Posted on 03/13/2007 5:25:25 AM PDT by Ouderkirk
The] "Hustle" may have been a line dance we did back in the days of disco, but today it's what GOP leadership and a complicit media are trying to do to the voters responsible for the Republican Party's successes since Ronald Reagan.
Realistic chances of winning notwithstanding, there are no fewer than 13 Republicans in the contest for the 2008 presidential sweepstakes. But to hear party leadership and the media spin promote the candidates, one easily gets the impression that John McCain, Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney are not just the only candidates, but that McCain and Romney are the opening act for Giuliani as he awaits his coronation.
This is a ruse, a con, and in brief, an attempt to hustle the voters. GOP leadership is trying to "Bob Dole" us. They have, in effect, met in the smoke-filled back room of a private club and decided amongst themselves who they want in 2008. Their problem is how to deceive the voters into believing that said pick is of the voters' choosing.
Their solution: hand pick the candidate, truncate the primaries, shove the candidate down our collective throats vis-à-vis the media's promoting, interviewing and discussing (ad nauseum) McCain, Romney and Giuliani, but in such a way as to always have Giuliani shine brighter. Then, when he has garnered the nomination, we the voters will be told, "Yes, it is true he is a little more moderate than we may like," but if we don't vote for him, Hillary will win and hell will freeze over.
To which, allowing that same has no basis in theological truth, I respond, "If there be a hell on earth, and it freezes over because I vote my conscience and Hillary wins, I'll walk on ice until the party lets the voters truly have a say."
Now, my scenario may not be completely accurate, but you can bet I'm not far off base. One thing is for certain of the 13 Republican candidates, only three of them are being touted and don't tell me it's the fault of the other candidates, because a week ago this same media (Fox News included) was trying to convince us that the corpse of Anna Nicole Smith was newsworthy.
I watched as Republican pundits, Fox News, GOP talking heads, and other cable news shows all downplayed the tremendous success of presidential candidate Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., in the South Carolina straw poll. McCain finished two votes ahead of Giuliani, who in turn finished four votes ahead of candidate Hunter.
Even though Hunter finished in a statistical dead-heat with each, garnering 24 percent, of the vote, Giuliani was declared "the clear winner" and "the presumptive Republican presidential favorite." While these comments were without question a slap in the face to McCain, it was Hunter who they chose to disparage the most.
After all, went the reasoning on Fox News, Hunter had his son campaigning for him the entire week before the straw poll to which Hunter, in classic fashion responded, "You know, I woke up to ... one of the commentators saying that the only reason that Hunter beat all those guys in South Carolina is because his Marine son has been there for a week. Well, I looked down at that army of consultants everybody who was vertical in South Carolina was hired by the other guys and I said, 'You know, that is a good match-up: One Marine versus 550 consultants.' We did have the advantage!" (From Hunter's speech given at Conservative Political Action Conference, Washington, D.C., March 3.)
My point is this: Giuliani is being touted as the "Nation's Mayor" and "the presumptive favorite" by the media and most of the GOP armada, but there are a dozen other candidates, and none more honestly conservative than Duncan Hunter.
But the armada and the media don't want you to know that. They want the voters to think there is a choice of one, and if we don't go along with said choice the sky will fall. They will tell us that our picks/choices can't win and we have to go with their guy.
It is not, however, about whether or not their choice can win it is about whether or not their choice is fit to win. I've seen Rudy as a prosecutor, I've seen him as mayor, and I've seen him dressed up in his blond wig with heavy eye shadow and makeup, strutting about in drag (1997 mayoral spoof of Victor/Victoria).
Now, I'd like to see the media and the GOP armada of talking heads consistently acknowledge that there are a dozen other candidates, and only one of them a true conservative.
If anyone is getting "Bob Dole'd," it is the RATs with Hillary!
Hmmmm! World Nut Daily! Nuff Said!
Great article - BTTT
Please do not mention this fact to the knee jerk doom and gloom conservatives. According to them there is never time to attack liberals and show their weakness but rather all the time shall be dedicated to attack the Republican Party and President Bush.
Precisely. Besides which it is my recollection that Bob Dole got the nomination because it was "his turn". This is not the case now; it is just that there are front-runners and not front-runners. It will all work out. The democrat party, however, has a problem. It really seems to be Mrs. Clinton, the wife of former and impeached president Bill Clinton's turn over there.
Great article.
Just wait until Rudy's abortion-warriors come stomping over here to treat you like they do babies, though. It's definitley not what humans would call "babying" though.
I think that McCain would be reminiscent of Bob Dole. The only thing Dole had going for him was that he was the senior Senate leader. That's the only thing McCain has going for him.
Can't scrub that abortion blood off your hands yet, can you?
Listen, there are primaries and who ever the voters decide to be the nominee so be it. This author is an elitist who thinks that the Republican voters are too stupid to decide who they want and thus they can be easily controlled by the Republican leadership and that they will be easily deceived to vote for the candidate preferred by the party leadership. On the other hand, this elitist is telling the Republicans Vote Hunter.
Yeah, we sure need a gun-grabbing pro-abortion and illegal immigrant gay loving draft dodger for president. NOT!
It's a good article IF one can get past that awful opening sentence.
Are you accusing another freeper of being an abortionist just because he supports Giuliani for President? Not everyone is a single issue voter. Giuliani is not my favorite guy but if he is the party nominee, every good Republican and conservative should vote for him because no matter what the other party candidate will be far, far, far worst.
Reading stuff on FR is kind of like riding in a car at high speed over rough terrain. On the rough road, you really don't want the wheels to make 100% contact with the surface all the time. Here, you have to just roll with the really bumpy sentence construction and hope you don't lose traction completely.
YOU ARE ONE SICK PUPPY! GET A GRIP MAN!
Giuliani is not my favorite guy but if he is the party nominee,
That is where we are. It's not even yet the primary season. I have no reason to read any further, now, do I. Giuliani should NOT make it past the primaries, and I will do my part to see that he and the band of scum who currently support him are stopped.
Look in the mirror. Supporting abortion lovers is what is really sick. When are you going to wake up to that fact?
When are you going to knock it off? You need to stop accusing people of sick stuff and get back to reality. You are worse than those extremists out there. At least discuss things and stop the personal attacks.
ANd if you want precisely that, keep on until Mrs. Clinton, the wife of former and impeached president Bill Clinton wins. And we will all thank you, no doubt.
Bullseye! This article hits the mark.
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