Posted on 08/17/2012 3:40:53 PM PDT by mkjessup
I've been on FR since 2003. Hard to believe next March will be my 10th year here, assuming I don't get zotted for one reason or another, lol
To that handful of detractors who would LIKE to think this is my opus, guess again suckers - I would never give you the satisfaction of it. Now that we have that out of the way, why this vanity?
First of all, I'm posting this in News/Activism not because this is sourced from a network, newspaper, etc., but because I've noticed that nobody else worries about posting their vanities in the 'Personal/Blogger' section, so WTH should I?
Now for the purpose of my writing today: after a great deal of soul searching and I might add, a goodly amount of prayer, I have come to the conclusion that my vote in November must and will be cast for the GOP ticket of Romney and Ryan. I did not reach this decision easily. Even a casual review of my past posts will reveal that I have reviled, ridiculed, lambasted and sneered at Mitt Romney with the best of them. I've posted my own home brewed graphics to the laughs of my fellow FReepers, I have been steadfast in saying 'no damn way' would I ever even consider voting for that liberal Republican from Massachuetts, no way would I reward the GOP elites with my vote after they've pissed on conservatives from sea to shining sea. The Party of Reagan is no more, let no one deceive you. We as conservatives are more at home in the Tea Party, and yet what was for a short while the natural home for conservatives, i.e. the Republican Party is an unfamiliar neighborhood, a place that sometimes looks like the place we remember, but upon a second glance, we realize that everything is different now, everything has changed.
Now there are good and Godly conservatives who in a perfect world, WOULD be viable candidates for the Presidency, there is no need to list them all here, we all have our favorites and we all know who we would prefer to be voting for. Our own Tom Hoefling would be a better President than the miserable Kenyan sonuvabitch that is stinking up the White House right now, hell *I* would be a better President than that despicable usurper and liar, and so would most of you, my fellow FReepers.
Now I can recite (and in the past, I have) endless reasons as to why I could not and would not vote for Mitt Romney. In many ways it galls me no end to have reached the conclusion that my own Constitutional duty is to vote for a guy that I had sworn never to vote for. It really REALLY starches my shorts however I have had to question my own perspectives, my own views and ask myself the question, "can I honestly justify another four years of what one of my heroes Senator Joe McCarthy would certainly have labeled a 'Communist regime'?
I cannot do that. I do not like the presumptive GOP nominee, I do not agree with many of his past positions. However I cannot deny that one and only one of the two major party candidates for President is going to be sworn in next January. It will either be that treasonous little bastard 0bama, or it will be Mitt Romney. Anyone, and I mean ANYBODY, who thinks that Tom Hoefling, Virgil Goode, or any other non-'Rat/non-GOP candidate is going to be sworn in as our 45th President next year, I will personally bet $100,000 against that happening at any odds they wish, because that is how likely it is that NEITHER 0bama or Romney will end up being elected in November. I won't lose one dime on that sort of wager.
So how do I justify voting for the GOP and Romney this time around? Well, some things I do NOT believe about Romney is that he hates America, that he hates our capitalist system, that he wants to weaken our national defense, sell out our allies and reward our enemies. I don't agree with nor support his religious faith. But his belief in the tenets of Mormonism is quite frankly between him and God. Now while it is easy to find all sorts of things about the Mormon faith that fly in the face of basic traditional Christianity, if the choice is between a closet-crypto Muslim in the White House, and a church going, charitable, prayerful Mormon who doesn't cheat on his wife, doesn't smoke dope, doesn't even drink (is that true? I'm not sure but I think Mitt is a tee-totaler), I'm pulling the lever for that Mormon guy.
Picture all of America on a gigantic airliner, streaking through the sky, when word comes back from the cockpit that Captain 0bama has never even flown a plane of this size or any size, he's been reading the instruction manual from a hidden teleprompter on top of the instrument panel, we're headed for a bad patch of CAT (Clear Air Turbulence) and the illustrious fake pilot is going to try and fake his way through that turbulence, and it is a foregone conclusion that "we're all gonna die!" - but up in first class (of course, lol) Mitt Romney stands up and informs everyone that he IS a licensed pilot, and that he can get our airliner away from the turbulence, down to a safer altitude, get us back on the proper heading, and land safely at our destination. He offers to take the controls. SOME passengers question him "have you ever flown a plane like this?" and he answers honestly "no, not quite this size, but I AM a pilot, I HAVE flown in difficult circumstances before, and I've got more skills than that fake pilot up in the cockpit that we are about to crash with". Who the Hell is going to argue against that logic? No other pilots on board. No parachutes. And indeed, a fool and an oaf at the controls of the cockpit. WTF do we have to lose?
And another analogy that I've already posted recently, which is that conservatives need to do what the Western allies did in World War II, they did not particularly like Joe Stalin, in fact they knew him to be a rotten communist sonvuabitch but the "enemy of our enemy was our friend" (or at least a convenient ally) and the GREATER enemy was in Berlin, in the form of Hitler and we needed Stalin and his troops to attack the Nazis from the East, and that is why we sent them tons of lend-lease assistance to help them accomplish that. And what kind of fools would have urged a different course in that war? A course of telling Stalin and Soviet Russia that they were "on their own" and they would receive no assistance from us? Can you imagine for just a moment if Nazi Germany had prevailed on the Eurasian continent, the Swastika flying all the way from London to Vladivostok?
Now having painted that sort of grim picture of alternate history, I think we can agree that for all of Mitt Romney's faults, he is not a Joe Stalin, he may be a liberal but he is no Communist.
Can we say the same for 0bama and his crew of America-hating scumbags?
Now a powerful factor in my decision to support the GOP ticket was in fact, the selection of Paul Ryan as Romney's VP running mate. Now Paul Ryan is nobody's fool. If there was anybody I wanted to have the ear of 'President Romney' it would be Vice President Paul Ryan. Everyone keeps saying "if Romney would just move to the right", well I believe Paul Ryan is the best person to accomplish that task. They seem to have a good chemistry and that bodes well for the success of their ticket. The polls show Romney-Ryan up, and 0bama and the 'Rats freaking and shrieking as their numbers decline.
Now I have myself made the argument in the past that the only difference between Romney and 0bama is that 0bama is driving us to the edge of the cliff at 100 mph, and Romney is going to reduce our speed to a thrifty 55 mph. And even IF that were to be proven true, I'm not in any hurry to reach the edge of that cliff.
Now in closing, I ask the following question: how many of us would clench our teeth and pull the lever for Gerald Ford, or Bob Dole, or any other establishment RINO if it meant the end of 0bama? To get that filthy Communist out of the White House, I would (to paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill) 'consider writing in the name of the devil himself', and so for that reason my friends and FRiends, I will support and vote for the GOP ticket of Romney & Ryan in November, not because everything about it excites and pleases me, but because I cannot be a party to another 4 years of the Kenyan traitor staining and besmirching the Office once held by the greatest President of all history, Ronald Wilson Reagan. I submit that Reagan would vote for Romney. We can be assured that Sarah Palin is going to vote for Romney. So will Newt Gingrich. So will Rick Santorum. So IF I am making a mistake by casting my vote for the GOP this year, I will be in good company.
Thanks for your kind consideration.
Mark Jessup
Romney may not be as pro-life as you would like, but he sure as heck never cast a vote to kill a "viable foetus" as Obama did!
So-- being a "purist" by not voting for Romeny may work for you; it sure doesn't for me. IMHO, it will only help elect Obama, and give him the opportunity to finish the destruction of our "free republic" he has so well begun!
“First you have to excise the cancer—the current President—before ANY cure is possible.”
Problem with analogy is that to “excise” a cancer (Obama) you have to give the patient another form of cancr (Romney).
Start thinking instead of acting out of fear alone. Trying to cure one disease/evil Obama by replacing him with another disease/evil just ins’t that smart a course of action.
Rationalize it all you want, but you are NOT doing the nation any favors to replace Obama with Romney....and you are probably doing more long term damage to make what you propose even nuttier.
As opposed to your "smart" course of action, which is to not help vote Obama out of office, while other rational people do the heavy lifting.
Rationalize it all you want, but you are NOT doing the nation any favors to replace Obama with Romney....and you are probably doing more long term damage to make what you propose even nuttier.
With all due respect, to borrow a phrase you like to use, that makes no sense whatsoever. Your drive for ideological purity is blinding you to the rational course of action to save the country.
You equate Obama and Romney, and I do not share in your moral equivalence of the two men. Romney is not perfect, but as I have told you before, every election you will ever participate in on this side of Heaven will be between two very flawed individuals. You make the best choice with what you have.
You want to stay home, or vote third party, be my guest.
But to think that Romney could possibly be a worse choice than Obama is not rooted in reality of any kind.
That is a fact, a fact that I am going to act upon.
Come back here on election night.
As do I.
What bothers many is the apparent shortsightedness of those who equate a feared threat to an actual threat. If I were knew that Romney's presidency would be no better than BOs then sure - no problem to take a principled stand.
I too have the opinion that if you can't get something right - something as fundamental as human life - if you don't see abortion for the evil that it is, then IMO, everything else you believe is suspect.
That Romney has changed his tune in recent years and now claims to be pro-life - well, what to do? Time will tell if he is sincere.
So, given the choice between the OVERTLY anti-family, anti-life president - and the hopefully-maybe pro-life convert, I choose to give the convert the benefit of the doubt. If I'm wrong, and he proves to be a shyster, well, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it...
Palpable angst.
Concur, wholeheartedly.
Sometimes survival trumps ideology.
This is a sad day.
You’ve given the GOP-E what they want, your acquiesence to their manipulation of the process and their attempt to move the GOP to left.
You said it very well. Thank you.
“As opposed to your “smart” course of action, which is to not help vote Obama out of office, while other rational people do the heavy lifting.”
Romney is not an improvement over Obama. Get that straight in your mind, and the world will be clearer to see right.
Your opinion, not backed up by facts.
While you're at it, any other advice I need to follow?
LOL - where did get your crystal ball - is there a sale somewhere?
The truth is that neither you nor I know whether Romney will keep his commitment to being pro-life. We do know however that BO is firmly committed to being anti-life.
Your pomposity negates your credibility - just saying....
The logical flaw in your proposition is that it assumes Romney to be equal or worse than Obama. Obama is much worse. Be clear about this critical fact, and the conclusion follows that Obama must be defeated, and Romney is the only option to do that.
Also, be advised: I saw John King on Anderson Cooper (CNN) a few weeks back discussing how the Obama campaign was going to allocate scarce resources to supress the conservative vote in swing states - specifically by using the abortion record of Romney to keep conservatives from voting for Romney, enough to give Obama the Presidency. What ever they do with paid media, they are likely to reinforce with their online efforts (e.g. trolls). I'd be suprised if they are not sometimes on FR trying to whip up discord under a false flag. Don't let them manipulate your emotions - stay clear about the big picture.
Romney/Ryan's administration will have room for people of Christian conviction and constitutional conservatives, Obama's will not. Obama's administration will have room for known perverts and communists, Romney/Ryan's will not.
Obama Must Be Defeated!
Open question: Where do you think we would be (politically, strategically, etc.) if John McCain had been elected in 2008? What do you think would have happened in the 2010 elections? Would there be a viable Tea Party movement?
Hear, hear!
I got to that same conclusion about Romney well over a year ago. It was apparent after the mid-terms that Romney would likely be the nominee, like it or not. I have to say, he is looking more conservative than I thought he would be. Choosing Ryan is just frosty icing on the conservative cake.
O.B.O. for 2012.
And grandfather made a wrong choice, didn’t he?
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