Posted on 01/31/2008 5:27:28 AM PST by pissant
Stop McCain now! Take care of the whackjobs and RINOs later.
Too little, too late. The Grand Experiment is finished.
Of course by doing that you preclude any late candidate you might want.
Consider if the primary season were stretched out like it used to be. At this point a Newt Gingrich could get in and that would transform the whole race.
As it is now unless you got in early last year and have the money you can’t do anything and the whole front loaded primary season keeps others from getting in that may be better.
No better example than this year’s lackluster group to chose from.
Exactly. When will we stop hearing about the "dying dinosaur media"? The dinosaur still looks pretty healthy. It keeps eating our lunch.
Many of those folks from NJ or NY were (or are) conservatives running from liberals.
I did just that , and the DNC caller got all sputtery!
I told them it would be a cold fay in hell that I would give a plug of already chewed tobacco to the RINO party, let alone my hard earned cash!
I gave to Duncan Hunter when he needed it , but thats water under the bridge. No more money for any of those ijits who think they can slack spike a party by nixing its conservatives. Hunter and Thompson were cut out of televised debates and the RNC didn't even twitch on their behalf.F'em
I won't even think about giving money or supporting the RNC until I see Tom DeLay as an executive officer of the RNC.
As far as this election goes, the RNC and all their jumped up ijit candidates can talk a long walk of the shortest pier they can find.
I'm done with them.
If they don't have enough sense to nominate a conservative at the Republican convention, then that will be the end of the Republican party for 2 more elections cycles. 8 years of dems folks. Read it and weep!
They allowed the perfect to be the enemy of the good. Not only that, but they seem to have no idea about the process of making amendments to the Constitution. They need supermajoritys in Congress and the states to do it, and that won’t happen in my lifetime. However, getting rid of Roe vs. Wade and throwing this issue back to the states could have happened, but won’t with the candidates being McCain vs. Clinton.
As opposed to Hillary? Right....
CFR? Campaign Finance Reform? Or, the OTHER one?
I’m curious...how many FReepers wish we didn’t have political parties?
I believe the party has abandoned my principles.
You are correct in your analysis, however if the Republican party would get back to keeping government out of our lives, cutting taxes, ending a lot of this entitlement spending, I think that is a few things many youth can agree on. Those are the things that draw them in, social conservatism generally comes later when they have kids although not always the case. Just my opinion anyway...
You can’t sell what you don’t believe in. And the GOP long ago stopped believing (if it ever did) in conservatism.
If the electorate has become more liberal, it is because they haven’t had anyone teaching them like Reagan did.
Agreed. The “leave me alone” conservatives have been forgotten in the rush for power and money.
We may have to fight this one out on the Convention floor in Minneapolis this summer.
Time to resurrect the Bull Moose Party
'When _I_ use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less.'
Mecaca ruined everything. That was our Reagan. Then again Reagan would not have been that dumb.
RICK SANTORIM
Maybe he can be VP?
but we are whistling dixie chits here....TPTB are in control and they really don't care about "us"
I can't believe that people are demanding immigration changes and protection of our borders but that is all a non-issue apparently...
the sad fact might just be that MORE people are leftist and holding their hands out then we thought...
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