Posted on 11/03/2004 12:35:09 PM PST by JOAT
Conservatives need to start looking forward just 4 years and start thinking about who will run against Hillary in 2008.
Allowing that creature to win will undermine this nation worse than the 8 years she had puppeteering through Bubba.
Suggestions for a candidate/team?
inevitably someone is going to suggest a ticket of Keyes/Moore...I'm all for conservative principle...but can't we have that and NOT be embarrassed?
I agree with you that Rudy is a good administrator; I know that he helped to break up the Mob, dramatically reduced crime and helped NYC's economy to revive. Heck, I was in NYC for Dinkins' last couple of years and Rudy's first 5, and I like him a lot - as the NYC mayor, perhaps even a governor or senator.
However, despite all of that he IS very anti-gun and very pro-abortion, positions that just won't fly in the Republican primaries. Sorry, that just my opinion, and my observation of the opinions of many fellow gun owners.
What Kennedy Dynasty? That's been dead for years.
"worse"
Correction: worth
I was up VERY late last night, and I'm out of coffee.
Senator Hutchison is pro-choice. If we have learned one thing from this election, it is that traditional Republican values win elections. Let's not mess this up.
A five time loser and a one issue guy who got booted off the bench? What's to be embarassed about?
That is priceless...
But Coleman is a former Democrat; Good or Bad?
Agreed. We won on our traditional agenda and the LAST thing we need to do is copy a losing formula. What we need to understand is that we are the majority now. Let them copy us!
And George Bush reminds me a lot of Alfred E. Neuman. But I voted for him anyway. If the Democrats are smart, and that's a big if, they'll drag themselves back to the center for the next election. That's what they did the last time they ran a Massachusetts liberal and got shellaced. And personal morality aside, they were in for two terms and almost more.
I don't know, ask Ronald Reagan, Phil Gramm, Rick Perry, Richard Shelby....I don't think it hurts.
I thought so. :^) I decided to post it as a thread.
We should probably pick a governor. Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota would be great.
Thanks for the background on your perspective. No one is pro-abortion. There a number of women on this board who have told me that they have had abortions. Abortion is legal and the law of the land, sadly. No one likes it, well maybe NARAL and NOW, but no one else.
No one is going to grab our guns. My personal opinion about gun ownership is that you should know how to use it and not just own it. I have a large cache of firearms, btw. There are too many Joe-Bob's in the land who have firearms that they neither know how to fire properly or maintain, my sainted mother included. She carries and has neither fired or cleaned her handgun in more than ten years.
All the Hillary is running in 2008 crowd don't have problem with her "credentials." I guess being the smartest woman on the planet (tm) is good enough.
Well if the best you can do is say that Judge Moore is as bad as Hillary Clinton...
I am saying that Rudy has a LOT more street cred than Hillary.
Tommy Franks/Bill Owens
When I say pro-abortion, I obviously meant "pro-the right to carry out an abortion if that's what the woman decides."
Regarding guns: all rights come with responsibilities. I also own a bunch, and my parents also own some without having cleaned or fired them for ages (which drives me NUTS).
As for banning them, maybe no Republican pols want to do that, but for sure the Schumers and Feinsteins on the other side of the aisle would do so in a heartbeat - if they could. Feinstein as much as said so in the early '90's on 60 Minutes. The way that most RKBA-sensitive gunowners view things, the other side only compromises when they clearly can't win (kind of like Kerry admitting defeat) - and therefore any compromise with them, no matter how "reasonable" it sounds, is a defeat for us and another step down the slippery slope. Remember, the Weimar Republic didn't ban guns, but lists resulting from the "reasonable" step of requiring registration of guns, ammo and gun owners were used by the rather less reasonable Nazis to seize the weapons of all potential opponents and jail them (and worse). THIS is why RKBA-sensitive gunowners won't tolerate an anti-gun Republican being nominated. This is why Republican gunowners deserted Bush's father in '92 ('89 import ban) and Dole in '96 (giving in on the AWB and the Brady Bill).
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