It’s Time to Support Mitt Romney

John McCain helped author the most outrageous attack on free speech in the history of our country. McCain has run a campaign against his opponents, and the G.O.P. in general really, based largely on lying and distorting his fellow Republicans’ positions. When challenged on his liberal positions and disdain for core Republican principles like absolute rights to free speech, his main defense is to point out his brave service to our country.

While anyone who has served their country with distinction, as McCain did, has call to be proud it is not the defining characteristic of a man. There are many brave men who are bad leaders, or even bad people. Thomas Sowell sums up the problem with McCain’s “I’m a hero” campaign quite nicely:

When confronted with any of his misdeeds, Senator McCain tends to fall back on his record as a war hero in Vietnam.

Let’s talk sense. Benedict Arnold was a war hero but that did not exempt him from condemnation for his later betrayal.

Being a war hero is not a lifetime get-out-of-jail-free card. And becoming president of the United States is not a matter of rewarding an individual for past services.

The presidency is a heavy responsibility for the future of the nation, including generations yet unborn. Character and integrity are major qualifications.

The passing years and a friendly media have allowed Senator McCain’s shortcomings in the character and integrity department to fade into the background.

McCain was one of “the Keating Five” — senators who used their influence to try to protect a failing savings & loan company, which also became the subject of a corruption investigation.

Hypocrite, shakedown artist, war hero. That’s McCain in a nutshell, a man with many admirable qualities, none of which make him suitable for President of the United States. He has several character flaws that should preclude him from the post.

Mitt Romney on the other hand has proved he can be as bi-partisan as McCain without literally making enemies of the Republican base. Romney is a man of character and conviction who is as tough on national security as McCain but better on border security. He understands the power of the free market while McCain lurches left toward economic populism, he understands the challenges we face while McCain sees the war on terror as a campaign he can win in Iraq.

Mitt Romney was not my first choice, I was a Thompson supporter. But I was always ready to vote Romney if Fred dropped out. Romney has my support because he is something McCain is not, a Republican.

I don’t just mean a G.O.P. member, I mean Mitt Romney stands for the ideals of a Republic. Mitt Romney stands for an America where our freedoms cannot be removed by consensus, where my right to criticize a religion, any religion, cannot be silenced. Mitt Romney understands that the individual has to sometimes be protected from the whims of the masses, that democracy without rule of law is a tyranny as sure as communism, that we who are in the minority are, without Republican civic values, one vote away from slavery and death.

As a bi-racial Republican, I get dozens of hateful, racist comments and e-mails from Whites on the left who tell me I’m a sell out. They would gladly steal away my freedom if they could, they’d gladly enslave me and my family if the matter was put to a vote. They’d gladly throw me and all Republicans into camps if they thought they could get away with it. I want a President who will stand up to the tyranny of the masses.

I want a President who can work with the left without adopting their hatred of me. I want a President that can compromise when necessary but will not compromise my right to free speech.

I want a President that can reunite our Republican base, but also one who will put America first, politics second.

I want Mitt Romney to be the Republican nominee, because he can be that President. John McCain cannot. It is a time for choosing and the G.O.P. must choose Mitt Romney.

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