Posted on 12/12/2009 8:24:36 PM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner
The Conan visit was fun – the best part was that we had Wounded Warriors with us in the audience. I can’t express how proud I am of their courage and patriotism.
I’m extremely happy that Laura Ingraham had the great idea to put the simple coat from the cover of my book to good use. It’s being auctioned to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project and the Fisher House. Laura pulled it all together with a live auction that continues through December 18th. Click here to see the auction and God Bless the U.S.A!
- Sarah Palin
And that will carry her all the way the White House, God willing. This must be sending to the Obamaites to their bunkers. He, on the other hand, does not have this. It is wearing through, it took less than a year. They do not like this one BIT--despite their brave spin that Sarah Palin is no big deal'. They are wetting their pants in response; they can see their whole house of socialist cards come crashing down.
I hope you don’t really believe that, because there’s no such thing. A national party’s purpose is to financially support the party’s nominees and, sadly to support the party’s incumbents.
The “party” didn’t give us the national candidates you listed. The primaries gave us those candidates. The candidates themselves gave us the lousy selection. For one reason or another, good men/women either didn’t catch-on with the early primary voters and other good men/women, didn’t choose to run.
‘96 was a prime example of a golden opportunity lost. Clinton was on the ropes. Phil Graham was an early declarer and everyone knew he didn’t have a good chance, but he named McCain his campaign manager, which negated McCain from running and eventually when all was said and done, Dole was the nominee by default. McCain’s best year was likely ‘96, but he waited like a good soldier until 2000, only to get bested by Texas governor Bush.
Pat Buchanan won the NH primary and Dole came in second. I think that scared voters in subsequent primaries to go for safe, old Dole. I can’t recall the names of anyone else in the race. Maybe you can?
Ronald Reagan earned his way to the nomination by winning primaries, just like every other eventual nominee.
Romney had the organization on the ground in Iowa, and plenty of his own money, yet Huckabee swept in and won the Iowa caucus. McCain knew the people in NH and he managed a come back win.
My choice, Fred Thompson, never caught on, and the polling front runner Rudy Guiliani, didn’t win a primary either.
After NH, SC and Florida, it was McCain’s. Everyone else had dropped out, save for Huckabee and that bring to mind my beef: The early state’s largely do the choosing, because the fields is always widdled. Money runs out.
The early primary states do not include states in West, mid-West or North-west. I think we need closed primaries and I think all states should go to the polls within a 2 week span, so that all the candidates can remain viable.
Ping!
Please go spout your nonsense and crap somewhere else.
George W Bush is NO left winger.
He made some mistakes but far less than Ronald Reagan who actually GAVE amnesty to millions of criminals and walked out of Beirut
GWB stuck to his guns with terrorism. With Supreme Court nominees he gave us (after all was said and done) 2 of the MOST conservative SC Justices ever. Reagan gave us Sandra Day
Yes, Bush messed up on Prescription Drug. So mark one black spot against him.
However, in category after category of what defines conservatism from:
1. Tax Cuts
2. Pro Life
3. Constitutionalist
4. Pro Military
5. Pro Country
6. CHRISTIAN (Practicising an ACTIVE belief in God.. could be JEW/SIKH/BUDDHIST.. my point is he was active in his faith of God)
Bush rocked. So did Reagan. Not trying to get into a pis*ing match. But stop the crap that Bush was some leftist.
Either you are a DU troll or monumentally stupid. If you are the former, then go away. If you are the latter, then I will build a gigantic statue of you in La La land along with the other stupids.
Thanks!
Thanks for saying what needs to be said.
GWB will be treated with great respect in the future when people figure out what a great job he did gien the restrictions on him by the media, Congress and the sheeple. Yet, in the most important part of his presidency, he did not shirk. He kept our country safe.
Yeah; I think you do have to register. I refuse to join Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. — even for Sarah. I wish she’d just have a normal blog; Facebook is so high school.
Facebook is a great tool to get your message out. Texting is so “high school” but it is catching on with the older group as well....however, not me.
1. Tax cuts which expire. (the greatest WTF move in US political history)
2. Constitutionalist? Have you ever read Harriet Miers’ work? It’s purely “the constitutional says whatever I want it to.” The Republican masses forced him to replace her with a real conservative. In what universe is McCain-Feingold constitutionalist?
3. I am in no position to judge the validity of his religion; the legislation he passes is what’s relevant. The Left sincerely believes that Obama is more a Christian than Reagan was, and God knows Carter presented himself as very much a religious man.
4. I will grant you he is pro-life and pro-military, which is why I voted for him twice. He was certainly far better than his alternatives, Gore and Kerry.
But if conservatism is to be judged by the politics of George W Bush, it is only a matter of time before the entire world is one gigantic Socialist dystopia. Not because that is what Bush desires to have (as the tin-foil hat 3rd-partiers may imagine), but because Bush’s ideology cannot withstand such a system. Conservatives must insist, “No More Rockefeller Republicans!”
But on domestic policy especially, he expanded government and spent like crazy.
We can't afford anymore of those types of “conservatives”
btt
One thing I have on good authority regarding President Bush, specifically for the Prescription Drug issue but also on several other issues, is that he gave this to the Dems in exchange for continued support of the war (legislative support). There were a lot of behind the scenes negotiations including several threats to completely cut off funding right in the middle of the war and to (paraphrased quote from a Dem senator, I can’t verify if completely true) “leave them high and dry and put it all on the President’s back”.
“Texting is so “high school” but it is catching on with the older group.”
I think texting is a useful tool in certain situations, but we won’t pay for it, so only use in emergencies on ad hoc basis. I can’t believe parents will shell out that money for their kids to be texting 24/7.
When the party backs and funds one candidate over another in the primaries, yes thats giving us a candidate. When we have open elections being steered by Soros and ACORN, thats not “our choice” any longer.
That’s not the role of the national party except when the candidate is an incumbent.
Both the House and the Senate have their own campaign coffers they distribute to candidates they endorse and I donate to the House conservatives through Georgia Representative Price’s group.
You might be speaking to the backing Crist received from the party over Marco Rubio. I’m not sure where that came from or if money was given to Crist in addition to an endorsement.
Good post.
I sure do miss Dubya.
Texting is great for when you want to chat while driving but you don’t want to keep holding your phone up to your ear.
Not just incumbants although I don’t like that either. They should not back anyone in the primaries unless the other candidate is an obvious plant by the other party.
An incumbants shouldn’t need the help if they have been doing their job.
I guess I don’t like the idiots who run the GOP into the ground.
I don’t like open primaries that allow cross over voters.
Yeah that's what I loved about her from the beginning...she is not an F-ing narcissistic elitest snob like what we are so use to in politics...
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