Posted on 03/04/2007 4:15:07 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Viguerie goes back to direct mail for Goldwater. He predates Reagan.
Why don't we cross that bridge when we come to it, I don't think Rudy will even be there.
As I said in my first post, my ultimate goal is to have someone who knows the right thing to do and will do it. I think Mr. Hunter passes that test with flying colors.
Bill
How well would Rudy fair in a toe to toe with a belligerent, hostile government spokesman, wearing a dress? Hmnnn?
Once moght have been funny, but multiples?
oh sure, let's dump the GOP >>>
they dumped us. maybe they need to be taught a lesson.
I think Fred Thompson was too much of a McCain follower when he was in the Senate.
Fred Thompson will be an interesting candidate. When he was running for the Senate, he wouldn't come out and declare himself as pro-life, but his votes were consistently good on the issue. I think he could hold many of the pro-life voters in the party, but he would lose some of them. In that sense, he's kinda like McCain.
Fred Thompson hurt himself with Republicans and conservatives when he was chairing that committee looking into illegal campaign contributions by the Chinese to Clinton/Gore '96. He should have stayed on target and nailed the Clintons on taking illegal contributions. If he had done that, we might have been able to impeach Clinton on bribery charges. Instead, he took the whole committee into some nonsense study of campaign finance reform. The general conclusion was that we needed all that McCain-Feingold nonsense.
Another factor that will hurt him is that he's one of the senators who voted against impeachment. If we'd impeached that piece of trash Clinton, we wouldn't be worried about Hillary getting the Democrat nomination in '08. We weren't close to the two-thirds needed to convict, but his failure to vote for impeachment is a stain on his performance as a senator.
Outside these details, I don't dislike Fred Thompson. I don't remember where he stood on illegal immigration. I'm afraid that he would support various amnesty plans as McCain does, and in supporting amnesty, he shows himself to be weak on border security. Anyone who is weak on border security is also weak on national security. I think he'd be good enough on tax issues. He wouldn't stand up against spending as we need, but I'm not sure that anyone else will either. He'll do well enough on the Second Amendment although his campaign finance reform stands make him suspect in the minds of most pro-gun and pro-life voters. I think he'd appoint pretty good judges to the Supreme Court.
If Rudy Giuliani weren't in the race, he'd probably be a frontrunner from the moment he entered the race. His masculinity gives him the illusion of being conservative, and that might put many conservatives in his camp. His being an actor would draw people who don't really pay attention to the details, and there many people who are too shallow to understand the issues but will vote for someone they like from TV. If Fred Thompson ran with someone like J.C. Watts as his running mate, he'd be much more likely to win than any combination that included either John McCain or Rudy Giuliani.
Bill
PS. He's the only candidate that I've actually met. The fact that I've met him doesn't change the fact that I'd rather have Duncan Hunter, maybe Tommy Thompson, maybe Newt Gingrich, or maybe even Mitt Romney in the White House.
We're all human, and we need to remember that power corrupts. Not all who claim to be "GOP" members are, actually, conservatives. I've heard it said that conservatism works every time it's tried, and I believe that's true. What has to happen to make it work is that WE let those elected "GOP"ers know that it's the American tax-paying VOTER who put them there, and REMIND them WHY they were elected in the first place.
It's because the voters BELIEVED in them. We know what we want and expect from our leaders. They know it, too. I think we just need to keep reminding them of it. It's too easy in the scheme of human frailty to forget, once you're in the thick of it.
I vote for "Mr. Smith". =)
Sorry but we are in the wilderness already with the GOP pursuing democratic or socialist light. W has been coffin nails for the republican party and his RINO buddies. 2006 election is just an indicator of things to come and we have got to get back on track with what wins for republicans and that is conservatism not open borders, out of control spending, corruption and RINO presidential candidates.
We have no guarantee of any such appointment, given the history of the Senate and previous Republican appointments.
"But in my view, the highest political principle is keeping Hillary, Obama, Gore and others out of the White House."
I think the highest principle is following what God instructs us to do, regardless of political fallout. That is what religious and moral principles are about.
That was a statement from 1996, when Clinton had moved to the center, declared in his SotU that the era of big government was over, and just after he had signed the welfare reform legislation.
I could support both Hunter and Gilmore, if they get the nomination. But some will refuse to do so. And because this election is so crucial, they need to be pushed to support the candidate. There will never be a candidate who satisfies 100% of the GOP. In a time of war, you don't have the luxury of being able to stay home, unless you're willing to make the country pay the price.
We have a presidential candidate who is just like Clinton with women, dresses up like a girl and lived with two homosexuals...
These same folks upset by Coulter would have us believe government should sanctify perversion with some honorable status equivalent to marriage.
I am tired of these people who try to pass some perversion of nature off as a normal thing. It is a fetish, a religion of deviance and I will not bend my knee in acquiescence to it.
I have lots of friends and family in NY. Many who are NYPD and FDNY, I don't know of any that will vote for Guiliani. Personally, they didn't like him when he was Mayor and they don't like the idea of him being President. My Dad, a die hard New Yorker and Republican said there is no way in he!! he will support Guiliani. I think it is quite arrogant for the RNC to push candidates that don't believe in the core values of the conservative voter.
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