"The Weekly Standard promoted McCain when he took a more adversarial line against the GOP establishment; his saber-rattling on Iran and talk of committing still more troops to Iraq may make him William Kristol’s favorite a second time around.
Looks like the Weekly Standard is pushing McCain to carry the 'paleo momement in America'.
Hey Barnes, no sale.
I think Barnes is on multiple payrolls.."If you know what Im sayin??"...He's lost touch recently with the immigration, port debates and has been uncharacteristically confused trying to figure out what true conservatives want.
My thought exactly. If they nominate a pro-choice Republican, I will just pass on the presidential race.
The conservative movement is pretty much dead, having splintered into a number of single non-cohesive constituent issues, and is largely dissolving back into the cranky, negative, pessimistic form it took in the 1940s and '50s. Perhaps in another 20 years it will be reborn behind a new, positive leader.
"Factor in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), who is also tepid..............."
Tepid, spineless, and not up for the game.
Bring in another 20 million illegals and grant them the franchise before 2008.
Then hope.
Enforcing immigration laws and securing our borders is NOT a paleo-Conservative issue per se. But it's nice of the RINOs to try and pigeon-hole it that way.
They all leave me pretty unhappy. I doubt I would vote for Guilliani. I'd rather let Hillary implement "the NY Agenda". McCain is just weird. I like his pork-bashing, which he'd done for years. But being so clueless as to push McCain-Feingold is not a big positive. Still I might rather have him than Hillary.
Getting out of the MSM-chosen candidates, Allen strikes me as a stuffed suit.
Romney is a classic Rockefeller Republican. He just put in socialized health care in Mass. Again, why not let Hillary do it?
Tancredo at least gets it on one issue, a really important issue, and isn't a follower. He was opposed to illegals before it was cool. He also seems like a real conservative, as far as his other issues.
At this point he's the only one who appeals, but realistically Representatives never are elected.
I would not vote for Condi. What has she done besides appear on Sunday talk shows? Do we have more international support for the WOT since she became SoS? No. As National Security Advisor she paved the road to Iraq, which is not a winning campaign theme.
Who is the other Congressman, Pence? I've heard good things about him on FR. But again, Reps. have a dismal record running against Governors. Of course Hillary isn't a Gov, but a former co-President.
BZZ! Wrong! A Senate version of anything is always a bad idea.
ohfertheluvva...
As Governor he also issued an Executive Order preventing state funds paying for employee abortions and, most importantly championed Virginia's Parental Notification law.
God help us if we do that.
the US and the world for that matter, is just not as conservative as it used to be.
get ready folks, you ain't seen nothing yet...
The problem is the same as it has always been.Back before 94 my liberal buddy used to say, well you just have to elect your guys. But we do elect our guys and then they are not our guys any more. They go to Washington and turn 180, becoming big spenders and anti security and when reelection time comes we compare them to the alternative and elect them again and they run still further away from us.
I'll make it easy.
I don't care what a politician calls himself, paleo, neo, or neopaleo. I want someone who has a strategy to deal with muslim terrorism in particuilar, and muslim expansionism in general.
I want someone who is a constitutionalist.
I want someone who won't be embarrassed to secure the borders.
I want someone who is principled, isn't embarrassed by his principles, and who can articulate them to a new generation.
If you can do that, I'm willing to listen.
One party will disappear, the other will be re-invented.
A new one will be born.
Hopefully, the rest of the story won't follow the script - but I'm pessimistic.
A paleo hasnt won a election in the USA since 1924.
I believe they (he) is in Reagan's tomb.