[sonrise57]

Struggling and praying what to do in this up-coming election, particularly given my commitment to God to never vote for a pro-choice candidate, and my uncertainty about where Romney really is on issues that matter to me such as the life issue and other traditional values issues, the small government issue, the personal liberty issue, and so many other issues I am concerned about. This article by someone I truly respect has given me some clarity I think.

[Larry Lucido]

Is he also a blogpimp who posts blogs under News?

[JRandomFreeper]

ABL Anybody but Liberals. I won't vote for a liberal. Romney is a liberal.

/johnny

[faithhopecharity]

If we don’t actively support “the lesser of the two evils,” then we get “the greater of the 2 evils.” (Remember 2008?)

[Resettozero]

If you have indeed made a committment to God to never vote for a pro-choice candidate, I strongly recommend that you keep that vow.

[backwoods-engineer]

I greatly respect Dr. Groothius (pronounced "groat-heiss"), and have for years. Loved his book, "Truth Decay," and his interviews with Greg Koukl on Stand to Reason.

Nonetheless, I don't agree with his conclusions here.

I believe that me and my family will not suffer any more under Romney than under Obama, especially if conservatives (note not RINOs) control the Senate.

And I am not going to vote for Romney or Obama.

We must each do that of which we are convinced in our own minds.

[Resettozero]

Your respected professor thinks mighty highly of himself. He starts the article with “Why A Principled-Conservative, Bible-Believing Protestant, and Counter-cult Expert Will Vote for Mitt Romney.”

[ejonesie22]

I give up.

It is all in God’s hands now.

And I know he ain’t none to pleased...

[MHGinTN]

There is a simple way to make the decision: do you believe this Republic will survive four more years of little barry bastard boy?

I am seeing this nation so close to collapse now and the strategy of Obama and his henchghoons working so effectively to end the sovereignty of We The People that I do not believe America will survive if the sonofabitch is allowed to rule for four more years. I believe it is the right thing to do to try and survive to make a better fight of it rather than allow the final assassination of The Republic via the Cloward-Piven crushing spending and the fascist regime now growing at an alarming pace as the thuggery running the Federal Government work daily to divide this nation's people into tribes pitted against each other and fomenting mayhem and murder along racila lines.

[woofie]

Good post

(Politics) It is the art of the possible. Often we choose the lesser of two evil

This is REALITY

A principled vote in this instance is un principled

Feeling good about one’s purity will not be very comforting for long.

Christianity is about being in the world,not outside it and the REALITY of the world is there will be a choice to be made between Obama and Romney.
Its our job to make that choice .
If we are too good to make that choice we have punted

[Blackyce]

I don’t consider Mormonism a cult. I just consider it a separate religion. There are plenty of people of other faiths that I’d support for political office.

[DannyTN]

• Yes we often choose the lesser of two evils. However, this time, both of the main party candidates are serious evils. Both take us in directions we don't want to go, such as sodomy anbd abortion and socialism. There is not that much difference between them.
• Protest votes are not necessarily pointless. Write in votes probably are pointless, as they never get reported. However voting for a third party like the constitution party helps demonstrates how much disastisfaction there is and many votes could be picked up with the right platform. The two parties system doesn't change very often, but it has changed, and sometime parties die out and other parties grow stronger. Remember the Federalist party, or the Whig party?
• There is no reason to believe Romney is going to adopt the Republican platform, just because he carries the GOP label. Look at his governorship, his actions weren't GOP platform.
• Romney appointed extreme liberal judges as Governor and almost twice as many democratic judges as republican. That's not going to change.
• Romney used executive orders as governor, including personally approving gay marriages when he didn't have to.
• I agree that no one should be Mormon and that Obama doesn't have a credible Christian witness. That makes both candidates equal and undesirable.
• We will experience government takeover of healthcare under either candidates. Romneycare will be a federally incented state program as opposed to Obamacare which is a federal program. But in practice it will be no different.
• Both are big government spenders and both will try to raise taxes. Romney did when he was Governor.
• Romney may be better on the military than Obama, and will be less supportive of Islam. However, the checks and balances are coming into play. Obama is already receiving pushback from both congress and SCOTUS. Romney won't be. Romney will have an easier time implementing a liberal agenda at this point than Obama will.
• If Romney is elected it will be 2020 before Republicans run somebody else. And then people will be angry with Republicans because of Romney's liberal policies.
• I'm voting Goode. Not Romney. And Not Obama.

[Antoninus]

Looks like Romney found this guy's price.

Expect to see a lot more articles like this from Bible-belt "leaders". Romney will founder in the South without some ginned up enthusiasm. And the only thing that will create that sort of enthusiasm for a Massachusetts liberal in the South is cold hard cash.

[fieldmarshaldj]

EPIC FAIL.

[Colonel_Flagg]

1. Politics is not the church. It is the art of the possible. Often we choose the lesser of two evils, which is also the evil of two lessers. It is a fallen world. Get over it. Be romantic and optimistic in the primaries (as I was with Michele Bachmann); then get realistic when things narrow down.

"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? God forbid." - Romans 6:1-2(a)

[EternalVigilance]

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt - Republican conservatives can't handle the truth about Romney

[EternalVigilance]

This guy is being played for a fool.

[EternalVigilance]

It’s a very sad thing to watch Christians, even “leaders,” become moral relativists right in front of your eyes.

These personal departures from self-evident truth and principle represent one of the first and most damaging evils perpetrated by the Mitt Romney candidacy.