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Why This Ex-Libertarian is Voting Mitt Romney
Townhall.com ^ | September 17, 2012 | Wayne Allyn Root

Posted on 09/17/2012 8:33:36 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 09/17/2012 8:33:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
There is not one single fiscal stat the Obama regime can point to and claim success. 300% energy inflation, 1/3 increase in Federal Debt in 4 years, food prices have more then doubled, 1st credit down grade in US history, $1 trillion in personal equity vanished, mid east in disarray and East Asia on the verge of war etc etc etc.

All of this due to Obama’s incompetent and corruption and what are “conservative” commentators and the Democrat propaganda “News” media talking about today “infighting in the Romney Campaign”

I don't think Americans realize just how far down the road to a one party state we are.

2 posted on 09/17/2012 8:41:18 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: Kaslin

Right on. Well said.


3 posted on 09/17/2012 8:44:08 AM PDT by Doc Savage ("I've shot people I like a lot more,...for a lot less!" Raylan Givins)
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To: MNJohnnie
1st AND 2nd credit downgrades in our Countries history.

Someone needs to beat Obama in November or this Country is finished. If that person is Willard, so be it.

4 posted on 09/17/2012 8:44:38 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Kaslin

There can be no room for error in this election, no vanity votes for Quixotic third party candidates, there must be a sense of urgency. No candidate is perfect,now is not the time for perfectionism. This November is our LAST chance to back this country. Period!!!!! We must not allow ourselves to be detracted by the side shows or the media. Now is time close ranks. If Obama is re-elected, NOTHING will be reversed. We must man the phone banks, get our checkbooks, put on the bumperstickers, display our yard signs, talk up our candidates with our friends, family members, co-workers, neighbors, acquaintances and so forth. We muct encourage the young, independents, and persuadables to go out and see 2016 at the theaters. We do not have the luxury this year of being unfocused or distracted. WE MUST A HAVE A GREAT SENSE OF URGENCY!!!!!!


5 posted on 09/17/2012 8:46:35 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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reason be damned!

i will vote principle one way or the other regardless who is available/unavailable as a candidate......figuring the bs is not my department...call it decency, principle, whatever...

Semper Watching!
*****


6 posted on 09/17/2012 8:49:00 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: MNJohnnie

I used to be a Liberterian as well. I worked hard for the party for decades. After 911, I examined the effects of my efforts. There were some positive educational effects, but the primary effect was to elect far left politicians who would have lost to much more conservative Republicans if the Liberterian had not been on the ballot.

I am a registered Republican and Precint committeeman, and I am working hard to take this country back from the far left. In this election, it means electing Mitt Romney, regaining control of the Senate, holding the house and then holding their feet to the fire.


7 posted on 09/17/2012 8:49:39 AM PDT by marktwain
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Libertarian votes cost us at LEAST a couple of US House Seats in 2010.

They cost us 6 Indiana house seats, as well.

In those close races, the Libertarian vote ELECTS DEMOCRATS


8 posted on 09/17/2012 8:55:34 AM PDT by tcrlaf (Election 2012: THE RAPTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS)
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To: Dead Corpse

And the other thing. IF Romney wins Conservative-Libertrains work only is beginning. It will take years to prune the rot out of our Government. We cannot do what Conservatives did in 1994 and 2000 think that winning the election settled everything. It doesn’t. It merely stops the hemorrhaging so we can start the real work.


9 posted on 09/17/2012 9:00:16 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Giving more money to DC to fix the Debt is like giving free drugs to addicts think it will cure them)
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To: MNJohnnie

Agreed.


10 posted on 09/17/2012 9:03:00 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Kaslin

“It’s time for a coalition of Republicans, conservatives, Tea Party activists, Libertarians, Ron Paul supporters, small business owners, homeowners, investors, patriots, Christians, Jews, and Israel supporters to join together and support Mitt Romney now.”

AGREE

“I believe Mitt Romney is our Reagan.”

Don’t go peeing on my leg and tell me it’s raining.

I’ve sacrificed MY principle in election after election for 40 years now, just to Defeat the Left, and it’s gotten me an Obama-BOT named Romney to Gag Down this time.

Root, I was Almost ready to swallow your BS, UNTIL, You told me Romney is our Reagan.

If he’s Your’s, You don’t even Begin to understand what a Libertarian IS, unless of course the Libertarian party machinery is as foul as Our beloved, aisle crossing, sell out RINO machinery is.

Granted, politics is deal making and lilly gilding, but you might as well call a street walker Mother Teresa (and that’s the toned down metaphor) as conflate This Obama from Mass. with an R on it with Reagan.


11 posted on 09/17/2012 9:06:34 AM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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To: To-Whose-Benefit?

Well said. Romney’s a necessary evil to prevent a greater evil, not a man on a white horse riding to the rescue. Let’s not get carried away and pretend otherwise.


12 posted on 09/17/2012 9:13:38 AM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
'No candidate is perfect,now is not the time for perfectionism.'

They say that every four years to be replayed again in 2016.

13 posted on 09/17/2012 9:14:38 AM PDT by Theoria (Romney is a Pyrrhic victory.)
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'No candidate is perfect,now is not the time for perfectionism.' ...They say that every four years to be replayed again in 2016.

Thats because, since you and I are probably not running, no candidate is going to be perfect then either. We'll be forced to choose from among an imperfect selection of imperfect men and women.

14 posted on 09/17/2012 9:21:49 AM PDT by marron
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To: Kaslin

Libertarians must know every aspect of our lives will be wrapped up in layers of petty regulations after four more years of this.


15 posted on 09/17/2012 9:33:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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“an imperfect selection of imperfect men and women. “

Even That I could live with, but the vast majority of them have become far less than just imperfect: Marionettes and Martinets at the beck and call of the people who bought them their offices.


16 posted on 09/17/2012 10:06:25 AM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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Even That I could live with, but the vast majority of them have become far less than just imperfect: Marionettes and Martinets at the beck and call of the people who bought them their offices.

That is what the MSM have sold to the public.

Politics is far more about power and the MSM agenda than it is about money. The approval of the MSM is worth more than most political donations. The MSM routinely ignores profits in order to further the "progressive" agenda.

17 posted on 09/17/2012 10:11:21 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Kaslin

Mitt Romney is our Regan, pleeeze. We all know what Romney say, why can’t you show what he has done. He did not run for Governor after his first term because he could not win. He has a dismal record as GOV. of Mass. His vast business experience did not help the people of Mass. His RomneyCare is a financial burden on the State and he is proud of it. He may not be as bad as Obama but he is no Regan.


18 posted on 09/17/2012 12:04:16 PM PDT by brightright
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To: Kaslin; fieldmarshaldj; Clintonfatigued; Impy; sickoflibs; AuH2ORepublican
Wayne Allyn Root thinks Romney is "our Reagan" but he felt Bob Barr was the "true principled Libertarian" candidate in 2008? He's sooooooooooo concerned about Obama's second term being "disastrous" but he didn't bat an eyelid when he and Barr gave Obama a FIRST term and were directly responsible for Obama's "historic win" in North Carolina? So four years later, AFTER he spent his time trashing Sarah Palin, now he's a "conservative" for Romney and "libertarian" Barr endorsed Gingrich.

Sorry, I don't trust this guy as far as I can throw him. I trust Artur Davis more than I trust Root, and that's really saying something. At least Davis has said his actions in 2008 were wrong and Obama fooled him. Root wants to tell us he's our buddy now but cannot seem to bring himself to admit the Barr/Root ticket he ran on was a scam and it appears neither one of them were actually "Libertarians".

19 posted on 09/17/2012 12:08:46 PM PDT by BillyBoy ( Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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Thank you, Root, we need everybody possible pulling to save America.


20 posted on 09/17/2012 1:38:45 PM PDT by Tamzee (The U.S. re-electing Obama would be like the Titanic backing up and ramming the iceberg again.)
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