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Conservatives Are Being Picky To A Fault
The Columbus Dispatch ^ | 3/8/07 | George Will

Posted on 03/08/2007 9:47:36 AM PST by areafiftyone

Edited on 03/08/2007 11:17:18 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The axiom is as old as human striving: The perfect is the enemy of the good. In politics this means that insisting on perfection in a candidate interferes with selecting a satisfactory one.

Which is why the mood of many of the 6,300 people, lots of them college age, who registered at last week

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To: D-Chivas
You get rehab just for Thinking it?
21 posted on 03/08/2007 9:58:40 AM PST by eyedigress
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To: areafiftyone

Rejecting McCain is being about as picky as taking a raincheck on a $hit dinner.


22 posted on 03/08/2007 9:58:50 AM PST by Migraine (...diversity is great (until it happens to you)...)
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To: The Blitherer
"In other words- "Shut up and vote RINO!"."

Pretty much. "Don't complain that rudy is 80% liberal! You have to vote for him because only he can beat hillary and OBL!!!"


23 posted on 03/08/2007 9:59:09 AM PST by flashbunny (<--- Free Anti-Rino graphics! See Rudy the Rino get exposed as a liberal with his own words!)
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To: areafiftyone
Many at CPAC seemed depressed by the fact, as they see it, that the top three GOP candidates — Arizona Sen. John McCain, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani — are flawed.

Flawed??? Hells Bells they're NOT CONSERVATIVES.....PERIOD.

24 posted on 03/08/2007 9:59:18 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: flashbunny

More inside-the-beltway wisdom from the MSM's hand-picked caricature of conservatism. I love how being unwilling to give away 80% of the store 11 months before the first primary is "picky to a fault".

I'm sure Will's a big hit on the Georgetown cocktail party circuit. If I were a lefty, I'd welcome him with open arms, too.


25 posted on 03/08/2007 10:00:04 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Who likes polite Republicans more: Sandy Berger or Scooter Libby?)
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To: The Blitherer

Haven't you heard? The Giuliani train is going to Disney world. LOL damn this is sad.


26 posted on 03/08/2007 10:00:14 AM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: tearlenb
"not everyone is perfect" TRANSLATION "compromise your conservative values, vote for someone more liberal"

Exactly.

27 posted on 03/08/2007 10:02:10 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: areafiftyone
More Rudy shill swill from Will.
28 posted on 03/08/2007 10:03:00 AM PST by Spiff (Rudy Giuliani Quote (NY Post, 1996) "Most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine.")
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To: areafiftyone

The GOP is appeasing, pandering, moderating, acquiesing, compromising, and negotiating it's way right out of political power and right into the liberal socialist-democrats political control. Conservatives are not shifting away from the GOP. The GOP is shifting away conservatives by offering partially-conservative candidates. Under this politically suicidal approach whether the liberals win all at once or in small incremental shifts, the end result will still be the same. Conservatives must stand and draw a distinct line in the sand between conservative values and liberal values for the voters to choose from, or die a political death by a thousand cuts.


29 posted on 03/08/2007 10:05:20 AM PST by OB1kNOb (After 20+ LONG years, a REAL conservative I can support 4 President - DUNCAN HUNTER '08)
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To: areafiftyone

I'm waiting to hear what that other conservative journalistic stalwart David Gergen has to say I should do.


30 posted on 03/08/2007 10:06:10 AM PST by skeeter
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To: flashbunny

Will's infatuation with Rudy Giuliani's candidacy shows a callous desire to throw conservatism overboard in favor of a more progressive approach to GOP politics. From his recent rants, appears Will is slowly morphing into a Rockefeller Republican. A tendency he's shown off and on for many years. Will is just shilling for Rudy! LOL


31 posted on 03/08/2007 10:07:04 AM PST by Reagan Man (FUHGETTABOUTIT Rudy....... Conservatives don't vote for liberals!)
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To: AU72

I would. It might get me a date with Ann Coulter.

When you look at issues of consequence which define conservatives and distinguish them from liberals - the key word is Constitution.

Conservatives believe in it and consider a strict interpretation of it the best protection for our liberties.

Consequently, the Second Amendment, like ALL the amendments, are of great significance to us. So are situations like Roe versus Wade and the most recent edict from SCOTUS concerning eminent domain. All these issues impinge on a strict constructionist view of the constitution.

So when a candidate comes along and presents himself for support for office, but has an unrenounced track record of supporting Roe versus Wade, and opposing the traditional view of the Second Amendment, he is a hard sell. There is also the issue of illegal invaders and open borders and that amendment which, adopted after the Civil War to assure that American born ex-slaves were given citizenship, which has been distorted to present a free entry for illegal aliens.

Take all of this together and you have a candidate whose merits are highly questionable.

And I think you know who that candidate is.

But you can't beat somebody with nobody and unless Hunter gets moving or Gingrich stops playing coy, the Wall Street Machers and RINOS will have their way and that candidate will become the only choice we have as an alternative to the Wicked Witch of the East.


32 posted on 03/08/2007 10:07:59 AM PST by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: OldFriend
Do you believe that a single one of your heroes is pure?

No. That was my point. The commonality is that they aren't RINO dirtbags like the Rudy McRomney troika are.

33 posted on 03/08/2007 10:10:48 AM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: areafiftyone

The title search function does not work too well when every publication uses a different title for the same article ;-)

Interesting set of responses though... One moderately pro-Rudy, one very short and pretty neutral, and one where the ragers showed up in force.


34 posted on 03/08/2007 10:11:21 AM PST by RebelBanker (May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.)
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To: cripplecreek
The Giuliani train is going to Disney world.

On Gay Day?

35 posted on 03/08/2007 10:12:02 AM PST by America_Right (People should not be afraid of their government. The government should be afraid of the people.)
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To: mewzilla

I have voted for principled Democrats only to find they vote with Senator Reid. So, what did I gain?


36 posted on 03/08/2007 10:12:20 AM PST by Goreknowshowtocheat
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To: areafiftyone

We have met the enemy and it is us. Well, not me and you. :)


37 posted on 03/08/2007 10:12:21 AM PST by veronica ('My 80% ally is not my 20% enemy.' ........Rudy reminds us what Ronald Reagan said.)
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To: areafiftyone
Let me see..

I refuse to vote for an anti-gun rights candidate.
I refuse to vote for a pro-gay marriage candidate.
I refuse to vote for a pro-illegal alien candidate.
I refuse to vote for a person that thinks it's perfectly fine to pull a full term baby partially out of the mother's body and crush it's skull.

Gee, I guess I am a little picky.

38 posted on 03/08/2007 10:13:38 AM PST by Jaxter ("Vivit Post Funera Virtus")
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To: Goreknowshowtocheat

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. And I trust that people of principle have a better chance of doing what's right eventually than flaming liars.


39 posted on 03/08/2007 10:13:52 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: flashbunny
Pretty much. "Don't complain that rudy is 80% liberal! You have to vote for him because only he can beat hillary and OBL!!!"

That's the strategy that was test marketed in California's Gubenatorial race. Time for the national roll out of the new product line.

But, before you buy the shill swill, check out how well it's worked out in CA.

40 posted on 03/08/2007 10:18:30 AM PST by LexBaird (98% satisfaction guaranteed. There's just no pleasing some people.)
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