Pro-life video of the day: This election signals the end of a civilization
by Jill
I love Michael Voris. Even though I’m Protestant I always find his ChurchMilitant.TV videos, which are addressed to fellow Catholics, insightful.
Michael’s new video is spot on – chillingly so. All Christ followers can apply Michael’s message. (I’ll not take personally his slam of “emotion-laden, feel-good Protestantized liturgy.” I know the soft sell is out there – in all denominations.)
I think particularly with the passage in two states this past Tuesday of homosexual marriage, the floodgates to America’s demise have been opened.
This, in conjunction with Barack Obama’s re-election, means we’ve entered a new era. A Protestant “amen” to Michael’s thought: “Nothing sticks to this man. And for someone in such possession of the diabolical mind, a faithful man has to consider and wonder about the possibility that Obama is somehow protected, that some kind of supernatural aspect attends this man.”
Great preaching…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js9JCXkQQaM[/youtube]
I do hope, though, Michael is wrong that “abortion is now here to stay – forever.”
I know there are those who will say Michael is being overreactive.
I say he’s a prophet.
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
This is not an indictment against just Catholics, but by us Protestants as well.
To our great shame.
Yes, I was trying to make that point. Thanks for clarifying, mama3.
I don’t know, this sudden pouring out of depression (and I don’t mean prudential understanding of the state of the world) is rather unseemly. He makes some excellent points, and it is true a person’s faith should never be in our politics, but I’m tired of this whole “throw up our hands and retreat because we’re destined to evil” thing, which he doesn’t exactly state but seems to be his mood at the moment. No human alive knows that tomorrow, or next year, or the next 100 years brings, and to simply conclude so based on a vote of the electoral college plays into the entire progressive enterprise that history is destined to unfold how they want it to. If you don’t like it, change it. If things are always destined to get worse and worse, if renewals were not possible, we wouldn’t live in America in the first place. All this doom-mongering I think actually makes people lose sight and want to just retreat into enclaves. Be prudential, feeling doomed right now is to admit your hope was in Beltway all the while. All of us have some level of hope in the Beltway, and Tuesday was a reality check, but do not grow weary in doing good.
Yeah, well life in the Roman empire also probably sucked for Christians.
He is over wrought.
I understand his exasperation at people electing Obama. As an anti-abortion, anti-war type, Ron Paul was more my style. Obama really disappointed me on that side. I had hoped at least he would bring home the troops and cut military spending. But no, he escalated the warring.
I am pretty surprised anyone sees any religious significance in this. What about WW II and the Nazis and Japan? That seemed a lot more like the kind of events that people might read their religious ideas into.
I agree with you hippie. I was depressed on Tuesday night, but the hand-wringing is getting a bit excessive. The world will still turn with Obama as president, and we will still try to save babies.
Yep, when I get paid next week I am going to send a nice donation to my local CPC and may even volunteer!
I agree with you 100%, Jill. Michael Voris is spot on, except about abortion never ending. It will end, and we will be the ones who end it. If I don’t believe that, there’s no point in fighting.
Right on target. Thanks for sharing!
One think I will say is he is right it was too little too late, but at least some people tried. I told a friend weeks before the election though, that most people are not going to vote their faith, that the only reason so many were going for Romney was because the economy was in the tank, and thanks be to God it was…because if not Obama would have annihilated him in the election…this is hopefully a wake up call and reality check for people in the church.
I think those of us who are passionate about life and about our civilization need to work harder together, and although I believe that we are the leaven that can uplift the rest of humanity, I’m beginning to think that we might need to ignore our adversaries from time to time. Yes, the election is a disappointment, but let’s not make the mistake of becoming re-actors rather than activists. There is a huge segment of our world population that is sick, that is self-destructive, and that wants to take others down with them. Yes, we need to understand that. But no, we don’t need to join them in their downward spiral. In the future, it is our legacy that will prevail.
The winners are those who keep their heads in a crisis. I can’t save every self-hating liberal from his or herself. But I can keep my eye on the prize and press on. Don’t let the enemy march in and find you already defeated. Make them fight! Abortion advocates aren’t the most resourceful people. They look for easy ways out. They got lucky, they had allies. They seem even now to have a temporary victory. Short-lived. Temporary. Don’t forget it, ever. We will prevail.
Voris is the catholic version of Glenn Beck. He sounds the alarm, people call him nuts (or worse), but he has rarely been wrong.
Oh, and he is very direct to those in the hierarchy.
But to a larger point…
We need to take a deep breath and learn from history. 1984. Reagan wins by 17,000,000 votes. Read that: SEVENTEEN MILLION VOTES. Electoral college 525 to 13.
Did the Democrats say it was over? Did they give up? Ask Bill Clinton who showed up eight years later.
Have Progressives ever given up in the past 100 years?
Here’s what both scenarios produced: creatively delivering their message that would convince the electorate of the legitimacy of their position. Alinsky was a master of that. It took time, hits, and misses, but eventually they arrived at formulas that clicked.
Look at the advancement of the pro-life movement. We’ve got blogs, Lila Rose is causing them mucho headaches, and the Marches for Life are exploding with youth. As a result, we’re at a place that we haven’t seen in decades: more people identify as pro-life.
Did this election put a major setback to the pro-life movement? Of course. At the same time, other regimes have established more mortally destructive societies at the expense of innocent blood, born and unborn. But the Gates of Hell still haven’t prevailed. From the blood of martyrs comes the seeds of faith.
I say all this without having watched the video, yet. Just throwing all this out there. That cup half-empty/half-full thing.
No….no, no, no. What we need right now, in this moment in history, is HOPE! Real hope in a Savior who has already won this war. So we fight on! Will this video spur anyone to fight harder for the pre-born and for religious freedom? I highly doubt it. I agree with ninek…let’s keep our heads here and just keep on fighting the same as we did on Monday.
Carder, well said.
The (Protestant) Old Testament contains 39 books. Seventeen of those were written by prophets. They are prophetical books. They warn of coming societal destruction due to idolatry and wickedness, like sacrificing children and sexual sin. Way more people at the time blew off the prophets than heeded their warnings.
They also tell of the coming Messiah, of God rescuing the remnant of believers, and of us spending eternity with Him in glory.
Jesus prophesied as well. He talked about hell more than heaven.
There are two sides to prophecy. We should not dismiss the part we don’t want to hear as crazy fatalist talk. To do so is to say half the Bible should be tossed.
There is nothing wrong with warning people. Ask anyone and they will say something is more amiss than usual. People can sense it, even nonbelievers. There’s something different in the air. We have killed 55 million babies in the US in just the past 40 years – over 5x the number of people Hitler killed. At some point we all know we are going out run out of chips, so to speak. At some point we know God will have had enough. We’re nearer to that point than farther. Michael Voris makes perfect sense.
People get ready, there’s a train a’comin’. You’d better have a ticket.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L82_N3UPPDs
Read the Parable of the Ten Virgins.
http://www.biblestudytools.com/matthew/passage.aspx?q=matthew+25:1-13
I think we’re all allowed a period of mourning. Of course we will then have to redouble our efforts. This administration has the Benghazi scandal right in front of our noses that is much worse than Watergate’s pathetic little cover-up.
I don’t see Congress being allowed to save Obama’s reputation like it did for Clinton. He’s just too wrapped up in himself to be as good a politician as he is a campaigner.
It will be tough to fight against these economic and cultural headwinds, but fight we must.
Yes, Jill, that’s the train we have to get on! Right now, we’re on the wrong train:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyRZTAmcW7c
“Abortion is here to stay.”
I’m going to pick this a little.
Take slavery. Twas here before 1776, and remained another 89 years. What did it take to be removed? War, death, millions of American corpses in its wake. It was finally legally removed and was no longer “there to stay”. The price was paid.
I’m sure the abolitionists had their moments of “I can’t take this anymore! It’s too much!” Many did not live to see 1865, but the moment arrived. And it was removed from the land.
So going with Jill’s phrase, oh yeah, the train’s a-coming and there WILL be a reckoning. How and in what form remains an open question. (my personal hunch is that China or Russia or Iran will finally get their hands on us. That for another conversation).
So it may seem that abortion is here to stay. Well, every evil is here to stay if we’re going to get technical about it. Laws against armed robbery haven’t actually ended all armed robberies.
But if anything, we just have to double down, take a page or two from the progressive/Alinskytes, and seize the culture, because politics are simply a reflection of the society.
Ask anyone and they will say something is more amiss than usual.
Those that have a moral compass might, Jill.
Hal would disagree with you.
Well i guess it’s all over, obama won, everything we fought for is meaningless and we might as well not even try anymore.
NO! Screw that! God is not punishing us with obama, God did not punish the israelites in egypt, when the egyptians had darkness the israelites had light, God would have spared Sodom and Gomorrah for 10 righteous people, and even then He spared the 8 that he did find, Come on people we’re not dead yet.
Pray outside of Planned Parenthood centers and/or volunteer at outreach ministries. Gives you time with God and you give peaceful witness to Christian value of love, faith, hope and compassion to a community that would otherwise be spiritually dark. God was so kind when I did this on Wednesday. A young woman stopped to encourage my witness, saying “Your prayers are working, last time I voted for Obama. This time, Romney.” And we said the universal Christian prayer, the Lord’s Prayer. Maybe soon, she will pray outside of Planned Parenthood.
Please spare us the delusion that Americans are pro-life. By accepting the Democratic Party Platform, the American people rejected God. We are called by Christ to gently call them back to God.
I acknowledge that much of what Michael says about the Catholic Church in America (and Christians in general) is true, but he seems to have lost hope. And that’s the part I just don’t understand.
1. The Church is not simply a human institution. It is also Divine and we have been promised that the Gates of Hell will not prevail against it. The young priests I’ve met who’ve completed seminary within the last 8 years or so are FANTASTIC!
2. Approximately 49.6% of Americans did not vote for Obama. He may be our president, but he has almost half the country who didn’t want him in that role. Coupled with the fact that growing numbers of people are identifying as pro-life, especially young people, I wouldn’t say the battle against abortion is lost.
I love the perspective this author has on the election:
http://bob-rice.com/2012/11/07/the-most-important-result-is-still-to-come/
Carry on pro-life warriors. Let us witness to Christ with heroic virtue.
Did liquor and beer and wine lovers give up when they amended the constitution to ban the sale and transport of their beloved nectars?
Did Luke Skywalker give up when Han was frozen in carbonite?
Did Obama give up on his promise to close Gitmo?
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Abortion is not here to stay. If you boil abortion apologetics down to their base elements, that side basically says, “Yes, [group] are human beings, but they aren’t people so they don’t count.” The side that says that always looses in the end. Always.
“Success is not final. Failure isn’t fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill. Well we’ve got that courage. We’ve got it in spades. I’ll bet the courage of pro-lifers against all the sludge of the culture of death every day of the week and twice on Sundays. We will win. The only question is when.
We really have to help people make the connection between what they say being “pro-life” is and what it means in practice. I saw a PBS documentary on voting women this season. They featured one woman from Virginia who admitted she once called herself “pro-life” but then succumbed to the calculated frenzy of the Obama administration and suddenly “realized” how “important” it was to have the “right to choose.” So this suburban mom of two kids jumped in feet first and volunteered to cut a pro-abortion ad for Obama. I think even if more people are calling themselves pro-life, there is still this freak-out factor in overturning Roe v. Wade in particular because they don’t know what that means. In the meantime, the culture which has been totally captured by the liberals for decades is rotted beneath us. If we can’t change the way life is perceived at it’s most fundamental levels, “on the ground” if you will, then we’ll never win at the ballot box. There are 1 million abortions a year because many of our communities just have a culture of abortion on one level or another. It’s at all economic levels for different reasons. (The middle -upper middle class are often the ones most guilty of ridding themselves of “handicapped” children in particular.) We have to recapture the spirit of chastity, commitment and marriage to also help stem the number of “unwanted” pregnancies in addition to helping those already in crisis mode choose life.
Ask anyone and they will say something is more amiss than usual.
Those that have a moral compass might, Jill.
“Hal would disagree with you.”
That’s right. What you call “amiss” I call “progress.”
A prophet? I’d say he’s a deranged loon who falls into the same category as those who claim earthquakes occur because some women uncovered their faces.
“The end of a civilization” – no, the prevention, for now at least, of a second foot being placed on the ladder of theocracy.
I think he’s right that abortion is here to stay in the sense of being Legal forever. I really don’t see a “path to victory” on that front. But I do see victory in ending abortion from the demand side. Our efforts to end abortion in the hearts of women will work, I believe.
My favorite part was when he called the Catholic Church “the one true faith established by God the Son, period.”
This guy is talking to Catholics, so when you going to convert, Jill?
JMJ
You people need to settle down.
The GOP picked a terrible candidate and ran a terrible campaign. Period.
If the right hadn’t talked about deporting latinos (10% of the vote) and called a woman who wanted contraception covered a slut (another good chunk of the vote) – the GOP could very well have won.
My goodness…
McCain did all those things, ExGOP! That went well!
I still contend McCain would have won if he had picked Lieberman.
Regardless, those are two tough elections to compare to each other.
2008 – everybody was mad at anything related to Bush as the economy was in a free fall. The GOP would have had a very hard time winning an election in that environment.
2012 – Obama was completely vulnerable with the economy. A good candidate with good arguments could have/should have won.
Progress indeed, Hal. Hence, “progressive”.
But what has always puzzled me, Hal, for all the years we have known each other online, (and this isn’t meant to be insulting) is how clueless your logic is.
Not that you’re a dum-dum. You’re not. If memory serves me, you’re in the legal profession, correct?
From your own personal experience with abortion, to the embrace of all that in the long term ends up destroying authentic freedom and liberty, to your version of morality, it’s both fascinating and frightening.
It’s difficult for me to articulate exactly what I find lacking because you’re one of the nicer resident pro-choicers here. I’ve never seen you misbehave in the threads. But there’s a gaping hole, and what’s distressing is that you don’t see it.
*shrugs*
Christ warned us when He stated that no man is greater than his master, that what was done to Him would be done to His followers. The last several decades of ecumenical “I’m okay, you’re okay” non judgmental thinking was nice at times. Now we go to work.
God’s will be done, no retreat and no surrender.
Michael V may be a bit hard to listen to, however, he is saying what many of us think and are afraid to say it. He brings the real truth of the Catholic faith to light. There is no room for tiptoeing. He could be right on abortion. What will end is that people will stop choosing it as an option. And workers will not “want” to work there anymore. We have to forge ahead and keep up the good work that is already being done. Pray, Pray, “Pray, Hope, don’t Worry”….St. Padre Pio.
I don’t know if abortion will end, or not.
I don’t know if martyrdom is coming, or not.
Doesn’t matter, anyway. We are called to be faithful. We have a job to do, win or lose.
For my part, Michael Voris speaks the truth and pulls no punches. The Republican Party ran an adequate campaign…. much more truthful and concerned about the issues than Obama’s “war on women.” There just weren’t enough hearts to turn.
We may yet stand on the brink of destiny again. Or we may have just fallen off the edge already. We have to stay faithful.
I spent Wednesday morning on the sidewalk of Planned Parenthood. That’s where we belong.
Salvation does not come from politicians but from our God. Civilizations come and go but Jesus Christ remains. America may fall, and I pray it does not, but we are headed down the same path as many other societies that “progressed” into chaos. Catholics know this better than anyone.
Pray. Prayer will guide us through this continued tribulation. I love you Lord my strength.
Donald Duck would have won if the media had been as far up his tuckus as it was the big Zero’s. Any lib who thinks this election win had anything to do with pro-lifers being “extreme” is already smoking in Colorado. The main stream media has just rendered itself completely irrelevant, though it probably will be the very last to ever report its own demise. It brings to mind a conversation I had in 1984 with a Russian woman on the subject of Pravda. “At least,” she laughed, “we KNOW our news is fake. You Americans still believe what you hear.”
The GOP picked a terrible candidate and ran a terrible campaign. Period.
Absurd.
Mitt Romney has always been a stunning success at everything he has done and he has done a lot. In a rational world, he would have won by a landslide. But of course, the electorate isn’t rational. So, we have Obama, who, even if you agree with him on every single issue, you have to admit he doesn’t really know how to do anything but be a plaintiffs attorney.
The people who don’t like Romney have the pettiest of reasons generally. For some it is his religion, which doesn’t matter in our system of government. For others it is that he didn’t veto health care bill in Massachusetts. Romney could probably have been a great help at reducing abuse in the financial industry and getting good compromises on taxes because he actually understands economics and he is great and getting the job done right. Obama can’t do that because he relishes humiliating people too much.
“Donald Duck would have won if the media had been as far up his tuckus as it was the big Zero’s.” – so FoxNews, WorldNut Daily etc. are all fair and balanced media are they?
“Any lib who thinks this election win had anything to do with pro-lifers being “extreme” is already smoking in Colorado” – it did have something to do with anti-choicers being “extreme”, but not just anti-choicers. There were a number of anti-social extremist groups who as a conglomerate turned the vote towards the democrats.
The nice guy really did finish last. Romney was libeled over and over. For merely standing toe to toe with Obama he was called disrespectful and even racist. All he did was point out the failures and claim he had experience at doing better.
Obama got gold stars and pats on the head for his mere presence. It’s shameful we’ve sunk so low as to be satisfied with handing our president a worthless “participation trophy”.
We are witnessing the absolute worst example of affirmative action by affirming mediocrity in the most powerful office in our country.
Romans 1
The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the…wickedness of people…For since the creation of the world God’s eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen so that people are WITHOUT EXCUSE.
Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools…
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts…They exchanged the truth about God FOR A LIE.
Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, God gave them over to a DEPRAVED MIND. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of murder, deceit and malice. They are God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they INVENT ways of doing evil…
Pray for us O Holy Mother of God…
Hippie –
Here’s the problem with Romney. He was your John Kerry. Elitist, flip flopping pretty boy from a northeastern state that never resonated with the people. I thought it was more than ironic that the Dems picked Kerry to play Romney in debate prep.
I liked Romney too for many years – he was a very left leaning governor. But then he came right, and then went back moderate again – and then went right at times. It was all very weird.
Don’t take my word for it – look at favorability ratings. He just never clicked with people.
ninek -
What is your solution? Should we expand funding for news organizations that aren’t free market? Do you simply not think that news organizations should be able to air what they want to, and need to in a capitalistic society? Should the government take over some of the news?
The news is free market – they need to make a profit. It is as if you’re railing that McDonalds is biased against vegetarians. If you don’t like a news outlet, go watch a different one. That’s what 98% of the population does – they get their news from where they like. Do you not think people should be able to choose what news they watch?
And if some news outlets are irrelevant, than why do you care so much?
I watched CNN election night – they were great. I turned to fox for a while, and I simply watched Rove do bad math for half an hour. As a consumer though, I choose what I watch, so I turned back. Do you have a fundamental issue with that?
Hal said: That’s right. What you call “amiss” I call “progress.”
One can make progress – even rapid progress, in the wrong direction, particularly when you’re blind. If one follows a fool, soon both will fall into a ditch.
May God reveal himself to you Hal, before the final judgement.
Chris, much has been revealed to me. Have no fear.
“The people who don’t like Romney have the pettiest of reasons generally”
He lies. He has no moral compass. He had no legitimate plan. He misled about the economy or didn’t understand it.. He insulted me and many others by stating those who support the president are takers and not makers. he was against ACA. He was against reforming drug laws. He doesn’ understand the economy or the government’s role.(e.g., let Detroit go bankrupt)
Oh, sure. Obama never lies. He never flip-flops. Except on “gay marriage”, Gitmo, raising taxes in a bad economy, taxing only the “rich”, and many other examples I’m too depressed to think of.
And let’s not prosecute voter intimidation and prevent voter fraud, but let’s certainly make a scapegoat of some schlemiel who makes a little movie.
And Ex-GOP, Romney’s major flip-flop was on abortion. The generous of heart (what
Democrats claim to be) would call that “growing”. We know that the majority of people have done no deep thinking on that subject. It’s just too “icky”.
And Romney doesn’t understand the economy but Obama does? What’s that crude acronym about rolling on the floor? Yeesh!
So, “Forward!” we will go. Over the fiscal and moral cliffs.
Hans, you forgot pulling out of Afghanistan, Planned Parenthood’s mammograms, Obamacare not funding abortion, and “you can keep your private insurance.”
Chris – I agree on making rapid progress downhill. Watching an election in which we spent billions of dollars on lies, and didn’t talk at all about poverty and caring for the poor – it is clear we’ve become a nation of greed.
Can’t you see, Ex-GOP, we have been talking about the poor. Not in your way, attempting to rob Peter to pay Paul. We want to expand the opportunities for “Paul”, not keep him satisfied by confiscating his more successful neighbor’s money.
Why do I bother? You’re failed experiment continues for another four years. We will only cooperate enough so that we don’t all drown. After a full eight years you will see this failure for what it is. That 2016 pendulum swing will have to stay in place for decades to repair the damage you so champion.
Maybe they were Hans – I heard very, very little about the poor this election. Massively little. When I did, it was typically saying they weren’t paying taxes and got too many handouts.
I know you are distraught. But remember, the reason that Obama got in to the W.H. in the first place was because of the failed experiment people saw with the GOP. 4 years ago, the nation was in a free fall. That’s why Obama won the first time around. Personally, I felt like the GOP lit a house on fire, and then criticized the Dems for not putting it out fast enough and to their liking.
If you need a reminder, go look at the job losses charts starting in mid 2008. Seriously – economy crashed in every sense of the word. Massive. Scary. So don’t talk about these last four years as a failed experiment. The last GOP experiment was a disaster.
If you want to continue to go this “failed experiment” direction, I’m willing – I’ll pull out numbers.
I’m so sick of this “let’s not go back” drivel from Obama and you. The Bush terms were 6 very good years bookended by two very bad ones. 9/11 through us all for a loop, and Bush didnt’t whine about Clinton not doing his best to prevent it.
The dreaded Bush tax cuts, which included wiping the bottom 40% off the income tax books (The meanie!) led to recovery and growth. You remember that, don’t you? That’s what most presidents accomplish with what they were handed. But not our wonderful BHO.
The banking collapse was set up long before Bush, pushed by the Democrats. He made only a weak attempt at forestalling it, but again he didn’t point fingers. Other conservatives did it for him.
Now we have a number of firsts that will taint the first black president forever in the history books. Among them is his great “accomplishment” of eking out an undeserved re-election with many less votes than he got before.
I really wish he had the desire to improve on this legacy. But I think he’ll settle for another four years as bad as his first term, and go on and be lauded and given tons of lecture money by his pathetic worshippers.
I will be grumpy for the next four years. I hope long before that you will be chagrined for championing the Underachiever-in-chief. I’ll be saying, “I told you so!” non-stop till then.
I’d be sick of the “let’s not go back” conversation as well. I’d equally be sick of “47%” and calling people “sluts”. These things all put Obama back in office.
Hans – go back to pre Bush. There were conversations being had (I can send you the articles) regarding what we should do as a country when the debt is all gone. But eight years later of unpaid for tax cuts, unpaid for medicare expansion, unpaid for wars – all coupled with an ignoring of banking regulations that led to a near collapse of the global economy – forgive a lot of the population for not wanting to go back to that.
You can say “I told you so”. Just no that as a party, if you guys don’t change, you’ve be less relevant in four more years than you are today. For the bases of each party, elections are about energy. The tipping point though is about solutions – and the GOP doesn’t have good ones right now.
How rich is this…our being lectured on why Romney lost. No moral compass? Doesn’t understand the economy? As if your guy has even a clue about either! Pul-leze! Such cogent analysis and words of wisdom coming from supporters of socialism and abortion carry about as much weight as Hugh Hefner lecturing virtue to a convent of cloistered nuns.
Pro-aborts and socialists do not have a clue about the utter depravity consuming the soul of America. Basically it is impossible for them to understand this because they have bought into secularism hook, line, and sinker. They actually think things are just fine and getting better by the minute because their hero, our abortion and sodomy promoting president, was mistakenly given four more years to wreak havoc on our economy and culture and continue his assault against religious freedom and conscience rights.
Yes, he was mistakenly endorsed by the majority of voters, many of whom had no real idea of what they were voting for (or in this case mainly voting against). Thanks to the reality of 24/7 anti-Romney bias delivered courtesy of the Obama fawning main stream media and a scorched earth 500 million dollar media buy of hate and lies and character assassination ads against Romney accusing him of everything from causing a man’s wife to die to being a felon and wanting to destroy the middle class….you have won. Congratulations. I assure you it is a phrrhic victory which will come back to haunt you in a thousand ways.
What is truly comical is the suggestion that any other Republican would have fared better. Even if it were Jesus Christ running against the lord obama you can bet we would have never heard the end of how Jesus was hanging with prostitutes and dining with sinners. I can even see David Axelrod’s ever present mug on TV wringing his hands over Jesus’ ragtag followers and His causing hundreds to lose employment in the temple and so on. And no, I am NOT comparing JC to Romney…we have to make these qualifications today because people are either so stupid or intellectually dishonest that they distort almost every spoken word.
love it.
I don’t know, some of the protestant church’s I have been too have been vocal about the anti-abortion stance, and that is where I had to go to hear what I needed to hear.
In my Catholic Church, the administration wanted to totally bury the issue of abortion awaw from public sight in favor of homosexual outreach; that was in Los Angeles of course, (in malibu, santa monica, westwood, & hollywood catholic church’s treat abortion in token gestures, and help women in pregnancy crisis in similar teaspoon portions-if not with total disregard or minor denigration. We don’t need to go to church to receive chastisment for being single and pregnan-that message, that we should be ashamed, is everywhere.
If all Catholic Church’s were active with pregnancy crisis missioning, (and evangelical church’s for that matter) yes, abortion would be in decline in America.
Most women have a funny feeling they will not be welcomed as a single pregnant woman, in a church tolerant of “choice,” and welcoming to men who’s sexual preference leans in the direction of unionizing with other men.
“Here’s the problem with Romney. He was your John Kerry. Elitist, flip flopping pretty boy from a northeastern state that never resonated with the people.”
Like I said, the pettiest of reasons. Romney never flip flopped on getting the dang job done right. He was extremely consistent on the fiscal issue which is currently our biggest challenge. When your quarterback can never complete a pass and you have ten good linemen, you don’t need another lineman, you need a better quarterback. There are already plenty of folks in Washington who have held consistent positions on various issues and who resonate with their constituents. We weren’t voting for First Lady. We needed a leader who is good with money because we have money problems. Duh.
Hippie – and if you needed a leader who is good with money – I don’t know how you could have voted for Romney. Anybody whose plan was “well, I’m going to cut all these taxes, but make it up with closing loopholes, but I won’t tell you the loopholes, you need to trust me” – that should have been enough of a red flag for you.
Make up your own reasons though – whatever comforts you. Maybe people didn’t see him as a flip flopper, they just didn’t like him. I can give you ratings, polls, and whatever else. Believe what you want. Or just do the same thing in four more years and lose again. Whatever.
Yep, that’s what we’ve got. The “Whatever!” president. Let’s give a pass to our energy resources and settle for “green energy” to double to 2% of our total!
Let’s pretend raising taxes will make any kind of dent in the deficit because… well, “they” deserve to get bitten on the ankles. Never mind that we put a crimp in their desire to expand and hire. We’ve gotta expand and hire in our government!
Why listen to Romney’s nonsensical idea about treating the federal government’s budget like we do our household budget. Saving money, not spending wastefully, earning more income instead of always borrowing first and foremost.
No, let’s follow our Dear Leader by playing the Uncle Sam lottery! He exeplifies “if you can’t do, teach”. So he will teach us lapdogs, and we will ever be professional students, and nothing will improve.
Here we float in the Sargasso Sea, entangled in seaweed with no wind at our back
”Anybody whose plan was “well, I’m going to cut all these taxes, but make it up with closing loopholes, but I won’t tell you the loopholes, you need to trust me” – that should have been enough of a red flag for you.”
This shows you don’t use logic. Romney has an huge track record of spectacular success doing exactly what he is tasked with doing. Obama has a track record of spectacular failure on fiscal and economic matters.. Obama’s budget got zero votes from his own party. No one agrees with Obama’s fiscal ideas. Of course Romney can’t tell you exactly which loopholes will be closed because that will have to be negotiated, but there again, he has a track record of successful negotiations with the opposing party and getting done the job of balancing a budget, which is win for everyone. Also, it is pretty danged hilarious that you complain Romney isn’t telling exactly what loopholes will be closed. Obama sign the health care bill without reading it!
Well hippie, we’ll just have to disagree on whether or not Romney could have negotiated what he said. The people have spoken, and Romney’s going to have to look for a job. Probably won’t have to be on unemployment though in the mean time, so that’s good.
My guess is that Romney never even knew the loopholes he’d close – he put out some garbage thoughts and would make it up as he went. Again though, we’ll never know now. Thank goodness.
Goodness had nothing to do with it.