Posted on 12/04/2006 10:01:36 AM PST by NapkinUser
Phillips is right. Americans want a REAL choice in '08, a president who will actually represent American citizens rather than foreign interests.
I'll never vote for "the lesser of two evils" again, having learned that there's no real difference in the "two evils".
If people voted for good options where they had the opportunity then they would be spared the opportunity of seeing the "lesser evil" outdo previous evils.
Carolyn, as a conservative, I can tell you that I certainly did not stay home. And I certainly did not vote D or 3rd party. But it took a lot of Maalox to stomach the garbage that my State party offered up. And not because they weren't "conservative enough" for me, but because on issues of principle, they were less than stellar. I won't assume to put thoughts in your head, but speaking for myself, principle is a very big deal.
I think that the Republicans lost the election this time around because Americans saw a party whose leadership protected unprincipled men and women, who responded to angry grassroots Republicans in a manner suggesting that they preferred privilege to honor, and whose key senatorial figures wetted themselves when confronted by a minority opposition who was fully committed to a fangs-out brawl.
I value honor. Nothing is more repugnant to me than moral cowardice. I don't care if a Republican candidate doesn't line up 100% with my personal beliefs. If he or she bats a thousand with the big things- personal integrity, and the moral courage to not only be beyond reproach him/herself but also to ruthlessly expose those who are on the take, even within the same party- then he/she will certainly have my vote.
I don't think that such a person is some pie-in-the-sky hope, like some Mister Smith Goes to Washington script. There are people out there within the party who have that quality. Why don't we just find them and get them up to the plate?
But please do not simply write the election debacle off by saying that conservatives are to blame. You're smarter than that.
But in the face of opposition from the Democrats, they are both bedwetting girlie-men.
I have every book in the Aubrey-Maturin series- something like 24 of them- and I have completely through it at least twice. They get better and better the farther along you go, and they are so full of detail that if you start over once you reach the end of the series, you'll understand the charcters with a fresh perspective. Keep at them.
Thinking like a Clinton?
Wow,talk about damning with faint praise!
I guess I could think like The Devil if I really put my mind to it!
I'm not discounting the possibility of her putting up Obama as VP.
I just think that putting two Northern liberals on the ticket isn't a very smart move.
I didn't mean that as an insult. In order to beat them you have to understand them and get inside their mind(s)... plural. It has never been so important to really understand your opposition as now.
Right - we're quaking in our boots.
Ooookay.
I said they'd get less than .5% of the vote.
Fair enough.
I'll ask again... If that's the case, than what's the big deal?
It isn't a big deal. It's just a post that caught my eye.
Who exactly is "we"?
The biggest political coup in the history of America, the Hildebeast with an "R" after it's name! There would be a couple more votes right here that it could count on. Blackbird.
Really? Not a big deal other than...
being sarcastic, He's wrong about 17% of the time, except if you're a Democrat, that's just one issue, Sure you can. Just get drunk before or after, it's all math after that, there I go with qualifiers again, bingo, it looks like you learned the lesson, McCain is a moderate conservative, This is an issue that unfortunately needs to be handled at the federal level with a constitutional amendment, it should be obvious, Ih gets the nomination, he's got my vote., If McCain gets the nomination, he's got my vote., If Hagel gets the nomination, he's got my vote., If Rice gets the nomination, she's got my vote. , If Pataki or Giuliani get the nomination, they'd better have a damned good conservative veep nominee, but they've got my vote., Instead of whining, To be fair, there is absolutely no way I'd give my vote to any North American Union conspiracy loon or if conservatives decide to not vote in the Republican primaries?
That should just about cover what "It isn't a big deal" eh?
I'll give you credit though, I can't say I've ever seen a more wishy-washy, brown nosing, compilation in one thread before.
Like I'm going to waste my vote on a party that wants the Government to go into our bedrooms...
I held my nose when I voted for Keyes... He spoke in favor for reperations (hardly a conservative position), and just shot off his mouth.. Also putting down the VP daughter did not help him period..
Right now I'm leaning towards Romney, however if either of these Rino's get the nomination I will hold my nose and vote for these people, I'm not going to waste my vote on the Constitpation Party...
Even Reagan wasn't a 100% conservative either....
Will you please inform me how the amount of posts I make on a Free Republic thread affects the viability of a political party?
I know you weren't being insulting.I good a good laugh out of your comment.
Actually,I have always believed that its essential to know the mindset of your opponent.Clinton's is just plain devious.Thats BOTH Clintons.
Back in the Sixties,a liberal was proud of who he or she was.I actually respected folks like Mc Govern and RFK.They were honest in their beliefs.
Yet this Clinton-Obama-Webb clique tries to play to conservatives with their"moderate"rhetoric but you KNOW deep down they don't mean it and are unrepentant Leftists at heart!
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