It sounds like what bothers you is pride. If Romney would just acknowledge that he needs you, then he would be more palatable. What you don’t like about him is that he doesn’t honor you, doesn’t woo you as if you mattered very much. It’s an understandable feeling - one that I think we all have - and yet it is not helpful to nurse that feeling right now.
I don’t want my child’s doctor to woo me. I want him to do the job at hand - keeping someone I love from dying. I love America. She is being systematically gunned down. I don’t care how rude the sheriff is to me, as long as he stops those I love from getting gunned down. In a crisis situation like this, I don’t have the luxury of accepting help only from those who woo me or show me how important they think *I* am. All that matters is if they will do what it takes to make sure my loved ones are not killed off. If that person gets us out of the immediate crisis, THEN we can go on to the luxury of building positive interpersonal relationships. But in a crisis where life and death are literally on the line, interpersonal conflicts are a luxury we can’t afford to waste time on.
----------------------- God might also use Obama to wake up the Christians in this country to see
where our true alliances are; do we trust God or a man. Will we do what is right and stand against evil when we see it or will we give into the pressure and go with someone we know is evil and corrupt. God gave us the wisdom and discernment to search out the truth and act as HE commanded us. Every person is imperfect, but when you see someone who forced 5 yr olds to be brainwashed into the gay lifestyle & put $50 abortions in his healthcare & forced the Catholic Church to leave MA after they have been providing adoption serves for 109 years, all because they would not let gays adopt children, you know that person is evil. Romney is not the typical politician who lies here or there. He is a radical leftist who is taking advantage of people who are scared of Obama. The gop wanted him because they know who he is and that he will get the liberal agenda through and then they won't have to fight those battles anymore.
Social conservatives don't "need" to be acknowledged. We already know Romney will not meet with us. If romney was really prolife, profamily.....he would have no problem meeting with us; he would sign the pro-life pledge. I am sick of people calling us Obama lovers because we won't vote for someone who is socially just like Obama. We don't need him, HE needs us. And no, it is not pride speaking, it's reality. I am trying to show people what a hypocrite some people around here are. Blame us for not voting for their guy, while not expecting ANYTHING FROM HIM. He and the gop was hoping that Obama was so damaged that even he would be leading by several points. He may one day reach out when he sees he can't win without us, but it will be too late because we now know who he really is. He can't keep a promise to us and to the log cabin republicans and everyone knows that.
I also am trying to point out to Christians who are voting for Romney, that THEY will be helping him pass gay marriage and other liberal policies across this country. Many voting for Romney, KNOWS he is not pro-life, pro-familly, pro-gun, against cap & trade..... but they don't care. They say they don't like him & scream how scared they are of Obama, but won't demand anything from him now. Once he's in it will be too late, just like with Obama. Most prolifers won't sell there souls for a person who they know is against everything they believe. Those who do, apparently are more afraid of Obama than God. It's all about who you trust. God or man.
Linda, Obama has done all the same things you criticize Romney for, but also done much, much worse.
Suppose that the person running neck-and-neck against Adolf Hitler believed in abortion for rape victims but was opposed to the Holocaust. Would you vote for Corrie Ten Boom and allow Adolf Hitler to win the election? Why?
If you did vote for Corrie Ten Boom and Hitler won the election and buried millions of people dead and alive after starving and torturing them, just as everybody knew he would do if he was re-elected.... how would you convince yourself that their blood was not on your hands? How would you convince yourself that it was the God who you trusted who actually failed to protect those innocents, and not yourself?