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.
I took the pledge in 1972.
I’ve voted for the GOP nominee in 10 straight national elections.
My unrequited political prayer is that some way, somehow, the Democratic Party will commit suicide before the Republicans do.
I mean, if the Soviet Union can collapse, a Conservative can always dream.
I will vote for a syphilitic camel over Obama.
Paul was my representative in Texas. He was glad to accept the support of the local racists.
Romney is a Mormon, a religion that was begun by a professional fraud, and furthered through perversion.
Yet I would vote for either of them over Obama.
I don’t think the Republican party has clue one, how close it is to waking up one morning, and not having anyone registered in it’s ranks any longer.
Nationwide registration numbers look quite anemic from what I understand.
Don’t you think some of that has been taking place for the last thirty years. We do have Republican pole watchers out there. They must be protecting us somewhat, unless I’m way off base.
Reagan absolutely pounded Carter. A strong guy with a great message would have pounded Gore, Kerry, and Obama too IMO.
We’re not contrasting our guys with the likes of Obama. We run as close to a clone against him as we can, then wonder why the electorate votes for the ‘real’ Democrat.
If the RNC would spend it’s time on education, and the party as a whole followed Conservative ideals, we would be able to contrast wholesome values better against Democrat values.
Here we are poised to have Romney as the nominee. I know it’s not set yet, but this is the direction it looks like we’re headed in.
How do we contrast him with Obama? We have the worst president in our history, and our possible champion for November 2012, is his clone.
I don’t personally think Romney is as bad as Obama, but he is so bad that his candidacy will muddy the waters, and make it harder for folks to make a clean decision.
Frankly, I wish the Republican party would set a minimum level of standards, and if candidates didn’t measure up, they would boot them from the party.
We would be stronger for it in short order.
Wash, rinse, repeat with the corrupt GOP establishment then.
You can do that, that is your choice.
But, I will not be getting on the Comet heading into the Winston tunnel.
I think you said a nice sentiment, but from what I have seen since 1996, I doubt we have good poll watching
While Dole was a clown, CLINTON was our worst president and enough people knew of his treason and were furious at him, yet he wins with a 60% margin??
Gore/LIEberman coming so close in 2000?
If Kerry wasn’t so pompous, I think it would have been closer, but in 2008, I just dont see all the millions of ballots that we KNEW were fraudulent and also commented on here so much then as being dismissable
we are in grave danger from voter fraud, and I am not happy at a national ID card, which if honest is the only cure
‘I love my country more than I hate Romney’
Right on!
If you love your country, kick out the usurper soetoro/soebarkah/barry/bounel/shabbazz/obama no matter what!
Not voing against the usurper means you want to keep obamacare, union thugs, acorn, voter fraud, czars, socialists/marxists, islamofascists, unprecedented deficits/debts, depressed economy, no future for your children and their children, hyprocracies and lies, hyper inflation........
Got it?
With a conservative congress, a vigilant people, even a Rino will be steered in the right direction.
One step at a time!
I've been down this road before. In 1992. I supported Perot. I was wrong. I won't get fooled again.
Agree and AMEN. Before I'd ever vote for a third party candidate again we'd have to have runoff elections in place for public offices. Basically, anybody and everybody in the building in those pubby debates including the janitor and the guard dog would be a gigantic improvement over Barrack Obama.
I am not for Romney, but
Unlike soetoro/sobarkah/barry/bounnel/shabbazz/barrry/obama/whatever, Romney and all the other R candidates are Americans who love America! There will be no czars, less union thugs, no world-wide apologies, lower debts/deficits, less spending.......
A conservative congress and a vigilant people will be better positioned to steer even a Rino in the right path.
With 4 more years of the anti-constitution, anti-American usurper BHO/aka, USA will be finsished!
We are already mightily squashed now by obumo and his thugs/agencies/media/czars/leftists judges and courts! 4 more years? Get real!
Remember - it is NOT just obumo, it is the thugs he empowers and emboldens to destroy us!
All the grass root efforts on earth will not be able to survive the coming total destruction by the anti-American, anti-constituion, evil usurper!
OMG - obama Must Go!
All you ‘conservatives’, why aren’t you supporting true conservatives such as John Dummett, Leah Lax, Cody Judy or Laurie Roth? (Do you even know who they are?) Why aren’t you standing up for article 2?
Because you are realistic enough to know that your only hope is by electing the best available R candidate? then by kicking obumo out ANYWAY YOU CAN?
4 more years of obumo, there will be no more USA, let alone a new conservative party!
Very True, we have a scenario -
1. lose the WH to obumo and thugs but gain the senate and keep the House - the GOP elites will still win over consevatives because we ‘need to stay the course’ so we ‘don’t lose in 2014’.
2. win WH and Senate and keep House - GOP in control, destruction will SLOW DOWN thus providing the conservatives a better environment in which to rise up against the elites.
What is your choice?
Well said! If all else fails, pro-business’ is definitely better than anti-business!
Keep the usurper soetoro/barry/soebarkah/obama/Shabbazz/bounel and all businesses suffer - all or most of your hard-earned money will be redistributed/robbed by the anti-business big gvt that is obumo and gang!
Why?
Because they screw us EVERY four years -- and get away with it.
Believe me, in their elite presidential suites chomping on cigars, they look at us in flyover country with DISDAIN, and they really do say things like "Aw, they will piss and moan for several months but in the end they will pull the lever (for us GOP moderates, in November). Where in the hell do they have to go? Especially after we have thrown them some red meat by placing [so and so] on the ticket for Veep as a more or less powerless figurehead.
It may be time to not only teach them a lessson, but force a massive realignment in the political system of the USA and, YES, WELL, HELL YES, in fact, "THERE IS SOME OTHER PLACE FOR US TO GO." Sorry, you took us for granted too many damned times. Fend for your your moderate/centrists asses without us. And if I hear ONE MORE 16-year-old snot-nosed Young Republican/Republican Firster getting high school credit for a campaign, whine, "but, but, but....you'll give the election to Obama! You'll give the election to Obama!" I might smash a computer screen. Sick of this crap. It is THEY who will be giving the election to Obama, for how could they ever expect to capitivate and mobilize and motivate the true Conservative base with the prospect of going into creeping socialism, judicial tyranny, gun grabs, open borders, gays in the military and continued national bankruptcy, only at a somewhat retarded rate, under the banner of the GOP Wing of the Establishment Party.
I would be more than happy to see ANY of these candidates sitting in the Oval Office as POTUS!
There is no good reason why Romney will get the nomination and we need to do all we can to promote a better choice. I like Newt a lot and his zero capitol gains tax and 12.5% corp tax will bring us right out of the ecomonic mess we are in.
Two considerably better, in fact would be like scoops of vanilla on top a delicious cake. Two others only somewhat better. In my opinion. One of the four would have to be watched like a HAWK and stood up against, by a Conservative GOP House, if and when he saw the need to "reach over to the other side in a fundamental sellout...which I could forsee."
Grow up, kid. This is a political discussion.
Have a Merry Christmas.
Great post. Please save it and re-post often, over the coming months.
That dynamic may have played into it. I certainly can’t say for certain that it didn’t. We do know that Chicago based action group was registering anything that moved eligible or not. It wouldn’t be that much out of line for them to have done other things to defraud the system, and that’s not the only region where they or someone else could have done it. I acknowledge that.
What I focus on, and perhaps too much so, is the more mundane typical campaign style of the Republican and Democrat candidates since Reagan.
In each election, the Democrat was feeding red meat to their base. In each election, the Republican was feeding warmed over spam to their base.
I’ll bet you can remember what Reagan was selling even to this day. Do you remember what Bush the elder was selling in 1992. Do you remember what Dole was selling in 1996? Do you remember what Bush was selling in either of his campaigns? Do you remember what McCain was selling even in 2008?
Maybe I’m full of hot air, but it’s my take that during the last thirty years, the Democrats have been selling a clear vision to their base. In our efforts, we have acted as if our base already knew what we supported, and we didn’t have to explain it.
We put these lackluster milk-toasts out there, and can’t understand why the public doesn’t see them as their leading men.
Bush the elder ran almost no campaign at all. Bob Dull actually fell off the platform. Bush’s message in 2000 was muddled. In 2004, I think he was re-elected based on 09/11 and the war in Iraq. In 2008, if it hadn’t been for Sarah Palin, McCain pulls in 30% of the vote. How man times did you read here, I’m voting for Palin, not McCain. It was probably about as many times as you read I’m will never vote for the likes of McCain. Man, if a guy can’t win us over, how can we expect others to vote for him?
Is it Democrat dirty tricks, or our lackluster sub-par leading candidates? I’m leaning towards milk-toast at the moment. I do think you have a good alternative reason. Perhaps we’re going to meet somewhere in the middle.
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