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| the obvious...countering the 'Rats Obama with Rice. Wouldn't we counter a young, white, male, rookie with another young, white, male rookie? You're proposing an old, black, female veteran, the exact opposite. |
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 ...
NONE of the people named on this thread thus far have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. But if it makes you all feel better to live in a dream world, so be it.
This is a reasonable statement for Mitt Romney now, but I note that Romney is better known nationally than George W. Bush was two years before the 2000 election.
Romney's supporters don't have any concern about current name recognition because of what they believe will happen when he makes the first public appearances on the Primary campaign trail in head-to-head comparisons with other Republican candidates.
I know now exactly why they think this after viewing many videos for the first time this past week of Mitt Romney in various settings. Romney is an extremely impressive communicator in video media.
The immigration issue may well be moot by November 2008.
You know that this current practice of people nominating themselves to run for president based on a PR campaign is fraught with peril of leading to dictatorship. I think we should go back to party conventions and platforms. In addition to popularity then we would have the benefit of the opinion of those wh actually know a man and also the ability to extract pledges to uphold the platform. Shockingly, the Dems have been stuck with 2 candidates in a row that his colleagues in the senate disliked. That is nuts.
How did I guess you would ping me to this thread LOL
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| the obvious...countering the 'Rats Obama with Rice. Wouldn't we counter a young, white, male, rookie with another young, white, male rookie? You're proposing an old, black, female veteran, the exact opposite. |
"Boxer finally did something intelligent"
yeaaaaa...well one "something intelligent" hardly makes up for the years and years and years of that Lefty Loon's performance in the Senate!
If Rice isn't on the ticket in 2008, I'd still like to see her run for U.S. Senate from Cali...
Although the press has not caught up with it yet, Duncan Hunter is the one who should be on their talk shows today. When they started saying surge, he said surge Iraqis, and that is what is happening. Is it too complicated for them to understand that the Hunter doctrine has won out over the McCain doctrine? Oh, I know, they planned the shows before the news hit, so they go ahead as planned, ignoring the news.
HHMMM maybe all those photos on Dick Cheney on Daily dose LOL!
BTW this freak out MSN media here in the US OMG I want see meltdown ROFL
...ask his wives about that....
"white, male, rookie?"
"white?"
fyi, Barack Obama is uuuuhhh...African American
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| If Rice isn't on the ticket in 2008, I'd still like to see her run for U.S. Senate from Cali... She certainly has a tremendous talent to offer our country, but if I was in her position, I'd be dying to get out of the public eye and I bet that's just what she does. Our loss, but who could blame her. |
Hunter would get my vote.
I like Newt too, but he carries a lot of baggage. With the likes of Ickes and carville working for ole broadbeam, we will experience 24/7 pieces of Newt baggage, nothing about her except here and non from the msm.
Tommy Franks?
I have mentioned in other threads that Franks 'n Rice would be a great 2008 Blue Plate special.
SANTORUM 2008
In late September, Hunter was the guest of honor at a black-tie dinner in a hall at Washington's Union Station, where the hawkish defense group the Center for Security Policy presented him with its annual "Keeper of the Flame" award. Among those lauding him at the Center for Security Policy banquet that evening was Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who said the Pentagon relies on Hunter's "wisdom, his leadership, his experience and his 'get it done' attitude.'
"It is something when he comes into your office like a whirling dervish and starts discussing a subject first at the national level and then down at the microlevel, and then leaves you pieces of metal on your desk that you can hardly lift and has explained exactly where it goes, what it's for, why it should be there and then wants to know why it isn't. And God bless him for it."
Rumsfeld also said the U.S. is more secure because of Hunter. "He's never let the troops down, and as a result of his leadership and his hard work, our nation is a safer place today," Rumsfeld told the dinner gathering that included Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"The war for the Free World will be the most important issue in 2008 and a guy like Duncan Hunter who has a serious grasp on what is at stake will be in an advantageous position come primary season," said Frank Gaffney, who also writes a weekly column for the conservative Washington Times newspaper.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/11/05/news/top_stories/21_51_5611_4_06.txt
Chuck Yeager Endorses Duncan Hunter for President
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757517/posts
http://www.peacethroughstrengthpac.com/site/Viewer.aspx?iid=6941&mname=Article&rpid=2076
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| "white, male, rookie?" "white?" fyi, Barack Obama is uuuuhhh...African American For your information his mother is 100% white Kansas hayseed from Wichita. His father is Kenyan or African if you will. He was born in Hawaii and raised for about 10 years in Indonesia before returning to Hawai'i during 5th grade to be raised by his grandmother (maternal I believe) I didn't double check. So is he Hawaiian, Indonesian, African, Kansas, Illini or simply American? That he's 50% white and raised in a 100% white family would seem to qualify him as more white than black wouldn't it? If we claim him as white the Democrats can't parade him as black. That ought to pull a knot in their tails!!!!! :-) |
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