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Lesser of Two Evils (vanity)
Sopater

Posted on 05/02/2012 11:39:55 AM PDT by Sopater

We often hear people say "hold your nose and select the lesser of the two evils". However, if we look at the bigger picture, which is really the lesser evil of the two?

1. Obama for 4 more years and teach the GOP the lesson that they evidently didn't learn in 2008.

2. Romney for 8 years, assuming he doesn't hand it back to the Democrats in 2016.


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KEYWORDS: election2012; gop; obama; romney
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To: MrEdd
In the United States, anyone who proposes there are only two possible choices isn’t bright enough to be asking any questions.

I agree, I'm simply stating the two most-likely "outcomes" of the 2012 election. I'd be very surprised if someone besides Obama or Romney is president a year from now... but it could happen.
41 posted on 05/02/2012 1:26:29 PM PDT by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: Sopater

Romney was able to appoint liberals in MA, because it was...well..Massachussetts. He was probably encouraged and rewarded for doing so.

He would have a much tougher time doing that as president.

All I know is that one more nomination from Obama could seal our fate for the next 25 years. A quarter century, in which states rights, abuse of commerce clause, made up abortion rights, etc. will not suffer the scrutiny of a supreme court case. That’s a guarantee. A second term Obama would nominate somebody to the left of Ginsburg.


42 posted on 05/02/2012 1:35:22 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Sopater

I believe your first mistake is thinking you can teach the GOP a “lesson” by not voting. Contrary to how that may sound I’m not advising to simply vote (R)...

We’re at that time, IMHO, when it comes down to principles over party. It’s clear to me that the GOP-e are just as much at fault for many of the problems we as a country are facing as the Dems - and are, in fact, a part of the same “DC Cartel”.

That said, I’m not suggesting everyone flock to a 3rd party, or a 3rd party candidate, either... I’m really not sure WHAT I would advise as I’m still searching my heart and mind as well.

Just remember - individual votes don’t as much matter to the GOP, and a “choice” really isn’t a “choice” if there is no other viable option (see; McCain).


43 posted on 05/02/2012 1:40:42 PM PDT by LibertyRocks
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To: Josh Painter

Very nice... and true.


44 posted on 05/02/2012 1:42:10 PM PDT by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: LibertyRocks
I believe your first mistake is thinking you can teach the GOP a “lesson” by not voting. Contrary to how that may sound I’m not advising to simply vote (R)...

I think that it is obvious that you CANNOT teach the GOP any lesson by not voting. You have to vote 3rd party or write-in for your voice to be heard. When you stay home and don't vote, you leave it to the pundits and media to speculate on what you were really thinking, and they ALWAYS get it wrong.
45 posted on 05/02/2012 1:47:15 PM PDT by Sopater (...where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. - 2 COR 3:17b)
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To: lacrew
I remember Bush put up a woman who was not qualified...and through pressure, she asked not to be considered. I hold out hope that the same could happen with a Romney nominee....no such chances with O.

This is the primary reason that I will vote for Mittens. I know us conservatives have no choice but we are boxed in. If there is any hope for the future we must rid ourselves of the bastard now in power. If Mittens were with CONgress to defeat ObamaCare & nominate a conservative SC judge he will have served a great deal & if he doesn't then maybe we will be strong enough to put up challenger. Who knows, the world might be in a deep depression in 4 yrs.

46 posted on 05/02/2012 2:24:43 PM PDT by Digger (If RINO is your selection then failure is your election)
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To: The_Reader_David

Do you also believe there are degrees of sin? I don’t all sin is abhorrent to God - He does not ‘grade on a curve’.


47 posted on 05/02/2012 3:00:49 PM PDT by reaganaut (I am a Christian first, a Conservative second and am out of the GOP if Romney gets in.)
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To: taxcontrol
"Obama has a history of appointing liberal judges .... so what is the difference?"

Obama does NOT have a history of appointing liberal judges. He has a history of appointing Marxist puppets.

48 posted on 05/02/2012 6:45:18 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: PTBAA
"what would happen if 50-60 conservative members of the House suddenly left Republican party and declared themselves as a new party? (I like Constitution Party.) Wouldn’t this give true conservatives the bargaining power they don’t have now?"

No, it would give the Democrats control of the House.

49 posted on 05/02/2012 6:48:54 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
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To: reaganaut

All sin is abhorrent to God, but not all sins are equally destructive of human society, not all sins are equally hard to repent of. “Be ye perfect as your Father is Heaven is perfect” is the ultimate standard as Our Lord said, or, as the Greek Fathers say of salvation in Christ, “What He is by nature, we are to become by grace.”

When you clean your house, any dirt left behind means it is not clean, but a quart of used motor-oil spilled on the wall-to-wall carpet is much worse (in the sense of being harder to get rid of and more odious to the guests who are about to arrive) than a dust-bunny under the sofa in the parlor. So, too, it is with sin (remembering that our goal is, by laying hold of Christ’s grace and the gift of the Holy Spirit, to be sinless), some are harder to get rid of and more odious, if not to God, then to our fellow men made in His image, in whom we are to see Christ.


50 posted on 05/02/2012 7:54:57 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Sopater

Either way, it was a failure to vote against evil.


51 posted on 05/03/2012 6:56:46 AM PDT by Pecos (In God we trust. All others - bring data.)
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