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1 posted on 02/16/2007 8:30:46 AM PST by meg88
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To: meg88

Excellent column.

TY for posting it.


2 posted on 02/16/2007 8:33:28 AM PST by MplsSteve
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seeking to find the perfect Republican presidential candidate

That's BS. We are just trying to find some that don't suck. :)
3 posted on 02/16/2007 8:33:58 AM PST by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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LOL....gee, what many have been saying for awhile on FR. I can't wait for Michael now to be labeled a RINO, traitor and POS....


4 posted on 02/16/2007 8:34:53 AM PST by NorCalRepub
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To: Peach; Corin Stormhands; Howlin; Mo1; PhiKapMom; Txsleuth

BOOKMARKED

Michael Reagan is correct.


5 posted on 02/16/2007 8:35:32 AM PST by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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Dutch should come back from the dead and slap the hell out of his idiot son.


6 posted on 02/16/2007 8:35:42 AM PST by Armedanddangerous (The Coldest Blood Runs through my veins..you know my name..)
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One word---Newt.


7 posted on 02/16/2007 8:35:47 AM PST by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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There's no perfect human being. There's no perfect conservative either. Ronald Reagan did his share of things that when you look back on them, offend conservatives. If no one is allowed to change, we will never get a good candidate. Any candidate the GOP nominates WILL come with baggage. The Drive Bys/MSM will see to it that they do. This insistence on litmus tests is both foolish and destructive. We're never going to get a Reagan conservative because Reagan bless him, was one of a kind of human being and no one else will ever quite be like him.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

8 posted on 02/16/2007 8:36:11 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Ronald Reagan had one litmus test he applied to candidates. Were they Republicans? If they were he backed them all the way. He would let the party choose the candidate and he would support and vote for the candidate. He didn’t go sniffing around trying to find some flaw in their character or their past.

That's right. It's the voters decision to make. This is just another attempt to force a decision not made by the voters down our throats.


9 posted on 02/16/2007 8:36:21 AM PST by freedomfiter2 (Duncan Hunter: pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, pro-border control, pro-family)
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I agree with the article. It's absolutely ABSURD that so many conservatives and Freepers are 'one issue' voters.

It's outrageous that many will not support Rudy because of just one single particular issue---

WHEN THERE ARE JUST SO DARN MANY OTHER ISSUES TO JUSTIFY OPPOSING HIM!

10 posted on 02/16/2007 8:36:26 AM PST by stockstrader ("Where government advances--and it advances relentlessly--freedom is imperiled"-Janice Rogers Brown)
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About Giuliani: "but because he backs abortion and some form of gun control"

Some form of gun control? How about complete gun control, except for his fellow elitist cronies, coupled with an unprecedented assault on the 2nd Amendment via legal decimation of lawful businesses.


15 posted on 02/16/2007 8:37:51 AM PST by ExpatGator (Extending logic since 1961.)
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So many republicans are so convinced that if their values aren't represented, they are going to stay home or vote 3rd party. If people are going to be "1 issue" voters, for crying out loud, let that issue be "THE WAR AGAINST TERRORISM IN AMERICA". I believe that my values are not changeable - I believe in Pro-Life, the 2nd amendment, against embryonic stem cell research (but for adult cells like ambilical cord research), etc. I also believe that we have put the gov't in charge of these values and they need to be local and people oriented. We talk about reduced government control and yet complain about a candidate that won't do this or that about a gov't controlled agenda to wipe out something we're against. Let's stick to the basics and get together on someone who will lead us against terrorism, crime and taxes on the US citizens.


16 posted on 02/16/2007 8:39:01 AM PST by princess leah
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Another Rudy shill? Good thing his show is heard by about 9 people.


17 posted on 02/16/2007 8:39:05 AM PST by pissant
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The Dim-O'Crats support their man.

Joe Lieberman?
19 posted on 02/16/2007 8:39:27 AM PST by askrenr (Slightly to the right of Attila the Hun.)
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Here's a brilliant idea. Let's let the media decide who we should vote for. Obviously the media's vast integrity stands for something.

Clearly they only want an honest government regardless of party. They only want a good clean race and are promoting the best candidates.

(yeah, it's what you think it is)


20 posted on 02/16/2007 8:39:45 AM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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This is madness

Yes, it is. As Reagan the elder liked to say, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Very good piece.

21 posted on 02/16/2007 8:40:07 AM PST by KellyAdmirer
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Duncan Hunter -- proven by his actions to be a true conservative.
22 posted on 02/16/2007 8:40:10 AM PST by Trunk 71-74 (A god that needs man to carry out his dirty work is impotent!)
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I guess Michael forgot his dad ran against a sitting Republican president.


24 posted on 02/16/2007 8:40:19 AM PST by garv (Conservatism in '08 www.draftnewt.org)
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Hear! Hear!

But many won't hear, preferring continued self-flaggelation and an encompassing death wish in seeking their Utopian candidate.

Does anyone remember Ronald Reagan's Eleventh Commandment???
27 posted on 02/16/2007 8:40:48 AM PST by mtntop3 (u)
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Excuse me Michael for wanting all the dirty laundry revealed BEFORE the nomination is given. All we need is for Hillary's secret police dropping a scandal bomb the week before the election and the Republicans not having the MSM on their side to offer a response.


29 posted on 02/16/2007 8:41:40 AM PST by LetsRok
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The democrats don't have litmus tests.

Mike, Mike, Mike...

Where have you been? Stand up for your dad. The Rats are died-in-the-wool LIBERALS. First, foremost, and ALWAYS. They have "An America is Always Wrong" Foreign Policy Litmus test. They tried to drum Lieberman out of their party.

And they also manifestly DO have an explicit social litmus test on abortion. They are for "the right of the women (note not mother) to choose" infanticide in all but name.

How many truly Pro-Life candidates are there amongst the Rats who waffled and postured on the issue? How many Rats would openly declare themselves against the abomination of Roe v. Wade?

None that I recall.

35 posted on 02/16/2007 8:42:45 AM PST by Paul Ross (Ronald Reagan-1987:"We are always willing to be trade partners but never trade patsies.")
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