America is doomed.
Conservatives are heading in so many directions that there will never be a unified voice amongst us....
And no where has that been more obvious that right here at FReepers.
Not once has a FReeper backed candidate made it to the White House.
Why is that?
Bush was elected twice. tons of freepers backed him, as did I
Why is that?
This place has been over run by mental midgets like pissant.
As long as there are so many ignorant self stroking goofballs on here, I guess the country won't follow their lead.
This time we have a real opportunity with Governor Palin; here's a chance for FR to step up and show it's not a bastion of losers. After the literal explosion of PDS rants the past two days I won't hold my breath.
We, eventually, lined up behind Jorge Arbusto for both terms. But no, we have never had universal agreement here. Here, it should be safe to do so. To talk through differences.
It helps to be honest about them though... Which some folks ditch early just to score "points" on some imaginary score card in their heads. So you end up with threads like this one. Spouted by an ideologue by an ideologue against someone who really doesn't deserve it.
Is Palin a perfect candidate? Probably not. Is she the best one to have stepped forward so far? Quite possibly. Depends on how much traction Cain can get...
I think you're illustrating the fact that the train is moving on the track and the "conservatives" on the train are blaming the people on the platform of "moving to extremism."
No, conservatism once ONLY meant just that, in all areas. There was no inane hair splitting between "fiscal," "social," "defense," "bla bla bla" conservatism. When you were conservative, that covered the whole ball of wax.
Those not subscribing to this once unified understanding are the ones who have moved - left.