Why Did We Ever Let Obama Become President?

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Comment by Michael Brennan on May 31, 2012 at 11:26am

Roger, there are multiple reasons Obama became President. First, people fell for the spoon fed lies from the DNC against Bush and even many a conservative ended up drinking that kool aid as well. Second, they hired a snake oil salesman to run for office. Third, the extremist right wing of the GOP decided if they cannot force their way through intimidation, they would stay home and not vote so they could say they opposed McCain. Combine all those and you have President Barack Obama.

If you fast forward to 2012 you find the same situation. Certain conservatives are being spoon fed lies about Romney and they are jumping for it, drinking that kool aid as fast as they can. Second, the snake oil salesman is still there and last, the extremists on the super far (out of touch with the country) right wing has decided Romney is not good enough and voting for him is like voting for Obama. Of which only an idiot would believe such pointless dribble.
And they get booted from sites like this one for trying to bully and intimidate others into giving up their Constitutional rights and following their cult of personality leader who cannot win his own Congressional District (Romney won Ron Paul's Congressional district in the May 29th primary vote).

The best thing to do is smile at them, murmur a few words like, "oh wow, that's interesting" and continue with the way we were going about business without any interruptions. They join along as a team member, citizen, defender of the Republic. Or they can sit in a chair, sipping that kool-aid and claiming intellectual superiority over us neocons who were duped by the NWO (which the last time I checked was a professional wrestling league).

As for me, I pay them no heed, they have absolutely NO understanding of any of the topics they bring up. Their Constitutional knowledge is copy and paste from wikipedia.  And their so called patriotism is easy to do on a keyboard.

Comment by Michael Brennan on May 28, 2012 at 2:24pm

Roger,

They will be viewed as part of the problem if they cannot stand for America in her time of need. The people chose Romney and so when November comes, they have a responsibility to vote. If they do not pull that lever to remove Obama, then when they come to these sites and claim to be defenders of the constitution, they will be liars and pointless to the conversation. I fear the selfish will subjugate us because they want a distorted, extremist version of conservatism and to violate others constitutional rights to be heard and try to force an illogical ideologically pure party (no ideologically pure party has survived more than 2-3 election cycles and then disappeared from history). I fear you may be right but we can only hope they do not fall into that selfishness again and come into a maturity demanded by the Constitution.

Contributor Comment by Roger O'Daniel on May 28, 2012 at 10:01am

@Michael Brennan, I am afraid that we will repeat history.  The Republican National Committee rules allow delegates to vote their convictions, even on the first ballot.  State primary obligations are not binding on delegates to RNC.  This means that Ron Paul has an excellent chance of winning the endorsement because his grassroots campaign "stacked the deck" with Libertarians.  Ron Paul could never attract a moderate Democrat vote.  Therefore, they will hold their nose and vote for Obama again.  I have talked to a lot of Ron Paul believers.  One of them said, "If I cannot vote for my principles, I will not vote."

Comment by Michael Brennan on May 28, 2012 at 5:29am

Because certain conservatives became selfish and decided that McCain was not "conservative" enough for their tastes. That alone rings of pure hypocrisy, a detriment to the actual definition of conservatism and a complete disrespect to the nation since Obama was elected as President. There is NO such thing as a pure conservative, if you are waiting for one, you will die before they ever appear. The definition of conservatism alone leaves so much room for ideological differences that there can be no argument since each level of conservatism is equal to the others. Northern conservatives like Romney are as true as Southwestern conservatives like Ron Paul and southeastern conservatives like Gingrich and Barbour. So in 2008 we had an extremist view on what conservatism was, many stayed home instead of voting for someone they incorrectly thought was a waste and our country and Constitution are now being destroyed. Now we are at that same path again. Many incorrectly claim Romney is not a conservative, BUT no one here has the ability to make that determination since Romney can claim to be a conservative on equal grounds as any Tea Party member or GOP member in the US (libertarian members as well). So now we have a choice, protect America by firing Obama or being ignorantly selfish and allowing Obama another 4 years? It will be our fault if Obama wins, we will have screwed up and America should look at us as failures and look to someone else to bring forth the conservative message. We either elect Romney or none of us deserve to be called defenders of the constitution. I do not care what you believe about Romney, those opinions no longer are valid, it is either Obama and death to the Constitution or Romney and a chance to survive. DO not make the same mistake we did in 2008, fire Obama.....even a dead dog is better than him.