Posted on 02/19/2010 2:47:52 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I don’t have a problem with the Tea Party movement. They have a right to voice their opinions.
I’ve heard they are not going to propose candidates for office. Good thing, Perot bought us Clinton instead of Bush.
You chose the term "fair and square," and YOU apparently meant it in legal terms. In the context of the way Republican primaries are done, I regard the term "fair and square" laughable.
If Thompson was on the ballot (maybe he was), he had by that time dropped out of the race, and he'd dropped out of the race because of discouraging returns from state primaries already finished, and in many of those state, the folks voting in the primaries were DEMOCRATS who very possibly had a strategic goal to keep Thompson, the only true limited government Republican in the field, from placing.
If you say he was "on the ballot" in my state in print and you've gone to the trouble of proving it, then you're probably correct, I didn't have to write him in; his name was already printed there, but as he was no longer in the race, it was the equivalent of writing him in. Funny, because I remember writing the name in. Either way, the point is that he dropped out because of a stupid, flawed primary process and there was zero Republicans in the race for whom I would vote. Again, I REFUSE ANYMORE to be part of the force that moves the Republican party to the left, because THAT force made Obama inevitable and if it continues, things in the U.S. will only get worse.
I can talk to the RNC, not just the CA RNC, and say that the way to do this would be for Democrats AND Republicans each to have their primary for all states on the same day, a national primary. I can and should do so.
You, in the meantime, are here urging people to vote the same ol' same ol', and I'm here urging people that your way is nothing new, that I've taken your recommended approach for years, and have finally figured out that it's flawed.
Your only solution would be to federalize the republican party nominating process. Same candidate choice on every state’s ballot and voting the same day.
I would say there are two kinds of people on here those who are unhappy Palin supporting McCain and those who say she has to do it. I’m stuck in the middle. Unhappy with it, but still supporting Palin. Just because she did it, I don’t have to like it. But I still support her.
Look in the mirror, sabe, when you start fixing the blame for how Obama got in office, and know that I am standing right behind you in that mirror. Voting for Liberal Republicans as the lesser of evils when put up against Democrats, as I have done and as you continue to advocate here, moved the "center" so far left that Obama not only became possible, he became inevitable.
So I blame YOU, sabe, as well as myself, for Obama. The difference is that now I've taken accountability for it and am doing what I can to remedy it; you continue your old mistaken ways in dangerous blindness and blame others for what you helped to cause.
I’m blameless. I voted for McCain/Palin. My conscience is clear.
That’s a solution that comes to mind, yes. I expect there are other, better solutions. What would you suggest?
You nailed it.
I say we continue to direct the agenda. Unlike Boehner who will rearrange business as usual after the next election ::cough, cough:: If your district reelects you Mr. Boehner you may do this. He is not reelected yet, he is not the Speaker of the House or heading up any committee post 2011. Yet he talks like he will give us people a small piece of the pie (more transparency) when we the people give the Repubs the whole pie. Something big is (Boehner and a whole bunch more pols) missing if that is their attitudes.
I say NO they do not get it yet.
We will not retreat like the Repubs have been doing for years. 2001-2002 Repubs had the house, senate & executive branch and they squandered it. So we think, what they were doing was their business as usual. Their agenda and the people’s agenda has been very different for a very long time.
I say We the People lead the charge and whoever is willing to follow, do exactly that, follow the People.
I like the ELPAC vision by Memphis Tea Party organizer Mark Skoda. Raise funds via the PAC and every election pick 15-20 constitutional conservatives from across the country that need help in their districts to be more competitive in unseating a toxic rep or senate member. There is always work to be done, always be looking at the next election cycle.
http://www.ensuringliberty.com/
Look familiar?
What you have said is reasonable. The problem I am having this that many people around here have not been reasonable, and they continually use McCain as a stick to break Palin’s back. I do not trust most of the outrage about this issue as being genuine. I think many of the people are just using this issue because it was convenient at the time.
I’m for states rights you aren’t.
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I will hazard a guess that this is what the stimulus money, 787,000,000,000 was to go for here in the USA. Creating jobs.
It appears from the link you provided that Jordan is doing a decent job with the USAID money given to them.
Eye opening post. Thanks!
We plan to vote the same way. Constitutional Conservative or write it in.
I encourage anyone here at FR to consider jumping into a race if there is no candidate that fits that criteria. You may be surprised at your success. We the People are looking for a few good men and women. We are tired of settling for .... socialism.
At the Tea Party Convention there were approx. 15-20 people that were running for the House. All were inspired by the Tea Party activism they were involved in.
That’s the ridiculous logic of the purity mavens, not mine. Don’t fall prey to it.
I think you voted for McCain for the same reason I did. A .22 to the leg was better than a .45 to the chest.
But now you say that you have chosen a .22 to the leg for the last time and now the .45 to the chest is better?
Use your brain. It stinks to have had to vote for McCain. But this will likely not be the last time you have to make a choice between two evils.
Suck it up and realize that being a responsible person means sometimes making choices you would rather not make. Vote what you think is best at each election without having some invisible ruler that tells you that a certain candidate isn’t “pure enough” to “deserve” your vote.
“McCain’s not that bad, folks. He’s a combination of ingredients.”
Yes, he is that bad... and there’s nothing even remotely “juvenile” about despising the traitor who loves stabbing you in the back.
“The press would destroy Sarah if she turned against McCain. “
Perhaps conservatives ought to REMEMBER that, in the first place, it was HER CHOICE, knowing EXACTLY what McCain stands for, to join his ticket. That’s the very reason I DO NOT support her. If she truly OPPOSED what the Progressive Rhino stands for, she’d have been less concerned about him “putting her on the map” and more honest by never joining up with him in the first place. Everyone keeps excusing that her endorsement is because of loyalty....has it NOT occurred to them that she endorses him and what he stands for, BY CHOICE? Sometimes I simply can not believe the extent of the denial and the endless excuses for her just because they’ve become so enamored by someone who, according to the posts above, would have been just a NOBODY were it not for McCain. If her endorsement of McCain wasn’t a wake up call...nothing will be.
I have to disagree with you about Sarah joining McCain’s 2008 campaign. You seem to see her decision to do so as a cold, calculating, typical politician out for her own political agenda.
Having read the first book, Sarah, that introduced her to the political stage before McCain did and also reading her book, Going Rogue, I see Sarah’s decision very differently.
She believes that she has some common sense ideas to teach conservatives. She was known in Alaska for her “maverick” actions in taking on corruption in her own party and fighting for the people of Alaska.
When she was offered a spot on McCain’s ticket, she spent a good long time praying about it. She felt that the Lord had a plan for her and that plan was to be an influence honesty and courage in the Republican Party. She accepted the spot on McCain’s ticket and the rest is history.
Whatever else McCain is politically, he’s an honorable man who served his country loyally and paid a very high cost. A man like that fits Sarah’s idea of the core values that Americans and politicians have forgotten.
I’d ask you to take another look at Sarah with those things in mind. Turning against McCain isn’t within Sarah’s character. Not because she owes McCain for her current “star” status but because she respects his core values. Values that mean everything to her.
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