This is not the polling place. And Mr. RomneyCARE
is not YET the candidate.
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
When you get Romney, you get Ryan, and all the downstream legions of a new Administration, especially Supreme Court appointments.
Romney has a track record of recruiting and developing talent (such as the Ryan pick, and the many successful Bain turnarounds).. This will probably result in a bigger cumulative benefit than Romney’s direct actions as President. Personnel is policy.
Give a new generation of Conservative leaders a chance to get a job in D.C.
Save America from the freak show parade of an unaccountable lame duck Obama administration.
Obama Must Be Defeated!
Thanks Mark.
This is not the polling place. And Mr. RomneyCARE
is not YET the candidate.
Well done, Mark. VERY well done.
You have covered my thoughts and detailed the nightmare I have been going through for quite some time. You came to the same conclusions and for the same reasons.
Now that you have posted this vanity, you may not get invited to the company picnic, but you are more than welcome to any of my BBQs.
Obama Has Gotta Go..........
Thank you G113, I appreciate your kind words and this might be a good time to me apologize for any less-than-charitable words we may have exchanged in the past. The fact is, we are all on the same team (or we should be anyway), which has the objective of flushing that Kenyan Klown out of the White House and back to Chicago.
Thanks for the invite to the BBQ, I’m always up for that! ;) lol
You’re entitled to your decision, and I understand it, but I will not vote for a liberal (just as I didn’t in 2008). The line has to be drawn somewhere, and this is where I draw mine.
I find validity in some of your analysis - except that I submit that you risk making “the brand of ‘conservatism’” an idol outright.
And I’m not so sure that “conservatism” has that much cachet outside conservative circles.
So I guess then, it’s a weak counter-argument - imho...
Also one could argue that assuming Romney does well during his tenure, it follows that Ryan would succeed him under the rejuvenated “conservative” moniker/brand (kind of the “soft-sell” approach) - continuing the recovery from the Obama years.
Optimistic - I know...
You said what I’ve been thinking for the last month - and you said it much better than I could.
I am the wife of a soldier. I cannot, in good conscious, knowingly keep the lives of our service members in Obama’s hands.
I vote for Romney as a vote for THEM.
I believe that I am casting a vote for at one disenfranchised soldier in this election.
I'm not a big Romney booster but I am an obama fearer.
I really like Ryan and am growing more able to tolerate Romney.
obama is a communist prick.
I LOVE THAT!!! I need that bumper sticker!!
“How does that jibe with you calling Romney a “baby killer”? Is the NRLC an organization of “baby killers, too?”
It tells me that the NRLC is naive or trusting enough to take Romney at his word. He has NOT proven he has REALLY changed his stance on Abortion. Current talk is CHEAP, his past actions are more important. I don’t trust him. Also, picking Ryan to be his VP, and actually allowing Ryan to have any say in his administration is a VERY BIG ASSUMPTION. I agree with Jim Robinson that Ryan will locked in a closet as soon as Romney wins an election...if he does. When I resided in Oklahoma (now a Missouri resident), I also supported NRLC. IMO, they are somewhat easily duped. But God Bless them for the good work they have done for years....just be careful about hasty endorsements by them.
That said, having Ryan on the ticket means I will happily vote for Romney. Ryan, and others like him, are the future of the Republican party. And as a native Minnesotan -- although I currently live in New Jersey -- I welcome the fact that many of the Republican up-and-comers hail from our neighboring state of Wisconsin.
Romney switched from pro abortion to pro life about the time he first ran for president. The timing has led some to doubt his sincerity. His positions since then have been solidly pro life. He has not had any opportunities to display these positions with actual votes.
I’ve had all of these thoughts myself.
I will vote my conscious, but I trust that G-d has this election well in hand. If it is truly for the best that Obama has a second term, then Hashem will will it so.
You are a better person than I.
It's a beautiful evening; the cicadas are making noise but it's good because that's what they're supposed to be doing this time of year. The ducks are lined up peacefully at the edge of the pond out back; the sun is heading down below the horizon and there's a nice bit of breeze blowing through my screen door. I'm going to enjoy the remaining hours away from the computer.
“Also one could argue that assuming Romney does well during his tenure....”
That is a very HUGE assumption that I don’t think has a chance of being realized. In fact, I think Romney would screw up royally, and set up Hillary to replace him in 2016.....and cost us significant lost seats in the Congress. Hillary will be more dangerous than Obama because she is actually intelligent and way to the left of her hubby.
Almost 8:30 Eastern Time, I have to tend to some family obligations and thus may not be back until later tonight or even in the morning, thanks for all of your comments, and thanks to those who may yet comment, didn’t want anyone to think I was engaging in ‘drive by posting’.
As Eddie Gallagher of WASH-FM in Washington used to say, “it’s so nice to know, so many nice people.”
“It’s a beautiful evening; the cicadas are making noise but it’s good because that’s what they’re supposed to be doing this time of year.”
Your post just made me realize that they aren’t doing that here in the Ozarks of Missouri....and they should be. It has been REALLY dry here, and extra warm. I hope that isn’t an ominous sign. BTW - My concern has nothing to do with the psuedo-science of “global warming.” I’m just wondering why I’m not hearing them now when they should be loudest?
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