Posted on 01/20/2008 5:04:20 AM PST by Nextrush
I said go for Fred in South Carolina because I wanted to give Thompson a chance to mix this race up.
But Fred fell short now and the main concern of mine is to beat McCain.
There's a media orgasm-coronation going on right now and we have to have straight heads to stop it.
Lets not infight and let trolls lead us atray.
Here's a serious look at how to defeat a man who's a virtual Democrat and a traitor to the conservative cause in this country.
McCain-Feingold made the First Amendment into toilet paper.
The law was designed to protect incumbent politicians by keeping little candidates from getting outside support to defeat entrenched politicians.
And we all have a list of what McCain has done to help Democrats and hurt Conservatives from the Gang of Fourteen on down.
Straight heads must prevail at this point.
I've heard two guys on two different networks (David Gergen on CNN, Bill Sammon of the "Washington Examiner" on Fox News) point out that Thompson is a "friend" of McCain. Sammon suggested Fred will endorse McCain.
That should settle the issue I brought up some weeks ago about Fred being a McCain front if it pans out.
Fred can't do much if he stays in right now but hold Tennessee which if he wants to run there on February 5th makes me happy enough.
McCain must be defeated by tactical voting.
I only hope Giuliani doesn't collapse from the media wave before we reach New York on February 5th. Its a winner take all primary and the only candidate who can take out McCain there is Rudy.
In New York and New Jersey on February 5th, I'm certain Rudy is the anti-McCain vote to defeat him there. You have to vote Rudy there to stamp out the McCain Mutiny.
Romney will contest Florida so vote for him there on the 29th to stop McCain.
Huckabee at least campaigned against McCain in the last few days in South Carolina.
The return the illegals pledge he signed along with on-air (MSNBC) criticism of McCain-Feingold I saw was clearly aimed at McCain.
But yes Huckabee always says nice things about McCain.
Maybe that's just his style.
If Huckabee is a shill for McCain, lets make Huck prove it by giving him wins and delegates in states where he is strongest. On February 5th, that will be Oklahoma, Alabama and or course Arkansas.
Back to Romney, he's the obvious choice in Utah, Colorado and Massachusetts on February 5th.
Romney should probably contest Missouri so you know who to vote for there.
Wouldn't it be nice if the native son of Missouri who's name inspired mine finally came out of the closet for Romney?
Is he fiddlin around while the Republican Party burns?
Emporer McCain and his media buddies are torching the place right now.
Focus your vote in the next few weeks on the strongest possible candidate in your state to defeat McCain.
Its straight heads time and I won't attack Huck, Romney or Rudy at this point because I'm not in the McCain helping business.
The grim task is to knock McCain down so hopefully a conservative alternative can rise up (that would probably be Romney). (ALL CRITICS CAN SHUT UP AT THIS POINT BECAUSE YOU ONLY HELP MCCAIN BY TRASHING ROMNEY)
But I will accept the other two as alternatives.
Get real, don't let the beltway crowd steal the Republican Party away from us.
THE ESTABLISHMENT CANDIDATE IS MCCAIN.
Guys like former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig, the Rockefeller Republicans are in the McCain camp.
Also President Bush's friend, former Homeland Security Secretary and PA Governor Tom Ridge is on the McCain bandwagon.
On Friday, by the way, Ridge called "waterboarding torture. That echoes the McCain position of course.
You’re somehow certain about who he’ll appoint. You must have ESP. You and everyone else knows who Clinton will appoint yet you’re willing to let that happen.
Those who stay home in Nov. will bear at least a small portion of the responsibility for future abortions allowed to go on as a result of Clinton judicial appointees.
yawn all you want - usually indicates a lack of oxygen to the brain - Y'all have a good time on planet Kolob after baptizing the dead in proxy and vote mitt all the way for all I care - Joe Smith was anything but a prophet, and if people lack the two nickles worth of brain cells to discern that - have at it LOL, it's your soul, not mine
Here are our choices:
Where has the Republican Party gone.? I weep for thee.
Voting for candidates who hold positions contrary to my own is not a principled decision. Anyone with a discerning mind can see that.
Look, feel free to vote for whomever you want. Just don't presume to tell me who should receive my vote, because unless you make a principled and rational argument your opinion will hold no sway.
I think the conservative media, including the blogosphere, has given us an inflated idea of how many people actually support “full spectrum” conservatism. The hopeful died-in-the-wool types supported Fred, while the pragmatists backed Romney. Together, they barey made up a third of the electorate in one of the most conservative states. That tells you something.
Neither stands on all three pillars of Conservatism, ad that is the problem. Reagan Conservatism is alive and well.
I and my wife are with you. We’ll never, never vote for McCain. There are enough like us to turn this election. So stand by for queen Hillary if this POS winds up as the GOP candidate.
Well the way McCain is treating the Surge in Iraq on the campaign trail you would think he invented the stadegy the same way Al Gore invented the Internet.
I still can’t believe people have forgotten McCain was in cahoots with Kerry as a possible VP on the Democratic ticket in ‘04.
And IMHO, McCain is using his Military Record the same as Kerry used his in the last election.
Too many similaries between McCain and the Democratic ‘04 Presidential Candidate JFKerry for my political taste.
BTW, why aren’t we talking Immigration Policy? It should be a big issue for the Republican Platform, yet it seems to be tossed by the way-side. It’s one of our biggest vulnerabilties in the War or Terror. Not everyone coming across our borders is Mexican.
True Statement - especially if you mean Bush the elder.
Most of us here on FreeRepublic are old enough to actually remember how the primary season shaped up that gave us Ronald Reagan.
Most of us here can be reminded to recall that Reagan had made a very clear statement to the effect that George H. W. Bush would never be an acceptable running mate, and yet just a few months later George H.W. Bush was in fact on the ticket with Ronald Reagan.
That primary season is almost a mirror of the one we're in now, except this time it's McCain who is the annointed successor of the media and the small minority of the GOP most of us would categorize as the elite of the party.
In that primary season leading up to the 1980 election, the MSM and the GOP elites wanted Bush and wanted Bush badly. He was clearly their guy and they pulled out every stop to push him over the top to make him the Republican nominee. The people prevailed, partially due to the "Reagan Democrats" although Democrats crossing over has been largely over emphasized, especially in that primary season. "Reagan Democrats" played a role in the general election, but in the primary season it was an outright revolt of the people within the GOP, a refusal to accept that globalist traitor CFR member known Bush 41.
Think a little and try to remember how that primary season went and then look closely at how they hung Bush on Reagan's coat tails managing to bring him into the Presidency after Reagan and how even Ronald Reagan's administration was influenced by the GOP elites. (anyone recall the first amnesty?).
It's not hard to see the trail or single out the Elite candidates of the last several Presidential elections.
Please don't let it happen again... bite the bullet, hold your nose, whatever you need to do for one of the other candidates, but do NOT let McCain waltz into that office.
Does anyone feel like they’ve been duped by Liberal Republicans the last 8 years or is it just me?
The primary concern, IMHO, is to beat both McCain and Huckabee; therefore, if it cannot be Fred, my first choice, I will go for Romney, my second choice. I would love to see a ticket of Thompson/Romney or Romney/Thompson, but I don’t think Fred would take second fiddle on the ticket.
I agree with your program. Defeating McCain is the next priority.
Sorry, I’m not gonna trudge out and vote for the slightly lesser of two evils. McCain is a big government, pro-amnesty, liberal. In his heart of hearts he’s for abortion and his supreme court appointments will reflect that, should he get in; but he won’t.
McCain’s nomination elects Hitlery.
Deal with it. I’m going to try to.
I used to pride myself on voting for the person who was BEST for the USA, that has always been Rep, except once when I was temporarily insane.
Now it has come down to voting for the person who will do the least damage to the USA.
Mitt is the one on the ballot. Not Joe Smith. Get over the hangup that voting for Mitt is somehow supporting Mormonism. Completely NOT related.
First, let's see if we can defeat McCain and Giuliani.
If we can't, then we can talk about a third party.
Huckabee and Giuliani are being written off for Feb 5.
This leaves Romney vs McCain.
(a Hobson’s Choice)
“Jorge gave them our party, and our America.”
You’re right. And it all started with his asinine policy of trying to “get along” with them, rather than view them as his mortal enemy, the enemy of our party, and the enemy of our country.
Of course, the reason he was so easily able to do this is that he doesn’t really have any core conservative principles to begin with, as illustrated by his immigration policy.
We have a chance to shape this election - and I agree with you. I feel that conservatives strengths and weakenesses are the same.
Their core values never change - that is their strength.
They fail to communcate those core values in a positive way. That is their weakness.
We expect our candidates to share all of our conservative beliefs 100% of the time. Since conservatives are not monolithic how can we expect the conservative candidates to be monolithic. When our candidate is not selected we tend to sit out the rest of the campaign season ensuring the liberals candidate will win.
We are against abortion - that is a given. Instead of spinning our wheels trying to make abortion illegal we should be spending our time making it illegal for physicians or anyone who helps with abortions charge for abortions. The pro abortionist should be willing to donate time, money and physicians to their cause. Roe V Wade did more than make abortions legal they took away the responsibility and the power of the male to help make decisions about the unborn child.
We need to fight like crazy for our candidate but when it is clear that the candidate is not going to win then we need to ensure the candidate selected has the most conservative values of all of the candidates and work as hard as we can to get that one elected.
It is clear to me that Romney out of the three remaining candidates has the best chance to win the primary and has the least amount of skeletons in his closet that Hilary can expose during the general election.
The other thing we need to be working on is balancing the exposing of Hilary’s true nature with ensuring the public knows the strengths of our candidate. We won’t win just by slamming Hilary.
Hilary tried to run against President Bush and found herself in alot of trouble. Mentioning President Bush 59 times in one debate only helped bring up his poll numbers and drive hers down.
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