Enough is Enough (Vanity)

I have enjoyed participating in this forum for a long time because I enjoy supporting the conservative values people like JimRob, the Tea Party, and other decent Americans hold dear to. It's obvious we are in the fight of our lives for the long-term survival of this country. 2012 is clearly a major turning poing that could very well decide whether or not America survives.

Because of this importance, it is paramount we select the right candidate, the true conservative that will stand with us on all the conservative specturms (social, economic, domestic, and foreign policy). We absolutely cannot settle for another RINO or Democrat-lite candidate.

Many people here have been passionate in support of "their" candidate. Others have expressed gloom and doom with no hope of survival. Still others have taken the "my candidate or nothing" road. I want to address these.

Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain, Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum (listed alphabetically). All of these individuals have strong conservative credentials, and based on what I know, I would feel comfortable and empowered with supporting any of them in a general election against Obama. Nobody is ever perfect, but these four individuals have shown time and time again that they have the character and the heart to direct the country in the "right" direction.

That being said, I have become alarmed and disheartened at the amount of attacks generated against these folks by posters on this board claiming to be conservative. I have seen Michele Bachmann absolutely brutalized for one reason or another, being labeled a "phony, stalking-horse, RINO, inexperienced, unintelligent". I have also seen Herman Cain get hammered as an "Establishment guy, Anti-2nd Amendment, TARP loving RINO". And some people just can't let the whole Santorum/Spector thing rest. It's like many posters for whatever reason want to turn reality on its head.

I know a lot of people on this board like and support Bachmann, Cain, and Santorum. Personally, I really like Michele and her debate performance last night strengthened my opinion of her. As I said before, I could easily support any of them.

I think many of the Palin supporters feel the same way too (that is, if she decided not to jump in, they could support one of the three above without much reservations). And many of us supporting one of the three candidates listed above, could possibly move to the Palin camp if she got in without any problems.

However, there appears to be a strong minority of the Palin supporters on this forum that are trying hard to deliberately suck the life out of any other conservative candidate who might actually be just as able to carry the conservative banner in the 2012 election. The notion of these folks is that Palin is the only "true conservative" who can do no wrong and that any other candidate claiming to be a conservative in this race is simply a "wolf in sheeps clothing", and that we should simply wait for her entry into the race so that she can be rightfully "annoited". After all, they say, once she enters, the debates against the other conservatives will be useless because she is already obviously the winner!

As someone that believes in conservative values and independent thought, I reject this notion and take great offense to the attacks these people have thrown on Bachmann, Cain, and Santorum.

I like Sarah Palin a lot. I love how she has learned to torture the media and turn the game on them. It's clear she is the most charasmatic of all the conservative indiviudals listed. Beleive me, it would be awesome watching her win on Election Night just to see the reaction of the liberal media (I predict Olbermann would hang himself). She's more than capable to be President.

But Sarah Palin isn't the only conservative. And contrary to some people here, she isn't an object to be worshipped. This type of infatuation always leads to disappointment, because NO candidate is perfect.

I like Michelle Bachmann. And I like Herman Cain too. And if either of these individuals ever made it to the WH at the top of a ticket, then I believe are country would be in good shape.

So I'm asking nicely to please, stop the attacks on the other conservatives in this race. These people are not rivals, they're allies. Let them each state their case to the American people, then take a step back, and make a good, rationale, objective decision.

P.S. By "Conservative Candidates" I do not mean Romney or other RINOS (those folks are fair game)

Wouldn’t this basically be what every other x-office holder has to go through?

Then again, we were assured there wasn’t anything to worry about in these eMails.

Excuse after excuse after excuse after excuse after excuse after excuse...

Some of them are very valid. After a while it becomes clear not all of them are, and it also becomes clear there is a limit to how many I’m going to buy into.

No... sorry... that was not the argument. Certainly people could have been dims in the past and then changed their ideology... take Reagan for example... but working for jimmy carter is something that may be fine for a congressman or woman... but it is in my opinion... a disqualification from running for President as a republican. Take Dick Morris... he has changed his ideology from liberal to “moderate:... but I would never vote for him for any office. You want to know what you get when you have someone raised and reared on progressivism and then have somewhat of a change later in life... you get someone just like charles krauthammer and mitt romney. You also have progressives that cannot win on the dim ticket so they switch parties to run as a republican... take bloomberg and specter for two examples.

LLS

Oh and then there is this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2736424/posts?page=124#124

Chris Matthews Gushes On Real Time:“Real” Michele Bachmann Is “My Hero”..She’s Going All The Way

mediaite ^ | Friday June 17, 2011 | Glenn Davis

“Tea party favorite Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., has unveiled a plan for cutting $400 billion in federal spending that includes freezing Veterans Affairs Department health care spending and cutting veterans’ disability benefits.

Her proposed VA budget cuts would account for $4.5 billion of the savings included in the plan, posted on her official House of Representatives website.”

WTF?! Looks like that talk about her getting on the Romney bandwagon has some meat to it!! IIRC, no Romney has ever served in uniform since they came here, so what are veteran's benefits to them but a liability? Now taxes on trust funds, hedge funds and stock sales is another matter....

124 posted on Saturday, June 18, 2011 7:07:56 PM by 2ndDivisionVet (”We didn't lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.” ~Gen. Al Haig)
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I just stated the truth and you twisted it into something it wasn't. The thread linked above represents the kind of republican political ideology you get from someone that was a progressive dim that worked for carter and then has a "change of heart"!

LLS

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