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Posted on 08/12/2012 1:40:22 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In some conservative quarters, the question is still being asked, “What is our alternative to Mitt Romney?”
Some people are suggesting voting for the Libertarian Candidate or even the guy from the Constitution Party who may only end up on the ballot in one or two states.
There is an alternative to Mitt Romney, if you are looking for one.
Who is it?
It is Barack Obama.
No, that is not a joke.
Absent some almost unprecedented or at least unpredictable event, next January in Washington, it is either going to be Barack Obama or Mitt Romney standing on the stage taking the Oath of Office.
It will not be Gary Johnson and it will not be that clown Virgil Goode from the Constitution Party.
Here are your choices. It is either A or B. It is American versus Marxist. It is Romney versus Obama. It is that simple.
If you decide Romney is not pure enough for you and you decide you want to vote for the candidate who believes the most pressing problem facing this country is the legalization of drugs, then you are voting for Barack Obama.
If you choose to vote for the Libertarian candidate this year, you are voting for four more years of the Party of Treason in the White House.
If you doubt me on this and think your vote does not matter, I refer you to Florida in 2000. Ralph Nader pulled 97,000 votes in Florida. Most of those people would have undoubtedly preferred Al Gore to George W. Bush. Gore lost Florida by 537 votes.
Yesterday, Mitt Romney pulled a stunner. His selection of Paul Ryan was a complete surprise to me. Prior to yesterday I was almost certain that his choice would be Rob Portman. The others I feared were in the running were Tim Pawlenty or Chris Christie. Had Christie been the choice, it would have been as bad a pick for Romney as McCain’s first choice in 08 of Joe Lieberman.
Some people, mostly Libertarians have been assailing Ryan as not really a conservative. Ryan voted for TARP in 2008 and he voted for Bush’s Medicare expansion.
No politician is going to have a perfect record. The American Conservative Union scores Ryan with a 92% lifetime record. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, if someone votes with me 92% of the time, I’m going to call him a 92% ally, not an 8% traitor.
Instead of tapping an establishment moderate, as most of us feared he would do, Romney made a surprisingly bold choice in Ryan. More importantly, he reached out to conservatives.
A few weeks ago, I said I would go into the voting booth on election day with a large and cold bottle of Pepto Bismol in one hand, a stomach distress bag in another and I would vote for Romney, praying I did not leave the rancid dregs of what was once my breakfast on the voting machine.
I lost count of the number of jury trials I did as a lawyer. In a jury trial, at the end, the jury is given instructions by the judge. There is one section of the jury instructions that I have always remembered. It said, “Do not hesitate to reexamine your own views and change your opinion if you believe it is not correct.”
That is sound advice.
I have reexamined my own views of this race and have changed my opinion because I believe my old opinion is no longer correct.
This is a battle for the soul and future of America. It is literally a battle between good and evil. It is a battle between those who revere America and the liberty and freedom it stands for and those who worship at the altar of socialism and the inevitable tyranny that follows with socialism.
I have been brutally critical of Mitt Romney over the last few months. I anticipate I will continue to be critical of him on certain issues. Mitt Romney is not the perfect candidate but we will never have the perfect candidate.
What we do have is a candidate who right now is our best hope for stopping the Obama, Pelosi, Reid axis of fiscal evil and helping to restore America.
I endorse Mitt Romney for President and Paul Ryan for Vice President. I encourage every Tea Party member and conservative to go out and support them, work for them and make sure that in January, we do to Barack Obama what he has done to so many other Americans.
We put him out of a job.
Owned!
Good job.
Thought that kind of talk was over at the DU site.
What a shame to have people stoop to that level here.
“2ndDivisionVet is a well respected poster here. You are not going to get him banned or censored.”
I am not attempting to get him banned. I know his history well, and hold him in high regard because of it. However, I expect better material to be posted by him than ABO fear mongering. Especially after Jim Robinson made his position on Romney clear. Romney does not expemply the values that Jim Robinson has repeatedly stated that Free Republic is about. Even with him attempting to make himself look better by coopting Ryan into being his running mate.
Tell you what. Since you think I’m not the real deal, why don’t you get JR to ban me? Do you think I would be so foolish to ping Jim Robinson IF he wasn’t aware of my history here?
So, please complain to Jim Robinson that I oppose the ABO mentality that says we must accept voting for Romney. Or tell him that he is voting FOR Obama because he refuses to vote for that scum Romney. Please....if you are so certain I’m a “troll” etc. Please do so!
Otherwise, shut up!
“Fine for you to try to claim the high road, but you are full of manure yourself....You love Obama, admit it.”
Just more ABO extremist nonsense. Like I have told others here. Tell Jim Robinson he is a “Obama lover” because he won’t support Romeny. Then you can do the same to me.
Otherwise, shut up coward.
“Thought that kind of talk was over at the DU site.”
It was until all the newbies came here to join the “I hate Romney” “I hate the Mormons” threads. It’s good cover. The good news is most will grow quiet once the Kenyan gets the boot.
Newbie actually told 2ndDivisionVet to GFY just for posting the article.
For the exact number, see #92.
But Goode getting electoral votes isn't the point. The point is Zero getting bunches of electoral votes because a sufficient number of morons voted for Goode instead of Romney to flip one or more close states.
We have tons of Obama supporters here, and they will take over this thread.
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“Obama is not just a statist socialist, he and the wrecking crew behind him are rapidly creating a Leninist/Mao police state in which a leftist elite rule to the detriment of all who believe the US Constitution, free enterprise and Christian worship has a place in human self rule.”
Only IF you allow him to continue to do so. Other than FR, have you publically spoken out against what he has done? Have you demanded that members of congress do something about him? Picking a horribly Romney is not a solution to Obama. He needs to be confronted.
Now, you are measured and clear in your writing, and I understand your fears. I do appreciate your respectfull tone. Because I ask those questions of you, doens’t mean I’m attacking you.
I consider surrendering to the GOPe’s pick of Romney as cowardice, and a poor way to stop Obama and what he is doing. We cannot merely vote him out of office (especially with Romney being the replacement). The way he is attacking the constitution must be countered by constitutional methods of redress. Congress needs to act...don’t let them get away with NOT acting. Otherwise, some future despot will just do what Obama is attempting all over. It needs to be stopped cold, by congress. Demand they do something. I certainly will.
Im beyond trying to reason w these fanatics
This is who these freaks want to get a second term. Watch this very short clip and understand just who these ABR’s are putting in office again.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwog6E08CFU
FUBO!!!!
It was until all the newbies came here to join the “I hate Romney” “I hate the Mormons” threads.
It’s good cover. The good news is most will grow quiet once the Kenyan gets the boot.
Newbie actually told 2ndDivisionVet to GFY just for posting the article.
Just ignore the children. They will go away once they see nobody is listening to them.
Hell, most of them probably aren't even old enough to vote...
>> “I wonder how many electoral votes Virgil Goode wll end up with?” <<
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None, but he will shift some states to Obama, as his supporters intended in the first place.
You go to the ballot box with the candidate you have, not the one you wish you had. Stop whining. Work on strengthening his coattails to pull along good house and senate members.
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