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FreeRepublic will stand where it has always stood.
On its principles...
Instead of Broken Glass Republican it will be Holding Nose Republican.
Joseph Farah has an excellent piece on the death of conservatism. Read it at wnd. I believe it.
Here's one that will not vote for anyone for POTUS.
Now let's see where the Repubicans are in 2012.
2006 in spades!
A little early for panic don’t you think !
Let’s see where we stand after today, don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.
You don’t seem to comprehend what the talkers are trying to tell you - McCain, Obama, Hillary, Huckabee - all tools of Soros et. al. If any of these are sworn in in ‘09, that’s the end of talk radio, the Republican party, and the beginning of the end of the U.S. as we’ve known it. There is NO DIFFERENCE. Get it?
I’ll be voting for whomever the R nominee is. I do not want Hillary or Obama in charge of the military. They’ve sacrificed too much to do that to them.
Perhaps, if necessary, we can be a fertile ground for a new, optimistic and patriotic pro-America, capitalist third party movement.
And I am “assuming” Free Republic is not going to become the “elect Hilary/Obama” site?.....That is a reasonable assumption. No way in hell am I voting for bookend socialists who will appoint the most radical judges they can find.
Do you have your goodbye thread ready?
I suspect FR will be participating.
I am tired of people saying that Hillary would be a one-term president and we will have a glorious revival of conservativism like happened with Carter followed by Reagan.
The BIG difference is that we had Reagan at that time. He came close in 1976 and was ready in 1980. Who do we have now? The “conservatives” mentioned here, for the most part, cannot even get re-election to their own seats (Santorum, etc.) let alone move the masses.
Conservativism is a hard sell even under the best of times. Without a salesman the caliber of Reagan, it is not going to gain more than a slim victory.
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I will never vote for McCain, NEVER! Most of the conservatives I know feel the same way. I am willing to sacrifice this election to stand on principle. Maybe then we will have someone we can support in 2012.
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I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.
This, Sir, was the beginning of conservative resurgance.
We don't want a liberal.
Juan McAztlan is a liberal.
Here is the deal...
The GOP does not have the identity of leaders. We gave them both houses and the presidency and we did not get the basic wants of our platform. Tax reform, conservative judges, abortion eleminated.
When clinton was in office he could not get any of his agenda passed because the GOP is effective at blocking.
I hate that the GOP does not have the balls to lead, but if we lose I have more confidence that we can block bad policy rather than lead with good. So it really doesnt matter if Mccain wins or loses, or hilary wins or obama wins.
Here is another thing to consider. No one on either side of the the room likes mccain on a personal level. They think he is an A— hole. You can bet if somehow he did win, the senate would spend their time sticking their fingers in his eyes to get back at him.
This is just a no win election cycle.