Why I Will Vote for Romney-Ryan in November

http://www.freerepublic.com/~mkjessup/ | 17 August 2012 | Mark Jessup (aka mkjessup)

[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

[ansel12]

Again, kid stuff.

This is the level you think at? This is the level of your devotion to the man, personal attacks and zero substance?

[ansel12]

To: Deb; xzins; All
You know me better than that. I would never recommend anyone vote for Obama.

I would never vote for, support or endorse a person for president whose only government record is that of an abortionist, homosexualist, gun-grabbing, global warming hoax pushing, liberal judge appointing, crony capitalist, mandate loving, big government statist!!

Regardless of party affiliation.

And I sincerely doubt that the good U.S. Army Chaplain and Patriot, Xzins would either.

We are the resistance!!

For God and Country!!

Thank you and God bless. 185 posted on Wed May 16 2012 18:35:13 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)

[BeauBo]

The Republican Govenors in Massachusetts before Romney - Weld, Celluci and Swift were all social liberals - making my point for me. Abortion, homosexuality, gun control.

You just blow off insights like this.

I am bored of dealing with you - signing off.

Obama Must Be Defeated!

[ansel12]

You ignored post 319, as you ignore all facts, you still don't understand that the ACU does not rate governors, or know the true reality of Reagan, or the truth about Romney.

You didn't know that Massachusetts has always preferred republican governors (until the Romney disaster), or that Mitt Romney, the anti-Reagan, anti-Jesse Helms, anti-flat tax, anti-Contract with America liberal, names William Weld as his political hero.

Right now, you seem ready to admit that Romney truly is the liberal that I describe, **"" Weld, Celluci and Swift were all social liberals - making my point for me. Abortion, homosexuality, gun control. You just blow off insights like this.""**

Romney is proof, that there is no limit, the left has defeated the core American people.

[Kevmo]

Help to make the next House and the next Senate conservative enough to overrule and override anything and everything “leftist” that “a President Mitt Romney” attempts to do, during Mitt Romney’s entire duration as POTUS. Ditto, if Barack Obama is re-elected.
***Yup. Do what’s best for conservatism. What would be your plan to get a conservative into POTUS for 2016 if Rumnuts wins? Unseat a sitting republican president?

[woofie]

From here:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/06/19/mitt-romney-and-abortion-why-are-pro-lifers-still-questioning-convert/

Romney sometimes compares his pro-life conversion to that of President Ronald Reagan. It’s not a perfect comparison, but there are some remarkable similarities. Like Romney, Reagan was the Republican governor of a pro-choice state who faced the prospect of enacting a law that would lead to the destruction of innocent human life.

Just a few months into his term as governor of California in 1967, Reagan signed the Therapeutic Abortion Act, which permitted abortion when the mental or physical health of the mother was endangered or when statutory rape had occurred.

It was a liberal law, especially for that time, and the mental and physical health exceptions became loopholes that led to a surge in California’s abortion rate. But the law’s effects also led to a change in Reagan. As Dinesh D’Souza wrote in “Ronald Reagan: How an Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader”:

“[Reagan’s] subsequent private correspondence shows he was genuinely shocked by the magnitude of abortions under the new law. His subsequent correspondence suggests that he was intensely grieved by this outcome. Edwin Meese, a senior aide, told me that Reagan’s regrets over his role in promoting abortion on demand in California may have intensified his pro-life convictions and led him, as a presidential candidate, to support measures like the human life amendment, which would establish a blanket prohibition on abortion.”

Like Reagan, Romney is a contrite convert, referring to his past support for Roe as his life’s “defining mistake.” When challenged about his previous support for abortion in a Republican debate in December, he said “I changed my mind…I’m firmly pro-life…sometimes I’m wrong.”

Mitt Romney displays humility and gratitude in discussing his evolution on abortion. Skeptical pro-lifers should do the same in embracing him.

Former presidential candidate Gary Bauer is president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families, and served for 8 years in the administration of President Ronald Reagan, including a stint as Reagan’s domestic policy adviser.

[ansel12]

johnthebaptistmoore ""Conservatism loses, if there aren’t enough conservatives in the House AND Senate to make conservative legislation law. Help to make the next House and the next Senate conservative enough to overrule and override anything and everything “leftist” that “a President Mitt Romney” attempts to do, during Mitt Romney’s entire duration as POTUS. Ditto, if Barack Obama is re-elected.""

Didn't that plan get us through the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010,s?

The plan sounds like more like history, status quo, and failure, than a plan.

[Kevmo]

The plan sounds like more like history, status quo, and failure, than a plan.
***It is a standard GOP plan. The same plan that includes throwing conservatives under the bus but demanding their vote.

[ansel12]

Reagan never converted, or needed to convert, Reagan was never pro-abortion.

Mitt Romney was 20 years old in 1967, he says that he had already been pro-abortion for 4 years, in 1973 Roe v Wade happened, Romney was pro-abortion, 1980, the abortion wars really kicked in, America elected social conservative hero, Ronald Reagan, Romney was still pro-abortion, 1984, Romney still pro-abortion, 1988, 1992,1994,1996,2000,2004, Romney is still pro-abortion.

During those years, Romney financially supported, campaigned for, and fund raised for pro-abortion democrats over republicans (SEE POST 299),

How do you equate this with a pro-life social conservative’s rookie mistake in 1967, when we had never even heard of “pro-life”, and Pro-choice” ?

[ansel12]

Mitt Romney displays humility and gratitude in discussing his evolution on abortion. Skeptical pro-lifers should do the same in embracing him.

Actually, we have many quotes where Mitt Romney and/or his wife, denies having ever been pro-abortion, of course we have a few where he admits that he was, that isn't "contrite".

This is Mitt Romney raising money for abortions, bringing his name to a Planned parenthood fund raiser.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

We all have to see what happens next, between January ‘13 and January ‘17, before knowing what’s best for conservatives and conservatism.

[mkjessup]

Again, kid stuff.

You receive posts proportionate to your own redundant and puerile commentary.

This is the level you think at? This is the level of your devotion to the man, personal attacks and zero substance?

Let me ask you a quick question: do you become engorged and turgid every time you use those words "devoted" or "devotion" ? - I know why you use those words, you're trying to paint with a broad brush anyone and everyone who has realized that Romney & Ryan are the only shot we have at getting 0bama out of the White House as being some sort of drooling and mindless automatons that worship Romney. Big difference between "devotion" (don't get excited now Ansel, I used your 'd-word') and resigned acceptance to what must be done. Now that we have that out of the way...

You need to realize that your attacks on what will most certainly be the GOP ticket of Romney & Ryan do absolutely NOTHING beneficial except to provide support by default to the Kenyan usurper. We all know Romney has faults, up until recently I would have been high fiving most of your anti-Romney screeds, however now is the time to close ranks, quit the gutter-sniping at our own team, and focus on the ENEMY, which is 0bama.

So who are you voting for pal?

[mkjessup]

You can quote JimRob all you like, and I'm on record for respecting his position. You however, must ask yourself if by your words, deeds and actions you are contributing to the defeat, or to the re-election victory of 0bama in November. I challenge you to review the number of posts in this thread which echo and support the decision that I have made in this matter. Are those FReepers all fools and sell outs? Is Sarah Palin a sell out? Are you utterly wiser and more of a sage than any one of us, smarter and morally superior to Sarah Palin herself? She understands the urgency to get 0bama OUT of the White House, she no doubt had her reservations about Romney, as did we all, as do many of us still, but to her credit and to the credit of growing numbers of conservatives in this Nation, we are closing ranks not because we endorse each and every position that Mitt Romney holds or has held in the past, (and not because we are devoted to him), but because we have come to the realization that a second term of 0bama means that America will deal with "0bama unplugged" and there will be little to no restraints or inhibitions upon that filthy little Communist as to what he will do to what's left of America.

I know where I stand. I stand with what is the future of my Country, and I have put my own pride and personal views aside for the greater good, which MUST be the defeat of 0bama, nothing else matters at this point.

[mkjessup]

Send your invoice for 'services rendered' to:

0bama for America
1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington DC 20666

Kindly include a copy of your post so your 'Rat account may be promptly credited with payment.

[Ditter]

I am fiercely anti abortion and between 1963 and 1973 we adopted 3 infants. Had there not been a place for those infants (my home) they could easily have been aborted.

I remain fiercely anti abortion and guess what, I am voting for Romney Ryan and you are a blithering idiot if you can't figure out the reason why!

[betty boop]

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?

Absolutely outstanding analysis, mkjessup! Thank you ever so much for writing/posting it!

[mkjessup]

I don't need to say 'the Lord bless you' for your adopting those infants, I'm sure He already has.

And, my fellow FReeper, you drive home the point that the ABR crowd seems to conveniently overlook, which is that if Sarah Palin, who chose life for her little boy Trig, instead of aborting him for any number of reasons including his genetic issues, is supporting Romney & Ryan, does that make her a hypocrite? Does it make Paul Ryan, a steadfast pro-life American, a hypocrite for accepting the VP slot? Rick Santorum is as pro-life as they come, is he a sell out for closing ranks behind Romney?

The defining moment is upon us as Americans, and that means we focus on the ultimate priority and that is to beat 0bama!

It ain't rocket science!

[mkjessup]

Thank you for the kind words BB, they are appreciated :)

[Ditter]

Under Obama the abortions will continue and the death panels will then include not only old people but also infants and children who need life saving surgeries for birth defects. Watch and see where the “purity” of those who reject R/R and allow obama to win 4 more years will take us.

[betty boop]

Of course, mkjessup, it goes without saying that the reason I find your essay/post an absolutely outstanding analysis is because I agree with every word you wrote, especially including the "prayer" part.

I WILL be voting — enthusiastically — for the Romney/Ryan ticket come November 6th. "Wild, wild horses couldn't keep me away."

And — having realized what is clearly at stake for our constitutional Republic in this election — I won't even have to "hold my nose," THIS time....

Thanks again for your excellent work!