Posted on 01/10/2008 3:40:52 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Well spoken.
Bible believing? One must know what the Bible says, and the preacher class have NEVER done very well in that area even back to the days of Moses and Aaron. Nothing new under the sun. Oh and wearing the symbol WWJD is not Biblical.
bttt
Thanks!
Might wanna check those elected in Montana lately and who is moving there. Montana is sliding left. They have a very lefty senator.
If nothing else, Thompson put off answering the question for at least another week, perhaps longer depending on how he fairs in the SC primary.
I’m eagerly awaiting polling data - with a skeptical eye due to the NH errors - post debate. Lets see if Thompson ‘connected’ in a big way as a result.
Lets also see if Huckabee’s ‘momentum’ didn’t take a big hit as a result of Thompson’s performance.
Game on.
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Amazingly correct.
Do unto others as we would have them do unto us is the standard Jesus gave us, so the correct question in all situations is actually "How would I want to be treated"?
Yeah, SONNY (nic) let that be a lesson to you. lolololololol Ya gotta love it, nic. ;)
Howdy, count. Keep yer powder dry. lol
Actually, I think it's the other way around - the Democrats would prefer to run against the most conservative possible Republican (in FR terms) as their polling tells that that the more "moderate" the Republican, the worse a Democrat runs against them, and this is true for all three Democratic front runners, someone like Duncan Hunter is the Democrats' dream opponent, and John McCain is their nightmare:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/national.html
I know his is contrary to the opinion of most posters here, but that's what the polls are telling Democratic strategists, and they are going to go with the polls.
Senator Klinton is totally beatable by about 3-4 of those guys. Her negatives are going to be a big factor.
Note that, in Post 485, I did not even mention "Republican" or "Democrat". Such labels are irrelevant as political party characteristics change from election to election, especially in these times when Oprah-influenced voters and not political bosses in smoke-filled rooms make the choice on who will be the standard bearer.
I look at candidates the way Jim did in this "then what?" thread: Issue by issue and candidate by candidate.
My primary issue is not losing the war through Commander-in-Chief surrender. The stakes in the Persian Gulf are of the highest magnitude. Imagine the future of America with 70% of the World's known oil reserves having been abandoned to the military control of fanatical Iranian Islamists with dreams of martyrdom who are actively seeking nuclear weapons and delivery systems.
These are not strategic stakes that you can be f***ing with.
Putting a Commander-in-Chief in the White House who will not allow that to happen will be my Number One priority.
I will NOT be throwing away my vote in protest in an act equivalent to putting "Ronald Reagan" as a 2008 write-in vote. That is the ultimate in political narcissism. I WILL cast my vote for a VIABLE candidate so that I can at least put some measure of sanity into the final choice.
If, by some national Republican psychosis, Ron Paul is the Republican candidate for President, I WILL be voting for Hillary in November since at least I know that Hillary is not stupid enough to think that isolationism will magically protect Washington, DC and New York City from nuclear tipped Islamist ICBM's.
As far as "Right to Life", the irony is that voting for a liberal Bible-thumping Baptist preacher that uses religion as a campaign tool will galvanize the 50% of the U.S. electorate that almost put Al Gore in the White House and put the hard-core liberal in the White House instead of the Not Pure Enough judicial conservative who would put "original intent" Justices on the Supreme Court who could overturn Roe v. Wade and leave things such as abortion under State control as the Tenth Amendment intended things not mentioned in the Constitution to be. With with a few more Ruth Ginsburg clones on the Supreme Court, Roe v. Wade will remain the law of the land for decades to come.
What you see on FR is a microcosm of the GOP, although more weighted to libertarianism. That’s why the GOP is in a heap of trouble.
Make no mistake, the Reagan coalition is in deep recess if not over. For most folks around here it is just romanticism. Reagan would be very unwelcome on FR, the home of Curmudgeon Conservatism.
Thanks for the ping!
Your options have already been limited by the time you've reached that point, and you have a choice to make between a RINO as the R nominee, and the Marxist D nominee. I'm saying that I'll vote for the R nominee before I'll sit at home, or vote for the Marxist D. I may not have much influence with the R, but the chances of influencing the actions of a RINO are better than the zero chance we have of doing the same with a D.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the scenario offered, if so, I apologize.
I would vote for any of them with the exception of Ron Paul. And when the ‘electable’ candidate doesn’t win I will then remind those who said a certain candidate was ‘unelectable’ and then I am all for Duncan Hunter leading a new party.
And I don’t understand the harshness towards Romney if FRed can change.
-no campaign contributions to candidates
-no coat tails for the senate or house of representatives
-no volunteers for candidates
at that point it would be darn close to game over.
“Rudy fails in all categories, McCain and Romney fail on guns, and all fail on borders. So I guess Huckabee has more to offer over the others at this point as he is at least pro-life and pro-gun.”
Good analysis. Makes sense to me.
If we can’t have Thompson, at least Huckabee is solid on the other issues. With the Border, a lot depends on popular pressure and public opinion. WHoever gets elected CAN be pressured to come over to our side, even if its through COngress. A LOT of Dems and independent voters are anti-illegal aliens.
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