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]

I tried to alert him to that in post 319, but he doesn’t even read our posts I don’t think.

Post 319 “Are you going to go to that Human Events link and actually read it? Or keep not reading it, like you do my posts? Mitt Romney DOES NOT HAVE ANY ACU RATING.”

[BlackElk]

Ditter:

We shall see whether you and the other Romney pom pom girls can remember why you voted for Romney when the despicable POS starts nominating John Paul Stevens think alikes to our federal courts and (God forbid) SCOTUS and the GOP Senate rubber stamps them because they are "our" nominees, IF Myth is elected in the first place which is a verrrrry big IF.

[BlackElk]

It is truly astounding, we are living through a Night of the Living Dead among those who CLAIM to be conservatives but are willing to cheerlead the likes of Romney. Of course, Mittler was, at best, the 47th choice of each every one of them and they have just reluctantly united to insult anyone who retains conservative and Judaeo-Christian principles and therefore understands the need to resist BOTH Romney and Obozo. I'm awaiting a news story in which Ann Romney explains that Myth was her 15th choice for POTUS nomination ut that she has just forced to be realistic.

May God bless you and yours!

[woofie]

The article I posted was indeed from Gary Bauer:
a little about him:

Bauer describes himself as pro-life. He is in support of repealing laws that allow abortion. He advocates for the Supreme Court’s overturn of Roe v. Wade as the first step in the pro-life cause.[7] He wants to cut funding for Planned Parenthood and do away with any U.S. aid for organizations that provide or advise abortions. Bauer also says that he would counsel raped family members against abortion.[8] He points to the Constitution and the Christian view of human life as reasons for not supporting euthanasia, stating that, “all people have immeasurable value because they have been created in the image and likeness of God.” He is a supporter of the death penalty for death row inmates.[9] Bauer opposes cloning and embryonic stem cell research, but supports adult stem cell research. He supports a Constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, and prefers abstinence programs to comprehensive sex education programs. Bauer wants to remove from the tax code all economic disincentives to marry.[9]
On foreign policy issues, Bauer supports strong ties with Israel, would not trade with China until the country improves its human rights record, and supported full funding for the Iraq War. Bauer believes that America should advance and protect freedom worldwide and “bring the message of freedom to the Arab world”.[8]
Bauer supports enforcing all laws against illegal immigration and that all immigrants should learn English and U.S. traditions.[8]
On economic issues, Bauer supports income tax cuts and decreased regulation of small businesses. He has stated that corporations should serve the U.S. as well as their shareholders, and has occasionally been critical of the World Trade Organization.

So if Bauer is backing Romney can you really blame anyone else for backing him?

I think you guys who continue to hate Romney are out in left field and the parade has moved on

[mkjessup]

We shall see whether you and the other Romney pom pom girls can remember why you voted for Romney when the despicable POS starts nominating John Paul Stevens think alikes to our federal courts and (God forbid) SCOTUS and the GOP Senate rubber stamps them because they are "our" nominees, IF Myth is elected in the first place which is a verrrrry big IF.

BlackElk:

IF Romney fails to prevent 0bama from obtaining a second term, I sincerely hope that you and the rest of your ABR zombie-posse will all get window seats on the FEMA buses and trains when you are arrested as 'security threats' to the new OPE (0bama Progressive Era), and that you will take comfort in the knowledge that you remained pure and unsoiled by refusing to vote against 0bama.

Oh wait, you and the likes of Ansel12 won't be arrested at all, because just like the little Quisling-followers in France during World War II, you will swear allegiance as a good citizen to the Kenyan Klown, and happily provide the names of everyone you know who voted for Romney & Ryan, because they too, must be 'security risks'.

0bama-Biden thanks you for your loyalty and your support.

"Forward, BlackElk, Forward!"

[Kevmo]

Oh wait, you and the likes of Ansel12 won’t be arrested at all, because just like the little Quisling-followers
***Romney is the Quisling here. He is the traitor to conservatism, pretending to be one when he aint one. No matter who wins in the next election, conservatism loses. Who else could get ripping at each other? That’s the plan, straight from the GOP-E, and you’re following it nicely.

[mkjessup]

Oh wait, you and the likes of Ansel12 won’t be arrested at all, because just like the little Quisling-followers...
Romney is the Quisling here. He is the traitor to conservatism, pretending to be one when he aint one. No matter who wins in the next election, conservatism loses. Who else could get ripping at each other? That’s the plan, straight from the GOP-E, and you’re following it nicely.

Is that a fact?

Q - What do you, Ansel12 and BlackElk NOT have in common with Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Paul Ryan?

A - THEY recognize that removing 0bama from office is the highest priority in November and they are supporting the ticket of Romney & Ryan.

You want another four years of that Kenyan Communist destroying America? Sure, go ahead and tell us that Romney is as bad or worse than 0bama is. Palin, Gingrich, Santorum, Cain, Perry and Ryan are all traitors and fools, right?

C'mon out and condemn them too, man up and say it.

[xsmommy]

If the GOPe and the tea party seem to have coalesced around Romney-Ryan, and THEY HAVE, what does this say about the group of purists that continue to rant and rave against the ticket?

[mkjessup]

I’ll tell you what it says, it says that in a contest between their conservative principles and the continued survival of America, principles always come first.

That will make a fine epitaph on our Nation’s tombstone after 0bama finishes the job he started in January 2008.

Another fine FReeper said back in the beginning of this thread, “survival trumps ideology” but apparently not for those who have a death wish.

[xsmommy]

it also infers that those you named in your post—Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Paul Ryan— have no principles, since they are supporting this ticket as the country’s only means of survival.

[bert]

——principles always come first.——

There is another possible take. That is pride.

The restatement is that pride in principle always comes in first. The pride trumps reason to the point it can not be transcended without total loss of face.

The inability to overcome pride in belief transcends the threat, the major genuine threat to being conservative and of America that is Obama.

[mkjessup]

***BUMP***

Those are damn wise words Bert and deserve re-posting on a regular basis, you are absolutely right.

Deciding to support the Romney-Ryan ticket was not an easy thing for me to do, but it was the right thing to do because I love my Country first and will not stand by and condemn her to another 4 years of 0bama. That I cannot and will not do.

[Tau Food]

continued survival of America, . . .

our Nation’s tombstone . . .

a death wish.

- - - - - - -

Without Mitt Romney to protect us, our nation will die?!

Let me make a prediction. After Romney is rejected in November, we will have another election in 2016 and that, too, will be the most important election in your lifetime. Let's hope that you can find a suitable and worthy candidate to vote for in 2016.

[mkjessup]

Tau my FRiend, I have no doubt that you are a patriot, however I cannot in good conscience gamble the future of my Nation upon your prediction, no matter how sure you may be about it.

Here is my prediction: if 0bama is re-elected, have your bags packed to either head for the hills as the 0bamunist shock troops begin ‘stage 2’ without any fear of restraint or inhibition, OR if you are unlucky, you may be allowed to take some of those bags with you as you board the FEMA trains or buses for your new home in a federal internment camp for ‘security risks’.

[arasina]

Here is my prediction: if 0bama is re-elected, have your bags packed to either head for the hills as the 0bamunist shock troops begin ‘stage 2’ without any fear of restraint or inhibition, OR if you are unlucky, you may be allowed to take some of those bags with you as you board the FEMA trains or buses for your new home in a federal internment camp for ‘security risks’.

Oh, that could never happen here in the United States! /sarcasm off



(sarcasm tag necessary for the purposefully thick-headed amongst us)

[stephenjohnbanker]

Your writing here is verbatim how I feel about the whole situation. Let me add this. I am looking at this election as if the very survival of the United States is at stake, because in all likelihood, it is. If Obama is elected, the only thing that might save us is a civil war, or at the very least, the majority of American states refuse to recognize Obama as POTUS, and blow him off. Obama intends to destroy our entire economy, and save for a few question marks, I know how he intends to do it. No Boehner, or McConnell flunky will stop him, as they have already proven that they are cowards.
Obama intends to destroy our military. ( I had breakfast with a high ranking Air Force friend yesterday, and he not only believes Obama will destroy our military, he said it has been profoundly damaged already).
Look, I am a right wing conservative, and proud of it. I did not vote for W the second time, and I did not vote for scumbag, traitorous McCain either. This time, (very) sad to say, I don’t have that luxury. I could post here for an hour about all the damage Obama has already done,(and intends to do in the future) and I would barely scratch the surface. In summary, with Romney, we have a chance to survive. With Obama, we have NO chance, save for some form of civil war.

[xsmommy]

i have been told by that cadre not to vote based on fear. I’m not cowering, i am looking at two crystal clear options and choosing the MOST PRAGMATIC of the two with a view to saving our nation from destruction. One has to assume from their posture that they welcome the destruction and look forward to a rebuilding. Sorry, i cannot sit by and vote for that destruction. My kids are 18, 20 and 23. THEY will not sit and vote for that destruction either.

[mkjessup]

Hello SJB, my old FRiend!

I had been a bit concerned over having not heard from you but figured you had been on travel or otherwise occupied but I am gratified to read your words here today, and you are a patriot’s patriot, and I am honored to stand shoulder to shoulder with you, and proud that you are my friend and FRiend.

The Lord be with you SJB, the Lord be with us all.

Best,

Mark :)

[stephenjohnbanker]

” So in closing, I thank you for starting the thread and the interesting discussion that followed. I’ve been a member of this Free Republic for fifteen years and I’ve been supporting it with $30 a month for most of this time. I’d hate to have those 15 years pissed away on account of a small cadre of ABR people who seem to feel that anybody voting for Mitt Romney is some kind of turncoat, so I’m not going to engage them and add to the infighting that is going on. But I’m not going to stay in the shadows either. I am voting the Romney/Ryan ticket in November and then I’m voting Tea Party conservative all the way downticket. “

Well stated.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” 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. “

EXACTLY!!!!