Posted on 05/09/2012 4:58:43 PM PDT by GoldenEagles
No FRiend, Romney's defeat will have nothing at all to do with firing up Obama's base. It has everything to do with the Conservative base not turning out:
When has the Christian Right ever endorsed a pro-choice candidate? Without the Christian Right there is no success.
When has the South ever endorsed a Yankee candidate? Without the South there is no success.
When has there ever been a Conservative endorsement of a candidate that has damaged the RKBA?
Pro-life and RKBA are probably the most immovable principles OF ALL, and this mutt cannot even cover those, not to mention any of the rest. Like McCain only worse. I will not be suprised if Romney wins the election, I will be ASTOUNDED... Even with all of Obamas problems.
What's the old saying, you go to War with the Army you have?
The Republican Primary Voters have spoken despite our opposition to the “Moderate” GOP Establishment Candidate.
Our choices are Obummer and the Republican. As Rush says, I live in Realville, so the choice is clear to me.
While most everything else you said in your post above rings true to me, I find the above statement lacking in realism.
People vote based on their passions. Unfortunately, mostly on what they can be persuaded to hate. The class warfare paradigm is a mechanism that stirs up the passions of hatred in the Democrat Base, and fans into life economic frustrations generally. The more intense the hatred is, the more intense the frustration is, the more likely the people will go to the polls.
A comparison would be in order.
Take for example if you had Ronald Reagan running for President. Here the class warfare stragegy would be useless, because Reagan was never a member of the capitalist elite. He was an actor, and governor of Calfornia, and not particularly wealthy. The left could not generate much animosity in his direction because he did not fit their mold as the enemy.
Compare that to Mitt Romney whose resume shows a Vulture Capitalist, who made his millions lining his pockets with treasures harvested from vunerable and failing business, 50 percent of which he left as a dead carcasses on the road. Everything about Romney's resume fits into the mold of what the Democrat base hates. A Republican fat-cat wall street connected lord of the money markets. To the degree they don't like him, to that degree will they be motivated to make the effort to go to the polls to defeat him.
I can't imagine a person that fits their definition of the capitalist enemy more perfectly than Romney. His nomination would surely energize the Democrat base.
But, as I said, I find the rest of your observations generally accurate.
I’ll be voting a straight republican, fully conservative ticket.
My top pick may not be who the GOP wants me to vote for, but I’m voting straight conservative nonetheless.
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Sounds more like Rabbitville.
IF it comes down to O v R, in REALVILLE we also have the choice to register our vote elsewhere in that race to cast a vote against liberalism in either candidate. I reject Romney for the same reason I reject Obama. Contrary to the Rabbitville Times, this is actually a race of big government liberalism vs. limited government conservatism. A vote for either Obama or Romney is a vote for Big Government liberalism. In REALVILLE. Hello?
I will vote for an official, on-the-ballot other-party candidate. My vote won't influence the O v R outcome either way.
But my vote WILL be one more grain of sand on the scale in the final vote count, that God willing will reveal a "winner" whom 66% of Americans opposed. He enters office embattled, doubted, and made politically weaker.
Megalomaniacal as Obama is, numbers mean things in politics. It seems to me that narcissist Obama has not only convinced himself of his own omnipotence, but a lot of scared Repubicans and conservatives, too. It's Romney's only hope.
This election is not Obama vs Romney, it's Liberalism vs Statism. Vote accordingly.
It's your Vote my FRiend. Do with it as you wish, as I will with mine.
1) Vote Obama Out!
2) Vote Conservatives into the US House and US Senate.
3) Impeach Romney as soon he exposes himself as a commie and traitor (which he will very quickly).
Romney's supporters arrogantly think of themselves as the adults and folks like Jim Robinson and me as being little kids who throw temper tantrums. It's inconceivable to them that any disagreement with them could stem from anyplace other than pettiness and incorrigibility. They scold and deride common sense and better judgment in their efforts to bully and terrorize me into voting against my better judgment.
It is exactly in line with how Romney's camp would treat conservative Republicans if he ever gets the White House.
Stupid would be letting fear of a nationally despised narcissist make me vote for a guy whose entire political career has been marked by active advancement -- and YOU CAN LOOK IT UP -- of the five MAJOR liberal agendas I've been voting Republican for all these decades to OPPOSE: state-run health care, cap-and-trade global warming ecotyranny, forced acceptance of open homosexuality everywhere from kids' schools to the military, appointing activist liberal judges, and the most chillingly barbaric of all, making tax-subsidized abortion available on demand.
Common sense says voting for Romney is as nuts as voting for Obama. The temper tantrums, it looks to me, are pretty much all coming from folks who just can't fathom why I trust my common sense.
If Robamney’s lips moved when he promised to name “Alito, Roberts, Scalia type judges,” then he lied. He MEANT to say: Blackmun, Souter, Brennan, John Paul Stevens type judges.” But you knew that. How you vote is certainly your business, but don’t lie to yourself. It is not very dignified. Robamney is a pathological and self-serving opportunistic sociopathic liar. Be fair to mere flip floppers, Robamney is a LOT worse that a mere flip flopper.
God didn’t vote in the primaries so we don’t have any Devine candidates; just Obama and Romney. One of them will pick the next several Supreme Court justices.
Obozo has declared his intention to persecute the Roman Catholic Church to which you and I belong and which we both take seriously. Robamney has ALREADY persecuted the Roman Catholic Church in Massachusetts under Robamneycare in precisely the same way as Obozo proposes to do. Where do you think Obozo got the infernal idea in the first place? As Catholics, we cannot vote for either Caligula or for Diocletian. Obviously, this is America and you get to vote as you see fit but let’s not lie to ourselves in making believe that there is any meaningful difference on moral matters between Obozo and Robamney. If we lie to ourselves, we might well be sued by Robamney for trademark infringement. Lying to us is Robamney’s job and stock in trade, after all.
A crowbar is not nearly adequate. Try a bulldozer or, better yet, a speeding 100 MPH 100 car freight train fully loaded with lead as its cargo. Flatten the sorry SOB once and for all.
Thank you for your extraordinary wisdom here. Robamney = Obozo = Robamney = Obozo, etc. (repeat as often as necessary until the sheeple get the message).
We judge BOTH Obozo and Robamney by their respective lives as pathological liars and enemies of Western Civilization. No one asked Robamney to run for governor or senator in Taxachusetts. Stop with the pathetic GOP-E excuses already.
BTW, Dewey, you won't shootem after Robamney OR Obozo confiscates your guns as the gun grabber each has always been.
In truth, the more the Church is attacked, IMHO, the STRONGER it gets. Remember what Jesus said that “the gates of hell WILL NEVER prevail against it” ?
Since Tuesday’s special primary elections, have HOPE folks!
It will be a sad day for the America we love when EITHER Obozo or Robamney is elected in November. OTOH, we can be optimists and recognize that when EITHER Obozo or Robamney is DEFEATED in November, that defeat will be a victory for the America we love. I will celebrate the POTUS defeat no matter which is defeated and celebrate the election of Ted Cruz in Texas, Richard Mourdock in Indiana, Josh Mandel in Ohio, Connie Mack in Florida, and other actual conservatives and will mourn the election of each and every Demonrat candidate for governor or senator or congresscritter, whether running honestly as Demonrats or in GOP drag (Boehner, Cantor, McCarthy, etc.)
Obama or Romney? THEY ARE THE SAME.
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