Posted on 09/01/2007 1:41:38 PM PDT by Tears of a Clown
41.1% Duncan Hunter (534 votes) 20.5% Fred Thompson (266 votes) 16.17% Ron Paul (217 votes) 6.4% Mike Huckabee (83 votes) 6% Rudy Giuliani (78 votes) 4.7% Mitt Romney (61 votes) 2.2% Ray McKinney (28 votes) .77% John Cox (10 votes) .62% John McCain (8 votes) .46% Sam Brownback (6 votes) .46% Tom Tancredo (6 votes) .23% Hugh Cort (3 votes)
That is a disgusting group of unpatriotic scum.
I’m sorry you even had to see it up close.
Wrong. Ron Paul is not anti-war in the same vein as the Democrats. He supports a traditional non-interventionist foreign policy, no nation-building, and no foreign aid boondoggles. He wouldn't send troops to Darfur, for example, as a Democrat President would. Anti-war moonbats won't support him because their real agenda is pushing the U.S. towards global socialism and sending troops to their cause de jour
Also he is completely conservative on all the other issues. He would pull in a lot of Reagan Democrats, libertarian, and swing voters simply because he is better on domestic issues and government than all of the candidates combined.
So yes, even though he admitted he wouldn't run as a 3rd party candidate his candidacy should still give the GOP establishment the heebie-jeebies.
Amen. And Jeff Sessions ought to be a supreme court judge. The man is so thoughtful and loves the truth.
Wouldn't that be something.
Ginsberg, Souter and I believe Kennedy would probably go postal surrounded by conservatives. lol
NEW momentum? When was there ever any momentum at all?
BTTT...
Mr. McKinney and Mr. Cox impressed a lot of us with their good conservative values. Dr. Cort said he’d overturn Roe with an Executive Order if he were elected, and that blew any interest we might have had,since we don’t believe that would be possible and we aren’t fans of the whole “stroke of the pen, law of the land” deal.
There were all good men there and I would love to see some combination of the top two candidates.
(Although I believe we have men who earned their place and that any of them are better than anything the other side have to offer, I’m still hopefully waiting for the rise of candidates that aren’t older white men. We are the revolutionary party and our up and coming candidates are all qualified by much more than some “minority” status. And I’ll be glad when the day comes when those men and women are the front runners for President. Better yet will be the day when even people like me can/will only compare values and credentials because there’s nothing out of the ordinary for women and minorities on the top of the ballot. First, the credentials and experience, though, always.)
BTTT ...and with grammer repair for the tagline...
Hoping and praying for Hunter myself.
Still, the cost was high. Trees died, my view was blocked, and a lot of good conservative Republicans were very irritated.
To have all those little angry men (easily 9/10 were male), who had never joined to advocate conservative causes, who had never FReeped a dem or abortion clinic in their lives, come out and boo our Vice President, to refuse to applaud our troops, is unforgivable. An dumb. Wrong crowd.
Thank you. I pray for him as well. Can never hurt. ;)
It’s obvious that you and I have come to our senses. Let’s hope the rest of the Republicans will wake up too.
I’ve watched Dr. Paul for years, refusing to vote against limits on abortion. He can’t see that the reality is that we have to make incremental changes, place limits on what the Supreme Court declared a “right.”
He’s talking about a world without airplanes.
Paul wouldn’t have joined in D-Day since the Germans never attacked the US and I’d bet he would have joined the “troothers” for Pearl Harbor. ??Possibly blaming the US for the war on China?
He’d condemn the Berlin Airlift in ‘48 and certainly will never be Ronald Reagan, saying “Tear down this wall.
He’s ignoring the North Korean missiles that could be aimed at Alaska (not to mention Japan) and the possible sale of nuclear weapons to Iran.
He’s not commander material.
Put some ice on it. Rep. Paul is doing something we haven't seen since Reagan. Putting together a group from all sides of the aisle. Not playing to an ever shrinking base whose sole issue is bombing 3rd world nations, Dr. Paul is reaching out to everyone who believes in liberty and freedom. I realize these views are foreign to party faithful (along with the view of limited government) but a lot of us conservatives still believe in them
The men I saw were older. Most were men - in shaggy beards, orange, pink and green shirts.
I was worried about the numbers who didn’t applaud when we talked about marriage as one man and one woman. Some even missed the cue when Dr. Paul made prolife statements.
The biggest worry were the people outside trying to talk passers by into voting for Paul in the primary when they knew the person they were talking to were not Republican.
Of course, neither is Ron Paul.
From your keyboard to the rest of the entire Republican party.
Congrats to Mr. Hunter and his supporters.
You do realize who made that line famous and when, in what context? Or is it that you didn't come to FR until after the 2000 election, so you missed a bit of history?? Trust me, a FReeper should never say those words to a fellow FReeper. A male FReeper is an idiot or hateful beyond belief if he says it to a female FReeper.
It is a phrase that has been around for decades AFAIK that means very simply to get over it. But as I see you can’t, or won’t, address the issue that party Republicans have less concern for liberty, freedom, and limited government, you take one phrase and change the subject.
That’s the problem - hanging around with conservatives, but you don’t know what we’re about.
One of which is not reacting well to people who don’t applaud our soldiers, who boo our Vice President in public, and who say they’d take our troops out of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, *and* Israel so Bin Ladin won’t get mad. Not to mention not being able to tell us how far they’d back off for Saddam, Kim Chong Il, and every other little tyrant.
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