Posted on 08/11/2012 4:42:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Except for his unfortunate go along to get along support of TARP, bailouts, stimulus spending and the increased credit limit, etc, Ryan is a pretty good choice. Probably the best choice of the RINOS that were on Romney's short list. I support Ryan for the vice presidency. Wish he were at the top of the ticket, though.
But I still cannot and will not support the grand father of ObamaCare. Romney still loves and brags about his bastard brainchild, RomneyCare, even today when he knows what an anti-liberty socialist POS it is.
And the fact that he advocated that abortion should be safe and legal in America for over three decades of his adult lifetime and even advocated that Roe v Wade should be supported and sustained as settled law precludes any consideration whatsoever by this pro-life Christian for Myth Romney for the presidency.
And the fact that he boasted that he would be better for "gay rights" than Ted Kennedy, and proved it just increases my resistance.
That, and his penchant for gun control, his continuing support for global warming, gays in the scouts, gays in the military, and his record of appointing liberal judges makes it all but impossible for me to support him.
Lastly, we're having a bit of changeover on our moderator staff. At least two moderators resigned this afternoon after I flatly refused to rein in a so-called anti-Mormon "bigot" on FR. Well, if being in opposition to false prophets and false prophecy makes a Christian believer a bigot, then I guess I'm a bigot. I've posted before that I flat do not believe that the Book of Mormon is the true word of God. Nor do I believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. The Christian bible warns us to be weary of false prophets and that I am. Romney being the presumptive Republican nominee does not change that fact.
Mine is red iffn ya don't change the salt on time.
He's just fine when sticking to Conservatism.
But he ventures into trying to gloss over the heresies of MORMONism by never addressing them; and THAT is bringing him into the crosshairs (Ooooh - can I SAY that?) of knowledgeable Christians.
Well; knowledgeable AND willing to point out false teachings.
We have WAY too many folk on FR claiming to be Conservatives AND Christian, too; that do NOT wish to appear to be 'intolerant', so they try to shame the rest of us who are NOT fearful of what others call us.
Give our OTHER branches of government a LITTLE credit!
Even NIXON waved Bye-Bye!!
Who is either a deceived or a deceiving MORMON.
Pick one.
Oh, I'm finding the whole thing absolutely fascinating; a genuine, laboratory conditions-type demonstration into why Letting Gibbering, Unreasoning Lunatic Terror Inform One's Decisions is seldom, if ever, a rational, thinking adult's preferred solution to any given conundrum... electoral or otherwise. ;)
As I stated, previously:
"Once you've finally managed to define 'conservative' downwards to the point where all it means -- literally, the ONLY thing it still means -- is "Not Obama": then you're no longer part of any coherent, principled or intellectually defensible political ideology.
All you're doing, at that point, is taking part in an imbecilic, nation-wide version of 'Shirts Vs. Skins.'
"Which is absolutely fine. For children."
I've seen so deplorably many FReepers, on this thread, proudly fetishizing their fears; maniacally attempting, literally, to OUT-DO their fellows in some freakish, Dodo-esque attempt to come out (ultimately) as Craven Coward Numero Uno.
("I fear The Kenyan so impossibly much, I'd vote for C'Thulhu and all his assorted Elder Gods, instead! Booga-Booga-Booga!" "If you wouldn't gleefully chop your own grandchildren up into mincemeat -- and then fry up and messily gobble the remains -- in order to vote for Mitt Romney, then YOU DON'T FEAR OBAMA ENOUGH TO LOVE AMERICA AND *ARRGLE*BLARRGLE*AAAAAIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE -- !!!")
I've never seen sweaty, bug-eyed cowardice -- unalloyed and unabashed -- elevated, by a delusional few, into an actual exemplar of "patriotic reason" (or whatever), before this thread.
Would that I had gone quite a bit longer still, before being accorded such an opportunity... particularly on Free Republic.
What do you think it means?
Gotcha!!
LOL!!!! and you believe that don’t you?
Are you in the Choom Bus with Obama?
(Or right...)
Once again, what did you hope for?
I’m going to trust the only one I can. I read this post from one of my Mormon friends on Facebook this very morning.
Only God can turn a MESS into a MESSage.
..A TEST into a TESTimony
...A TRIAL into TRIumph
..A VICTIM into VICtory.
God is good, all the time.
I’m not placing my faith in Romney nor Obama, not the Republican party OR the Dems. God has a purpose and a plan and His will WILL be done. Think about what choice HE has given us at this time. It will tell you just what His plan is for our nation.
If you’re not a believer, please disregard my post and return to your hand-wringing.
The ones who are simply looking up quotes hastily on Wikipedia always reveal themselves eventually, don't they...? ;)
How touching.
Jesus loves everyone. Who will be saved?
Jeff, what you try to accuse me of is what you do throughout your post! Better reread FRiend.
I made it clear I don’t know your motives - I can only see and evaluate your words.. Which are choices you make. I can certainly see those.
Further, I’ve asked you repeatedly for clarification, when you post the clintonian stuff. You always reply with more of the same plus claiming to be a victim plus claiming I’m judging your heart plus... Anything except an honest, forthright communication. I don’t know why. Maybe you do not want to publicly claim what you believe in its totality. Maybe you’ve been trained by Dr. Millet to avoid talking about anything that would make potential recruits uncomfortable? Maybe you want to make Mormonism sound less than a perversion of Christianity? I do not know your motives. I can observe you always do it, so it is reasonable to conclude you do it intentionally.
If you deny this, why not come right out here and state how many gods you believe exist? Not just how many you choose to worship, but how many you believe exist. Why not come right out and tell us about your Mormon belief that god the father and your Mother god have sex to produce offspring, or that god the father used to be a man but became a god, or that Christ (the one you claim you believe in) was created by sex between your other gods? Start there, instead of consistently obscuring your mormonic beliefs while claiming to be oppressed and judged.
I suspect the reason you won’t do is is one of the reasons above. If it isnt, why not end all speculation and tell us why you parse your words so carefully to avoid owning what you believe as a Mormon?
In the meantime, drop the whole victim hood thing. Whining isn’t conservative. Just be forthright and tell more than half-truths.
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