Posted on 02/08/2012 9:22:21 AM PST by jazusamo
I disagree. People can be "converted" to self-respect and personal responsibility, just as they can discover a religious faith. Sometimes both at once! Star Parker is an example, but certainly not the only one.
However, if a candidate believes that "some people" lack the basic capacity for personal responsibility, or can't be allowed to experience the consequences of their errors, he's always going to be a nanny-stater. That might still be better than someone like Zero, who hates the US, but it's not going to defeat him.
“Running on his own record without MSM and GOPEe backing leaves him behind Newt, Rick or maybe even Paul.”
It probably would leave him behind Paul. Of the four remaining Republican candidates, only Bishop Willard stands for nothing, or everything, whichever you prefer. His very malleability and emptiness is probably what endears him to the party machine. They figure they can fill the void, and I am sure he is up for anything in exchange for the right consideration. He is exactly the WRONG candidate at a time the USA is morphing into a lawless authoritarian-totalitarian state.
“Romney and the RINO establishment are sucking the life out of our nation’s chance for a true recovery. They are fiddling with politics-as-usual — while the One World conspiracy of financiers escalates unopposed.”
Hell, Bishop Willard Romney and the GOP machine are integral parts of that conspiracy. The transnational anti-sovereignty types are trying to set up a win-win election with Lightworker Hussein and Bishop Willard. Heads they win, tails we lose.
I'm going out on a rather secure limb here. There's a relatively low number that are content to permanently suck at a gov teat. And they are the last that would ever darken a voting booth doorway.
Yes many people have changed and Star Parker is a great example but I believe they are generally the exceptions.
I also believe it would be very difficult for a candidate to focus enough energy and time to convince enough to make a big difference but maybe not impossible, possibly if another Ronald Reagan type came along it could be done.
I used to believe that but am not too convinced of that now. It would probably be true if we get back to a booming economy but that doesn’t look like it’ll be happening anytime soon.
I bow to your perspective. It's disgusting, is it not?
It is disguting, depressing and pervasive. Few people are aware of how dangerous such a drift from sovereignty to globalist bureaucracy is. It is insidious.
Maybe Mitt needs to spread some bucks around to the TeaParty folks? I’d put a sign in my yard for $10k!
Do tell, I wish some serious research and surveying could be done in this area, but I've always suspected that the sort of people who sponge off the system are not the sort of people who can rouse themselves to bother voting. Unless they are actively paid "walking around" money. I really don't believe there is an "army of the poor" out there and I don't think Obammy can count on his "youth army" to turn out for him again. Nor all those white boomers who voted for him to expiate their racial guilt.
How would the economic climate change that mindset?
If you feel entitled to free _______<-—fill in the blank. If you believe the gov OWES you this, then it is highly unlikely you would place a economic condition on that entitlement.
That’s kind of the way that entitlement mindset works. It’s free, without condition. Unless they have to report to the voting booth to collect that check, you wont see them there.
$10T in deficit spending buys a lot of votes at no cost to the administrator.
I think that's coming right after the Minority Perpetrated Hate-Crime, and the Homosexual Pedophilia studies.
An excerpt from a recent interesting article:
Obama’s Department of Justice has come under fire for refusing to enforce Section 8 of the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA), also known as the Motor-Voter law. Section 8 requires states to remove the names of ineligible felons, the dead, and non-residents from voter rolls. At the same time DOJ has been vigorously enforcing Section 7 which compels states to register voters at welfare offices.
I figured that was going to be a WND article.....
And then undole them!
Romney is awfully like Obama.
Missouri - Michigan, what’s the difference?
bttt!
Romney has to go scorched earth on Santorum now. He’s let him win unscathed. Romney can only win when he degrades his rivals because unlike Newt Gingrich, Romney is running on empty ideas, no solutions and a liberal resume’.
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