Posted on 10/22/2007 6:17:02 PM PDT by pissant
Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly is expressing strong dissatisfaction with the top-tier Republican presidential candidates. She also questions the validity of the results of the Values Voters straw poll on Saturday.
Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly says most of the GOP candidates who have been designated frontrunners are globalists. According to Schlafly, candidates Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, John McCain, and Mike Huckabee all "need to wake up" and realize they need the votes of Reagan Democrats to win.
"I think that's a great mistake for the Republicans. I feel that it's very important that they reach out to people on the jobs issue," Schlafly shares. "I was quite disappointed with the debate that was broadcast from Michigan, which is an economically depressed state, and they didn't appear to have any sympathy or compassion for all the millions of people who've lost their jobs that have moved to China."
In the straw poll taken over the weekend in conjunction with the Values Voters Summit, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney topped former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee by a mere 30 votes. Schlafly contends that Huckabee was the winner among conference attendees who heard the weekend's speeches.
"The straw poll was interesting," she offers. "People were able to vote on it even though they weren't here. They could vote for the prior two weeks before the conference took place and before they heard any of the speakers." And in her opinion, that means one cannot say a whole lot about the validity of the poll.
Schlafly believes all that can be deduced from the poll is that so-called "values voters" are still shopping for their candidate. And she says while social conservatives are divided in many ways, they all agree they cannot support a candidate who is not pro-life. The Eagle Forum founder tells OneNewsNow the only GOP hopefuls she is comfortable with are Congressmen Duncan Hunter of California and Tom Tancredo of Colorado.
This reader not keen on Schlafly.
DH Ping
Considering she scuttled Fred Thompson’s mentor’s plan for the Equal Rights Amendment, I give her some credit.
She’s comfortable with sure losers.
Hmmm...Odd, where have I heard that before?
and they didn’t appear to have any sympathy or compassion for all the millions of people who’ve lost their jobs that have moved to China.”
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yeah forget all the high paying hi tech jobs. Americans should just make cheap toys and toothpaste because that is The American Way ©.
I'm not sure exactly what she means by globalists but certainly she wouldn't want them to be isolationists..or would she?
Yes, She’s a smart lady with her eyes open.
We can't have both? Not everyone can qualify for high tech jobs, and there is no shame in making cheap toys and toothpaste.
Schlafly doesn’t seem to realize that the mercantilist beliefs she worships like a religion were disproved by Adam Smith over 200 years ago.
Any and all globalists are automatically DISQUALIFIED from MY vote. Thank God for outspoken patriotic conservatives like Schlafly!
That she is. Too bad more people won't listen to her. Some people might actually wake up and smell the coffee.
BumPing!
bump that. Worth saying twice.
It's generally very rare for her to actually have any idea of what she's talking about.
Phyllis Schlafly is a hero to all conservatives.
Anyone who has bad words for her is a DU plant.
Old Biddy Alert
Ditto!
I fully agree with you.
We need to WIN at all costs.
Even if it means our country going to hell in a handbasket.
If not a plant, then an anti-American, at worst, or an ostrich, at best.
Join the club, Phyllis.
On the one hand, she wants a social Conservative who appeals to values-voters, and on the other, one who appeals to job-concerned Reagan Democrats.
That’s a very broad spectrum. And, I’ll get clobbered for saying it, but Reagan didn’t quite walk the talk on social issues - looked who he nominated to the Supreme Court (Scalia - good; Kennedy and O’Connor - much less so).
Also, it’s primary season - candidates are trying to appeal to the base. That’s not where the Reagan Democrats live, by definition.
*waving*
I salute ALL patriotic conservative Americans who put America and Americans first.
Down with the sell-outs and traitors!
: )
I love that woman. Phyllis, I’ll leave my wife. Just say the word!
(only kidding folks - I have a wonderful wife)
She sure echos my thoughts though. She wisely hasn’t endorced, but there is plenty of time.
Duncan Hunter needs a boost. The guy is right there on all the issues. We need this man.
More than twice, imho. : )
Your hand basket or mine friend? LOL
Michigan is not just economically depressed, it's a quagmire of fiscal mismanagement by democrats and unions.
Frankly I don't have much sympathy since the good folks of Michigan haven't lost "their" jobs, they weren't "their" jobs to lose. The companies and corporations decided rather than try to navigate the state and federal tax code and shoulder the burden of a graduated tax scale they have taken "their" jobs and capital to where it gets treated better.
Maybe if the unions didn't take the companies' jobs for granted and hold up their employers like stick up men, the employers would have some jobs to offer the unemployed workers. Next time don't bite the hand that feeds.
I support Hunter too, Phyllis, but I'm a political prostitute this time, I'll give my vote to whoever opposes Clinton in the general.
Weren't you supporting Fred just a coupla days ago?
Huckabee is doing surprisingly well. But I am not a fan. He waxes nonsensical on national defense and energy. He's not a pro-growth guy (which seems to be why Phyllis Schlafly likes him).
I must share the same mental illness as I recognize Mrs. Schlafly’s messages of patriotism over profit, cultural preservation over cop-out and nationalism over neo-conservatism as being motivated by sheer old-fashioned love of America as it was and should be today: Reaganistic.
I also declare she would have been the finest example of the first female President of the United States. At eighty-something this precious national resource doesn’t need that kind of stress - but I would never doubt she had the gumption to go for it.
Didn’t I tell you I wanted Hunter above anyone else, but didn’t want to see Fred knocked out of the back up position?
I knew they were globalist. These men listed, will not see our(family) vote.
Not quite, since she does not have mercantilist beliefs. You will notice Hunter being in the race has all the sudden made the free trader party very critcal of our trade deal with China.
That is pretty sad.
Everyone has various aspects to their personality.
Everyone has good and bad about them.
Have you not yet realized that?
The dangerous thing to do is to cede yourself and your views to another person. The minute you stop thinking for yourself is the minute you become a tool for another person to play with.
No one is above criticism.
Yeah, she hung around with that dope Reagan all the time.
Nor mine, nor any family member or friend of mine, as long as I have breath to convince them these are no friends of America or Americans.
most especially those who resemble Benedict Arnold.
LOL....I did not write this....this is definitely Mrs Schafly
Sure seems like a lot of my posts
Indeed!..Please Phyllis, endorse Hunter!!
The Eagle Forum founder tells OneNewsNow the only GOP hopefuls she is comfortable with are Congressmen Duncan Hunter of California and Tom Tancredo of Colorado.
“Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly is expressing strong dissatisfaction with the top-tier Republican presidential candidates”
I am in agreement with Phyllis Schlafly. She is a wise lady!!
Indeed, it’s time for her to endorse Duncan Hunter.
She was great on the ERA. I cant imagine where we’d be without her; probably a lot more like Europe as far as workplace regulation,etc
“She’s comfortable with sure losers.”
No, she isn’t. Didn’t you read the article? She said she wasn’t happy with the so-called front runners. She likes Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo, the true conservatives, just like her. She has discriminating tastes.
She may do just that. :o)
bumping that!
A globalist is someone who would sell out his country for a buck.
Bump to Guenevere!
Schlafly is just like Dobson, trying to play kingmaker. I’ll vote for who I like, Phylis. And you sound too much like Buchanan with the isolationist BS too.
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