Posted on 07/20/2008 9:07:44 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
Once upon a time, people who wanted to be president were not expected to admit it in public. This mask of false indifference had to be dropped when the rise of primaries forced candidates to campaign actively for the office.
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The sneer factor from the Romneyites is now off the charts.
The new face of the once-great Republican Party.
A Vichy conservative.
Stop your whining already.
If you want to promote a liberal like Romney on this rightwing website, to be the next VPOTUS, expect conservatives like me to get in your face!
Today, tomorrow and always.
So what does that say about Reagan?
Think I’ll try out a new tagline...
Interesting that Romney's-cultists, unlike most FReepers,
do not really support the GOP candidate (unless he miscalculates and takes their Liberal-wannabe-flipflopping-socialist candidate).
Here is an important factoid for any reader. Neither do terrorists.
Go in front of the mirror flex your muscles and shout “I am a purist conservative and I am holier than those RINOS”. Then come back and type with anger telling me how pure you are and that McCain is going to lose because he did not appease the purists. Go ahead and do it you will feel better. Vent my angry purist, vent. You are so irrelevant that all what you are left to do to is to shout on the internet and listen to talk radio.
Yeah. Reagan would be dumbfounded.
Exit, stage left.
Wake up. Reagan was a conservative, not a pragmatist.
LOL
"Join me in a dream of a California whose government isn't characterized by political hacks and cronies and relatives--an administration that doesn't make its decisions based on political expediency but on moral truth. Together, let us find men to match our mountains. We can have a government administered by men and women who are appointed on the basis of ability and dedication--not as a reward for political favors. If we must have a double standard of morality, then let it be one, which demands more of those in government, not less."
-- Ronald Reagan
"A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers."
-- Ronald Reagan
Just because I don't hate conservatism like you do?
That sneer is coming from pseudo conservatives.
Real deal conservatives know better. To your point.
Willard and Ted at the Romney-Care signing.
Is that why he vetoed every overblown appropriation sent to him by Congress?
What was it Reagan said about politics and sausage? It was something pragmatic, as I recall.
You have the 'bottom line' in your tagline.
Sen. McCain can win by avoiding candidates that offer little
and are mainly divisive, and instead pick someone like Gov. Palin, the logical choice
that will encourage women to crossover in large numbers.
Was this it?
"A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers." -- Ronald Reagan
What I don't suffer is the delusion that we have many conservatives left among the politicians currently in Washington, or among those running, and speaking of them as if they are conservative, will further dilute the meaning. I don't go for misplaced cheer leading either.
I wear the purist label with pride, along with the knowledge that I can bend to make do with what I have. But the banner must remain aloft, reality maintained in the back halls. We must remind those not acting as conservatives but trying to claim the mantle that we are aware, we know they are falling far afield, and for now that will work for them because that is where we are as a country. Either the light stays lit, or it is lost to history, which will be a sad state indeed when things go to hell.
As far as this site, I think you will find more pragmatism, but not delusion. Like me most will show up and vote Republican, but again among ourselves, we suffer no false ideas that either of the guys are conservatives.
"I'm not running as the Republican view or a continuation of Republican values.
That's not what brings me to the race."
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)
"Join me in a dream of a California whose government
isn't characterized by political hacks and cronies and relatives
--an administration that doesn't make its decisions based on political expediency
but on moral truth. Together, let us find men to match our mountains.
We can have a government administered by men and women who are
appointed on the basis of ability and dedication
--not as a reward for political favors.
If we must have a double standard of morality, then let it be one,
which demands more of those in government, not less."" -- President Ronald Reagan
"Look, I was an Independent during the time of Reagan/Bush.
I am not trying to return to Reagan/Bush."
(Mitt Romney, 1994 Senate Debate, Boston, MA, 10/25/94)
"A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency or simply to swell its numbers."
-- President Ronald Reagan
"I'm very clear I think, to the people across the Commonwealth -
my "R" didn't stand so much for Republican as it does for reform."
(Romney Video, accessed 9/19/07)
I'm not bowing to anyone. The fact is, we have a weak nominee who'll likely serve only one term. Unfortunately, I don't see anyone other than Romney who could fill in as President after McCain's term or if the unthinkable happens to McCain.
Yes, the GOP needs to overhaul their primaries, send the liberal Republicans like Rudy McRomney packing early, who shouldn't have ran to begin with, which would have paved the way for a real conservative such as Hunter or Thompson.
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