Posted on 08/17/2012 3:40:53 PM PDT by mkjessup
Romney may not be as pro-life as you would like, but he sure as heck never cast a vote to kill a "viable foetus" as Obama did!
So-- being a "purist" by not voting for Romeny may work for you; it sure doesn't for me. IMHO, it will only help elect Obama, and give him the opportunity to finish the destruction of our "free republic" he has so well begun!
“First you have to excise the cancer—the current President—before ANY cure is possible.”
Problem with analogy is that to “excise” a cancer (Obama) you have to give the patient another form of cancr (Romney).
Start thinking instead of acting out of fear alone. Trying to cure one disease/evil Obama by replacing him with another disease/evil just ins’t that smart a course of action.
Rationalize it all you want, but you are NOT doing the nation any favors to replace Obama with Romney....and you are probably doing more long term damage to make what you propose even nuttier.
As opposed to your "smart" course of action, which is to not help vote Obama out of office, while other rational people do the heavy lifting.
Rationalize it all you want, but you are NOT doing the nation any favors to replace Obama with Romney....and you are probably doing more long term damage to make what you propose even nuttier.
With all due respect, to borrow a phrase you like to use, that makes no sense whatsoever. Your drive for ideological purity is blinding you to the rational course of action to save the country.
You equate Obama and Romney, and I do not share in your moral equivalence of the two men. Romney is not perfect, but as I have told you before, every election you will ever participate in on this side of Heaven will be between two very flawed individuals. You make the best choice with what you have.
You want to stay home, or vote third party, be my guest.
But to think that Romney could possibly be a worse choice than Obama is not rooted in reality of any kind.
That is a fact, a fact that I am going to act upon.
Come back here on election night.
As do I.
What bothers many is the apparent shortsightedness of those who equate a feared threat to an actual threat. If I were knew that Romney's presidency would be no better than BOs then sure - no problem to take a principled stand.
I too have the opinion that if you can't get something right - something as fundamental as human life - if you don't see abortion for the evil that it is, then IMO, everything else you believe is suspect.
That Romney has changed his tune in recent years and now claims to be pro-life - well, what to do? Time will tell if he is sincere.
So, given the choice between the OVERTLY anti-family, anti-life president - and the hopefully-maybe pro-life convert, I choose to give the convert the benefit of the doubt. If I'm wrong, and he proves to be a shyster, well, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it...
Palpable angst.
Concur, wholeheartedly.
Sometimes survival trumps ideology.
This is a sad day.
You’ve given the GOP-E what they want, your acquiesence to their manipulation of the process and their attempt to move the GOP to left.
You said it very well. Thank you.
“As opposed to your “smart” course of action, which is to not help vote Obama out of office, while other rational people do the heavy lifting.”
Romney is not an improvement over Obama. Get that straight in your mind, and the world will be clearer to see right.
Your opinion, not backed up by facts.
While you're at it, any other advice I need to follow?
LOL - where did get your crystal ball - is there a sale somewhere?
The truth is that neither you nor I know whether Romney will keep his commitment to being pro-life. We do know however that BO is firmly committed to being anti-life.
Your pomposity negates your credibility - just saying....
The logical flaw in your proposition is that it assumes Romney to be equal or worse than Obama. Obama is much worse. Be clear about this critical fact, and the conclusion follows that Obama must be defeated, and Romney is the only option to do that.
Also, be advised: I saw John King on Anderson Cooper (CNN) a few weeks back discussing how the Obama campaign was going to allocate scarce resources to supress the conservative vote in swing states - specifically by using the abortion record of Romney to keep conservatives from voting for Romney, enough to give Obama the Presidency. What ever they do with paid media, they are likely to reinforce with their online efforts (e.g. trolls). I'd be suprised if they are not sometimes on FR trying to whip up discord under a false flag. Don't let them manipulate your emotions - stay clear about the big picture.
Romney/Ryan's administration will have room for people of Christian conviction and constitutional conservatives, Obama's will not. Obama's administration will have room for known perverts and communists, Romney/Ryan's will not.
Obama Must Be Defeated!
Open question: Where do you think we would be (politically, strategically, etc.) if John McCain had been elected in 2008? What do you think would have happened in the 2010 elections? Would there be a viable Tea Party movement?
Hear, hear!
I got to that same conclusion about Romney well over a year ago. It was apparent after the mid-terms that Romney would likely be the nominee, like it or not. I have to say, he is looking more conservative than I thought he would be. Choosing Ryan is just frosty icing on the conservative cake.
O.B.O. for 2012.
And grandfather made a wrong choice, didn’t he?
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