A word about Romney

vanity | Nov 12, 2011 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

RINO.

Three words: liberal progressive RINO.

Add a fourth, fifth, sixth, etc: unprincipled, untrustworthy, flip-flopper, aisle-crossing, fraud, liar, political whore.

And a few more: abortionist, gay rights panderer, gun-grabber, global warming advocate, big government mandate lover, socialist healthcare pusher, constitution trampling, liberal judge appointing, TARP loving, bailout loving, stimulus pushing Keynesian statist.

That my friends, is no definition of conservative or of conservatism. Not even close. In fact it's the exact opposite.

Free Republic is and will remain an exclusive pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-constitution, pro-small government, pro-capitalism, pro-defense, pro-borders, grassroots patriotic conservative site, regardless of party politics.

I support the Republican party as long as it promotes positions and candidates that I can agree with. The current party platform is a pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-constitution, pro-small government, pro-capitalism, pro-defense, pro-borders, patriotic, traditional conservative platform. When they formally (or informally) start knocking out or ignoring traditional conservative foundational planks so they can run liberal progressive RINOS then they have lost me. It won't be that I've left the Republican party, the Republican party will have left me.

Some people say FR is a cult. Well, I don't know about that, but I'll be damned if we're going to change our core principles and values so that we can support a man who has spent a political lifetime trying to run to the left of Ted Kennedy.

Every one of his leftist positions listed above are documented on the video linked below, which is a compilation of about a dozen debates and other Romney appearances where he vehemently advocates and defends his leftist positions and ideals:

Romney in his on words

Watch it all the way through. If he becomes the Republican nominee, I can guarantee you you will see these clips and more like them, over and over again on national TV. Romney is totally untrustworthy. And it's all documented in living color.

Yeah, I know. He's changed. He's now a life-long hunter who's always been pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-small government. And "most of his positions, all of them actually, have always been conservative." Just ask him. And that's the point. He's changed his mind, or at least, he's changed his political platform. And he'll change his mind again tomorrow. He'll continue changing his mind to match the current political winds. That's what unprincipled, untrustworthy, lying political whores do. It's in the nature of the beast.

[Kenny Bunk]

..... the electorate is generally uninformed. They are basically conservative but have no access to truth.

I disagree. The public is not "generally" uninformed. They are Specifically, Totally, and Abysmally uninformed, mentally unformed, and despite "universal literacy," dumbed-down and ignorant of our own history and of their rights and obligations as citizens.

"Basically conservative" probably means that as long as their TV works, the trailer isn't too hot or too cold, and McDonald's is open they will vote, (i.e., if they bother to vote) for whomsoever promises to keep things that way.

The abolition of poll taxes, property requirements, literacy requirements, and now even citizenship requirements in many jurisdictions means we increasingly live under the tyranny of the ignorant and illegal. All "democracies" wind down from that moment when the elected discover they can stay in power by writing checks to their friends and supporters on the public treasury. The "democracy" lasts until the treasury is empty and the supporters of one party or faction take up arms to take away the goods and treasure of another party.

That point is getting closer.

[DJ MacWoW]

You can keep your smug attitude. Marxists have been working on changing the country for decades. If infiltration of key areas didn't work, no one would bother.

"Socialism is precisely the religion that must overwhelm Christianity. … In the new order, Socialism will triumph by first capturing the culture via infiltration of schools, universities, churches and the media by transforming the consciousness of society." Antonio Gramsci - Marxist - teacher of Saul Alinsky, teacher of Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton

[cpforlife.org]

I agree Jim. I think you should consider adding your name to the title, more people might click if they know it's from you.

Thanks for all you do!

[Kenny Bunk]

DJ, I do NOT share your sanguine attitude toward the electorate, more than half of whom do not bother to vote. Neither am I heartened by college graduates who know less of American civics than was required of a HS sophomore in 1950.

The Marxist ideology for which our POTUS is an admirable poster-child, has taken a giant leap in impoverishing the nation on its way to the civil strife, from which they hope to emerge victorious, if not the first time, the second or third.

For the Left, Class Warfare starts as a rhetorical device, but as history might show, it always ends in real war.

[DJ MacWoW]

You totally missed my point.

[Kenny Bunk]

You totally missed my point

Forced to agree.

[Smokin' Joe]

...water down your conservative values by electing these phoney ‘moderate’ leaders and you will find it very hard to return to conservatism and doom yourself as a result. Like Bush, he will become the acceptable face of conservatism when in reality Romney is no conservative at all!

Precisely!

That is how the "middle-of-the-road" has ended up in the left ditch after the last three decades. Each time the "conservative" who isn't, quite, is nominated, they redefine what "conservative" is in the public arena.

Each time, that also redefines those of us who have not changed our stance on any of the issues as being a little more "extreme" and a 'little farther to the right'.

How else could people who once were considered the backbone of America, gun owners, bible readers, and familliar with the US Constitution be branded as "extremists" and 'potential domestic terrorists'?

[Rockitz]

I don't know if anyone else has had the guts to tell you, but if Romney is the GOP nominee I'll vote for him and I'm guessing a lot of other FReepers will too. Unfortunately Obama and our elected representatives have left us in such a state that this country will not survive another 4 years of Obama. All the principled conservatives in the world won't be able to save us at that point. I'm not planning to vote for Mitt in the primary, but if he is the nominee I can't see giving Obama another 4 years by staying home or voting 3rd party. Having said that, since I live in California it probably doesn't matter. McCain a RINO too and I'm guessing even you voted for him? The SCOTUS may have as many as 3 retirements/deaths in the next 4-5 years. That alone is worth supporting Mitt if he is the nominee.

[Jim Robinson]

Hate to spoil your party but Romney appoints liberal judges.

[Rockitz]

God willing, he'll have a GOP senate that will check him on that. At the end of the day, a Mitt nominee will not be nearly as liberal as an Obama one. Not that I regularly read HuffPo, but here's a list or articles on Obama judicial nominees that’ll curl your hair.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/obama-judicial-nominees

[Jim Robinson]

God willing? Sorry, I do not and will not support or vote for an abortionist gay rights panderer for president. Period. And pro-life, pro-family FR will not be used to campaign for him. If you wish to support Romney, you’ll have to find a new home on the Net. May I suggest WankersForRINOS.com.

[af_vet_rr]

At the end of the day, a Mitt nominee will not be nearly as liberal as an Obama one.

This idea that somebody who is slightly less of a liberal than Obama is somehow better than Obama is foolish.

A liberal with an (R) next to their name is still going to take us down the same road to socialism that a liberal with a (D) next to their name is.

[Rockitz]

So did you vote for the same Ronald Reagan that signed the 1967 Therapeutic Abortion Act as governor of California even before the Roe decision? Everyone makes mistakes and both Ron and Mitt have made their fair share. I don't know what's in Mitt's heart and neither do you. He says he's changed and I hope and pray he has. I prefer many, many others to Mitt, but they are all flawed as was Reagan. Hopefully we won't have to hold our nose and vote for Mitt, but he's quite a bit better than Obama regardless of what you say.

[Jim Robinson]

You push for the liberal progressive abortionist bastard Mitt Romney on this pro-life site, you get the zot. How’s that for an answer?

[Jim Robinson]

Effing RINO trolls.

[Condor51]

However Boss, a note as to what you wrote here:

Some people say FR is a cult. Well, I don't know about that....

I looked up 'Cult' in dictionary.com It's kind of funny what it says:

Cult:

1. a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies. Nope this doesn't fit, so we scratch that.
2. an instance of great veneration of a person, ideal, or thing, especially as manifested by a body of admirers: the physical fitness cult. We're getting closer - Conservative Ideals, FR, and FReepers.
   
3. the object of such devotion. Okay. Ditto to the above - FR and Conservative Ideals.
   
4. a group or sect bound together by veneration of the same thing, person, ideal, etc. BINGO! Here we are: FR, FReepers and Conservatism.
   
5. Sociology: a group having a sacred ideology and a set of rites centering around their sacred symbols. Yep, that's 'us'. We have our; 'Rites of Zot'. And 'sacred' symbols; the Viking Kitties and Lighting gifs!

So technically we are a 'Cult'. But that's okay, if one is going to be in a cult, FR is the best dang one to be in. Plus no one makes us drink any purple Kool-Aid :-)

Conversely, a prime example of an evil cult to belong to is the Moonbat Cultists over at DUmmieland. They don't drink the Kool-Aid, they mainline it!

[Rockitz]

No one has ever confused me for a RINO and don’t worry, I won’t be posting any pro-Willard stuff. Did you even read what I wrote? Willard is way down on my list just ahead of Huntsman, but if he is the nominee, I’ll vote for him just like I did for the even worse RINO McCain. In the primary I will vote for the most conservative candidate that has a chance to win. At the end of the day, Obama must not be allowed a second term. Hopefully, we can agree on that?

[Jim Robinson]

Nope. And you won’t be campaigning for him on grassroots, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-small government conservative FR. Ever!

[RetSignman]

If you thought the McCain defeat was bad, just wait, you ain't seen nothin' yet.