You might try paying a little attention to some of the conservatives here. I think the chances of Rudy ever getting the nomination or of becoming president are somewhere between slim to none and not a snowball’s chance in hell.
That may be. Time will tell. But one would not necessarily come to that conclusion to look at the polls, or read the articles that accompany his various visits to towns and cities across the nation.
The election is a long way off, in a sense. Lots could happen. But conversely, the first debate is just weeks away. And at this moment in time, the race is between Rudy and McCain, with Rudy in front, and Romney also in the mix. That is a fact. And PS - I am one of the conservatives here...and Rudy is far from a socialist. I think it's hyperbole to call him one.
“You might try paying a little attention to some of the conservatives here. I think the chances of Rudy ever getting the nomination or of becoming president are somewhere between slim to none and not a snowball’s chance in hell.”
Sweet to the ears. Those country clubbin establishment types are only a vocal minority. They will get their collective (pun intended) azzes kicked in the primaries. The nomination will eventually go to a conservative. But the swift surrender by the hierarchy of the GOP is a battle as important as the nomination. Conservatives need to work to kick them out. Freepers need to join your local GOP Party/Club/Central Committee and start changing things again.
Jim, isn't that EXACTLY what folks around here were saying about Hillary's chances, several years ago?
Mention Hillary as the presidential candidate, and folks would be laughing.
Perhaps they still are. But the laughter is dying down....
- John
Exactly. Maybe we should look at what we all should head towards and not away from. As much as Rudy may not be the choice of real conservatives, and much of this board his past performance has shown he probably WILL work for the eventual nominee.
Rudy is what most of us do NOT want, however, he has shown he respects the Republican ideals of defense being one of the primary platforms necessary for this country to survive in the world of the future.
We all need to work for another candidate to become the nominee. Let’s hate the idea of Rudy as the candidate and work against that end but not work to end up with him working against us. Probably we should also work not to turn any others of us against the eventual nominee.
Looking past Rudy this is going to be a very tough election for whoever is the eventual nominee (other than Rudy). We will need all of us to work hard to stay together to strongly support the Conservative ideals we hope will carry over to the eventual nominee.
So wise advice might be to look towards what DO want and not just work against each other. As it sits now we have NO strong candidate so we have much work to do to even get to that point.
Once we get the real candidate we need to work like the liberals do. As corrupt as they are, they agree on and believe in their core ideals of “molding” the Constitution to their corruption.
So Jim, agreeing with, and supposing your statement of Rudy NOT having a chance of ending up the nominee is correct, we need to work HARD TOWARDS what we NEED to have. Rudy is NOT right and with no Reagan on the horizon, we all have a bunch of work to work towards.
Let's ALL get ready to roll.