That's for sure.
Posted on 11/30/2010 3:23:19 AM PST by Rome2000
The jury is still out and it's a long time until the Straw Poll in Aug. I look over the field very carefully--no knee-jerk reactions. I want the most conservative nominee I can get who has a good chance of winning.
FWIW, I am skeptical of Palin. Almost everyone likes her but few think she can pull it off. Everyone's opinion is valuable.
If I could appoint someone, it would be Congressman King, but I can't so I'll deal with those who are actually running.
Pence may throw his hat in the ring and if he does, he's one of my front runners, along with Barbour and Thune.
When I think of Mitt, I think of the 2007 Iowa GOP debate - the “show of hands question”,
Q... How many of you believe global climate change is a serious threat and caused by human activity?
There were 9 men on stage, and 4 of them had their hands up right away, Mitt Romney was one of them. Fred Thompson jumped in and said he was not playing hand shows today, and Mitt put his hand down and said “I’m with him”. Sign of a true leader? I don’t think so. It told me a lot about Mitt. He’s the stick your finger in the wind to see which way the wind is blowing sort of guy.
Video of that question.
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/12/12/the-iowa-gop-debate/
When I think of Mitt, I think of the 2007 Iowa GOP debate - the “show of hands question”,
Q... How many of you believe global climate change is a serious threat and caused by human activity?
There were 9 men on stage, and 4 of them had their hands up right away, Mitt Romney was one of them. Fred Thompson jumped in and said he was not playing hand shows today, and Mitt put his hand down and said “I’m with him”. Sign of a true leader? I don’t think so. It told me a lot about Mitt. He’s the stick your finger in the wind to see which way the wind is blowing sort of guy.
Video of that question.
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/12/12/the-iowa-gop-debate/
Really, Iowa traditionally eliminates the bottom feeders. We don't choose the winners.
Most I talk to don't want any of those who ran before.
If he is... I vote third party... NEVER for a baby murdering commie criminal.
LLS
“There you go again”.
LLS
I have taken the pledge. I will not vote for a RINO ever again (I voted for McCain), not now, not ever.
If Mittens gets the nod, I will do a write in.
The thing is...Will there even be an America if the marxist wins another 4 years?
At least we have a chance with Romney--we have no chance with Obama.
If so, I will not vote for President.
And to all who will accuse me of supporting Obama: If Mitt is the nominee when so many people publically disavow him, then it is the republican party’s fault - not the disaffected voters’.
That's for sure.
You are right and I believe he has operatives right here on F.R., some subtle and some not so subtle, the non subtle ones are being weeded out but the digs at Sarah Palin continue by some Mitt pushers.
Not that she is beyond reproach but she is looking more and more like a Presidential candidate should look and act. She certainly has my support but I would support any conservative
He may be. I do not doubt that the Country Club branch of the Republican Party will give him the nomination. I only know that I and many people that I know will not vote for him. If that means that obama is re-elected, so be it.
Yes, the GOP could select from an array of appealing and promising fresh faces in 2012 -- Govs. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota, Mitch Daniels of Indiana, Chris Christie of New Jersey and Bobby Jindal of Louisiana; and Sen. John Thune of, yes, South Dakota.Maybe Medved, being a Jew, doesn't understand the Mormon faith or the problems that lie within it all that well; two faiths without a True Christ!
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Please clarify...are you stating that if he were the nominee you would stay home or throw away your vote on a third party or write-in?
In other words, conservatives can suck it up again and support someone who epitomizes the antithesis of our views?
In a word: No.
If the R party wants to believe that Mitt is their “safe” choice, then they can go without the support of this conservative voter. When the party realizes that they can’t keep the conservatives on their plantation by beating the hell out of them every four years, then perhaps the conservative voters will support the party again.
Oh goody. The it’s ‘My turn” method that brought us such sterling candidates as Bob Dole and John McCain. If Romney gets the nomination the GOP will lock down the “Stupid Party” title again.
If that is the best we can do, this nation is in more trouble than anyone realizes. Romney is just another corrupt RINO politician.
There isnt now, what we live in now is COMPLETELY tainted and corrupt ...
There wont be if we go with a marxist republican over a marxist Democrat.
F--k Romney and every other GD Marxist Republican RINO!
We dont play the BS fear games. There is NOTHING about REAL freedom and liberty that a POS RINO like Romney is going to bring back (its well beyond "saving")
Point being... There isnt an "America" now. Not what we conservatives consider America and not what the founders considered the union of states to be the guardians of. So F U and your b-ll sh-t attempt at the same "fear politics" the dems use to keep their voters on the plantation.
We have outgrown that F'ing lullaby.
NO MORE RINOS!!!
Medved makes the valid point that Republicans of late have tended to come around to a presidential candidate whose “turn” it is. The last two who truly fit this definition were Dole in ‘96 and McCain in 2008. How well did that work out?
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