Unfortunately, there is no "right" tree.
Ask yourself a simple question - of the two candidates that have a possibility of winning the election in November, which one would you prefer? I know, we're right at the same point we've been in every election since Reagan's second term, but that's the choice we've got. The republican party succeeded in dividing and conquering the conservative vote again, and we're stuck with Romney as a result.
I will hold my nose and vote for Romney. At least he's not a communist.
Thank you for your well thought out and reasonable response.
I would say, in todays world, most “Conservatives” are pretty much Libertarians, at heart. After all, a Libertarian advocates the doctrine of free will and is a person who upholds the principles of individual liberty especially of thought and action and believes in the US Constitution, wholly.
The other day I heard a caller, call in to Glenn Beck, discussing this very issue of voting for Romney and being afraid of his “Progressivism” and “voting for the lesser of 2 evils” AGAIN.
He made the point that for Libertarians, in that putting all this hope and faith into Romney to fix things is against the small government, Libertarian mindset. We should not therefore, expect ONE guy to fix this country. It will take voting Conservative at ALL levels of government, and getting in as many TRUE representatives as possible, and getting out the corrupt ones.
That said, because of who is in office now (at all levels) one man HAS done a lot of damage. Obama has bypassed so many departments and levels of government, to push forward HIS agenda. He has made Congress irrelevant. He has made the Constitution irrelevant. He has been acting above the laws and what he says goes. NO ONE IS STOPPING HIM. And considering what he’s done so far, if Obama gets any more time, I fear, we won’t have a country to fix. So in my opinion, it has to be ANYONE BUT OBAMA. With him gone, his entire administration is gone, and I feel the “radicals” who have done so much damage to this country, will be gone.
I also argue with my husband, who claims to be conservative, but yet speaks like an anarchist, when he says he’s willing to even vote in Obama again, so the whole thing will fully collapse and then we can rebuild it the way we want. I don’t know how many have this mindset, but I think it’s the most dangerous and naive of all. I can’t seem to get it through to him that Progressives have been building their “foundation” to rebuild as they want for decades. They WANT to collapse everything so they can rebuild what THEY want...their NWO/Global Governance. He’s fully aware of the NWO/Global thing, even more so than I, but why he can’t understand the “foundation” and who is more organized, takes control, I don’t know. Yes, we have the Constitution as our foundation, but we are not as organized and set to take over and rebuild as they are, IMO.
I just know I for one, don’t want it to totally collapse. And I still believe God STILL has his hand in all this and HE is still in control. I believe there is still hope WE can turn this around and take our country back. God willing. It took these a-hole Progressives 40+ years to bring us to this point...and I think many want (or expect) to just turn it around quickly and have the perfect candidates in place. It’s going to take time to bring it back, IMO...slowly, but if we continue to stay alert, and awake, and NEVER EVER go back to complacency, we CAN take this country back and turn things around.
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