Rita, God states clearly in scripture to His people that they are to make the choice between Him or their own ways: ‘I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live.’ - Deuteronomy 30:19
While God takes responsibility for all things, including evil - (as He is in charge of all things) - like any Father - often He lets His children make their own choices and suffer the consequences of them. Therefore the Curse.
God did not set Romney in front of us ala David, nor - not even as Saul. Romney is the result of this people choosing for themselves the constant lesser of evils and the other half demanding a king - and making government their god.
What is set before us is due the character of our people. The solution - is being ridiculed, even on a forum said to be dedicated to the Conservative and Christian way. God allowed it - even to the point that this people sat on their hands and watched a minority thrust Him from our culture while compromising with the same for tolerance and expedience.
Consequences follow. Obama and Romney both being sums of that equation.
Everyone should vote as they are led, but let us not delude ourselves into ascribing Romney as an anointing from God. He is the result of a lukewarm people and faith that would make him king to replace the Marxist king, make no mistake about that.
We continue to choose what we of ourselves have decided is right before our own eyes and void the prism of God and scripture. We have chosen death and cursing to be our lot and have deceived ourselves into believing we are choosing life and blessings.
My dear friend, I believe we agree on the fundamentals heart to heart. So that I and mine might live, as scripture requires, I must accept a drink of vinegar, and support a lesser candidate, so that I and mine might live, as Deuteronomy speaks.
Please don’t mistake what I said for I said Mitt is but a reflection of the poor condition of the “better” half. Set before us, is the reflection of half the people. You are so correct to say he is no annointed one, but for us infrared he is the appointed one, given our sorry state.
I think how “good” Christian people poured out off their homes, moved away for “employment opportunities”, leaving their extended family and relatives behind, mothers left the home for “careers”, leaving their children behind, even infants to day care, children to state schools, trading instruction in the faith, family time, shared meals, for soccer practice, football practice, extracurricular busyness, and because we gave God an hour or two on most Sundays but not even all, we deign to think our governance should reflect “good” values and better candidates.
So I agree with you, but I see Obama, frankly, as possibly the seed of Hagar and Romney as simply a Gentile, outside the people of God. There is a difference. The Caliphate enabler isn’t Romney. One was to make war forever, and I see the Middle East on fire, and drone locust in the sky.