The difference between Obama and Newt is the difference between a rocket sled headed to financial oblivion or a car with the cruise set at 70 mph headed to financial oblivion. They are both going to get there it’s just a matter of how fast you want to go.
Being a party to either is still being willing to watch your country be destroyed. Frankly I’d just as soon get it over with now while I’m still young enough to help the country start over.
Oh no, Sam, no. I’m not a Gingrich partisan, but do you not know that largely because of Gingrich, the march to financial oblivion really was arrested in the early 1990s? It wasn’t perfect, but it did reduce government deficits a lot and led to a nearly nearly balanced budget. Nobody really thought it could be done. Gingrich might not have the ideological purity (from some standpoints) as a Ron Paul, but he was able to get things done against heavy odds.
Are you really young enough to go 70+ years to see confiscatory socialism reversed so we can “start over”? That’s how long it took in Russia. And let’s see, how long has crony capitalism reigned in Chicago? I suggest to you, Sam, that you cannot possibly be young enough to see the obama vision reversed if it really entrenches itself in this society. How long has it reigned in Britain? More than a lifetime, and the Thatcher interlude was not enough to truly reverse it, either.
And do you really want to be held responsible by your children for the next Supreme Court appointment Obama makes? Fail to oppose Obama, and you will be as responsible as if you appointed the person yourself. I used to be a Democrat officeholder, Sam, and I supported the party faithfully, effectively, and for too long. Sure did. My point of departure came when (too late) it became clear to me just how wedded to abortion the party really is.
And my conservative grown children remind me of all that, and my sense of shame is justifiably deep. Are you sure you’re only selling yourself out, Sam, in failing to oppose Obama? You won’t be, you know.
This (and my own history) remind me of a vignette in “Gulag Archipelago”. Solzhenitzyn met a man who was sentenced to be shot. The man told him that, right before his execution he was going to tell the shooter “It is you and you alone who will be responsible for my death. Not Stalin, not the Cheka, but you.” And he said that, knowing what repercussions would befall the shooter if he refused to do it.
Why did the man say that? Because it’s true. Every person who has a hand in the promotion of an evil objective is as fully responsible for it as are the principals. You have a decision to make now, and it’s for Ron Paul. Fine. You will then have another decision to make for your children and your grandchildren. But no matter who runs against Obama, you will know you are responsible for everything that man does if you fail to oppose him in an effective way. You know full well what he is; better than most.
