Posted on 10/31/2011 7:01:47 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
The top campaign contributors behind President George W. Bush's vaunted political network are slowly coming off the sidelines, and many are lining up behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
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Wasting their money Romney cannot bring the party together.
Bush gave us Obama in the first place, Imo
So where does that take him? Ten? Fifteen percent of the electorate?
Karl Rove is the "Dirty Trickster"
We may need to purge them from the party. It’s time for Preibus to leap to the fore and follow the will of the people (fat chance of that eh?!)
In an AMAZING plot twist,,,,,
No he can’t. I’ll never vote for him period. I don’t trust the man. Obama has more principles though they be wrong than Mitt Romney.
Well .. it was a rather established fact that GW’s father was in the “elite” group of the repubs. I didn’t see that in GW - mainly because he exhibited a lot of his mother’s traits and not his fathers.
However, I found out later on that Laura was pretty close to being a liberal (she is pro-abortion) .. and I do blame her for turning him more toward the elite side of the repubs. I remember the moment he was giving a speech and said that his wife had told him not to say, “dead or alive” about Osama; or “bring it on”.
She in effect stole our warrior. I felt like he just gave up trying to be more conservative.
I still think he was a much better president than the media has ever given him credit for.
Not this one.
I have been given the finger by the GOP since 1988. They always torpedo the conservative, then run the establishment repub against some sort of socialist.
I am not stamping my feet, throwing a tantrum, or whatever,, BUT, there simply comes a point, where it’s insulting for them to always think they get my support, but are not required to ever support MY candidates or causes in return.
And no,, a conservative for veep will not work this time. I as a conservative, must have the wheel for a change.
The ‘RATs can run a Marxist dictator for president and it’s no problem. On the other hand, the GOOBers think that a conservative is just “too extreme” to be president. Geeesh. I sure am glad that I have caller I.D.
I love George W. Bush.
But I despise Romney as a narcissistic Socialist.
Conservatives i know feel as I do.
If Romney is nominated, i will vote 3rd party.
Easy there, DR.
I understand exactly where you come from. Name me one, one, “solid conservative” candidate running for POTUS on the GOP side that had a chance in Hell of actually winning the primary vote in any race since 1988?
Steve Forbes? Maybe?
Who else?
That’s right. Not really anyone else. Do realize and understand that as the GOP “base” has expanded (more people aligning themselves as moderate or conservative) we are assuming a large number of former independents and Democrats. People who can’t stomach the all-out Bolshevism of modern day Democrats but who are also not Ayn Rand fans either. For people like these, McCain or Dole or....Romney....are perfectly safe and acceptable.
We have had exactly one “real conservative” President in the last 150 years per the current definition. Reagan. Prior to him, “establishment” types Ford or Nixon or Eisenhower. Before that? Herbert Hoover. TR? Great on foreign policy but a real “squish” at home on unions and social policy. The alphabet soup of the latter half of the 1800s. Then, Abe. The ultimate human right’s leader who also championed the supremacy of the federal government over the states in anathema to the “real” conservative today. The only other I can think of that today’s conservatives might seriously gravitate to is.......JFK.
We may all pine away for the next Reagan. In truth, they are rare and seldom people while the rest of history is filled with something in-between that sometimes do great or not so great things. There is no Reagan running today. There may potentially be one in the waiting among the viable potential candidates later down the road, but not today.
You may call it “holding your nose,” but, I call it doing what most GOP voters have done for the last century and half. And, if in so doing, it brings the bow of the country further back toward the starboard than the port, I am content with it. Given the circumstances, it’s the best I can hope for within this Federalist system that I so dearly respect and love.
One RINO supporting another RINO. GW Bush tried his
best to destroy the conservative wing of the republican party and if Willard Romney buys himself the presidency, stick a fork in what’s left of conservatism, the merger with democrats is complete.
My wife and I were big Bush supporters but would as soon vote Obumblenutz as vote for Mittens. For you in Rio Linda, that means NO voter for either one of the aforementioned putzes.
His mother showed her true colors with her snide remarks about Palin.
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