Posted on 02/14/2007 7:28:54 PM PST by rodomila
I used to think Free Republic was a site with mostly rational people. I can't understand why so many of you waste your time with Duncan Hunter fantasies. Really folks hallucinogenic drugs are illegal and bad for you too. Stop taking them !!! No one outside of the Hunter family and this website thinks he has the remotest chance of being elected President. The Ronald Reagan comparisons are idiotic. Reagan had been a two term Governor of the largest state in the nation. He had been a national household name for over 40 years when he ran in 1980. God only made one Ronald Reagan. Duncan Hunter, although he is a solid Congressman, is no Ronald Reagan. I'm a conservative and I would love to have a viable conservative to work for this election cycle. But we don't have one. McCain is a no go for me. I loathe the treacherous man and believe he is non-compos mentis (loony). That leaves Mitt and Rudy. Newt's entry would hopefully pull the other two to the right (which would be great), and he might even win the nomination (which would probably be bad as I don't think he would win the general election).
That would leave us with Hildebeast or even worse B. Hussein Obama. Therefore, although I'm pro-life, pro-gun, and anti the mainstreaming of homosexuality, I am trying to decide between Rudy and Mitt.
For me the war on islamo nazi psychos is the top issue and Rudy gets my vote on that one.
Issue two is finding a candidate who won't give in to global warming hysteria because that is the lefties preferred path currently to world government and destruction of our economic system. I have to look into Mitt's position on this because Rudy made some rather discouraging comments on this recently (although they were not as bad as originally reported here.)
Next is immigration. We need someone to enforce our laws and get control of the borders. Mitt seems to the right of Rudy on this but both have a way to go. Maybe Tancredo in the race can generate some movement.
Taxes - we need to keep the Bush tax cuts at the very minimum and hopefully get a bolder overhaul of the system.
Judges - we want young Scalias.
Spending restraint - I'm hoping that both, as successful businessmen, will hold the line on spending better than GWB who was a total disappointment in this area.
Let's try to move the viable candidates closer to us on the issues rather than engage in self defeating fantasies of "ideal" candidates who no one has ever heard of and who have never run any larger organization than a Congressman's staff.
I havent seen him live....He'll be in my neck of the woods in April, I believe. I may just have to buy tickets. :o)
MM
Saw him year's ago, touring in Portland ,Oregon with Eric Johnson. Outstanding!
Your petty vanity attacking conservatives is exactly why I don't come here much anymore.
I'll stop in from time to time to check my messages, but FreeRepublic is polluted with recently with threads like yours.
And just so you know, I won't be responding to yours or any other post on this thread. I've better things to do than argue with anti-conservatives who only care about winning at any cost.
Go Joe. Satriani that is. There's a guy we should all agree on.
Hey I'm a Duncan Hunter supporter! You can talk to me!
Just ignore the RINOs and their SFB groupies, they are not only incapable of thinking 'outside the box', they've crapped in their box and don't even know they're sitting in it. LOL
Check my tagline, copy it if you like, and spread it around!
Who?
Watch the broad brush! I am a Hunter supporter who will gladly vote for Rudy in the general election cause like I said - I like him.
Do you know how irritating it is seeing that question posted a million times a day to people that want to see someone other than Rudy get the nomination?
Do you know how many people you turn off when you insult them with this kind of extortion?
I'm not going to answer your stupid question - because it's none of your business.
GO DUNCAN HUNTER!!!
See post 161. Its not about purity, its about keeping the GOP conservative period. It cannot veer any farther left.
Whoo! Now that would be a fun.
I'd vote for him - but he's too nice a guy. The Dems would walk all over him. ;)
I am sorry about that -- you're right, I should be more careful with my sweeping generalizations.
They sweetened his Kool-Aid with Nutra-Sweet and LSD.
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I'm honestly interested. We all have our breaking points. If McCain got the nomination, I wouldn't vote for him.
You sound a *bit* unreasonable with that post. Maybe just a slip?
I don't even want to speculate, and I'm not sure I even want to know.
So, are we drinking the red Kool-aid today, or the green?
He as sining in the polls, too. My local poll workers - dear old ladies from the neighborhood - would be shocked!
I guess my breaking point is seeing that question posed constantly to those of us who say we don't like Rudy.
I think it's too early to make people answer that question. I honestly have no idea what I would do under those circumstances. That's how much I don't like the idea of having to vote for a liberal.
Before you all gang up on me - I have always voted straight Republican, even though a few times it has sickened me to have to do so.
But don't force an answer out of me this time, not this early. It reeks of bullying, intimidating & threatening. You are not helping your cause by it.
"It reeks of bullying, intimidating & threatening."
Thats the ONLY way some know how to debate. Whats surprising is that its become so vicious here. Back your candidate with facts, dont make things personal, allow everyone to have their opinions etc. Seems like a pretty simple way to conduct yourself on a political forum, but not everyone buys into it.
MM
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