Posted on 02/05/2007 4:55:12 PM PST by Jim Robinson
To quote the former Secretary of Defense, "you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want".
Let's get Rick Santorum to run!
And who is that? In other words, Hillary wins.
So, the article puts forward the "plan" of conservatives abandoning the field, picking up their ball and going home?
Not sure how effective that will be, but I'm pretty certain the Cindy Sheehans and Jane Fondas of the world would love it.
Rudy is going nowhere fast.
Hillary is scary because she carries some BS legitimacy that will be connected to her sleazy ersatz husband who did somehow not lead us all into destruction.
The media is her ally, and despite the medias abandonment of truth, justice, and the American way, they still wield a whole lot of clout among the unwashed.
I think Mitt will get the Republican nod, unless some unanticipated funding comes up for the legitimate good guys who are largely unknown still to the masses.
It's a question of going over the cliff at 100 mph or 50 mph.
It would be nice hear a major candidate discussing the brake pedal.
That's probably the reason Santorum was the Dems' top priority pelt.
Has the strategy of destroying something in order to save it ever worked?
I think it's partly because the lamestream media has become RABIDLY anti-conservative and will never allow another great conservative like Reagan to achieve national prominence.
You know, if you don't have your principles intact anymore & it's just "win at any cost" - then you still lose at the end of the day. Some of us aren't willing to go down so quietly.
The flood comes to mind.
Good and clever point.
Republicans are not the "conservative party", but they are the best thing currently standing between Hillary and the White House.
(God help us!)
"When the American people abandon their longstanding traditional conservative family values and instead openly embrace socialism and perverted lifestyles, then America has moved left and is obviously no longer a traditional conservative nation."
Sadly, at least in my life time, 'when' started with Carter and quite frankly continues today because true Conservative values are not center stage of what remains of the Republican party. We can blame the Liberals and should, but the failure to successfully take the fight to them belongs to us. We need another RWR, bad.
If Rudy/Romney is elected and carries out a conservative agenda, will you post a vanity saying you were wrong?
Social conservatism belong at the local and state level, your family, your community, your church. I believe that if you cut taxes, cut government, and promote national & border security, the social issues will take care of themselves. People aren't going to have abortions or use drugs.
Well, there are social liberals and then there are social libertarians. The former could be distinguished by their collectivist bent, the latter by the individualist one. Following von Hayek, one could submit that the dividing boundary between the leftists of all stripes and the conservatives proper happens to be collectivist/individualist, and not anything else.
You know, I think we are placing too much emphasis on "Hillary" - she is not the only enemy & in talking with some of the liberals I know, she is not their favorite candidate. That's a crazy strategy - to put all your chips on one card - most of the libs I know like Edwards & Obama - they hate Hillary.
The winning strategy is being true to our principles, anything else is a sure-fire loser.
I would disagree with you on one point -- Reagan didn't have the press on his side when he ran, either time. An articulate, attractive, positive conservative of national stature can speak over the press and connect with the American people. But who are the truly national conservative leaders? I can't think of any. Again, I think we've done a horrible job grooming new leadership.
Thanks for being a lightning rod in an ether full of stormy clouds.. ;-)
It seems many in Both parties are infected with this head-long rush to be joined together again with our European counterparts, forgetting why we broke away so long ago..
"So, the article puts forward the "plan" of conservatives abandoning the field, picking up their ball and going home?"
You must have been reading something I didn't see?
If we were to speculate between the lines.....I read that we need to stop promoting far left liberals and trying to sell them to Republicans.
In most cases going third party is little more than staying home, the outcome will be of as much value. ( none)
We need to stand up and see to it that people get a choice if they vote Republican. We can't have a liberal as our standard bearer.
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