Posted on 12/31/2007 8:45:41 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I'd argue that figure is even smaller than that.
I haven't decided. We vote in 6 days.
One or two issues?
Huckabee - slap a pro-life and pro-gun on Hillary and there you go.
Romney - He doesn’t even have those two over Hillary (record, mind you, not rhetoric.)
There is no one else even close.
When John Howard lost (high interest rates) to the "Nerdy" Kevin "Greenie" Rudd in Australia's elections, it was a quiet time of passage and most Aussies just headed to the beach.
Let’s all get excited about Fred Thompson..
Fred Thompson on Debates ( video): "It was getting boring without me."
One needs a "catalysis" to "generate excitement".
This race is no more exciting then before, when Fred was playing the undecided card and toying with the idea of running. These Republican candidates better kick in with some kind of adrenaline enhancers, if they want to pull ahead of the pack.
In fact a little touch of "what Ron Paul has" in a more lucid dose, should be a Viagra quality they should be going for. Four hours of continuous excitement would sure be welcomed at this point (2008).
No favorite as yet.
Color me bored.
I know a lot of people here wish Fred was the only choice given to the voters, and that only his supporters were given the choice to vote. :-)
I wonder what will happen if Fred can’t get traction, and ends up endorsing John McCain.
BS, Fred would crush the beast or any dem....easy. All the others, RINO's Mitt, Huck, McCain, Rudy, would be crushed by the beast, they have way too much baggage and negatives.
If Fred was the easy kill, then why aren't the MSM and the dems pushing for his nomination eh? If he was the easy kill they would be doing every thing they could to get him the GOP nod. The fact is, they KNOW he would be very tough to beat and so they are doing everything they can to try and stop him early on.
True!
If God desires, he can intervene without us begging him to do so.
He is the only candidate from the current set that I would vote for, though I’m concerned about his approach to this race. He needs to kick it up a notch or three.
So you are really just a republican in name only, unwilling to support the republican candidate unless it happens to be your candidate.
BTW, EVERY person in the country, democrat and republican and independent and socialist, votes for the party’s nominee if it happens to be the person they support.
To be a republican in more than just name, you have to be willing to support the republican nominees even when they aren’t the ones you wanted.
Because if every republican took your point of view, we’d never elect ANYBODY.
BTW, your candidate will be working his butt off for the actual republican nominee, so you’ll really be stabbing him in the back by turning your back on the party he has joined and supports, and dragging him into your action by using his name.
Actually, Rachel, if this happens, the other candidates, except Hunter and Keyes, will still be “sucky and crap”. This is not about “my guy against yours”. For the life of me, I do not comprehend how a single conservative could support any of these other RINO’s. Hasn’t Pres. Bush sent you the message enough times that conservatives are fools to be dusted off and displayed every four years. What in the records of any of the Rudy McRombee “moderates” makes you confident that we will not again be stabbed in the back at every turn? Internationalism, open borders, high taxes, NEA support and leftist judges, for a start. This crew nauseates me, and will continue to churn my stomach even against a clearly more dangerous foe in November. Best, Bob
Fred Thompson could be elected President. Heck, Duncan Hunter could be elected President.
You are absolutely right, conservatives are a minority. But a majority of the people are just looking for someone to lead them, and a strong conservative who can sell conservative values could win election. I’ve seen strongly conservative candidates win elections by wide margins in places where you’d expect people not to buy the message.
Reagan won because he had a solid message and could sell it. I hoped Thompson could do that as well, but frankly he seems to spend too much time proving he’s not an actor, and not enough time selling himself and his message.
But he could fix that, and if he connected with the electorate, his conservative message could win.
Meanwhile, Romney has shown he can communicate the conservative message, and if it wasn’t for a lot of self-serving conservatives attacking him for what they think he used to be, would already have sunk Giuliani, Huckabee, and McCain.
Just made another contribution.
When the top 5 people are all under 20%, it seems clear both that each candidate has a dedicated base of support that isn’t ready to switch, and there’s a good group of people not ready to make a commitment.
McCain/Thompson. Together Again
Romney has a much better record on both pro-life issues and gun issues than any of the democratic candidates, and most of the republican candidates.
In fact, with Romney his record is actually much BETTER on the issues than some of his rhetoric.
If the worst happenns and there is no conservative candidate that I will write in the name of a conservative candidate. Whether Fred wins or not, will not change the fact that Rudy, Romney, McCain and the Huckster are flaming libs on way too many issues to get the vote of any actual conservative.
So, in response to your question what would I do in the situation you describe. I like many others would say, the RINOs are still RINOs and won’t get my vote under any circumstances.
Maybe they gave up because they decided there was no way he could get the nomination :-)
Pray that Fred finds favor in the eyes of Americans, and the people in Iowa, NH, SC, so on and so on.
Pray that GOD would send Fred much needed financial resources.
Pray for GOD to intervene for the sake of our country.
Pray that God will open up people's eyes to the one man who both knows what is right AND has the convictions and lack of personal ambition to do it, whether or not it is "popular."
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