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Schlafly not keen on GOP frontrunners
One News Now ^ | 10/22/07 | Jim Brown

Posted on 10/22/2007 6:17:02 PM PDT by pissant

Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly is expressing strong dissatisfaction with the top-tier Republican presidential candidates. She also questions the validity of the results of the Values Voters straw poll on Saturday.

Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly says most of the GOP candidates who have been designated frontrunners are globalists. According to Schlafly, candidates Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, John McCain, and Mike Huckabee all "need to wake up" and realize they need the votes of Reagan Democrats to win.

"I think that's a great mistake for the Republicans. I feel that it's very important that they reach out to people on the jobs issue," Schlafly shares. "I was quite disappointed with the debate that was broadcast from Michigan, which is an economically depressed state, and they didn't appear to have any sympathy or compassion for all the millions of people who've lost their jobs that have moved to China."

In the straw poll taken over the weekend in conjunction with the Values Voters Summit, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney topped former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee by a mere 30 votes. Schlafly contends that Huckabee was the winner among conference attendees who heard the weekend's speeches.

"The straw poll was interesting," she offers. "People were able to vote on it even though they weren't here. They could vote for the prior two weeks before the conference took place and before they heard any of the speakers." And in her opinion, that means one cannot say a whole lot about the validity of the poll.

Schlafly believes all that can be deduced from the poll is that so-called "values voters" are still shopping for their candidate. And she says while social conservatives are divided in many ways, they all agree they cannot support a candidate who is not pro-life. The Eagle Forum founder tells OneNewsNow the only GOP hopefuls she is comfortable with are Congressmen Duncan Hunter of California and Tom Tancredo of Colorado.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: duncanhunter; reagandemocrats; schlafly; valuesvoters
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To: Hattie
Yes.

I fully agree with you.

We need to WIN at all costs.

Even if it means our country going to hell in a handbasket.

21 posted on 10/22/2007 6:35:33 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Visit this thread 1-hour from now. In that time, an average of 416.6 more ILLEGALS will be in the US)
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To: donna; pissant

If not a plant, then an anti-American, at worst, or an ostrich, at best.


22 posted on 10/22/2007 6:36:14 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: pissant
Schlafly not keen on GOP frontrunners

Join the club, Phyllis.

23 posted on 10/22/2007 6:36:30 PM PDT by pray4liberty (Watch and pray.)
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To: BfloGuy

On the one hand, she wants a social Conservative who appeals to values-voters, and on the other, one who appeals to job-concerned Reagan Democrats.

That’s a very broad spectrum. And, I’ll get clobbered for saying it, but Reagan didn’t quite walk the talk on social issues - looked who he nominated to the Supreme Court (Scalia - good; Kennedy and O’Connor - much less so).

Also, it’s primary season - candidates are trying to appeal to the base. That’s not where the Reagan Democrats live, by definition.


24 posted on 10/22/2007 6:36:58 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem - Ps 122:6)
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To: Abcdefg

*waving*

I salute ALL patriotic conservative Americans who put America and Americans first.

Down with the sell-outs and traitors!

: )


25 posted on 10/22/2007 6:37:19 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: pissant

I love that woman. Phyllis, I’ll leave my wife. Just say the word!

(only kidding folks - I have a wonderful wife)

She sure echos my thoughts though. She wisely hasn’t endorced, but there is plenty of time.

Duncan Hunter needs a boost. The guy is right there on all the issues. We need this man.


26 posted on 10/22/2007 6:37:57 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Old Chinese Proverb (well sorta) say dance with the one who brung ya. Yes we very much like Crinton.)
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To: roamer_1

More than twice, imho. : )


27 posted on 10/22/2007 6:38:18 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Your hand basket or mine friend? LOL


28 posted on 10/22/2007 6:39:15 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Old Chinese Proverb (well sorta) say dance with the one who brung ya. Yes we very much like Crinton.)
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To: pissant
"I was quite disappointed with the debate that was broadcast from Michigan, which is an economically depressed state, and they didn't appear to have any sympathy or compassion for all the millions of people who've lost their jobs that have moved to China."

Michigan is not just economically depressed, it's a quagmire of fiscal mismanagement by democrats and unions.

Frankly I don't have much sympathy since the good folks of Michigan haven't lost "their" jobs, they weren't "their" jobs to lose. The companies and corporations decided rather than try to navigate the state and federal tax code and shoulder the burden of a graduated tax scale they have taken "their" jobs and capital to where it gets treated better.

Maybe if the unions didn't take the companies' jobs for granted and hold up their employers like stick up men, the employers would have some jobs to offer the unemployed workers. Next time don't bite the hand that feeds.

I support Hunter too, Phyllis, but I'm a political prostitute this time, I'll give my vote to whoever opposes Clinton in the general.

29 posted on 10/22/2007 6:40:23 PM PDT by infidel29 (...no, actually rules are made to be followed, otherwise they'd be called "options".)
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To: DoughtyOne
Duncan Hunter needs a boost. The guy is right there on all the issues. We need this man.

Weren't you supporting Fred just a coupla days ago?

30 posted on 10/22/2007 6:47:31 PM PDT by Huck (Soylent Green is People.)
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To: Eccl 10:2
The so-called front-runners haven't hit the jets yet. I like either Rudy or Mitt for national defense and electability, and I think either one will govern, pick judges, and run the economy intelligently. Duncan Hunter is great but not electable.

Huckabee is doing surprisingly well. But I am not a fan. He waxes nonsensical on national defense and energy. He's not a pro-growth guy (which seems to be why Phyllis Schlafly likes him).

31 posted on 10/22/2007 6:47:40 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: Strategerist

I must share the same mental illness as I recognize Mrs. Schlafly’s messages of patriotism over profit, cultural preservation over cop-out and nationalism over neo-conservatism as being motivated by sheer old-fashioned love of America as it was and should be today: Reaganistic.

I also declare she would have been the finest example of the first female President of the United States. At eighty-something this precious national resource doesn’t need that kind of stress - but I would never doubt she had the gumption to go for it.


32 posted on 10/22/2007 6:50:36 PM PDT by NewRomeTacitus (It's Evening in America today - unless we act to counter the traitors.)
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To: Huck

Didn’t I tell you I wanted Hunter above anyone else, but didn’t want to see Fred knocked out of the back up position?


33 posted on 10/22/2007 6:58:38 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Old Chinese Proverb (well sorta) say dance with the one who brung ya. Yes we very much like Crinton.)
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To: nicmarlo
Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, John McCain, and Mike Huckabee

I knew they were globalist. These men listed, will not see our(family) vote.

34 posted on 10/22/2007 7:03:22 PM PDT by processing please hold (Duncan Hunter '08) (ROP and Open Borders-a terrorist marriage and hell's coming with them)
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To: JillValentine

Not quite, since she does not have mercantilist beliefs. You will notice Hunter being in the race has all the sudden made the free trader party very critcal of our trade deal with China.


35 posted on 10/22/2007 7:05:57 PM PDT by pissant (Duncan Hunter: Warrior, Statesman, Conservative)
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To: donna

That is pretty sad.

Everyone has various aspects to their personality.

Everyone has good and bad about them.

Have you not yet realized that?

The dangerous thing to do is to cede yourself and your views to another person. The minute you stop thinking for yourself is the minute you become a tool for another person to play with.

No one is above criticism.


36 posted on 10/22/2007 7:08:58 PM PDT by Air Force Brat
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To: Hattie

Yeah, she hung around with that dope Reagan all the time.


37 posted on 10/22/2007 7:09:29 PM PDT by the gillman@blacklagoon.com (I am a proud anti-invasion racist!)
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To: processing please hold
These men listed, will not see our(family) vote.

Nor mine, nor any family member or friend of mine, as long as I have breath to convince them these are no friends of America or Americans.

38 posted on 10/22/2007 7:12:22 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: Air Force Brat; donna

most especially those who resemble Benedict Arnold.


39 posted on 10/22/2007 7:13:27 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: roamer_1

LOL....I did not write this....this is definitely Mrs Schafly

Sure seems like a lot of my posts


40 posted on 10/22/2007 7:13:37 PM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (FantasyCollegeBlitz.com)
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