Posted on 02/07/2008 4:18:27 PM PST by wagglebee
To all of you FRiberals out there, and that means all of you Rooty Rooters and Romneyites, it's your fault that the GOP is almost for certain stuck with McCain as the nominee. Now, I don't mean those of you who voted for Romney on Super Tuesday in an effort to split the vote, but the rest of you are culpable.
Conservative FReepers have spent the past year listening to the likes of you tell us that conservatives have "had their foot on the neck" of the GOP for too long. We were told that all that mattered was someone who was strong on terror. We were told that we needed someone with strong name recognition. We were told that generally the GOP decides whose "turn it is" and then nominates that person. We were told that we needed someone who can get independent votes. We were told that ANY Republican would nominate strict constructionists to the Federal bench. We were told that winning was all that mattered.
Now, some of you who said this were supporting Rooty, some of you were supporting Romney. But you were all pretty much saying the same thing: you preferred your candidates to a conservative. Some of you even got so upset with conservative FReepers that you ran away to start a RINO forum
Well, guess what? You were successful, though not in the way you thought you would be. It looks like it's McCain's "turn." But don't worry, McCain is a war hero and strong on terrorism (as long as we don't actually take terrorists into custody or try to keep them from crossing into the United States through open borders), he says he can get independents to vote for him, he says he will appoint constructionists, and most important, he has name recognition.
So, if your real agenda was to destroy the GOP, you very well may have succeeded. If your agenda was to create a "Democrat Light" party, you have almost certainly succeeded. If your agenda was to keep the Democrats out of the White House, you have probably failed.
But regardless of what your agenda was, you have harmed the United States of America -- I just hope it's not permanent.
No... that's whining. Really. :-)
FR is a tiny, tiny portion of the conservative base, which is in turn a small portion of the voting population. Out there in the real world, people voted. That's how it works. They may be misinformed... but the truth is that even votes by misinformed people count. Just like all the others.
Oops. goobered my italians there...
I imagine most’ll be clearing out of here soon. They did their damage and can go join the DU crowd they share so much with.
Well, there are plenty of people here who claim to be conservatives, and they have done a tremendous disservice to conservatism.
Good riddance! They can go be DUmmies, WAnkers or whatever the hell else they’d like, but no good can come from having them around here polluting a conservative forum.
I would add, to all the Romneyites, who defended his liberalism, claimed only he was “electable”, etc etc etc.
How is that electability looking now? When we promoted Hunter, a true conservative you laughed. When the RNC and the lame media effectively took him out, you didn’t care, you said he was unelectable. When the RNC and the lame media took Thompson out, you didn’t care, he wasn’t electable, had no fire in the belly, etc etc. Now that they have succeeded in taking Romney out (we told you right along he couldn’t carry the south!), there is no Conservatives left to come to your aid. Guess maybe you should have insisted, along with those candidates who remain, that all get the exposure they deserve, not just the few the media and the RNC want to give face time too. Perhaps if you had, we would have a Conservative in the race now.
McCain is now your man, hope you enjoy the ride.
Isn’t the gov of Arizona a democrat? Not that a dem replacement would be any different than having McCain. But does Arizona choose a senatorial replacement by special election or does the dem governor get to choose who would serve out McCain’s term?
Newt is a bit too in love with Hillary and global warming for me.
And I share that aim, bill.
Yep, that was my point in this vanity. They've spent the past year promoting RINOism, it's not OUR fault that they wound up with the wrong RINO.
not sure what any ONE of us could have done.
is there any one all-powerful person you are referencing here at FR??
And might I add: to all the Freepers who had their good names dragged through the mud being called bigots, losers, sons of perdition etc., thank you for sticking to your conservative convictions in opposing liberalism and RINOism. The Romney, McCain, and Rooty trolls should all be ashamed of their behavior on this forum for the last year. The divisiveness they caused is unprecedented and should never be forgotten.
“Now we don’t have any of those things and I would like to remind people that senators don’t have a great record of winning the white house either.”
And the two that won the white house, didn’t SURVIVE the white house.
Exactly! And they are now being shown the "law of unintended consequences" in the worst possible way.
A message to idiots: You don’t *own* anyone else’s vote.
Back in 04, I was looking at McCain for 08 and then the roof just plain fell in.
All of this could not have just happened all at once, the way that it appeared to have happened.
It must have been festering under the radar and out of plain sight.
Christ, in the space of a couple of years he went Kucinich on us.
vote for this??
Some days he’s an “R,” most days he’s a “D” and EVERY DAY he’s a lunatic.
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