Earlier this week, I suggested that letting Obama win reelection was a bad idea. Turns out I was wrong. At least, that’s what some of you seem to think. Some of you think letting a less-than-perfect Republican get your vote is much, much worse.
So that got me to thinking: what else is worse than letting Obama win?
For starters, keeping Eric Holder off the Supreme Court. If Obama loses in 2012, there’s no way his successor would ever nominate Holder or anyone like him to the High Court. Imagine the tragedy of denying Holder — or someone like Holder — the chance to legislate from the bench for 20-30 years. And if we don’t let Obama win, we’ll be responsible for keeping left-wing activist nuts off the Supreme Court.
Then there’s repealing Obamacare. If the GOP takes the Senate, Congress would repeal Obamacare. If we don’t let Obama win, he won’t be able to veto the repeal. And repealing Obamacare would be so much worse than letting Obama win.
Don’t forget tears. Imagine the flow of tears from Chis Mathews, Keith Olbermann, and the rest of the left-wing media. We can’t make them cry. And if we don’t let Obama win, they’ll cry. And that’s so much worse.
Puppies. Way worse than letting Obama win.
An unemployment rate below 4%.
Eating regular.
Sleeping indoors.
All these things — and more (leave examples in the comments) — will befall this great nation if we don’t let Obama win.
So we need to be a bunch of little tittie babies and not vote for the Republican candidate. That way, we can let Obama win.
Still waiting for the opportunity to not have to vote for the lesser of to evils!
Who says Mitt Romney would repeal ObamaCare? And then Nancy Pelosi would start slapping him around and he would be all like “let’s raise taxes” and “ok, I’ll appoint Eric Holder to the Supreme Court” and all! That’s what RINO’s do…
If only the weakling Republican you mention was a quarter as aggressive about things as you are! Then we wouldn’t have this debate!
“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” —
Michael CorleoneMarkoMancuso“a bunch of little tittie babies” – probably on par with letting Obama win. LOL.
Other things that would be worse:
* Having regular bowel movements.
* Not spending $100 to fill my gas tank.
* Not being groped by the TSA.
* And so much more!
Mitt Romney could do all the things Obama is too incompetent to accomplish. It would be the choice between Nazi Germany and Haiti.
Is that so, hwuu? At least Hitler prevented cholera epidemics!
If Obama isn’t reelected…
World leaders like Hugo Chavez won’t like us.
China will have to buy government bonds from Greece.
Iran won’t get the nuclear weapons they’ve work so hard for.
I had a co-worker tell me he would vote for a retarded Mule, rather than Vote for a republican in the last presidential primary elections.
He ended up with a retarded Mule.
Don’t spend so much time looking at all their faults, look at what the can bring to the office Hermann Cain, has no political experience, but his professional business experience is much better. Look at where the professional politicians have got us. Romneycare may not be better than Obamacare, but it was done at a state level as it should be. Ron Paul may be a nut, but he does not have the delusions of grandeur that many others do. Try looking at their good points first.
We should let the primaries work themselves out before we say who we will not vote for. Your favorite candidate today might be a boiled fish sandwich tomorrow.
Worse than letting Obama win:
*Pie & ice cream
*Puppies
*Face punched hippies
*Bacon
(I may have crossed a line with that last one.)
Just out of curiosity, ye damned cat, if Bush couldn’t stop the Iranians what makes us think Romney or Weaksman could?
What’s worse than letting osama win?
Business expansion
(3 letters) Jobs
Dogs and cats sleeping together
Being able to raise the flag
Realizing that 52.7% of the nation are not completely stupid
Maybe they can’t, Marko – but I know that Obama won’t.
Praline, for offending the bacon gods, you must sacrifice two tomatoes and a head of lettuce to the friends of osama community organizers guild.
Normally I try to find the humor in a situation, especially on your AWESOME!!!1!! blog, but this is a deadly serious topic, everyone. If y’all don’t man up and work hard for a Republican candidate, one that can beat 0bama, we’re all in for many more years of misery. Cripes on a frikken crutch, get off your high and mighty high horses, get realistic, and beat that worthless socialist-that’s ALL that matters. Even a RINO (cringe) would be BETTER than 0bama!!
Ok, I’m done.
Like you haven’t slept with a few yourself, Plenty.
You’ll all be voting for a ragamuffin cat or a dirty dog. I can’t tell who is which.
That’s an interesting comment to moderate. I didn’t know that was a bad word.
That’s what I am talking about. Romney would be a superfun super efficient Socialist who could make a forced labor camp make money, Obama is proven to be an incompetent Socialist who couldn’t manage a lemonade stand with a billion dollar grant.
Which would be better for the country?
Yeah, by golly, if we’re gonna be a socialist labor camp, let’s make a profit!! At least we’ll eat, drink and be
merry miserable brokeslaves! More grog, I say! Wait…Voting for a Republican is no guarantee. Voting for Nixon didn’t get LBJ’s great society reversed. Voting for Reagan didn’t get Carter’s dept of education removed. Voting for G.W. Bush didn’t get don’t ask don’t tell reversed.
I want someone right of Reagan. I’ll settle for a less than perfect republican who respects the constitution. I will not vote for the lesser of two evils.
BTW where is the pressure on the Democrats to run a better candidate?
Near as i can tell, a president romney would be identical, save for color of skin, to our present difficulties. You sure you’re just not a racist lefty in disguise? just kiddin 🙂 but seriously, left-leaning ‘republicans’ are far more dangerous- they support the same terrible policies like amnesty and gun prohibitions but since they have an ‘r’ behind their name no republican pols oppose them. at least when it’s a dem they kinda fight against the creep of leftism.
What Brian said.
Rudy McRombee would be worse than Zero. We would get all the same crap we have now, only it would be our fault. Add the current editions, Christie/Daniels/Hunstman/Gingrich/almost anybody in the running… And no, of course that doesn’t include Ronpaul silly, he’s not really running
Make a case for not voting for Obama, but please, oh please give up on the false choices offered by so many.
Again, and again we’re posed with the false choice that because Republican candidate X has liberal tendencies, he will likely act in no ways differently than Obama. For example, Obama didn’t do anything about Iran. [Fill in the name of a Republican] is a squish, so he won’t do any better. Think about it. Obama is a known quantity. We know he was unable to contain the Iranians. We know that in 4 more years he’s not going to get the the ability and determination to stop the Iranians. That is known. Romney or Huntsman could not much more fail in this category unless they gave arms to the Iranians.
Again I can’t stand Romney, but let’s bring some reality into the conversation. I doubt that Obamacare would accelerate under Romney, but let’s assume that he would accelerate its implementation. Quiz time: In the *worst case* for Romney which leader, Obama or Romney, would likely accelerate implementation faster? Which candidate would more aggressively defend Obamacare?
I respect some principled reasons for not voting for Obama; however, to make the case that he is not much different than the current crop is, in my arrogant opinion, not rational. One might, and I still think this would be a stretch, to say that a Romney or Huntsman is not far from an Edwards or Gore. Actually, I think they are not far from Bill Clinton; however, I still see fundamental differences. None of them are even close to “a little spreading of the wealth is a good thing.”
As far as Romney goes, let’s take just one difference that is huge. Massive. Romney doesn’t think that profits are a bad thing. He doesn’t believe that profits are in some way a morally wrong scalping of the consumer.
Is there a Republican candidate who advocates:
Enforcing our immigration laws?
Securing our borders?
Deporting illegal immigrants?
Repealing Obamacare?
Repealing the 16th Amendment?
Phasing out Social Security?
Phasing out Medicare?
Phasing out Medicaid?
Phasing out Food Stamps?
Phasing out Welfare?
Eliminating Federal pensions?
Eliminating the Department of Education?
Eliminating the Department of Energy?
Eliminating the Federal Reserve system?
Overhauling the EPA, FDA and Dept. of Agriculture?
Eliminating the capital gains tax?
Eliminating the Inheritance tax?
Eliminating the IRS?
Laying off about 50% of the Federal workforce (for starters)?
Spending no more money than we take in – including debt service – and paying off our National Debt?
NO.
The heck with it.
“Don’t vote. It only encourages the bastards.”
Jimmy- Add de-unionizing the Federal Government and you have my dream candidate’s platform.
Not letting Obama win would decrease the tourisim to Kenya.
By the way, Ron Paul !!!111!!! eleventyEVELENTY !11!1 is not seriously running for president. He just wants the Secret Service protection to keep theose pesky aliens away. Anal probes really hurt, you know.
Right, hwuu. Plus, I left out overhauling the Dept. of Commerce and repealing 100’s (1000’s?) of unconstitutional laws. I’m sure I forgot even more! What a mess.
I can’t really support anyone in the primaries because after I returned from an incredibly excited Europe a week or so after Obama won the last Presidential election, I changed my party affiliation on my voter registration from Republican to Libertarian. If I WERE supporting someone in the primaries it would either be Gary Johnson, (our former Governor here) or maybe Michelle Bachmann. Unfortunately the media, Republican Party, and major campaign financiers are not going to line up behind either of those choices and we’ll get a Romney most likely. That’s just a slower method of death. May as well amend the Constitution and let Arnold run. I’m almost with Marko on this one, but I’ll vote my conscience and my principles. I can give my vote to someone that I believe in and not lose sleep over the fact that it’s taking a vote away from a Republican because I don’t believe in the “XXXXX can’t win” model of politics. No one can win if they don’t get support, so I support who I WANT to win, not against who I’m “afraid” of. If people would vote their principles instead of who the freak’n opinion polls tell them “can win” maybe we’d not be in this mess in the first place.
My last comment was cynically sarcastic, for what it’s worth.
Burmashave is right on the money there. As despicable as some R(INO) candidates may be (*cough* Romney *cough* Huntsman), it’s simply unrealistic to pretend they’d pursue the same policies Obama has. As I’ve said before, good luck finding anyone to the left of Obama.
And if you’re sick of voting for the lesser of two evils, how does letting the greater evil win help anything?
@Plentyo: Hey, I need that lettuce and those tomatoes for a BLT! Sacrifice something useless, like a Brussels sprout.
When choosing between two evils, I always go with the default question: Who is more likely to appoint a conservative to the Supreme Court? Since the Constitution has become exactly no more and no less than what the Supreme Court says it is (a guarantor of the right to kill your unborn children, and a potential limiter of the right to bear arms unless you happen to be in a well regulated militia), that is the most important issue in any election. No matter what RINO we end up with as a nominee, I will have to hold my nose and vote for him or her (are there any female RINOs currently being discussed as possible candidates?).
Nice post Basil. If you can’t beat the message, mock the messenger; how very Alinksy of you.
Worse than Obama? How about sinking the Republican party so low that we have nothing but a long string of Obamas for the next 50 years. Yeah, I think that might be worse.
Crabby, I have to argue that brussel sprouts with butter and vinegar are a hot damn – just like fresh spinach and beet greens with the same (on tonight’s menu).
Frank – your “Frank Reads The News” article just disappeared, including it’s comments.
I think you’re on drugs.
I’d be more on drugs if Ron Paul were president, and that’s my point.
Crabby, if you used something like brussel sprouts or broccoli, then it would hardly be a sacrifice would it?
The same could be said for voting for a puke head commie republican like rommel or his dipstick cousin.
Personally, I do nto trust republicans to do what is best for the country any more than the marxists. Under normal circumstances, I would vote for ronpaul!!11!! before I would vote for rommel or his dipstick cousin, but these are not normal circumstances.
If conservatives fail to take the senate and house, we will end up the same place regardless of who is in the white house. I hope you have nose plugs, because its going to smell awful.
On the other hand, just think of the great jokes that ol Jay Leno will tell about presidente orommel
I’m reasonably sure I won’t be voting for any of the front runners. Now that Huntsman has entered the race he and Romney will focus on out “Mormoning” each other which will leave the rest of the pack free to show how wide the yellow stripes running down their spines are. What we need is someone who is:
Honest
familiar with the word integrity
experienced in business
not a pervert (I know, I know half the field just went down in flames)
not in it for the money or the power
has a fleeting understanding of the term “public service” (at least the clean definition)
not in favor of selling anything else to the Chinese
not afraid of the military
As it is there isn’t a politician, pundit or partisan on the left or right who has one of these attributes. There are very many citizens who couldn’t define “public service or integrity”, at least with a straight face. We, I’m sad to say, are our own worse enemies. But never fear the end is getting closer and closer every day. The more we tolerate, the more we abdicate our responsibilities, the more wickedness we accept the closer our ultimate destruction looms.
As the old song says “Don’t worry ………..be happy”! Ignorance is bliss don’cha know.
Another thing worse than letting Obama have another 4 years?
Being able to breathe untaxed air
Tax rates below 100%!
Babies not clogging the drain at planned parenthood!
Grandmothers having surgery instead of taking pain pills!
I’ll have what Patrick Henry’s having.
It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. The gentlemen may cry, Peace, peace! but there is no peace. The war has actually begun!
The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that the gentlemen wish? What would they have?
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God.
I know not what course others may take, but as for me,
give me liberty or give me death!
(March 23, 1775)
I must confess to a change of heart. If the Republicans don’t nominate a true blue conservative, then I’m staying home, too. It really doesn’t matter whether we’re $15 trillion in debt or $20 trillion. I’m only voting if the Republicans put forward someone who’ll reduce the federal debt. Otherwise, the national debt is just not much of an issue for me.
I am amused, perplexed, and perhaps agog by a prevailing opinion that all politicians to the left of, say Michelle Bachman, are liberals, and that all liberals, from Lindsey Graham to Bill Ayers are exactly interchangeable. A vote for one is exactly as good as a vote for another. According to many, being denied an opportunity to vote for someone as conservative as Michelle Bachman is *literally* equivalent to voting for any liberal of any degree.
Ron Paul might be crazy but he is an American loving, Constitution loving, and small government loving crazy and i will take that over Obama any day
Ron Paul’s feelings towards America can be described as “cordial” at best. Certainly not “love”.
@Burma, It’s actually pretty simple to understand. A huge percentage of the American voters are sheeple, who believe what they’re fed by legacy media…thus, we have people who couldn’t wait to vote for Obama even though they had no idea where he came from or what he believed. Political elections run in cycles, like a pendulum. We have gone from Bush, who voters viewed as a right-wing conservative (even though he was far from it) to cycle to a flaming “re-distribute the wealth” liberal, but voters are now rebelling against that failed ideology and are trending far more conservative.
Not only is a Reagan conservative most likely to win the election, but if a Romney, Huntsman, McCain-type were to be our candidate and miraculously win, they would continue failed policies, just at a slightly slower pace, and voters will rebel against what they will again be told by the media are “conservative” ideas in either four years or eight years and again vote in another full-blown socialist liberal in the name of “change.”
Or, we can elect a conservative, who will help the free market turn the economy around, lower unemployment and bring back the housing market, in which case voters will have no reason to desire voting liberals around for a long time.
If Son of Bob is correct that “A huge percentage of the American voters are sheeple, who believe what they’re fed by legacy media”, then it will make no difference whether we vote in a real conservative or not. A real conservative will be demonized by the legacy media much more than a fake conservative, the American sheeple will believe them, and they’ll vote in a raging liberal next. End of story.
Also, just as a general rule, slower economic destruction is better because it gives us more opportunities later. If you’re going to smash into a brick wall and you have the choice of hitting the brakes and slowing a little before impact, take it. You will have a somewhat better chance of walking again. On the other hand, if you decide not to hit the brakes because, well, we’re going to hit the wall anyway, you’re an idiot. And since we’re talking about the fate of the nation, you’re also no conservative or patriot.