Why I Will Vote for Romney-Ryan in November

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

You suck and will rot in Hell for an eternity or a long time..something. bad

For supporting a Satan Worshipers

shamie shamie nanner nanner

A pox upon you

May a small town in SE Georgia be unnamed after you

Instead pray for the fifth horseman Romney to lose

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?

Don't confuse the fear-mongerers and fearful with an objective point.

That unsettles them.

SCP, I admire your passion, I sincerely do. But I'm baffled by the apparent extreme angst you have towards the GOP establishment. Perhaps you've had more direct dealings with them to raise your ire, but as for me, I don't really care to give them more than a passing thought.

For me it's pretty clear; there is a fire raging. Call the fire progressivism, socialism, communism - take your pick. It doesn't matter to me who the GOP does or doesn't' support - or promote.

The election is not about me and the GOP - it's about the raging fire - and I've got my little bucket or water.

Save your graphics,friend.

The point is not whether Romney is flawed, a liar, or whatever.

The point was that Romney is WORSE than Obama, which is not true.

While Romney’s list may be long and multicolored, Obama’s list would take pages.

A second term would give him a mandate which would make him unstoppable.

And make you wish you had voted against him in a way that counted when you had the chance.

To me, voting for Romney is easier than voting for McCain. At least Romney didn’t spend eight years on CNN and other tv venues trashing the Republican president and stalling Bush’s agenda in the Senate.

Palin or not, I couldn’t support such a traitor.

Romney concerns me about several things but at least I have no doubt which party he supports.

No, Romney just did the following:

1. Wholeheartedly supported Abortion
2. Implemented, unconstitutionally, Gay Marriage in MA
3. Implemanted an Assault Weapons("Scary Looking") Ban
4. Raised Taxes/Fees by $700 Million
5. Implemented Socialized Medicine
6. Wholeheartedly supported and believed in Global Warming, to the extent of coming within a hairs-breadth of implementing a Regional Cap-and-Trade system.

Most of this McCain wouldn't have touched with a ten foot pole, but you think McCain was much worse than Romney.

You are ignorant, my Friend, of Romney, maybe willfully so.

With regards to your statement concerning having no doubt which party he supports, given the evidence, once again I question your knowledge of anything where Romney is concerned.

Save your graphics,friend.

The point is not whether Romney is flawed, a liar, or whatever.

The point was that Romney is WORSE than Obama, which is not true.

And Romney, with his liberal policies will destroy the GOP as a home of any conservative thought or leadership for years to come.

That graphic very cleary shows how little difference there is between your boy Romney and that crypto-communist Obama.

The end result will be the same as it was in Massachusetts, he will destroy the GOP into something meaningless.

If Romney reneges on his pro-life conversion, then may his political soul be d@mned. But my doubts about his sincerity are not going to stop me from charging into the burning fray. I've got a bucket dammit - and I'm going to make the best of it...

I have no doubt that Romney will renege on his supposed Pro-Life conversion, and will fully implement the Homo agenda and find a way to implement an Amnesty while saying it is something else.

You are taking the short view, driven by fear and manipulation by the GOP-E, while the long view has Romney destroying the GOP as a home for conservatives and with no conservative leadership.

By voting for Romney, you are actually surrending the war for conservatism for the current battle you fear.

I’m no fan of the GOP.

I have written many times that I would favor the founding of a third party for conservatives, right after the election.

So, I don’t fear the destruction of the GOP.

But there is more at stake, and a more important task at hand, 81 days from now—that is to get Obama out of the Oval Office.

If Obama stays in, the destruction he will wreak will make Romney look like a Cub Scout.

If Obama stays in, the destruction he will wreak will make Romney look like a Cub Scout.

Sorry, not buying your Chicken Little, "The Sky Is Falling" routine.

The only reason we have a congress as conservative as we have right now, is Obama.

The only reason we have the Tea-Party so energized, is Obama.

With Romney, the GOP Congress will go along to get along, there will be no conservative fight anymore.

And the only reason Obama has been able to do as much damage as he has, is because of Boener and McConnell and their lousy, GOP-E leadership.

You running because of irrational fear, and throwing your conservative principles overboard because of that fear.

The founders only had 30% approaval during the Revolutionary War, they faced off against an unbeatable British army that was the best trained and most successful in the world.

They didn't run because of the odds or because of what would have been a more rational fear than you have.

My FReind, we may have to agree to disagree.

You have your doubts - I have mine too. We disagree on the course of action perhaps.

Please understand, I don’t fear the battle. Battles are a time for action.

If anything, I fear a cage - self-imposed or otherwise...

Courage!
(as Kenneth would say 8^)

What the ABR’s don’t seem to understand is that 4 more years of this thug in the WH means misery for millions and millions of jobless people, economic despair for the nation, a lost generation of young adults who can’t find work or start a life.

Is their hatred of Romney so strong that they feel this is an acceptable outcome to show their disdain for Rommey?

Mark,

You’re not alone here. Many of us supported other candidates for the Republican nomination. We lost. But we’re adults. We know we don’t always get what we want. The world is not an ideal place. Life, unfortunately, is a series of compromises. ETC.

But, it is imperative that we do all in our power to see that the Great Destroyer doesn’t get four more years to finish his work. And the ONLY legal and effective way to do that now is to get Romney elected as President of the United States. Let me repeat that. The only legal and practical way to remove Obama from office is to elect Romney.

As a consequence, I’ll be voting for R & R, and I will be urging others to do the same.