Posted on 02/25/2008 3:24:25 AM PST by MarineMom613
If Ralph Nader can jump in this late in the game Why can't a Fred or Rudy jump in on another line just to get on the ballot. If there are better choices name them. I am just curious. Everyone is unhappy with McQwain. Just asking. Don't flame me for mentioning Rudy. I just used him as an example. If we have a terror threat right before the elections, both of them would be alot better choice than McQ.
Sure they can. But, just like Nader, they wouldn’t win.
Sure, if they have the money. They will get none from the RNC.
Romney and Thompson have enough of their own money, and some support. But, both have thrown support to McCain.
It is hard to see how an upstart campaign by a Conservative independend could have any other effect but hurting John McCain and electing the Democrat in November.
Now, there are a lot of folks here at FR who seem to think that is a good idea. I am not one of them.
Agree completely. The last thing we need is a repeat of 1992.
Somebody can always mount a write-in campaign, but formally getting on the ballot requires meeting a wide variety of various state laws, qualification requirements, and timeframes; not to mention that the chance of anyone on the conservative side running as an insurgent candidate at this stage would have zero chance of winning.
No we don’t need a candidate that will drain away ten percent of the conservative vote. What we need is a non-McCain, non-
Barak/Hillary vote that can win. I’m not sure that will happen, but if it does I’m on board.
Don’t count Squirrely Huckabee with Soro’s support.
He’d probably say he got the money from a winning lottery ticket purchased at the Quick Trip in Hope.
This would certainly be an alternative, a conservative running for President would be wonderful indeed.
Liberal lite is such a disappointment and being railroaded the the NE liberal rinos with NE liberal rino pre picked candidates is wrong indeed, not to mention crossover voting of liberals and moderates for McCain .
A conservative running for President would help soothe the rage of the adamant conservative against the socialist power brokers of the GOP indeed!
[Agree completely. The last thing we need is a repeat of 1992.]
This same talk went on in 1992 then and the GOP tried to elect a liberal lite then. History does indeed repeat itself as people like to think things will change for the better under liberal lite, and it just won’t happen even if McCain is elected.
Eff Huckabwee, but I would love some Hunter, but I guess he’s not “acceptable” unfortunately.
If Rudy or Fred didn’t have the fight in them to go through the primary, why would you image they’d work any harder in the general election? I’m disappointed in both of them for dropping out so soon and not making this primary more of a fight and less of a rollover for McCain.
It’d be nice to have more than two parties to choose from, but I don’t see it happening with any success any time soon.
Sure they can. But, just like Nader, they wouldnt win.
And, just like Nader, they would guarantee that the candidate that is most unlike them will get the White House.
In the 2000 Presidential election, Ralph Nader got 97,000 votes in Florida, many times more votes than the margin by which Bush won in Florida. That was the vote difference that gave Florida and the Electoral College and the White House to Bush instead of Gore.
You want to give the White House to a man that has promised to bug out of Iraq leaving the region that contains 70% of the World's known oil reserves in the military control of suicidal Islamist Iranian mullas who are seeking nuclear weapons and ICBM's to deliver them to U.S. soil so they can be guaranteed an Eternity in Paradise because you think John McCain is not "conservative" enough or you just don't like him.
Unlike you or the Islamist nutjobs, neither Fred nor Rudy nor Mitt are suicidal.
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Obama 13 months ago:
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Hillary 13 months ago:
Published January 17, 2007 ........ Hillary Clinton opposes Iraq troops 'surge'
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Troop Surge, Iraqis Anger Puts al Qaeda On the Run
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Ummmm, where did I support doing anything to guarantee an Obama win?
My problem is that I can't think of any potential candidates, who could really excite the base and run a great campaign.
"Upon further review, the challenge is upheld and the ruling on the field is overturned. The replay demonstrates that the poster did NOT advocate such actions but only asked why others would not take it."
"The reply is now changed to, "Unlike the Islamist nutjobs, neither Fred nor Rudy nor Mitt are suicidal.'"
"First down!"
In 2000, Nader gave Bush the election over Gore. Eventhough Nader got only 1% of the vote, it was more than enough to help Bush win Florida.
Buchanan got a necessary ~3000 in the right place in Florida. That’s all you need.
At this point, I’m not totally sure I really care anyway.
Maybe you feel the same?
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