Why I Will Vote For Mitt Romney, If He's Nominated
Mitt Romney is almost the least attractive potential Republican President to have presented himself for these primaries. He is a Republican Lite: he doesn't really take the conservative party base very seriously, and he's likely to govern much as did, say, George H. W. Bush. So, why would I want to vote for him in 2012?
Because the alternative is a second term of Barack Hussein Obama. And Obama is a known quantity. We know for sure, based on his actions, that he either actively hates and is attempting to destroy the Republic of the United States of America, or that he is fantastically-deluded and incompetent regarding the world beyond a tiny limousene-liberal bubble.
Obama -- who claims to be a "constitutional scholar" -- has governed as far outside the Constitution as he could reasonably or even semi-reasonably expect to politically-survive. Indeed, if we were as serious about the Constitution as we were before the American Civil War, he wouldn't have politically-survived his own actions: he would already have been impeached.
Ironically, Obama's own ignorance or malevolence on this topic has to some extent been America's salvation. Many of Obama's policy changes and laws bid fair to perish under judicial review. In particular, his health care program is Constitutionally weak in so many aspects (the manner of its passage, the specific demands it makes of the States and their citizens) that it is unlikely to survive.
But we can't count in him continuing to do this. There's a learning curve operating here, and eventually even Obamawill learn what he claimed to have learned back in college. When this happens, Obama will start imposing laws which will pass the letter of the Constitution, while utterly subverting its spirit.
A victory for Obama in 2012 will mean not only that America will have to suffer four more years of damage from him, it will essentially ratify his subversions of the US Constitution. Obama may be too much of a lazy lighweight flake to be able to make himself Commander of the American Mandate, but once it's been shown that even HE can do it, we will eventually see a nastier and more capable person make the attempt.
It may take decades, as America may be to some extent intellectually-immunized against Obamas should he be President until 2017, but it can wait decades to happen. That's the problem with precedents -- they cast long shadows into the future.
What's more, there may be horrible consequences to a second Obama term even in the short run. Obama has severely-weakened our international alliance structure with his arrogance, and dangerously-emboldened our enemies with his weakness. If we reject him in 2012, both our allies and our enemies will likely view him as an aberration: if we ratify his rule by re-electing him, both will regard Obama as typical of a "new" America, simultaneously obnoxious and incompetent. (You know -- a second France).
Obama's incompetence is in the process of enabling Iran to get nuclear weapons and disabling our own push to deploy anti-missile systems.
In other words, if we elect Obama, we could pay for our folly with atom bombs going off over American cities.
I can't think of a better reason to vote for almost anyone who can bring Obama down.
I wish I didn't have to vote for Mitt Romney to accomplish this. I wish that the nominee had been someone else, a more serious Republican. I also wish that I had an infinite supply of yummy lobster, beefsteak and pizza.
But I don't. So Romney it is, in 2012!
Because the alternative is a second term of Barack Hussein Obama. And Obama is a known quantity. We know for sure, based on his actions, that he either actively hates and is attempting to destroy the Republic of the United States of America, or that he is fantastically-deluded and incompetent regarding the world beyond a tiny limousene-liberal bubble.
Obama -- who claims to be a "constitutional scholar" -- has governed as far outside the Constitution as he could reasonably or even semi-reasonably expect to politically-survive. Indeed, if we were as serious about the Constitution as we were before the American Civil War, he wouldn't have politically-survived his own actions: he would already have been impeached.
Ironically, Obama's own ignorance or malevolence on this topic has to some extent been America's salvation. Many of Obama's policy changes and laws bid fair to perish under judicial review. In particular, his health care program is Constitutionally weak in so many aspects (the manner of its passage, the specific demands it makes of the States and their citizens) that it is unlikely to survive.
But we can't count in him continuing to do this. There's a learning curve operating here, and eventually even Obamawill learn what he claimed to have learned back in college. When this happens, Obama will start imposing laws which will pass the letter of the Constitution, while utterly subverting its spirit.
A victory for Obama in 2012 will mean not only that America will have to suffer four more years of damage from him, it will essentially ratify his subversions of the US Constitution. Obama may be too much of a lazy lighweight flake to be able to make himself Commander of the American Mandate, but once it's been shown that even HE can do it, we will eventually see a nastier and more capable person make the attempt.
It may take decades, as America may be to some extent intellectually-immunized against Obamas should he be President until 2017, but it can wait decades to happen. That's the problem with precedents -- they cast long shadows into the future.
What's more, there may be horrible consequences to a second Obama term even in the short run. Obama has severely-weakened our international alliance structure with his arrogance, and dangerously-emboldened our enemies with his weakness. If we reject him in 2012, both our allies and our enemies will likely view him as an aberration: if we ratify his rule by re-electing him, both will regard Obama as typical of a "new" America, simultaneously obnoxious and incompetent. (You know -- a second France).
Obama's incompetence is in the process of enabling Iran to get nuclear weapons and disabling our own push to deploy anti-missile systems.
In other words, if we elect Obama, we could pay for our folly with atom bombs going off over American cities.
I can't think of a better reason to vote for almost anyone who can bring Obama down.
I wish I didn't have to vote for Mitt Romney to accomplish this. I wish that the nominee had been someone else, a more serious Republican. I also wish that I had an infinite supply of yummy lobster, beefsteak and pizza.
But I don't. So Romney it is, in 2012!