Why I Will Vote for Romney-Ryan in November

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

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?

Seems to me the Tea Party effort is a good tactic. Replace as many lefties as we can with people on the right track. Then force a change in House and Senate leadership.

No matter what we do, the Republican leadership seems to fail to get the message. Right now we have Washington bracing for some sort of insurrection, although for the life of me, I have no idea what that is based on. Is it based on the idea that the Republican party will not be allowed to swing right, and something has to happen to prevent that? Something is up, and the Republicans in Congress don't seem to either grasp it, or be willing to fight against it. Either way, we're on the chopping block aren't we.

Both parties have gone rogue. Neither will adhere to the U. S. Constitution any longer. There seems to be a full blown effort to reduce the impact of Caucasians from Northern Europe on the policies of the nation. The nation is being managed in a manner that will see this demographic swiftly become a minority in the United States. It undeniable.

We either put a stop to this, or our nation is gone. And frankly, we have so many people in denial, I don't think you do stop it. We have people praising leaders (and I use that term loosely), who have shown themselves willing participants in this process. And then they are referenced as brilliant, and so much smarter than the rest of us. "Oh, so you think you're so much smarter than...?" Ouy... Evidently these folks care more about their politician than they care about their grandchildren. Go figure.

I have considered asking folks to change their party affiliation to a party other than the Republican Part. I have mentioned it on the forum before. I'd like to think that the Republicans seeing their registrations drop to 10% of what it is today, they might get the message, but they seem rather content to watch the Democrats have control. McCain? Romney? The RNC loses with one of these jackasses, and then roots for another one the next election. And if Romney wins, he'll rule Left most of the time, and the RNC will be as happy as pigs in s--t.

I have advocated a march on Washington with millions of participants. I almost had to call the paramedics for one guy here who very nearly had an anurism, a blown out lung, or an exploded coronary artery over it.

I don't vote for Republican Presidential candidates any longer. I've lived long enough to see this nation go downhill first hand, and I'm not going to support it any longer with my vote.

So yeah, what do we do? For now, we're content to watch someone out of their league twaddle around the nation blowing it over and over. Yep, that's going to fix it.

Reagan signed a permissive abortion bill in California in his early days (pre-Roe vs. Wade) as governor, was horrified at how many abortions resulted and, within the year, joined an effort to repeal it by initiative, knowing that the legislature even then would not vote repeal. His conversion on the subject was quite complete as he spent the rest of his time in public life seeking an end to abortion. He even wrote a book against abortion as POTUS. Other than that, there was never a time when the purest of Republicans had any business regarding Ronaldus Maximus as "unsuitable" in any respect.

I am not expecting ANY candidate to measure up to Reagan's standards. Each candidate is a person who, among other things, is a product of his/her background and experience in life. Reagan never stopped learning. Reagan was more than a generation older than Myth Romney and understood the value in life, much less in public life, of the idea that a man should say what he means and mean what he says. That elemental level of morality is not a monopoly of conservatives. Russ Feingold and the late Paul Wellstone were honest men on that level even if their policies were not those of conservatives. I think the last honest "moderate Republican" in the House was Pete McCloskey who retired in 1983 and the last in the Senate was Mark Hatfield who retired in 1997. McCloskey was such an honest liberal Republican that he eventually became a Democrat, being antiwar, pro-abortion. an environmentalist whacko and a wide variety of other things.

The ever-present temptation to ideological heresy in the Republican Party is the worship of money and money issues as though money was the one and only thing that ever counted. Romney runs a serious risk of being identified exclusively with that heresy. His parents were anti-military pro-aborts but very devoted to piling up the wealth in business. There are plenty of Dem,onrats who do well in business. It is not an ideological qualification. If business success were a GOP qualification, then we would be whoring after the likes of Fortney Pete Stark, Howard Dean (Dean Witter), George Soros, Warren Planned Barrenhood Buffett (whose father had been a GOP Congresscritter in the Mesozoic Era, William Planned Barrenhood Gates, et al.

Myth, like all known Romneys (including his five sons) never served in the US military. He has had a despicable track record as a pro-abort himself. He crammed perversion posing as marriage down Massachusetts' throat and then tried to make it look like he was obeying a court order which he was not. He has been on every side of just about every issue other than $$$.

I get it that many conservatives are horrified at the goings on of the last four years and some of us (not so much the $$$ folks) were also horrified by Slick Willie even though the stock market soared under both of these Marxist disgraces. Slick Willy was a bit more pragmatic but a horror nonetheless. The sleaze, the corruption, the mass baby-killing, the attack on every moral value known to this society and the facility with which both Obozo and Slick Willy lust shamelessly after every nickel earned by any American. Then there was the joy of having to explain to the children in euphemisms what all those stories on the radio and TV meant having to do with Slick and Monica.

The answer to such despicable behavior on the part of the scandalously anti-constitution Marxist Demonrats has been to surrender on as many issues as possible lest the GOP face, well, CRITICISM from the leftist elites or from the GOP-E's brainwashed wives and brainless children. Best to go back to the safe haven, the tried and true path of worshiping at the altar of $$$. The GOP-E are a group who collectively despise intellect, favoring instead a craven form of social elegance in which knowing when not to offend (that would be ever) is the primary virtue. Manners to them are far more important than "morals" whatever "morals" may be. Their view of Bibles and guns is on a par with Comrade Obozo's and their contempt for the owners and regular users of Bibles or guns is as well. They certainly know well enough not to rub elbows with any but the absolutely tamest Catholics. Those of us who believe what the Deposit of the Faith provides are downright frightening to them.

It is not a question of "hating on Romney." As Edith Stein once wrote in another context before I was born, "There is no there there." How can one hate such a nothing as Myth? OTOH, honesty and a certain integrity regarding conservative principle requires that we not lie to ourselves by making believe that Romney is anything vaguely resembling an acceptable candidate for public office, much less as a "conservative" whatever that may wind up meaning after his pom pom girls get done playing make believe.

The bottom line is the claim that it is sooooooooo vitally important to dispose of Obozo and the radical Manichean Demons who are coming to get Muffie's trust fund, the SCOTUS, or whatever else. It was vitally important that we elect Richard Nixon twice or Hubert Humphrey or Geiorge McGovern would make the US part of the USSR, to elect Gerald (Leslie King) Ford lest Jimmuh Cahtuh break Betty Ford's abortion-loving heart, to elect and re-elect George Herbert Walker Bush because he was neither Michael Dukakis nor Slick Willy (although he was ever gushing for a New World Order instead of that boring old American Independence and sovereignty) and even though his lips moved, to elect Robert Dole whom Jack Kemp had previously and accurately called "the tax collector for the welfare state, and John Mushmouth McCain who has not a principle to his name as a Senator and specializes in selling out to the other side as he "reaches across the aisle" rather than launching on target, and now Myth Romney. The only exceptions in my adult life have been the incomparable Ronaldus Maximus and the halfway acceptable George W. Bush who at least saved us from another round of his daddy's elitist business monger $$$ corruptocrat advisors (at least until TARP).

The basic argument for Myth Romney is that it is just soooooo important to elect him because it is soooooo important to elect him and he is not Obozo and aren't we just embarrassed to have Obozo in office and, and, and well there's other stuff but we just can't remember right now since we are sooooooo mad at that usurper in the White House and the way he hands out OUR contracts, and OUR money and OUR privileges to all his lowlife friends.

AND then there are those crazy "principled" types who go around threatening OUR financial future over a few million babies who probably don't deserve to live anyway. After all, how many abortees would have the talent to be investment bankers like ordinary folks in OUR circles. They threaten OUR financial futre over their guns and Bibles and their resistance to Bruce "marrying" Lance or whomever or whatever he damn well pleases to "marry." Besides, Bruce and Lance need favorable tax treatment too. Some of them want us to be prepared for future "wars" with Nowheristan instead of being good prudent men of business like Ebenezer Scrooge before the ghosts showed up. Small wonder they are not investment bankers like normal people when their priorities are so screwed up that they favor innocent human lives, marriage as commonly understood, GUNS!!!, all this military stuff, and just about anything other than our Muffie's trust fund and the really important things in life.

If Myth Romney is elected, as I suspect he will be, trust me that you are going to miss the Republican Party AND you are going to miss the USA as we have known it to date. Electing Obozo will have precisely the same result for the country and maybe for the GOP as well but at least the GOP will be united in opposition to him.

If Myth Romney is defeated, then the long-overdue bloodletting in the GOP will follow immediately. No more buying nominations by using corruptocrat elitist oceans of $$$ to carpetbomb the airwaves with vicious lies, slanders, libels, etc. against worthwhile candidates. That shameful behavior (the hallmark of the GOP-E sliver of the party) will have a certain cachet comparable to having a track record as a child molester.

I don't think Myth as POTUS would EVER be a social conservative. a military conservative, a gun conservative, a moral conservative, a judicial conservative, an "environmental" conservative, or even an across the board fiscal conservative (since he will ever favor the interests of those whose lives are most like his own on the business side over rank and file citizens of modest means).

WE (i.e. conservatives) lost this election the day that Romney secured the nomination. That was the point when there were only third party candidates left. Fortunately, we have several and my choice is FR's own Tom Hoefling. One way or another, the election of either major party candidate is a disaster for this country. One way or another, we Americans, ever resilient, will survive to fight another day. No matter which major party POS is elected, conservatives, actual conservatives, will be reunited in opposition to the "winner" in short order. If Obozo, on election night. If Romney, probably within three minutes of his inauguration speech or announcement of cabinet members whichever comes first. Renominating Herbert Hoover was a smidgeon smarter than nominating Myth Romney especially if he "wins."

We will have red meat candidates. We will have candidates who are credible in their principles. We will have candidates who say what they mean and mean what they say. We will have candidates who aim to re-construct our nation as the fortress (on all issues) it was meant to be. OR we will NOT have a GOP. This paragraph is MY patriotic duty. The fratricide ends when conservatives re-unite against the "winner" and not before. If we don't, then the country will end. It does not matter if Myth temporarily boosts the economy. It won't last. Conservatism without social conservatism is NOT conservatism. Money is only money.

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