Posted on 10/20/2011 7:24:41 AM PDT by libstripper
As the Republican primary process continues, there is no doubt that the establishment GOP is winning and the Tea Party is losing.
Worse, as we accelerate toward the first votes finally being cast, many who believe in the simple and powerful message of the movement -- myself included - believe it now looks more and more foolish and naïve as it bounces from one flavor-of-the-month candidate to another.
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As their standard bearer going into battle with Barack Obama next fall, do Republican primary voters really want the person who drew up the blueprint for Obama-care?
Worse, do Republican primary voters really want the person who the out-of-control job and freedom killing Obama EPA looked to for some of its most draconian ideas?
As reported in the conservative blogs Moonbattery and HOTAIR; “the Romney administration in 2005 essentially did what Barack Obama’s EPA wants to do now. He imposed CO2 emission caps — the “toughest in the nation” — in an effort to curtail traditional energy production.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Really? I must be looking at the wrong polls because what I see is that the Tea Party candidate is ahead in virtually every state except NH.
Yup. The debate format sucks. They will need to get their message out daily. Perry has more money to make ads, while Cain is better at getting on TV shows. May the best conservative win. And sorry Newt, you blew the AGW issue big time.
Perry isn’t going to touch AGW because it is close to Al Gore. He wants us to forget he was a high level Al Gore operative.
“Barack Hussein Obama has clotted the executive branch with unaccountable “czars”... Among the most alarming of these malevolent lunatics is Science Czar John Holdren, a participant in ClimateGate who has advocated de-developing America and putting sterilants in the public water supply…
…Holdren has also spoken in favor of forced abortions, confiscation of babies, targeted as well as mass involuntary sterilization, bureaucratic regulation of family size, and global authoritarian government...”
That is B.S. Look at any of Perry's speeches, they are all about using America's coal and ignoring the EPA and the anthro warming weenies.
A dedicated block ov voters is not forgeting or forgiving however.
A Perry nomination means the Republicans locse that block.
A vote for romney is just taking the foot off the gas and coasting towards the cliff.
the only ones I see making a U-Turn are Cain, Bachman, and Santorum.
Gingrich, would be better than Romney for sure.
The others: Huntsman, and Perry would just tap the brakes a bit but the car would still roll over the cliff.
Ron Paul would just crank the wheel while stepping onthe gas causing the car to roll and then roll off the cliff in a spectacular crash.
"The candidates opinion on the global warming hoax and the FACT that carbon dioxide has nothing to do with must be asked in these TV debates. That will get rid of several candidates at last. I love Newt but I want to hear his answer to this question as well."
Yep.
I've never understood why such a smart guy like Newt could fall for that nonsense. If he could explain why he did- and own up to his mistakes in a credible fashion, I think it would help him tremendously.
The reason Perry and Cain are not double-teaming Romney is because it wouldn’t do any good. The 20% or so of Republicans that support Romney already know he passed Romneycare, believes in AGW, etc. They support him anyways, and harping about these conservative issues they don’t care about will not erode Romney’s base of support.
Perry and Cain both need to knock the other one out of the race if they want to wrap up the conservative wing of the party. THEN, they will be able to go toe to toe with Romney without having another strong conservative candidate sniping at them from the sidelines.
“A Perry nomination means the Republicans locse that block.”
Huh? A whole bunch of conservatives would rather have a 2nd term of Obama than a guy who supported Al Gore a few decades ago, then recanted? That’s really your contention?
Romney still has a chance to walk away from his AGW ideas. If he doesn’t I cannot vote for him.
Almost every day, the Wall Street journal editorial page has posted an article, warning that Romney is no conservative and that unless he is pushed further right, he will be a huge disappointment for conservatives. Most of the focus has been on Romneycare, but AGW and carbon credits are just as big an indicator of who Romeny really is. We cannot fix the economy as long as we are afraid of fossil fuels.
Romney is a pure pragmatist. He has no true core values and the end seem to always justify the means. Romney also seems to believe that the government must do things for the “greater good” Sounds Marxist, to me.
Perry supported Gore in the eighties, when he was a Democrat and much younger. Reagan was once a Democrat, also.
Besides, Perry is not the only other candidate running for the nomination.
Both Newt and Santorum have the brains and the ability to push Romney further right. Bachman is in there to, but I just don’t have the confidence in her that I once had.
Unfortunately, Romney is not a conservative at all. Either he moves right or he moves out.
Your delusional fantasy that you or anyone else can convince people who have watched Perry for ten years that he is not still a liberal falls flat.
Unlike your strawman construction, we realize that if the liberals control both major parties that writes conservatives out of the picture.
Perry is no more a conservative than Mitt Romney.
Obama is producing a Backlash in favor of conservatism. 2010 saw a backlash against the liberal wing odf the republican party. If the Rockefeller wing manages to get one of their little globalists into the nominee seat in 2012 but can't deliver the election then they will be finished in the party power structure for a generation. Absolutely the benefits of not compromising are greater than any benefit from slowing the slide into socialism...but still continuing the slide and having the Republican party share the blame.
So absolutely we will not vote for Romney or Perry.
Even if Romney moves right, which he has already tried to do, I’d never believe it wasn’t simply political maneuvering. To me, he’s almost worse that Obama, because at least I know Obama has some solid values. They are values I despise and will fight to the death against, but at least I know where the guy stands. Romney’s just an opportunist and nobody knows what he really believes about anything.
I hear you. I don’t that Romney has any core values. That’s why he’s so hard to read. All he has is a huge ego.
I keep telling the story of Romney at the WA State GOP convention last year, when he tried to imitate Glenn Beck, who was then at the height of his popularity. I guess that Romney thought that since Beck grew up in WA state that he was especially popular here. So, toward the end of his speech, while talking about American exceptionalism, Romney cried. I wanted to throw up.
Romney is doing a good job of knocking Perry out and greatly helping Cain in the process.
Undecided voters and those supporting the weaker candidates will break heavily towards Cain.
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