Posted on 09/24/2009 4:54:15 AM PDT by Kaslin
So, does Sarah run as a Republican or Independent? If Independent, does she split the vote and put Obama back in office in 2012?
If anything, the pols in DC should understand that the status quo is over. Accountability is sinking in. WE THE PEOPLE are making ourselves heard, and the results could have an adverse affect on those who live off our taxes.
Frankly, if the Dems achieve health care reform and cap and trade it won’t matter whose nameplate is on the door.
The real question is purging the current Repubs for better fiscally responsible candidates for 2010. Retake the House and Senate, and end the insanity that is this administration and nightmare.
Emphasizing state sovereignty has got to be part of the mix. Republicans or Independents need to actively work to weaken the federal government.
If you told me in 1994 that would happen, I'd never have believed it.
Your post is so far the best one and right to the point
We don’t want a third party. That would just be a losing proposition.
What we need is to reclam the GOP and boot out the RINOs and any other socialist leaning influences.
You are correct. We should more concentrate for now on the 2010 election instead the presidential election in 2012. Ignoring the importance of the 2010 election will guarantee the rat’s power for years to come. This must be stopped in 2010
Anyone believing anything can run as a Republican. I don’t see why she shouldn’t.
You don’t know your GOP history. It, starting with Lincoln, has always been a big government, big tax, private profits for public debts party. There is no ‘reclaiming’ it.
We have to take it, by political force.
(Coolidge and Reagan aside)
Unfortunately, the US does not have a parliamentary system that would enable us to dump BO and his mob of merry Marxist professors by the end of the year with a vote of “no confidence.” He will have torn the nation into shreds by 2012, and the USA will look like his model, Venezuela, unless patriots, particularly those who have taken an oath to defend the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic, stand up against this power grab.
The only problem with this thesis is that we’re talking about Republicans, who never let a opportunity to fail go to waste...
I have seen this argument time and again here on FR. Since I could vote I have been a card carrying member of the GOP/RNC. They gave me Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, the Contract with America, McCain and also Voinovich. As I watch politics today, it is the Voinoviches that destroy our country and party. The strategy of pulling the polling lever for a candidate simply because they claim to be an (R) is over.
I won't pull the lever for just any pretty face with an (R). If that means I get stuck with a liberal democrat and an out of control congress ...so be it. The advantage for the real republicans is we are not saddled with an incumbent RINO in 2-4 years. Voinovich has been a known RINO for a long time and yet was reelected for decades. His presence and consistent voting with liberals has contributed to the agenda we now see being implemented before our very eyes. It is my contention that if we had, had a democrat instead, our likelihood of a stronger more conservative Republican party would exist today. It would have been easier to turn the seat than dealing with a RINO incumbant.
It is time to realize that the strategy of pulling the lever for the (R) has hurt our party and our Nation.
Then we have these screwballs like Glenn Beck going around saying that John McCain would have been worse than Obama. That doesn’t help at all.
People will think we may as well keep Obama and not worry about it.
Exactly. If the Republicans had stuck to that philosophy, we wouldn't have this hard-core clueless Marxist in office now.
Not good thinking at all. One does have to pick the lesser of 2 evils.
John McCain would not have been pushing the Health Care and had the huge out of control stimulus bill. Remember he would have vetoed any bill with pork in it. I agree that sooner or later he would have probaly liked the cap and trade and amnesty but everything else would not have been worse.
He would not be on a an apology mission and would not have made that embarrassing speech yesterday.
Lets hope not and lets also hope that stupid Huckabee stays out of it.
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