Posted on 11/26/2010 6:35:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
RE: I keep reading articles by people who are supposedly conservatives knocking down potential conservative Presidential candidates one-by-one.
A forum like this one is supposed to be an OPEN discussion on the strengths and weaknesses of a candidate in terms of who can be the best and most conservative President.
My suggestion to all is this — whenever the weaknesses of a candidate are presented, LET’s NOT LOOK AT IT AS AN ATTEMPT TO BASH or DEMEAN or DIMINISH the person.
It is an attempt to look at the pros and cons of a candidate before the primaries.
Too often, this forum devolves into personal attacks against a poster for posting a topic which is clearly meant for discussion and exchange.
No one is perfect and experienced in all aspect of governance or policy, and there is always room for improvement. If Ronald Reagan had to learn from past mistakes.
In the end, we all know who we will NOT vote for and that is the man sitting in the White House.
G. Ford
I've voted for my last RINO. If this means sitting out the election. I will. I will vote against Webb in VA Senate but leave the top of the ticket blank. So keep on a bashing.
RE: G. Ford
Ford became President, not by election, but by accident of constitutional succession.
I’d have considered him as a recent precedent had he won through a presidential election.
JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ. Is there something we DON'T know about Sarah Palin for God's sake? Hell, I know more about her than Barry Hawaii.
She is the most vetted person I have ever seen.
Oops...this is a ‘truncated’ version to advertise the ‘extreme’ side of his website. Too bad, because the part where Jindal gets into the oil spill is the best part...at least the transcript is there, but you can’t hear the anger in Jindal’s voice.
Besides freepers, nobody knows who he is. Like DeMint, he has zero chance to win nationally and is a political lightweight.
Ford actually went from the House to Vice President to President under unique circumstances. There is no way he could have been elected President as the 1976 election proved.
I agree with you that Pence is largely unknown outside of those who follow politics closely but he is hardly a “political lightweight.”
A Thanksgiving Message to All 57 States
.by Sarah Palin on Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 5:46pm.My fellow Americans in all 57 states, the time has changed for come. With our country founded more than 20 centuries ago, we have much to celebrate – from the FBI’s 100 days to the reforms that bring greater inefficiencies to our health care system. We know that countries like Europe are willing to stand with us in our fight to halt the rise of privacy, and Israel is a strong friend of Israel’s. And let’s face it, everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma and they end up taking up a hospital bed. It costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early, and they got some treatment, and ah, a breathalyzer, or an inhalator. I mean, not a breathalyzer, ah, I don’t know what the term is in Austrian for that…
Of course, the paragraph above is based on a series of misstatements and verbal gaffes made by Barack Obama (I didn’t have enough time to do one for Joe Biden). YouTube links are provided just in case you doubt the accuracy of these all too human slips-of-the-tongue. If you can’t remember hearing about them, that’s because for the most part the media didn’t consider them newsworthy. I have no complaint about that. Everybody makes the occasional verbal gaffe – even news anchors.
Obviously, I would have been even more impressed if the media showed some consistency on this issue. Unfortunately, it seems they couldn’t resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline. The one word slip occurred yesterday during one of my seven back-to-back interviews wherein I was privileged to speak to the American public about the important, world-changing issues before us.
If the media had bothered to actually listen to all of my remarks on Glenn Beck’s radio show, they would have noticed that I refer to South Korea as our ally throughout, that I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and that I made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime. The media could even have done due diligence and checked my previous statements on the subject, which have always been consistent, and in fact even ahead of the curve. But why let the facts get in the way of a good story? (And for that matter, why not just make up stories out of thin air – like the totally false hard news story which has run for three days now reporting that I lobbied the producers of “Dancing with the Stars” to cast a former Senate candidate on their show. That lie is further clear proof that the media completely makes things up without doing even rudimentary fact-checking.)
“Hope springs eternal” as the poet says. Let’s hope that perhaps, just maybe, they might get it right next time. When we the people are effective in holding America’s free press accountable for responsible and truthful reporting, then we shall all have even more to be thankful for!
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
- Sarah Palin
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Congratulations on being part of the problem.
RE: So keep on a bashing.
How about this — instead of calling it bashing, let’s call it presenting information so that the truth about whether a potential candidate is a RINO or not can be discerned at this early stage?
If a potential candidate is a RINO, better to find out now before the primaries arrive.
Ford actually came from the House to the Vice Presidency for a short time (9 months), before Nixon resigned and he became president.
So, technically, he did not come directly from the House.
I will not argue that all candidates have flaws. It is my opinion that during the tenure of the average Representative/Senator/Governor, they will say and do things that make conservatives cringe. Without knowing the inner workings of politics, it is very difficult to know why these things were done. A person who ends up legislating, voting, or governing in such a way that they appear “90% conservative” is fine with me, as a person who is 100% conservative does not exist (and has never existed).
If you ask me, I will take a man of good character and relatively good political record. The thing that bothers me is that most on our side spend their time magnifying the few flaws our candidates have rather than targeting the true enemy.
massive cuts to health and higher education. Jindal has been criticized for pushing hard decisions down the road to avoid offending anyone
I quit reading after that. So nobody was offended by massive health and higher education cuts.
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