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Looking for Mr. Right(Dick Cheney maybe...)
Time ^ | Jan. 4, 2007 | KAREN TUMULTY

Posted on 01/07/2007 9:51:28 AM PST by kellynla

It wasn't so long ago that conservatives believed that George Bush's presidency would usher in a political realignment that would last for decades. But as the right looks forward to the next election, something close to panic is setting in. Surveying the leading G.O.P. contenders for 2008, direct-mail guru Richard Viguerie pronounces "not a one of them is worthy of support from conservatives." Says Craig Shirley, a public relations executive who represents many conservative groups and who has written a book on the Reagan revolution: "There's anger, there's angst, there's dismay in the conservative movement." Some activists, Shirley adds, have even begun talking quietly among themselves about forming a third party.

All that worry might seem premature, given that the Iowa caucuses are still a year away. But the race for the Republican nomination is already taking a shape that alarms many conservatives, especially the Evangelicals who were so crucial to Bush's re-election in 2004. None of the top three potential Republican candidates considering a bid to succeed Bush has a record that makes the right entirely comfortable. Senator John McCain originally opposed Bush's tax cuts, supports looser immigration policies, voted against a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and was an architect of the deal under which Senate Democrats retained their right to filibuster Bush's judicial nominees. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is in favor of gun control, abortion rights and same-sex civil unions. And outgoing Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney espoused liberal views on gay rights and abortion when he was running for office in Massachusetts, though he has disavowed them as he has moved into national politics. Many conservatives had high hopes for Virginia's George Allen and Pennsylvania's Rick Santorum--until they lost their Senate re-election races last year.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: conservatism; conservatives; gop; potus
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
"Rudy would have to renounce his views on abortion, gay marriage, and immigration in order to get the nomination."

If he did that, Rudy would lose his liberal friends and MSM support.

The thought of Rudy running against a Democrat is a liberal's dream come true.
41 posted on 01/07/2007 10:38:28 AM PST by BW2221
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To: bigbob

"couldn't win?"

says who? you? LOL

the only way one "can't win" is to "not run!" hellooooooo

again, if you have a better candidate, name 'em!


42 posted on 01/07/2007 10:39:09 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla

Kelly, really...think about it....first of all, do you really think Cheney would put himself and his family through this crap? Secondly...you don't honestly think he could win, do you?


43 posted on 01/07/2007 10:39:39 AM PST by Hildy (Words are mere bubbles of water...but deeds are drops of gold.)
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To: kellynla; snugs; All

OMG CHENEYYYY

That drive Demos and MSN media nuts we got some Dick Cheney fans here in ON FR Kelly

OH SNUGSS they talking about your boy on TIME


44 posted on 01/07/2007 10:41:10 AM PST by SevenofNine ("Step aside Jefe"=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Elle Bee

"Tommy Franks?"


I'd support him.


45 posted on 01/07/2007 10:43:10 AM PST by mcshot ("If it ain't broke it doesn't have enough features." paraphrased anon.)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta
hg
Rudy would have to renounce his views on abortion, gay marriage, and immigration in order to get the nomination. I don't think he intends to do that.

Unfortunately you are quite correct. Personally, I look for leadership in a president. I really don't give a hoot about issues as far as the office of the POTUS goes. I want issues to reside in the party platform and in congress.

A democratically controlled congress is not about to pass laws against abortion or gay marriage, so that possibility is rather moot and foolish to even discuss.  If Republicans manage to pass these laws amidst a Democrat controlled congress it would be nothing short of a miracle and I would expect Rudy to get religion and not veto legislation his own party passed regardless of his own personal convictions.


46 posted on 01/07/2007 10:44:20 AM PST by HawaiianGecko (Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.)
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To: Hildy

"first of all, do you really think Cheney would put himself and his family through this crap?"

others have...and for far less stakes than winning a war and saving the country from Clinton & the Left!!!

"you don't honestly think he could win, do you?"

I wouldn't have suggested him if I didn't.

Of course if you have a better candidate, name 'em!


47 posted on 01/07/2007 10:44:46 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: BW2221

Cheney has no 'change'? I beg to differ. lol


48 posted on 01/07/2007 10:44:55 AM PST by dc-zoo
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To: agooga

That seems like a rather extreme statement.


49 posted on 01/07/2007 10:46:03 AM PST by Norman Bates (President Ford †)
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To: LdSentinal

"No, he ain't running. If "true" conservatives want a candidate, it will either be Brownback or Mike Huckabee."

No true conservative would vote for an open borders flak like Brownback.


50 posted on 01/07/2007 10:47:40 AM PST by antisocial (Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
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To: antisocial

Then who else? Duncan Hunter? Yeesh


51 posted on 01/07/2007 10:48:20 AM PST by LdSentinal
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To: Elle Bee

I have thought for a long time that Tommy Franks is a Democrat. Does anyone know for certain that he is a Republican?


52 posted on 01/07/2007 10:49:10 AM PST by La Enchiladita (People get ready . . .)
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To: kellynla
It wasn't so long ago that conservatives the Rove Cultists believed that George Bush's presidency would usher in a political realignment that would last for decades.

There, fixed right up.

53 posted on 01/07/2007 10:50:58 AM PST by newzjunkey (Social Security & Mexico: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1762624/post)
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To: roses of sharon
LOL, as I said, its the Republicans/Conservatives who decided to speak this Dem hack.

Really, all the stupid Time magazine reporter has to do is make a pot of coffee and read Free Republic for an hour or two. I saw nothing in that article that I didn't see here first.

54 posted on 01/07/2007 10:51:17 AM PST by webheart
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To: kellynla
hg
How 'bout Cheney/Rice....cause ya know the 'Rats will run Hitlery/Obama

I'm not sure what that means. But I assume it means that if the Democrats run a horse and an ass, the Republicans should also?

I'm comparing neither to a horse nor an ass or for that matter a horse's ass. (although it's tempting)


55 posted on 01/07/2007 10:51:27 AM PST by HawaiianGecko (Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.)
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To: Norman Bates

Quote from Norman Bates: "It has been 14 YEARS since Quayle has left the public's eye."
*****

"Quayle pulled out of his bid for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination, citing health problems. In April 1999, he announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for 2000. In the first contest among the Republican candidates, the Iowa straw poll of June 1999, he finished eighth. He withdrew from the race the following month."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Quayle

**It has NOT been 14 years since Quale left the public eye. He left the public eye in 1999 when he withdrew from the Presidential race.


56 posted on 01/07/2007 10:52:02 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
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To: dc-zoo
"Cheney has no 'change'? I beg to differ. lol"

Maybe for $100, not for a dollar.
57 posted on 01/07/2007 10:52:11 AM PST by BW2221
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To: LdSentinal

I like Duncan Hunter too, but outside of my state of Cali, I doubt few have ever heard of him...after all politics is checkers not chess! LOL
I'd like to see Hunter run for U.S. Senate!
Lord knows we need to replace "Dumb & Dumber!" :-]


58 posted on 01/07/2007 10:52:32 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: HawaiianGecko

"I'm not sure what that means"

the obvious...countering the 'Rats Obama with Rice.


59 posted on 01/07/2007 10:55:34 AM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla
hg
"Lord knows we need to replace "Dumb & Dumber!" :-]"

Amen to that, although I have to admit Boxer finally did something intelligent this week by rescinding the honor she bestowed on Basim Elkarra, the executive director of the Sacramento chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

She said: "We made a bad mistake not researching the organization," Boxer told The Bee. "My organization created this problem -- I caused people grief, and I feel terrible, yet I need to set the record straight and I'm setting the record straight."

I can't think of many times in the past I've agreed with anything she's done.


60 posted on 01/07/2007 10:59:08 AM PST by HawaiianGecko (Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.)
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