Posted on 04/10/2012 6:20:28 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
With all of the chicanery that the GOP-E has done over the last year, and helped the media to do over the last year, there's NO WAY I'm surrendering to these creeps.
Romney is *NOT* our candidate! He's their candidate, we're NOT REPUBLICANS! We are conservatives and constitutionalists FIRST. We believe in small government! Not this big government crap that Romney has peddled for the better half of the last decade or two, and I certainly can't do any more nose holding at the ballot box.
Voting for a big government republican is the real world equivalent of cutting off my nose to spite my face. That I refuse to do.
Reforming the GOP into a small government conservative party doesn't just mean voting for the right tea partiers at the right time. It means refusing to vote for the wrong big government republicans at the wrong time. We need to starve the beast of votes. We need to teach the republican party that if they have any shot at electoral success in the future, they only have one viable path. Bold colors BOLD COLORS BOLD COLORS
... is a totally mistaken summation on your part. You sound like, who was it, Dan Rather who said "Americans had a tantrum last night" when Republicans won? Tantrums are for children, and accusing your compatriots of having them when they reject how you want them to vote, is for people who think they're smarter than everybody else. It graitifes your ego to think in terms of tantrums, when the reality is you're out in left field -- tantrums have no more to do with it than baseball has to do with cats.
My voting against both Obama AND Romney and going third party is a thought-out strategy for the specific purpose of CHANGING THE DIRECTION OF THE GOP.
Take your "tantrum," sit on it, and rotate.
The Executive is just one branch of government, not the king.
Elect conservatives in both houses, send conservative legislation to Romney and hold his feet to fire. If he wavers, oppose and defeat him in the next primary.
Obama is a whole order of magnitude worse than almost any alternative.
Sitting this one out, not defeating Obama, is not wise; it’s a childish tantrum.
Sure, you'll be voting AGAINST Obama, but don't look now, but you'll also be voting FOR something. You'll be voting FOR taking the Replican party so far left that it is headed by a guy philosophically FOR: state-run health care, tax-funded abortion on demand, forced acceptance of the homosexual agenda, appointment of liberal activist judges (see Romney's DOCUMENTED record on his appointments in Massachusetts), and cap-and-trade glogal warming regulation.
Voting for Romney is as nuts as voting for Obama.
May I suggest: vote ABOOR so that whichever bastard wins, wins with the most anemic plurality possible and therefore goes into office as politically weakened as possible.
THANK YOU for stating common sense. And PISS ON people who think voting against Romney is the same as indulging a "temper tantrum."
Also, in the words of a great American patriot: PISS ON MITT ROMNEY.
“May I suggest: vote ABOOR so that whichever bastard wins,”
I just don’t see Obama and Romney as moral equivalents. Romney is way better than Obama; although not nearly the President I would like.
Say I want a “10.” Obama is a “0.” Romney is a “5.”
I’m not promoting Romney as a 9 or 10. I see him for what he is. But I’d rather a 5 in the presidency than a 0.
Anyway, my primary is in June, and I’ll be voting for Newt along with several members of my family. This isn’t over yet, and we still have a convention coming up.
Like I said earlier, a vote for Romney, is a vote against Obama, and that’s all that counts right now.
Furthermore, I’m voting for Romney, not because I endorse his positions, but, because I’m against everything that Obama stands for.
The biggest reason, and perhaps the only reason to support Romney, is because of the biggest issue of our time, that being the economy. Romney is infinitely more qualified than Obama when it comes to economic issues.
When it comes to the rest of the issues, I’ve already stated that, there are ways to oppose or neutralize Romney, the biggest way being keeping a republican house, and electing a republican senate.
The other means of controlling or neutralizing Romney, is through the tea-party type protests, and, hopefully, Romney and the republicans will be listening again, like they were back in 2009 and 2010, when the tea-party basically won congress for them.
BTW, saying NO to Romney may make you feel good, but, there is nothing good about helping to re-elect Obama.
Godspeed Newt!
A vote "for" Romney means you and others are supporting his agenda. You cannot say your "against everything that Obama stands for", and then turn around and vote for his twin.
....“The greatest paradigm shifts in a culture rarely come about as a result of the majority, but usually from a minority who refuses to compromise their beliefs.”....
I will not support someone who is opposed to all my beliefs and is more than deceptive in what he spews from his mouth...not now...not ever.
You go right ahead and hitch your wagon to Romney's sled....support him all you want...and I would expect that would mean your pocketbook as well...that is your right as a voter....I will not.
And BTW a vote for Newt is a vote "for" a candidate far far superior to either Romney and certainly Obama.
So Go Newt Go!!!!!
A vote "for" Romney means you and others are supporting his agenda. You cannot say your "against everything that Obama stands for", and then turn around and vote for his twin.
....“The greatest paradigm shifts in a culture rarely come about as a result of the majority, but usually from a minority who refuses to compromise their beliefs.”....
I will not support someone who is opposed to all my beliefs and is more than deceptive in what he spews from his mouth...not now...not ever.
You go right ahead and hitch your wagon to Romney's sled....support him all you want...and I would expect that would mean your pocketbook as well...that is your right as a voter....I will not.
And BTW a vote for Newt is a vote "for" a candidate far far superior to either Romney and certainly Obama.
So Go Newt Go!!!!!
It’s not a GUESS that Obama will march headlong as fast as he can to continue dismantling this country and doing a fast end-run around the Constitution. That’s FACT. It’s already begun and periodically we get a glimpse of what he has in mind for the next 4 years should people be misguided enough to vote for him. Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it. I never said he was unbeatable, unstoppable or any of the things you have said. What I AM saying, however, is that those who deem themselves above voting for the Republican candidate because he’s not __________ enough for them (fill in the blank with the adjective of your choosing or your favorite social issue) are playing with fire because if he wins the nomination he will be the ONLY candidate running against O. with any chance of winning. That’s not a guess either. It’s fact. I never roll over, but I’m not giving up our country by cutting my nose off to spite my face. Voting AGAINST O. IS fighting back!!
Agreed on that! Our state nominated Santorum. Frankly none of the candidates make me jump up and down with glee, but at this point Mickey Mouse is better than 4 more years of the Zero.
Solid points. I will only vote Romney if he ends up being the nominee. I did not vote for him in the primary and would not vote to GIVE him the nomination, but if he’s the only game in town at the end of the day and the only thing standing between us and evil incarnate, well, for me that’s a no-brainer. The Tea-Party will continue to be a factor, but it’s just not strong enough right now to take on and WIN against a major political machine like the two party system we have now.
Keep in mind Mickey Mouse is in favor of recalling Gov. Walker in Wisconsin.....
“He is supporting conservatives.”
Conservatives like Obama it appears
I’ll be voting for Newt in the primary.
But I’ll vote for whoever the nominee is against Obama. It’s a no-brainer for me.
I remember very similar arguments when Ford, instead of Reagan, was the nominee against Jimmy Carter. And a lot of folks stayed home while Carter won a close race.
We are still paying for the disaster of the Carter presidency. I think it is most unwise to repeat with Obama.
There is Newt and I don't understand why conservatives are simply throwing in the towel and supporting Romney....it's like they cannot get of the nedia train that's determined to take us all toward another 4 yrs. of Obama....
I don't think I'm the only one that has stated no to Romney....and I simply cannot be convinced , if Newt drops out, that I could face God by supporting Romney. Simply can't put my hand to the voting both and do that as Romney's devotion to that which clearly opposes Christianity will validate to Mormons acceptablility and they will promote that they have won that approval by Romney.s win....overwhelmingly if he wins.
So I have both political and religious reasons for NOT voting for Romney.....just cannot do so D-fender. And none have convinced me this is something God would have me to do. In fact voting for either Romney or Obama is voting for a heathen President.
Thanks for your reply.
For me, I don’t think it’s anything more than doing the right thing, or at least the most right thing, at the ballot box for the future of my country.
And I’m with you on being perplexed at voters not selecting Newt instead of Romney; but, these are the facts we have to act on. I’ll still vote for Newt in the primary and pray a lot.
And I respect your views even though I don’t share them.
That is wise.
Not sure to whom you are referring, but in any event the recall or not of a specific governor doesn’t trump seeing O.’s backside come January 2013. Not for me. He has to go - that’s a non-negotiable for me as I would hope it would be for every conservative in this country. The stakes are just too high to play “Yes, but....” with every Republican nominee. There are things I didn’t like about Bush - both father and son, and yet I pulled the lever on both because the other choice was unthinkable. It has nothing to do with liking everything someone stands for and everything with saving the country.
I think you summed it up concisely here:
“The stakes are just too high...”
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