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Take the Pledge, Support the Nominee [as long as it's not Romney or Paul. JimRob]
Human Events ^ | 12/23/2011 | Roger Hedgecock

Posted on 12/24/2011 2:43:58 PM PST by neverdem

Be thankful that the season of Obama media vetting of Republican presidential candidates is coming to a close as Republican voters in the primary states at long last get to have their say on who the nominee will be.

The last eight months of media focus on each of the "not-Romneys" has been like watching the picadors in a bullfight wound the bull with their lances before the brave matador steps into the ring to face the dying bull.

But already there's talk of third party campaigns if certain candidates' egos get bruised by voter rejection in the primary season.

All of us who are committed to the defeat of Barack Obama cannot let this happen. Candidates for the Republican nomination for President must pledge now to support the nominee chosen by the voters in upcoming primary elections. Failure to take the pledge should be a factor when Republican primary voters make their choice.

A second term for Obama would do unthinkable harm to this country. I know because I'm already living in Obama's second term.

I live in California, a former "golden state" now mired in bloated government, rising debt (despite a balanced budget amendment to the state constitution), higher taxes, 12% unemployment, with productive people and their businesses fleeing the state. California is awash in illegal aliens, failing schools, and pot hole filled roads.

Don't let California's present be your state's future.

Our incumbent president faces the voters having in just three years championed policies that more than doubled the annual federal deficit, added more than $4 trillion to the government's debt, nearly doubled the unemployment rate, and doubled the price of gasoline.

Based on this record of accomplishment, Obama went on 60 Minutes to claim with a straight face that he is the fourth best President in American history! To protect Obama from his Hugo Chavez moment, 60 Minutes edited out the claim in the on-air version of the interview.

To restore an America of opportunity and prosperity, not to mention humility, Obama must go.

But Obama will be re-elected if candidates rejected by primary voters, or self appointed billionaire blowhards, launch third party bids.

The first to threaten a third party run this week was libertarian Gary Johnson (who?). Wikipedia says Johnson was a two term governor of New Mexico.

Johnson advocates a 23% national sales tax, marijuana legalization, gay marriage, and an open border with Mexico. Johnson charges that "the Republican Party hung me out to dry" after he appeared on only two of the televised debates. Based on his platform, he got more time than he should have.

Johnson is not the threat. The threat is a third party run by Ron Paul, Mike Bloomberg, or Donald Trump. I'm not really worried about the billionaires either; they are most likely bluster and self promotion. I'm worried about a third party Ron Paul campaign re-electing Barack Obama.

Glenn Beck has said that should Newt Gingrich get the Republican nomination, Beck would back Ron Paul as a third party candidate. Glenn: Please reconsider.

According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll published this week, Ron Paul is within 5 points of Obama in a hypothetical November matchup between the two. But if Paul doesn't get the Republican nomination and makes a third party run, Obama will be re-elected when the conservative, right of center majority splits its vote between Paul and the Republican nominee.

What part of "Vote for Perot, Elect Clinton" do you not understand?

I've been down this road before. In 1992. I supported Perot. I was wrong. I won't get fooled again.

Any of the declared candidates for the Republican nomination are preferable to Obama. The choice of Republican voters in the coming primary season should be honored. Ron Paul and all the aspiring presidential hopefuls should pledge to support the nominee.

While I will personally vote in the primary for the candidate I think the most qualified and conservative, I will support the candidate who wins the Republican nomination, whether it be Paul, Romney, Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann, Santorum, or even Governor Johnson.


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2012election; election2012
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To: Windflier

I ask again.... tell us how they are the same??????


101 posted on 12/24/2011 4:55:54 PM PST by OSHA (One despises and wants to destroy the United States, the other is a dead terrorist.)
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To: neverdem
The best times of a country are the ones in which the people decide their problems are their own. They do not blame them on anyone or anything. They realize they control their own destiny. One way or another, it's not about the leader, it's about the people. A country's leader is a manifestation of its people's character.

Through apathy, indifference, and dependence upon the government, we're about to be, once again, enslaved.

102 posted on 12/24/2011 4:56:52 PM PST by Errant
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To: OSHA
Tell me how they are rthe same.

Ah ah. You first. You're trying to make the case on this thread that a Romney presidency would somehow be better than a second Obama term.

You've stood up here and LOUDLY proclaimed this to everyone. Now explain your reasoning. What substantial difference is there between Obama and Romney?

103 posted on 12/24/2011 4:57:32 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Fiji Hill; OSHA
I suppose there might be a Zimbabwean nickel's worth of difference between the two.

I'm trying to get OSHA to tell us what that Zimbabwean nickel's worth of difference is. He keeps insisting that Romney's better, but he refuses to explain how.

104 posted on 12/24/2011 5:00:38 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: neverdem
Nope. Can't do that. Time for the GOP to learn they can't keep tossing us bones. NO MORE!

The RINO GOP can suck the snot form my nose for all I care.

Want to replace Obama? Do it with a candidate I can support. No Doles, No McCains, NO RINOS!

NO MORE!

105 posted on 12/24/2011 5:00:57 PM PST by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt The Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: DoughtyOne

I say it’s organized voter fraud, and it comes from the top of the democrats on down


106 posted on 12/24/2011 5:02:08 PM PST by RaceBannon (Ron Paul is to the Constitution what Fred Phelps is to the Bible.)
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To: prisoner6
Want to replace Obama? Do it with a candidate I can support. No Doles, No McCains, NO RINOS! NO MORE!

Thank You!

As Jim Rob would say, "Rebellion is brewing!"

107 posted on 12/24/2011 5:05:04 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier; OSHA
Alright, so tell us. What's the substantial difference between Romney and Obama?

With Obama the country dies more quickly.

108 posted on 12/24/2011 5:05:55 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: Fiji Hill
I recall a president named Nixon who campaigned as a conservative, yet when he got in, he embraced the Great Society, vastly expanded federal intrusion into the economy by creating the EPA and OSHA, started Affirmative Action, appointed the Supreme Court Justice who wrote Roe vs Wade, and tried to push through a guaranteed annual income.

People forget this. Nixon probably did at least as much to destroy this country as LBJ. By rights liberals should idolize him.

109 posted on 12/24/2011 5:07:20 PM PST by YankeeReb
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To: neverdem

I’ll take the pledge, as long as it’s not Paul.


110 posted on 12/24/2011 5:08:37 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: neverdem
I voted for Sarah not the old machine or the RINOs. The Republicans and Democrats are too much alike for me. The tea party needs to start it's own party and not try to take over the tired old ideas republican party. The original Tea Party was against the Loyalists. The democrats and the republicans are the loyalists now and for real change we need a real party not run by the big money and world organizations.
111 posted on 12/24/2011 5:10:38 PM PST by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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To: COBOL2Java; OSHA
With Obama the country dies more quickly.

Yep, we've pretty much established that Romney would take us down the same path as Obama, albeit without all the rush and fanfare. We'd be utter fools to believe that he'd change course in any meaningful way.

What I'm trying to find out from OSHA, is what the actual substantive difference is between these two big government liberals. He refuses to say, yet he insists that we vote for the pastel pink over the bold red.

112 posted on 12/24/2011 5:13:41 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: OSHA
"OBAMA is a racist, socialist, radical, redistributionist, totalitarian, apologist, Muslim, anti Christian, Anti Jewish, Pro terrosit, America hating POS."

You left out 1st, 2nd and 3rd semester pro-abortionist.

113 posted on 12/24/2011 5:17:29 PM PST by NTegraT (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: NTegraT

Okay, that should be trimester. *gulp*


114 posted on 12/24/2011 5:21:29 PM PST by NTegraT (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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To: COBOL2Java
With Obama the country dies more quickly.

Maybe it's a boil that needs to be popped. With a RINO in it just keeps festering.

NO MORE!

The country may die but The Constitution and FREEDOM will live.

From a dead, entitlement country perhaps a new land of opportunity will arise like The Phoenix from the ashes.

115 posted on 12/24/2011 5:26:13 PM PST by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt The Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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To: DennisR
Rombot,

I would rather have Satan's brother in the White House than Romney or Paul. At least you know where he stands.

116 posted on 12/24/2011 5:27:52 PM PST by CainConservative
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To: OSHA

I agree with you OSHA.

I will support the Republican nominee and pray it’s not Romney or Paul.

Of the two I think Paul would be the hardest to support but he doesn’t have a chance.

Everyone wishes all the conservatives (except the one we like) would drop out and support one of the others.

Probably not gonna happen.

I’m guessing that if Bachmann drops out, she’ll support Romney (she’s never attacked him much)


117 posted on 12/24/2011 5:28:57 PM PST by altura (Perry 2012)
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To: altura
ALL polling shows that the lion's share of Bachmann, Perry, Cain, and Santorum supporters go to the remaining conservative, Newt.

It is what it is. Poor Romney.

118 posted on 12/24/2011 5:33:27 PM PST by CainConservative
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To: Windflier

>>Mad? No doubt about it. You’re stark raving mad.

Seriously?? It’s Christmas Eve and you can’t disagree with a person without insulting them?


119 posted on 12/24/2011 5:41:53 PM PST by Bryanw92 (The solution to fix Congress: Nuke em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!)
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To: prisoner6; All
EVERY election from when I started voting in the 60's the GOP has used the scare tactic of "This is THE MOST important election in our lifetime" to get the gullible to vote for the RINO of the moment.

Then it's more of the same. Bigger government, higher taxes, less liberty.

Bring it on. Let's get it over with.

NO Rockefellers, Romneys, McCains, Doles, COUNTRY CLUB REPUBLICANS! NO!

In the 2008 election here in Pittsburgh I was chastised by the Hillman republicans when I went into the local HQ and not finding a sign with PALIN'S name on it was told to shut up, McCain was the nominee and Palin was nothing!

Go to Hades you non conservatives who will vote for anything with an R behind the name!

Take this RINO's and those who will vote for anyone but Obama:

"If ye love wealth better than liberty,
the tranquility of servitude
better than the animating contest of freedom,
go home from us in peace.
We ask not your counsels or your arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you,
and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."

One of my favorite quotes from S Adams.

Yup, I'm ticked off, but I hide it so well...!

120 posted on 12/24/2011 5:43:32 PM PST by prisoner6 (Right Wing Nuts bolt The Constitution together as the loose screws of the Left fall out!)
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