Well, We Guess We Can Write Off THAT Election Then
Now that we know that unelectable Mittens Obamneycare is pretty much certainly going to be Bob Dole, the Sequel. At least we might get the satisfaction of seeing Mr. Plastic Fantastic appearing in future Viagra commercials. Satisfying because it’s the sort of humiliation fitting for a sell-out opportunist who’ll do and say anything to get what he wants.
And if you still think he’s “electable”, then ponder this: The only, ONLY reason that he’s now the likely candidate is because he spent more than $100 million bucks sliming, defaming and carpet-bombing the media with attacks on fellow Republicans so vicious that, had he ever shown half the dedication to destroying the National Socialist Democrat Workers’ Party, our children would have to read about them in the history books. More than $100 million to scrape up just about 40% of the conservative vote.
Even assuming, just for shits and giggles, that he’d be willing to go after Ogabe the same way (and dream on if that’s what you’re thinking), we somehow don’t think he’ll be able to outspend Ogabe the same way he was able to outspend Newt and Rick. Heck, Ogabe has already opened up his website to donations from anybody and anything in the world by deliberately disabling all verification software, just like he did the last time. The same Ogabe who slandered the Supreme Court before Congress by falsely claiming and screaming about how their decision in Citizens United had “opened up the American elections to foreign funds.”
Mr. Ogabe Pot? We have Mr. Kettle on line 2. He says it’s something about you calling him black.
Oops. RACIST!
So now comes the time, *sigh!*, AGAIN, where good American Patriots have to figure out what to follow. Their conscience and principles or their desire to get Ogabelini out of office. Because none of us can have both. As Bill says:
Conservatives, if you vote for Mittens Romneycare come fall, I want you to understand exactly what you are doing. You are not just compromising your principles, you are absolutely trashing them. You are demonstrating that in certain situations, your principles are meaningless to you. Further, you are doing exactly as your Gentry GOP masters expect you to do, and voting for the guy with the R behind his name, just as they know you will do in your complete and sheep-like submission to their assumptions about your behavior. Baaaa….
You’re also giving them every reason to ignore you in the future, since once again they have demonstrated that they can rig the GOP nomination for their candidate, and no matter what, you will go along with that rigging when it is completed. Which makes it therefore even more difficult for conservative candidates to defeat the Gentry GOP’s crap sandwich banquet, the one they roll out every four years.
In a nutshell: If you’re a conservative and you vote for the moderate socialist Mittens Romneycare, you are betraying all your conservative principles, validating the Gentry GOP’s view of you as a sheep-like tool, and making it even more difficult to advance your own candidates and so-called principles in the future. There is no way to sugar-coat it: Vote for Mittens, and you are an unprincipled tool busily engaged in cutting your own throat.
He’s right, you know. No arguing about it. You can’t vote for a socialist-lite statist and still claim to be following your core conservative principles. You. Just. Can’t. Don’t even try, because the illogical pretzels of irrational rationalization you’d have to twist yourselves into in order to square that circle would make a ProgNazi blush with shame, if they had any.
Now, now. Put down the torches, pitchforks and firewood, because I’m not done yet, not even close. If you still want to string me up when I’m done, then have at it, but at least give me a fair hearing first.
I’m just lining up the situation here and being brutally honest. As much with myself as I am with you, and let me tell you: That ain’t easy! There is no easy way out of this one. Both choices suck, but we have to admit to ourselves what we’re doing and why we’re doing it before we make a decision, because we’re going to have to live with it.
Now go read the rest of Bill’s post.
This is not a request. This is an “if you really want to give me a fair hearing, the annoying old bastard whose website you’ve been reading for a long time, you have to.” Because I stand four-square with Bill on this one. He finally, through being brutally honest and not sugar-coating it, nor trying to pretend that it is anything less awful than what it is, managed to make ME see it clearly and make my decision. A decision I hate, but at least a decision that I can defend now that the wool is off of my eyes and I am able to admit exactly what I’m doing and why I’m doing it.
I’ll wait. If you give a shit about me, don’t go below the fold until you’re done.
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Back? OK, good.
That’s how I feel too. Exactly!
Now you have the whole story. If you still detest me, then that’s fair enough. To be sure, I detest myself for it, but I also realized that I would end up doing that no matter what my decision would be.
But I knew that I had to make a decision, because not making one is also making a decision. No way out of this one.
I could hate myself for A) or I could hate myself for B). Either way, it would be a LONG time before I could look myself in the eyes and like what I saw. Or even be able to stop myself from vomiting.
I’m not “fine” with that, but it is what it is. It’s like abortion, really. Those of you who know me know where I stand on that. Abortion is never acceptable. But there are a very few (although the NSDWP always makes it sound as if all abortions are like that) select cases, a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of all abortions performed in this country, where I honestly can’t say that either option, to do or not to do, is acceptable or a “good” option. But that doesn’t absolve you from having to make a choice.
Yes, I have come to accept that voting for Mittens is a betrayal of everything that I believe in. It’s a betrayal, and it’s not in the least bit made any less horrid by the alternative. Betrayal is betrayal and I will have to own it and answer for it, no matter what the ultimate outcome is. I won’t be one of those who, if everything gets worse because of it, say “oh yes, but I couldn’t possibly have known.” I’m not a “good German.” I own that decision and I don’t like it one little bit.
But the bottom line is that I hate Ogabe and everything that his National Socialist Party stands for more than I love my core conservative principles. It’s as simple as that. Hatred. More than I love my conservative principles, I hate Ogabe and the NSDWP. I hate every single thing that he and they have done to this wonderful, proud nation that I love more than life, this nation that I gave up, willingly, every allegiance I had ever held to swear my life to and I realized that, second only to G-d, that is where my duty lies. Even if I have to commit violence against my own pride in my convictions.
It’s not easy admitting to your hatred or letting it guide you, but I have to in this case. Hatred is far too strong a feeling to let into your heart lightly. Preferably you never should. It’s the dreaded “switch” that you don’t ever want to go near because you know what happens when you flip it. You can’t un-flip it. But seeing as I have, as we all have, what ProgNazism and Ogabe have done to this nation, I have no choice.
I can do no other. G-d help me and forgive me.
If that makes other conservatives label me as a “sellout”, then they do have a point. Because I AM. I’m not going to lie to myself and pretend that I’m not, nor am I going to chastise or denigrate any of them for choosing otherwise. But I, and they, had to pick one of two impossible choices. I picked A, they picked B. I understand perfectly their reason for picking B and I will always respect them and hold them in high esteem for that. They went where their honor told them to go. So will I.
I will hold my nose in November and vote for that stinking shyster Mittens if he’s the candidate, and I will hate myself for it forever more. I will never forgive myself. I will never try to excuse it. I will have betrayed my conservative principles by doing so, and there is no way around that, because it’s true.
But I, personally, can’t choose the other option. To me, it’s worse.
Doesn’t mean I’m right. Doesn’t mean I have an excuse if or when my gradual retreat only ends up delaying the inevitable, which I really honestly believe will be the outcome, all it means is that I have finally come to terms with my own hatred of socialism and realized that I will sacrifice almost anything to fight it, even if that sacrifice means hating myself for the rest of my life, which I will.
Thatisall.
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Ah, but defeat is not inevitable after that gradual retreat. Many Tea Party folks are going to local Republican meetings, becoming precinct leaders and taking control from the bottom up. It will take years to get a majority of precinct captains that can elect conservative state delegates, and so on. We need time to oust the RINO ‘nobles’. For this reason I will hold my nose and vote for Romney. He is one of the aristocracy that has more in common with their opposites in the Democrats than with the rank and file, but his election should allow us peasants time to gather together with tar, feathers and a rail.
Again it’s going to be the Tea Party holding them to the fire. But I think if Mittens does win he’ll only have one term becase a real conservative will come out and challenge the establishment and the status quo.
Mittens, Boner, McConalldick, McStain and Can’tor are terrified of enough conservatives being elected that their hold on power is ripped from them.
We must make sure that happans at ALL COSTS!!!
finally! something good about still living in SoCal…(besides the weather).
i do NOT have to pick between holding my nose to vote for Mittens or upholding my principals and seeing Buckwheat the Dimwitted returning to office.
there is no way that the majority bloc of knee jerk liberals, multi-generational welfare recipients and the illegal alien voter masses everyone assures me don’t exist aren’t going allow the SCOAMF to sweep the state.
as such, asking me to hold my nose is a waste of time…. baring massive shifts in the faith based reality or the above named groups, nothing is changing over the summer, and i’ll vote for Roseanne Barr out of spite.
Perhaps Obomny will have a spine transplant and select a good VP candidate. It happened with that Old Fart, whatshisname when he selected Sarah Palin.
I’m hoping he goes for Allen West. Then, after the election, President Obomney gets accidentally run over by his own limo and…
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In November I won’t be voting for Romney. I’ll be voting for NotObama. Romney just happens to be the combination of letters in the NotObama slot.
I utterly despise Romney and I find his every utterance sickening, because I know that he is an unprincipled opportunist who will say and do anything to get elected.
But like I tell anyone who says they’re going to sit this election out, first, the Congressional elections are more important than the Presidential election. Even scum like Obama can be reined in by a conservative Congress, and second, even though Mittens is a scum sucking liberal douchebag, he’s not a communist ideologue dedicated to the annihilation of America. With a Republican Congress he will remove the obstacles to economic recovery put in place by the Obamunists. There is no possible outcome as bad as the re election of Barack Obama.
What Bill Quick wrote about the validation of the GOP establishment by voting for Romney is true and correct. Now apply that same logic to the prospect of Obama being re elected…
Terrifying isn’t it?
At this point, I’ll be voting for any American.
Kinda’ narrows it down.
On the up side, the lib’s DAMN sure can’t say with any measure of accuracy that mitz is in the NRA’s pocket,
though,, ‘probably won’t stop them from doing it.
One used to be able to tell when any meeting was over by the stupidity of questions asked.
Likewise, I believe this applies to elections – there’s obviously no real leadership at the helm nor has there been for many years. Leaders have gone on and all that’s remaining are a few wanna-bes who were promised the office “someday” as a reward for toeing the “company line” – exactly what’s wrong with American business today but that’s a complaint for another time.
The Founders envisioned a system in which the people would remove the trash on a regular basis – so much for that idea.
The latest earthquakes? Those were Franklin, Jefferson and Adams rolling in their graves.
I hate that son of a bitch too. Apologies to all bitches.
I’ll hold my nose, yet again.
Anything to stop the impending train wreck.
Sorry, Not gonna do it, I would rather have the impending crash, and C.W. 2.0, I might die for freedom,I will not live as a slave, but my soul will be intact.
Above the fold, I got as far as:
…and went “Umm…Yeah, and I’ve also proven on any number of occasions that I can get around the whole ‘killing is bad’ thing too. Stick-to-principles < Keep-feeding-my-kids.
Doesn't even make to 'no-brainer' status.
Below the fold, it turned out that was kind of what he was saying anyway.
– MD
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Both you and Bill have it exactly right, Your Imperial Majesty.
Plus, the country can probably get over 4+ years of Mittens, but if Barack Hussein Obama is allowed a second term where he never has to worry about being re-elected again, I have a sneaking suspicion that we’re not going to get over that.
A friend of mine wrote a novel where one character has the line: “You can only choose from among the choices you are given. You can choose to do nothing, but you cannot choose your choices.” That about sums it up.
Maybe I’m looking at this wrong, but I’ll let you guys dissect this thought.
Mittens is basically a wishy washy little bitch. He’s gonna go with the path of least resistance basically. Therefore, the real fight ought to be taking over the senate while maintaining a majority in the house. Then Mittens can just go with the flow, and that flow would be ours. If we get the right people elected in the senate and house that is.
I will also be voting for Mittens, as I’ve said before I’ll feel dirty afterward but it is the least evil of the choices to my mind. Thankfully Herr Bumbles seems to want to make me feel better about it. His hot mic comments prove to me that the sequel would be much worse than the first term……. and the first term was pretty damn awful.
So the choice in my mind is Mittens, who we will have some (very little, but some) influence over simply because his is GOP and wants to keep his base happy so he can get a second term, and Bambi who we have no hope of influence over, he would be in a second term and is a radical leftist to begin with.
The plane is headed for the ground like a fucking dart, engines are stalled. At the moment we can’t hope to get them restarted but maybe we can level out , glide for a while, give us more time while we work on the problems. So step one is getting rid of Bubbles, step two is keeping the pressure on everyone, don’t let them get comfortable….. don’t even let them breathe without permission. We start the search for a proper candidate to replace Romney now…… may he be the last establishment President.
As I see it, if the Republicans can’t retake congress, it won’t matter. Personally, if they don’t retake congress, when this country finally collapses, I’d rather have it be on Ogabe’s hands than a Republican’s hands. If Romney is at the helm when everything goes Tango Uniform, I don’t think a republican would be elected again for a very, very long time.
I, too, am struggling with the principles v. hatred part. I wouldn’t vote for Newt because of his serial adultery, mostly. I don’t trust Romney, AT ALL, but I wouldn’t vote for Zero if he were the only one running. It’s a tough choice. I may just concentrate on what’s down ticket and write in Rick Perry.
Yeah Sire,
It seems that we hit the “Godzilla Threshold” with this election. So yeah, Romney (Damn him to the 9th Circle of Hell!)…sigh…I can’t even bring myself to say it.
I am not voting for the “agent saboteur” who is currently occupying the WH!
My situation is much easier, there is absolutely no way that Obummer is not going to carry “The Democratic Soviet Socialist Peoples Republic of Oregon”, so I will vote for either the Libertarian or Constitution Party candidate for president.
Ya know… even if there was a question at this point in my mind… As a stay-at-home mother of 4, I have to say that I’ll take that family over the ghetto-bitch and the First Wookie’s family any day of the week.
Y’know, I get all that. Romney is maybe, maybe, one degree off of the Obama median. Still, that’s one degree. The thing is, I really think we need a new party that is a serious contender — call it the Constitutional Party, or the TEA Party, or the American Party. And we need breathing room and time to get serious and create, feed and seed that party.
It doesn’t have to be about compromising your principles. It can be about having a not-entirely-as-horrible-and-bent-on-our-destruction placeholder in the office while we do our level best to redirect the course of American politics.
So I will vote for that one-degree-less socialist placeholder so that we can have 4 years to build that new, serious party. Yes, I will.
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Lc ORWN engine builder for Rottie Racing says:
I agree completely and that is exactly why I am not now, not ever, going to say “this is what I’m going to do, and you have to do the same.”
Because I’m not even remotely sure that I’m doing the right thing here.
The only thing I DO know is that I’ll hate myself no matter what I do. And I’m already hating myself for having reached this decision. Anybody criticizing me for abandoning my conservative principles is absolutely right. I am. I’ve made a choice. If anybody makes a different choice, I fully understand and respect why they did so.
This is not an “I’m right, you’re wrong” post. It’s an “I’m wrong no matter what I do” post. But I had to make a choice. May G-d forgive me if it’s the wrong one, but I cannot, honestly, chastise anyone for disagreeing with me on this point. Because they’re right.
No matter what I do, I’m betraying something that I believe in.
I have no excuse, and I have no argument against those who disagree with me.
Make up your own minds, but know that no matter what your ultimate decision might be, I’ll still be there in the fox hole with you if it all turns to shit and I will be honored to be in your company.
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Yall are assuming we are still having a general election. Im not completely convinced that there wont be some drummed up “conflict” or “emergency” that will allow zeroman to suspend the election and declare martial law, you know… for the good of the country.
Templar_Knight says:
Honestly that may be the best possible outcome. Not that I’m in any hurry to resort to violence but at least then all the card would be on the table. People would forced to choose a side, not sit on their asses. People are fine with not taking action when they have a choice, but if you take away that choice watch it hit the fan.
Anyone who stays at home (voting for Paul counts as staying at home too) can just stay at home for the rest of their lives. Don’t bother coming out for primaries, generals or ever dog catcher contests because you’ve abdicated your citizenship. I’ll wear 2 pins on my nose, carry a barf bag and pull the lever for the democrat from Massachusetts just like I pulled it for the democrat from Arizona because the alternative is a G*D DAMN COMMUNIST!!
If Juan had won, we wouldn’t have Obamacare. If Juan had won we’d not have borrowed another 3 trillion. He’s a shit sandwich with a side of ipecac but he wasn’t Obama and neither is mittens. For the time being we just have to face the fact that the big chair isn’t going to have a conservative in it yet again. In the meantime though we can continue to grow our influence in the Congress.
Times are tough, the future is bleak but damn it we don’t give up! That’s not what Americans do!
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This is, in its simplest form, triage. When faced with two mangles options you take the one you can save. Bam Bam is the plane crash vic, coughing up blood, in shock, BP falling and a gaping chest wound. Mittens is the car wreck vic that need an amputation. Which do you save? Simple , the one who will survive, or in this case do the least damage.
Therefore, I can keep my conscience intact. I will do what I can to save the country, even if that only means slowing its demise. I will hold my nose, BITCHING all the way, pull the lever for Mittens and every other R on the ballot, and PRAY that the country will pull through.
What other choice is there?
Long time absent, but I have been following the news and I have been lurking here, off and on, for the past year. I can’t stand Mitt either. I didn’t like ANY candidate. I do not see it as abandoning my principles, but a chance, and a far better one, to back track to at least where Ear Leader took office, than to not vote at all. That said, I don’t know that the Democratic candidate will be better. How will you vote if a moderate like Lieberman is nominated? If that happens, I will abandon the Romney ship. No qualms.
Hi Cricket, good to see you back.
Although I myself cannot vote for any democrat, ever.
Cactus Jack @ # 14: I was just going to go with a “everybody said lots of good shit” line, but this one seriously deserves both applause and an “EXACTLY!”. Y’all Romneyavitch IS an opportunist. So, if we have a strong conservative Congress, we have a strong conservative (acting at least) POTUS. I want a real one, but I’ll settle for a good actor until we get one.
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Even that is a thought. We. MUST. Get. CONGRESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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These are facts. Hard and cold facts. Last chance, political entity. Play it fair, or party we must.
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Known fact: Zero is a Manchurian Candidate intent on taking the US apart piece by piece until he’s righted all of its wrongs and made the world safe for communism and/or islam.
Known fact: Romney is a piece of shit used-car salesman who will say or do anything to make the sale. At heart, however, he is not anti-American and not anti-capitalist.
If ever there was a lesser of two evils scenario, this is it. Both options will cause casualties … one option’s casualties will be fatal, the others’ will be crippling. Do we want to send this Republic to the morgue, or to the ICU?
That is what this comes down to.
I refuse to be lectured about my principles. Play the hand you’re dealt, and it’s going to be Romney, unless one of you would like to run. However bad the choices may be, not voting is far worse. Don’t forget, all the members of the House and a third of the Senate are up for election. Surely there is a “Goldilocks” perfect candidate amongst some of them. At least vote for him or her.
Wish for your perfect candidate in one hand and shit in the other. Guess which one will fill up first.
Emperor Misha I says:
But I am sick of myself for pulling the lever for GW because he is not Al Gore, pulling the lever for GW because he is not Kerry, pulling the lever for McCain because he is not Obama (BTW. I seen a new name for him on A.T. The Kenyan Lying King..LMAO at that one) I can not do it anymore, The one good thing about living where I do , with the exception of the ” Fabulous Winter Weather” is we can write in a candidate, I will not vote for Obamacare or Romneycare.
I. AM. DONE.
I may just write in Rick Santelli, Or The Great and Nobel Emporer Misha, John Stossell or myself I havn’t decided yet.
Emperor Misha I says:
You know me and my friends (who read this but don’t post) have plenty to bring to the foxhole
LC ShadowFox says:
I am not staying home, I will vote,and I have a good candidate runing against the fuck up that is Sherrod Brown ( D asshole Oh ) I will vote for the Repubs in both the Senate and House in my district, But I can not in good conscience Vote for Romney unless Jesus Christ is his V.P. choice. I will not any longer chose between a communist and a socialist.
I am sick and tired of the mother fucking Republican Establishment telling me I need to elect this asshole because it is his turn…FUCK. THEM. ALL. I. AM. DONE.
Like I said earlier, I will wait and prepare for the pending crash, race war, zombie apocalypse, whatever may come, This is the line I will not cross. Hate me if you must, I just don’t give a fuck anymore.
The Lone Haranguer says:
Hell get all of your friends and neighbors to write me in, I couldn’t ,even on a binge drinking weekend, fuck up more than The Kenyan Lying King has in 3 years.
I spent most of today in an incandescent rage at every socialist living, dead, or yet to be born, and at the American people who have sat back and taken it, every step of the way, through a list of abuses and usurpations that would have made King George puke. I didn’t go to Iraq and Afghanistan for this. I’d say leave these cowards and weaklings to their fate, except that there is no other place to go. I might be able to get my family somewhere out in the mountains where the assholes can’t reach easily, but they never really quit, until you kick them in the teeth and leave their leaders swinging from tall trees for a while to really make it sink in. So yeah, I’ll vote for the car crash over the train wreck, while I try desperately to get my family ready for what’s coming. Because regardless, hell is on the way.
Couldn’t have said it better. My daughter is aware of my actions regarding such scenarios, and the money spent enabling us to sit tight for a year at my home in a small town, (4800), out in farm country.
There is a reason I dropped eighteen hundred on my AR-14, oops, M1A.
We are largely conservative, God fearing folks, mind our own business types where a man’s word or handshake still means a great deal. I can get what I need at a gas station here or car repair shop and walk out signing a tag. I have never asked to, it has been offered.
Take good care of your precious wife, Irish, she is truly a gem. I still pray for her.
For as odd as it may seem to some, I am glad my wife, given her condition, is not here to be exposed to these dangers. One of her best friends daughters was killed in a car accident a month after Mary died. I was glad she didn’t see that too, for it would have destroyed her, having lost a son herself. My closest friend has made arrangements to show up here if TSHTF, he living in the city. And he has more guns than I do…..
I pray nothing happens, I won’t start anything, but given a choice, I would rather finish it than the alternative.
Just me and my friends……
Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Supreme Court…
And this, from Milton Friedman, would be good to remember. This is what it comes down to:
“People have a great misunderstanding about this. . . . People think the way you solve things is by electing the right people. It’s NICE to elect the right people, but that isn’t the way you solve things.
“The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the ‘wrong’ people to do the right things …”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac9j15eig_w
Milton Friedman also points out, in that clip above, that “people forget that politicians are in a business — the business of buying votes.” That we should use our free-market principles in POLITICS as well as in business: think incentives.
I remember an anecdote about a college psych class who decided to play a prank on their professor. He’d taught them about classical conditioning and Pavlov’s dog, and they decided to perform a little experiment without telling him. He’d been annoying them all semester with his habit of pacing back and forth across the lecture stage.
They would sit forward and look alert every time he walked to the left; when he paced back to the right, they would look up at the ceiling, yawn, whisper to each other, and look bored. As the weeks went by, naturally, he spent less and less time on the right of the stage.
By the end of the semester, they had that man sitting stage left on a high stool for the entire lecture. And he never knew what hit him: until they let him in on the gag on the last day of class.
SO. “Put not your trust in princes,” said Someone who should know. The Republic is her citizenry; we will have to keep an eye on whomever we hire to steer the ship of state.
This is no time for petulance. No time for pouting. Time to be serious as a heart attack.
Hell, I’d run, if I thought I had a chance, but I’m even worse than Obummer at answering questions off the cuff. I know what my main platform would be, though:
“I would set a new record for vetoes being overturned by Congress, because unless they change drastically, I’ll veto every damn Bill they set in front of me.”
That, and I would challenge Big Ears on his argument on one of his debates with McStain, where he said McCain wanted to take a hatchet to the budget when it needs a scalpel. I’d tell him, “A hatchet? Oh, HELL no! We need to start with a CHAIN SAW!!!”
I’m a little late to this thread but I’ll chime in nonetheless.
My suggestion, when it comes to Romney is think strategic.
We need to make something out of this crap sandwich.
We all agree that Romney is a RINOs RINO. An untrustworthy opportunist who just wants to be president so that he can be the ultimate CEO (much like Clinton just wanted to be president to be Captain Adulterer™).
We also all agree that Mitt would at least not activly try to destroy America like the current cypher-in-chief. If anything, Romney may approach America, post-Obama, kind of like he approached the Utah Olympics – something to be saved. Oh, he’ll do that by being the ultimate technocrat but he will try to be the white knight, it’s in his character (what little of it he has).
So even though we despise the guy, he has the potential to not totally suck. But here’s the thing, he has to be forced to make some conservative campaign promises THAT HE KNOWS HE WILL HAVE TO FULFILL. He knows that GHWB doomed himself by promising “read my lips” and then reneging on that promise. He also knows that GHWB made that promise in order to get re-elected. People wanted more Reagan and Bush knew this. He just was too much of a wimp to follow through on his promise. I think Romney is of stronger stuff than GHWB. He needs to make the promises and he needs to follow through on them. But if we just let him know in advance that “aw shucks, yeah, we’ll vote for you anyway”, then he has no motivation to do anything more than nominate a conservative running mate.
So, we need to let Romney know, in no uncertain terms, that we want him to actually make us some severe conservative campaign promises that he can’t break lest he become the next GHWB.
How?
Every liberty-minded poster in the conservative blogosphere needs to say they won’t vote for Romney unless he makes those promises. None of this “I’ll hate myself but I’ll vote for him anyway” stuff. NO! We just say, “sorry, not gonna do it unless you promise the following:”
The Romney fans will accuse us of throwing away our vote but to that I say, “au contraire”, we WILL vote for Romney if he promises X, Y, and Z. If he doesn’t, then he is metaphorically dead to us.
The reason this has to happen is that we know that RINOs and their supporters are ignoramuses (ignorami?) and they have to be shaken out of their double digit IQs long enough to recall a little history.
When the primaries winnow out the conservative candidates (as they almost always do), the establishment always says, “the grass-roots have no where else to go now – they will have to vote for the establishment candidate”. Of course, they always seem to forget how false this axiom is. That, in the case of Ford, GHWB, Dole, and McCain, enough conservatives ended making a choice to NOT vote for the RINO that said RINO got shown the dust-bin of history after the Democrat won.
IOW, the RINO wing of the party (the part that gives the GOP the nickname of the “stupid party”) always forgets that enough conservatives have historically made the choice to NOT vote for the moderate establishment squish to throw the election to the Dems.
So this time, we just need to remind Romney outright, that he’s the next Dole unless…
They can whine about our strong arm tactics but politics ain’t bean-bag (I just made that up).
I hear this all the time. “He’s JUST AS BAD AS OBAMA!!” Well, maybe. I also hear a powerful lot of ‘We can’t vote our way out of this mess!!!” Well, sure, it’s true, we can’t. On the other hand, by not voting, we allow others to vote our way further into this mess.
The left got here by incrementalism. If we want out, the only peaceful way out is by incrementing right back. It may take a hundred years, but it’s better than strapping a colander on your face and living in an abandoned oil tanker. I doubt that anyone who has lived during wartime would ever want that.
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Onomney is not trustworthy, and I may still right in someone else. However, it doesn’t matter, (Much), which one wins as long as the down ticket elections blow out the RINO’s and the Democrats. Control of the house, senate and the state governments can make a difference in keeping the pinhead in chief, (Whoever it may be), in check.
BTW,
I did a public service announcement for those moving to Texas.
PSA, Moving to Texas
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