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We need a candidate who can clearly articulate what America stands for - how it began - where we are now and the cliff we are headed for.

Reagan did this - starting in the trenches

The missing votes? Caulk them up in large part to missing enthusiasm for the candidate.

This was a "turn-out" election and there were not enough "jazzed-up" voters. Voting against the policies of one candidate will not rally enough to win. Too many will never be educated about what was, what is and what is in store for them.

"If something can't go on for ever, it won't." Herbert Stein

We are on the trajectory for economic collapse. Dictatorial rule will follow unless there is (and we can identify) a candidate, who will not only lead the GOP faithful but can touch and ignite the now flickering light of freedom and liberty fading from humanity and civilized societies - rally Americans (and the world) from their decline.

Starting today.

And let's try not to undercut each other at every opportunity.

1 posted on 11/09/2012 3:21:28 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I agree and I'll add this -

Dole - rino - lost
McCain - rino - lost
Romney - rino - lost

So what does this tell you? I mean for goodness sakes if the stupid party can't figure it out by now they never will!

2 posted on 11/09/2012 3:38:09 AM PST by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Well, I think many people predicted during the primaries that merely running a stopgap candidate on the crux of “Hey I’m not Barack Obama” wasn’t going to be an electorally viable strategy.

Someone who can communicate a real vision would’ve helped tremendously I think, which is why I went for Newt—though I dunno, the media may’ve made mince meat of him regardless of his strength at fighting them.

There aren’t any real political leaders left on the GOP side at this point IMO. The history and the experience it takes to forge such individuals just isn’t there.


3 posted on 11/09/2012 3:38:53 AM PST by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State)
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caulk = chalk [but then you knew that....]


9 posted on 11/09/2012 4:38:08 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Yes, we need that articulate candidate who can explain conservatism to the masses. But I’m afraid that is a very rare gift. In the past thirty or forty years I think we have had exacty two who could really do that: Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich. And Newt’s effectiveness was diminished by other characteristics. So, we’ve actually had one who was the total package.

Maybe there is one out there, but I don’t know who at present.

And the Bushes rode Reagan’s coattails to a national prominence they could never have achieved on their own, and they mostly frittered away a great deal of what he had built up as a conservative and as a Republican.


10 posted on 11/09/2012 4:40:27 AM PST by Will88
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

My favorite is Demint but I don’t think he has the charisma factor and I think he’s a little shy.

Rand Paul, I think he is pretty good but I am still not certain that he doesn’t carbon his father. If he doesn’t carbon, I think he is a good bet.

Everybody screams Rubio but something about that man sets my brake on trust. He’s pretty and everything you think you want but I just don’t trust him.

Jindal is pretty awesome but he needs polish.

That’s my list.


17 posted on 11/09/2012 5:48:57 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Thanks for starting this thread. I agree with everything you’ve written. I have some ideas and thoughts to share and I hope they will stir some response.

I don’t think there is a perfect candidate. President Reagan became who he was by living a long time, going through a remarkable variety of experiences and having the capacity to think and communicate what he had learned.

The candidate must be someone who wants to do what must be done, who understands what makes the U.S. unique, who loves the Lord, who is courageous, who has a past that can be above or beyond scrutiny by evil forces. I don’t know if anyone can do this unless we, the supporters, can do all we can to support him or her.

For example: every single lie told about the candidate, his positions, his statements MUST be set straight — immediately. The “accusers” must be called out, they must be made to look exactly like what they are: liars who have only their own self-interest at heart.

A second thought: the only way to change the Republican party, to create a truly conservative group is to start at the grass roots. Join local republican groups, be persistent, fight to take them over. Never sit still for any kind of lie. Each person must exemplify what we want in that ideal candidate. He or she must be strong, courageous, educated and articulate.

I have so many ideas concerning these problems, but I no longer have the energy or physical health to take those ideas and make them into practical solutions.

That’s all for now.


21 posted on 11/09/2012 6:30:36 AM PST by MSSC6644 (Defeat Satan: pray the Rosary.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Voting against the policies of one candidate will not rally enough to win.

However, you have succinctly stated the philosophy of the average ABO. Just saying.

26 posted on 11/09/2012 7:18:02 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Don't be afraid to see what you see." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife; csmusaret

Thanks for the thread.

I start from a given...the state of TX was never a natural Romney state. Yet, CW’s and my state of TX understood the urgency to oust Obama. And voted accordingly.

Other so-called “bible-belt” states did the same.

That tells me that the nation - whether disgruntled conservatives who didn’t vote or the mushy moderates swayed by emotion or the clearly duped groups who worship Obama - is way less on point than is TX and a solid block of “bible-belt” states.

I don’t excuse the electorate in places where Obama beat Romney. I hold THEM very much accountable for their actions, decisions, mindsets, what-have-you.

If the states that clearly saw what’s happening to America and their options to save it could vote for Mitt Romney, so could have the others that didn’t.

Having said that, of course we need to more carefully consider who is running. But we can’t make people run that choose not to, and we can’t make some chink in their armour go away that the enemy within will exploit.

Reagan was a rarity.

That doesn’t mean there might not be another one, but we see how seldom they come along.

Whoever says we can do better than Mitt Romney will get no argument from me. However, Mitt Romney actually exceeded my expectations as a candidate and would have exceeded them as president if he had won, in my opinion.

Again, my state voted for him in spite of the fact that, given other viable options, he would not have been my state’s pick in the primary to oppose Obama.

So, if Texas and the rest could, so could have others.

That they didn’t do so is on them.

And I have not ruled out fraud in this election.

A lot of things do not add up for me.


51 posted on 11/10/2012 8:48:24 AM PST by txrangerette ("hold to the truth...speak without fear". (Glenn Beck))
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