Ryan holds mirror up to Obama

Washington Examiner ^ | August 11, 2012 | Phillip Klein

[4Liberty]

[4Liberty]

[4Liberty]

[Salvation]

Good one! Chuckling away here.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

I don’t share your unstated premise that a completely unrestrained willard in office would be all that much better than a somewhat restrained hussein.

Don't over-think what I said. By looking for an "unstated premise" you have completely missed the point, to wit:
Voting third party is a meaningless gesture and will accomplish nothing positive. Without access to the mega millions of dollars that flood the major party candidates' war chests, a third party candidate has no chance of winning. Voting for Goode/Clymer is effectively the same as staying home.

Regards,
GtG

[riri]

it will be despotism like we’ve never imagined it.

But they'll call it freedom, wave some American flags and half the dolts out there won't know the difference as long as they can still pretend to revolve their lives around meaningless sex.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

I'm not crazy about Romney either but I absolutely loath Obama, so what can you do? You have to be at the table to play the game and a smug, morally superior attitude don't mean dodelly squat unless it's coupled with a win at the polls.

Regards,
GtG

[RKBA Democrat]

“You have to be at the table to play the game and a smug, morally superior attitude don’t mean dodelly squat unless it’s coupled with a win at the polls.”

That’s the point. I see a willard win as a pyrhic victory for conservatives. Obviously we differ on this. Smugness or moral superiority doesn’t enter into it. If I’m going to lose anyway, I might as well vote for someone who reflects my views.

Frankly, I’d love to compromise my views a bit to get a somewhat acceptable candidate that had a snowball’s chance of winning. The pro-abortion, anti-gun willard simply doesn’t fit the bill.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

That’s the point. I see a willard win as a pyrhic victory for conservatives. Obviously we differ on this. Smugness or moral superiority doesn’t enter into it. If I’m going to lose anyway, I might as well vote for someone who reflects my views.

Either way, looking at the 'front runners' this election is asking people to hold their noses while they pick the least worse candidate. It's is indeed a sad day when exercising your sacred franchise is reduced to watching buffoons wrestling in a hog wallow and making promises that none but an imbecile can expect them to keep.

Having said all that I believe a win by Romney/Ryan is far from a 'pyrrhic victory' which would be a victory at the expense of overwhelming losses (rather like burning down the house to get rid of a mouse nest). Both are politicians and I believe that neither will attempt to 'jump start the economy' and give us single payer health care at the same time. The name of their game will be diminished expectations for the immediate future with achievable goals of real economic growth for all citizens to follow. That should keep them busy for their first term. After that we'll see...

Regards,
GtG

PS I don't think we are that far apart...