Posted on 01/31/2008 2:09:25 PM PST by Jim Robinson
My friends, I have to admit that I've been in a bit of a quandary since the Real Conservatives ® Thompson and Hunter dropped out of the race leaving us to to place our bets on one the four headless horsemen. But after having a day or three to sort it all out, I'm beginning to see a ray of hope.
Number one, my worst fear that the pro-abortion, pro-gay, anti-gun social liberal Rudy Giuliani might be nominated, and thereby bring an abrupt and unholy end to the pro-life conservative movement within the GOP has been allayed. His evil culture of death platform has been soundly rejected by the Republican voters. Thank God! If nothing else is gained, that alone is a huge victory for us!
And that leaves us with the unwelcome slippery task of having to determine and select the least evil of the three remaining RINOs. But wait! When choosing between evils, why not choose the good?
McCain is insane and there are many good reasons not to choose him, but I'll list just five: McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy, McCain-Lieberman, the Keating 5, and the Gang of 14. No thanks. McCain is out!
Romney ran on a pro-abortion platform, is pro gay rights, is prone to BIG government solutions, promises anything to anyone for a vote, and flip-flops on important issues. Can't trust him.
Now Governor Huckabee. Could this be the good vs evil? He's a Baptist minister. A genuine 100% pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, Southron Christian social conservative!
And that would be my reason no. 1 to support Huckabee. He has the trust and backing of the Christian evangelicals and the support of the Bible Belt. You cannot win the presidency without the South, and I believe the pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-America Mike Huckabee is the most likely of the three GOP hopefuls to carry the South. And that's a pretty darn good reason!
My number two reason is that he is NOT McCain (and that's a pretty darn good reason too).
Number three (and this will be a tough one for a lot of my FReeper Friends) is that he is NOT Romney.
Numbers four and five are he's NOT Hillary and NOT Obama. Oohrah!
Number six, he plays a mean bass and he's a traditional favorite at Free Republic's infamous quadrennial Inaugural Balls in Washington, DC. Perhaps we could persuade President Huckabee to drop by our ball and perform his rocking rendition of "Sweet Home Alabama!" Now, wouldn't that be a hoot!
Number seven, if we can keep Huckabee in the race all the way through, thus preventing McCain or Romney from gaining enough delegates to win the nomination, then maybe, just maybe a deadlocked convention might seek out another candidate. One who can re-unite the Reagan Coalition, save the GOP, and put us back on the conservative track. Of course, my personal favorite to be that man would be FRed Thompson.
Woo hoo!!
Let it ring out through grassroots America and on to the convention! Support life! Support the GOP! Support Huckabee! And re-draft FRed Thompson!!
Never give in, never give up, and never lose hope.
Long live the Reagan Revolution!
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That very well could be, but I see none of these candidates have distinguished themselves to properly understand the function of government. Thou shall not steal which is essentially what is taking place with the encouragement of this illegal invasion is listed among that same thou shall not kill as is bearing false witness.
I do not see any winners when it comes to the test against the 10 Commandments.
BTW - Whoever gets the nomination I will vote for...including Huck.
That’s like finding a lawyer in the yellow pages.
Well, the handwriting is on the wall. The majority of our members now see Mitt Romney as the lesser of the three evils.
How this can be, is bewildering to me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_w9pquznG4
Don’t know of anything that is more evil than government sponsored abortion. And RomneyCare makes it taxpayer subsidized as well. We are moving on to the era of government funded abortion mills. The all-consuming culture of death is running full bore and Republicans are jumping onto the bandwagon in droves. The fear of Hillary is turning us all into what we hate. God help us.
As am I, but I am still going to do whatever I can to get my 3rd choice nominated. It is what happens after, if Romney falls to McCain. That is where my deepest concern lies.
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This sentiment is just pathetic.
What an utter expression of party weakness that we can't select a nominee after nearly two years of trying.
Goodbye GOP hopeful.
You people who think that somehow a brokered convention will result in a completely different candidate than competed until the end are seriously delusional.
Go find a Ross Perot or something, because you're too stupid to even vote in the Stupid Party.
Oh, so Republicans are supposed to vote now based on anti-business demonization and anti-Mormon religious bigotry?
click on Mass., your excuse for Mitt was lame.
Are you asking me if I think a politician will lie to the voters to get elected? We may be delving into that enchanted area where Republican=Democrat. I think David Brinkley, who saw through the Kennedys YEARS before anyone else in media, once said there were areas where there isn't a dime's worth of difference between Republicans and Democrats.
I live in Minnesota. Norm Coleman is my Senator. He has NO soul. He would climb up a tree to shout a lie rather than stand on the ground to whisper the truth if he thought it might garner one additional vote.
I've been pounding the pavement for Republicans since 1993. This will be an easy year if McCain or Huckabee were to get the nod. Huckabee is a joke. If you need to sign pledges to placate your base, you can't be trusted as far as I can throw a piano.
McCain has been deliberately insulting me, personally, at least since 1999. I may me forced to vote for him, but I'll be d**ned if I'll work for him.
The same may be true of Romney. To me that requires more study.
I was out of town and away from any news source last week. I caught up last Sunday. It was a true let down to discover that both Thompson and Hunter were gone. If someone like Huckabee or McCain gets nominated I might sometime have to paraphrase Ronald Reagan: I didn't leave the Republican Party, the Party left me.
With Super Tuesday before us, this is all premature. I'm a caucus convener in Minneapolis and need to scare up the flak jacket before next Tuesday. The few Republicans in my precinct like to vent, and I'm the lightning rod. Next Wednesday we will have a better handle where we are going. I'd sure enjoy the opportunity to get excited about our prospects.
$50 abortions under RomneyDon’tCare and a recent re-endorsement of embryonic stem cell research that puts women’s lives at risk.
Thank you for standing stalwart at the gate.
Mitt has run throughout 2007 as the pro-life anti Roe v. Wade candidate. Your above statement is misleading.
Look, I’m not a Romney fan, but I detest Huckabee and McCain. I’m a Republican and Romney is the best choice left. A vote for Huckabee is a vote for McCain, and I would never do that. if McCain get the nomination I will leave that slot blank and maybe even change my registration to independent. McCain is playing conservatives for fools and Huckabee is helping him.
Do you know of ONE incident where the President gave an executive order banning all abortions? We have had a pro-life President for eight years. What has it gotten us? Supreme Court appointments are where this is headed. It will be decided in the courts. So forget Huckabee and his populist rhetoric. It should be in the hands of the states. That is what Fred Thompson said and he should know. We didn’t have the good sense to nominate Fred, so now we’re stuck with what we have.
We took too long to support one conservative candidate.
It’s just a fact. While we fiddled, Rome burned.
Divide and conquer. They did, and we are.
The only question in my mind is whose plan was it?
My thoughts exactly...in fact I've had a few post exchanges already with FReepers who have tried to claim Romney was either "mildly pro-abortion" or was morally against abortion but legally in favor of maintaining the law. My response to them was:
You can answer a questionnaire quite impersonally from afar; he didn't have to go out of his way to try to "cement" endorsements from child-killing orgs like NARAL by meeting with three NARAL execs (Source: http://www.weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/013/222htyos.asp)
Secondly, if he wasn't heavily pro-abortion, why would he try to pique the interest of the NARAL execs by pointing to his eventual higher political aspirations, saying, "You need someone like me in Washington"? [Source: Weekly Standard]
Thirdly, if he wasn't so steeped in his position, why did he then go even further out of his way, after already netting two pro-abortion endorsements, to personally telephone Majority for Choice (Spring, 2002). Again, from The Weekly Standard: That spring, Romney also personally telephoned the group Republican Majority for Choice and asked for its endorsement. Completing a questionnaire similar to those of other pro-choice groups, Romney got what he wanted from the pro-choice Republicans. His campaign trumpeted the endorsement with a press release.
His 2007 statements (read my post carefully) shows he has not delineated sharp distinctions between a pro-life and "pro-choice" position. (He also mischaracterized his previous years' position)
There's no way you can take all his 2007 statements together and claim they are all true.
Dr. Willke's fervent support should help erase doubts about Romney's commitment to the pro-life cause, which has been questioned due to his former position in support of abortion when he was governor of Massachusetts.
Said Romney, "I am proud to have the support of a man who has meant so much to the pro-life movement in our country. He knows how important it is to have someone in Washington who will actively promote pro-life policies. Policies that include more than appointing judges who will follow the law but also opposing taxpayer funded abortion and partial birth abortion. I look forward to working with Dr. Willke and welcome him to Romney for President."
Dr. Willke, helped found the National Right To Life Committee and served for 10 years as its president. Dr. Willke serves as president of the Life Issues Institute, Inc., and president of the International Right to Life Federation."
bethtopaz said...
I am deeply disappointed in you, Jim Robinson.
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