Amnesty at Free Republic?

Having said that, JimRob did issue a General Announcement regarding supporters of Mitt in the 2012 election cycle - specifically citing his past support of abortion-on-demand. In light of our current troubles, I regret that Romney was not elected in either of the past two elections. But Jim did lay down the law in advance.

You must have missed the JR Amnesty. I was for Cain. Then I was for Newt. Then, when only Romney was left, and the choice was Romney or Obama, I was for Romney (or, much more accurately, against Obama). Even at that late hour, people were being disappeared daily for being pro-Romney (or, more accurately, anti-Obama).

I was expecting to be banned at any moment, as I was arguing the case that better to elect a RINO who would damage the Republic as opposed to a Marxist who would destroy it.

Then, out of nowhere, JR issued the amnesty, and it was OK to be for Romney (read: against Obama). So I never got banned.

I keep seeing posts that Romney would have been as bad as Obama has been. I argued in 2012 that the Republic could have survived a Romney presidency; but it could not survive another term of Obama. (More succinctly, We might get screwed by Romney, but we're sure to be f&*#ed by Obama.)

I will concede that it is possible that Romney would have destroyed the Republic. Yes, that was possible and will be forevermore left to conjecture....

What is no longer conjecture is what we ABOs (Anybody But Obama) types argued in 2012. We've surely been f&*#ed by Obama, and how! It is over, folks. We have passed the point of no return. There is no going back from here.

But we'll have plenty of time to bitch about what a bad president Romney would have been, as we wait endlessly in line for that IRS audit just because we're TEA, or for health care that will be denied just because we're TEA, or for processing into the camp just because we're TEA.

You must have missed the JR Amnesty.

Most likely, I was still banned at the time. I was on the Santorum bandwagon, and it was my opposition to Noot that got me banned. As for supporting Romney, I learned my lesson on that back in 2008. I saw many here line up to support McCain while condemning me for saying Romney was a better choice. And I still think that.

Regardless of Romney's negatives, the fact remains that there was not any other candidate in 2008 or 2012 that is better suited and qualified to fixing our economy as well as our government insolvency than Mitt Romney. I saw that as the most important issue in 2008, and I believe it still holds true today. Unfortunately for 2012, the biggest issue was Obamacare. And we happened to nominate the only candidate on the planet that removed that issue from the table.

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