Posted on 01/15/2012 1:59:24 PM PST by shield
The only thing I can think of Shield, is follow the money...
Perry asked last night, "Are you better off today, than you were 4 trillion dollars ago?"
Maybe there are people that are. They have enough money to make this happen. They can pressure enough people to go along. I do not know.
Either that, or while people cry out for less government, prosperity, the repeal of Obamacare, etc., they are afraid of seeing the system shaken up. Perry is the renegade that people wanted, but are afraid to support.
That’s such a bunch of horsesh*t. We’re not all in this together. Y’all allow posters to attack Perry with blatant lies and do nothing about it.
Yeah, I know. If I don’t like it, I can leave. I got it. Loud and clear.
The vote and all it’s confusion says very little about a real unification coming out of the meeting....... In fact form the article linked below some of the people had departed to the airport.
The FRC said these numbers represented the ballot results:
First Ballot
Ron Paul 1
Mitt Romney 3
Rick Perry 13
Newt Gingrich 48
Rick Santorum 57
Second Ballot (two top vote recipients)
Mr. Gingrich 49
Mr. Santorum 70
(59-41% for Santorum)
Third Ballot
Mr. Gingrich 29
Mr. Santorum 85
(74.5% - 25.5% for Santorum)
end snip
From the numbers above the 1st ballot had 122 total votes and it went down from that. Supposedly the 3rd vote was taken in order to get the 2/3rds requirement they set for an endorsement.
Yeah, well I like Gingrich but a lot of our posters attack him daily. Santorum is attacked daily too. Don’t feel like the Lone Ranger.
I hear ya. I like Gingrich A LOT myself. I don’t care for the attacks on him either. Quite frankly, I’m fed up with the whole game of personal attacks on our conservative candidates. I don’t care for Santorum, but I don’t run around FR trashing him. I support Perry and Gingrich and mostly stay off Santorum theads. I wish others would do the same with regard to Perry and Gingrich. We’re gonna shoot ourselves in the foot and end up with Romney because of petty games. It’s frustrating.
What does that mean? I've reported abuse on such attacks and more often than not it's ignored. It really seems to depend on which mods are working. It's not consistent. Mods have personal preferences like everyone else. That's understandable. But look at it from our perspective. We don't know who the mods are or which ones are working at any given time. So from our view, enforcement varies a lot. Nobody wants to be a pain in the mods' butt. So how should we address baseless attacks and outright lies against any candidate?
So, Rick S. held 300 Ia. town meetings and campaigned tirelessly just so he could become Milt’s stalking horse? How stupid.
Isn’t that illegal? I did hear several different talking heads talking about something. They said he gave her some money to pay her electric bill, before it was shut off.
They were framing it as a kind of gracious stumble. Said he should have had his aides do it secretly, or have them find her a job.
Some of the lefties suggested he just needed something to show he cared about people to help get a news headline.
I would guess that Santorum, who has tirelessly campaigned, did not campaign to become the AFA’s (et al.) stalking horse. The AFA (et al.) is making Santorum their stalking horse, according to Wheeler above.
And I venture to guess that Santorum will accept their endorsements, regardless of the stalking horse role the endorsers want him to play.
Politics kind of whores you out like that (-;
Doesn't matter. I already put him 3rd on my list, when I found out he endorsed mittens last time around. Didn't like several of his positions anyway. Now Rick S. has come out against Business and Wall Street, or some such nonsense.
Tonight I learned he voted for a bill to give convicted felons and rapists etc. (no longer in jail or on parole) the right to vote, he's in danger of slipping to 4, which would make Ron Paul 4th. AAAArgh.
LoL!!
Jack wasn’t there. The room was small enough. Everybody knew everybody. Everybody spoke. The things he says were said, were not said. For me, this calls into question everything he has ever said, if he would lie about this.
BTW, a few people left before the vote because of flights they needed to catch—the airport at Houston was two hours away from Paul’s ranch.
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