Posted on 05/02/2012 11:39:55 AM PDT by 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.
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).
Very nice... and true.
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.
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’.
Obama does NOT have a history of appointing liberal judges. He has a history of appointing Marxist puppets.
No, it would give the Democrats control of the House.
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.
Either way, it was a failure to vote against evil.
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