I’m sorry, but the John McCain ad right next to this post really cracked me up. Even Google is having fun at your expense.

If anyone needs to know why I no longer intellectually respect most Christians anymore, they need not look further than Huckabee’s popularity amongst these inbred hicks.

GW Bush killed Republican conservatism.. people like me see a lot of GW in Fred and are not impressed with him. Fred has not done well and he has no one to blame but himself.. he conveniently commited very late in the game and he has run a lackluster campaign.. I think that he tried to have it both ways.. TV stardom and presidential aspirations conflicted with each other.

Sad you won’t be voting but I along with you won’t vote against someone.. I need to be able to vote for someone.. I think that I can vote for any of the top 3 Repbulican candidates.. as long as Rudy isn’t one of them

You all best be hauling your buzzoonies to election day no matter who wins the GOP nod. Staying home is a vote for Hillary, and don’t tell me you’d rather see her than someone like Romoney or McCain.

Oooooo, new smilies! What plugin did you install?

“Sure, we’ll continue to abort 1 million babies a year, but at least the economy will be good.”

Who do you think you could possibly elect that will change this any time soon?

Sometimes you have to make a choice between having your arm amputated or your leg. Sure, neither option is ideal, but you should still make a choice.

And who knows, maybe Romney means what he says.

I wouldn’t vote for Romney just for the simple fact that he’s a Mormon. Those Mormon freaks are nuts (yeah I know, I’m an intolerant bigoted pig, and proud of it!)

Oddly enough it won’t matter who I choose, since my state always votes for the Democrat by over a 30 percent margin, so my vote is pretty much worthless except for the local elections. In my case I have the luxury then of refusing to throw down the lever for the GOP candidates I can’t stand (which would be, oh, all of them except Freddie.. and Rudy, cuz he’s Italian). If Romney wins, I probably won’t vote for him. If McCain wins I sure as #$%& ain’t voting for him.

If you belong in a swing state though you should really vote, even if you have to hold your nose to do it.

I support Romney for the same reasons theologian Wayne Grudem does. I also thought Romney gave some good answers in the Christianity Today interview.

I understand the issues that you have with Romney the candidate but I was wondering what issues you have with Romney the governor. What specifically did Romney “do” while in office that you did not like.

No matter who wins the Republican nomination I’ll have to pull the lever for him if he’s running against Hillary. None of the GOP hopefuls are conservative enough for my taste, but I had enough of Hillary when she co-president during the 90’s. Besides, I’m not sure my blood pressure would stay at survivable levels if Bill became “First Womanizer”.

Another view of Romney’s plan:

Massachusetts pro-life leader Marie Sturgis defends the plan, saying that the Bay State was already under court order from the state’s top court to pay for abortions for low-income women in cases of rape and incest.

“Certainly we have a problem with anything that provides abortion coverage,” said Sturgis, who is executive director of Massachusetts Citizens for Life.
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I looked at the Joseph Farah article on sexual proclivity and.. if you are really interested in fringe journalism.. I could probably counter with an Ann Coulter opinion piece that supports Romney

I have seen Romney interviewed many times (you can catch a lot of it on youtube) and my opinion is that he sincerely changed his pro-choice inclination once he had to govern a state. I find him to be intelligent, fairly conservative and worthy of a second look.. I didn’t think I liked him at first but came to like him over time as I listen to him debate and be interviewed. Now how much you can trust “anyone” running for office.. well maybe a preacher could be trusted.. oh wait.. that would include Huckabee and (Mormon Bishop) Romney.. oh well

I was in the same boat you are, but I do now support Romney.
Mainly, because of all the candidates left, he is the only one who is even trying to sound like a conservative.
I was really against him for his pro-choice views of the past, and I too thought that his conversion was in insincere.

But, I found his “conversion story”, on a website that is very anti-Romney BTW.
And, it changed my opinion.
Romney was meeting with a stem cell researcher from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in 2005. Romney claimed the researcher told him,

“Look, you don’t have to think about this stem cell research as a moral issue, because we kill the embryos after 14 days.
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This is from massresistance.com
Their main criticisms of this are that, one, he was too old to change, and two, the researcher claimed that they hadn’t discussed anything even related to killing.
Um, if you are doing this, then you don’t think these babies are alive, thus you “can’t” kill them.
But that doesn’t mean he didn’t say something that would definitely mean “kill” to a pro-lifer.

Now his stance on gay-marriage, I really haven’t seen a reason for this change.
But, for me, I doubt that social issues will be the dominant factor this term, and for me, his current stance of “it’s a states right” is the exact same as Fred’s, and it is the only correct one IMO, and it can also explain why he supported in Massachusetts, where people did want it.

I’ll do everything I can to see if we can’t get Fred back in this, but, barring a miracle, I would rather see Romney than Huckabee (who is actually a much bigger flip-flopper), Giuliani, or McCain (who has also flip/flopped).

If you have any info on Romney that shows how he really is a lot worse than just the flipping on social issues, I would be very interested.

Cya around