Posted on 05/03/2010 2:46:56 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a good test for the spines of today’s Republican Party. One Republican has already passed the test, and as usual, that’s Sarah Palin. The signs from the others are not encouraging.
A day after pundit Charles Krauthammer declared “drill, baby, drill” to be history in light of the spill, and two days after the Obama Administration halted all domestic drilling (gee, what a surprise), Palin came out and invoked her moral authority as an Alaskan who lived through the Exxon Valdez spill.
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He doesn’t need to. He’s not running (yet), unlike Palin and Romney and T-Paw and Huck and Newt. He has no need to re-iterate his beliefs in every circumstance because they don’t change with the wind, unlike those mentioned.
Sure, lets all vote for someone that will win 10% of the general vote. He might get 12% if he flip flops on drilling.
Unless you are in the national spotlight, or in or running for political office, you can take positions that one or two supporters like you feel good about without flak. Or even anybody caring about it.
Get real if you want to see change and a conservative government.
Hunter has taken rock-ribbed conservative positions his entire career. Considering he was building border fences, trying to get rid of the ‘anchor baby’ BS, funding detention facilities for illegals, promoting a strict policy of deportations for illegals, warning about China’s malfeasance, fighting to keep Gitmo open, fighting for greater use of our own natural resources including oil, fighting off the lunatics at the EPA, and trying to eliminate entire federal departments for his entire 28 year career in politics - and having to beat back the dipsh*ts in his own party as well as the dems the entire time, Hunter has the credentials AND the temperament AND the backbone to lead this nation.
If you want some other pansy, that’s your problem, I guess.
“If you want some other pansy, that’s your problem, I guess.”
Must be pretty frustrating sticking with unelectable candidates (for president). What’s the point? Just to stay frustrated?
I’d prefer someone with both the balls and capability of being elected that in general reflects the views I have, not someone unelectable, nor someone of course that I generally disgree with.
Nobody is going to vote for you, it’s easy having principles if it doesn’t matter. And we are talking drilling, so at this point in time, Hunter is the pansy.
That’s what the RINOs here kept telling me about Rudy and McCain and Mitt, as they came up with excuses not to support a genuine Reaganite for the presidency. Funny, I recall telling them a RINO would get crushed by the democrat. And one did.
So when was a principled conservative last elected in the US? When did one even get close?
The only way to set this country on a true conservative course is to elect someone that you trust is going to govern on the right/conservative side, not someone that is dogmatic and plays to a few supporters (they won’t be elected), nor of course a RINO. And that was Reagan.
And that is how you progress “real” change.
Reagan is the answer to your question. So let’s try it again. The country is starving for such principled leadership after the last 22 years of drift.
“That’s what the RINOs here kept telling me about Rudy and McCain and Mitt, as they came up with excuses not to support a genuine Reaganite for the presidency. Funny, I recall telling them a RINO would get crushed by the democrat. And one did.”
Well true conservatives did not support these people because they believed they were principled or conservative.
Your points are all over the plave, or we seem to be saying the same thing in completely different ways?
Who will you vote for if it is Romney or Palin. Because sure as hell, that’s what it will be if Palin runs. In that sense you are currently indirectly supporting Romney.
Or is there someone else you think is a trusted conservative and a potential contender? If so, who. Enlighten me.
“Hunter advocated domestic drilling and extraction while Sarah was still in high school.”
that’s because he knows California has all the oil that we need!
Thank you for pointing out what an old fart Hunter is!
Hunter’s already irrelevant—Palin’s the one with the juice.
When every beach from Santa Barbara was covered with tar from natural seepage it wasn’t a disaster and no one cleaned it up!
The natural seepage that had an oil slick from the Channel Islands to Mexico year round didn’t harm a damn thing and only slowed due to the off shore drilling that currently exists.
Calling these spills a disaster is a modern day pile of bullshit!!!
I won’t vote for Romney. Period. Nor did I vote for McCain. My days of RINO voting ended long ago. If Palin wins the nomination, I’d vote for her as long as she clears up a couple of issues, which I believe she will. If all their is Palin versus Mitt, I’ll support Palin. But I don’t think she is going to run anyway.
I will be supporting the most upstanding conservative who runs. It will certainly be Hunter, if he runs. He hasn’t ruled it out. But it may be DeMint or Steve King or Inhofe if Hunter does not run. We’ll see.
But I’ll be damned if I will support the names that the MSM polling outfits are already bandying about such as Newt, Huck, Pawlenty, Perry, and Mitt. They are not going to tell us who our unelectable “electable” guys are again. Not this time.
Palin is about as exciting as Pawlenty in my view.
He started in Congress at the ripe old age of 33. He ain’t THAT old.
....and your views are about as exciting as viewing an elephant’s penis......
Try coronating who you want skippy. It ain’t gonna fly.
It is really unfortunate that you consider Pawlenty and Palin equally exciting.
One isn’t standing on principles, and is running as a RINO with some conservative posturing.
The other is relatively consistent and the most widely heard and BEST PR for conservative principles in the US we have had since Reagan.
“I won’t vote for Romney. Period. Nor did I vote for McCain. My days of RINO voting ended long ago. If Palin wins the nomination, I’d vote for her as long as she clears up a couple of issues, which I believe she will. If all their is Palin versus Mitt, I’ll support Palin. But I don’t think she is going to run anyway.
I will be supporting the most upstanding conservative who runs. It will certainly be Hunter, if he runs. He hasn’t ruled it out. But it may be DeMint or Steve King or Inhofe if Hunter does not run. We’ll see.
But I’ll be damned if I will support the names that the MSM polling outfits are already bandying about such as Newt, Huck, Pawlenty, Perry, and Mitt. They are not going to tell us who our unelectable “electable” guys are again. Not this time.”
Good. We’re on the same page. And you may be right that a better conservative candidate than Palin will emerge. But why keep making these attacks on her that at best are just playing into the RINOs hands? Pansy? Really?
Please word your title’s more carefully ....
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