Looks like I’m all in. Once again, no choice. It’s a helluva war.
Not a whole hell of a lot of options.
Had a brief conversation in a barbeque joint about this.
If we have two options that will produce not very different outcomes,
but one of the options will see Obama out of office.. I’d have to pick that one.
I appreciate this post. I know it wasn’t easy. A strong showing down ballot is crucial to the plan, though, No RINOs to congress!
God help us.
A subtle golf clap from over here to you, Jim.
(Will this thread go venereal? 3000+ Posts?)
One thing still bothers me. Romney and the RINOS act as those there’s no such thing as a conservative voter. It would be nice if they would at least ASK me for my vote.
There is always a choice and you (and FR) made yours, how sad.
You’re right Jim. We have no choice. I don’t think we really ever did. Elections these days are more crownings than elections, with the die cast long before the day of reckoning.
As it often is, we have a lesser of two evils decision to make and and it is ABO. God Bless.
Yikes. What is it that changed your mind to allow you to pull the lever for a lying, baby-killing, gun-grabbing statist?
“Looks like I’m all in. Once again, no choice. It’s a helluva war.”
I’m still not going to vote for Romney - I will go third party. I have seen nothing about him that would convince me he has changed. I’m sorry to see you change your previous principled stand.
However, we all must stand before God. I personally cannot support Romney and still feel I’ve done what God would want. I will vote for conservatives down ballot, but won’t help the Magic Mormon with my vote.
Looks like it’s time to change my tagline.
Was:
FRINAGOPWIASS: Free Republic Is Not A GOP Website. It’s A Socon Site.
FR became a GOP website here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2920626/posts?page=27#27
Sorry Jim. I’m out. Outside of the extreme moral dilemma posed by voting for someone who supports both infanticide and gun control, there are the practical political considerations to think about.
A theme I’ve heard repeatedly on FR is that conservatives will somehow hold willards feet to the fire if he is elected. I’m curious as to how exactly conservatives plan on doing that and with whom. We have less than 10 solid conservatives in the senate and less than 50 in the house. Are we counting on the weeper and his pet weasel eric to do it? The kentucky doughboy? It ain’t happening. And let me introduce a more horrible idea. What if it turns out that willard is only interested in one term? Conservatives will have zero, and I do mean ZERO influence on him.
Willard is just a more extreme example of the same suckers game that has been played against conservatives for decades. The gop picks a moderate or centrist candidate and dares conservatives to do something other than vote for their POS candidate. And like the battered wives that conservatives mimic, we come slinking back to vote for whomever the gop annoints. This time the gop didn’t even have the decency to pick a centrist. They picked the most liberal candidate they could pick this side of gerald ford. And now with a sneer on their lips and avarice in their hearts they say to us: vote for willard or we give you hussein.
Giving us the sophie’s choice of willard or hussein is not a choice. It’s an expression of contempt for conservatives and everything we stand for. I reject that false choice and will go my own way when November rolls around and will urge others to do likewise.
That leaves the final issue to discuss. My relationship with FR. I’ve appreciated being here for the past 8 years. I understand that your decision to accede to willard was a difficult one. My decision has been easy by comparison. I will give no aid and comfort to a candidacy that I view as an epitaph for political conservatism in the US. So the choice will ultimately come to you when some willardite comes complaining that I’ve offended their delicate sensibilities. Be ready. And rest assured that I treated them with the same esteem and respect I would accord to any quisling.
Sorry Jim. I’m out. Outside of the extreme moral dilemma posed by voting for someone who supports both infanticide and gun control, there are the practical political considerations to think about.
A theme I’ve heard repeatedly on FR is that conservatives will somehow hold willards feet to the fire if he is elected. I’m curious as to how exactly conservatives plan on doing that and with whom. We have less than 10 solid conservatives in the senate and less than 50 in the house. Are we counting on the weeper and his pet weasel eric to do it? The kentucky doughboy? It ain’t happening. And let me introduce a more horrible idea. What if it turns out that willard is only interested in one term? Conservatives will have zero, and I do mean ZERO influence on him.
Willard is just a more extreme example of the same suckers game that has been played against conservatives for decades. The gop picks a moderate or centrist candidate and dares conservatives to do something other than vote for their POS candidate. And like the battered wives that conservatives mimic, we come slinking back to vote for whomever the gop annoints. This time the gop didn’t even have the decency to pick a centrist. They picked the most liberal candidate they could pick this side of gerald ford. And now with a sneer on their lips and avarice in their hearts they say to us: vote for willard or we give you hussein.
Giving us the sophie’s choice of willard or hussein is not a choice. It’s an expression of contempt for conservatives and everything we stand for. I reject that false choice and will go my own way when November rolls around and will urge others to do likewise.
That leaves the final issue to discuss. My relationship with FR. I’ve appreciated being here for the past 8 years. I understand that your decision to accede to willard was a difficult one. My decision has been easy by comparison. I will give no aid and comfort to a candidacy that I view as an epitaph for political conservatism in the US. So the choice will ultimately come to you when some willardite comes complaining that I’ve offended their delicate sensibilities. Be ready. And rest assured that I treated them with the same esteem and respect I would accord to any quisling.
Thank you Jim.
“War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.”
Albert Pike
Dear Lord, give us strength.
Tatt
Hey, Grig, looks like you were right about every conservative we looked up to / respected would endorse or at least vote for Romney.