Posted on 04/13/2012 12:13:14 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Not riding in Romney’s handbasket.
My (very preliminary) choices at this point are down to four: Newt, Constitution Party, America’s Party, or write-in. Since realistically Newt probably won’t make it, I will probably be looking at the Constitution Party or America’s Party.
Oh, and that thing about Romney being a liar. He’s a lot worse when he’s telling the truth. Trust me on this.
“A Romney nomination insures 4 more years of the worst President in history. People do not vote for a man who can lie to their face with a straight face.”
You honestly believe Romney, warts and all, would be worse than what we’ve got?
And I’ll wait, btw, untill Gingrich is totally out before I consider the alternative.
But when (if) the time comes I’ll hold my nose and vote AGAINST obama.
If Newt was a viable candidate at this point in time I might agree with you. Otherwise, it's ABO for me and that includes Romney. Won't be saying anything else on the subject except - let the chips fall where they may.
Requesting the ZOT!!! Anybody else would be called down for posting FU, AND I am tired of all your asslickers. This place is too damn weird for me.
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1801
Yep. I'm pretty awesome.
You, on the other hand, live in Iowa....
Thank You Jim for standing firm against the Rino Romney!
Maybe the TEA Party can get behind Newt and encourage him to run as an Independent. Do you think our country would vote him in...or would we split our chances and end up with another four years of Obama? It is a worrisome dilemma that the GOP has given us. And they are almost handing the Dems a slam dunk for Obama. The GOP’s stupid adoration of a very unlikeable and un-conservative candidate will put this nation at risk...again...just like with McCain. It is sickening. My vote is important to me, and I hate for it to mean nothing. I really don't know what to do.
No offense to your wife implied here, but it baffles me how we can be seen as Ghengis Khan simply because we love our nation and want it run in accordance with it’s founding documents and principles.
We are if anything dead base center on the political spectrum, as related to those documents and principles, and our Founder’s were some fairly brilliant men, and respecters of the Christian God.
Your wife was kidding, but many people think of Conservatives this way, and I do not relate to that at all.
Jimrob is calling me an idiot now? Awesome Jimrob. You guys can insult me all you want but it wont change a thing. Given the undesirable choice between candidate Romney and candidate Obama, Romney is a much better choice plain and simple. Come on man.
A vote for Romney is to move the political center quite a distance to the left so far that Susan Collins would be considered a conservative and Dennis Kucinich a centrist.
You are a wazoo aperture on the scale of Mt. Rushmore. You’re monumental.
-- Thomas Jefferson, to George Logan, 1813
This "my way or the highway", wuss, idiot and FU if you don't do as I do silliness is right out of a liberal play book....nice.
I know, I know Freepme!
Fascinating.
Simple answer: Because he isn’t as bad as the current ass-clown.
If Obama is elected, then it’s game over. The next President will likely appoint two Supreme Court justices. If Obama gets to make the nominations, we’ll get Bill Ayers and Al Sharpton (or the stealth equivalent). Obama MUST be voted out. I don’t know who Romney would nominate, but I doubt his nominees would be Alinskyites.
Sort of like. "Better put some ice on that."
Not going to happen jo.
It is often easier to attribute complex phenomena to a monolithic actor, rather than look for the real cause.
In this case, if Romney gets the nomination, as appears likely to happen, it will be because he had a far better ground game, more money, and a better fundraising organization. It is not because of some mythical “GOP establishment.” To the extent influencers like Rove lined up behind Romney, most did so because they recognized that Romney was far better organized than his opponents, largely because of what he’d learned in 2008. As one prominent conservative said to me, “the others are sprinters, but Romney is running a marathon.”
I don’t like that Romney will be our candidate. Your criticism of him is deserved. For the record, I’m not a Gingrich fan either, as I believe that some of the RINO criticism that has been aimed at Romney is applicable to Newt as well. I started out supporting Herman Cain, and ended up supporting Rick Santorum - and if you want to point out that they were not perfect candidates, I won’t disagree.
The fact is, perfect is not on the ballot this year. The question you have to ask yourself is “would Romney be as bad as a Barack Obama who is unconcerned with reelection and hell-bent on imposing his socialist/statist agenda on this country?” No matter how much we dislike Romney - with good reason - he is unlikely to be as bad as Obama, especially if we hold his feet to the fire. We will not be without influence - he will need the help of conservatives if he is to get anything done as president.
I didn’t like McCain four years ago either; Remember how HE stabbed us in the back? McCain/Feingold, voting against the Bush tax cuts, introducing cap and trade, the Gang of 14, immigration? However, as bad as McCain was, I would give damn near anything to trade the last three years under the socialist Obama for a McCain presidency.
“Sending a message” would be nothing more than a pyrrhic victory. We have the ability to push Romney to the right; We need to use that power.
I hope you listened to Levin yesterday. It's the 4/12 podcast around the 63 minutes mark. An elderly lady whose job was to key in medicare codes lost her job because ObamaCare ended 2,000 thousand codes. She also talks about RomneyCare and how people from other countries are flying in to get free health care. GRRRR!
http://www.marklevinshow.com/sectional.asp?id=32930#
The big problem, can we survive another 4 years of the Fascist Marxist Obama and his illegal edicts?
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