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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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How intellectually honest.
Wow! Thanks I appreciate it. How do you do a search on something like that? The author?
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?
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.
"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.
ROTF!
You might put Fred a little to the left of Hunter
Thompson supporters are welcome to correct me on this...
Mr. Will left the conservative reservation many moons ago.
I don't say that lightly. I'm not even a Christian, but the word "Amen" means a lot to me.
What I find inexplicable is the way so many FReepers have abandoned every tenet of conservatism to back Rudy.
"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!
Then I would buy a gun before rudy bans them once he's elected.
Maybe Conservatives just want a Conservative to be in the White House - duh!
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
Well... not all of them. Just the ones that a lot of us see as gutting the heart of conservatism as a political philosophy.
And on the subject of Specter, yeah, let's hear it for RINOs.
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.
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