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
Like I said, you got a better idea? Let’s hear it.
And by the way, you never did say what party you belong to, as you commented earlier that you don’t even belong to Sarah Palin’s party, so enlighten us, ok?
So who are you going to vote for in November?
“If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed;
if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly;
you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
Winston Churchill
Enlighten you to what, that I have never belonged to a political party?
That I am an Independent and that freerepublic is not a republican site, it is an Independent site?
The point of what Mk is saying is simple.
We have two people that can be president come inauguration day in January.
One we know to be the worst, most divisive, most destructive, most radically left, most pro-Marxist, pro-muzzie, pro-death, anti-free enterprise, anti-American, anti-everything we say we love and care for preezie ever.
The other is a candidate none of us liked or preferred for good reason, we just don't trust him because he's not a conservative (understatement).
The one will most certainly ruin this country, likely (IMHO probably) making it impossible for us to thrive again. The one has made us wake up almost daily to something new and outrageous that we know to be horrible and destructive. He's lawless, arrogant, hates America, hates you, hates me, hates most everything we love and stand for.
That you don't understand the difference between a place marker like Romney, and a destroyer like Bambi is to your discredit. That you don't understand there is a real reason, amply demonstrated for the past 4 years, to fear another four of the same is somewhat amazing to me.
Mk has this 100% correct, he doesn't care for Mitt, but the alternative that you are suggesting (Bambi for another four years) is simply unthinkable and totally illogical.
See post 64. While you are signing up for the Mitt Romney cruise, others are fighting for conservatism.
Thank you Lakeshark, as two FReepers who at one time a long time ago (meaning you and I) were at each other’s throats, it should demonstrate that there comes a time when we put aside our differences to face and to fight a common enemy.
Donald Rumsfeld said “you go to war with the army you got” and while we may not be real enthused about General Romney, our choice is to either fight 0bama, or turn tail and run for the hills. You and I are going to fight, regardless of our personal views on the guy at the top of the ticket. We’ve got one of our own right up there near the top (Paul Ryan), and that tells me that we at least have a voice up there.
To the doubters, naysayers and contrarians, I say “if you won’t fight now, when WILL you fight?”
And as always LS “thanks for your support”. ;)
It isn’t my post, you didn’t need to ping me.
The idea is simple: giving Bambi four more years to finish his destruction is a horrible idea that needs to be rethought.
Our political fight should be two-fold: We have to remove Bambi, his minions, and his stain from the presidency. It's simply ridiculous to claim Romney would be the same, or that we need to have four more years of total destruction to give the GOPe a lesson. At the same time we are getting rid of Bambi we need to fight for more conservatives in congress (house and senate), so that we can effectively pressure Romney/Ryan to come closer to their promises.
It's a win-win. Opposing Romney/Ryan will depress our turnout for the secondary races, and will inadvertently hurt what you claim you want to help.
Mk is fighting, you're submitting to the yoke of despair and destruction that Axelrod wants you to........
You are free to believe the absolute worst about Romney. I suspect you could write some commercials for Obama. He could certainly use some better ones.
-——others are fighting for conservatism-——
I would argue that so far as the current presidential race is concerned the fight is over. The boat has sailed. Beating a dead horse after you begin to see patches of pink goo accomplishes nothing.
Fear can be a good thing when used to stay away from trouble.
Many times being fearless is really just stupidity.
This conservative site, while disagreeing with you, has called a truce to let you Romney devotees have your say.
I prefer my enemies in front of me.
I’m a solid conservative.....newbie
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