I keep reading articles by people who are supposedly conservatives knocking down potential conservative Presidential candidates one-by-one.
It is a form of vetting, which the MSM certainly failed to do in 2008 for the Dem candidate.
I posted early on in the 2008 cycle that Fred Thompson was McCain-light and had helped write the Campaign Reform Bill. I got skewered, until others started seeing weaknesses in the Thompson campaign. Even FR was gung-ho pro-Thompson. I posted I thought it strange Guiliana used his cancer as a reason not to face Hillary Clinton for the Senate, while John Kerry, who had the same kind of cancer, mounted a presidential candidacy that almost gave him the White House.
Bandwagon candidates should be vetted substantially. With the advent of the Internet, we can know who they actually are -- over and above their public relations persona -- and what they actually believe. But, we still have the problem of many voters to vote for the same -- like the suddenly converted
I saw the light, so I am now a conservative again McCain in AZ.
Vet them! Knock at them. See what their weaknesses are. Check their baggage and verify their baggage claims. It is better to do it early and weed out the undesirables early.
Vet them! Knock at them. See what their weaknesses are. Check their baggage and verify their baggage claims. It is better to do it early and weed out the undesirables early. 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.
“It is a form of vetting”
You mean I’m supposed to come back with the candidates’ virtues - strengths?