Posted on 11/09/2008 11:54:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
God save the country and the GOP from this principles free, flip flopping, say-anything-to-get-elected, slime ball. We need to take this time in the wilderness to be RID of mushy, moderate pols that have no interest in furthering a REAL conservative agenda. And we don’t need to just keep falling back on guys that just happen to have enough $$ to fund their own campaigns.
Mitt needs to be buried. Along with all the other RINOs.
I wouldve voted for mitt over mcstain, for the simple fact that he was a businessman, he has owned businesses and knows how much the fed gov interferes with them. where as a senator knows jack all about running a business. but that is the ONLY positive I have about Mitt
Cruisin’ for a bruisin.
Romney's got an edge because he doesn't have to run for re-election like Palin, DeMint, and Jindhal all have to do.
The Democrats/liberals will be out to remove them electorally, and thus politically, from the scene.
Our efforts would be best spent discussing what we can do to a) close the 2012 primaries to Republicans only through the selection of a conservative and real Republican like Newt Gingrich as RNC Chairman, and helping those future conservative Presidential candidates, particularly Senator DeMint, to get reelected in 2010 than ruminating about Romney.
"Ruminating about Romney", kind of rhymes doesn't it?
Yep, it sounds like we still have loads of people who never learn.
When you run a RINO who acts like a democrat against a democrat, the democrat always wins. When you run a true conservative leader, you win. Governors preferred, just not RINOs.
I will not support Romney in 2012. Just saying now. Save the trouble, RINOs.
Yeah I’ll comment.
I supported Mitt in the primaries. For me, it was either him or Fred. Fred didn’t show much of a fight, so Mitt was my man.
The NY Slimes lead sentence in this article is crap. Mitt (and the rest) were scheduled to do this MONTHS AGO. So it isn’t like his plans were unknown.
I hope Mitt uses the next 2 years courting social conservatives. His economic credentials are pretty good, running a business, a government, a non-profit...but his religion and recent turnabout on abortion make him suspect among many. I hope he gets some more bonafides on that part of the spectrum—he’ll need the political support.
My 2 cents.
RD
the (former) gop’s, next big loooser
at least I won’t be suckered into sending money next time
the uSA will not elect this man president. ever.
Hillary Clinton stands a better chance and thats not a good one.
OK but, for any candidate, let's remember that Reagan was a self-admitted "Kennedy Democrat" before he became the great conservative leader that he was. And we should remember that frequently it is those who come to a group via conversion who are ultimately among it's great supporters.
WHO ARE THESE.... influential conservative leaders<?>
But why don’t you say what you really think? LOL ;^) You should know by now I agree with you on the Stormin’ Mormon.
Pitiful and counterproductive for the GOP, especially since it was Romney’s “former” people on the Straight Talk Express who began backstabbing Governor Palin even before the GOP convention.
That really doesn't hold water with me. There is a local, very successful businessman that also has his own investment business who voted for B.O. We were all flummoxed by this (small, very conservative Texas town). Businessman=commonsense does not necessarily go together.
We are facing a monstrous cult following, we're going to have to think outside the box and really dig into history to see how successful resistance movements operated. This is the same monster that has been faced in the past, just a different era with the added factor of instant info electronic tenacles reaching all over but the resistance is just as electronically adept.
Our efforts would be best spent discussing what we can do to a) close the 2012 primaries to Republicans only, through the selection of a conservative and real Republican like Newt Gingrich as RNC Chairman, and b) helping those future conservative Presidential candidates, particularly Senator DeMint, to get reelected in 2010...
That's what we need to do. Newt has effectively positioned himself to be influential with his 527, American Solutions. It's doubtful he'd accept the RNC chairmanship, though.
Hey, I’ve a great idea! Let’s let the states having the most influence on Republican primaries use an open primary. </sarc>
Some people are bigoted and hateful and still think they are Christian.
Not every one that say unto me Lord, Lord . . .
Not only are we facing a monstrous cult following, but we are looking at a PERCEIVED paradigm shift over the next four years.
What we know of as garden-variety, run-of-the-mill conservatism will begin to be painted as “out of the mainstream”, or “far right”. And though we gloat over our Dinosaur Media Death Watches, I think we have been reminded only too well about the power they still retain - since Barack Obama is their creation, and now the President of the United States.
The media did this, and the media will be working very hard to freeze out conservatism by glorifying the works of THE ONE and demeaning conservatives as far-right, creationist wackadoos [their words - not mine].
Throw in demographic shifts, voting buying through wealth-redistribution and government-funded voter fraud, and we’re facing nine miles of bad road.
Too soon to be thinking about 2012
Let’s focus on 2010 and let’s take back the house and senate
Palin won’t be attending because she has a real desk somewhere, and there’s a pile on it.
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