Can you guess who the third partner is?
Posted on 11/22/2005 12:28:26 PM PST by Icelander
Thank you. I'm going to sleep now before I inadvertantly tilt a Third World country into chaos (I'm joking but saw another poster screwing with a small country yesterday morning).
We can't underestimate our voiced opinions here. Too often I've seen the proverbial pebble dropped only to see the rebounding wave reflected with resulting law. Like Sam Raimi accentuated in his "Spiderman" films: "with great power comes great responsibility."
"He won't get out of the gates. The mainstream GOP and the mainstream media will both ignore him, which leaves his campaign DOA."
Maybe. But don't be so sure. The party bosses no longer control nominations. Primaries contol nominations. And if Tancredo can make a good showing in the early primaries, the money and the media will flow to him.
"See, this isn't about ideology or comprimosing principles or about personalities or people. It's about whether or not you are a G D retard and can't do match."
That kind of talk will sure bring a lot of conservatives over to your side. Insult the conservatives and then expect them to vote RINO, I don't think so.
he might be waiting to see how Gilchrist is going to do.
I don't know what polls should have to do with it. It more has to do with how the candidates do in the primaries. If they pull more than 5% in those races, then there is concrete evidence of support, and they should be in the debates. I believe Nader was able to do that in some of the states. It doesn't matter any how. It is the Electoral College that counts in the end, and it would be very easy to have someone with way less than 40% of the vote becoming President if there were a strong 3rd party candidate. I am not in favor of that. I wish the two main parties would give us someone worth voting for, but those days are long gone.
This is exactly what Tancredo is doing. By voting for him in the primaries we are giving validity to his cause and forcing the other candidates to heed his message.
Of course the RINO's will tell us that by voting for someone other than the consensus frontrunner we would be undermining the eventual candidate and putting him/her in a bad place relative to the Demos candidate.
So, for example, if Condi were to run in 2008 and she made no suggestions that she would crack down on illegal immigration, it would be right (both ideologically and pragmatically) to vote for Tancredo.
However, the RINO's would say that it would only make us out to be racists and sexists and would undermine Condi when she goes up against Hitlery.
This is all BS though because it is finally official that our votes do not count. If the margin of victory is large, than any one vote is immaterial. However, when the margin of victory is small our votes are overwhelmed by waste, fraud, and abuse ... made even easier by motor voter, absentee voting, early voting, and computer voting.
If we vote against illegal immigration then we are supposedly going to be labeled racist and lose the Hispanic vote. If we vote in favor of illegal immigration ... oops I meant to say a guest worker program ... then we will be overwhelmed by the illegal Hispanic vote.
And if it is too damn easy to become a US citizen, then the value of US citizenship is debased. And if it means less and less to be a US citizen then our votes our debased, our livelihoods are debased, and the whole enchilada is debased.
Man, that was a clever idea! She won't show : )
It's a funny thing;I was recently in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia dealing with financiers and investment bankers, and all of them are aware Bush is flooding the U.S. with illegals. Most of them can't understand why he would sell out America. Something else you should know. Most Asian countries love and respect America. Do not believe the bullcrap we see on televion showing foreign country after foreign country badmouthing us. It is pure propaganda!
Finance professionals in Malaysia having more reverence for our country than our own press and President...just amazing. Hope your deal comes through.
Tancredo has an extremely high rating from the American Conservative Union. Do you think the GOP should move more to the middle?
The picture you posted has only two people in it.
Did I say I have a problem with his positions?
If you want a guy with a high rating with the ACU to lose, then get behind Tancredo.
Maybe the GOP should find a guy with a high ACU rating that can WIN.
That is me giving you a glimpse of what will happen.
And if you think I am bad, just WAIT until the MSM thinks he is a threat.
Catchy title. Completely false, but catchy.
Whoever wins in '08 will have bigger things to deal with than immigration. It's big, but nuclear war is bigger.
I didn't realize you were talking about a presidential nomination. I thought you were just saying that in general, they could do better than Tom.
I actually prefer Mike Pence and Mark Sanford myself. Tancredo had a few anti-gun votes after Columbine, and I personally have a VERY long memory when it comes to 2nd Amendment rights.
Can you guess who the third partner is?
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