The way it looks, 2012 will be another 2008 with no conservative to choose from nor anyone to choose from who seems trustworthy. The Presidential election will mean little. The real important elections will be in Congress where I will be focusing my campaigning. It would be interesting if a truly conservative majority was elected in the House and Senate and a mushman like Perry or Romney were elected as President. Would they veto the conservative bills as being too partisan or radical? I wonder.
That is a goal we should all be remembering! Let's get Obama out - ANY of our Republican nominees are leaps and bounds better than Obama, and at least we can feel confident our GOP candidates will have America's interest at heart, unlike Obama who seems to pander to terrorists.
The best place we could get to in 2012, I think, is to get our best, most conservative but most electable candidate in office, get that mess we have there now OUT, and then work towards a solid, conservative House AND Senate.
It would be interesting if a truly conservative majority was elected in the House and Senate and a mushman like Perry or Romney were elected as President. Would they veto the conservative bills as being too partisan or radical? I wonder.
I live in Texas, and while Texas tends to be a very conservative state to begin with, we voted in a Conservative Republican supermajority a couple years back. Rick Perry has worked really well with this group. He doesn't veto or overturn conservative bills at all here, even before the supermajority. He had governed with conservative policies and principles (with the noted exception of the fact that he is more of a moderate on immigration reform - a pathway to citizenship, and even many Texas politicians, even those in most ways would be considered conservative, tend to side somewhere in that area, more or less).
Also, my husband and I are friends with a couple of the conservative state representatives here, and they couldn't be happier with what this conservative supermajority has accomplished with Rick Perry. Perry has given them much support and help in getting conservative legislature through, and he has done so with plenty of cooperation with them. They are downright tickled to have a conservative supermajority, and they are tickled to have Rick Perry to work with.