"What Goes Around Comes Around," or "Elections Have Consequences" - take your pick

As the leftists try to discredit Mitt Romney because he is a Mormon, that he is a Mormon bothers me as well. My reasons are different. To a take-no-prisoners libertarian (yours truly), Romney's subscription to the Mormon tenet of forgiveness might lead us further to the left than we find ourselves at the end of Obama's four years. What we have learned over the last three years is how quickly destructive government can be and we need a president to not slow the trend but reverse it, aggressively and without temerity. January 2013 must NOT be considered status quo. The leftists want folks, especially gays and women to believe that Romney will force women and gays to follow Mormon doctrine on birth control, homosexual sex and sex out of wedlock. In reality, any president has little effect on those issues because they truly are bedroom issues and we have rights of privacy in our houses that stop the most intrusive behavior. The whiners (like Sandra-I-want-government-to-pay-for-my-birth-control-Fluke) complain that government must pay for what goes on in the bedroom. These issues are less important than the economy, loss of personal freedom, gun control and even my choice of light bulbs which this hostile government can and has controlled.

The "forgiveness" component of Romney's religion will prevent him from being as confrontational as Obama has set the stage for his successor to be. Floating around TV for many years has been a Latter Day Saints commercial in which a bicyclist is passed by a Jeep that splashes mud all over him. I would single-finger salute anyone who did that to me but that aside, later, the bicyclist finds the Jeep disabled along the road and stops to help. As I passed the Jeep I would not have stopped to help the driver, believing more in "what goes around comes around" than in The Golden Rule. Romney will help the Jeep owner, i.e. "He is fundamentally a good person"; "what he did in four years may have hurt us be we must be sensitive to those with whom we disagree"; "we must not let Obama's failures stop us from treating the issues carefully and with respect to those who moved us to the left." "What he did was not right, but, heck he is a smart man and ran a good-intentioned administration; let's not undo EVERYTHING."

Here is the problem: The leftists vilify anyone who argues against their dogma so there is no civil debate and trying to establish civil debate wastes time and distracts from the seriousness of the problems . We have watched the Obamanazis force down an unaccepting public's throats, large doses of totalitarianism from health care to light bulbs to contrived energy shortages to union and black panther thuggery. The time to "make nice" is long past. We must reverse the Obama disaster assertively and aggressively with graciousness only as a subordinate effort. I repeat: we must NOT accept the Obama years as status quo! The next president must be very clear that Obama/Reid/Pelosi are despots of the most cruel order - mean-spirited people - and the reversal of at least the most damaging legislation over the last three years is paramount. While Obama & Co. spent the last three years blaming Bush (thankfully I think that no longer carries water) Romney will spend the next four praising Obama while hinting that he (Obama) may have just been a tetch miss-guided. But you can count on Mr. Romney prefacing and ending any discussion with a comment about what a fine man Obama was. He is not a fine man and such utterances are dangerously conciliatory because they make it more difficult to aggressively reverse his awful legacy.

Romney is the man who will put the frog in cold water and "allow" the water to heat to the point where the frog reacts - albeit too late. I compare Romney to George Bush, both very kind and civil gentlemen. The latter caved to the hostility of the leftists as I believe will Romney. What he will call "compromise" and "reaching out" I call "spineless." Obama put the frog in hot water; reaction has been strong, generally consistent (poll statistics), and somewhat contrary to the wishes of the moderate left but Romney will not reverse Obama's misdeeds. An administration that takes us down the eternally dreary, no-hope road of Marxism is evil; that Romney may take that path at a slower pace makes him no more attractive than Obama, and sadly, possibly more likely to hand us to Marxist incarceration than is His Highness - following my frog analogy. (By the way, Obama with his arrogant, self-righteous sense of governance has nevertheless been successful and more so than moderates, is more transparent). So far Romney has been careful to articulate....nearly nothing. Very literally with a gun to my head I would not vote for Obama and would vote for Romney only if he develops a spine between now and November. There is no room for patience or deliberation of the issues to any degree greater than Obama/Pelosi/Reid allowed. I will vote only for a candidate with a take-no-prisoners stance. "Forgiveness" and "compromise" have done nothing but lead us further to the left. This may be the last opportunity to reverse the damage and Romney does not appear to be the candidate to do that. I fear that after four Romney years the country will be left still more bewildered about which candidates have the fortitude and determination to reverse the march. At the end of the Romney (yes that is a prediction) four years the Obama Left either has lost most of the poison they foisted on the American people and the road to the right must be paved or all we will have gained is a four-year pause in the march to Marxism.

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