RINO or Conservative: Who Scores Best?

1/15/08 | Dwar

[Designer]

"..if we are forced to choose one of the RINOs.."

The really GOOD news is that we don't have to nominate a RINO.

[Doe Eyes]

It would be nice if Cutting Government Spending and Balancing the Federal Budget were included in the issues conservatives were evaluated on.

[teenyelliott]

And it’s voters like you who gave us the Clintons in the first place.

[Emperor Palpatine]

Huck is aptly named for huckster, and the only difference between McCain and Hillary is that Hillary has bigger cajones.

[Antoninus]

Trouble with this post is that you don't rate Honesty or Believability. In these areas, Flip Romney scores a 0 or a 1 at best.

And your rankings of Flip on the Pro-Life and homo issues are WAY too high. He should get no better than a 5 on Life (who knows if his conversion is real), and a 1 on the homo question.

[Dixie Yooper]

You have helped me with my decision if it were today. On My two BIGGEST ISSUES, Electability and The War On Terror, Romney looks pretty good considering that I have never really thought much about him until this thread. I Don’t care how you dress up McCain, he’s not electable, mainly because he is too much like the Democrats he would be running against. Like Huck, McCain is being pushed on us by the media because they know that neither of them can win the election.

[DWar]

One has the option in politics of working within a party that has a reasonable chance of success and attempting to change it. Or of standing on the outside of the entire process and screaming about the lack of purity therein.

[Oberon]

I think Fred Thompson more than exceeds your criteria.

Does he match up with all four of those points? Abortion, Constitutional freedoms (especially the 2nd Amendment), smaller government, and secure borders?

If so, I'll vote for him.

[DWar]

Makes you fearful for the future of the nation, doesn’t it.

[jellybean]

I have to ask what your rating on Social Security is based on? Everyone gets a 10 except Fred who is the only one with a plan to save social security.

13- Soc Sec 	Urgent 	Devastating 	Unchangeable 	10 	10 	10 	10 	10 	8

[Bear_Slayer]

To support a sure loser third party candidate or to not vote just gives the Democrats the presidency and all of the rest of the liberal agenda.

Respect is earned. So are votes

As conservatives we should all understand basic economics.

Economics is not about balancing your checkbook or managing the financials of a business.

Economics is about supply and demand.

The GOP supplies what republicans are willing to buy, because republicans are afraid to shop somewhere else. The GOP has a monopoly on the conservative market.

However, if conservatives were willing to hold-out or shop elsewhere, the GOP would be forced to change their product to regain that market share.

Nothing exists now to force that market change and until conservatives get over their fear of DEMs in charge, nothing will ever change.

WIll the DEMS ruin the country?

SHORT TERM? The answer is yes. However, people will only bear so much tyrrany and eventually shuck off (shuck? can I use that word w/o being racist?) their yokes and re-institute real liberty.

Stop being afraid. Our country was formed by men, such as us, in times less drastic. Surely we are qualified to regain it if we simply quit ourselves like men!

[AuntB]

“No, lets put him in the coming GOP cabinet instead.”

Well, Badeye, if you have your way it most certainly will not be a ‘conservative’ cabinet, will it? Go GOP!

INSULT POLITICS THE MAINSTAY OF THE KENNEDY WING OF THE GOP.

[ArrogantBustard]

Unfortunately, the elected candidate will never get to know that you held your nose and puked while voting...

I got called all manner of nasty names for saying that.

[DWar]

If so it wasn’t intentional. As an evangelical Chrisian, I truly appreciated Huckabee’s social conservatism.

Please let me know about specific issues where you think I’ve misjudged him and I’ll revisit the research ad make adjustments to the matrix if I agree with you.

[jellybean]

Have you looked at his White Papers?

[penowa]

"If Fred Thompson or Duncan Hunter don't "make it" and it becomes necessary to vote while holding my nose and puking, I tried to devise a rational way to determine which RINO (Republican In Name Only) would make me the least ill."

That's the premise set forth by the poster, not me.

[umgud]

I’m still torn..........

Romney, having been guv of MA, cetainly endorsed left leaning issues. He’s promised to stop.

McCain makes no oppologies for his past actions including his convoluted definition of amnesty, which he says he will carry forward after securing the border. Rudy also would like a legaliztion for a large number of illegals.

Rudy may be harder on the terrorists than McCain who won’t waterboard them. Rudy admits to being a gun grabber, but swears he’ll stop if we just elect him.

Huckabee denies his unconservative positions while guv of AR and still has sympathies toward illegals.

All these fellers are flawed, some admit it and promise to change. Some are either unoppologetic, won’t admit their flaws or just plain plan to go forward with things that we conservatives don’t like.

Based on this, I’d rather have a flawed candidate who promises to change his ways.

I haven’t made my mind up yet on Romney, but he seems the least offensive based on what he promises.

McCain or Rudy will give us millions of new dem voters formerly from Mexico.

[Badeye]

‘Well, Badeye, if you have your way it most certainly will not be a ‘conservative’ cabinet, will it? ‘

Huh? I thought Duncan Hunter was a Conservatives Conservative.

How did I get that wrong?

[stuartcr]

Readers must like DWar better than you, I guess.

[Mogollon]

Excellent! Agree 100%.