Why I Will Vote for Romney-Ryan in November

http://www.freerepublic.com/~mkjessup/ | 17 August 2012 | Mark Jessup (aka mkjessup)

[mkjessup]

I've been on FR since 2003. Hard to believe next March will be my 10th year here, assuming I don't get zotted for one reason or another, lol

To that handful of detractors who would LIKE to think this is my opus, guess again suckers - I would never give you the satisfaction of it. Now that we have that out of the way, why this vanity?

First of all, I'm posting this in News/Activism not because this is sourced from a network, newspaper, etc., but because I've noticed that nobody else worries about posting their vanities in the 'Personal/Blogger' section, so WTH should I?

Now for the purpose of my writing today: after a great deal of soul searching and I might add, a goodly amount of prayer, I have come to the conclusion that my vote in November must and will be cast for the GOP ticket of Romney and Ryan. I did not reach this decision easily. Even a casual review of my past posts will reveal that I have reviled, ridiculed, lambasted and sneered at Mitt Romney with the best of them. I've posted my own home brewed graphics to the laughs of my fellow FReepers, I have been steadfast in saying 'no damn way' would I ever even consider voting for that liberal Republican from Massachuetts, no way would I reward the GOP elites with my vote after they've pissed on conservatives from sea to shining sea. The Party of Reagan is no more, let no one deceive you. We as conservatives are more at home in the Tea Party, and yet what was for a short while the natural home for conservatives, i.e. the Republican Party is an unfamiliar neighborhood, a place that sometimes looks like the place we remember, but upon a second glance, we realize that everything is different now, everything has changed.

Now there are good and Godly conservatives who in a perfect world, WOULD be viable candidates for the Presidency, there is no need to list them all here, we all have our favorites and we all know who we would prefer to be voting for. Our own Tom Hoefling would be a better President than the miserable Kenyan sonuvabitch that is stinking up the White House right now, hell *I* would be a better President than that despicable usurper and liar, and so would most of you, my fellow FReepers.

Now I can recite (and in the past, I have) endless reasons as to why I could not and would not vote for Mitt Romney. In many ways it galls me no end to have reached the conclusion that my own Constitutional duty is to vote for a guy that I had sworn never to vote for. It really REALLY starches my shorts however I have had to question my own perspectives, my own views and ask myself the question, "can I honestly justify another four years of what one of my heroes Senator Joe McCarthy would certainly have labeled a 'Communist regime'?

I cannot do that. I do not like the presumptive GOP nominee, I do not agree with many of his past positions. However I cannot deny that one and only one of the two major party candidates for President is going to be sworn in next January. It will either be that treasonous little bastard 0bama, or it will be Mitt Romney. Anyone, and I mean ANYBODY, who thinks that Tom Hoefling, Virgil Goode, or any other non-'Rat/non-GOP candidate is going to be sworn in as our 45th President next year, I will personally bet $100,000 against that happening at any odds they wish, because that is how likely it is that NEITHER 0bama or Romney will end up being elected in November. I won't lose one dime on that sort of wager.

So how do I justify voting for the GOP and Romney this time around? Well, some things I do NOT believe about Romney is that he hates America, that he hates our capitalist system, that he wants to weaken our national defense, sell out our allies and reward our enemies. I don't agree with nor support his religious faith. But his belief in the tenets of Mormonism is quite frankly between him and God. Now while it is easy to find all sorts of things about the Mormon faith that fly in the face of basic traditional Christianity, if the choice is between a closet-crypto Muslim in the White House, and a church going, charitable, prayerful Mormon who doesn't cheat on his wife, doesn't smoke dope, doesn't even drink (is that true? I'm not sure but I think Mitt is a tee-totaler), I'm pulling the lever for that Mormon guy.

Picture all of America on a gigantic airliner, streaking through the sky, when word comes back from the cockpit that Captain 0bama has never even flown a plane of this size or any size, he's been reading the instruction manual from a hidden teleprompter on top of the instrument panel, we're headed for a bad patch of CAT (Clear Air Turbulence) and the illustrious fake pilot is going to try and fake his way through that turbulence, and it is a foregone conclusion that "we're all gonna die!" - but up in first class (of course, lol) Mitt Romney stands up and informs everyone that he IS a licensed pilot, and that he can get our airliner away from the turbulence, down to a safer altitude, get us back on the proper heading, and land safely at our destination. He offers to take the controls. SOME passengers question him "have you ever flown a plane like this?" and he answers honestly "no, not quite this size, but I AM a pilot, I HAVE flown in difficult circumstances before, and I've got more skills than that fake pilot up in the cockpit that we are about to crash with". Who the Hell is going to argue against that logic? No other pilots on board. No parachutes. And indeed, a fool and an oaf at the controls of the cockpit. WTF do we have to lose?

And another analogy that I've already posted recently, which is that conservatives need to do what the Western allies did in World War II, they did not particularly like Joe Stalin, in fact they knew him to be a rotten communist sonvuabitch but the "enemy of our enemy was our friend" (or at least a convenient ally) and the GREATER enemy was in Berlin, in the form of Hitler and we needed Stalin and his troops to attack the Nazis from the East, and that is why we sent them tons of lend-lease assistance to help them accomplish that. And what kind of fools would have urged a different course in that war? A course of telling Stalin and Soviet Russia that they were "on their own" and they would receive no assistance from us? Can you imagine for just a moment if Nazi Germany had prevailed on the Eurasian continent, the Swastika flying all the way from London to Vladivostok?

Now having painted that sort of grim picture of alternate history, I think we can agree that for all of Mitt Romney's faults, he is not a Joe Stalin, he may be a liberal but he is no Communist.

Can we say the same for 0bama and his crew of America-hating scumbags?

Now a powerful factor in my decision to support the GOP ticket was in fact, the selection of Paul Ryan as Romney's VP running mate. Now Paul Ryan is nobody's fool. If there was anybody I wanted to have the ear of 'President Romney' it would be Vice President Paul Ryan. Everyone keeps saying "if Romney would just move to the right", well I believe Paul Ryan is the best person to accomplish that task. They seem to have a good chemistry and that bodes well for the success of their ticket. The polls show Romney-Ryan up, and 0bama and the 'Rats freaking and shrieking as their numbers decline.

Now I have myself made the argument in the past that the only difference between Romney and 0bama is that 0bama is driving us to the edge of the cliff at 100 mph, and Romney is going to reduce our speed to a thrifty 55 mph. And even IF that were to be proven true, I'm not in any hurry to reach the edge of that cliff.

Now in closing, I ask the following question: how many of us would clench our teeth and pull the lever for Gerald Ford, or Bob Dole, or any other establishment RINO if it meant the end of 0bama? To get that filthy Communist out of the White House, I would (to paraphrase Sir Winston Churchill) 'consider writing in the name of the devil himself', and so for that reason my friends and FRiends, I will support and vote for the GOP ticket of Romney & Ryan in November, not because everything about it excites and pleases me, but because I cannot be a party to another 4 years of the Kenyan traitor staining and besmirching the Office once held by the greatest President of all history, Ronald Wilson Reagan. I submit that Reagan would vote for Romney. We can be assured that Sarah Palin is going to vote for Romney. So will Newt Gingrich. So will Rick Santorum. So IF I am making a mistake by casting my vote for the GOP this year, I will be in good company.

Thanks for your kind consideration.

Mark Jessup

[ansel12]

You will write and post a vanity in service and devotion to Mitt Romney, your participation at FR seems to be childish, trivial, and troll like, as you mock it and it's conservative identity and purpose.

Post after troll like post comes from you, not saying anything of substance, or persuasion, but more like a kids copying of what he thinks Bill Maher does as a devotee of Obama.

Mitt Romney and his politics, own you, you have become so devoted to his candidacy, that you post vanities in his honor, and to his cause.

Mitt Romney, who considers William Weld his mentor, you have come a long way since you signed up for this forum, now you are connected to William Weld politically.

When asked who he identified most with politically, Mitt Romney answered: “I think Bill Weld comes as close as anyone,” he said when asked whom in his party he aligned with. “I think Bill Weld’s fiscal conservatism, his focus on creating jobs and employment and his efforts to fight discrimination and assure civil rights for all is a model that I identify with and aspire to.”

You've come a long way baby, since you signed up, keep lecturing us here at freerepublic, keep striving to turn us into William Weld and Mitt Romney.

[Kevmo]

We all have to see what happens next, between January ‘13 and January ‘17, before knowing what’s best for conservatives and conservatism.
***No we don’t have to. Your argument is invalid, an argument from silence. The silence in this case being the future. You argue from what you know, not what you don’t know. And in this case what we do know is that Romney is a lying, gun-grabbing, babykilling statist.

[mkjessup]

First of all *ping* to my many FRiends who have graciously responded and posted in this thread. I believe you would find Ansel12's post #341 'interesting' and I invite your comments in addition to my own below, so let's get started:

Ansel12 writes in his latest screed:

You will write and post a vanity in service and devotion to Mitt Romney, your participation at FR seems to be childish, trivial, and troll like, as you mock it and it's conservative identity and purpose.

So what of the many FReepers (who outnumber you in this thread) that have agreed with me, supported me, and have chosen to close ranks and unite in a common purpose, which is to defeat 0bama in November? Are they also childen, are their beliefs trivial, are they also 'trolls'?

You are a fool.

Post after troll like post comes from you, not saying anything of substance, or persuasion, but more like a kids copying of what he thinks Bill Maher does as a devotee of Obama.

I have had plenty to say, and I daresay there is more than enough substance, evidenced by the numbers of my fellow FReepers who have come forward. You choose to ignore what is inconvenient or impossible for you to respond to. I am no troll, I've been here on FR longer than you have Sparky, and I recognize that as another FReeper stated upthread, "survival trumps ideology", you however would choose to not only refuse to bail water to keep the boat from sinking, you would begin hacking holes in the hull with an axe because you didn't like the owner of the boat. Again I say, you are a fool.

Mitt Romney and his politics, own you, you have become so devoted to his candidacy, that you post vanities in his honor, and to his cause.

You are a liar. I have posted ONE and only one vanity (this thread you keep returning to), and my posts are based on the reality you deny, which is that if we as conservatives refuse to close ranks and vote for the only candidates who have a good chance of defeating 0bama, it will be upon our shoulders and it will be to our everlasting shame if that despicable Communist is returned for another term in the White House. If Mitt Romney and his politics "own" me, then they also own Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Paul Ryan as well. Condemn them as well, I dare you. Curse them and call them every name you can think of. Apply the same standard to them, they who are in the public arena and understand the risk of a second 0bama term.

Mitt Romney, who considers William Weld his mentor, you have come a long way since you signed up for this forum, now you are connected to William Weld politically. When asked who he identified most with politically, Mitt Romney answered: “I think Bill Weld comes as close as anyone,” he said when asked whom in his party he aligned with. “I think Bill Weld’s fiscal conservatism, his focus on creating jobs and employment and his efforts to fight discrimination and assure civil rights for all is a model that I identify with and aspire to.”

Tell us this Ansel12, if you were in the voting booth and faced with the choice of 0bama-Biden for a second term, or William Weld and Paul Ryan, who would you vote for?

You've come a long way baby, since you signed up, keep lecturing us here at freerepublic, keep striving to turn us into William Weld and Mitt Romney.

I am going to state this as clearly as I can now, so pay close attention:

You are a fool living in a delusion of your own making. Your hatred for Romney has blinded you to the real and tangible threat posed by the potential re-election of 0bama.

You seem to think that conjuring up the name and image of 'William Weld' that it somehow lends credence to your deranged belief that Romney is just as much a threat to our Nation as is 0bama, but your continued diatribes have made it abundantly clear that in fact YOU have become a political Harold Camping, predicting the end of the world as we know it if conservatives choose to vote against 0bama by voting for Romney & Ryan. Your manic shrieks of outrage and angst are the outbursts of someone not entirely stable.

I stand by every word that I have posted in this thread, and I will do as I have said I will do, I will vote the GOP ticket in November, and I will do that not out of some 'devotion' as you call it, to Mitt Romney, I will do it because my Nation demands it of me, my conscience requires it of me, and you can go slink off into a corner and pout if you wish, I'm fighting under the banner of "0bama Must Be Defeated", your continued mewling serves only the objectives of those who want to see 0bama returned to Office, and I hope you'll ultimately wake up from your self-imposed Romney-hating stupor and understand that.

Meanwhile, step aside Harold, as the rest of us have a war to fight to remove 0bama from OUR White House.

[ansel12]

So what of the many FReepers (who outnumber you in this thread) that have agreed with me

Gosh, I'm outnumbered on a mkjessup, Mitt Romney thread, I'm supposed to be surprised at Mitt's fan base being attracted to one of his devotional threads by his most, personally hostile, aggressive devotee?

To quote a poster on your devotion thread, who did not agree with you.

To To: upchuck
My only comment is I will not vote FOR a known abortionist/homosexualist, gun-grabbing, big government socialist/statist. That would betray everything I believe in and promote. Would make a mockery of FR just as it’s making a mockery of the GOP as a conservative political force.

Romney as a conservative is a complete fraud.

Here’s the proof of that from his own mouth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OQoBxZZPqU&feature=player_embedded

64 posted on Fri Aug 17 2012 16:43:39 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)

[betty boop]

Well, ansel12 can say whatever he wants to about "William Weld."

All I have to say is (speaking as a life-long citizen of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts): William Weld was a damned sight better than 0Bama's soulmate, Deval Patrick.

I dunno. It seems to me that some folks around here are suffering from a lack of sense of proportion....

But at the end of the day, mk, I think they mean well — even though we disagree that they are "doing well."

The standard criterion of "wellness" being: the well-being of our constitutional Republic, which only a blind person cannot see is under the gravest attack/threat since the days of Joseph Stalin....

This time, the attack comes from the INSIDE.

I have not the slightest doubt that 0Bama is working fulltime/overtime to IMPLODE the American system from within. Just as his mentors Cloward and Pivins instructed him, using the "playbook" of Saul Alinsky to get that result "done."

His White House is a cesspool of moral depravity.

And yet some folks around here think ROMNEY is the problem????

To me, such an assessment defies logic, reason, and experience!

Oh well....

May God continue to bless America — because some of US at least aren't doing our jobs as citizens!

JMHO FWIW

[MEG33]

” I will vote the GOP ticket in November, and I will do that not out of some ‘devotion’ as you call it, to Mitt Romney, I will do it because my Nation demands it of me, my conscience requires it of me.”

Amen!

[MEG33]

“I have not the slightest doubt that 0Bama is working fulltime/overtime to IMPLODE the American system from within. Just as his mentors Cloward and Pivins instructed him, using the “playbook” of Saul Alinsky to get that result “done.”

Why all cannot see this is frightening...I knew what a Marxist Obama was before he was elected..I had no idea he could bring this country down so far so fast.

God help us save our beloved Republic.

DEFEAT THE OBAMANATION

[mkjessup]

So what of the many FReepers (who outnumber you in this thread) that have agreed with me
Gosh, I'm outnumbered on a mkjessup, Mitt Romney thread, I'm supposed to be surprised at Mitt's fan base being attracted to one of his devotional threads by his most, personally hostile, aggressive devotee?

"personally hostile and aggressive"?

Pot, kettle, black.

Once again, you can quote JimRob until the cows come home, you're not going to bait anyone, least of all me to say one critical word regarding our Founder, who instituted that 'truce' that you seem determined to break. You talk about trolls, look in the mirror. You have exhibited nothing but obsessive and compulsive behavior in your returning time and time again to post the same drivel with absolutely nothing new under the sun. If anything, you are convincing more and more people that to close ranks behind Romney & Ryan is indeed, the conservative thing to do, because a true thinking and dedicated conservative already knows that Job One is to defeat 0bama, which to you is obviously a secondary goal.

So once again will you vote to defeat 0bama by voting the GOP ticket, or will your default be to support the Kenyan usurper's bid for a second term?

[CyberAnt]

Obama has a lot of help (and still does) from George Soros and his money; and Soros’ funded groups.

However, I credit Rush Limbaugh and all the surrogates conservative radio created .. because they have been steadily educating and informing the public. I’ve lost count of all the people who have called Rush and told him how they used to be a liberal, but after listening to him, they totally changed their minds.

I keep wondering if people are giving true info in the polls. I believe that happened in the 2004 election, and the left was stunned when Bush got 4,000,000 more votes.

The Silent Majority strikes again.

[MEG33]

Rush has been a great help to the conservative cause.
I pray people wake up..I see people posting that this will be a landslide vote against Obama..We cannot assume anything.

The polls do not reflect this..NO complacency!

Every vote counts..

[CyberAnt]

Speaking of polls .. let us be reminded that during the 2000 election, the dem polsters were padding the polling data with 12-14% MORE DEMOCRATS, along with more independents who also “leaned democrat”.

During the 2004 election, the dem polsters upped the ante and used 16-18% MORE DEMOCRATS, along with more independents who were also “leaning democrat”.

This is why the dems were so surprised when Bush won a second term. The idiots believed their own lying polsters.

I can’t help but believe the same tactics are being applied this time around. The only polling with Romney slightly ahead but still lagging .. is Rasmussen, and I suspect people are lying about how they vote.

Also, remember too that when a polster uses “adults” - these are usually younger people who are not even registered to vote.

Other polsters use “registered voters”, but people can lie about that status too.

“Likely voters” seems to be the only category which is more accurate.

Besides, Rasmussen keeps saying that it’s still very early and the polls should be more conclusive after both camps have their conventions.

I guess we’ll find out.

[MEG33]

I know it is early to take the polls too seriously..

I just don’t want anyone to think this will be a sure thing..It isn’t IMHO

[MEG33]

PS I only pay attention to polls using likely voters and consider Rasmussen the most reliable.

When I can find them..I love to find comparable polls on this approximate date in previous elections and compare with actual outcomes..

No time lately to do so.
Getting rid of Obamanation and his administration is SO important!

Beat Obama

[johnthebaptistmoore]

We are in agreement about Mitt Romney and his pro-leftist positions on many issues, up to the present day. Mitt’s unacceptable! But, even Mitt Romney COULD end up changing his ways and shifting to the right, on many issues, especially if Mitt knows that he wouldn’t be POTUS for more than one term, otherwise. I’m NOT saying that Mitt will, definitely, become a true small government conservative POTUS. I’m, just, saying that change is possible. If the next Congress (both, House and Senate), and everything else political and judicial all the way down to the most local levels of government, becomes much more conservative, overall, and much less leftist/RINO/Establishment Republican/Elitist Republican, overall, then this would help boost the long-term future of U.S. conservatism a lot.

[xsmommy]

Sanity is a struggle for some. I comfort myself with the knowledge that not a single conservative that I know in real life has that attitude. It’s a mindset shared by a de minimums # of people on FR. And for him to call you a troll is laughable, it was only a short while ago you shared his opinion on not voting for Romney. You suddenly assumed troll status when you decided you had to steel yourself to vote for the only hope for the future of the country?

[Sola Veritas]

“If Mitt Romney screws up as president, then what will conservative voters DO in 2016? Will there be a final candidate for the GOP POTUS in 2016 that, really, is a decent conservative, too, or will there, only, be Mitt Romney running for a second term?”

IF he wins this fall. Then no matter how poorly he does as POTUS, he will run for reelection in 2016. Once again, out of “partly loyalty” he will have a lock on being the candidate. However, he will have to run against Hillary in 2016, and she is much smarter than Obama, but as liberal/leftest/marxist, that is a dangerous combination. She will be able to defeat Romney easily IF he does poorly.

Because the public think Romney is “conservative”....they will blame his failure on “consevatism” and wreck this countries future.

IF there were a mechanism where Hillary could substitute of Obama in this 2012 election....she could beat Romney easily. IF Obama loses, it will be because of him being so hated....not because Romney is “liked.” Romney is no more “likeable” than he is conservative.

[rbmillerjr]

“You’ve come a long way baby, since you signed up, keep lecturing us here at freerepublic, keep striving to turn us into William Weld and Mitt Romney.”...to mkjessup

...and you are lecturing and striving to turn us into Barrack Hussein Obama ?

[BlackElk]

BeauBo:

Within at least three posts, you have claimed an 88% rating for Mittler from the ACU. I had never been aware that the ACU had EVER rated governors and Taxachusetts governor is the only office Mittler ever held (until his 34% approval rating drove him from office). I went to the ACU home page and found reference to ratings for US Senate, US House, and six state legislatures (Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, California, Georgia and Colorado) but no governors. BTW, many years ago, I was a state chair of an ACU affiliate in a state bordering Massachusetts. That proves nothing in itself but I would make two observations: First, John Ashbrook's American Conservative Union and David Keene's ACU were entirely different things as the National Rifle Association now chaired by Keene will find out to its detriment. Second, rating even state legislators much less governors is likely beyond the competence of ACU's staff, giving them every benefit of the doubt. At least with state legislators, their voting records and their bills may be reviewed not unlike Congress or Senate. Massachusetts has an (old colonial era institution) elected Governor's Council which affects gubernatorial actions in many ways not readily discernible to outsiders.

I am the first to admit that I lack computer skills but perhaps you can point me to how I can find internet confirmation that the ACU EVER rated Governor Romney at all, much less at 88%. Are you talking about a state affiliate in Massachusetts? Again point me in the right direction to obtain confirmation. I am not doubting your integrity though I do question your wisdom and your analysis of what constitute reasons to go to political war especially for the likes of Romney. I DO absolutely question Romney's integrity and everything else about him and that goes for both of his now deceased parents as well. Romney's daddy became part of the antiwar left while running for POTUS in 1968 as a stalking horse for Nelson Rockefeller (who never became antiwar) and while Mittens was following the family tradition of avoiding military service by choosing his military draft eligible years to run off to France as a missionary. None of his five sons have served and neither did his daddy.

You characterize Mittler as a "squeaky clean choir boy for a politician." How about a more accurate description? He is and always has been a money-obsessed unprincipled sleazy whore EVEN for a politician and one who never saw a social issue whether babies, guns, marriage, education or whatever on which he was meaningfully distinguishable in policy from Ted Kennedy. It is true that Myth Romney never drove a girl off the Chappaquiddick Bridge and left her to drown.

I understand the argument of some that absolutely ANYTHING has to be to Obozo's right although a Romney presidency, in my estimation, will permanently destroy the GOP and, with it, our nation. I cannot imagine any actual conservative supporting Myth Romney if that conservative is familiar with the details of Romneycare.

Reagan's ex-wife Jane Wyman (probably in later years a far better person than Nancy) was asked by lame stream media in 1980 to tell them about Ronaldus Maximus (most politicos knew that their approximately 1948 divorce had been a nasty bloodbath). Wyman responded to their shock and horror that Ronnie is was a very fine man and that the USA would be blessed to have him as POTUS. If you posted suggesting that he was libertarian during the divorce period, he was not. Any libertarianism on Reagan's part stemmed from his Hollywood background where abortions and sexual perversion were more commonplace than most moviegoers knew. He had a certain tolerance for such things without being a cheerleader for either. By 1948 he was testifying before HUAC against Hollywood communist influence although his circle of friends and allies included ex-communists Sterling Hayden and John Garfield among others.

The last sentence of your second paragraph is the very definition of Romney as a money-obsessed unprincipled whore as noted above.

Finally, I am often in disagreement with Ansel12 over issues of our respective faiths. I am a Catholic and he is a Reformed Christian. Both of us are more than a bit textured in our respective faith commitments. OTOH, I have found ansel12 to be a thoroughly honest FReeper and worthy and principled opponent here even when he disagrees with my point of view. Ansel12 has earned that reputation here over a long posting history.

If you imagine that this post is the product of "irrational hatred," so be your belief and I will tend to view you through the prism you are earning accordingly.

[BlackElk]

BeauBo:

That article you linked from Human Events does not reference a rating of Mitt Romney as Governor but rather the average of the ACU ratings of Congresscritters who endorsed Romney. It is not Mittler's ACU rating. Don't you agree?

I don't think you are a liar. You just don't know what you are talking about unless you have something else to link on Romney's "ACU rating."

[BlackElk]

Romney CLAIMS to have become "pro-life" in 2004 when confronted with the unlikely conversion issue of embryonic stem cell research. He CLAIMS to have become "pro-life" when suddenly (after all those years) he realized that the embryo was a human being. In 2006 (two years AFTER he CLAIMED to have become "pro-life") this "pro-life" Romney of two years standing signed Romneycare into law. Romneycare provided for any and all abortions (no matter how complicated or expensive) to be funded by Romneycare with no more than a $50 co-pay by the "mother," and provided a permanent place on its board of directors for Planned Barrenhood. At the signing he is photographed yukking it up in triumph with Ted Kennedy and other pro-abort Demonrat leaders.

Mittler displays no genuine humility and no genuine gratitude as to the abortion issue. He is a stone liar as evidenced by the last paragraph's chronological time line. He is, as ever, Governor Etch-a-Sketch. The GOP-e noise machine lies on his behalf. His history is his history. It is not pretty. Serious actual pro-lifers do not care to be lied to by card-carrying members of the GOP's ruling class of liars like Myth Romney.

If your post references remarks by Gary Bauer, Bauer should be ashamed of himself.