Romney. Palin. Perry. Now Christie. If Ronald Reagan himself came back from the dead and announced he was running, there would be people calling him a RINO. I am getting sick of the search for the “perfect” conservative that destroys our candidates while the Muslim Marxist sits back and laughs. There is no perfect conservative. Every candidate is flawed. Instead of attacking each other and giving Hussein Obama fodder for his own ads, they should be attacking the Muslim Marxist non-stop.
“There is no perfect conservative. Every candidate is flawed. Instead of attacking each other and giving Hussein Obama fodder for his own ads, they should be attacking the Muslim Marxist non-stop.”
And yet some FReepers have declared they’re staying home on election day or writing in their fave if their fave isn’t the nominee.
You think Romney is not a RINO? You think he’d be a great prez?
People are fed up because decades of damage has been done, and the damage is so deep, that it would take drastic changes to make it right, not a slow moving of the wheel. If you turn too slow you’ll still hit the iceberg.
It’s not just the U.S. Many countries are under the socialist gun, and we either take a stand now while we still have some people left that understand freedom, or we go quietly into the night.
Nobody can afford to settle for second best, there is no second best, it’s do or die time.
I agree with everything you said. This is not your run of the mill election. The goal should be ousting obama at this dangerous point in time. Our very survival depends on it.
Reagan WAS kind of a RINO in some ways. We would do well to remember that. The thing is, we’re going to see a MASSIVE influx of relatively liberal republican independents this time. It will blow the leftist democrats out of washington. After their big 4 year party, you won’t be able to FIND a democrat in Washington, and they’ll be trying to switch parties so they can find a job. That means, in the 2014 elections we’ll be back to dealing with the RINO problem, because this groundswell is what the establishment republicans expect to keep them in high cotton. They hope that will shut us up. What they fail to realize is that it’s the TEA PARTY that is coming after them, and it is PISSED!
I've never heard ANYBODY call Sarah Palin a RINO. She may be many things, but RINO isn't one of them.
How right you are Astronaut. If you aren’t “pure” here on FreeRepublic, then you are outcast. Reagan would be thrown to the wolves.
Ironic as hell.
Amen to that!
“Instead of attacking each other and giving Hussein Obama fodder for his own ads, they should be attacking the Muslim Marxist non-stop.”
Well, Astronaut, if they didn’t attack, they wouldn’t collect their paycheck from Soros. And, yes, a handful of Freepers are posting attack pieces directly from websites and organizations paid for by Soros.
“Romney. Palin. Perry. Now Christie. If Ronald Reagan himself came back from the dead and announced he was running, there would be people calling him a RINO. I am getting sick of the search for the “perfect” conservative that destroys our candidates while the Muslim Marxist sits back and laughs. There is no perfect conservative. Every candidate is flawed. Instead of attacking each other and giving Hussein Obama fodder for his own ads, they should be attacking the Muslim Marxist non-stop.”
^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This. The “Rino hunters” on this board and elsewhere are living in a dreamland.
QFT
I think if folks weren’t WFS (waiting for Sarah), they might be more inclined to get behind a candidate. That’s one reason I think her teasing is becoming harmful to the party.
You are absolutely right. But don’t expect many, if any FRs, to change the current meme: ie Palin is going to run and win. There is no other reality. SO get ready for more and more and more of the muslim in charge.
Totally agree, I’m getting tired of the argument for the “perfect” conservative. Take George W for example. He wasn’t the perfect conservative, but he did appoint perhaps the 2 best conservative supreme court justices in years.
Exactly! Conservatives are doing more to kill our possible nominees than the Libs. Obama must be laughing his ass off while we find our own candidates weaknesses and beat them over the head with it.
Instead of forecasting irreparable harm if Perry or Romney or Christie is our nominee, just agree to disagree and move on. One of them might be our candidate in 2012 and we don’t need them to go into the race fatally wounded.
I agree, I would be happy if a conservative would run, but sadly there isn't one. Yet.
It is likely this website will lead the charge to attack any and all candidates running who can actually win, while they tank slurp from the Palin cistern at clinical proportion. It has become a dangerous pathology of disruption to common discourse ammong conservatives batting for actual candidates, and the tank think for a non candidate only serves to advance the Obama strategy to balcanize Republicans, far more than it serves to keep alive the faux politician, Sarah Palin, who remains propped up solely by fanatics, who have destroyed her chances. Even she can not pass their purity test. Certainly her most obnoxious supporters fail that test.
You have got to be kidding. The only person that comes close to Reagan's positions in that group is Palin...the others....just rinos.
I agree that the RINO term is overused, but we do have to settle on a nominee, and to do so we need to draw out the differences between them.
You are also right that there is no perfect candidate, but is there even an acceptable one?
I actually think the process is working pretty well. Those who care are learning a lot about the candidates, the rest of America has no idea the process is even going on!
But still, it's kind of funny, especially given the proclivities of the Freepers, to wit:
ROMNEY: Is hated by the proprietor of the establishment, and we were all treated to anti-Romney banners on every posting in the off-off year. In truth Romney probably does fit the desciption RINO pretty well, so even without the propaganda he was never going to be a Freeper favorite. Many Freepers avow that they will go third party or not vote if he is the nominee.
PALIN: The great Conservative hope of so many here still hasn't decided to get in the race, still is tossing out little hints, but not getting on with it. Her numbers are steadily declining in the polls, and it looks at least plausible that she's not going to run.
PERRY: Revealed to love Mexico deeply, and consequently completely flawed on the immigration issue, he is still doing well in the polls, but real conservatives are taking another look. His debate performances have been uninspiring.
BACHMANN: Blew up quickly after Iowa, then seemed to blow out. Lost her campaign manager (which might be a blessing in disguise, but it's a bad time to have to sub out your coach), has seemed strangely off topic in the debates, has dropped back into single digits, doesn't seem Presidential material near as much as she did two months ago.
PAUL: Is growing in the polls, but clearly is never going to win the nomination with his idiosyncratic views. But his percent going up to 10% of 15% from the 5% he got last time has to be bad for other Conservatives and good from Romney.
The low single digit guys: Hermain Cain, Gary Johnson, Rick Santorum, Huntsman and Newt Gingrich still look like long shots without the base or money to go very far.
Pawlenty and Trump quit already.
It's kinda funny. There really isn't a candidate I like at this point.
So you think voting for GOP RINOs—demrats by another name—is a good thing? Or that it will encourage the GOP to run anything but RINOs?
I don’t expect anyone to be perfect. But will only vote for people who’s words and actions are in sync with the Constitution, Bill of Rights and capitalism. That includes the belief that America is “One Nation Under God”.
You apparently think voting for a label—GOP—is more important than principles. If voting for RINOs is no big deal for you why don’t you register demrat and be done with it. Mayhaps you already are one. If not by party registration, why not try being honest with yourself? By definition, RINO, you already are a demrat.