Mitt Romney is a forward thinking individual who, through business, understands the importance of people, our impact and influence. His success is based not in contempt for people, but in working with them. Many, including myself, have worried that one of Romney’s weaknesses is that he doesn’t have a “romantic” backstory like McCain, but I was wrong. Romney does have perhaps the most romantic backstory–his is the only history made of helping other people gain success. Clinton and McCain have spent their lives celebrating themselves and using others to gain personal power.
This is not over, and do not let the establishment media tell you otherwise. I’m for Romney not only because McCain is a disaster, but because Romney also happens to be the better candidate. Do I disagree with him on some important social issues? Yes. But I stopped expecting the president to be the answer to my dreams. And the one time when I actually thought we had found the perfect candidate and president, Clinton, he and his wife ended up betraying both the gay and feminist communities–not because they were philosophically opposed to something, but because it was politically expedient. In other words, they lied to get what they wanted, a strategy both McCain and Clinton employ to this day.
Oh yes, I know McCain was a POW. And we’ve thanked him with 25 years as a United States Senator. But as Thomas Sowell noted in the column I linked to earlier today, the presidency is not given as a thank you for previous deeds, it is granted based on who you are now and, I will add, the collection of who you have been and what you have become.
Romney, as a one-term governor of Massachusetts, has yet yet been changed by politics. I’m sure the putrid air of Washington will eventually change him, but I think we’ve got a good number of years with him before he slips into that quicksand. McCain and Clinton, on the other hand, are already embalmed with the rancid sludge produced by decades of wading through political muck. I’m sure McCain and Hillary Rodham were very nice, reliable, and decent people. Once. They are no longer. Mitt Romney still is, and we would be served well with a man of his integrity and character representing our extraordinary nation.
All of our lives are wonderful because of the genius of George Washington, the Founding Fathers, and all who came before us who fought, struggled and died to ensure the safety and future of the United States. If for no one else, the men and women who have died defending this nation and her values–they all deserve more than Hillary Clinton and Juan McAmnesty.
Let’s send someone we can all be proud of–let’s send Mitt Romney into they fray and we’ll be able to fight for a man, regardless of what letter is after your name, who will keep our nation strong, and citizens free by keeping government out of our pockets, and defending her to the ends of the earth.
We do have a choice, between Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton in Drag, and Mitt Romney. I’d say that choice is clear. In order to avoid an impossible Catch-22 in November, all Conservatives and Classical Liberals must coalesce around Romney. Not just as an anti-McAmnesty vote, but because Romney is the better man, more authentically conservative, and a decent person.
I learned a great political lesson in my support of the Clintons in 1992 and 1996–that my freedom and quality of life is up to me. No man or woman is the be all and end all, nor should I look to a politician to be responsible to make my life better. I can do that, but only when I have the financial freedom to make the decisions that best suit me. Today’s Leftist, as embodied by an opportunist politician like Hillary Clinton, not only will lie to you to get your vote, they then enact policies which take more of our money ultimately sucking away our personal liberty.
The best person for the White House is not a man who voted against the Bush tax cuts. Is not the man who compares himself to Reagan in his new Super Tuesday commercials, in which he vows to “keep taxes low” which, in political speak is a pledge not to raise them too much. If McCain isn’t going to raise taxes, why doesn’t he just say so? He won’t because he will.
McCain wants Gitmo closed, is against drilling in Anwr, voted against the tax cuts, and has made it more difficult, if not impossible, for us to effectively interrogate Islamist death cult members but outlawing “torture” which in his world includes making the enemy uncomfortable through waterboarding.
In other posts I’ve made it clear McCain is a lying hypocrite. Not exactly two words that evoke character and decency. After all we’ve been through, don’t we deserve better than the New York Times’ choices for the presidency? I think so.
The amnesty fight during the past summer told us something–that even with the entire system against us, the citizen can make a difference and stop the train wreck that is Washington. Romney is right–Washington is broken. Putting John McCain in the White House is akin to rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. It may look like we’ve done something, but nothing at the core will change, and the desperate problem of a Washington that has contempt for the people will not only continue, but will be reinforced by the reckless, and thoughtless, act of allowing McCain to become the Republican nominee.
