Posted on 08/09/2012 4:08:24 AM PDT by moneyrunner
This Saturday morning there will be a Romney rally in Norfolk, Virginia at Nauticus. Any Freepers in Tidewater Virginia are especially welcome.
yeah, right - after his comments on gay Boy Scouts the only reason I would go to a Romney rally would be to find directions to the Virgil Goode rally.
Romney must have been thrilled when Obama won. “Finally, someone far worse than me! I’ll have a chance in 2012.”
romney who?
I plan to vote for him but wouldn’t cross the street to see him.
You forgot the barf alert.
I didn't realize that Virgil Goode had a chance to beat Obama this fall.
When Obama beat McCain in 2008, I’m not sure what was going through Romney’s mind, but I’m fairly confident that one lesson he took away from it was that the next Republican facing Obama should not be the racial coward that McCain was. McCain was the media candidate and he may have been stupid enough to be shocked when they turned against him after he was nominated. If I had the power I would anoint Sarah Palin as President, but since she is not running I would vote for a syphilitic camel over Obama. If you are not a fan of Romney, that’s OK with me. But if you won’t support him during this election you and a bag of rocks have a common intellect.
Thanks for your vote. It indicates that you recognize that Obama can’t be allowed to have a second term. If that’s the case, it would help not only to vote but to encourage others to vote for Romney also. That’s the reason I’m going to the rally. I have always stayed away from events like this because they bore me and I have better things to do. But the election this year is crucial. Obama must go and if that means voting and rallying for the “Not Obama” I’m your man.
I’m really rather surprised by the responses so far. I realize that Romney is not the candidate of choice for the Right, but the reaction makes me wonder about the kind of people here. I have already experienced a few mean-spirited attacks by people who don’t want bloggers on this site. I’m beginning to think that most of you are not serious.
I thought that it would be self-evident that anyone who loves his country would be preferable to Obama – who does not. Forced to choose between Obama and Carter, I would choose Carter (who until Obama held the title as the worst president in the last 100 years). Between Obama and Clinton I would choose Clinton, for the same reason although Clinton was a lying whoremonger. Forced to choose between Obama, Carter, Clinton and Romney it’s Romney by a mile. He may not have the ideological purity and common touch of Sarah Palin but he’s a proven turn-around artist and the good Lord knows we need to turn this country around. That’s why I’m going to a rally for a man I didn’t support in the primaries. This is a choice between good and evil and I’m choosing sides.
I voted for Ron Paul in the primary but you Goode cultists are beyond sick in the head.
A Paulista? No wonder you are supporting Romney.
I didn’t vote for Romney during the primary and I thought that there were other candidates who I would have preferred. My own preference is Sarah Palin, but she chose not to run. I liked Herman Cain’s passion and good humor, I liked Newt Gingrich’s intellect and willingness to attack the media, Rick Perry showed he could govern a great state; Rick Santorum was steadfast in his faith. All of the primary candidates had excellent features. They all eventually lost and not because of any RINO conspiracy, but because they failed to convince enough people that they could rescue the country from Obama. Each of his opponents took the lead for a while but like in a horse race they faded at the finish. Romney has a good shot at taking Obama out of the oval office. Once we stop digging the hole where’re in, once the country turns back to sanity we Tea Partiers can create the basis for a rejuvenated Republican party. But we can only do it with people who recognize that elections are about setting up the potential for change. Romney may not be Ronald Reagan resurrected, but he is a move back from a bad trip.
I have to apologize. I just Googled Goode and found out that he is an honest-to-God candidate for President. I didn’t know this and I’m a Virginia resident. With his skill and organization he must have Obama quaking in his boots. I understand the he’s already measuring the drapes in the Oval Office.
I would vote for Joran Vandersloot if that is what it took to get gaybama from office.
"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
Romney's "accomplishments".
1. Implemented/created Gay Marriage in MA
2. Supported and forced Gay Adoption in MA
3. Supported Abortion wholeheartedly
4. Raised taxes/fees over 300% while being Governor of MA
5. Implemented a state-level Cap and Trade system.
6. Supported Man-Made Global Warming
7. Supported the Brady Bill
8. Implemented a state level “Assault” Weapons Ban after the Federal AWB was allowed to expire.
9. Supported TARP
10. Supported Amnesty for Illegal Aliens (Citizenship for those already here)
11. Supported McCain-Kennedy (Amnesty)
12. Implemented a socialized medicine in MA called RomneyCare complete with an Individual Mandate and $50 abortions.
13. Nominated 27 Democrats (out of 36 nominations) for judgeships in MA, many of them extreme left-wingers.
Before I leave your list of grievances against Romney, let me say first that Romney is not my first choice for President, but at this point, he’s my ONLY choice. Obama must be defeated. Anyone on the Right who refuses to vote for Romney out of pique, out of the belief that we can have perfection as an alternative to Obama, is delusional. Second, your willingness to use Democrat talking points without taking the time or effort to find out why and how they are fooling you is a disservice to this country and, I should add, a disservice to the principles that Jim Robinson and the people around him espouse.
Regards.
"Democrat talking points"?
Are you seriously trying to suggest that Romney bears no responsibility for his liberal track record, and that any mention of it is an underhanded attack against him?
You're as bad as the Democrats who scream 'foul!' whenever we quote Obama's own words to them.
You've also got a lot of nerve trying to ally Jim Robinson to those timid and dishonored people who have shut their eyes to Romney's many transgressions against conservative traditions and principles. He may be allowing you Romneybots to post here, but make no mistake; he supports Romney about as much as he supports Obama, and has said so countless times.
By the way, if you're going to invoke someone's name in conversation, you should ping them to that post.
I also notice that you didn't refute a single one of those bullet points from Romney's record. It's no wonder that you didn't. His record is completely indefensible from a conservative point of view. His performance in office was indistinguishable from any liberal Democrat, and he's done nothing in his private life to support the contention that he bears any allegiance to the right.
Who cares what his official party affiliation is? If it walks like a Democrat and talks like a Democrat, it's a Democrat.
I get the fact that you don’t like Mitt Romney. I get the fact that Romney has taken positions that neither you nor I agree with. But at this point we have a choice: Romney or Obama for the next four years. If you believe that Obama would be the better choice, then you can reel off a list of Romney’s sins. If you believe that it doesn’t matter who wins, you can reel off Romney’s sins and Obama’s sins and convince people that neither one deserves the job, but you didn’t. But if you believe as I do that it makes a big difference and that our number one, two and three objective is the defeat of Obama, it makes no sense to try to convince people that Romney should not be elected. I’ll let Jim Robinson tell you himself which way he’ll vote this November. But I would be shocked to learn that, given Jim’s antipathy toward socialism, and given a choice between Obama and Romney, he would vote to give the Big O another 4 years. (Of course in California Jim’s vote may not sway the state.)
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