Can We Please Give It a Rest?

National Review (the corner) ^ | 8/17/07 | Rich Lowry

[rodomila]

HE IS SO RIGHT. LET'S STOP EATING OUR OWN.

[asparagus]

Couldn't have said it better myself. Liked Mitt's response "I'm tired of people being holier than thou because they have been pro-life a lot longer than I have".

On the other hand, a lot of the mistrust is coming from members of Congress failing to follow through on campaign promises. So in a way, its a good thing that conservatives are keeping our politicians' feet to the fire.

[w1andsodidwe]

I agree. Any republican running against Hillary has my vote. The stakes are too high. Let’s not lose the WOT because our candidate is not pro abortion enough. Amnesty is my number 2 issue, but WOT must be won, or what else really matters.

[MARTIAL MONK]

I don’t buy it. Too many times a pig-in-a-poke has turned out to be a hog-at-the-trough.

[Iam1ru1-2]

It appears party cannibalism is innate in the GOP. It appears this party should keep Ronald Reagan's "11th commandment":
"Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican."

[familyop]

Duncan Hunter for President!

[Drango]

But the characteristic Kerry flip-flop—voting for it before voting against it

Ron Paul submitted a shrimp earmark before he voted against it.

[2ndDivisionVet]

I’d agree if Rudy MCRomney were conservatives. THEY ARE NOT! Electing Rudy, in particular, would be worse than Hillary. Conservatives would be galvanized to fight HRC’s leftist agenda, whereas we’d be told to “go along” with Rudy’s similar legislation.

[M Kehoe]

LET'S STOP EATING OUR OWN.

Methinks after the primaries.

5.56mm

[LilAngel]

Those RINOs are plenty pro-abortion enough for me. That’s the problem.

[SeafoodGumbo]

I wholeheardedly agree with this piece, but this statement

. But I guess if [Giuliani] decided to oppose amnesty, conservative flip-flop police would attack him all the more.

is wrong. My biggest problem with Giuliani is the illegal immigration thing. He would win points with me if he opposed amnesty.

[donna]

I remember the hours spent analyzing exactly what President Bush meant when he said he was a “compassionate conservative”.

It turned out that it meant big government in cooperation with Ted Kennedy.

Fool me once...

[Gabz]

Liked Mitt's response "I'm tired of people being holier than thou because they have been pro-life a lot longer than I have".

That's about the only thing he has said that I am comfortable with.

Romney is and always has been far too much of a nanny-stater for my tastes.

His stance on abortion, in fact any candidate's stance on the sunject, is so far down on my "litmus" test list as to not even matter.

[narby]

Now, after excoriating Romney for becoming pro-life...

People just love to be holier than thou.

[saganite]

He’s wrong. Their record doesn’t back up their words. Wouldn’t it be a shame if we elected someone who went back on his word after he was elected? I prefer to look to their past record instead of their present rhetoric.

[longtermmemmory]

We have every reason to distrust election year epiphanies.

How many times do we have to “accept” a move to the right to win an election, followed by a post election shift to the left. (read my lips etc., clinton’s allowing homosexuals in the millitary effort, HILLARY CARE!)

Trust but verify.

Guilini continues to be a NYC goverment lawyer seeking a political office.

Romeny’s shift just follows an anti-video game initiative and is hot off his one man race victory.

Could it be that these candidates are concerned a new player in september might overshadow them?

I wish to thank these 11th hour election day conversions. It will help remind pundits of the following.

1. The Mainstream IS conservative
2. DINO trumps RINO
3. You can’t fool all of the the people all of the time.
4. Big lie theory is only a temporary solution
5. The MSM wants to control the message and hates scrutiny.

[EricT.]

How do you tell the difference between cheap pandering and changing one’s core principals?

[gubamyster]

ping

[skeeter]

Sorry, but there is nothing wrong with pointing out deeds that don't match words.

After all, we hated it when Clinton did it. Nothing has changed.

[longtermmemmory]

This is kind of like Hillary Clinton saying she is against homosexual based marriage.

100% unbelievable.