Posted on 05/04/2012 6:31:27 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
My FRiends, we might as well face the reality that we the combined pro-life conservative movement and tea party coalition have lost this round (the presidential election) in the larger battle to reclaim our constitution and our inalienable rights. Rove, Romney and the GOP-e have successfully destroyed and driven off each and every pro-life conservative tea party candidate from the race and all have surrendered to the Romney camp. It is no secret that Romney is not one of us. There is absolutely no doubt that he has never accomplished a single conservative thing in his entire political career (one term as liberal governor of liberal Massachusetts and six years campaigning for president). In Massachusetts, he undeniably championed abortion, gay rights, global warming, gun control, big government statist mandated/socialized health care programs, liberal judges, TARP, bailouts, stimulus spending, debt limit increases, etc, and even though he's recently claimed a complete reversal in political beliefs and no longer despises pro-life conservatives or the time of Reagan-Bush, I still don't trust him. He still stubbornly holds on to some of his statist beliefs, like global warming, gays in the military, RomneyCare, stimulus spending, etc, so there is no way I can vote for him or join Cain, Perry, Bachmann, Newt or any others who are endorsing him. But I will not act on my prior promises that I would actively campaign against him if he wins the nomination. Our combined movement is already torn and splintered and is going to have to be mended if we're going to have any impact whatsoever against the liberal/progressives and statists after the election. To that end I propose a TRUCE among our conservative forces during the remainder of this election cycle.
We conservatives have already lost the presidency to either the Dems or the GOP-e, and if we tear the tea party apart, if we tear the pro-life movement apart, if we tear FR apart then we lose it all. It's far more important that we re-unite and live to fight another day. Even if we can't vote for a true conservative for the presidency, it's doubly important that we all turn out on election day or sooner and drag our friends, neighbors, relatives, co-workers, etc, to the polls to vote straight conservative for every slot on our ballots. The only way we can win our freedom back is to vote out the liberal progressives and vote in as many liberty loving conservatives as is humanly possible into every elected office at every level of government all across this great land. To prevent a total loss to the dems or GOP-e, we must continue the tea party rebellion into November and beyond. Whatever else you may do, you must turn out and vote straight tea party conservative down ticket!!
We must continue expanding our inroads into the state houses and into every elective office in the land. We must continue building on our majority in the house and we must retake the senate!! We must help the conservative governors and state legislatures to fully restore the ninth and tenth amendments and reclaim the real political power away from the federal usurpers and return it to the states and the people per the constitution!! This way, regardless of who wins the presidency, we can cut his unconstitutional expansionist movements off at the knees. And if any executive, civil officer or judge dares commit impeachable offenses, we must hold the majorities so we can impeach and remove them from office!!
And we must salvage and rebuild and continue strengthening our conservative pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-borders, pro-constitution, pro-small government, pro-defense, pro-liberty movements and our tea party coalition. And we must stop ripping each other apart!!
Therefore I hereby propose a general truce among our conservative forces!!
The Republic we save may be our own!!
As far as FR's finances go, we're in the same boat as the rest of the economy and will have to make do with what we can raise. Fortunately, the big debts we ran up a couple years ago have been paid off. We borrowed approx $20,000 a few years ago from two FReepers to fund our national convention, plus we ran up another $20,000 in legal fees during the last couple of years fighting off Righthaven. But those are now behind us and paid off. We also did quite a bit of traveling each year for the last three years on cross country tea party tours, but I think we can now cut that back and remove it from our budget requirements. If we're fortunate enough to not incur any additional legal costs or equipment costs (other than what we've already planned), and cut the travel and a few other areas, we should be able to tighten our belts enough to weather the storm even if we fail to reach our short term fundraising goals.
Whatever the outcome of the elections, we are prepared to roar into 2013 with the tea party chewing up liberal/progressives and RINOs and raising hell in our never ending fight for liberty!!
We are the resistance!!
Let's take the enemy head-on instead of fighting each other!!
Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!!
Her eldest sister will be 37 by the time she is born
That is one huge age range - and yeah, we got careless
If you desire to root out the RINOs from GOPee leadership, it can not be done with out control of committee chairs - establishing honest, conservative, constitutionalists elected to committee chairmanships in every district in the country should also be a top priority.
Their votes can help kick the GOPee out of leadership of the GOP party(only such elected officials get to vote on leadership).
Geez. What EnglishCon said is now a zottable offense in your mind?
What has he said that makes you believe he's unstable?
. . . now certainly beyond the will to be President as he has stated. He simply wants to go out with his voice heard...and said as much to that affect.
Here is the interview from ABC. If one ignores the lead in, and reads just what Dr. Paul said, one must admit that he seems rather hopeful, if not convinced.
"An amazing admission tonight from Ron Paul.
In an exclusive interview, I asked him: “When you lay your head on your pillow at night, do you see yourself in the Oval Office?”
“Not really,” he said.
He went on to say that he’s not blind to the odds, but they are “not as slim as they were 25 years ago.”
There are many ways to interpret this interview. Of course the LSM is bound to see it the way that best presents their agenda.
Further he'd have no chance against Obama at all....Romney's going to have his hands full as well.
According to polls I've seen, Paul does at least four or five points better than Romney against BO, and his appeal is to a much wider electorate.
More from the ABC interview: "I also asked if he though (sic) he was too old to be president. He’d be 81 at the end of his first term.
He said, “Freedom is a youthful idea,” his health is good, and he challenges any of his rivals to a physical fitness test.
He also jokingly accused me of ageism.
“Be careful,” he said. “There are laws against that.”
One other thing, wouldn't you trust Paul to nominate constitutionalists to the Supreme Court as opposed to Romney? I still don't understand why a Freeper would even contemplate a vote for Romney and not consider voting for Paul in the primary if he has a primary vote. I just don't get it. Why are we giving in to Romney before the final primary?
Dang that's 148 Trimesters in the womb.....I bet the mother is going to get real tired. ;)
Whatever, you can order any damned thing you want but if it ain't on the menu, you get NOTHING.
So by writing-in your fantasy candidate, you get nothing.
You are not helping, you are not participating, you are just being a whiny brat bent on putting your own way above the more pragmatic choice.
That's fine, be that whiny brat. But realize that you help only Obama by doing so.
Yeah, you will have sent a message.. straight to the trash can.
Bully for you.
Thank you, Jim. You are speaking wise words.
If we bite and devour each other, we’ll end up looking like Barack Obama’s dog sandwich.
See post #181
see post #181
smart move
Remember Abraham and Sarah. They were even older. lol
smart move
And the media has been holding fire on Romney until he sews up the nomination. Soon as he does, be prepared for the excrement dump from the media.
/johnny
Well said.
Well - she got a bit tired with conception!
Couldn’t resist, though we are both shitting bricks here. I mean, we’ll both be nigh on 80 before she sods off and gets her own life/
I saw that - thanks. I will research for my state.
JimRob said to “vote straight conservative for every slot on our ballots.” Explain exactly how are you voting straight conservative when you pull the lever for someone as librul as Romney? You ain’t. You’re voting republican. Bully for you, stuck on stupid and staying part of the problem.
There will likely be an election in 2016.
What’s doubtful is whether there will be more than one name on the ballot.
Romeny might be a “serious American”....but it’s what he’s “serious” about that bothers me...
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