I was the only real conservative available to vote for in the general election of 2012, at least in states representing about three quarters of the electoral votes, almost exactly the same percentage that Lincoln won on in 1860. A handful of patriots made that possible with grassroots effort only. Not a single dime was spent.
Those are simple facts.
Those who voted for me knew all of that, and understood, considering the current state of the electorate and our political process, that success in the election was virtually impossible, and decided to exercise their sacred franchise for what actually represents them anyway, instead of being cowed into voting for what doesn’t represent them, out of craven fear.
You see, the plumb line they operated from was a principled American standard. They actually believe in representative self-government enough to line up their actions with their rhetoric.
In 2012 your plumb line, and the plumb line of most Americans who call themselves “conservatives,” was, sadly, fear of Barack Obama...a fear that led them to cast their ballots for the most liberal governor in history, a man who clearly didn’t represent the things in which they say they believe.
And you wonder why our political class continues to build crooked buildings on shifting sand?
You wonder how and why it is that your worst fears come upon you anyway?
The standards of the fine patriots who supported me remain the same, to this day. God bless and keep them.
One last thing: You have NO RIGHT to tell anyone that they must violate their conscience in how they exercise their sacred franchise. Please stop doing that. It’s un-American.
‘Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. And it is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catchphrases of politicians. Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let man label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country — hold up your head! You have nothing to be ashamed of.’
- Mark Twain
‘When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers ‘just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty. If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.’
— Noah Webster
‘Impress upon children the truth that the exercise of the elective franchise is a social duty of as solemn a nature as man can be called to perform; that a man may not innocently trifle with his vote; that every elector is a trustee as well for others as himself and that every measure he supports has an important bearing on the interests of others as well as on his own.’
— Daniel Webster
‘Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.’
— John Quincy Adams
‘Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual—or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.’
— Samuel Adams
‘There remains the one standard that has not yet been universally used, namely, the choosing of candidates on moral grounds. A nation always gets the kind of politicians it deserves. When our moral standards are different, our legislation will be different. As long as the decent people refuse to believe that morality must manifest itself in every sphere of human activity, including the political, they will not meet the challenge of Marxism. Contemporary history proves that modern political leaders, devoid of a moral inspiration and relying solely on a mass basis (might makes right), proves ineffectual in time of crisis.-
— Fulton Sheen, ‘COMMUNISM and the CONSCIENCE of the WEST’ -1948
You and Congressman Virgil Goode. If he wasn’t on the ballot in my state, my vote would’ve gone to you.
You again justify magnificently each and every vote cast for you including my own.
If all that Romney had to do to get the votes of such people was to not be Obozo, then why did they bother voting at all?
Romney: pro-abortion and actually profited from the grisly business of abortion by disposing of the little corpses for money to prevent the embarrassing photographic truth from being disseminated from the dumpsters behind the mills. Enemy of reserving marriage to non-perverts, gun grabber, foreign policy wimp, enemy of the military and its veterans, sees everything through the prism of Muffie's trust fund, exporter of American jobs, appointer of rank radical leftists and social revolutionaries to every available Taxachusetts judgeship, employer of undocumented Democrats of one kind to run his campaign and of the more customary kind to do his gardening CHEAP. What could he do to lose the votes of the love slaves of the GOP-E?
What can NEVER be justified is any person calling himself or herself an American, a patriot, much less a conservative, and voting for Romney OR Obozo.
And, it can never be repeated often enough, as Finny often posts, we have only the option of voting FOR a candidate. There is no mechanism for voting AGAINST one.
If and when this nation is destroyed it will be due to those who lack the courage or the clarity to vote the traditional morality of this country. I am particularly partial to the life's work of Blessed Fulton J. Sheen and appreciate the quote you included in your post and the book it came from.
As always, God bless you and yours!