Last time I looked, we are permitted to vote for whomever we want in this country. And MittBots who insult and browbeat me in the vain attempt to persuade me to vote for their boy just drive me further away. I'll let Granny speak for me:
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 spoke your words EXACTLY during the primaries but now, like you, after assessing what is really at stake, I will cast a vote for Romny/Ryan on November 6th and feel good doing so.
My vote will be more an ANTI Obama vote then a pro Romny vote as well.
No one in the Not Mitts has an alternative they support.
99% will not even admit having supported any previous GOP candidate or any of the 2012 primary candidates.
I have posted many Virgil Goode threads and they draw little interest from them.
Keyword: virgilgoode
I conclude they are mostly made up of Paul Supporters.
Some are in states where it makes no difference who they support , and thus can take a 100% pure non politically driven no compromise position.
I feel cheated. The title of your post was mis-leading, and I’ve seen your argument before. I’m not persuaded. Go away, get honest, then come back
Last time I looked, we are permitted to vote for whomever we want in this country. And MittBots who insult and browbeat me in the vain attempt to persuade me to vote for their boy just drive me further away. I'll let Granny speak for me:
“Why is it that the ABR crowd won’t declare their preference that Obama receives a second term?”
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. And I won’t be bullied by those too cowardly or stupid to see that either pile is wrong. Also, I won’t be told that I choosing Obama because I refuse to chose Romney. That is just surrender monkey talk. You are allowing yourself to be violated by the GOPe in the same way the Obama administration is violating you.
Sanity! Thank the Lord.!
“One of these two men is going to be President. That is a fact.”
You are being tyranized and letting it happen. THAT is a fact.
well said!
You just can't handle the truth.
Out of curiosity, who then is your alternative? Whom do you wish to be President?
“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.”
You soil the forum to give that type of rhetoric a hearing. Besides, that same lie has been repeatedly stated by ABO fools on FR. Please stop posting garbage. And please stop attempting to defend posting garbage.
I will not address them directly ever again since they've sided with my sworn enemy. (An oath is forever.)
When a mutual friend or family member asks why I have blocked, ignored, and refused to talk with the lib, I reply,
"I gave 28 years of my life to this country defending it against Communists. That one the recipients of my sacrifice would vote for and support the Communist Usurper warrants their being considered a traitor to America, and certainly not deserving of my friendship or being considered as "family."
So you’re the posting police now?!?!...wow...lemme see your badge.
Tell you what, you come in the voting booth with me on election day, and I'll show you.
Using your own metaphor, you will be standing in manure in January 2013, even if you vote for Tom Hoefling. Did anyone ask you which pile you prefer, ‘cause one is much deeper and stinkier than the other. In one pile you will suffocate and the Republic will die around you. In the other pile, well, it is not so deep that you can step out of it with one or two steps. But you’re gonna be in manure any way you vote, so which pile do you prefer?
One thing is sure. The next four years will be spent either:
1) Fighting to prevent Obama from intentionally destroying our country; or
2) Fighting to prevent Romney from unintentionally destroying our country.
Choose your poison.
I know truth better than most. Why do you attack me?
And that, my friend, might be the best $100 donation that this Conservative Republican ever made! Nader in 2000 was our revenge for Ross Perot.
A third party candidate only benefits his ideological opposite, and only harms the major candidate who share most of his views.
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