Posted on 08/17/2012 3:40:53 PM PDT by mkjessup
I've been on FR since 2003. Hard to believe next March will be my 10th year here, assuming I don't get zotted for one reason or another, lol
To that handful of detractors who would LIKE to think this is my opus, guess again suckers - I would never give you the satisfaction of it. Now that we have that out of the way, why this vanity?
First of all, I'm posting this in News/Activism not because this is sourced from a network, newspaper, etc., but because I've noticed that nobody else worries about posting their vanities in the 'Personal/Blogger' section, so WTH should I?
Now for the purpose of my writing today: after a great deal of soul searching and I might add, a goodly amount of prayer, I have come to the conclusion that my vote in November must and will be cast for the GOP ticket of Romney and Ryan. I did not reach this decision easily. Even a casual review of my past posts will reveal that I have reviled, ridiculed, lambasted and sneered at Mitt Romney with the best of them. I've posted my own home brewed graphics to the laughs of my fellow FReepers, I have been steadfast in saying 'no damn way' would I ever even consider voting for that liberal Republican from Massachuetts, no way would I reward the GOP elites with my vote after they've pissed on conservatives from sea to shining sea. The Party of Reagan is no more, let no one deceive you. We as conservatives are more at home in the Tea Party, and yet what was for a short while the natural home for conservatives, i.e. the Republican Party is an unfamiliar neighborhood, a place that sometimes looks like the place we remember, but upon a second glance, we realize that everything is different now, everything has changed.
Now there are good and Godly conservatives who in a perfect world, WOULD be viable candidates for the Presidency, there is no need to list them all here, we all have our favorites and we all know who we would prefer to be voting for. Our own Tom Hoefling would be a better President than the miserable Kenyan sonuvabitch that is stinking up the White House right now, hell *I* would be a better President than that despicable usurper and liar, and so would most of you, my fellow FReepers.
Now I can recite (and in the past, I have) endless reasons as to why I could not and would not vote for Mitt Romney. In many ways it galls me no end to have reached the conclusion that my own Constitutional duty is to vote for a guy that I had sworn never to vote for. It really REALLY starches my shorts however I have had to question my own perspectives, my own views and ask myself the question, "can I honestly justify another four years of what one of my heroes Senator Joe McCarthy would certainly have labeled a 'Communist regime'?
I cannot do that. I do not like the presumptive GOP nominee, I do not agree with many of his past positions. However I cannot deny that one and only one of the two major party candidates for President is going to be sworn in next January. It will either be that treasonous little bastard 0bama, or it will be Mitt Romney. Anyone, and I mean ANYBODY, who thinks that Tom Hoefling, Virgil Goode, or any other non-'Rat/non-GOP candidate is going to be sworn in as our 45th President next year, I will personally bet $100,000 against that happening at any odds they wish, because that is how likely it is that NEITHER 0bama or Romney will end up being elected in November. I won't lose one dime on that sort of wager.
So how do I justify voting for the GOP and Romney this time around? Well, some things I do NOT believe about Romney is that he hates America, that he hates our capitalist system, that he wants to weaken our national defense, sell out our allies and reward our enemies. I don't agree with nor support his religious faith. But his belief in the tenets of Mormonism is quite frankly between him and God. Now while it is easy to find all sorts of things about the Mormon faith that fly in the face of basic traditional Christianity, if the choice is between a closet-crypto Muslim in the White House, and a church going, charitable, prayerful Mormon who doesn't cheat on his wife, doesn't smoke dope, doesn't even drink (is that true? I'm not sure but I think Mitt is a tee-totaler), I'm pulling the lever for that Mormon guy.
Picture all of America on a gigantic airliner, streaking through the sky, when word comes back from the cockpit that Captain 0bama has never even flown a plane of this size or any size, he's been reading the instruction manual from a hidden teleprompter on top of the instrument panel, we're headed for a bad patch of CAT (Clear Air Turbulence) and the illustrious fake pilot is going to try and fake his way through that turbulence, and it is a foregone conclusion that "we're all gonna die!" - but up in first class (of course, lol) Mitt Romney stands up and informs everyone that he IS a licensed pilot, and that he can get our airliner away from the turbulence, down to a safer altitude, get us back on the proper heading, and land safely at our destination. He offers to take the controls. SOME passengers question him "have you ever flown a plane like this?" and he answers honestly "no, not quite this size, but I AM a pilot, I HAVE flown in difficult circumstances before, and I've got more skills than that fake pilot up in the cockpit that we are about to crash with". Who the Hell is going to argue against that logic? No other pilots on board. No parachutes. And indeed, a fool and an oaf at the controls of the cockpit. WTF do we have to lose?
And another analogy that I've already posted recently, which is that conservatives need to do what the Western allies did in World War II, they did not particularly like Joe Stalin, in fact they knew him to be a rotten communist sonvuabitch but the "enemy of our enemy was our friend" (or at least a convenient ally) and the GREATER enemy was in Berlin, in the form of Hitler and we needed Stalin and his troops to attack the Nazis from the East, and that is why we sent them tons of lend-lease assistance to help them accomplish that. And what kind of fools would have urged a different course in that war? A course of telling Stalin and Soviet Russia that they were "on their own" and they would receive no assistance from us? Can you imagine for just a moment if Nazi Germany had prevailed on the Eurasian continent, the Swastika flying all the way from London to Vladivostok?
Now having painted that sort of grim picture of alternate history, I think we can agree that for all of Mitt Romney's faults, he is not a Joe Stalin, he may be a liberal but he is no Communist.
Can we say the same for 0bama and his crew of America-hating scumbags?
Now a powerful factor in my decision to support the GOP ticket was in fact, the selection of Paul Ryan as Romney's VP running mate. Now Paul Ryan is nobody's fool. If there was anybody I wanted to have the ear of 'President Romney' it would be Vice President Paul Ryan. Everyone keeps saying "if Romney would just move to the right", well I believe Paul Ryan is the best person to accomplish that task. They seem to have a good chemistry and that bodes well for the success of their ticket. The polls show Romney-Ryan up, and 0bama and the 'Rats freaking and shrieking as their numbers decline.
Now I have myself made the argument in the past that the only difference between Romney and 0bama is that 0bama is driving us to the edge of the cliff at 100 mph, and Romney is going to reduce our speed to a thrifty 55 mph. And even IF that were to be proven true, I'm not in any hurry to reach the edge of that cliff.
Now in closing, I ask the following question: how many of us would clench our teeth and pull the lever for Gerald Ford, or Bob Dole, or any other establishment RINO if it meant the end of 0bama? To get that filthy Communist out of the White House, I would (to paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill) 'consider writing in the name of the devil himself', and so for that reason my friends and FRiends, I will support and vote for the GOP ticket of Romney & Ryan in November, not because everything about it excites and pleases me, but because I cannot be a party to another 4 years of the Kenyan traitor staining and besmirching the Office once held by the greatest President of all history, Ronald Wilson Reagan. I submit that Reagan would vote for Romney. We can be assured that Sarah Palin is going to vote for Romney. So will Newt Gingrich. So will Rick Santorum. So IF I am making a mistake by casting my vote for the GOP this year, I will be in good company.
Thanks for your kind consideration.
Mark Jessup
It sure is incredible. I sure hope he doesn’t screw things up for us. If he does, this guy is going to go down in history as one of the dimmest bulbs on the planet.
I agree with your take on it SickOfLibs.Bush was a doormat that read: RINOS WELCOME, have a seat...If Romney moves to the left,unopposed, then buh bye, America. I have posted many times that I despise Romney, but Obama will destroy the country. Why? Because the GOP has already proven that they will do nothing to stop Obama. We need Obama to lose, and then the Tea Party needs to picket D.C. constantly.....relentlessly. In fact, the Tea Party needs to beat the $hit out of the GOPe.
” Bush was a doormat that read: RINOS WELCOME, have a seat...”
Conservatives.....especially those against illegal immigrants
get lost.....you are racist!
I’m getting angry all over again just thinking about it : )
Let me just run one thing by you.
If Romney legalizes the 20 to 35 million illegal immigrants here, it will result in somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 to 130 million foreign nationals being added to our citizens in under twenty years.
Now, we can hardly combat the political weight extended to the 13% of our populace that is Hispanic now. What happens when that 13% suddenly becomes 35 to 40%?
Game! Set! Match!
Do you see why I’m not giggling with delight, that we’ve got another first class RINO headed for the White House?
This is just one of many massive game changers that guys like Romney can put into motion, that we will NEVER be able to undo.
We are essentially in Check-Mate right now. We have no move.
You guys can kid yourself that you do. You don’t.
I’m not saying that to give you a hard time. We’re on the same side. I just think folks are kidding themselves.
The nomination process this year, was essentially political suicide. The bullet has been shot off. We’re just waiting for the impact.
Either way, this nation is probably going to be fatally damaged in the next four years.
I’m beyond being angry about it. There’s plenty to make me furious, but anger at this point is so wasteful. The damage is done. I have resigned myself to the inevitable.
BTW: When I see Romney or Ryan on the tube, I turn down the sound and whistle, “Put on a Happy Face”. That’s all they’re doing.
Look, we see Obama for what he is, because he’s their guy. The problem I am addressing is this. We haven’t come to terms with the reality of what our guy really is, and what he is about to do to this nation.
That in itself is a very self-destructive process that ultimately leads to Dems being in the position they were in 2009 and 2010.
The infighting between the two sides of the Republican party was a big part of why Democrats got the upper hand (immigration, etc) while they stayed united and even now with such low approval of the congress, passing bills they later demonize as self destructive.
If you really hate Democrats having them united and Republicans divided is the last thing you need. Yet with liberals in charge of the Republican party...???
” If Romney legalizes the 20 to 35 million illegal immigrants here, it will result in somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 to 130 million foreign nationals being added to our citizens in under twenty years.
Now, we can hardly combat the political weight extended to the 13% of our populace that is Hispanic now. What happens when that 13% suddenly becomes 35 to 40%?”
You and I spent many years in California, so we both watched the damage done by illegal immigration. If the 20-25 million illegals are given amnesty, America as we know it is finished. And yes, the 35-40% prediction is very accurate.
” I’m not saying that to give you a hard time. We’re on the same side. I just think folks are kidding themselves.”
Yes we are. Our chances of survival, as a free vibrant nation, are slim.
when I did Spring Break (Daytona) in the late 70s, most girls were not fat at all
very few women of that age were more than 5 pounds over ideal bodyweight
amazing how much fatter women are now
” amazing how much fatter women are now”
Not really.....all they do is play with their cell phones, and eat : )
” That in itself is a very self-destructive process that ultimately leads to Dems being in the position they were in 2009 and 2010.”
Okay. Suggestions?
The RINOS control the GOP in D. C. Our leaders in the House & Senate suck. What do we do?
Didnt you buy property in Australia?? We were going to all move in with you, kind of like that 1960s movie On The Beach.
Have Republicans ever followed my suggestions? They seem to have a death wish. That is why I refuse to commit myself emotionally to this race.
Now abortion like marriage I just assume be regulated by the states, as with voting, etc.
So does this sound like Romney and I agree?
Well when pressed Romney told Huck the reason why he wants the SCOTUS to do it (meaning the states to do it) rather than the federal government is that it is more ‘politically feasible’ to do it that way.
Feasible??? That is not my reason. Does Romney believe in anything?
” Didnt you buy property in Australia?? We were going to all move in with you, kind of like that 1960s movie On The Beach.”
Yes I did, over 3 years ago. I am visiting there in a few weeks.
I disagree that Republicans in D.C. have a death wish. Over the years, the RINOS have taken control, and they are just WHORES, for sale to the highest bidder. At least 80% aren’t worth urinating on, IMHO.
” . Does Romney believe in anything? “
Yes, Romney.
He has all the money he will ever need, so now he desires power. Is he a whore? Yes. 100%. Will he move hard to the left, if elected? Depends on if the left or right is in his best interest.If enough conservative/financial money pledges allegiance, on condition that he moves right, he will move right. If not, he will probably move left. Too hard to predict at least for me.
Folks haven’t the slightest idea what the full ramifications of illegal immigration are. We are being occupied by foreign nationals.
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