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.
LOL! Take your toys and go home then.
My country needs my vote. Probably more so than at any other point in my lifetime. And if it means voting for Romney to get rid of the Huge Chavez supported tyrant who WILL CONTINUE to bypass congress on a daily basis, then so be it.
The Phyllis Schlafly "A Choice Not an Echo" thing goes back to the days when there were strong conservative candidates who were denied the nomination: Taft, Goldwater, Reagan. Was Caine or Bachmann or Gingrich or Perry really of the same caliber?
If there had been a qualified conservative in the race, Romney might not have won the nomination. But there wasn't so he did. You can't beat somebody with nobody. You can't even beat nobody with nobody.
Surely you jest!!!!!!!
Are you clueless to the busloads of voters driven to polls to vote for Obama.
Are you clueless to hordes of Dem voters who are hand led to the polls with pre-marked voting cards showing them exactly who to vote for?
Are you clueless to the dead and illegals and felons who were told to vote for Obama.
You should know all of the above is true.
The GOP are similar but not the same. An election manipulated does not mean somebody puts a gun literally to your head or goes into the booth with you and demands you vote for Romney. The GOP-e ran four weak conservatives to dilute the conservative vote. The GOP-e kept all of Romney's opponents off the Virginia ballot. So you can say nobody told people to vote for Romney in Virginia, just nobody could vote for anybody else?
Call Vanna White and buy a clue.
After you call off your black helicopters.
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You completely misunderstood me.
They were all conservative candidates. The GOP-e was looking to encourage as many weak candidates from among conservative ranks as possible, so as to dilute the conservative vote as widely as possible. The goal was to nominte a Masshole liberal RINO, as such they knew they would be defeated by a strong conservative with name recognition, such as Sarah Palin. So they supported as many weak conservative candidates as possible, so Romney could win a plurality of votes in many states, rather than lose outright to the strong conservative.
Our coin flip in 2012 is, “Heads they win, tails they don’t lose”.
Heads = Obama finishes destroying the USA
Tails = we reward the GOP-e for shafting conservatives yet again.
Pick your poison. My poison is, the GOP issue becomes irrelevant if Obama destroys the nation, so there is no nation left to save after reforming the GOP.
This is the great schism of Free Republic and conservatives during this election. We are ideologically split based on who we think is the greater threat.
I think Obama is the greater threat and after he finishes destroying our government structure, institutions and economy, it doesn’t matter a whit if we begin the process to reform the GOP, since hard socialism is around the corner.
For those of you who think Romney poses the greater danger, well, I’m baffled.
Chickened out and quit as Governor, you mean. If she was running, she'd be lucky to be polling at 30%.
Ditto.
I’ve had it with the crying on here, too. Every candidate was flawed to some degree.
If Newt had been squeaky clean (which he wasn’t), and Romney played some dirty trick to barely get the nomination then I’d understand.
It is a little frustrating watching Romney not run the same campaign he ran in the primaries..
I didn’t vote for Romney in our primary. Holding out the way we all did, not automatically voting for Romney, is probably what helped us get someone like Paul Ryan.
I understand you desperately want to put the blame for Romney on the GOP-e (which clearly did pull out all the stops in support of Mittens), but unless you have evidence that the GOP-e *forced* all these conservative candidates to run against each other, then the fact remains: We conservatives did this to ourselves.
Remember that defeat has been snatched from the jaws of victory several times solely by the RINOs in congress and the senate, who gladly cross the aisle to prevent the conservative agenda.
It is much harder for conservatives to fight the leftists when at any moment, that RINO knife will be between their shoulder blades.
And this fight has been going on longer than most people know, as before they were called RINOs, they were called the “Country Club Republicans”, and were even around in Eisenhower’s day.
They were known to prefer that the Republicans were the minority party, as they would get tossed the scraps the Democrats would throw them, as these would keep them dominant in the Republican party.
But finally, after all these years, the rank and file have had enough of their b.s., and are slowly purging these powerful Quislings from congress. And this changes the whole equation.
Fortunately, this upcoming congress will get some of the worst of the batch out of office. And more than anything else this helps insure that there isn’t going to be any liberal Romney agenda.
Either he is going to go along with some real conservatism for a change, or he is going to ruin himself by vetoing bill after bill. Since he is not particularly dynamic, I expect that he will grudgingly accept what congress wants, albeit with considerable whining.
So taxes and budgets are going to be slashed, and that will help the US a lot. It’s going to be bad times for parasites, however.
But even a lot of the largess can have a soft landing, if the Republicans instead of using “means testing” which everyone hates, instead uses tax incentives to get people who don’t need minimal support off the system.
And the rest can be dealt with by giving block grants to the states with no strings attached, instead of payments to individuals (thank you John Roberts, a crafty gift in the Obamacare decision).
Damn dude! Are you ever freakin’ happy about anything. I pity your family and the people who have to live around you.
So what good is Paul Ryan?
His sole purpose is to get Romney elected and turn out the conservative base. After that, all he does is break ties in the Senate. That’s it. He goes away.
Olympia Snowe as Romney’s VEEP doesn’t make him any more liberal than Paul Ryan for VEEP makes Romney conservative.
That is my point. Ryan is a non-issue. On the top of the ticket, he is great for us. On the bottom of the ticket, he is worthless for us, except to get some of you conservatives on board the ABO train. Outside of that, the bottom of the ticket is worthless.
Ryan does nothing. Romney is STILL a liberal Masshole.
We have RWR again. Romney with
Ryan.
So you are calling all the conservative candidates who ran, tools? If that is true why would we want them. (I don't think it's true by the way). At least Romney is willing to take on the Ryan Budget as part of his platform. To me that is a good thing.
It’s been that way at least since Nixon-Agnew.
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