It's like forcing you drive a solar powered go-cart to work, but to appease the fools, this one has cool looking custom wheels and a flame paint job!
It's one big conjob.
Posted on 08/11/2012 10:59:31 AM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free
Once again the ticket is upside-down as the GOP-e throws us a bone with a true blue Conservative running second under the thumb of a liberal RINO. McLame formula again.
Is this the template for the next 20 GOP-e nominees? Run a turd and coat it in sugar? I hate the GOP-e. I hate them all the more because they know I have to hold my nose this year and vote ABO, which painfully is Romney this year. Puke.
Let’s just hope that — should Mittens end up losing in ‘12 — the CINOs in control of the party don’t end up demonizing Ryan as the purported cause, as they did Sarah Palin last time out.
Bravo!
The GOP establishment didn’t force anybody to vote for anyone. We were well aware of all the candidates. Romney got the most votes in the primary, period.
Our turnout was dismal and inexcusable. It was the same in 2008.
Now Romney has given us a good, solid conservative as his running mate and, if things go well, a future presidential candidate. If Romney does manage to turn this economy around, he’ll get a second term then Ryan will be the heir apparent 8 years from now.
IMHO, the GOP did *US* a favor and gave us a shot at a really good guy for the long run. They undid OUR mistake.
We live in a Republic. We get the government we deserve.
Well said, Marie! We have made our choice, and it is time to pull together and vote for the future of our country.
We had more than half a dozen good, conservative candidates and we ate our own.
We voted (or didn’t vote) and we got what we deserved.
Don't you get it yet. WE Conservatives had no voice in this.
The GOP establishment shoved Romney down our throats from day one. They shoved Baby Bush down our throats giving him a huge warchest. Then they shoved McLame down our throats.
In this election, they painted Cain as a doofus and Bachmann as a religious nutcase, and Santorum as extreme. They shoved Romney down our throats just as they shoved McLame down our throats.
WE DID NOT do this. The GOP establishment hand-picked their foisted candidate on us against a very weak field like obscure House members and private businessmen who never won office. Don't you get it yet? The machine picks the candidate, not us. We are just along for the ILLUSION we pick the candidate.
You’re right of course, but there just aren’t enough sane people in America to make Conservatives a majority. Wish it wan’t so.
Unless there was something having to due with Sarah Palin we don’t know about, that was the day which changed the race
Up until that day, I believed Sarah Palin would lead the GOP to a new destiny this year.
She stood down.
Palin stood down.
After that, is was a giant mop-up job and Romney got the best of that.
That’s the way things sometimes work. You deal with them and you moves on.
Word, bro.
I’m constantly baffled how the Dems will pick the most far left asswipe, knowing they can get him elected, and they do.
Carter, Clinton, Obama. All from the far left.
Then the GOP-e comes along and says they can’t get those “extremist far-right” conservatives elected, so they run liberal Republicans to “appeal to the independents”.
Puke. We all know that you can’t win running socialist light against a true socialist. They conservative base stays home. OK, this year is different because the anger and terror among voters over the economy will trump all social issues and foreign affairs, so Obama is toast. But the principal still stands.
You run guys like Reagan and you can win because the base turns out hard. You run McLame and the base stays home.
Yet the commie Dems run a Marxist and they get him elected. They understand that it is all about getting out the base, not bothering with the wishy-washy fickle moderates and independents.
And so we’re all well divided on both R & R.
Nevertheless, they are not foreign self-professed America-killing monsters.
What unites us is this country’s need to take out the trash, starting at the top in less than 3 months.
Let’s focus on the country’s needs first.
If Romney isn’t already pwned by BiG media, then they will work overtime to keep him honest and hammer anything else to us ad nauseum.
God help us all.
As a group, we did not show up en mass and vote for Romney. We (as a group) sat on our butts.
The last time I checked, voters were supposed to be responsible adults with the capability to read and analyze. The Tea Party didn’t show up in droves to support ANY candidate.
No. Conservatives bitched and blogged and waited for everyone else to vote for them.
Yeah, the RINO GOP did their best to discredit the conservative candidates in order to get us their version of the best ‘moderate’ (thanks Rove). But we didn’t buy it. The Tea Party didn’t buy it.
They just didn’t take action when it mattered.
It kills me that thousands can show up to stand a park in August heat to wave a sign and an American flag, and the vast majority of them couldn’t show up to fill in a ballot.
Ryan did NOT run for POTUS?
Same ticket, different election.
I’m not buying it this time. Voting Constitution Party for the top of the ballot. Voting for the conservative down ticket.
Right, and the Dems weren’t forced to vote for Obama in 2008. An obscure backwater black Senator with no name recognition just coincidentally waltzed ahead of big name Hillary Clinton, the popular favorite to be the nominee, to become president. Yes, the voters did that and Soros and Rahm Emmanuel and the Democrat Party machine had nothing to do with it. Just coincidence.
Right. Please see my eBay sales add for the Brooklyn Bridge. I take pay pal.
Look FRiend, almost every primary that Romney won was because the conservative votes were split among a number of candidates. Had the conservatives gotten their stuff together and fielded just one candidate, we would have very likely defeated Romney and the GOP-e. But the conservatives did not do that. The conservative vote remained split in state after state, allowing Romney to win.
So I ask you, whose fault was it that we were splitting our vote among four (then three, then two...) different conservative candidates?
Look on the bright side. The great two terms of Ronald Reagan were followed by a single tepid term by H.W. Bush, who, while he did some “okay” things, lived in Reagan’s shadow.
So imagine this time that a single tepid term by Romney, which will likely be much like that of his fellow New Englander, H.W., builds enough momentum to have two solid terms by Ryan.
This will likely be more liveable, as a lot of the RINOs will have been purged, so the more conservative House and Senate will be setting more of the tone, and hopefully in four years enough conservative momentum will be built up so that President Ryan can hit the ground running, with a motivated conservative Republican congress.
I agree. The only other candidate as bad as Romney in my lifetime was probably Bob Dole. I like Ryan a lot. Not sure he was the best choice for this spot at this time, but I doubt it matters anyway.
I can’t help but to have a suspicion that this entire campaign is nothing but a charade anyway. The fix is in by the elites running the show. We will have a 2nd term of the 0bama. God willing, his “opposition” will hold the House and expand their ranks in the Senate to keep his agenda in check.
Exactly!
Some of the hacks here are as bad as a welfare loafer.
They want something for screwing up, and when someone offers them a job, they say no thanks because it’s easier to act like the victim because it requires less effort.
It's like forcing you drive a solar powered go-cart to work, but to appease the fools, this one has cool looking custom wheels and a flame paint job!
It's one big conjob.
Wah wah wah!
Nothing was stopping those voters from voting for any of those people other than their own brains.
I voted for Newt. My guy didn’t win. I had a voice and that voice wasn’t the majority.
But after Newt was out, I wasn’t going to pretend like it was stolen.
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