Posted on 01/26/2012 11:19:20 AM PST by veritas2002
This morning I authored a Vanity Post declaring that under no circumstance would I vote for Romney.
Even though I am a lifelong Republican and have NEVER voted for a Democrat in my 60+ years, I am finished with the biased liberal media (including Fox) and the Republican establishment selecting my (losing) candidate. Here are some of my reasons:
In 1976, a sitting MODERATE Republican president named Gerald R. Ford ran against a two-bit peanut farming liberal Georgia governor and LOST.
1n 1992, a sitting MODERATE Republican president named George Bush ran against a liberal Arkansas governor with a history of raping and abusing women and LOST.
In 1996 a sitting MODERATE US Republican senator named Robert Dole ran against a sitting liberal president named William (stained blue dress) Clinton who was later impeached and disbarred and LOST.
In 2008, a long-term sitting MODERATE US Republican senator named John McCain ran against a do-nothing jerk US Senator from Illinois whose sole qualifying credential was as a community organizer for ACORN and student of Saul Alinsky and LOST.
And now in 2012, the Republican Party insiders, along with the liberal press are trying to once again pick our candidate - a MODERATE Massachusetts Governor who introduced socialized medicine to his State and guess what my friends...
We're gonna need EVERYONE that is not a rabid leftist to vote AGAINST Obama in this November election.
This is the exact same kind of crap/bullshit I read here right before the 2006 election ...which, as a consequence, gave us Nazi Pelosi and Dirty Harry Reid and the resultant housing market collapse...kicking off the recession depression we're now in.
People please....wake up and smell the reality of the deja vu crucial situation we're in here! We can NOT let Obama win a second term. It really IS a matter now of life or death. Our death, that is.
a non-vote is a vote for Obama.
No, it isn't. It's simply a non-vote. Things are what they are.
“We need a guy like Ron Paul to lead us!”
Moderates will not go for Ron Paul’s agenda. and defense conservatives(A major component of the Republican base) will never go for his radical isolationist rhetoric.
If Ron Paul wants to run on the republican ticket he needs to moderate his pitch in theses areas. Otherwise hes running for the wrong party nomination.
As for Mitt i think he can beat Obama and is clearly not as liberal as people make him out to be. His commitment to smaller Federal Goverment rhetorically is not inconsistent with his actions & even policy’s at the state level. This is for the simple reason that state Governments are empowered and thus potentially capable of doing a much if not most of what Washington D.C. cannot and should not.
I don’t pretend to call his State policy’s wise in Massachusetts but it was in fact Massachusetts a state, NOT Washington D.C. We must never forget that vital distinction.
It is indeed ill-rational for we who support states rights to in any way equate the two.
Oh, the ‘era’ is over.
So I can count on your worthless butts to back my ass up as it pertains to my tag-line?
If NOT, then just what era is over? Your sorry assed voting for whom? Or just what is over?
The post above yours stated:
the rebellion is on!
What rebellion? Against whom? What you got?
I got my tag-line. What you got?
No. We - as if Free Republic community forum is the only needer - needs somebody with a brain to lead “us”.
WOW! You guys were reading my mind!
This has been the most disgusting primary/caucus season I’ve ever seen. Romney’s folks are in their prime, and have some supposedly “conservative” recruits who have surprised me a great deal.
I held my nose and voted for Dole. I was so disgusted with Bush during his second term that I resigned from the Republican party. I swore that, during the last election when I voted for McCain, that would be the last time I would hold my nose and vote.
I will NOT hold my nose for them ever again.
They are on their own, as far as I’m concerned.
“tpaine and OWK and Mertz and Willie”
I tend to agree with you, except for Willie. Light rail is an expensive boondoggle, and Willie never, ever would agree with that. Good guy, though.
One more thing, voting for Romney is not much better than voting for Obama.
“Anyone that sits this election out is handing it over to our “enemy within”.”
I can’t tell you how many times in my lifetime that I’ve heard that, and obeyed it.
There comes a time when one has to take a stand, and this is the time for that.
Voting for Romney is voting for Obama’s goals, just at a slower pace.
Don’t you get that?
SCREWED.
Thanks, awfully.
No, really. I mean it sincerely.
"Yes, because "Just-winism" has worked out SO WELL so far...take your "lesser of two evils" mentality and pawn it off on someone born yesterday - because I wasn't. I refuse to hold my nose and vote. I don't vote AGAINST anyone. I vote for people I agree with. If there isn't one running then I don't vote."
which literally WILL be the death of us all.
Do YOU get it? Apparently not.
"I can’t tell you how many times in my lifetime that I’ve heard that, and obeyed it.
There comes a time when one has to take a stand, and this is the time for that.
Voting for Romney is voting for Obama’s goals, just at a slower pace.
Don’t you get that?"
Ya sure? Mc Lame really aint a Republican ya know.
I don’t know how old you are, and I don’t know how many elections in which you’ve been a participant.
I’m old...I’ve heard this crap from the elitists in DC most of my life. The very fact that Coulter, Talent, Rove, Sununu, Abrams, (especially Drudge) et al, would go nuclear on the day of the debate tells me all I need to know about them.
They aren’t about electing the best candidate, and they don’t care about this country.
They are all about electing the candidate who is best for them, and preserving their power.
Newt wouldn’t be good for them, but Romney has spread the wealth.
Funny but not surprising how you make no mention of Dubya the RINO. All the teethnashing around here regarding the primary meltdowns and yet there is near total silence as to Bush’s reign of error. To put it another way, Medicare Part D, No Child Left Behind, Amnesty etc etc put the GOP where it is today; in trouble. The first step to solving any problem is admitting there is one - Dubya needs to be repudiated.
12?
No problem-—I was a 16 year old Goldwater Kid in ‘64 and we appreciated all the support we could get.
Actually, I started in this nasty stuff at 12 myself, passing out Nixon buttons (yeah, he was a RINO but that’s what we had back then until Barry got going.)
I couldn’t agree more with your post. I’m staying home if mittens is the nominee. I have never seen such a coordinated attack by the GOP-e, media (including Our media like drudge) like the attack on newt. The GOP can go to hell
Since there is not a "NO" block to be checked on the national election ballot (and there should be), we all have three choices.
1. vote for whatever rino is on the ballot,
2. vote AGAINST the stain and the current regime (this means, unfortunately, that one is then FORCED to vote for the rino), or
3. Don't vote.
Both selections 1 & 2 mean a vote AGAINST the stain and the current regime.
The third choice means - in actuality - a vote FOR the stain and the current regime.
It comes down to this: if you do not go to the polls and choose, you eliminate one vote for the right wing and by definition the left (that would be the stain and the current regime) gains a vote.
Believe me, the folks over on DU are counting on just this! Think of it this way: a failure to vote puts one solidly in the camp of the stain supporters; all those college kids, the rabble seen in WI recently, the oh-so-smarmy soccer mommies, little chrissy mathews, keith old-er-man, rachel maddow, geogre sorros, the illegal aliens, the welfare recipients, and the like. Are you really sure you want to join and then support those groups???
And once the stain and his team begin to spend real money on this campaign, you're going to see a decided trend being forced down the right's throat to "just stay home".
Simple, really. A "stay at home" non-choice is a vote FOR the stain and the current regime.
I will die before I contemplate doing that.
“Obama is a Marxist. Newt and Mitt aren’t Marxists....”
Mitt is a marxist, look at his voting record...! Rush is wrong on this...!!!
Just-winism got us where we are. Place your blame correctly. People need more reasons to vote than “BEAT THE OTHER GUYS, THEY’RE MORE EVIL THAN US!!!!”
I so sorry....! My bad...!
I can see all sort of problems with Gingrich and his record, I disagree with Paul on several fundamental issues, and I think Santorum lacks the charisma to do well nationally. But, unfortunately, the establishment thinks the answer to our problems is to reelect Gerald Ford.
What we have is a constitutional crisis. What the U.S. has to offer the world is limited government. We need to return to that and solvency. Vote Ron Paul!
You haven’t been on last since last June, and your first couple of posts since then are Paultard posts? Really?
OK, I shouldn’t say this because I don’t want to get in trouble with the powers that be, but... He’d probably do ok. If we had him and a strong, radically conservative congress, he would probably do as he was told. Many of us, though, remember the way Newt can take the ball and run it up the middle, if you’ll forgive the football analogy. Would he be “a different idea every day?” Maybe. On the other hand, I think he is a much more thoughtful man than he was back in the day. He wouldn’t be where he is now if he wasn’t. He’s been thinking about this run for at least five years because, as you know, he gave it careful consideration in ‘08. He is the one that seems to understand that the day of the status quo ante is OVER. The day of stare decisis is OVER. The Cafeteria is Closed. We are at war, and we are fighting now over our own land. We MUST win, we MUST prevail, if we are to survive, and I don’t think Mitt gets that. He seems to realize it’s a tough time, yes, but not that the survival of our very nation is at stake.
I was being a little sarcastic. We need a leader who embodies much of what Dr. Paul believes, but with a conservative twist. I’ve always had a feeling that Dr. Paul would let us go down the crapper before he would violate one of his principles. The constitution is not a suicide pact. That’s why we have to OUTLAW some of this unconstitutional dissent. The part that rants about destroying us. That part. I call for the crime of Treason to once again be taken seriously.
You missed my point. I was providing a list of all RINOs who LOST elections.
I am not defending Bush but as I recall he won two elections: one against Gore and the other against Kerry.
++++++++I absolutely will NOT vote for or support the abortionist/statist socialist healthcare pushing Mitt Romney under any circumstances whatsoever!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7OQoBxZZPqU
The elite GOP establishment can KMA!!
NO MORE RINOS!!
We are the resistance!!
Rebellion is ON!!
Go, Newt!!+++++++++
When We The People are not able to choose are our own candidate we are no longer a republic and now have morphed into some liberal/fascist oligarchical hell.
I agree on firm principal the only alternative is to support those that hold our values whether third party, presidential, congress, governor or local mayor.
We are where we are now because we have compromised ourselves into this situation so we now potentially have a candidate chosen by the elite oligarchy who for most intent and purposes is a liberal socialist and ideologically identical to the democrat opponent.
This is my limit - NO MORE!
I truly belive that we are all going to find out and it will not be 'acting'. It will be survival instinct.
The worst that happens would probably be a good thing, collapse of the federal government and ascension of the states to fill the vacuum.
Not so. If Fed gov't collapses, then those currently in power, (think 0bozo) will seize the military and will declare that the constitution is void, and will create their own idea of gov't. Prove to me that this is not their plan already.
"Oath Keepers" or not, soldiers do what they are ordered to do. I for one, do not want to be downrange.
| Yossarian: | Those bastards are trying to kill me. |
| 1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder: | No one is trying to kill you sweetheart. Now eat your dessert like a good boy. |
| Yossarian: | Oh yeah? Then why are they shooting at me Milo? |
| Dobbs: | They're shooting at everyone Yossarian. |
| Yossarian: | And what difference does that make? |
| Dobbs: | Look Yossarian, suppose, I mean just suppose everyone thought the same way you do. |
| Yossarian: | Then I'd be a damn fool to think any different. |
Agree, can’t vote for Romney. If they run another one next go around I’m not voting for whoever that is either.8 Years of Mittens would do us in. That would mean 12 years of socialists running the country. If Obama is re-elected we can try and stop the slide at 8. Also Romney is not a moderate. He is a big time liberal democrat, the fix is in.
Agree, can’t vote for Romney. If they run another one next go around I’m not voting for whoever that is either.8 Years of Mittens would do us in. That would mean 12 years of socialists running the country. If Obama is re-elected we can try and stop the slide at 8. Also Romney is not a moderate. He is a big time liberal democrat, the fix is in.
Agree the republican party must be destroyed if they give us Mitt. Don’t let the slime weesel back in the door either because they have money. Keep the liberals out.
Either way a conservative 3rd party is needed along with true conservative news. Only a matter of time before the gov’t tries to silence rebellion on the internet imo. Hopefully not, but we all know all they care about is their power.
Another party is needed and now is the time to do it. When the 3rd party rises to power cut the elites off at the knees by taking their money. That would help end the elite world media that portrays itself as American, they are not. And we could get on with building a great nation again. The rich republicans have had their shot. Now it is time for ours.
Um...two RuPaul boostering posts today? You're pressing your luck.
But put down the Jack Daniels and try to pay attention...I said which one of THE CANDIDATES...that would be someone who ran for president in this election cycle. Man or woman. Anyone.
Not past beloved conservative icons or up-and-coming beloved icons. Candidates.
You have failed, tiny creature. You could not name a single GOP candidate who has not been labeled a “RINO” in this forum. Deflecting your pathetic incompetence won’t work. Oh, and running to your sandbox playmates won’t work either.
Bite me.
With relish.
“he won two elections”
Barely. And he bears quite a bit of responsibility for Obama’s election in 08.
Your Post #8 was spot-on.
The United States was the first country with a written constitution that limited the powers of the government. If we don’t keep the politicians to it, we lose everything! The process is our product. If the ends justify the means, then we revert to savagery.
x, you are right over the target. Assumptions are dangerous.
If you can't appreciate the pure beauty of the violin after hearing this, something's wrong with your ears.
Or you can get raw with these strings.
How about this gamechanger from America's Got Talent (which they SHOULD have won).
And finally, this, dedicated to the one and only rdb2, whose eyes are growing dim.
Either way, the violin is sweet yet LETHAL.
Do it!
I’ve emerged from my cocoon - a re-born ‘original intenter’!
(and remembered my password)
Question: Which of Clinton’s policies did Bush repeal?
CRA? Nope.
Steagall/Glass repeals? Nope.
I am 60 years old. I’ve seen quite a few elections.
“NOT voting against Obama will only get us four more years of this same shit....”
What you don’t get is that we are being manipulated by the DC crowd. Romney and Obama are a hair apart.
Please refrain from the use of profanity, though that is my sentiment, exactly.
Then we’ll call it the American Party...So when any party runs against our candidates, they’ll be running against the “Americans”!!!(I’m not joking...I’m deadly serious!)
I am doing the same if Romney gets the nomination. Another freeper said, to the effect, let the chips fall where they may, when it comes to the point where we have no choice, it is God’s war. I truly believe the left is consolidating its lock on power through its almost total entrenchment in media and academia. Now we have the ultimate power play-both electoral options are of the left.
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