Posted on 07/02/2012 9:52:57 PM PDT by gura
I’m very disappointed in this rant. As you say, we used to get doozies.
I’m also disappointed that no one has written: don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
For someone being here 10 years, I sure don’t remember seeing this name much.
Alas, poor gura, I never knew ye.
Kudos for the Tombstone retort !
There are plenty of us who plan on voting for Mitt, I am even giving money to his campain. Yes, the lesser of two evils is still evil, but its LESS evil, so I am going for it.
I dont care what the anti-mitters here say anyways, I have made my decision, and at this point, just ignore them. I understand their views, and agree with many of them, but have made a different final decision. Thats all.
FR is worth way more than that.
Aloha then.
In the past, by this point in an election year this site would be thick with campaign info and tactics. The 'Rat incumbent would be getting trashed and plotted against, the GOP challenger promoted. Grassroots political activism would be organized and reported on for races up and down the ballot.
This year is very different and I think that's a shame.
I discover almost daily that FRiends have disappeared. They’re migrating somewhere - hope they’re taking their guns with.
In 1967 then-California Governor Ronald Reagan signed the “Therapeutic Abortion Act” into law. As a result the number of abortions performed in California jumped from 518 the year before that bill was signed, to more than 100,000 per year.
Now I'm a big fan of Ronald Reagan. He's a personal hero of mine. But I began life as a liberal, much as did Reagan. Just like Reagan, I grew to question the lies being told by people who I had supported, asking myself “if they intend to do the right thing for America, why do they have to lie about it.” Eventually I began to see that the Democrats would say one thing and do the opposite, or predict one outcome and the results of what they did would always be the opposite.
After a while Ockham’s razor took control of my thinking...”they lie because they're liars, and they damage America because they intend to damage America.”
But the point here is that even into his 50s Ronald Reagan was making political decisions that many of us here on FR would have found “distasteful,” at best. And from my reading it appeared that his experience...and the “mistakes” Reagan made as Governor of California, shaped him into the much more conservative President we saw in the 1980s. I understand that Reagan said that signing that bill was the biggest political mistake of his life...but he did, in fact, sign it.
I'd like to think that Romney has also matured in his thinking through his experiences, and mistakes, as Governor.
I'm willing to see this as a “glass half full” situation in the hope that Romney, like myself and many other conservatives, has learned from experience and observation that his earlier, more liberal tendencies were based in ignorance and emotion, and that like most educated and experienced Americans he grows more conservative with time. Certainly, his recent statements indicate that he may have. And looking back on some of Reagan's decisions as Governor, I think that some conservative ideologues could have easily made the same philosophical attacks against Reagan as you make against Romney, today.
Our choices are rather limited now. So I'm going to support Romney (because there are no better or more conservative options who can win), and I hope everyone else will as well...even if some of his past deeds irritate us. Certainly, some of Reagan's early political statements and decisions would have angered us as well.
I’m sorry.
Good luck to you.
Encouraging people to leave is website suicide.
Here's a thought: Let those who agree with you on 90 percent of things vent and dissent.
Romney is not a popular candidate, and that's not going to change.
You can do more for him by continuing to support him verbally. Leaving simply tells us he's "not worth it".
Most conservatives I know judge a person's actions by the outcome they produce, rather than the political statements made about that action/decision. I'm a big fan of Reagan. I think he was, by far, the best president of the last century. And he is a personal hero to me. But I've studied Reagan's history, and I know how significantly he “grew” as a conservative after he hit his 50s. This is not an attack against Reagan. It is a statement of fact. Like Reagan, I became much more conservative as I grew older, more experienced, and more knowledgeable.
You can say Reagan wasn't “pro-abortion.” And I believe his views on abortion changed greatly later in his life. But the fact is that the legislation he signed as Governor of California resulted in a 200-fold increase in the number of abortions performed per year in that state. So with that in mind I have to ask why should I be impressed by a statement in the bill that says “No abortion except for the health of the mother.” We all know how “health” can be interpreted by a doctor who has a financial interest in performing an abortion. Certainly Reagan...who I consider to have been a very smart man...realized how “non-limiting” that statement really was. Obama told us his healthcare bill would improve access and reduce costs, too...so are you going to judge his intentions based on that B.S.?
There are still enough of us around to make sure the fire doesn't go out.
And take Willard with you. Last thing we need is another Socialist in the mix.
Before I read your post, that was the exact number I had in mind.
Y'all are too generous. It's not nearly long enough for more than a 5. I'd give it a 4 to 4.5.
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