Since Romney's record makes him out to be a lying, left-wing, Progressive Liberal, that fight would include voting for someone else, a conservative.
Posted on 08/08/2012 5:35:12 AM PDT by IbJensen
LAS VEGAS, August 7, 2012, (LifeSiteNews.com) – Mitt Romney’s decision not to condemn mayors threatening to deny Chick-fil-A the right to do business was a missed opportunity and may cost him votes in November, a growing chorus of social conservatives warn.
Last Friday in Las Vegas, when a reporter asked the Republican presidential nominee about the controversy over Chick-fil-A and charges about a diplomat’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, he replied, “Those are not things that are part of my campaign.”
After company president Dan Cathy said he supported Biblical marriage, homosexual organizations called for a boycott, and several prominent Democratic mayors threatened to withhold permits for the Christian business to operate in their cities. The fast food chain broke sales records during the August 1 “Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” called by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
Christian radio talk show host Bryan Fischer asked, “Well, governor, exactly what was not a part of your campaign? The part about natural marriage? The part about freedom of religion? The part about freedom of speech? The part about freedom of entrepreneurship? What? If you will not publicly stand for those values, what will you stand for?” These questions were echoed by talk show host Mark Levin.
“Social conservatives have to make up their mind whether they should just simply stay at home, or go out there and vote for Romney,” Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League, said. “I’m astonished that he couldn’t even come to grips with the question. Leaving gays out of it, do we want the chief executives, the mayors of large cities trying to intimidate, using the power of government against private enterprises whose politics they disagree with? I think it’s a pretty simple issue.”
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Several conservative writers confessed to being flummoxed by Romney’s absence, calling it a “missed opportunity.”
“I don’t understand why Mitt Romney doesn’t just get his Secret Service detail and take his press corps down to a Chicken-fil-A and show solidarity with these people,” said columnist and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan. “It’s instinct. Reagan would have walked right on down there naturally.”
To excite the party’s base, Richard Viguerie, a conservative activist for more than 50 years, has suggested the GOP invite Dan Cathy to address the Republican National Convention. “Republicans should oblige President Obama’s desire to make same-sex marriage a central issue in the November election, and campaign unequivocally as the party of the traditional values Dan Cathy stood for,” Viguerie wrote.
Even prominent members of the party’s neoconservative wing, which has little time for social issues and generally supports the homosexual lobby, encouraged Romney to stop at Chick-fil-A. “Didn’t happen,” wrote Bill Kristol.
Some supporters of same-sex “marriage” have defended the beleaguered chicken chain.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a social liberal who considered running against Romney as an independent presidential candidate, said “it’s inappropriate for a city government or a state government or the federal government to look at somebody’s political views and decide whether or not they can live in the city or operate a business in the city or work for somebody in the city.”
Congressman Barney Frank, who recently “married” his boyfriend, agreed, “I don’t think government should discriminate against Chick-fil-A because of the views of the owner.”/
Even Antoine Dodson, the flamboyantly homosexual subject of a viral video, has said, “A lot of people from the gay community was [sic] actually telling me not to eat at Chick-fil-A and then you know, I started having these flashbacks, because I started believing like, the gay community — we have went [sic] from being bullied to becoming bullies,” he said. “And I don’t think that that is fair, because I’m like, aren’t we like in America? Like, we have freedom of speech.”
“I don’t think it’s American,” he said.
“Nice! The country is ‘burning down’ from a Socialist arsonist and people are actually thinking of ‘staying home’ on account of a ‘Chick-Fil-A’ fight the RATs started. Why don’t these people just pack up and leave all together, and leave those of who WANT TO REALLY FIGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY AGAINST THE SOCIALISTS GET TO WORK!”
Agreed! All of you who say you’re not going to vote for Romney because he doesn’t perfectly toe the conservative line are fools! Total, utter fools! If you don’t cast a vote AGAINST the lying Kenyan usurper, by pulling the lever FOR Romney, you are anti-American. Period.
If you don’t make a choice the choice will make you....
If you don’t make a choice the choice will make you....
Thanks for the support. What you see here is actually the type of thinking that got so many conservatives votes split in the primaries and why we got Romney in the first place. Now these same people are GOING TO STAY HOME because they don’t have the ‘candidate’ that they want (... and forget about the ‘real enemy’ - it’s all about the ‘pure’ candidate).
It’s like fighting a fire to keep the house from burning down, and someone doesn’t want to help because the ‘water hose’ is not the ‘ideal’ water hose!
Fricking Unreal!!!
If you are choosing to vote for the liberal Romney, go right ahead.
I do not vote for liberals, whether they have a D or R after their name.
Romney was pushed on us by the GOPe, and cowards in the Republican party that did not vote for conservatives because they fell for the lie “only Romney can beat Obama”.
Democrats get their base to vote because they embrace their base, not eschew them.
Oh, come on. He is not. A little too calculating of a politician for me but he must figure there is very little to help him here, and a whole lot that can hurt him. And there are a whole lot of issues where that’s the case. He’s choosing to focus like a laser beam on the economy because he calculates that’s all he NEEDS.
Gingrich was my choice too.
Now we are stuck with Obama light.
Thanks to Rick Santorum, who gets to speak at the convention as his reward for knocking Gingrich out.
If you’re that interested in changing the democrats then you’ll need to start voting for the democrats.
I’m actually interested in fixing the GOP and not interested in doing what your master says. Face it, little Mitty is a disaster and it doesn’t matter how desperate you are to blame someone else. Your chances were better with McCain than they’ll ever be with Romney and that’s just the way it is.
I would take a plant from the Democrats over the imbecile in there now.
I don’t like the fact that Romney...
- Is a mormon (yeah, I said it)
- Has some shady business stuff (who has offshore accounts?)
- Pushed for RomneyCare (as Santorum said, why would anybody think this guy is the one to challenge ObamaCare?)
- Doesn’t have any balls. If we could take Newt’s and somehow transplant them to Mitt, this election would be over with by October.
This election is a fight for the soul of America. The enemy sappers are inside the wire,and we have individuals who are concerned with the “purity” of the firebase commander who is leading the counterattack? Unreal!
I’ve been here at FreeRepublic for a very long time, and I thought I understood how we think here, our ideals, how we feel about America. If we don’t excise the cancer in the WH, we won’t have America as we once knew her. Not voting for Mitt Romeny is the same as voting for the lying Kenyan usurper who squats in OUR White House.
There is a travesty being committed in the name of Republicans and the 'good' citizens America. We have a Party, whose Leadership supports our Military; proudly sends them to defend America on our behalf; while they, themselves, cower in the face of the greatest evil to threaten our nation.
More than a travesty; their abdication of duty and Leadership - their cowardice to name the 'elephant in the room' (or, more to point, the 'donkey' - is a treason committed against America.
An altogether, pathetic history being written. . .
Nonsense.
“We the People” have this issue well in hand - Romney doesn’t have to try to get out in front of “his mob.” His cause, and ours, is best served by him doing nothing.
Now if we could only get him to roll back his statement on the Boy Scouts of America to “They are a private organization and may do as they see fit.”
Of all the candidates in running for the GOP Romney was only ahead of Ron Paul in my book...
I had every intention of not voting for him as I am sick and tired of the GOP forcing me to choose from real bad to just plain bad... It is still bad...
But the damage that Obama is doing to my grandkids future was starting to outweigh my revulsion. But Romney keeps trying to piss me off on a weekly basis. He keeps this up and he can KMA.
I agree that it would be good for Romeny to acknowledge the Tea Party and conservative base. He surely isn’t stupid, although he is a Yankee. He is a far cry from the socialist disaster that occupies the White House, however.
Some ppl will be voting for senators/congressman but not romney for president
C'mon... we're talking MA here... even though it was the wave year of 1994, he was up against Dead Kennedy. You don't defeat Kennedys in MA. The fact he flushed Dead out of Hyannisport to even campaign was rather eyebrow-raising.
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