Posted on 04/20/2009 2:47:17 PM PDT by pissant
Many conservatives regard Mitt as a rino. fyi, Mitt has helped a lot of republicans fund raise and they have included conservatives and moderates both.
I like Mitt. He’s not a RINO. He’s a genuine “moderate” Republican and a decent Christian man.
Yeah Mitt drives me crazy. He is a RINO but he does try to help some good conservatives. A real shame because I think Mitt is a decent man and he is smart.
I think the other RINOs like Specter and Juan McCain are scum.
ZULU, I don’t wanna be in the position of defending moderate Republicans but what you said in your post cuts both ways.
Over the years, I’ve seen quite a few conservatives take a hike or sit on their hands when one of their own doesn’t win nomination.
I prefer to invoke Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment when faced with a Republican candidate I may not ideologically agree with.
Ideally, that’s what we should all do.
I am a conservative first. If the Republican Party comes to represent Democrat Light as many “moderate” (read “Liberal”) Republicans wish it to be. it has no reason for existence.
I can only point to national and local experience and that indicates to me that it is far more common that liberal Republicans refuse to support conservatives than vice versa.
You mention Ronald Reagan, who was a great American, a Great Conservative and a Great Republican. But I recall that when he was elected to office the first time, a great many conservative Republicans flushed liberal Republicans out of office.
I rather look back to Barry Goldwater, a man who was in many ways similar to Ronald Reagan, yet whose candidacy was assassinated by members of his own parties, Rockefeller Republicans all.
OK, I'll bite.....what is lutefisk? Is it anything like haggis?
Lutefisk is a Norwegian treat (LOL) consisting of lye-soaked codfish.
I am of Scotish and Norwegian descent, and have had both. Trust me, haggis is far less unpleasant.
Well, to each his own but I think haggis might be a little harder to handle than lutefisk, which is made from salty dried whitefish, like cod, and treated with lye in some mysterious process and washed out with water numerous times in the process. Before eating, it has to be steamed in some fashion. You serve it with various vegetables, Swedish meatballs, or possibly certain Norwegian specialties like lefse. Very popular in Scandinavian homes at Christmas time.
No sheep products or oats are utilized.
I not only have tried it, it is served in my own home. I prefer korv thanks. Or as my Mom always used to tell me, you can always tell a Swede you just can’t tell him much.
A good read is a book by (some woman’s name) Martin called Bread and Cream. A classic for all scanadahoovians
I’m sure your mom and I would have been real good buds! I’m a Swede with an open mind and a big heart, you see.
Ah but do you have the famous “smile”?
At times it’s even a s__t eating grin.
Bachmann might do well to learn from people like Margaret Thatcher, someone who had to figure out how to take on any member of the House of Commons and clean their clock. Margaret Thatcher didn’t always rely on likeability. And any successful, future conservative president will likely have a legislative agenda that will be frighteningly similar to Thatcher’s, with the way things are going right now. Even if card check doesn’t get rubber stamped by this Congress, the government and the unions are on their way to owning ever larger chunks of the economy.
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