Posted on 01/10/2008 3:40:52 PM PST by Jim Robinson
My guess is that it will be a McCain/Thompson ticket. Can you live with that?
We do not need a Conservative Party any more than we need a libertarian party (other than to drag the moonbats away from the GOP).
Your intended refusal to vote GOP in November will not cripple whatever candidate is actually nominated (and we all know to an absolute certainty that paleoPaulie will NOT be that candidate, now don't we, since the only voters now are the real ones and the pipsqueak is being serially demolished as was his obvious fate. Nor will the destruction of paleoPaulie and his Paulistinian legion harm the GOP in any way. The only surprise was that John F'n Kerry, given his track record of treason, endorsed Osama bin Mama and not paleoPaulie.
I’m praying it won’t come to that, but...
I’ll vote for the Republican nominee.
You do know that Mary Matalin (James Carville’s wife) is one of McCain’s chief advisors, don’t you?
People who “know” Matalin have told me that she “really isn’t all that conservative in real life” - lol. What a surprise. (rolls eyes)
Voting for McCain would be almost like voting for Hillary.
My ranking is:
(1) Fred — the best! As a statesman he might end up comparing with Ike and Reagan.
(2) Duncan — a very good man.
(3) Mitt — great executive experience, a clean personal life, and could turn out OK, or even better than that.
(4) Rudy — a great NYC mayor, a tough leader for the WOT, and sticks to his unpopular positions.
(5) John — might appoint better judges than a Democrat, but he seems slightly nuts.
(6) Mike — Pardons any killer or rapist who yells Jesus, raises taxes instead of cutting spending, believes in a federal nanny state and the constitution be damned, wants to give tuition breaks to illegal aliens, uses the name of God to troll for votes, still soliciting wedding gifts after 20 years, supports a crackpot 30% sales tax scheme.
I’d vote for one through four. John is a maybe. Mike, no chance.
Not me. He's got NEW YORK balls and street smarts. I'm so sick and tired an GOP pussies. Rudy at least won't get rolled.
Yep!
(See my tagline)
Well, you are the boss, so I experimented with Plan B and I damn near broke my neck. ;>) I have never had that view and I am damn sure not going to do it again. ;>)
I do appreciate your thoughts on all of this, but when it comes down to it being the Dems vs any of what’s left, I feel the best with Romney.
Huckabee makes me sick, I see him as a Bill Clinton without the B/J’s(so far), and the dems will eat him for lunch.
I detest MaCain for too many reasons to list...back stabbing 2 face as$hole is enough for me to cut him out.
Romney may have his issues, but I do think that he will give the job his ALL. He will move heaven and earth not to leave that Office as a failure and he just might feel like he owes his future to those that helped to hire him. I am going to cry like a baby and swear like a drunken sailor if he proves me wrong, but I think that under the circumstances that you have presented, Romney is our best bet. AND yes, I love my guns, I don’t like gays, yada, yada, yada.
Rudy...Well, I don’t want him, but if it came down to him being the only one standing....well, no I do not want to vote for him, BUT I will cast my vote for that goof in hopes of keeping Obmamabam and that Wretched Beast out of my life. Truth be told, I would vote for Peter Pan if I thought it would help keep the Full Blooded Dem Traitors out of the White House.
Paul...well he just needs to be medicated, given a fly fishing pole and sent down river.
Louis Freeh (former FBI Director) is working for Rudy’s campaign.
You are right. Huck has been saying fine things about McCain for a couple of weeks.
John / Billybob
After all, the R's in congress will have a say in how a RINO runs things to some extent, should they find their spines..........
Myself likewise.
The two party's are no longer diametrically opposing.
They are both moving in the same direction.
It's a question of which party is the hare and which party is the tortoise.
Oh, the Boston tea Party, and American revolution are arcane notions? How sad. Both embody exactly what I’m talking about.
I’d gladly put my name on another Declaration of Independence, without regard to what fate might await me. Its the right thing to do!
If we don’t stand for something (freedom, prosperity and liberty for all), we’ll fall for anything - with thanks to Aaron Tippin
I'm not content to allow the results in two states, let alone a starkly "blue" New Hampshire filled with sad old fashioned Yanks who have demonstrated their prejudice against southern Conservatives time and again, and Iowa, God Bless 'em, with whom I have more in common but together with New Hampshire do not constitute a Mandate of any kind. At this point in '96, Phil Gramm ran up against that prejudice in New Hampshire and we were all crestfallen knowing Old Bob Dole was to be "the best we could offer to face down the criminal Bill Clinton.
The Republican Party I joined to fight what I correctly saw as a clear and present danger in the avowed Socialism of the Democrat Left has, after the success handed to us by Ronald Reagan, followed the path of all successful revolutions. "Self-Continuity Functions" have crowded out "reason for being functions," to the point where the self continuity has become its reason for being, and we are in need of the Revolutionary Zeal that brought us to the point where there really was "two sides" to American political dialog, when we can both remember when there was only one. As Robert Service wrote, "we kept our heads at the famine, and lost our heads at the feast."
From the disappointment and disdain for these choices between Socialism and Socialism Lite, and the clear cry for "unity" and "an end to bickering" that is uniting the Democrats behind achieving the Peace of the Common Grave... for Conservatism, that Fred Thompson deserves our support, and a victory only we can achieve together. Here's one supporter of Fred Thompson who will not be dissuaded from supporting him because Conventional Wisdom has declared him dead. He has offered, I have accepted, and I'm with him to the end. Otherwise, unless Congressman Hunter rises sufficiently in the delegate count, too many of us may pull the lever for "anybody but Hillary or Obama," but not enough spirit will remain to overcome their Electoral Advantages, and solidify our own. It's clear Hillary and/or Obama may very well win regardless of the clear conscience some might achieve by voting for her opponent.
We'll still be in the same (DELETED) house, regardless.
To me, you've essentially said we have no choice but to fight for our movement, embodied in the candidates we still have left. There is no other way, aside from a season in the wilderness where we may divide the opportunists from the genuine article. It may be suggested that this alternative is the only way to restore our Revolutionary Zeal.
I do not mean to suggest, either, that we lose to win. Far from it. I say we fight now, today... for the Conservative of our choice. I will not go down without a fight. America is at stake, and for Libery (and who but Fred and Duncan have mentioned "Liberty?")
I can't support Huckabee because I feel he is a misguided proponent of a strange, rationalized and Protestant kind of "liberation theology," as dangerous and damaging to the future of Individualism, with its freedom and responsibility, as Mrs. Clinton's warped Marxism. He is just as dangerous for the historic stream of scholarly Protestant Christianity as it is for the Republican Party's long term future.
If that means the wilderness, than we will continue the fight in the wilderness, in the state Houses, in the County Commissions and School Boards...wherever men have swallowed the lie that their love and charity should be defined by their generosity with other people's property.
I made my decision for Fred and sent him my Widow's Mite before and after he joined the race. I'm a FredHead, and will remain so until he pulls out or wins.
The Battle of South Carolina may pretty much decide that one way or another, I guess. I'm fairly certain he will hold out for Super Tuesday, but he's a man of integrity and may likely pull out without a miracle in South Carolina if he doesn't have the support to compete through the rest of this plainly ridiculous Primary scheme.
Although I (REDACTED) I just don't know enough about about Congressman Hunter, but I'm glad to see we're on the same page about Fred, so he must be a good egg.
For the "conservatives" who remain; for whom the Reagan Achievement is a mere inconvenient fashion statement, but who have demonstrated, time and again, that, to them, Republican "conservatism" is a mere Mantra, and still would treat men and women as the Potter does the clay, just Socialism Lite... I am not yet prepared to change my opinion after two small states have spoken through reedy voices and compromised balloting.
Sir, with respect... "I still say it's spinach," sir. And I still say "to hell with it," sir. FRED'08 - A Clear Choice for America.
I’d write in Hunter.
I said this recently and I’ll say it again...I didn’t leave the democrat party so I could vote for liberals from the other party.
This seems to be an endorsement of McCain to me. Throwing in the towel already? A sad day.
The four horsemen of the Apocalypse? I'm only half joking (or a quarter or an eighth).
Ugh. Better off picking a random name out of the phone book for this election.
Not to mention Bill and Hill = Ahab and Jezebel.
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