Romney) or Pig Manure (Obama).
I speak to you sternly this way, because I think YOU ARE BETTER THAN THAT!
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Folks aren't saying you cannot. Unfortunately objective reality is saying you cannot. Barring a black swan event your choice is Romney or Obama. Also unfortunate is the fact that if you do not support Romney with your vote then you are substantially supporting Obama. Why is it that the ABR crowd won't declare their preference that Obama receives a second term? I can see how that would be a defensible patriotic position. I.e., bring the nation to such a devastated low that fervor for freedom would ring anew. I disagree with that tactic but at least it doesn't deny the unassailable truth that trashing Romney benefis Zero. |
“Your opinion scarcely matters, since you offer no real alternative.”
RaisingCain....yes your opinon DOES matter. Don’t let any Romney surrender monkey tell you otherwise.
your far too lengthy comments illustrate exactly why we ended up with Obama and his astonishingly horrible agenda (not to mention two ludicrously incompetent Supreme Court justices). You and others of your persuasion sat the last election out, maybe thinking “with a Marxist in the presidency, we’ll get the people to demand a REAL conservative next time”. Guess what, we didn’t. now we’re facing four more years of treason,, bankruptcy, wrecking of our armed forces, and a permanent leftist majority in the Supreme Court. If you sit this one out, you aren’t a conservative, you’re a disgrace. Just my opinion, of course.
Oh, I am so stealing that.......
Wow, what lousy advise you're getting here. Of course you keep your friend. Persuade her over time with certain "teachable moments" and also the way you lead your life. Conversions do happen, even later in life. The best gift you can give this friend is an understanding of how the real world works. The worst punishment is to leave her to flounder in the sickness of the mind that is liberalism.
What you are really saying is that you like Pig Chit.
You can call it a fight or anything you want to call it, but you still end up wading around in the chit while you are fighting.
I prefer horse dung. As a farmers son I have dealt with both and can assure you that horse dung is good for flowers and vegetables and doesn’t smell too bad. Pig chit is just plain nasty.
Believe it or not, I do believe in and support your right to vote for whomever you wish but I would be derelict in my responsibilities to my Country and it's Constitution if I didn't point out the obvious to you.
Again, enjoy voting for Obama :)
“I got lost trying to make sense out of your rambling screed about which pile of manure...”
It is not my fault you are obtuse and lack the ability to comprehend abstract thought. You are just another cowardly Romney backing surrender monkey.
Heh heh...it just drives ‘em crazy too.
Please show me where I demanded that you vote for Mitt Romney or anyone else in any election. Or where I “tyranized” (sic) you into doing anything. I merely posted an article by a Tea Party member that postulated that not voting for the Romney/Ryan ticket gets you Obama/Biden for another term. And what’s with going crying to the site owner? One would think that a former military or naval officer could stand on their own two feet without getting “daddy” involved in your squabbles. Someone as much as called my a queer yesterday for posting a thread from the homosexual perspective to illustrate the absurdity of their argument. Did I go running to Jim? I hardly ever ping him unless I see an article he might be interested in. He’s not my father. Is he yours?
“Comments?”
Same submissive crap I read here every time I come here.
A nation that can be destroyed by Barack Hussein Obama is already a dead husk.
A nation that can only be saved by Willard Mitt Romney does not deserve to live.
Same old chicken little crap from another capitulation conservative.
dittos
“What you are really saying is that you like Pig Chit.”
No, I’m saying that regardless of whom is elected. Romney or Obama...we wind up in manure.
Also, those picking Romney are cowardly surrender monkeys willing to live in a pile of manure.
You seem to have the alternative thread to the religious revival........
Sanity is a good thing.
A or B.
A = Marxist destroyer of everything good and right that we care about. B = RINO squish that we don't like.
Which to choose? Which to choose?
I am voting for Romney/Ryan. I originally said I would " never" do so....I would not!
Well I have reassessed the situation and come up with your exact evaluation.
WE MUST not play around with our emotions this trip around the barn! We get this one right this time, or else . We MUST VOTE Obama out.
Your example from the courtroom and Reagan's view both should speak to us all. Thank you for sharing.
Count me a YES VOTE to boot OBAMA~
Magic Thinking doesn’t allow reality to creep in don’tchaknow. They won’t vote for either, but they expect something different come January, something they can nod over and say ‘I did that’, ‘I saved America’ ... as the marxist-in-chief set about in finality to end the Republic. Something keeps nagging at me that they want the revolution to go hot ...
“your far too lengthy comments”
It is sad you never learned to read and comprehend abstract thought.
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. Now, that is to the point.
One of these two men is going to be President. That is a fact.
One of these two men is a totalitarian marxist. That is a fact.
You can choose to do your part in preventing the totalitarian marxist from being re-elected. Do your duty as an American whether you enjoy it or not.
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