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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: Dead Corpse
Oh so your flawed guys are better than others' flawed guys.

How intellectually honest.

61 posted on 03/08/2007 10:51:37 AM PST by OldFriend (KNOWLEDGE FOREVER GOVERNS IGNORANCE)
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To: Carry_Okie

Wow! Thanks I appreciate it. How do you do a search on something like that? The author?


62 posted on 03/08/2007 10:55:33 AM PST by areafiftyone (RUDY GIULIANI 2008 - STRENGTH AND LEADERSHIP)
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To: OldFriend
Flaws in their personal lives are one thing. Flaws in their reading and understanding of the Constitution is entirely different.

Rudy, John, and Mitt are all three anti-RKBA. All three have either made statements supporting gay marriage, abortion, eminent domain abuse, further government meddling with the free market, and other liberal talking points.

Ron, Tom, Duncan, and Newt have not. What ever else they might be, they are CONSERVATIVES. Not RINO's.

If you can't see the difference, then what the heck are you doing here?

63 posted on 03/08/2007 11:00:54 AM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: mikeus_maximus

In all due respect, I have to disagree with you. NOTHING is more important than the national defense and sound fiscal policy. My family's safety comes first, before any litmus test on where a candidate stands on social issues. In other words, I'd like to live in safety to spend my miniscule piece of the economic pie, before some terrorist (empowered by Democratic weakness) suicide bombs himself at the local mall.


64 posted on 03/08/2007 11:02:50 AM PST by Ciexyz (Is the American voter smarter than a fifth grader?)
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To: Dead Corpse

"Not RINO pipe dreams for a Pyrrhic victory."

You mean like this?Conservatives DO NOT support big government.
Conservatives support limited government.
Rudy supports big government liberalism.

Conservatives DO NOT support gun control.
Rudy supports gun control.

Conservatives DO NOT support an assault weapons ban.
Rudy supports an assault weapons ban.

Conservatives DO NOT support abortion on demand.
Rudy supports abortion on demand.

Conservatives DO NOT oppose a ban on partial birth abortion.
Rudy opposes a ban on partial birth abortion.

Conservatives DO NOT support special rights for homos.
Rudy supports special rights for homos.

Conservatives DO NOT support amnesty for illegals.
Rudy supports amnesty for illegals.

Conservatives DO NOT support the notion that humans are a significant cause of global warming.
Rudy supports the notion that humans are a significant cause of global warming.

Conservatives DO NOT support Campaign Finance Reform, AKA. McCain-Feingold.
Rudy supports Campaign Finance Reform, AKA. McCain-Feingold.





65 posted on 03/08/2007 11:03:19 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
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To: Spiff

ROTF!


66 posted on 03/08/2007 11:04:09 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
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To: upcountry miss
..on a scale

You might put Fred a little to the left of Hunter

Thompson supporters are welcome to correct me on this...

67 posted on 03/08/2007 11:04:50 AM PST by WalterSkinner ( ..when there is any conflict between God and Caesar -- guess who loses?)
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To: areafiftyone

Mr. Will left the conservative reservation many moons ago.


68 posted on 03/08/2007 11:05:49 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Newt Gingrich/John Bolton 2008)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
Amen...

I don't say that lightly. I'm not even a Christian, but the word "Amen" means a lot to me.

69 posted on 03/08/2007 11:06:33 AM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: areafiftyone
Help vanquish Rudy McRomney...



Freepmail me to join the Duncan Hunter Pinglist

Freepmail seanmerc to join the Veterans for Hunter Pinglist

Contribute to Duncan Hunter's Presidential Campaign -- http://www.gohunter08.com
70 posted on 03/08/2007 11:08:12 AM PST by Antoninus (I don't vote for liberals, regardless of party.)
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To: Dead Corpse

What I find inexplicable is the way so many FReepers have abandoned every tenet of conservatism to back Rudy.


71 posted on 03/08/2007 11:13:17 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Misery loves miserable company.......ask any liberal. Hunter in 08!)
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To: flashbunny
"Democrats have scant interest in federal gun-control legislation"

So, what George Will is saying is that the Democrats are more trustworthy than his "chosen" candidate? So we should feel safe?

I fully believe that if JulieAnnie is elected there will be a flurry of new legislation proposed. Lobbyists & legislators will be saying "Rudy's election proved that guns are no longer an issue", "Abortion is no longer an issue", "Immigration is no longer an issue", etc. Battles long won will be renewed. All of these social issues that we are told to overlook to get Giuliani elected will come under fire.

Each spectacular gun crime (like the amish shooting or the mall shooting) will bring a flurry of demands from HCI & the VPC for JulieAnnie to do something to protect us. And he will. He will put "common sense" restrictions into place to "protect the children". The BATF will adopt a zero-tolerance policy toward even the most minor issues. You will see GUNSTAT and "Quality of Life" enforcement on petty gun crimes (paperwork violations). He will take the photo-op, standing arm in arm with Sarah Brady, proclaiming a new future for the country free of senseless gun violence. And people will lose their gun rights.

Politicians on both sides hate the gun lobby because they fear it. That fear needs renewed.
72 posted on 03/08/2007 11:15:26 AM PST by FreeInWV
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To: Jaxter
"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."

Just to let you know, rudybots consider you psychotic for posting that.
73 posted on 03/08/2007 11:16:17 AM PST by Dstorm
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To: areafiftyone

"How do you do a search on something like that?"

Like you don't watch each and every article posted here for "Rudy Relevance"? LOL!


74 posted on 03/08/2007 11:19:46 AM PST by FreeInWV
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To: Ciexyz

Then I would buy a gun before rudy bans them once he's elected.


75 posted on 03/08/2007 11:20:52 AM PST by Dstorm
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To: areafiftyone

Maybe Conservatives just want a Conservative to be in the White House - duh!


76 posted on 03/08/2007 11:21:22 AM PST by free_life
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To: FreeInWV; areafiftyone


From National Reviews "The Corner"........


Another Potential Giuliani Advantage [John Podhoretz]


One of the reasons people were presuming Rudy might not be running a few months ago was his failure to begin organizing in primary states. McCain, we were told, had locked up so many donor networks and county chairmen and the like that you had to consider him the frontrunner even though the polls weren't showing that to be the case.

That may have gotten it exactly wrong. Here's why. What McCain has done over the past year is expensive. He's had to spend money and promise to spend more. Meanwhile, the entire dynamic of the primary next year is changing dramatically.

We may be in a situation in which California, New York, New Jersey and Florida all have their primaries on the same day — February 5. What does this mean? First, candidates are going to need a colossal amount of money before 2008 begins. And I mean colossal. They're not going to be able to throw their $20 million at Iowa and New Hampshire in hopes of getting a momentum boost that opens the money floodgates even more widely — because they're not going to have time to wait for Iowa and New Hampshire.

Here's a little-known fact about political advertising on TV: It has to be paid for in advance because campaigns go out of business very quickly and have been known to welsh on a debt or two. Therefore, TV and cable stations won't run your ad without a check that goes through first. You want to buy time in the New York City, Philadelphia, Miami, Orlando, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego media markets all at the same time? You're going to need lots and lots and lots AND LOTS of dollars on hand to do so.

McCain's organizing efforts over the past year may have been overtaken by events. By saving on the dough in the early going, Rudy may have figured out a way to leapfrog over the McCain advantage in organization.


03/08 02:18 PM


77 posted on 03/08/2007 11:21:52 AM PST by Blackirish
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Well... not all of them. Just the ones that a lot of us see as gutting the heart of conservatism as a political philosophy.


78 posted on 03/08/2007 11:28:03 AM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: areafiftyone
Senate debates habeas for Gitmo detainees

And on the subject of Specter, yeah, let's hear it for RINOs.

79 posted on 03/08/2007 11:32:49 AM PST by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: areafiftyone
I typically pick one word particular to the title and search by date and then repeat it with another if it's long. Using literals on the whole title is too subject to minor error and editorial license.

The other thing to try is to just look down the sidebar. A guy like Will or Steyn only publishes one article at a time and almost always ends up on the FR sidebar, but because they are syndicated, the individual papers can monkey with the titles. So, if you see something that looks related on the side bar, just click it to be sure.

80 posted on 03/08/2007 11:44:04 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The fourth estate is the fifth column.)
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