Posted on 04/18/2012 5:02:41 AM PDT by Haiku Guy
One chunk of the Republican electorate has proved an incredibly fickle voting bloc, denying party unity while the nominating process dragged on. It’s the same group of conservative voters that went from candidate to candidate, looking for an alternative to former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Now, out of options, it seems that those who identify themselves as tea party supporters are finally coming home to the presumptive nominee.
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Exactly right. If conservatives in general are similar to those on this forum, they (and we) never united behind a candidate.
Every single one was nitpicked and/or destroyed.
If we’d stuck with Rick Perry, he would be the candidate and we would have a conservative, attractive, likeable guy who could win easily.
But no, he couldn’t debate, he this, he that.
Now we have our last choice and it’s basically our fault.
I’ll be voting for Romney (while wishing it were Perry)
If you do not vote for the only candidate with a chance of beating Obama then you are the problem, not the solution.
Nobody actually expects Romney to vigorously push for Conservative ideas do they?
Seriesly. Nobody's that stoopit.
The 2010 Tea Party movement was real and shows that when Americans feel they have been played for fools that they can turn the establishment upside down.
If 2010 had not happened, then yes my statements would be delusional. But it did happen so my statements are plausible. Whether or not they are likely now cannot be judged now because the emotional passions of 2010 are not on the radar. The question is whether those passions can be inflamed by finding out Obama’s forger has been arrested or a warrant is issued to arrest the forger. I think there is a chance this will happen and I think if it inflames the voters, then the entire political establishment will be on the hot seat.
Sorry you feel that way.
Vaya con Dios.
As I stated in my previous post, it was conservatives who failed to unite and we can’t blame it on the Republican party or the media.
A lot of us piddled around expecting to vote for Palin.
When she opted not to run, some ran blindly (and stupidly) to a likeable but totally unqualified and fatally flawed Herman Cain.
From then on we kicked one after another under the bus on some petty stuff we didn’t like about this one or that one.
Don’t blame the Republican Party and don’t blame the media.
We made a huge mistake, but let’s not make another one by voting for Obama.
Every day Obama’s behavior becomes more erratic and egregious and his planned tyranny more obvious.
If you can’t bring yourself to vote for the Republican candidate because you don’t ‘like’ him, and you think you are teaching someone a ‘lesson,’ you are so foolish I can’t even find words to describe it.
No, it isn’t. Only a vote for Obama is the same thing as a vote for Obama.
And praytell which candidate would that be?
Would that be the guy with virtually the same record as Obama and the guy whom the propaganda State-Run Media AND Obama CHOSE as the nominee to run against???
I'm already sick to death of this shill-meme being vomited forth as some kind of wisdom.
We 'aint voting for either of these creeps. We're voting for a Conservative, PERIOD.
At least I'll have a clean conscience before God with my principles intact.
I agree. The thing to do in this cycle is to win as many seats as possible in Congress, to stop the liberal legislation that either Romney or Obama would be all too happy to sign.
In my opinion, one important difference between Romney and Obama is that I don't see Romney abusing his executive authority to advance the liberal agenda the same way Obama has.
Agreed. Thank God there are a few of us with level heads!
Yeah. You're probably right.
Deroy Murdock: As governor, Romney said I do to gay marriage at least 189 times
Who voted in all those primaries?
You don't agree with the results, but who voted.
In PA our election is next week and I'm voting for Newt, for President, Evan Feinberg for 18th district congress critter and the most conservative guy that I can find for Senate and right now that looks like Smith, but I'm not 100% on him yet.
If Newt doesn't make it, does that mean that in November, I stay home and pout or come back out and write in a sure loser?
Nope, not me, I'm a TEA party guy and have been since the beginning, but I won't sit and bitch about how those bastard elites have screwed me out of my candidate and then cut off my nose.
I will/am campaign against liberals in the primary and election. Mitt is a liberal.
I've already made calls and personal visits to campaign against him.
/johnny
This isn't a Republican site. It's a conservative site, and Republicans aren't conservatives.
If they were, they wouldn't have used their dirty trick machines and rule-changing BS to support the liberal Romney.
Call me stupid if you like. I still will not vote for ANY liberal. Ever. Including Romney.
/johnny
People like you amaze me in your kindergarten view of the political world.
> “If you can’t bring yourself to vote for the Republican candidate because you don’t ‘like’ him, and you think you are teaching someone a ‘lesson,’ you are so foolish I can’t even find words to describe it.”
You see the problem is you think Romney is a Republican and is better because of that than Obama. But Romney is a democrat that is taking over the republican party because he is a really good liar, a master at it.
He can look you in the eye and as Rush Limbaugh says “he sounds just like us”. But he is not, he is just another Obama.
Romney will appoint liberal judges, he will advance the gay rights movement, he will keep the tax provisions of Obamacare, he will sign on to gun control and he will allow the big NY banks to continue to dominate in areas of the economy and politics.
So you are given the false choice of voting for Romney or as your kind says to not vote which would be construed as a vote for Obama. It’s a false choice because you make people feel that no matter what they do they will be faced with evil so they must give in and support evil.
You are in effect saying to people “You must support evil to stop evil”.
And then you get flustered when people show you a figurative middle finger salute.
We conservatives are going to be here in 2016 as well as before and after 2016. We will be more powerful then because Obama will be done or have been impeached.
But Romney threatens to take over our party and if he gets the nod the reality will be that we have no party. Therefore, Romney must go so that we can have our party back to fight with later.
I thank God for that as well. Thanx, bro.
This.
Fine, stupid is as stupid does and you guys are stupid.
Enjoy more of obami’s marxism.
And we keep missing the point of why conservatives lost. This is not Romney’s fault or the GOP-E. Do we expect them to lie down and have a candidate they don’t support?
The fault comes back to Sarah Palin, DeMint, and other GOP conservative leaders. None made sure a viable, top-tier candidate entered the race nor did they endorse early to push one of the second-tier candidates to the top. The GOP Tea Party Caucus in the House did not come together early on in the primaries and endorse a candidate.
The Tea Party’s grass roots nature is also it’s downfall. We needed an early, clear winner to emerge and no organization or group had the will to gather together with others, to network, and to make some small compromises to make that happen. The grooming for that should have happened 3 years ago.
Instead we waited with baited breath to see what Sarah would and she decided not to run at practically the last minute. I am a Palin supporter, but most of the blame for a Romney nomination falls on her. She waited too long to say she’s not getting in, and she never pulled out all the stops and rallied people in support of a candidate. She is the only one who individually could have made that happen and she refused to use that power.
I like Gingrich much better than Romney, but unless major conservative leaders rally around him now, there is no chance of him winning the GOP nomination. Even then it is only a slight chance.
If conservatives take control of the House leadership positions and the GOP gets control of the Senate, the country will be destroyed. If the change in House and Senate happens, Romney can be forced into submission. Obama cannot. He will continue to do his executive orders and unconstitutional actions that are miles away from Romney’s good old boy liberalism. The one redeeming thing about Romney is that he caves to pressure while Obama doesn’t. Barring a miracle with Gingrich, we need to have Romney in the White House and have a Congress that can exert this pressure on him.
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