Posted on 08/10/2014 8:06:44 AM PDT by IChing
I was in a spiritually-oriented meeting a week ago, and there were about fifty people in the room. Halfway through, a guy in the center of the room chimed in and announced that he was going to open his speaking time by sharing with us his personal, painful example of the worst kind of betrayal. We all leaned a bit closer to listen as he described, with tongue secretly hidden in cheek, a time when he bit into what he’d thought was a chocolate chip cookie–only to realize with shock and dismay that it was actually a raisin cookie.
He was making a wry point, of course; about expectations, and about accepting and appreciating reality. Later in the meeting, another speaker picked up on the thread, and proceeded to wax allegorically on the relative merits of raisin cookies.
Some of my friends are going to skin me alive for writing this.
As much as I’d like to see someone as fierce and as fundamentally righteous as Texas Senator Ted Cruz, or South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy, to be the Republican nominee for president in 2016 and subsequently the winner of the general election, I have to accept the reality that (for various reasons understood by those who understand these things) nobody of their bright, bold stripe is likely to be the one. Of course, I could be wrong, and I hope I am, but I think we’d better adjust ourselves to seeing someone like Cruz as the elusive chocolate chip conservative cookie.
Enter the humble raisin cookie, familiar to all, and perfectly palatable in its own right. Not exactly what you were dreaming of, but still very good with a few gulps of cold milk.
Mitt Romney’s star has suddenly reappeared in recent weeks, and it is rising again. Barack Obama has shown himself, to the overwhelming majority of people in our country, to be a total disaster as president, and the buyer’s remorse is palpable. A CNN/ORC poll from late last month had Romney beating Obama in the popular vote 53% to 44%, if the 2012 election were held again today.
Romney’s foreign policy proscriptions and prognostications during the 2012 presidential campaign, once widely mocked and ridiculed by Obama supporters (and most of all by Obama himself, in the debate in which Romney made them), are now looking like pure prophecy, in light of the horrific developments in the Middle East and Ukraine.
The world is hurtling violently into the flaming, bloody abyss on Obama’s non-watch, and American families are hurting from year after year of the democrat neo-socialist Keynesian quagmire and the far-left police state his heavy handed regime has enacted. We are sick and tired of this crap.
Mitt Romney, by comparison, can realistically be seen by the larger body politic as not only a relative breath of fresh air, but the guy we should have listened to all along–someone to whom we, as a country (not necessarily as only us conservatives, mind you), perhaps now owe at least a term in the driver’s seat.
Sure, we’ve seen the prequels, but this would be a whole new movie, with a different villain and, we pray, a better ending.
Romney’s flaws are well-known–all the more reason to get over them already. They are certainly nowhere near as deal-breaking as those of Hillary, or of Wampum Warren.
Most of all, Mitt’s widespread recognition and public familiarity make for an easier time with the endlessly sought-after swing voters, I think. Plus, it sure doesn’t hurt that he has been so thoroughly vindicated in so much of what he laid out, both very forcefully and sometimes rather ineffectively, in the 2012 debates against Obama.
It just occurred to me, after typing all the above–the guy I mentioned in the meeting from last week, the one who was talking metaphorically about personal betrayal and biting into a raisin cookie–maybe his example would actually be closer to an Obama voter who realizes that what he got after the election was not what he thought it was….? Oh, cripes.
Too late, I’ve already baked the batch, and I’m not about to throw them out. Don’t forget what I said earlier about cold milk (go ahead and draw all the Sarah Palin analogies you like; she was right on the money about foreign policy, too, by the way!).
Freepers are rabid? Who knew?
Vote for any liberal you want, and tell yourself he's different because he has an R behind his name. I'm telling you I'm done.
But.....but......he’s “Severely” Conservative, don’cha know?
You’re right, unfortunately, and you cued into something I wrote back in May: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3153677/posts
If Mitt wants to campaign in 2016, he needs to start helping Republicans defeat Democrats in the 2014 election.
If he’s “above” actually “fighting” for America, he should step aside...
Obama wouldn't be on the ballot again. If all these erstwhile voters were inclined to vote for Romney they would have done it last time.
“Rick Perry, perhaps, yes. It’s just impossible for me to shake that horrible performance in the primary debate last time when he couldn’t remember what agencies he supposedly wanted to get rid of.”
I had the same feeling for a long time, but I think that now that he’s been coming out strongly for secure border, I think he redeemed himself in the eyes of many — I think people are willing to forget it.
Afterall - Clinton was impeached and is still playing the “wise elder statesman”, can’t we forgive a minor gaffe to Perry?
I did NOT want him as the nominee. But I wanted another Traybongo term even less. It’s simple. Furthermore, whites, even most white conservatives, have been actively committing national suicide by refusing to coalesce around white interests—that’s racist! The GOP and the country slide even further left because whites have been brainwashed to think being racist in the sense of nationalist is bad, immoral, etc. So we cave on EVERYTHING, because to win we must practice racial solidarity, which even most “cknservatives” boot other conservatives from these forums for advocating. The chief delusion is that there are no differences between the races and that non-whites will someday act white, join the GOP, etc. Tell me how a right-wing true conservative wins in this increasingly Brazil-like country of ours, and I’ll change my tune. You can’t. We’re toast. White children are now a minority IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS.
Totally agree.
Not very literate, are you? Look up the meaning of a word if you don’t know it.
I vote RNC troll. It's starting to get nasty - a dead giveaway.
I tend to agree with you. But couldn’t the same argument apply to Mitt....?
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Please make it stop. I cannot vote for another RINO. He lost twice. He should have won last time. No excuses.
No, no, no and I agree with you whole heartedly. I said "IF" Romney is the nominee I would vote for him. The Supreme Court is very important to me and if Hillary gets in you can kiss it goodbye for generations. With Romney there is at least a chance.
I purposely used improper grammar to keep you busy. Less time for you to push romney.
LOL
Abortion, gay marriage, amnesty, teaching kindergartners about homosexual families, romneycare, Bain capital, liberal judicial appointments, anti-voucher, ok for boy scout leaders to be homosexual, “I'll be better than Ted Kennedy on gay rights,”
Wait, he's running so he changed his mind,
No he's not running...
Maybe he is, but, but, he says he won't run...
He's pro choice, not pro life
Depends on which audience he's talking to. It's hard to keep track.
I just don’t want the “conservative base” to stay home and give us Hillary, as they did Obama — twice!
I think people would turn out for Perry, while they wouldn’t turn out for Mitt.
It’s going to be a little difficult for him to explain his returning to being pro-abortion after he finally won the nomination, after 6 years of running against his aggressive pro-abortion positions of his past life and fund raising for Planned Parenthood.
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